[WASHINGTONPOST] Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby and State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, subpoenaing her campaign and the couple’s business records, according to a grand jury subpoena obtained by the Baltimore Sun.
The U.S. attorney’s office and the FBI requested a range of financial records related to the power couple: tax returns, bank statements, credit card statements, loan documents and canceled checks. They subpoenaed Mosby’s campaign treasurer and requested records tracing back to 2014, some related to the Mosbys’ private travel and consulting businesses.
In addition, Union Baptist Church received a federal grand jury subpoena seeking information about whether Nick Mosby had made contributions there, the church’s attorney, Robert Dashiell, confirmed. The pastor of another major church, Bethel AME, also said he received a subpoena, though the Rev. Patrick Clayborn said he did not know details of what it was seeking.
Federal agents visited Nick Mosby at City Hall last week, according to two sources.
Nick Mosby, who was elected last year to his post, has not responded to multiple requests seeking comment. Marilyn Mosby, the two-term top prosecutor, also did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Their lawyer, A. Scott Bolden, issued a statement calling the investigation "a political witch hunt in its purest form."
"My clients are progressive change agents, making them unfair targets of unnecessary scrutiny by federal Sherlocks. Nevertheless, I can assure you and the people of Baltimore, they have done nothing illegal, inappropriate or unlawful," he wrote.
Bolden said he advised the Mosbys not to discuss the matter, and they will cooperate with Sherlocks "to fight for the truth to come out."
Federal authorities have declined to discuss the investigation. The records are listed in a subpoena issued last week to Marilyn Mosby’s campaign treasurer and obtained under Maryland’s Public Information Act.
The treasurer, Sharif Small, had forwarded the subpoena to state elections officials along with an email about the use of campaign funds for legal fees.
Prosecutors also asked Small to supply records related to the private travel and consulting companies of the Mosbys. The companies listed include Nick Mosby’s firm of Monumental Squared LLC and Marilyn Mosby’s Mahogany Elite Travel and Consulting.
The state’s attorney has said she formed Mahogany Elite Travel to help underserved Black families vacation around the world at affordable rates. She said the companies exists in name only.
Of the subpoena sent to Union Baptist Church, Dashiell said he reviewed its records and found that Nick Mosby had made a negligible donation. "I spend more at Starbucks," Dashiell said.
Emerson L. Dorsey Jr., an attorney for the Mosbys’ church, New Psalmist Baptist Church, declined to discuss whether the church had received a subpoena.
The couple has drawn scrutiny in recent months for business and financial dealings. The Sun reported in October that the Internal Revenue Service filed a $45,000 lien against their home for three years worth of unpaid taxes.
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Another repeat of the same old story, I thought these two would of had the electric chair treatment by now...
No ? Well, what about 20 years to life...
No ? Then how about 1 year in jail (suspended) and 30 hours of 'community service' in the rehabilitation of disbarred lawyers. No probation required.
Yes, then problem solved, they paid their debt to society, and they can return to their life in the cause of public good.
Why ? because they are dems, not us.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has paused a highway widening project in Houston, Texas, citing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as legal justification.
In what could be a first for any administration in this context, the Biden administration is using its federal powers to pause the Texas DOT plan to widen Interstate 45. The administration is doing this as a test to address what it calls a history of “government-driven racial inequalities.”
This comes after complaints from local activities during the federal DOT’s intervention period. The proposed plan, known as the North Houston Highway Improvement Project, is proposed to widen I-45 at three different sections.
The Texas DOT’s completed environmental review of the project in February found it would have a significant impact on the surrounding communities the highway currently runs through. It would reportedly displace a substantial number of black and Hispanic communities, including schools, places of worship, and more than 1,000 homes and businesses.
Biden’s transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, claims he will make what he calls “systemic racism” the centerpiece of his time at the department, consistent with Biden’s Executive Order 13985.
Title VI is part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin in programs that are receiving federal financial assistance.
Federal officials involved in this could eventually allow the project to take place. Politico reported, “the action to freeze it at all, and in particular DOT’s use of civil rights laws to underpin that decision, has buoyed activists on the ground and surprised even seasoned regulators in Washington.”
Permanently blocking this project could pose an uphill battle for the administration. Many lawyers say the administration will have to prove that widening the highway route in specific areas is intentionally discriminating against minority groups. Others note the Biden administration could try to persuade courts to agree that because the highway’s widening affects more minorities than whites, it should be considered a Title VI violation even with no evidence of discriminatory intent.
If the federal DOT would be able to successfully bock the start of this project, countless other federally funded programs could be deemed illegal.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a Democrat who represents the Houston area, joined local officials to challenge the project. In her complaint, she urged holding off on the expansion, including starting on contract solicitation until the federal DOT has time to review the plans, including the civil rights and environmental concerns. Jackson Lee said, “I think this project is the poster child for [the administration’s] policies.”
Fred Wagner, former general counsel at the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), said, “This is a big deal … It just doesn’t happen very often.”
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Meanwhile twit Pete Buttigieg unloads a bike near where is is to attend a cabinet meeting and rides it a couple blocks rest of the way with his security detail following in SUV's.
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Extortion of the contractors. There is no other choice than to widen the highway where it is, or simply overburden it with traffic which will devalue the entire area. They will destroy the economy around the I-45 corridor because people will start avoiding it due to the inadequate roadway.
Fucking luddites. And Sheila Jackson-Lee is a dumb ass race-baiting idiot.
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Once again demonstrating is that the laws are not important - it's the bureaucrats who interpret the laws that are important?
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Others note the Biden administration could try to persuade courts to agree that because the highway’s widening affects more minorities than whites, it should be considered a Title VI violation even with no evidence of discriminatory intent.
So...if it impacts more whites than "minorities," then everything is cool? 'cuse me, but GFYs.
When I was but a lad, my Dad showed me the ghost of the house he was born in. Twas but a dip in the curb marking the former driveway to a now vacant lot which was surrounded by a vast area of vacant lots making way for the Grove Shafter freeway in Oakland. But that's OK because these were mostly working class white people who were affected.
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Just think! If they get this approach rolling, (Keystone Pipeline being an early trial balloon) they could stop every single infrastructure project in existence dead in its tracks!
Think of the government spending savings!
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So "Biden" is proposing a huge "infrastructure" bill while simultaneously stopping current infrastructure projects. You could reasonably conclude that the "infrastructure" part of the bill is just a Trojan horse for the massive spending on a grab bag of Dem favorites.
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Think of the government spending savings!
If you think merely stopping the project would stop the spending you're not paying attention.
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I work with several successful black business men. They hate these freeloaders as much as everyone else does. And they are very vocal about it to these freeloaders, which is shocking to watch because most people would never get away with what they tell them.
Some Georgia Republican state legislators are removing @CocaCola products from their statehouse offices after the Atlanta-based beverage giant criticized the new elections law. #gapolpic.twitter.com/leojXBGQAM
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"Things go Better with Coke" <- not in Georgia they don't, you screwed the pooch on this one Warren Buffett <--- largest shareholder of Coke stock @ nearly 10% of outstanding shares (2020).
Your money doesn't mean you can engage in social engineering old timer, you (91 years old) and your partner Munger (96 years old) @ Berkshire Hathaway are about to meet The Big Guy any day now, statistically speaking, so liquidate while you have the chance, set up your charities or piss it all to the wind, no one cares, but stop being an asshole, while you still have a chance.
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I pretty much stay away from sugary drinks. Give me some unsweetened iced tea any day. I know it's sacrilege in the South, but I'm basically a relocated yankee boy.
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/\ Wise move. No real need to add sugar to tea, coleslaw, grits, green bean casserole, etc. There is a long-term downside.
Remember the discussion we had here recently about how unhealthy carbonated soda is — dissolving teeth, acidifying the body, and of course the health effects of either sugar or artificial sweeteners. Y’all are in tune with the zeitgeist in this, and as a result carbonated drinks sales have been dropping fairly steadily for fifteen years, despite some stockpiling at the beginning of the lockdown. The other side of the coin is that consumers are buying more flavoured/vitamined waters and energy drinks, many of which are produced by the same companies, so they’re still capturing consumer dollars. Coca-Cola’s brands can be found here, a feeling of PepsiCo’s here.
[NATIONALREVIEW] Republican politicians, including Senators Ted Cruz; ...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title most hated man in the Senate. After a close win over Beto O'Rourke, who tried to out-Lastino him, he grew a beard and let his biting wit shine through. Cruz's comments have been known to leave life-threatening wounds at better than forty feet... (Texas) and Mike Lee (Utah) have called for an end to Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption after the league announced it would pull the 2021 All-Star Game out of Atlanta.The league’s decision came in response to a Georgia voting law that critics claim makes it more difficult for individuals, particularly black voters, to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... proponents of the law deny accusations that it aims to suppress votes, pointing out that the legislation does not place new limits on voting hours and makes the state’s elections more secure without restricting voter access. It even expands weekend early voting.
Representative Jeff Duncan (R., S.C.) said Friday that he had instructed his staff to begin drafting legislation to rescind the league’s decades-old antitrust exemption, "In light of @MLB’s stance to undermine election integrity laws."
"An overwhelming bipartisan majority of Americans support requiring an ID to vote, and any organization that abuses its power to oppose secure elections deserves increased scrutiny under the law," he added.
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Its long overdue that this anachonism was taken off the books. MLB and the NFL do not deserve any special law or tax treatment. Take them off the books.
Dems should be on board with this, make the big guys pay their fair share, right?
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Do it now and RAM these axxholes into reality, enlist 'the woke can go broke' attitude, and hit them out of the ballparks. Enough of their 'special status', they do nothing but play a childs game as adults, and not but a few realize nthey have been pampered for CENTURY (1922-2021) with this favored status.
Given they want to politically blackmail states into either adhering to their social agenda issues. Which results in allowing various proven forms of Illegal Voting.
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Not sure what implications of antitrust in this case are. Anyone can start their own league, so I'm not sure MLB can be found guilty of violating anti-trust laws. Now if you want to start treating it as a business, subject to all taxes, rules and federal and state nitpicking - go for it.
(full disclosure - I haven't paid attention to bb since Steinbrunner ruined the Yankees)
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Do this plus work on removing 230 protections for IT oligarchs.
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George Will wets his pants in 3-2-1...
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#4 Not sure what implications of antitrust in this case are. Anyone can start their own league, so I'm not sure MLB can be found guilty of violating anti-trust laws. Now if you want to start treating it as a business, subject to all taxes, rules and federal and state nitpicking - go for it.
(full disclosure - I haven't paid attention to bb since Steinbrunner ruined the Yankees)
Posted by: Mercutio 2021-04-04 08:45
...As I understand it, the anti-trust exemptions cover (for the most part) what the clubs can and can't pay players. The result is that if the exemptions are lifted, you will have players pretty much demanding what the market will bear - and getting it. And that would lead to (according to at least one article I read the last time this subject came up) to as many as a third of the the MLB teams being priced right out of business, and most of the survivors going on borrowed time. Within about fifteen years, you'd be down to a handful of teams in the biggest TV markets and that's it.
I'd miss my Cleveland (Baseball Team), but that would be about it.
Mike
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SCOTUS in its 1972 ruling in [Cardinals outfielder Curt] Flood v. Kuhn upheld the 1922 antitrust exemption but admitted that this original decision was an “anomaly.” The Supremes ever since Oliver Wendell Holmes have always deferred to Congress re curbing baseball owners' anti-competitive practices.
Regarding the fallout from the Curt Flood case, it was IIUC an arbitrator's subsequent decision that provided the legal basis for free agency in baseball.
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The result is that if the exemptions are lifted, you will have players pretty much demanding what the market will bear - and getting it.
I suspect their agents will all try at once in an effort to get there first, and most of the owners will explain the facts of economics to them, perhaps more picturesquely than their accountants had described the facts to them. We’re in the post-Covid world now — a significant portion of the fans won't be coming back, which means considerably less advertising and television/cable money for the teams, in addition to fewer tickets sold.
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you will have players pretty much demanding what the market will bear
Oh, the humanity!
I'd be curious to see if teams (especially the so-called "smaller market" teams) close up shop should the antitrust exemption gets deep-sixed, as it should be.
I can remember when there were no divisions, just the AL and the NL. Then, along with expansion, there were two divisions. Still not enough. Then wild cards and three divisions and more expansion. But this is a sport not a business. Uh, o.k.
[HOTAIR] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) issued a correction on a story that made some false claims about Georgia’s election law reform legislation. The newspaper made the mistake of printing Democrat talking points, specifically remarks made by President Joe Biden ...... 46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...... , instead of the truth. AJC originally falsely reported that voting hours had been cut in the bill and failed to note that early voting days had been added for general elections while shortening the time for early voting in primary run-offs.
The newspaper printed the correction at the end of a story on liberal filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry. Perry owns a large production company in the Atlanta area.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story said the new law would limit voting hours. On Election Day in Georgia, polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and if you are in line by 7 p.m., you are allowed to cast your ballot. Nothing in the new law changes those rules.
However, if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning... the law made some changes to early voting. The bill adds a second mandatory Saturday of early voting for general elections but removes two weeks of early voting before runoffs.
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[DESMOINESREGISTER] Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a law allowing people to buy and carry handguns in Iowa without a permit, fulfilling a longtime goal of gun rights advocates.The law, which some advocates call "constitutional carry," will take effect July 1.
"Today I signed legislation that protects the 2nd Amendment rights of Iowa’s law-abiding citizens while still preventing the sale of firearms to criminals and other dangerous individuals," Reynolds, a Republican, said in a statement after signing the measure Friday afternoon.
Democrats and gun violence prevention groups say the law will roll back background checks on handgun sales between private citizens. That's because, under current law, Iowans must pass a background check to obtain a permit to carry or acquire a handgun before they can legally buy one in a private sale.
On a recent call with Everytown for Gun Safety, Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Zach Wahls, D-Coralville, called on Reynolds to veto the legislation.
"A person could be able to purchase a firearm from a private seller with no background check and then carry that firearm anywhere in public without any type of firearms proficiency training if this bill is adopted," Wahls said on the call, explaining why he thought Reynolds should veto the measure.
Wahls also pointed to Reynolds' own prior comments in support of Iowa's current gun laws.
In 2018 and 2019 Reynolds said Iowa had "reasonable and responsible gun laws on the books" and that she believed the current permit system — which she voted for as a state senator in 2010 — should remain in place.
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Leftist activists are busy whipping up a national boycott of Georgia-based businesses over the state’s new election integrity law. The boycott has the support of Hollywood and the White House, with President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... saying this week that he would support moving the MLB’s All-Star Game out of the state as a sign of protest.Georgia Democrats are now left trying to talk the mob down.
"I absolutely oppose and reject any notion of boycotting Georgia," Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff said in a statement on Thursday. "Georgia welcomes business, investment, jobs, opportunity, and events. In fact, economic growth is driving much of the political progress we have seen here."
Stacey Abrams ...sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Now she wants to be somebody's vice president so she can sour grape about that too... , who, having lost Georgia’s governorship in 2018, rebranded herself as a voting rights activist, agreed and reminded Democrats that economic boycotts would hurt the very communities they claim to represent.
"Black, Latino, AAPI, and Native American voters whose votes are the most suppressed under SB 202 are also the most likely to be hurt by potential boycotts of Georgia," she said in a video on Wednesday.
"I ask you to bring your business to Georgia and, if you’re already here, stay and fight," she added in an op-ed for USA Today. "Stay and vote."
But Ossoff and Abrams ought to know that once a mob takes shape, it will not settle for anything less than what it came for: the total destruction of that which it opposes. We see this all the time nowadays. People lose their jobs and reputations over years-old tweets, and anyone who questions the ideological conformity woke bandidosforces of Evil are pushing is shamed into remorse.
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You called the tune, time to pay the piper, bitches.
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Just think.
If the New GA. Voting Laws had been effect nationwide on Nov 3rd, 2020.
[FOXNEWS] Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore... , D-N.Y., was among the least effective members of the last Congress, according to a new survey from the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking — a joint project of Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia.
Ocasio-Cortez introduced a total of 21 bills that the center defined as "substantive" — but that is where the story ends. Her legislation received no action in committees, no floor votes, and none ever became law, according to the center, which takes its data from Congress.gov.
"She introduced a lot of bills, but she was not successful at having them receive any sort of action in committee or beyond committee and if they can’t get through committee they cannot pass the House," Alan Wiseman, a Vanderbilt political scientist and co-director of the center, told The Post.
"It’s clear that she was trying to get her legislative agenda moving and engage with the lawmaking process," Wiseman added. "But she wasn’t as successful as some other members were — even among [other] freshmen — at getting people to pay attention to her legislation."
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She looks like "Kukla" from Kukla,Fran and Ollie and has the same communist mental capacity, what do you or anyone else with a brain expect from her, Einstein ?
The congress person, who is part of dimwit's posse of the 4 communist congress women of the Apocalypse, is Ollie, with the buck teeth... I leave you to fill in my blank____________
For "Least" effective, she sure gets her ideas published by the Media on a regular ongoing basis.
Unless Hiding Biden falls down the stairs of AF-1
and breaks his neck next time.
I feel 2022 Elections is the make or break point for the USA. Because the 25th amendment won't be played until after the 2022 elections at the earliest.
The Socialist Democrats must retain the House in 2022 otherwise Ms. Nancy can't pick her replacement for Speaker when she becomes VP.
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?least effective? Have you read the "Covid" relief bill? The infrastructure bill? For an ineffective legislator (legislatrix?) she sure got a lot of her blathering memorialized.
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least effective? Have you read the "Covid" relief bill? The infrastructure bill?
Correct. She's a moron and an ugly version of an Instagram attention-whore, but the main point is, she moved the Democrats hard left.
It's a radical party now, pushing Peronist socialism + cultural Marxism -- call it Race Communism. In no small measure due to the braying little Bolshevik Bartender from Queens
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They just stole a presidential election. And the public let them. Do you expect a different outcome next election?
Democrat power will continue to grow.
That’s what 1/6/21 was about.
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When you're nothing but a sound bite and have no friends on either side of the aisle, this is what you get. Protesting the old cluck Pelosi on your first day, didn't help matters.
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Least effective member of Congress award? There's a bunch of ineffective Congresscritters. I think we often vote to neuter/spay them so they won't be too effective. It is a matter of self-preservation.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Maybe when the trains and buses stop at our doors and take us to where we work or to the grocery store or to Aunt Bessie's. And when they're cheaper than flying (They used to be!)
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The TL;DR? STOP TRYING TO MAKE THE US INTO EUROPE. The continental US (excepting perhaps the NE coastal area from DC to Boston), is simply too dispersed in terms of density, and too far apart between cities in terms of scale of distance needed to make passenger trains practical. So stop it. Passenger trains are a boondoggle
The answer is NO. Damned east coast and urban simpletons simply do not get it. Travel outside your urban squalor where you live on top of each other like rodents.
The US is not just the East Coast from DC to Boston. The US is NOT Europe.
Outside of the ghetto-ridden vertical cities in the NE plus Chicago, the cities are spread out in terms of density, they are farther apart, and the US is far larger, enough to make train travel time consuming, slow and impractical compared to automotive (for short to intermediate trips) or air travel (for intermediate or long trips). Here are some comparisons.
Getting from Barcelona Spain to Geneva sounds like a long trip in Europe. A straight line 387 miles (flying) and driving the distance is 480 miles.
But that will not even get you from Nashville to Chicago. Nashville to Chicago is 395 flying/480 driving.
The distance from Paris to Berlin seems to be pretty big - whole wars have been fuagh between those 2 cities. And it is roughly 545 miles straight line (about 625mi driving).
But that will not even get you out of the State of Texas. The distance in just a single state, El Paso Texas to Houston TX is roughly 675 miles (driving distance is about 725). Yep houston and El Paso are farther apart than Paris and Berlin.
But what about Belin to Moscow? Yhat train might make sense, right? That distance is 1000mi flying, 1200 miles driving.
Yet you would fall 200 miles short if you compare it to the distance from DC to Dallas.
That's right, Washington DC to Dallas, TX far exceeds that, 1200 miles flying and 1300 driving.
Trains DO NOT WORK for long-distance nor intermediate travel in the US due to the scale of the distances involved.
Then there is the other problem: US cities are geographically spread out. In the US we have AIRPORTS that are larger in land area than some cities. Per Wikipedia, Paris France is 41 square miles, which would fit nicely inside of Denver International Airport's 52 square miles with room left over for venice Italy.
By comparison the city of Denver 154 square miles (not including its extended suburbs which quadruple the land area).
And to look at metropolitan areas, the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex is cited (US Dept of Interior) as being 9,286 square miles in size (295 of which are rivers, and lakes, 27 sq miles for DFW airport).
I am so sick and tired of the same pointy-headed coastal liberals making this same stupid argument every decade or so.
Rant O'The Day
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Proof that Washingtonians live in an alternate universe Others live among us.
Let's make all media people ride the rail to cover stories, more then 50 miles from their offices, see how they like it. Soon the rest of America will disappear from their attention.
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Had this argument many years ago with an 'enlightened' soul.
Train routes in Europe were built around passenger transport (with very little freight) and the hubs were located in city centers.
Train routes for almost all of the US and Canada were built to haul mostly freight and a few passengers (I know, there are some dedicated passenger lines, but the vast majority of carriers were and are freight haulers) and the hubs were located for wide-spread distribution from resources collection and delivery to industry and commerce (which typically are NOT located in city centers).
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Nonsense. Democrats know how to do bullet trains.
Look at California, America's shining success story of Democrat one-party rule. What's $800 billion in cost overruns between friends (and Big Guy's)?
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Biden's future will be horse and buggy days again. Garbage trucks like gas or diesel no longer available. Currently only electric can be ordered but none are available.
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In 1945, Europe didn't have any transportation left, so rail was the smart, economical way to get people and goods moving again.
In 1945, Americans were tired of riding worn out trains and there was huge pent-up demand for new cars and roads. It was the new cars and new roads that got Americans outside a 25-mile radius, followed by the leftover aviation industry and facilities. The Orlando airport has (former) B-52 runways.
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Driving the populace into the hive cities makes control and management of the serfs easier. Once the 2A is gone in the city, people are totally dependent on government for safety and public services. The Climate strategy, like the institutional racism strategy, is about propaganda tools to move the generations, disconnected from the history of what gave them their current prosperity, towards the collective hive. Marxism is behind all this, and its source domestically is centered at the Kalorama Kompound...
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The United States used to export oil and petroleum products so cars (which can go anywhere there is a road) was a no-brainer. All of those railroad spurs going to small "whistle stop towns" just could not compete economically Then and Now.
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Friend from Germany talked about how US needed more trains until I drove him around the the Southwest through deserts larger than Germany. He didn't bring it up again after that trip.
[The Hill] The White House wants to change how people perceive bipartisanship, arguing that if they put forward proposals that are backed by Republicans and independents, they should be seen as bipartisan even if GOP politicians in Washington don’t vote for them.
The effort took shape as Democrats approved a massive and broadly popular $1.9 trillion coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... relief measure with zero GOP support, and continues as the party increasingly looks poised to move another $2.25 trillion infrastructure measure through Congress just with Democratic votes.
President Biden campaigned as a unity candidate who would work with Republicans, and the GOP increasingly has criticized him for turning his back on that vow with the big Democratic-only measures.
But the White House has shrugged off the criticism, vowing to take big actions at a critical moment to help the economy and address inequality and other needs it says have been ignored for too long.
Biden officials argue that the measures they are proposing have broad public support from members of both parties in polling, and that some of the ideas have been backed by GOP politicians in the past.
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Bipartisan, because the conservatives are sitting in the same room ?
Fooken See Nile Old SFB (shit for brains)...
Joe catch a ride to Union Station, get on the Amtrak, and go back to your basement in Deleware where you came from, before the crooked dems stole the White House for you.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[WASHINGTONPOST] Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby and State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, subpoenaing her campaign and the couple’s business records, according to a grand jury subpoena obtained by the Baltimore Sun.
...US Senator from Texas. Republican contender for president in 2016, his stiff and abrasive manner earned him the title 
...... 46th president of the U.S. 
...46th president of the U.S. 
"Black, Latino, AAPI, and Native American voters whose votes are the most suppressed under SB 202 are also the most likely to be hurt by potential boycotts of Georgia," she said in a video on Wednesday.
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the 
[The Hill] The White House wants to change how people perceive bipartisanship, arguing that if they put forward proposals that are backed by Republicans and independents, they should be seen as bipartisan even if GOP 
President Biden campaigned as a unity candidate who would work with Republicans, and the GOP increasingly has criticized him for turning his back on that vow with the big Democratic-only measures.
