Mueller is about to be fired, I guess is the reasoning.
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No Fifth Amendment privilege in civil cases, either.
The DNC sued over the Watergate break in as well, and ultimately settled for USD 750,000, which was worth a lot more in the early 70s.
This will never go to trial (the Russians will get the claims against them dismissed on grounds of sovereign immunity), but it is another way to compel testimony from the likes of a Kushner and Stone and to keep the Wikileaks angle in the public eye.
It isn’t four-dimensional chess, but it is a low cost, low risk way of opening a new avenue of inquiry that could produce headlines that would be useful in the midterms.
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostThat sounds bizarre. Malmo and Gothenberg are big places, so need a big fast train to Copenhagen. I can't see any point in that train going on somewhere the size of Helsingor. It's like a West Coast Mainline train from Birmingham going through London to Crawley on the other side. Better for the trains from each direction to terminate somewhere near Copenhagen and go back whence they came, isn't it?
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My tolerance for gaming post N64 runs to about Pro Evo, Red Dead and Elite Dangerous.
Almost a Centrist Dad flush no doubt. Fallout would be another high value card. Bioshock trumps evertything.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 21-04-2018, 02:34.
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The Stable Genius weighs in on the DNC's suit.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/987470932989050881
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Originally posted by antoine polus View PostAh, but they have another, even faster, train for that job: the tilting Swedish X2000. That one only stops at Gothenburg, Lund, Malmö, Copenhagen airport and Copenhagen.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostThe Stable Genius weighs in on the DNC's suit.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/987470932989050881
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostI didn't know that.
Democratic.
Here's an example--"Death Rattle of Democrat Party" should be "Democratic Party":
https://twitter.com/AwakeToday/status/987486610181804032
(how do I make tweets show up on here?)Last edited by Femme Folle; 21-04-2018, 15:56.
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostThat sounds excellent. So much so I can't see much point in the other train.
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostThat sounds excellent. So much so I can't see much point in the other train.
The other train runs more often and stops at more places and you can get on it without booking in advance. Tickets are always the same price. Possible to stand when seats are full, etc.
Each service has its own use. Both are very popular.
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Amtrak had an X2000 trainset operating on a test basis in the early 90s, before they decided that their “high speed”offering would be the Acela. It spent most of its time on the Northeast Corridor between New Haven and Washington, but also toured the rest of the country. They did something similar with a German ICE I.
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The conversation's moved on, but just to tie a bow on Irish train chat for Berba: West Cork, Armagh, and Donegal. And Limerick, which is very reachable by train. Meaning I've Redknapped the word literally, and I am now filled with shame.
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Originally posted by Flynnie View PostThe conversation's moved on, but just to tie a bow on Irish train chat for Berba: West Cork, Armagh, and Donegal. And Limerick, which is very reachable by train. Meaning I've Redknapped the word literally, and I am now filled with shame.
It's important though to remember that these lines that were closed were on their knees from about 1900 on. This song from 1902, basically covers a lot of it. This singer is the grandfather or Bristol city and Ireland winger callum o'Dowda.
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Irish Times piece on railways in Donegal
Ms. ursus did a writing residency in Bundoran a while back. It still has what once was a rather grand railway hotel, but the line suffered from the usual travails of transport across the border.
The opening of the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway (E&BR) in 1868 connected Bundoran railway station with Ireland's growing railway network and made the town more accessible from Belfast, Dublin and other population centres on the east and north-east coasts of Ireland. The Great Northern Railway (GNR) operated the E&BR line from 1876 and absorbed the company in 1896.
In this period Bundoran emerged as one of Ireland's most popular seaside resorts. By the end of the 19th century it had become one of the main seaside resorts in Ulster. Hotels and lodging houses were opened around the town and the GNR built the Great Northern Hotel, one of Bundoran's best-known landmarks.
During The Emergency of 1939–45 the GNR introduced the Bundoran Express that linked Dublin and Bundoran via Dundalk and Enniskillen. It also carried pilgrims to and from Pettigo, which was the nearest station for Lough Derg in County Donegal. There were also through trains between Bundoran and Belfast.
The partition of Ireland in 1922 turned the boundary with County Fermanagh into an international frontier. Henceforth Bundoran's only railway link with the rest of the Irish Free State was via Northern Ireland, and as such was subject to delays for customs inspections. The Government of Northern Ireland closed much of the GNR network on its side of the border in 1957, including the E&BR as far as the border. This gave the Republic no practical alternative but to allow the closure of the line between the border and Bundoran. Thereafter the nearest railheads for Bundoran were Sligo in the Republic and Omagh in Northern Ireland, until in 1965 the Ulster Transport Authority closed the line through Omagh as well.
Today, the closest railway stations to Bundoran are Sligo Mac Diarmada Station in Sligo Town and Waterside Station in Derry.
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