It's About F'ing Time!

Biden announces $53 billion high-speed rail plan

http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/08/biden.rail.network/index.html


I've been advocating something like this for years.  Years!  Look: The United States is a big place.  A VERY big place.  I live in Portland, Oregon, all nestled away there in the northwest part of the country.  Let's say I want to go to someplace like, I don't know, St. Louis, Missouri.  Without high-speed rail, my options are limited to one of three modes of transportation:

(1) Traveling across the country via motorized carriage.

(2) Traveling to the coast and boarding a ocean liner, then traveling down the West Coast and through the Panama Canal, then up through the Gulf of Mexico to Louisiana, then boarding a ferry to take me up the Mississippi River to St. Louis.

(3) Hot air balloon.

That's it!  Just those three options, none of which are satisfactory.  Imagine if I could board a high-speed train and arrive in St. Louis in only twelve to fifteen hours.  Twelve to fifteen hours!  What a world that would be!  Imagine waking up in Portland, Oregon and then going to sleep that very night in St. Louis Missouri.  Imagine it!  Right now!  I'll wait . . .

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Good!  Such a strange and wonderful world of the future!  I just hope I live long enough to see it.

Also, since we're talking about the future: What's the deal with that trip to Mars that Pres. Bush was talking about like seven years ago?  How's that going?  Well, I hope?  Do we have, like, a spaceship designed and everything?  Can I see it?  What's that?  I can't hear you; you're mumbling.  Hey!  Where are you going?  Stop walking away from me!  Hey!  Come back!