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  1. 6 hours ago, UDontKnow said:

    SIAP. Found this old article about the HST. The only depressing thing about this train is that it may have a stop close to College Station. Completely unnecessary in my expert, humble, and unbiased opinion: https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2018/11/30/10-things-to-know-about-the-japanese-bullet-train.html.

    Didn't read the article, but a College Station stop is 100% about politics and getting the legislature on board.

  2. 8 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    The amount of people that could live in central Texas but work in Houston or Dallas already makes this worthwhile 

    When you look at New England, you'd be surprised (well maybe not you), but a lot of people would be surprised at people who live in one city, or even state, and work in another city or state, and commute by rail.

    Hell, there are plenty of people who live in Austin or San Antonio, and commute to the other.  And I have plenty of friends in the Houston area who have 45-minute commutes (or longer).  Put them on a comfortable train with wifi, and plenty would reconsider rail.

    It would be interesting to see what would happen if there was a decent high-speed rail between Austin and San Antonio.

  3. 18 hours ago, Crusher said:

    $20 billion. Proper people will get their beaks wet of course but we will end up with a real choo choo train.This is Texas not California after all.

    Perry couldn't even get a scaled-down Trans-Texas Corridor between Mexico and Oklahoma, not sure why it's a given we'll get this through.  And Perry had some massive companies backing him, companies that bought or subsidized local newspapers to help their cause.   It was insane what some of those companies were doing when they were trying to dum up support,

  4. 17 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    So fucking dumb. Its less than 3.5 hrs from downtown houston to downtown dallas

    dont need no damn rail. We need a rail from austin to new orleans or houston to alpine

    I drove from Austin to Alpine 2-3 times a year for almost 10 years, and Houston to Alpine a few times in there, and there ain't no fucking way we need high speed rail out to Alpine, because I see more traffic from Austin to Dallas in one trip, than I did cumulatively from Fort Stockton to Alpine over 10 years.

    And there is already rail through Alpine - we did that trip once, and it took a ridiculously long time, although the scenery was nice.

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  5. 17 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

    So the largest production facility in the world can be taken completely offline by 10 drones from a rebel force? Seems like quite an oversight in security. I’d imagine these weren’t drones you buy off Amazon, but I doubt they’re anything close to military grade.

    No way they were simple drones - twitter says they found cruise missile parts.

    Here's some context.

     

  6. 2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    DeSantis 2024 is my guess. He's 41. And he's full on Trump gurgler, so unless the GOP totally repudiates the tenets of Trumpism, he's the frontrunner.

    If the ass-kicking is even half-as-bad as predicted, anybody who fully hitched their wagon to Trump will not be looked upon kindly by the BMDs.  This isn't a situation like 1992 where George H. W.'s people weren't seen as toxic/part of the problem - many of those fuckers easily came back in 2000 with W.

    Hurd would be a natural (and no, not because of he's black, although that would certainly be a huge benefit in some ways), and I do wonder if he and some of the others who are bailing before 2020 are bowing out now, so that they can come out in 2022/2024 as relatively untainted.  

    They aren't going to have to go on record about Trump in 2020, and they aren't going to have to defend him or take a stance during next year's campaigns. 

    People like Crenshaw could have easily been seen as the future of the GOP,  but they went full-on Trumpkin, and don't appear capable of thinking for themselves.

    Some of the Republicans currently out of office, and who are bashing Trump through various articles/editorials/tweets/etc. could easily maneuver themselves into positions of power.

    The BMDs are going to want folks who can win elections, and who aren't bringing the toxicity that Trump and his supporters are.

  7. On 9/12/2019 at 9:46 AM, ROFL BOX said:

    Are y'all gonna be a "family Pack" or stay gender separated?

    IMO, in maybe 5 years all Packs will be 100% inclusive... so that decision will be moot.

    We have a few girls in our pack, and we are trying to get more - girls seem to do a better job of getting their friends to join.  

    Plus, let’s not kid ourselves, it’s a helluva lot easier to get kids into the pack if sisters can join along with their brothers.  Wife and I have no desire to try and keep up with both Cub Scouts/Boy Scouts and Daisies/Brownies/Girl Scouts.  My sister always had to tag along when I was a Cub Scout, and I had to do so as well when she was in Brownies   

     Being able to bring the girls in makes everything a lot easier on families.  

    But it is hard to recruit girls if they don’t have brothers - they might as well stick to GS, unless dad was a CS/BS and/or they like camping more.  

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