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Obama Hails ‘Intercontinental Railroad’… Again

By Doug Powers  •  September 23, 2011 09:47 AM

Yesterday, President Obama promoted his “jobs bill” at a bridge that might not even be eligible for jobs bill money. Andrew Malcolm at Top of the Ticket noticed something during Obama’s latest “Bridge to Bankruptcy” speech that would be much more widely reported if Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin had said it: the Transcontinental Railroad has become the Intercontinental Railroad:

“We’re the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad,” Barack Obama.

That’s what the president of the United States flat-out said Thursday during what was supposed to be a photo op to sell his jobs plan next to an allegedly deteriorating highway bridge.

A railroad between continents? A railroad from, say, New York City all the way across the Atlantic to France? Now, THAT would be a bridge!

It’s yet another humorous gaffe by the Harvard graduate, overlooked by most media for whatever reason. Like Obama saying Abraham-Come-Lately Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party. Or Navy corpseman. Or the Austrian language. Fifty-seven states. The president of Canada. Etc.

The “Intercontinental Railroad” gaffe might be overlooked by most of the media because they’re used to hearing it referred to that way. Back in February, Obama said the same thing. At this point it’s probably easier for Obama’s staff to try and get all the history books changed to match what their boss is saying rather than tell him he’s been getting it wrong.

Speaking of an Intercontinental Railroad, just think about how many jobs could be created by building such a thing to span continents. I know, I shouldn’t joke around like that, lest somebody in power think it’s a good idea.

I guess i just don't care anymore...

So let the complaining begin

What's the point of interacting here with anyone? Trade jokes, recipies, insults, political banter? Is that all this is good for?

I guess so. Nobody leaves comments on my guestbook, and usually not more than 3 people bother to read the postings I make which some of are actually good, even for me. But unlike a few years ago, there seems to be the constant urge to move on to something else.

Technology- we all used to have desktop computers, then laptops were hot, then netbooks, now tablets are the rage. Some people are so addicted they have them all, like me.

Desktop, multiple laptops, a netbook, and tablet...not to mention work provided blackberry...

and as the technology changes, so has the social media, from AOL Homepage, to Yahoo 360, to Multiply and its many siblings, to Facebook and Twitter.

Aging...you know you are old when you dont understand TV commercials anymore. There is a commercial for a smartphone where the guy is changing a baby's diaper and talking w a freind about a football game he didnt see, and he uses the phone to access a video of the game so he can make relevant comments, when his wife appears, and he says to the caller "I gotta bounce"...I understand that to mean "I have to leave",  I have never heard that expression used by real people in conversation though, ergo proof positive I am old...

another sign of aging, I realize I have become a story teller. When an employee comes in and talks to me, I usually have a experience based story, and proceed to tell it, quickly realizing that the glazed look on their face is an indicator they didn't really want to engage in lengthy conversation...so the other day I told them when that happens all they need to do is say they need to go back to work. Although, since the youngest employee I supervise is 49, we are not a young group, so we all sometimes drift into "I remember back in ..."

Health...lets dont go there. Too many pills, aches and pains, etc.

 

Politics-Pawlenty backs Romney

interesting development, as former Gov Pawlenty, who coined the term Obamneycare, is now endorsing Mitt Romney. He denies it, but rumor is he did this to be VP

So is it Romney next year versus Obama, or ??? 

9/11

Grief is the most patient and persistent of all of life’s companions.
It is an ancient, universal power that links all human beings together.

-Molly Fumia

Viewpoint

Ah yes my old maxim bears its truth. What maxim?

People are either a) stupid or b) ignorant.  Ignorance can be over come by information, while stupid can't; stupid is.

Stupidity is a lack of intelligence, understanding, reason, wit, or sense.

Our President has been labelled stupid. He clearly is borderline insane, if you accept Einsteins definition:

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Albert Einstein

Most people i think fall into the ignorance mode from time to time, until they learn something on a topic, and then move out of ignorance to knowledge, unless off course they really are stupid.  Some people never will "get it".

I am not talking about things political, or religious, because differing opinions about those topics often leads to calling names, which is irrational.

For example, I believe there are a multitute of people running for president in 2012 that would be better at that job than the current incumbent. Thats my opinion. If you disagree, thats your opinion, so why resort to name calling? Thats what we call it, agree to disagree.

 

Remembering 9/11 - 9 days out

Watching some of the programming on National geographic Channel, it still mystifies me how people can discount what happened and persist in believing in conspiracy theories...

Even if I don't trust what I watched on TV that morning, while a stunned newscaster bumbled along as we watched a plane speed into a building on national tv, I certaining trust my cousin, who was in the World Trade Tower. He was looking out the window from his office at the buring tower across the way, and saw a plane head towards the building he was in.  That he survived along with countless others is still something I am thankful for.

So dont try to tell me it was a government conspiracy. Thats total BS. Rogue remote control airplanes? Please.

 My cousin lost several friends and colleagues.