only because my gay friend who used to go to Key West at least once a year told me. Apparently there's even a gay coffee house there called "Sodom". You would think some entrepreneur would open a burger joint next to that and call it "Gommorah", but to my knowledge that hasn't happened yet.
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only because my gay friend who used to go to Key West at least once a year told me. Apparently there's even a gay coffee house there called "Sodom". You would think some entrepreneur would open a burger joint next to that and call it "Gommorah", but to my knowledge that hasn't happened yet.Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!Comment
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only because my gay friend who used to go to Key West at least once a year told me. Apparently there's even a gay coffee house there called "Sodom". You would think some entrepreneur would open a burger joint next to that and call it "Gommorah", but to my knowledge that hasn't happened yet.“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~~Maria RobinsonComment
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Yeah Key West has a big gay community.
It's one of those situations though where it seems to leave a lot of single straight women around.Comment
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All this talk about trains not making money is not clear thinking. Most train systems are subsidised but not as much as cars are in the US.
Spending a trillion on oil wars is a big subsidy.
Also there are huge hidden profits from infrastructure. For example I bet a fuck of a lot of tourists would take a train down to the Keys.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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The last real passenger train I rode on was the Union Pacific 844. I took my family to Portland, Oregon on it a few years back.
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One way to do it is to have the railways and stations government run and then let private companies run the trains themselves.
Government usually aren't very good at doing stuff which is very customer focussed.Comment
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It was built for both military and civilian use actually. Just as the German Autobahn was when Adolf built it. And there's no reason why the military couldn't use the high speed rail system as well. In fact, having been stuck behind military convoys on I-5 before, I would encourage them to do so. Some of their vehicles just can't go fast enough to be on the freeway, so might as well load them on a flatbed rail car to get them from point a to point b faster.Last edited by Nickdfresh; 03-07-2011, 11:13 AM.Comment
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LOL I've been reading a new fad where straight guys go to gay bars (high end ones, not ones with macho leather dudes) in order to pick up the five to ten extremely hot women there with their gay friends...Comment
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Governments have to run at a profit as well of they go broke a cease to exists or they get bought up by foreign interests. That's why you have to choose your projects carefully and calculate a return on investment over time. Everything that runs on money is a business whether it's in the private sector or the government. Spend your money away and you disappear or someone else buys you up cheap.Comment
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Like the Roman empire, the USSR, or the British empire. We are just following the same mistakes the British and other empires have made. Britiain got by in the 20th century because they got a lot of foreign aide, cheap loans, and had oil assets and the US surpassed it. It looks like it may be China's turn to surpass us. We will probably waddle on for a few more decades thinking we are still a super power.
Sesh would probably agree Scotland should break away and keep it's oil and natural gas money instead of sending it down to that big gaping hole in London.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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I think passenger rail in the US would have to be government ran or subsidized. The commercial railroads make so much more money hauling freight than passengers and you have to be set up completely different to keep them happy. They don't want to mess with it. We have a lot of grand old train terminals sitting around the US unused in the worst parts of down falling apart.
This dumb-fuck that we have up here, John Kasich, doesn't seem to be able to wrap his mind around a good idea.Last edited by hideyoursheep; 03-07-2011, 12:21 PM.Comment
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And just because something is "government run" doesn't mean that a whole host of private contracting firms won't be making a good buck building and running things with the gov't oversight essentially being a general contractor. Something that often happens in things like...oh...highways, infrastructure projects such as dams, and land management/environmental cleanup....Comment
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