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Sat Feb 4, 2012, 07:32 PM

mwooldri (5,987 posts)

80. Sure you can charter a train!

USA and Canada - http://www.railcharter.com/pvtrail/usacan/index.html
UK - http://www.trainchartering.com

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114 replies	Author	Time	Post
Republicans prohibit funding for high speed rail [View all]	KeepItReal	Feb 2012	OP
what do freaking republicans	mzteris	Feb 2012	#1
It's "socialistic."	silverweb	Feb 2012	#5
If the network of Interstate Highways was proposed today	JustABozoOnThisBus	Feb 2012	#13
The interstate highways were opposed by Jesse Helms, et al	unc70	Feb 2012	#44
If I remember correctly, the highways were	Badsam	Feb 2012	#83
Yes, which makes them NAZI ROADS!!!!	nxylas	Feb 2012	#106
Yeah, I suspect that would be the case.	CBHagman	Feb 2012	#85
They should give up flying then.	MidwestTransplant	Feb 2012	#16
LOL High-speed air is socialist, doncha know? n/t	Beartracks	Feb 2012	#25
The only high speed rail Republicans want...	Joe Bacon	Feb 2012	#37
Well, they'd also want to railroad Pres. Obama...	Beartracks	Feb 2012	#39
Beat me too it...was thinking the same thing. lol	Auntie Bush	Feb 2012	#66
There is no more high speed air, except for military aircraft. All commercial SST have been	24601	Feb 2012	#103
You can charter a plane.	boppers	Feb 2012	#28
How many of them do you think charter planes to travel to and from their districts?	MidwestTransplant	Feb 2012	#34
You would be wrong.	boppers	Feb 2012	#43
Private jets. Much less security screening, . . . and NO PEASANTS ALLOWED.	tclambert	Feb 2012	#45
That is from 2006 and the rules changed in 2007 after Abramoff	MidwestTransplant	Feb 2012	#98
Sure you can charter a train!	mwooldri	Feb 2012	#80
I hope you will post that	greenman3610	Feb 2012	#65
Less money spent on gasoline for cars and trucks.	McCamy Taylor	Feb 2012	#10
Exactly right!	GoCubsGo	Feb 2012	#99
Equality, progress, makes Obama look good, jobs, services, no profit for their backers, and	harun	Feb 2012	#54
Equality, progress	AlbertCat	Feb 2012	#84
They are only hurting themselves.	harun	Feb 2012	#111
Obama proposed it	xtraxritical	Feb 2012	#67
Mega-rich people don't need it. n/t	tabasco	Feb 2012	#86
Upward mobility	tooeyeten	Feb 2012	#93
Scum of the earth. nt	onehandle	Feb 2012	#2
RW morons say public transit=socialisim n/t	Mopar151	Feb 2012	#3
Exactly.	silverweb	Feb 2012	#6
This is like something else I heard about L.A. history.	Beartracks	Feb 2012	#27
It was GM, Firestone and Chevron (Standard Oil of California)	Joe Bacon	Feb 2012	#36
Heh.	Shadowflash	Feb 2012	#51
Upcoming headlines: "Republicans Force Army To Replace M-16s With Bronze Swords & Leather Shields"	baldguy	Feb 2012	#4
"Republicans Outlaw Antibiotics; Require Doctors to Use Leeches"	The Velveteen Ocelot	Feb 2012	#14
"Republicans to replace Bill of Rights with Code of Hammurabi"	Art_from_Ark	Feb 2012	#22
Art_from_Ark	Diclotican	Feb 2012	#46
"Republicans outlaw Poorness, Punishment for being poor is removal of hands"	MACARD	Feb 2012	#68
That is exactly why I cited the Code of Hammurabi	Art_from_Ark	Feb 2012	#87
Almost there: Republicans in NH to cite English Magna Carta in new legislation.	mwooldri	Feb 2012	#81
Y'all need to start a Twitter hash with this stuff! n/t	Beartracks	Feb 2012	#38
Behind closed doors probably with oil companies telling what they had better pass or else.	cstanleytech	Feb 2012	#7
republicans	barbtries	Feb 2012	#8
High speed rail is a waste of money	horny_toad	Feb 2012	#9
Yes, Californians deserve to sit in traffic and burn gas	crazylikafox	Feb 2012	#11
Regional transportation seems like a bigger priority	XemaSab	Feb 2012	#12
Exactly. I voted against the bullet train for those very reasons.	Auggie	Feb 2012	#58
The 'bullet train'	xxqqqzme	Feb 2012	#69
I don't think people understad because no one has explained it to them.	nanabugg	Feb 2012	#89
I imagine people don't understand because they don't want to understand. (nt)	Posteritatis	Feb 2012	#107
Tell me what I'm missing here	XemaSab	Feb 2012	#114
BINGO! Need to tackle the small problems first.	Travelman	Feb 2012	#113
I am with you.	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#17
Not everyone feels the way you do	Lydia Leftcoast	Feb 2012	#23
True there is something that smells fishy about these projects.	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#49
And I was more cocerned	xxqqqzme	Feb 2012	#70
Of course you do.	aquart	Feb 2012	#31
Can you believe it?	NYC_SKP	Feb 2012	#56
Right???	truebrit71	Feb 2012	#112
Even people like you, who prefer to drive everywhere, ...	surrealAmerican	Feb 2012	#47
Roger that. The problem is that there is no good public transportation at the end of the line.	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#48
Huh? Have we been to the same SFO? No transport at the end of the line???	transeo	Feb 2012	#97
Tampa-Orlando	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#100
Then you're a selfish person who doesn't care about leaving anything for future generations.	NYC_SKP	Feb 2012	#55
Maybe when you get as old as me it will be that way.	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#73
SO the solution to those problems is just to have everyone drive everywhere	beac	Feb 2012	#94
What logic did you use to come up with that one?	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#96
I was merely repeating what appeared to be YOUR logic on the issue. n/t	beac	Feb 2012	#109
I never said I want people to drive everywhere.	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#110
I hate cars.	hunter	Feb 2012	#72
Cars are easy to hate.	CAPHAVOC	Feb 2012	#74
Every tool has a use.	Mopar151	Feb 2012	#104
My wife and I are lucky...	hunter	Feb 2012	#105
Yes, how unpatriotic to want America to be a world leader.	aquart	Feb 2012	#32
back where ya came from.......	dhill926	Feb 2012	#77
fucking republicans	gopiscrap	Feb 2012	#15
The $270 billion bill also eliminates bicycle and pedestrian programs	nobodyspecial	Feb 2012	#18
Does anyone understand that this will be the death of urban transit funding in the US?	Leopolds Ghost	Feb 2012	#19
House Republicans determined to prove how solidly they're against	cheapdate	Feb 2012	#20
I smell a deal coming.	cbrer	Feb 2012	#21
Primative Buttholes more stopping progress	lunasun	Feb 2012	#24
ray lahood is a republican	madrchsod	Feb 2012	#26
What if we made one that went backwards at 300 mph?	sofa king	Feb 2012	#29
Why do Republicans hate America?	aquart	Feb 2012	#30
Let's get real. Public transit means that you have to ride with colored people.	saras	Feb 2012	#33
not necessarily	greymattermom	Feb 2012	#42
the Dems should have taken a clue from	lostnote12	Feb 2012	#35
One can use the phrase "Republicans prohibit ..."	BlueMTexpat	Feb 2012	#40
They have no idea what's going on. They'll keep stepping on their collective tails until it's	truthisfreedom	Feb 2012	#41
Maybe if the railroad was exclusively oil tankers . . .	Vinca	Feb 2012	#50
This is just another way to keep the unemployment high	UCmeNdc	Feb 2012	#52
Who benefits? Oil companies, of course.	Maineman	Feb 2012	#53
This will come back to haunt them	Rosa Luxemburg	Feb 2012	#57
We need people in politics	sulphurdunn	Feb 2012	#59
Elimination of everything that doesn't use enough fossil fuels from their friends. Sad.	glinda	Feb 2012	#60
Obstructionist GOP douchebaggery	jpak	Feb 2012	#61
That particular project is a huge boondoggle. It needs to be killed.	slackmaster	Feb 2012	#62
re:Republicans prohibit funding for high speed rail	allan01	Feb 2012	#63
They are just planning for a future	Turbineguy	Feb 2012	#64
More for us here in New York!	hedgehog	Feb 2012	#71
Can	lsewpershad	Feb 2012	#75
Wouldn't want a competitive country now, would we?	dpbrown	Feb 2012	#76
Luddites	The Wizard	Feb 2012	#78
How many jobs would have been created by this funding?	sarcasmo	Feb 2012	#79
This thread is interesting, and I will explain myself a bit in my opinions....	GetRidOfThem	Feb 2012	#82
not paranoid	greymattermom	Feb 2012	#90
The issue is not rail or public transportation in general. Please read about this project...	slackmaster	Feb 2012	#91
the senate will never pass	cppuddy	Feb 2012	#88
Club for Growth	tooeyeten	Feb 2012	#92
High speed rail is a boondoggle without effective local transportation.	Snake Alchemist	Feb 2012	#95
If High Speed Rail is built	Mopar151	Feb 2012	#108
we are such a backwards country. nt	awoke_in_2003	Feb 2012	#101
Repuke pigs hate America...nt	and-justice-for-all	Feb 2012	#102

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