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RDCanecutter

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  1. 1 minute ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Well I’m paying a 23% effective tax rate this year, because I had a pretty good year. Turned out tax reform ended up saving me about $8k so I think I’ll buy myself a Rolex.

    Trickle down, motherfuckers!!!

    If you haggle worth a damn, you can get it for $5K.

  2. 4 minutes ago, SDG said:

    Well there's a 100% chance I have no interest in taking Adderall again when Modafinil works better for ADHD and has lower side effects (I've taken it in the past and don't suffer from skin irritation)  but this is the country we live in so until our government isn't controlled by big Pharma this is the risk we take....

    In my googling I learned that it is available here as Provigil. Is it hard to get a doctor to prescribe that?

  3. 8 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:

    Shouldn't all you free-market lovers hate the idea of giving huge tax breaks to businesses to entice them to move?

    I'm not under the illusion that anything stays pure and wholesome whenever businesses and governments chat. The difference between now and, say, 1879, is that we get to look at some of the details.

    NY looked weak offering that much, but they did. Cuomo and his gang didn't get the local people in line, so you get to a situation where one guy can veto it. Looks inept.

    People everywhere else will chase those jobs, and get them. They can house them in empty business districts that have been gutted by folks buying everything through Amazon.

  4. 21 minutes ago, tjhooker said:

    LOL AOC helped kill the Amazon deal that would have brought on 1000s of new jobs averaging $150K/yr..  Cuomo is pissed off.  This is so awesome.  Thank God she is fighting corp greed for these underpaid workers. 

    In your blind hatred of AOC, you fail to see that she helped Democrat workers by helping sour the Amazon deal.

    (Democrats in Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, etc etc etc)

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  5. Purchasing land for rail lines is easy if you do it in 1850. Wait much longer than that, and it gets headachey. In 2001 in Northern France people were protesting a new TGV line, finally they were helped out by "one dead British soldier", ie the line would have cut through a small war cemetery, of which there are one or two in France. I think they eventually built the line anyway, but it wasn't tangle-free.

    Last time I rode Amtrak I was in the station yakking, wishing there were more trains. Fellow passenger turned out to be a freight line employee of some sort, he told me everything was running full-capacity on lines that had been cut 100 years ago, didn't seem to see any easy additions.

    Thus my attachment to zoo trains.

  6. 34 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    I just want pop in and say that high speed rail in Texas would be wonderful.

     

    Texas is already wonderfully served by clean efficient buses. I don't mean the Greydog, I mean all the Mexican bus lines. If you don't see a stop listed, I bet any reasonable request would make it a stop, for that trip.

    http://www.elexpreso.net/

    https://www.turimex.com/en/

    https://www.tornadobus.com/

    Sure, they get shitty Yelp reviews, but that just means you won't have to ride with Yelp Reviewers. I've ridden with some of these lines, they always stop at the best Mexican restaurants wherever they may be.

     

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  7. 6 minutes ago, Lobo said:

    Try traveling a little more dude, there is no such language as Swiss.  You’re thinking of either Hollandanian or Denmarkian.  You see-the Nordic people include the Swiss, but not all Swedish are Scandinavian 

    I meant to say "Belgian".

  8. 10 hours ago, tantric superman said:

    I think a horrific Minnesota accent is about the most grating sound in the world.  It is a softer Minnesota accent, so it's bearable.  I don't think it is that much of an impediment, but I'm pretty open minded about anyone who might beat Trump.

    I'm from the Foghorn Leghorn Deep South and I totally dig a woman with a glass-cutting Fargo accent. You just know she can bake the hell out of a tuna fish potato casserole.

    Plus, it's close enough to the English language that you can occasionally figure out entire sentences.

  9. To hell with high-speed rail. I'd like me some low-speed rail, little one-car trains chugging through county seats, and when you're headed off to the Big City, your gal runs along the platform, professing her love, secretly dreading the news that she will lose you to a hash-house redhead named Ruby who does wicked things in the back seats of Pierce-Arrows.

    Hell, I'd like local zoo trains. Serious as a heart attack, you know that mini-gauge train that runs past the tiger cage 20 times a day? Put those all over suburban neighborhoods-- the zoo trains, not the tigers-- have them toot along at 15mph steady-eddy, hop on, hop off. Put a reader in them to automatically bill your phone, so the Uber goobers will like them. No idea what it'd cost but I bet you could run a shit-load of them for the price of one high-speed boondoggle.

    Zoo trains!

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  10. Just now, Bama Chick said:

    Jeez, that’s quite a tale Canecutter.

    I’m sorry you had to deal with that.

    You’re a pretty cool dude whose had quite a life. I’d read your autobiography for sure.

    In an odd way, my brother gave me a gift. We all fuck up (ok maybe not murder but we all fuck up.) We all must one day die.

    Now go live without fear, and one day die well.

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  11. I remember lining up in grade school for those shots. Scared the hell out of me. But know what? Toughened us up. Didn't feel the need to stare at the phone all day for guidance. Because it was just a dumb-ass phone, hanging on the wall with that wiggly cord you could stretch across the room. Hey! Peanuts! Gimme some!

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