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I forgot to mention, speaking of big infrastructure, I’ve always argued that NY is so nimbyist today the very things that make it livable could never be duplicated. The water supply, and the subway system, for example.
I was up in the SW Catskills for a week, chilling and taking fall foliage photos, when i was reminded quite forcefully of it by this sign and a series like them.
“They are doing what it seems that we used to do but don’t do any longer–think big. Real big. ”
This is part of what I was thinking about this morning when I heard the story about the super computer.
We’d rather go to war than do any of those things it seems. Trillions and trillions. For what? No one has managed to explain it to me in a way that makes any sense at all.
Seeing all the things China is doing is very distressing. Bullet trains, supercomputers, wind turbines, massive infrastructure projects. They are doing what it seems that we used to do but don’t do any longer–think big. Real big. What was the last piece of interesting infrastructure built here? The Willis Avenue Bridge? Gonna be interesting to watch the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement. I wonder if I’ll be alive to see it.
“I happen to believe that while American people are generally good people and maybe a force for good, American foreign policy has not been a force for good in the world for an awfully long time. But if American people think all war all the time is a force for good, then they need to pony up the tax dollars to pay for it.”
(((((Clap, clap, clap, clap, from the peanut gallery!)))))
hey dibs, not trying to duke it out, just disagreeing as usual. And wondering how you can reconcile the republican policy of all war all the time with fiscal restraint. The gold plated standard of asking people what they want is to ask them to pay for it. It wasn’t done in Vietnam and it wasn’t done here. With distressing economic results in both cases.
And after seeing Karzai’s smug admission that yes, he accepts bags of money from Iran, I hope someone suicide bombs his sorry ass sooner rather than later.
“Is your Japanese friend female and hot?
[putting on lipstick, strapping kid to back, heading to subway to 52nd street]”
Yes, she is female and gorgeous (and has her MBA from Columbia, mind you). She is also a very good friend of Mrs C’s and her husband is a good friend of mine. We just happen to both be Beatlemaniacs. We went to see Paul McCartney in concert and also saw George Martin speak years ago, which was fascinating.
DIBS, she has an equally hot sister and two brothers. I won’t comment on her brothers’ attractiveness but they are both super-successful, wealthy guys.
I forgot to mention, speaking of big infrastructure, I’ve always argued that NY is so nimbyist today the very things that make it livable could never be duplicated. The water supply, and the subway system, for example.
I was up in the SW Catskills for a week, chilling and taking fall foliage photos, when i was reminded quite forcefully of it by this sign and a series like them.
http://www.pbase.com/dentontay/image/129846652
“They are doing what it seems that we used to do but don’t do any longer–think big. Real big. ”
This is part of what I was thinking about this morning when I heard the story about the super computer.
We’d rather go to war than do any of those things it seems. Trillions and trillions. For what? No one has managed to explain it to me in a way that makes any sense at all.
denton….places like Shanghai and many other cities make our cities look like some old European city.
Seeing all the things China is doing is very distressing. Bullet trains, supercomputers, wind turbines, massive infrastructure projects. They are doing what it seems that we used to do but don’t do any longer–think big. Real big. What was the last piece of interesting infrastructure built here? The Willis Avenue Bridge? Gonna be interesting to watch the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement. I wonder if I’ll be alive to see it.
I had nothing to do with the war comments.
m4l, unfortunately I’m gonna miss again. It’s the big photo equipment show at the Javits today (I missed) so I have to make it tom’w.
“I happen to believe that while American people are generally good people and maybe a force for good, American foreign policy has not been a force for good in the world for an awfully long time. But if American people think all war all the time is a force for good, then they need to pony up the tax dollars to pay for it.”
(((((Clap, clap, clap, clap, from the peanut gallery!)))))
hey dibs, not trying to duke it out, just disagreeing as usual. And wondering how you can reconcile the republican policy of all war all the time with fiscal restraint. The gold plated standard of asking people what they want is to ask them to pay for it. It wasn’t done in Vietnam and it wasn’t done here. With distressing economic results in both cases.
And after seeing Karzai’s smug admission that yes, he accepts bags of money from Iran, I hope someone suicide bombs his sorry ass sooner rather than later.
“Is your Japanese friend female and hot?
[putting on lipstick, strapping kid to back, heading to subway to 52nd street]”
Yes, she is female and gorgeous (and has her MBA from Columbia, mind you). She is also a very good friend of Mrs C’s and her husband is a good friend of mine. We just happen to both be Beatlemaniacs. We went to see Paul McCartney in concert and also saw George Martin speak years ago, which was fascinating.
DIBS, she has an equally hot sister and two brothers. I won’t comment on her brothers’ attractiveness but they are both super-successful, wealthy guys.