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The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

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Correct, in that it's still in the design phase. But it's for a proposes link from the Pacific port of Mazatlan to Winnipeg.

it appears that existing rail traffic is funneled toward the middle of Mexico (San Luis) then North, which is why Texas is the brunt of the crossings. The other main line follows the Pacific coast to Tijuana.

The proposed route appears to use rail lines between the two big routes and go from Salamanca to Torreon to Ciudad Juarez.

The No-Texas alternate route looks to get to that point, then swing 20 miles west around the tip of El Paso and fall more in line with Las Cruces NM.

In fact, a quick trip to Google Maps of the area shows BNSF with a huge yard in Santa Teresa. Depending on who they get trackage right agreements from, they can just use BNSF routing up to Albuquerque, then to Kansas City, then to Winnipeg. UPRR would be more direct from El Paso to Kansas City.

I can guarantee you that UPRR, or any of them, would absolutely build new lines if it meant they were able to speed up shipping. In fact, I've watched them hold up a federal interstate project AND an airport expansion because they "might expand a rail yard."
 
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They're going to do whatever makes them the most money. If they think leaving Texas will do that, they're gone. Texas is going to be missing a lot of companies and tax income in a few years.
 
That smells of fraud to me. They wanted the money for his attendance and figured his parents wouldn't make a fuss if the teachers passed him.
 
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Charter schools, another Republican scam.

I don't know how it is elsewhere but in Anchorage kids who attend charter schools can choose to play sports for any one of the public high schools of their choice, which inevitably leads to playing for one of the two schools in wealthy neighborhoods.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Charter schools, another Republican scam.

I don't know how it is elsewhere but in Anchorage kids who attend charter schools can choose to play sports for any one of the public high schools of their choice, which inevitably leads to playing for one of the two schools in wealthy neighborhoods.
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Surprisingly, despite being Betsy Devos’ big charter experimentation lab, Michigan doesn’t allow that. Most charter schools have their own sports. If they don’t they can co-op with another school (of any type), but co-ops here tend to be on a by-sport basis versus schools combining entire athletic programs.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Nina turner needs to go away.

this link has some interesting replies, apparently she’s teasing running for president in 24. Joke

https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1521686195360645121?s=21&t=cWHx1XE3jSv4VQzJk3C41A
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I hadn’t really looked at her electoral history before. The only election she’s ever won was Cleveland City Council in 2005. Then she was appointed her Ohio senate seat, ran unopposed the next election, and hasn’t won anything since.
 
Handyman said:
So cute you didn't even read your own story you woman hating pos. Go back underground and pray cause God is none too pleased with you and your ilk you and what you do in his name.

I hope you like the heat...
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Other than flirt with the sedevacantist/ChurchMilitant dot com agenda, it's all he does now. *shrug*
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Not paying a lot of attention but isn’t Ohio so deep red now? Or is there a shot?
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There may still have been a distant shot, but Tim Ryan is a white male centrist and he has all the charisma of a liverwurst sandwich, so no. Unless they catch him in bed with a dead girl or a live boy, Rust Belt John Steinbeck is going to be the next Senator from Ohio.
 
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None of that makes any sense.

First, Texas doesn't have "dilapidated rail lines." They don't have any rail lines at all. Rail lines are privately owned.

Second, do you think Union Pacific or some company that actually owns rail lines is going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars (or more likely, billions of dollars) to build new lines in New Mexico just because the Governor of Texas and the President of Mexico are in some political pizzing match? When was the last time you actually saw a new rail line constructed? I'm not talking about a few miles of street car lines like in the Twin Cities. I'm talking about honest to good rail lines, where you are driving across that countryside and thought, "huh, when did they put those rail lines in?" I'm going with "never." Not when they already have perfectly good, working rail lines to and from Mexico already in place.

Third, have you ever seen where trains enter the country from Mexico? This isn't like crossing the Canadian border in Pembina, ND in your '14 Camry. They have a giant, secure area, fenced in, well lit, where the trains are brought in and stopped. The Border Patrol then does a close inspection. Then the railroad security does an inspection. The frigging trains are x-rayed from front to back. Thermal imaging is then used. Finally, they run through the dogs.

You think they're going to set up one of these complexes on the border in New Mexico, a state that doesn't even have a town of 50 residents on its border, when they already have perfectly good security complexes (and people to work them) in actual cities elsewhere?

Here is what this smells like to me, although honestly I have no working knowledge of Mexican politics. This smells like a situation where the President of Mexico promised a "train to Winnipeg" (I don't know, maybe like a border wall), and is now going to use this to derail (pun intended) a plan that was never going to happen.
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How much did Abbot's stunt cost the rail industry? How much did it cost Mexico? What's the likelihood it happens again? How much would it cost to ensure there are better options?

Also worth noting that El Paso borders not just Mexico, it borders New Mexico as well. Hell, the metro area is in all three. So it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to say, you know, maybe we could build it so that it's close to the major industrial cities of Juarez and El Paso. And it' not that hard to imagine them saying, maybe we could do it on the new mexico side.
 
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