High-speed rail: Your questions answered

[FayeforCure]

The train is supposed to be capable of speeds up to 168 mph, making the 84-mile trip in as little as 44 minutes, as opposed to 90 minutes by car. Express trains would go straight from Orlando International Airport to downtown Tampa, with local runs also stopping at the Orange County Convention Center, Walt Disney World and Lakeland.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/os-high-speed-rail-what-now-20110225,0,7534383.story

[FayeforCure]

Wow dude.  Really?  Millions of people all over the Middle East rising up against the decades-long repression of their tyrant leaders, women still getting stoned to death in Iran, female mutilation in African countries, and yet *we're* the most regressive nation on the planet?

Huh...

Such a stock response by some "conservative" men acting like they are the protectors of women. Yet these same conservative men want the death penalty for women who miscarry in the US. Go Figure 

Are lawmakers from the "women are chattel" set having some sort of nation-wide competition to see who can get the most sick-minded anti-abortion law enacted? Sure seems that way! Last week, a public outcry forced South Dakota lawmakers to shelve a bill that opened the possibility that abortion providers would be endangered by people who believed that killing them was a justifiable homicide. Today comes word that Georgia state Representative Bobby Franklin is shopping a bill that wouldn't just make abortion illegal in Georgia, it would criminalize miscarriages to boot.

Jen Phillips of Mother Jones -- which has of late been America's premier harbinger of this sort of cockamamie legislation -- has the details of a law that she terms "the apex...of woman-hating craziness"

Oh, wait, sorry! Did I forget to mention that the death penalty is involved here? My bad. That's precisely the sort of thing that you read about and do not want to believe it so fervently that, at first, your brain rejects it outright, as if it were some alien tissue grafted onto your medulla oblongata

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/antiabortion-georgia-lawm_n_827340.html

[NotNow]

Does ANYONE  check facts here before they post?

[tufsu1]

Does ANYONE  check facts here before they post?

why bother...Rick Scott doesn't

[JeffreyS]

Does ANYONE  check facts here before they post?

why bother...Rick Scott doesn't

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