L-E headline: "Columbus leaders insist city be on passenger rail line in first segment" -- What is actually going on here? With the advances in airlines and personal cars, railways lost their importance in people transportation. It was like what happened with stage coaches when the railways became the preferred form of distance travel. Hey, that's an idea..lets get the politicians fired up about stage coaches, another obsolete program that won't be profitable no matter who is running it. Better idea yet...lets fire the politicians who can't find a better way to spend/waste tax dollars....OUR tax dollars!
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Point to ponder: If high speed railways were "the answer", why aren't the private companies best equipped to add such service (the railways, DOH!) already doing so?
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Kudos, lots of kudos, for BCer, Gil McBride!
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potUS O'Blather canceled a tax the Christmas Tree Growers wanted to assess all live Christmas tree consumers for ads promoting live Christmas trees versus fake ones. Don't get excited that potUS O'Blather actually found a tax he doesn't like, but he just doesn't want to look like he supports Christmas anything.
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While I do not know this as first hand info, a fellow BCer mentioned that the Swift Mill had a fire suppressant system...until the current owners removed it. Anybody know anything about this?
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L-E's "Thought for Today" : "Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all 3." - From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999) -- Something about this leapt off the page and said, "This is the perfect epitaph for VPOTUS Joe Biden!
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L-E story: "A Russian spacecraft on its way to Mars with 12 tons of toxic fuel is stuck circling the wrong planet: ours. And it could come crashing back to Earth in a couple of weeks if engineers can't coax it back on track. * But most U.S. space debris experts think the fuel on board would explode harmlessly in the upper atmosphere and never reach the ground." -- Aside from the obvious bad grammar of starting two sentences in this story with conjunctions, I must conclude that "space debris experts" are "shovel ready jobs" created by potUS O'Blather, and it sure is getting deep. Wonder what Algore thinks about this...ooops, wrong premise, Algore doesn't think at all.
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L-E "headlie": "Dems present offer to cut deficit by $2 trillion" -- WRONG! DIM&DUMBERats on the Super Committee don't want to admit they can work with Republican counterparts to cut federal spending, so they've proposed another $1 trillion in tax hikes on the 50% of Americans who already pay the bbulk of the current tax load.
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BTW, I did get an answer, though it's somewhat cloudy as a reasonable explanation, from Councilor Thomas concerning the 8,000 variable between the figure used for redistricting and the Census 2010 figure.