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The deficit and as juan said, this poll shows it. i mean, all we hear from him is lip service about cutting the deficit and fiscal responsibility. you know, the other side of his mouth, hes talking about throwing more money at teachers, a high speed train, electric cars. the guy wants to keep spending and spending and spending and now republicans have proposed massive cuts. i mean, what did they expect was going to happen? you have to cut somewhere and i think the president is really out of touc...

You are in a combat zone or when you are conducting a foreign internal defense mission as these green berets were doing, or when you are even conducting a train operation. this is a dangerous profession. we do lose our brothers in arms and sisters in arms all too often. so its important to keep that in mind. sometimes i feel like a lot of veterans feel this way, that sometimes folks dont know how much danger is associated with service, because theres danger associated with it even in peace time....

Different factors, including signaling factors, the train operation, and more importantly the actions of the engineer at the time of this derailment. they have not shed lying yetight yet on to the specific cause of the derailment. they have confirmed it was going at a speed of about 100 miles per hour. in a train that was supposed to be about about 50 miles per hour. it gives you a sense it was moving at about double the speed of what it should have been at the time. and this given the fact that...