Some information on the President’s plans to give this nation a modern high speed rail system.
Also, Wired has a history of high speed rail plus a good map of the new US routes being proposed. For a nation this big, this just makes sense. And we’ve got a lot of catching up to do.
Plus, I love trains.
Comedy Central video link
The actual title to this article should be: “Large Portion of GOP Are Inbred Pig Fuckers” or something to that effect.
Actually, I don’t blame individual Republicans. Much. I mean, yes, it IS their fault for only listening to Lush Rimjob or Pat Racistson or watching FAUXNews. But the lies being fed to them from conservative Tea Bag wingnut sources are created by people who have enough brain cells to upload a webpage update and run a radio studio or TV camera. So, it’s more the merchants of shit than the consumers of treason that are the problem.
Here are the actual poll results. To think these repressive cretins actually believe they embrace the spirit of America. Then again, slavers thought they were Americans once too I suppose.
Some good entries on this list and I mostly approve of it.
More on the recent passing of Howard Zinn, including some videos clip on this page plus an excerpt from his latest – and last – book.
“What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places-and there are so many-where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
Bob Herbert wrote a very good article on Zinn. It really should be read as a personal homage to the man.
I have some more articles at home I’m hoping to link to. Hopefully I’ll remember to do that soon.