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hell, I'd drive it - they'd have to put about 30,000 more Loves Truck Stops around Siberia though.
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Quite a long ways around.
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TRUMP- GABBARD 2024
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That would be some bridge they would need to get across the Bering Strait.
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have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
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I wonder if there will be a Golden Dragon initiation?
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Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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NO!
History Channel would just make a really boring, drama queen show about it - with Russian accents, no less.
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if russia wants to take over the world....they can use their navy and airforce.....
I would not buy something that runs on any kind of primer given the possibility of primer shortages and even regulations. In fact, why not buy a flintlock? Really. Rocks aren't going away anytime soon.
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Back when Wally Hickel was Governor of Alaska, he tried to get a railroad built from Fairbanks to Nome. The cost at that time was going to be over $5 million per mile for a single track. That's a shade over 400 miles, going the most direct route.
Between the Alaska Natives yelling "NIMBY!", the unions demanding that they control the job, and the enviro whack-jobs, it went nowhere.
This will go just as far.
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I want the Pizza Hut franchise.
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think it would take 11 million of 'em?
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Bering Strait tunnel, no bridge.
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Too many Ruskies here now.
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Who's going to plow all that snow above the 45th parallel? I be the north sea bridge will be exciting too.
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Back when Wally Hickel was Governor of Alaska, he tried to get a railroad built from Fairbanks to Nome. The cost at that time was going to be over $5 million per mile for a single track. That's a shade over 400 miles, going the most direct route.
Between the Alaska Natives yelling "NIMBY!", the unions demanding that they control the job, and the enviro whack-jobs, it went nowhere.
This will go just as far.
Ed You got that right, Ed. If you look at the history of building the Al-Can Highway you quickly realize that the only way that it got done was that all of North America was still thinking/acting like they'd done through the WW2 years... personal sacrifice, setting aside of minor differences to get the job done, and damn the expense (in both money and human lives). It'd never be possible in today's politico-economic environment.
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Doc- The Alcan was built at the beginning of WWII and was completer in 1942.
FWIW and reference.
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Between the Alaska Natives yelling "NIMBY!", the unions demanding that they control the job, and the enviro whack-jobs, it went nowhere.
Ed
Well, Putin might fix those problems for us...
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I'm putting in a bid to salt the offramps.
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Doc- The Alcan was built at the beginning of WWII and was completer in 1942.
FWIW and reference. Except that completion didn't include actual pavement until much much later.
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