GRAND CANYON, AZ - Standing on the rim of the gaping two-mile wide chasm of the Grand Canyon in a star-spangled jumpsuit, Joe Biden today announced a new $53 billion federal high speed rail program that will include funding for "SkyTrain X-2," a new experimental locomotive that, if successful, will make him the first known U.S. Vice President to jump the Grand Canyon by rail.
"This is a big fucking deal - a big fucking deal," explained Biden. "And I wouldn't have volunteered for this mission if I didn't have complete confidence in Amtrak, my good buddy [US Transportation Secretary] Ray LaHood, and Four Loko - the official energy drink of SkyTrain X-2."
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Biden said the jump was only the first phase in a comprehensive multi-decade federal plan to cement US global leadership in light rail, subways, high speed land trains, airborne trains, undersea trains, and intergalactic trains. The $53 billion program announced today would begin with the building of a complex criss-crossing national rail network, the crown jewel of which will be the 'Sustainability Express' subterranean solar train, providing non-stop service between Wilmington, DE and Scranton, PA.
"When it is finished in 2046, it will shave nearly 15 minutes off the comparable driving time between Wilmington and Scranton," boasted the Vice President. Construction of two additional non-stop solar subway lines connecting Wilmington with Sioux City, IA and Macon, GA will begin in 2013.
Biden said the ultimate goal of the project is time travel.
unfortunately, I could see this administration dump $50 or $75 billion in a solar subway line
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Well, Frank, the administration can't have any new subways that are powered by icky oil. And the unicorn fart project is way behind projections, so they have to use solar.
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Next breakthrough will be solar powered submarines.
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The first line will connect the bustling industrial hubs of Detroit and Cleveland. In other news, VP Biden has been banned from ever again watching Supertrain.
Posted by: George Thetch6690 ||
02/10/2011 20:18 Comments ||
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Considering that recently Solar Cells are able to put out 30% istead of the usual 5% it's POSSIBLE
But PRACTICAL hell no
You'd need a perpetual armed Guard to prevent those Multi Billion Dollar Solar Cell arrays from walking off just to begin with.
Possibly if you Put them on active armed forces bases (Oh right the armed forces are a NO NO)
And the first aircraft blinded by the glae would sue them into oblivion.
Perhaps the childrn need Nappys and th adults should take oer, NAAH can't happen
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
02/10/2011 21:41 Comments ||
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Shit, fingers not co-operating tonight, Sorry.
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Your typing therapy has mostly been working, dear Redneck Jim. An occasional setback is only to be expected.
COLUMBIA, S.C. An African-American lawmaker in South Carolina said Tuesday that stricter illegal immigration laws would hurt the state because blacks and whites don't work as hard as Hispanics.
State Sen. Robert Ford made his remarks during a Senate committee debate over an Arizona-style immigration law, eliciting a smattering of nervous laughter in the chamber after he said "brothers" don't work as hard as Mexicans. He continued that his "blue-eyed brothers" don't either.
Once his ancestors were freed from slavery, he said, they didn't want to do any more hard work, so they were replaced by Chinese and Japanese.
During a heated, daylong hearing, Republican lawmakers assailed Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and accused the Obama administration of flouting Congress by falling back on the EPA to regulate the heat-trapping gases still blamed by the brain-dead for global warming. After Congress failed last year to pass legislation, the Obama administration began using its power under existing law - the Clean Air Act - to regulate emissions from oil refineries and power plants.
"The Environmental Protection Agency and the Obama administration have decided - that they want to put the American economy in a straitjacket," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis. "They couldn't get it through the legislative process - so they tried to do it by a regulatory approach. It's not going to work."
Texas already is challenging the rules in six separate lawsuits pending in federal appeals courts. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee he would abandon the litigation if Congress passed legislation to block the EPA or if the administration backed down.
"The EPA is acting in a way unconstrained by the Clean Air Act and causing industry as well as the states to have to deal with a moving target," Abbott said. "We don't know if the administrative rules they've issued today are going to be the same ones they will issue tomorrow. We keep getting the impression they will keep coming up with new and ever-shifting and changing rules."
Lawmakers have introduced a flurry of bills aiming to block the new mandates and chip away at the overbloated authority of the EPA, which has become a lightning rod for anti-regulation Republicans. Not 'anti-regulation', MSM drone, 'anti-stupid regulation Republicans'.
Wednesday's hearing focused on one of the proposals - a measure by Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., that would undo the EPA's 2009 determination that greenhouse gas emissions threaten the public health and welfare. And why not?
That finding paved the way for the agency to regulate the gases under the Clean Air Act. Idiotic rationale for a moronic rule.
"Chairman Upton's bill is part of an effort to delay, weaken or eliminate Clean Air Act protections of the American public," Jackson said in her opening statement. "Chairman Upton's bill would, in its own words, repeal the scientific finding regarding greenhouse gas emissions. Politicians overruling scientists on a scientific question - that would become part of this committee's legacy." Intelligence over grant-driven fear?
If I were a Pub on that committee I'd pin her down on that exact point. Which scientists? Exactly what data? And let's bring them in to hear what they have to say. This could be used to destroy the global warmists by bringing down the house of cards they've built. They want to quote data? Make them release it. Subpoena them if necessary. Watch the rats scatter.
During more than two hours of combative and sometimes mocking questioning, Jackson insisted the EPA had charted a "reasonable approach" by focusing on stationary facilities that emit more than 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent each year. The agency is developing standards for how those facilities can best control the emissions.
The EPA also seized control of greenhouse gas permitting in Texas after state leaders refused to implement the rules. Although other states have challenged the regulation, Texas is alone in flatly refusing to comply with them. I knew I liked living in Texas!
Jackson said the move ensured Texas businesses could get the permits they need before expanding refineries and power plants or building new ones.
Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, said EPA's decision to invalidate the Texas-issued permits represented "a fundamental change" in the balance of power between the federal government and the states when it comes to air quality regulation. Traditionally, the states issue air pollution permits on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, but the EPA decides whether the permits are in compliance with federal law.
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Pols overriding "scientists" (read: activists) on policy is pretty standard.
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If I were a Pub on that committee I'd pin her down on that exact point. Which scientists? Exactly what data? And let's bring them in to hear what they have to say. This could be used to destroy the global warmists by bringing down the house of cards they've built. They want to quote data? Make them release it. Subpoena them if necessary. Watch the rats scatter.
I've been waiting, and better than the Watergate hearings................
I can suggest a few names.............rubs hands gleefully.
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This could be used to destroy the global warmists by bringing down the house of cards they've built. They want to quote data? Make them release it. Subpoena them if necessary. Watch the rats scatter.
career-crushing, credibility smashing hearings. I want em! Lisa Jackson must be discredited and forced from office and the warmist wonks in the admin removed and ridiculed.
Posted by: Frank G ||
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Simply put CO2 emissions outside the reach of the EPA. It's well within the power of Congress. Those emissions were never intended to be regulated by the legislators who passed the Clean Air Act in the first place.
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This would be the raw climate data in the lab notebooks that inexplicably disappeared at some unknown time after they were entered into that computer program which drove that poor contract programmer mad when he tried to rewrite it to match the graphs used to support the Hockey Stick claims... only to discover that the program they wrote always produced a hockey stick graph no matter what numbers were plugged in? That data?
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Lisa Jackson threw down the gauntlet. Ball in congress' court. Do the have what it takes to defeat this madness?
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02/10/2011 20:36 Comments ||
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If the Marxists want to limit CO2, I guess Texas could always limit the amount of oil and gas products put into pipelines for the Northeast.
Posted by: George Thetch6690 ||
02/10/2011 20:50 Comments ||
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I personaly think small Nuke Power Plants scttered where the biggest load is would work nicely. BUT I'd have a shoot to Kill fence and ANYBODY crossing it is dead Instantly, NO trial, NO publicity, and NO "Activists", Moonbats, Terrorists, Sightseeers, and fools would Perish, with NO publicity. A fence with BIG red signs amd no shit.
And to add icing, Suicides welcome.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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During more than two hours of combative and sometimes mocking questioning, Jackson insisted the EPA had charted a "reasonable approach" by focusing on stationary facilities that emit more than 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent each year. The agency is developing standards for how those facilities can best control the emissions.
