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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.
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"If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992Comment
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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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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.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 wasn't JUST built for the military. A lot of that was Ike using that as a cover against accusations of a FDR "gov't works projects" criticisms from the hard right. If we were to examine Ike's beliefs about the Autobahn being of a military significance during WWII, he'd have to acknowledge that it was the ATTACKER (mainly the Western Allied forces that were the most mechanized) that benefited from the Autobahn; not the defenders against them, as the Germans were still largely dependent on ox/horse carts for their logistics despite what a lot of the "super-badass panzer elite ubermench" faboi shit a lot of SS-lovers on the internet come up with. Yes, Ike was indeed impressed by the Autobahn, but not for solely military reasons. It was also out of embarrassment of America's largely parochial, decentralized system of highway transit that varied widely, but were often just increasingly congested two lane roads with no centralized sense of organization nor layout causing increasing problems in the U.S. for commerce and commuters. The military necessity was valid, but also largely subterfuge as neither China nor the Soviets possessed the capability to actually invade North America in the foreseeable future. And even if they did, a mechanized attacker could also drive down I-95 with their tanks and trucks just as easily as U.S. forces could....
Absolutely true, armies always have used rail, including the U.S.Last edited by Nickdfresh; 03-07-2011, 11:13 AM.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 prefer it be government ran, actually. If it were privatized, safety and quality would be compromised without any oversight. It would be like any other buisness....strictly profit-driven, over priced and unsafe. An organization similar to the FAA or DOT....or maybe the DOT itself could keep an eye on things. Other than that, a high speed rail between major metro areas to avoid high gas prices and traffic congestion only makes sense. We've saturated the freeways to the point of needing a release valve, so to speak.
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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If you live in Glory Hole, Wy., you probably need a train just to get shit paper, huh?
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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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