the_traveler
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Is he going to join John McCain to say that "... Amtrak doesn't serve my state ..."?
I wouldn't want to put words in Mike's mouth, but I think he is using Rhodes Scholar as a metaphor for intelligent. He's just saying Walker looks intelligent compared to Kaisich.What have Rhodes Scholars done to make you dislike them so much?Wow, I'm a cult member. That's pretty exciting. This guy makes Scott Walker look like a Rhodes Scholar. Good choice, Ohio!
All this time I thought that it was "roads scholar" a person that studied highway maps!!!I wouldn't want to put words in Mike's mouth, but I think he is using Rhodes Scholar as a metaphor for intelligent. He's just saying Walker looks intelligent compared to Kaisich.What have Rhodes Scholars done to make you dislike them so much?Wow, I'm a cult member. That's pretty exciting. This guy makes Scott Walker look like a Rhodes Scholar. Good choice, Ohio!
Oh, I agree, that's what I figured he meant too. (Sarcasm isn't always easy to convey electronically.)I wouldn't want to put words in Mike's mouth, but I think he is using Rhodes Scholar as a metaphor for intelligent. He's just saying Walker looks intelligent compared to Kaisich.What have Rhodes Scholars done to make you dislike them so much?Wow, I'm a cult member. That's pretty exciting. This guy makes Scott Walker look like a Rhodes Scholar. Good choice, Ohio!
I am sure Kasich would grock this one:If we're a cult we need a symbol. Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks for figuring out what I meant to say, PaulM. It was sarcasm. I don't think I've ever actually met a Rhodes Scholar, but they're supposed to be smart. Ohio's governor-elect sure isn't one of them, especially given the fact that many of his fellow Republicans were backers of the Three-C projectOh, I agree, that's what I figured he meant too. (Sarcasm isn't always easy to convey electronically.)I wouldn't want to put words in Mike's mouth, but I think he is using Rhodes Scholar as a metaphor for intelligent. He's just saying Walker looks intelligent compared to Kaisich.What have Rhodes Scholars done to make you dislike them so much?Wow, I'm a cult member. That's pretty exciting. This guy makes Scott Walker look like a Rhodes Scholar. Good choice, Ohio!
Now that I get it, it seems pretty clever.Oh, I agree, that's what I figured he meant too. (Sarcasm isn't always easy to convey electronically.)
GREAT NEWS !!!!In a speech made at Newark, Ohio yesterday, Ohio's future governor John Kasich, said he and his newly appointed Director of Transportation will fight any efforts to build high speed rail in Ohio.
He never had a rational argument to begin with.All that I am suggesting is that he has probably run out of rational arguments and hence has to start using other well known techniques of argument - like calling an adversary a heathen etc.
There is a big difference between a hobby or interest and a cult. I wouldn't know about "cooks".You guys absolutely present yourselves as cooks and as a cult worshipping trains, and that's not doing your cause any favors.
Maybe (as you say) we are a "cult", but I'm almost sure you or someone in your family drives on the roads. Thus you are part of the "automobile cult"!You want more funding for rail? Well, Congress and the general public aren't going to vote tons of money toward paying for the whims of a cult.
Considering that Chrisitianity originated as a small "cult" of "cooks" within the Jewish realm, that spent most of their time hiding in caves by the Dead Sea and stuck to their beliefs to plant the seeds of what it has grown to today (and I don't mean just the far right types, but also the liberal Christians who far outnumber the far right in the whole world today), I don't see your rationale for us to be worried or our need to change, as very well thought out or supported by history. I think we are all in good company Being part of a larger herd of sheep never produced any useful disruptive change or sowed the seeds for progress. It is small "cults" that cause such. Think the founding fathers of the USA. Think Mahatma Gandhi in India. Of course "cults" also have a large failure rate, but so do large herds of sheep ...er... Empires. 'Tis the nature of the beast, so why worry about that? Best foot forward and then que sera sera!You guys should take this more seriously than you are because this is how you're perceived by the general public!
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You guys absolutely present yourselves as cooks and as a cult worshipping trains, and that's not doing your cause any favors.
Kasich has it right, and the sooner you accept it, learn from it, and change your attitudes, the sooner you will get what you want.
And exactly WHY are you on this forum?You guys should take this more seriously than you are because this is how you're perceived by the general public!
You want more funding for rail? Well, Congress and the general public aren't going to vote tons of money toward paying for the whims of a cult.
Can't you take a step back and think about how Joe Q. Public might react to the topics brought up on this board? Amtrackers expressing sorrow that people dieing on tracks are disrupting their precious train rides? Outrage over Amtrak trying to save a few tax dollars in ways that will make things slightly less cushy for frequent riders? The general disgust leveled at people who occasionally take to the air just because they'll save a few days of travel?
You guys absolutely present yourselves as cooks and as a cult worshipping trains, and that's not doing your cause any favors.
Kasich has it right, and the sooner you accept it, learn from it, and change your attitudes, the sooner you will get what you want.
Since the Governor-elect is not making his work address apparent, write to him at his home:Unfortunately, I'm not finding any info online about how to contact Kasich. I loved how he said once during the campaign that he hasn't met a single person who would take the 3C train. I'm wondering if he REALLY asked that question of every single person he met during the campaign? DOUBTFUL. I want to contact him and let him know that I am one of MANY who want the 3C train and would ride it regularly!
... with either the CLE or CIN stations on it!Send him Amtrak post cards
That's a good question, one that I imagine lots ask and that I try to lay out from time to time.And exactly WHY are you on this forum?You guys should take this more seriously than you are because this is how you're perceived by the general public!
You want more funding for rail? Well, Congress and the general public aren't going to vote tons of money toward paying for the whims of a cult.
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