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HSR or just better R
The following makes a lot of sense.
Run a Train That’s Fast Enough 05/11/2011 By William Lind
As part of his infrastructure investment agenda, President Obama has called... |
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on May 29, 2011 at 12:39 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Civil War redux
"Posted by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Apr 15, 2011 at 2:30 am
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Why, then,... |
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on Apr 17, 2011 at 12:56 pm by Svatoid, a resident of the Charleston Gardens neighborhood |
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Global Warming? Poppycock!
The cited article should be another nail in the coffin of "Global Warming".
Web Link
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on Feb 18, 2011 at 5:18 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Paper or Plastic or...?
Good News: Another Green Doom Disproved -- Plastic Doesn't Outweigh Plankton in the Oceans
Ronald Bailey | January 7, 2011
Plastic makes it possible that you carry you... |
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on Jan 9, 2011 at 6:09 pm by Jesse, a resident of the Ventura neighborhood |
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Channel Five announces movie on Slave Grown Chocolate
Five or six years ago Palo Alto was considering sanctions against non Fair Trade Coffee [which see].
At that time I wrote them asking that they also consider the even then no... |
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on Oct 31, 2010 at 7:18 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Junk in the mailbox
My daughter , today, receive a pamphlet titled WHAT'S TAKING HER BREATH AWAY?" California League of Conservation Voters [at first I thought it was Conservative Voters, possibl... |
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on Oct 10, 2010 at 7:49 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Who got it?
"Posted by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on May 28, 2010 at 7:43 pm
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Prince Wil... |
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on Aug 18, 2010 at 11:46 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Arizona decision
Let's see If I got it right -
The Federal Government has exclusive authority to enforce Immigration laws.
States cannot enforce them.
Cities cannot enforce them. In fact, i... |
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on Aug 11, 2010 at 9:21 am by Paul M. Heller, Esq., a resident of Stanford |
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Never say it can't get any worse...
From Reason Magazine:
Posted on July 2, 2010, 6:00AM
In Newcastle-under-Lyme, England, the local council has introduced a mandatory recycling scheme that calls for resid... |
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on Jul 6, 2010 at 7:29 pm by geez, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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GontoKorea 2
As all my fans out there know, My son and I will be visiting Korea, I for the second time, to commemorate the war that started on my 18th birthday and is still raging.
Now I... |
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on May 7, 2010 at 5:59 am by Good Trip!!, a resident of the Meadow Park neighborhood |
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NEW TAXES PROPOSED
It would appear that we are stuck with some form of no copay health care and the need to fund it, and so I propose two new taxes to help, taxes unique in that they do not rob ... |
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on Apr 3, 2010 at 5:39 am by nightmare, a resident of the Evergreen Park neighborhood |
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Emergency generators
All those generators that kept vital systems alive may be headed for the junk heap. ARB has decided to impose the same emission restrictions on them as on continual running en... |
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on Feb 20, 2010 at 9:51 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Quake recovery
digital wire
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Huge Recovery Effort Revives China's Quake Zone
02/08/201... |
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on Feb 10, 2010 at 5:28 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Who?
The Who? - Why? |
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on Feb 9, 2010 at 8:03 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Disaster Photo Ops
If your daughter was buried under Hatian wreckage, what would rather see landing at the one operable airport, a load of supplies and rescue workers, or a politician doing a ph... |
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on Jan 17, 2010 at 8:01 am by Kevin, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Are you ready?
Are you ready to have a law that prohibits any legal consideration of gender? I am all for equal opportunity, equal pay for equal work and equal political access, but the tren... |
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on Oct 13, 2009 at 7:29 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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A Modest Proposal
HEALTH
A MODEST PROPOSAL
When I was a lad -
There were for profit hospitals, often owned by doctors.
There were fraternal hospitals, maintained for association members... |
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on Aug 19, 2009 at 6:32 am by Perspective, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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E. Coli fears prompt cookie dough recall
How many more thousands have to die, how many millions every year become ill because the LibLudds have opposed irradiation sterilization of foods? Gutless politicians who have... |
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on Jun 26, 2009 at 3:59 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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From her house she can see the future
Jun. 11--Exxon Mobil Corp., the largest natural gas holder on the North Slope, said today it will work on the long-awaited natural gas pipeline project with TransCanada Corp.
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on Jun 12, 2009 at 4:18 pm by Perspective, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Deja Vu?
Saturday, January 31, I had a deja vu moment. Going through Auburn to deliver a crib to my Granddaughter’s baby shower, I realized that the last time I passed through Auburn w... |
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on Feb 3, 2009 at 8:13 am by Perspective, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Media not all bad
At least the business press seems to have grown in the past decade. In contrast to the coverage when Carol Bartz took over Autodesk years ago, not one article about her appoin... |
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on Jan 16, 2009 at 6:27 pm by Perspective, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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What if?
If both Bush and Cheney were to resign their offices one hour before the Inauguration, Nancy Pelosi would become, for one hour, the first woman president of the United States.... |
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on Jan 11, 2009 at 5:08 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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World opinion? Pshaw!
A world that gets apoplectic over scratch and tickle at Abu Graib and enhances interrogation at Gitmo, and yet lets actions by Hamas that are unmistakably war crimes go unment... |
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on Jan 9, 2009 at 1:36 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Pleasant surprise
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission... |
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on Jan 3, 2009 at 7:01 am by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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Thanks, Steves
A few years ago, two young men carefully toggled a program into a little box of components - as they finished up someone tripped over an extension cord so they had to toggle i... |
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on Dec 22, 2008 at 11:32 pm by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood |
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