and not get so fooled by the concept of ghost writing
Cos-mobile April 1, interview about the sorry state of infrastructure and politics
DA- Glad to have you back.
DT- It’s good to be back.
DA-
Don’t you think it’s silly when people turn on the tv to see an
interview with you that you talk not about substantive issues as
transport infrastructure. After all you are a developer- you produce
stuff that is important to peoples’ lives, so there’s a plausible
connection to things that matter- namely the infrastructure.
DT- I
know- it stinks. All they want me to talk about in the media are
things that really don’t matter, not broadly anyway. Such as some
beauty pageant. Or the idea that the most important thing about our
current POTUS is the location of his birth- yet can never even mention
the gross failure to discuss our infrastructure- with discussion of
additions somehow beyond the pale of even a mention.
Whose
idea was it for a monument to Honda, right at the spot where we used to
have a GM factory assembling Chevy’s Nova and their variants, you know,
Pontiac Ventura-Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega, Buick Apollo-Skylarks.
DA-
Ah yes, the Chevy Nova 1976-78 9C1 police suspension package. Vastly
under appreciated solid US American construction. Right at that factory
they had at that site just to the north of its landing in Westchester.
Before they replaced those solid 1975-1979 rear drive 1970-1981 F car
front chases with the front drive x cars. A study of these automobiles
spoke volumes about business and design philosophies.
DT-
Now we have this opportunity to improve the rail transit network.
We’ve been discussing it for years. Tie together the heavy rail of the
New Haven, Harlem and Hudson lines of Westchester with an I-287 corridor
to Suffern and upstate. And of course design in such rail connections
into a Cross Sound Crossing to the Route 135 corridor in Suffolks
County, to tie into the Long Island Railroad braches and continue to the
Beach. Improving our roads means improving those we got and adding new
ones, and with a Cross Sound Crossing we will get highway and rail.
Likewise with the much needed link across southern Long Island and
Brooklyn tunnel to I-78 in New Jersey, connecting Newark and JFK
airports. Both the Cross Sound and Cross Harbor projects ought to be
post 911 security priorities. $30 billion would go a long way towards
paying for a commuter heavy rail from Suffern to Seaford – Jones Beach
Park and a full I-287 corridor encompassing the existing I-287 and Route
135 corridor upgraded and connected with a Cross Sound bridge or tunnel
and so continued as a tunnelway across-beneath a Brooklyn Linear City
and across the harbor to I-78 in New Jersey.
DA-
But shit. Cuomo fails to take a look at the FEIS’ lack of a cost
benefit analysis of the lower deck option, never-mind it only costing
something like a mere $200 million (5% on a 5$ billion project), with
way more potential capacity- bang for the buck compared to a
supplementary or separate parallel structure. And these stupid outward
canted “H” towers intruding upon the vertical clearance of whatever
roadway gets attached to its median space.
DT-
Talk about rubbing our faces in it while making it an even worse design-
and they arrange these self congratulatory- masturbatory manufactured
accolades to prop this up? Cuomo and those responsible for ordering
these designs should perhaps be fired, or at least just go back to the
2011 designs with the lower deck. Have a referendum on the aesthetic
issues of arched or towered spans. Upscale by 15-20% with the lower
deck design. The cartoonists ought to have a field day with that “H”
tower design.
DA- In a nutshell- right now, two
groups are holding the region hostage- a few in Nyack against the duel
deck; and those in Rye and in LI opposed to even a drilled tunnel that’s
routed around them. INVESTIGATE BOTH. Investigate whatever the
political connection is in Nyack against the duel deck with the Cuomo
administration behind such overly weighty political influence.
DT- Why
people in general are so unaware is a reflection of a worse problem of
that as having a long history in a press, and in various types of
organizations, long in the service of such special interests.
With
many people focused many upon the veneer. Why Mercedes and BMW ended
up taking much of what used to belong to Lincoln and Cadillac. A
malaise marked by the dropping of the speed limits and by extension our
expectations and realizations of happiness and or despair.
DA- It’s
a lot like the lower of build quality of our automobiles and
appliances- and the de-listing de-emphasis upon history, sciences, and
math in schools. The forgetting of the importance of build and material
quality. You know, like that new exhaust system purchased through
Meineke, and within 6 months its rusted through junk. Perfectly fine
machinists, workers. But somewhere up the command chain a serious lack
of regard for material property- reflecting problems with understanding
the production process, such as curing rates, and or basic raw material
quality and or preparation likely reflecting problems with the
educational systems.
It goes at our educational
ideology. That part about gloating about Sharon Tate’s death was not a
positive foreshadowing. A focus upon jealousy and revenge, rather than
an overall betterment for as many as feasibile.
DT- Which
explains what is so wrong with society. I mean, look at the focus on
the wrong things they have gotten people, including me, to bring that
up-wrong as a distraction from something that the point of contention is
based upon. AKA the issue of where the POTUS was born, as in Kenya ,
rather the United States, with the birth certificate issue of
discrepancies so focused away from the related issue of who was the
biological dad. I mean, none of us were there to witness just where he
or any of us other than ourselves, was born. But look for yourselves at
the photos of the POTUS, Obama Sr., Anne Durham, and that man of her
acquaintance, Frank Marshall Davis. And why does this get some little
attention, versus the issue of his birth certificate? A recent spin
against questioning the parentage ties this with Frank Marshall Davis
having taken nudes of Anne Durham against a backdrop of a Christmas tree
with gifts in late 1960, and with the POTUS born August 1961,
potentially the time of conception, assuming a 7 and a half or 8 month
gestation. Not that that ‘s something to hold against the man,
never-mind it raises the issue of him perhaps being some sort of
Manchurian candidate. Who knows?
DA- But
beware, the levels go deeper. Yes, no one would hold it against him who
he was born to. But what about who was his early influence, and in
what ways. I mean we already have him self described as some form of
leftist. But what type? The type that question the level of technology
and offer solutions not necessarily favored by the
capitalist-mercantilist forces; or that which brushes such aside in
favor of masturbatory Malthusianism that presupposes its own ignorance
of physical reality as its basis for adopting the sort of neurotic yet
over-confident Malthusianism of Ted Kysczinski- pride fully satanic in
not wanting to split the pie up into to many slices, never-mind the
actual size nor quality of the slice.
DA- As a barometer indicator of such an attitude- a thing you got to wonder:
What
role did Obama play in the decision to kill Pontiac? He is seen in a
childhood picture with an early 1960s Pontiac Tempest in the back ground
said to belong to a family member. Initially the White House plan had
been to retain Pontiac as a niche brand with only 3 or 4 basic models,
with a focus upon superior performance, given the brand’s reputation
with models as the GTO, and the Firebird, especially the Firebird
Formula and Trans Am . Yet the word came down from high up in the
administration to over- rule that, and outright kill Pontiac. I read
that his favorite automobile as a teenager was Fiat, and have not found
anything regarding his feelings towards Pontiac. He does not seem to
have shared my personal preference for Pontiac; my dad had a 1959
Catalina; I have owned a 1970 and 1972 examples of Pontiac’s GTO and own
a 1970 Firebird Trans Am.
DT- That someone
high up in the Obama White House would turn a decision to keep Pontiac
as a niche brand – G8, Grand Am, and Firebird/Formula-Trans Am et al –
into an outright kill Pontiac order makes one wonder- did Barack or
Michelle give the command because they allowed their passion’s to be so
inflamed over a word “Pontiac” that refers to an “Indian” – re- earlier
American – inhabitant of Michigan – but also has the added and
irrelevant meaning of “Poor Old “N-word’ Thinks It’s A Cadillac”.
DA- Who knows?
http://jerseynut.blogspot.com/2009/04/did-obama-kill-pontiac.html
That
would really s*ck if it happens to be true. I knew damn few Fiat 128
teenage fans back during the late 1970s. That would be f*cked up if he
held it against Pontiac and by extension all of connected with that
marque in one way or another because of a joke against it by others.
DT- Welcome to the big top.
Welcome to the culture of resentments.
DA-
Consider this- the real issue of one’s* intellectual evolution*,
indeed, he was self described as a leftist- and that was at about the
time of the worse excesses of the political “left” with the murderous
regime of the Khmer Rouge. And his political circles cadra. That
includes those that make crude statements about Sharon Tate’s death as
some inevitable class war. Yet they never seem to say even a syllable
about the betrayal to public health of the denial of freedom of medicine
and diet. You know the type that are pro-choice on abortion. But not
Cannabis. Nor Coca nor Opium.
The focus upon the birth
certificate location distracts not just from the issue of the father,
but also the issue of his early and early mid-life intellectual
influences. Given his coming of age, graduating high school in 1979,
right after the fuck’n Khamur Rouge butchered like 40% of Cambodia’s
population to create their new socialist reality, jeez. That’s some
time to be a hard core communist.
Is not it funny
indeed weirdly ironic that they consider themselves pro big government
yet aim so low in accomplishing anything new and big regarding a road
project.
A communist of an elite that favored
maintaining existing technologies and hoping for various forms of
population reduction? That is my negative expectation of such a “New
World Order”.
Wayne Root who went to Columbia at the
same time made some good points. As have others about his later years
as a professor of constitutional law at Harvard who said little. Said
little.
And yet he rose rapidly. And was guided in
language as a savior. And I saw family members get attached to this,
becoming reverent Obama supporters. A video by Obama supporters getting
young children to sing about Obama was widely criticized for its
similarities to Hitler era supporters.
In this day and
age of the internet and free to the user self publishing venues as
blogger.com, there is less and less of an excuse that a political
candidates writings should be so obscure.
Any political candidate should have a long ‘paper’ trail of writings accessible to the general public.
There's no excuse not to
map these things out.
Pennsylvania Avenue NW and 12th Street NW
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