I boil down to only this: Amtrak is a company. It should survive or fail without help from the government. I didn't say anything about the countries entire train system.

Hmm, if only there were a way to be able to judge a company by it's balance sheet. Oooh, I know, let's not subsidize the tickets, or the company. The company is forced to either lower it's expenses or raise ticket prices in order to survive. We can then judge the benefit to the people's lives by how willing they are to pay for the service. I think that's a great idea, oh wait that is free market capitalism. We can't have that, it works every time it's tried (including companies going bankrupt). Instead we have to judge on our feelings and service to the community, that is liberalism and it fails every time it is tried. People keep trying it thought because they think they just haven't found the right liberals yet that will make the flawed system work. (I.E. Obama statement, "We are the people we have been waiting for.")

I am an election judge, I would be happy to provide the number of spoiled ballots. In my last election, there were 3. They were the results of either stray marks where the voter rested their pen in a box before checking a different box, and the machine wasn't sure which they meant, so they got a new ballot. The other case was where there were multiple candidates for 1 race (more than 2 candidates) and the voter chose more than one. If you would like I will post again next week with the spoiled ballot count for this election. We have to keep track of every single ballot, so knowing the number of spoiled ballots is trivial.

Is it weird that after i RTFA and hit the back button it brings up slashdot from last week?

Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. The minerals still exist it's called recycling.

Don't replace "Obama" with "Bush", this is all Obama, all the time. Bush has nothing to do with this. This is your hope and change baby. Lap it up.

Only if you testify in character.

You Bush bashers now turn around and defend Obama for doing worse things than Bush ever did. Gotta love hypocrisy. I'll just sit back with my popcorn and enjoy this thread. /munch munch munch

Because fox is actually balanced. Go ahead and tell us the Juan Williams, Mara Liasson and Allen Combs are conservatives. You don't find conservatives on the other channels. Just the Arlen Spectre, Olympia Snow crowd.

I have tried internet over power lines and it never worked for me.

Is it just me or is that confusing? I would think truth would be a subset of reality.

Oh really? Has anyone ever seen someone has shot someone with a gun? Well yes. Just because it hasn't happened yet, (if it hasn't) it will happen. Go wave your credit card at the gas pump, while the guy on the other side of the pump grabs your rfid signal and uses it to pay for his gas too.

We will know that 3D movies have made it, when they can make one in which nothing ever jumps out at you. When it is just there to tell the story and not a gimmick. That has not happened yet.

This is what the community calls facts? That the "entire International Scientific community" believes in man made global warming(AGM). Let's be sure to create our "facts" in pursuit of suppressing public opinion.

I was thinking the same, only I was going to say it's their private key.