Kansas town will hold state’s first election that requires IDs at polls
Springfield News-Leader – 4 hours ago
AP The law that took effect Sunday lists eight forms of photo ID that will be valid at the polls, including a driver’s license, a state identification card, a military ID or a state permit to carry a concealed handgun.
Embolden mine. I think that’s pretty neat, even if I’d never considered a concealed carry handgun permit as a State ID card. ‘Tis, however, isn’t it.
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And just to prove to myself the government is both persistent and whatever else one can call it, the idea of Green is almost as silly (except for the idea it curtails the frivolous spending by individuals) climate warming and carbon debt, there is this:
Transportation officials explore possible passenger rail expansion in Kan …
Washington Post – 15 hours ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Expanding passenger rail service through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas would cost the federal and state governments hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a recently released study that looked at several proposals for …
which is probably an extension of the high speed rail concept the current White House holder is spouting.
Rails lose – as long as the government spends money on roads trucks will be used over rail, except for gross point to gross point.
Interstate trucking will cease when milk trains come back, which will be when the economy shrinks to rural environments again and the super highways shrink to two lanes. That is one of the reasons the super ways evolved, besides the military needs.
We don’t have the manufacturing base once required to justify all the rails, although the PAX hauling the airlines now do might justify the creation of high speed rail if the population continues to centralize.
Bah. Beyond this feeble mind. Just feel, somehow, high speed rail is as good an idea as subways in a high threat earthquake area.
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And today I get to watch Bowl games – having watched the Pros yesterday. This past season has been a strange one as far as lop-sided scoring goes. It seems all the games on my TV have been seventy to zero (in a manner of speaking). Few close games.
It’s often bothered me, mildly to be sure, watching all the college games to consider the numbers of players fielded and the numbers of players that will actually make the Pro circuits.
The thought of all those college players (who may or may not be) on scholarships not necessarily getting an education and the money the schools are receiving. What bothers me there is the calls I hear for paying the college players, and thinking that if one gives the players money, then they should be able to pay for their schooling – i.e. no scholarships.
Just a thought. Because it seems to me their scholarships IS a payment – in the larger scheme of things other students do pay (Well, if they repay the government subsidy).
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