Because it’s Guest Post Friday.  Who’s the guest?  My friend Steve over at Stunatra’s Place.   Visit his site or your whorish mother will give you herpes.

66% Say Obama Likely To Raise Taxes On Those Earning Less Than $250,000 A Year.Two-thirds of U.S. voters (66%) think President Obama is likely to raise taxes on people who less than $250,000 per year. That figure includes 47% who say he is Very
Likely to do so. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 18% doubt that will happen

This comes as no surprise, does it?  Democrats usually tax and spend and spend some more while Republicans cut taxes, and then borrow the money from China to spend.   So much for fiscal responsibility.   At the rate we’re going, taxes will have to be increased on most Americans, like the 47% of the people polled said, and the spending will have to be drastically decreased as well.  Now that would be fiscal responsibility.  But it won’t happen because neither party cares about fiscal responsibility.  I am willing to bet that taxes will be increased for everyone who makes over $40k a year.

The 18% that doubt Obama would do such a thing must be the Obamabots.  The Obamabots eat up whatever Obama says and think he’s the second coming of Christ or something.  There’s no way in hell  Obama could do any wrong.   And if he does, they will make excuses for him or justify his actions in some way.  Which reminds me of a brief conversation I had with a friend of mine, who happens to be an Obamabot.  He gets a hard-on whenever Obama shows his face on the TV or wherever, like I’m sure most Obamabots do.  I informed him of Obama’s plans of making our veterans pay for their own service related injuries.

(Well it might not be his plan, but I am pissed at him for even thinking of putting such a plan on the table).

So anyway, my friend justified this “plan” by saying, “Well, you guys don’t have conscription…so if the people sign up to go into harm’s way then they should have to pay if they get hurt…plain and simple.  Makes sense what he’s doin’ then.”

Makes sense?

In what world are you living in?  Our soldiers are putting their lives on the line to protect this country.  I think they’ve paid enough.  Don’t you?  Well, my friend doesn’t agree. I don’t think I’ve ever been so pissed at my friend in the time that I’ve known him.  It is worthy to note that he is not an American, but this just goes to show that the insanity of the Obamabots has no end.

When will the Obamabots realize that Obama is just another asshole politician?  I am tired of the ass-kissing and hearing about their hard-ons.  I don’t give a shit if you like Obama.  You can like Obama, I don’t care.  What I don’t like is the justification of his bad decisions.  But I guess they will love Obama regardless of what he does.  I’m waiting for the day that he does something to piss them off.  Now that will be fun.  Then the honeymoon will officially be over.  Or not.  They’ll probably kiss his ass regardless.

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Today’s post comes from  Politicus.us.  If you don’t visit that site, I hope the next time your mother sucks off a donkey your father catches her.

Despite the fact that the United States still has the largest rail network in the world, unlike many other developed and even undeveloped countries, our passenger rail service leaves a whole lot to be desired, mainly because it is more profitable for the railroads to carry freight, rather than people.

Besides relatively small, regional commuter rail lines and some specialty tourist and sightseeing trains, government subsidized Amtrak remains the only real passenger option in the U.S.

For decades now the world has been marveling at the Japanese “Bullet Trains” and later at the French TGV, both very fast – albeit a bit expensive – but very, attractive alternatives to air travel, cars and buses.

A few years ago, Shanghai was the first to implement a German-developed magnetic levitation train on a route, between the city and its airport. With a maximum speed of 431km/h, or 267 miles per hour, it takes only eight minutes to complete the 30km trip.

One of these trains would be just the ticket for the Washington-New York-Boston route. The problem with the so-called Northeast Corridor (NEC) is the fact that it happens to be a very curvy route, not allowing very high speeds, without complete rebuilding. That of course would not only be very expensive (and we never, ever want to spend money on something useful) and would probably require the acquisition of numerous rights of way, demolition of existing structures and so forth.

Although sections of the NEC have been rebuilt and upgraded, the route still wouldn’t allow speeds even remotely approaching the Japanese, French, or German/Chinese trains.

It was therefore decided to procure tilting train sets, which could use the existing tracks, while achieving greater speeds by tilting the trains inwards on the turns. The Canadian consortium Bombardier has won the $611-million contract with its design, originally termed the “American Flyer”, which later became Amtrak’s “Acela” brand. The trains are capable of 240 km/h, or 150 mph speeds. Some upgraded sections of track actually allow such speeds on the straightaways. This of course is well below the above-mentioned Japanese and French trains and in a completely different category than the Shanghai maglev set up.

The real problem is that the Acela trains were actually built four inches (10cm) wider than they should, reducing the permissible tilt on the turns from 6.5 to 4.2 degrees, effectively reducing the speed on large sections of the Northeast Corridor. At issue is basically the fact that it has been determined that a more pronounced tilt, at a higher speed could be dangerous if two trains were traveling in opposite directions on the same turn.

That said: we still do not have a viable, fast and affordable train service on the very busy Washington-New York-Boston route. Driving takes at least nine hours. Taking a plane has become nightmarish because of the security regulations, overly large airports, which are too often very inconveniently located. The airlines are notoriously unreliable as of late. As a matter of fact, it is a rarity when a plane departs and arrives on time on any route.

The latest, humongous “stimulus” plan does provide a trickle for “investigating” high speed rail to the tune of about $8 billion. I wouldn’t be surprised that this was included thanks to Vice President Biden, who has been a regular Amtrak commuter for many years. But why the hell haven’t we investigated it years ago? How long will it take before the U.S. – a country with the world’s largest rail network will finally enable its inhabitants to travel by rail in comfort, speed and safety and in an environmentally sound way?

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