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Ou812 -- I do not know which assumption you are referring to. Guessing that it is the assumption about Germany shutting down its nuclear power, I agree I would have to smoking the real stuff, not hemp, to derive that assumption from the charts. I was just stating something my faulty memory recalled from Thom's radio program. When the check arrives, I will research the podcasts/you tubes to support my faulty memory.
To find a country that uses hemp, I need to find one not under the thumb of the carbon corps. For hemp not only are the billionaires of the carbon corps fighting it, but also the billionaires producing cotton and big pharma (they probably think they are fighting MJ).
Also, the US is probably the best country in the world, based on arable land (that is, land only good for growing hemp) and climate. Because of this great advantage looking at other countries may not be meaningful.
i have sex with barbie dolls, so if robots are good looking, then yeah, i'd have sex with them
I'm going to swerve off topic and invite some suggestions on the following:
GOP has always stood for Grand Old Party. But these days, maybe the letters G, O, and P should stand for something else, such as Greedy Old Party. So break out your thesarus' and come up with some suggestions.
If he could get his foot out of his mouth long enough. I think we are pretty much out of luck for the forseeable future. The nuts are running the asylum. With a roadblock at every step.
Can the comission have 7 I stead of 6 members? Or can the vice president break the tie?
I didn't read all the comments so I don't know if anybody said this already or not but Kend, the American car manufacturers and the very fuel inefficient airlines were the ones who influenced policy on public transit and train travel making them not up to it but they could pretty easily be made worthwhile. Comparisons to Europe are not unfair. We borrowed the idea for the interstate highway system from them and could adopt a similar long train system.
Passenger railways used to be privately owned in long distance and metro travel but are no longer profitable so here - and in Europe - they are now publicly owned and provided by democratic government (which serves the people not the money) as they are still a valuable and essential service our society cannot do without.
We should all be worried when the six debates Hillary, Senator Sanders, and whoever else decides to run on the Democratic side. I can already see this happening..... Hillary will nod in agreement with much of what Senator Sanders brings up in the debates in his response to the biased cookie-cutter questions, getting us all to think Hillary is as Progressive on principle as would be Senator Sanders, Senator Warren, etc. Hillary will have that smirk on her face knowing the Democratic Party really only has her as a viable candiate in contrast to the Republican presidential candidates. The "serious" questions will be directed at Hillary, while questions for Senator Sanders will try and make him look like a "kooky old man" - kind of like the way questions were directed at that mousey-looking short guy from Cleveland, Ohio, Congressman Dennis Kusinich in 2008. People also vote on appearance, image, the importance of looking "presidential" -which could partially explain the 200 years of White, male, tall in stature selection process.
In a hyper-partisan environment, what should we expect when there are only six commissioners and no more than 3 can be members of the same party? Why aren't there and odd number of commissioners to break ties? Why aren't there any members who are independents? Why aren't they ALL independents?
No, the very nature of nuclear energy and its resulting byproduct is dangerious. Instead, we need to be spending more time, money, and energy in developing solar and wind power sources.
Hero of Alexandria was toying with the steam engine in the 1st century AD! per Enclcopedia Britanica
A better term than "suckers" might be "marks", which implies more about the shills than the suckers. "Mark" means an offense has been committed against that person, and doesn't imply any special susceptibility to being fooled.
The train station in Denver had a grand reopening a couple months ago, so someone in the Denver or Colorado government must be doing something about infrastructure. When I heard about it, though, I thought, "Who rides trains?" I honestly don't know anyone that has done so.
With a constant push in Washington for things like fast-track trade authority, I'd be interested to find out if Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks the Constitutional threshold for ratifying a treaty should be lower than 2/3. Should it be 3/5, a simple majority?
I understand that the threshold is high because of the difficulty in undoing a treaty, but that difficulty is obviously leading to these attempts to work around that barrier, making it less effective.
At the very least, the rules should be changed to empower 3 members, instead of 4, to pursue action.
Beyond that, if something is against federal law, why can't the FBI or the Attorney General just go take care of it? Does the U.S. code specifically prohibit them from enforcing election law?
Our President is either a true corporatist, very weak or just not as smart as many people think he is. He has on so many issues sided with the money and military establishment's. From intense surveillance, total opacity in government, corporate designed trade agreements, the "all of the above" energy policies that include drilling everywhere and anywhere. Even now he still will not stop the the Keystone Pipeline project for once and for all. His policies are setting the stage for ocean disasters that may dwarf the environmental impact of previous incidents. To say he is not a fighter is to understate his unwillingness to fight on environmental principles. Why has he opened the oceans-the Arctic ocean to drilling? Why is he such a champion of fast-tracking the super secret TPP? Why has he prosecuted every whistleblower while leaving those felons on Wall Street in Banks and in the Bush Administration to go about freely and without penalty? Why is he such a champion of water wasting and spoiling very dirty fracking? I do not believe history will be kind to President Obama's legacy. Our President has gone out of his way to stroke republicans and befriend corporate power and money while leaving true Democrats to fight on their own. HIt is easier for President Obama to dump on Progressive Senator Elizabeth Warren than take a strong stand on environmental principle and fact. I am very tired of Democrats who just excuse or dismiss our President's many mis-steps. Allowing drilling in the Arctic Ocean is just his most recent. It is no small matter.
The Railroad system was developed long before America had cars, ciries and towns grew up around where the rails would need to make stops for water or fuel, rails transport more products all across America tha the highway system. Prior to Ike America had a very poor highway system and he saw the need for a national highway system and most run along train tracks that were already there.
The $Trillion you claim President is spend is to pay for Dubya/Cheney's two Deadly, Needless and Unfunded Wars and to pay for the care of the severely wounded troops from those wars. I find it so interesting how your Racist Hatred for the Black POTUS totally blinds your side from seeing the truth about the crumbling transportation system
These Tealiban Bagger Terrorist Controlled Republicans in congress will never do anything to repair the rail system in the northeast because it is a very heavy democrat area, and they think they will punish the people there. Wed. 5/13/2015 the house passed a bill to cut $millions from Amtrac funding, a program already short on money to try and repair the old rail system. The current crop of the GOP has become so Un-American I find it hard to believe that this was once such a great political party that worked for all American's and not just their rich overlords. This will not change until $money is controlled in the American political process of electing people, now the GOP primary system is a joke because the big money has decided who they want and it seems the one they can control. Reagan was the first to be bought and paid for and everything he did was dictated to him by his money handlers, I'm not so sure that the attempt on his life wasn't a reminder that he had better not try and stray from what he was told to do and say. Nancy was their inside person and she passed all of the instructions to Ronnie Raygun from his owners. They were smart enough to not try and have an outsider giving him his orders when Nancy was already beside his side.
Not True! All of our major cities had various forms of mass transit, including rail, long before the car took over, and that didn't happen until the 1940's, after the war. Although Henry Ford made cars more affordable for the common man in the 1920's and 30's, trains and buses were still in big demand, especially for cross country travel. After the war, road building really took off and reached it's heights in the 1950's when Dwight Eisenhower started the Interstate Highway System; that's when America's love affair with the automobile really began, an affliction that has not happened to most other countries. As a result, many cities have RE-DEVELOPED for the car, and not always in a good way. And some cities are turning back the clock and creating pedestrian only areas and bike trails - no cars allowed.
Sheriff Mack;
I wonder if prior to needing financial help himself; whether Sheriff Mack would have considered gofundme to be panhandling and not exercising personal responsibility?
Dan, San Diego
Privatization of PUBLIC transportation is a national disgrace. It is also a matter of national security. Transportation, telecomunications, utilities AND banking should be "public" or nationalized !!!!! Anything less is immoral, criminal, disgusting and downright ignorant!
To compare American railway system to ones in Germany Japan or China is unfair. Those countries whole infrastructure was built from scratch around the train. American cities developed around the car. The cost to change from the car to rail in the US would be unrealistic. I can't believe you are blaming Reagon. its been decades since he was president. If there was no infrastructure improvements done in the last seven years what did Obama spend a trillion a year on ?
It will be interesting if the Train engineer was on the last leg of a 12 hour shift.
It seems that 12 hour shifts, in spite of the necessity for alertness on the job, have become the practice on major corporations.
Ttrukck drivers often exceed the time limits for driving long distances withouit sleep and airline pilots often go many hour without sleep.
Nukclear engineers, operators, are also having to work twelve hour shifts.
Dangerous!
First of all, i've changed my Interenet Service Provider. It is no longer Mediacom (@mchsi.com). It is at Frontier.com
Last night the train from Washington, DC to New York, leaving Washington shortly after 7:00 PM, stopped at Philadelphia then proceeded toward New York.k About nine miles past the stop at Philadelphia it ran through a 45 degree curve at about 102 miles per hour rather than the required 50 miles per hour and all seven cars of the train plus the engine went off the track with 7 or 8 people killed and about 200 went to the hospital. Some with serious injuries.
Meanwhile, our congress passed a budget reducing the bukdget for the Amtrack railroad system.
The fasted trains in the U.S. taavel at about 125 miles per hour ukp to 150 miles per hour.
Japan just tested a maglev train at 375 miles per hour.
Spain regularly has 150 miles per hour speeds safely.
China has the longest lines of high speed trains in the world and we're behind like third world countries, inspite of having over 2 million riders on the Washington to Boston stretch of railway each year. Our Congress is not doing the right thing about the American public.
We should vote all of them out, except for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren!
Stecoop, greed is blind.
The Iraq war alone has cost over two trillion, and that figure will eventually grow to six trillion.
Two trillion on war for profit instead of on infrastruture for the commons. The terrorists win, they don't have to blow up our bridges, and tracks, our neglect does the job for them.