It's a hurdle that high-speed rail planners could face in other heavily populated areas of California as they embark on the nation's most ambitious intrastate rail project, threatening delays that could stall the project for years if extensive opposition surfaces.
Several California cities are challenging the route planned for a high-speed intrastate rail line - a line that could be a top choice for a piece of the $8 billion in stimulus money. They have filed a lawsuit opposing route between the Bay Area and the Central Valley. Some residents, concerned that an elevated train would split their communities, are urging officials to switch to a plan that uses underground tunnels. No problem, if you got enough billions. Like Joe said this morning, it might take a few more months for the high-speed rail jobs to materialize.
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But I thought that all the stimulus projects were supposed to be "shovel ready". Wow, it's almost as if Obama lied to us. Nah, impossible ...
Via Instapundit
In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of a nuclear free world. He railed against discussions of first- versus second-strike capabilities that suit the military-industrial interests with their billion-dollar erector sets, and agitated for the elimination of global arsenals holding tens of thousands of deadly warheads.
The student was Barack Obama, and he was clearly trying to sort out his thoughts. In the conclusion, he denounced the twisted logic of which we are a part today and praised student efforts to realize the possibility of a decent world. But his article, Breaking the War Mentality, which only recently has been rediscovered, said little about how to achieve the utopian dream.
Twenty-six years later, the author, in his new job as president of the United States, has begun pushing for new global rules, treaties and alliances that he insists can establish a nuclear-free world. Rest at link
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which only recently has been rediscovered
Amazing. If it had been Sarah Palin's daughter's grocery shopping list it would have long since been dissected in every MSM outlet in the country.
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Shows some really shallow thinking and inability to blame the Soviets for the cold war "suit the military-industrial interests".
I'm amazed the left couldn't see the crushing of the Czechs, and Hungarians for what it was. They still can't look at Cuba and Iran and see clearly.
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I'm amazed the left couldn't see the crushing of the Czechs, and Hungarians for what it was. They still can't look at Cuba and Iran and see clearly.
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I don't understand why these kinds of things weren't combed out a long time agao. For example, it shouldn't be difficult to find if he ever made Dean's list at one of his several schools. He was editor of the Harvard Revue, wrote for the Columbia achool paper and a host of other things. Surely, there are his fingerprints left publically available in numerous places. Why haven't they been uncovered?
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They probably were, Richard, but they didn't "fit the narrative". That doesn't mean the info has been forgotten, though, and couldn't be brought out at another time that may be convenient for them if they feel sufficiently betrayed by their creation. Just sayin'.
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The fact that there isn't _anything_ there which 'fits the narrative' of what OBambi is - is itself telling don't you think.
If there was anything significant there the MSM would have trotted it out long ago to show what a great guy their idol is.
More likely the MSM decided not to even look (by choice). Contrast the batallion of lawyers and reports who descented on Alaska with the complete lack of information on Obama. Shopping list is right.
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THe leftist media does not want to look - they are afraid of what they may find. It pisses me off while guys like me were taking years out in service of the nation, winning the cold war and fighting in the little unpublished wars, this little mindless prick was working for the other side - and is now CINC.
Big admission from Vice President Joe Biden today.
"The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy," Biden told me during an exclusive "This Week" interview in Iraq.
Not everyone, Joe, just you, your boss and your pals in Congress ...
Biden acknowledged administration officials were too optimistic earlier this year when they predicted the unemployment rate would peak at 8 percent as part of their effort to sell the stimulus package. The national unemployment rate has ballooned to 9.5 percent in June -- the worst in 26 years.
"The truth is, there was a misreading of just how bad an economy we inherited," said Biden, who is leading the administration's effort to implement it's $787 billion economic stimulus plan. "Now, that doesn't -- I'm not -- it's now our responsibility. So the second question becomes, did the economic package we put in place, including the Recovery Act, is it the right package given the circumstances we're in? And we believe it is the right package given the circumstances we're in," he told me.
The vice president argued more time is needed for the stimulus to work. "We misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package," he said. "The truth of the matter was, no one anticipated, no one expected that that recovery package would in fact be in a position at this point of having to distribute the bulk of money."
Krugman knows international economics but knows nothing else, to the point where he's become a caricature. If he's wanting a second stimulus, that's reason enough for me to oppose it.
I pressed the vice president, who is also leading the administration's middle-class task force, on whether he'd rule out a second stimulus package.
"So, no second stimulus?" I asked.
"No, I didn't say that," Biden said, "I think it's premature to make that judgment. This was set up to spend out over 18 months. There are going to be major programs that are going to take effect in September, $7.5 billion for broadband, new money for high-speed rail, the implementation of the grid -- the new electric grid. And so this is just starting, the pace of the ball is now going to increase."
Poor dear Vice President Biden will keep saying things. He just promised the U.S. will not stand in Israel's way if Israel believes military action is needed to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat. He added that the U.S. "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do." He got the right thought, but aimed it at the wrong object.
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This is a crock: "The truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy," Leave out me and many other people, some with actual qualifications, from Joe's "everyone else." Plenty of people read the economy correctly, and were either ridiculed or ignored until it was too late. Even now there is no fact-finding operation going on at the executive or legislative level to determine what went wrong and how it might be fixed. Instead they are trotting out the same discredited "experts" who had a hand in causing the crisis, to fix it. Joe, your people are still misreading the economy.
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Not everyone, Joe, just you, your boss and your pals in Congress ...
Not to mention those who actively participated in obstructing real oversight and regulatory action. "Misread" is not a defense when the evidence clearly shows gross negligence and dereliction of duty by your beltway buddies up to the time the 'crisis' finally unfolded. Put this up there with "I didn't know the gun was loaded" even when you were repeatedly warned.
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So, what makes you think you have gotten it right this time?
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AH they don't WANT to fix it. At least not as you or I would define "fix".
What they want are excuses and crises that can be used to grab more and more power over the economy (see also Oogo) and continue to implement their fascist / communist / socialist ideals.
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I seem to remember the stimulus being necessary because we were in "the worst economy since the Great Depression". Now Biden says he underestimated how bad it was? The Party needs to do a whole lot of airbrushing.
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This statement is self-serving. Rather than take credit for all their efforts to further damage the economy, they take blame merely for not immediately understanding how bad Bush left it for them. Gawd how I hate these people. Only thing worse is the idiots who listen to them.
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Any different from the upper echelons of the old Soviet Union who actually believe the reports of their minions who were lying through their teeth telling their bosses what they wanted to hear? It wasn't till it was too late that the boys at the top discovered [along with the CIA who also believed the reporting] that they'd based their decisions on fiction. Then again, when you insist on running a corrupt political machine, what more can you expect.
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