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Liberals love monorails, and light-rails so much they favor imposing them on places that have no use for them, now they built a car that travels on them too - big surprise. How do you think it would fair against a Toyota truck?

Does anyone remember putting pennies on the train tracks when they were a kid?

Okay this ain't gonne work in states/areas where Global Warming is more fiction then Star Trek ...

The stupid coffins look too small for a heat source so they will be no more than push-up pops by the time they get where they're going.

Also, those 'tracks' and that spindly arm ain't gonna fly in the ice/snow winter months and people will be stuck dangling down the tracks.

Bird hits? BIRD HITS?? LOL!!! Ha Ha Ha! I see no 'cow catcher' on the front so good luck with hitting someone's stray farm critter or a suicidal deer ... you'll be 'morphing' with it to make more than a 'beast with 2 backs' ... enjoy.

Besides, I don't see any Michael Moore types balancing too easily on the arm of that thing, let alone fitting inside ... heh!

Please, oh PLEASE! put these on the market.

Considering the morons that will flock to buy and use them, this can only improve the gene pool significantly. I can't wait to see the evening news shots of a dozen or so of these getting air launched by a 40mph commuter train.

Of course the upshot of that will be that these moronobiles will suddenly have the right-of-way over trains by fiat from Barry.

Is this satire? Please don't tell me this is real. "Many of us"? Really, just how many?

What happened to car pooling???
I change jobs so I can work closer to my hot, hot Argentine neighbor. Then when I finally convince her that she should car pool with me, (I even get up earlier and get home later), rather than her boyfriend Bruno the Buffalo Trainer and now I see this?

F U

And I suppose 'O' will force the privately owned and maintained rail systems to allow these Obominations access........

I don't know of a single person who is going to be another GM. The company is now a political turd and supporting GM is supporting the union.

I know for a fact I'll never buy an American car again, putting so much as a dime into GM, or Fords coffer is like supporting the lecherous unions that have wangled themselves $70.00/hr for high school dropouts to tighten bolts.

And was given company control and value on a silver platter, Chicago mafia-thug style. No way, I'm with you.

I'd rather ride my motorcycle.

But how long before they make that illegal... because it emits too much CO2, and has no seatbelts or airbags?

"Live free and ride."

Yes,and my Dad's a climatologist and he ran a computer modeling program and this will stop global warming too and we have to tell Obama to get GM to build these and save the planet!

^-- the only thing funnier, would be if that guy is actually serious.

Five miles between trains.

Right. Waht happens to the "five miles" when the lead train stops?

(BTW, ever watch the UP main line through here?)

(When they aren't all stopped, that is, so long sometimes that they have to replaced timed-out crews out on the road.)

(No. I don't think it is satire. It is way more plausible that some of the stuff they are actually trying to do.) (Cool the earth on purpose? Really?)

Trains have right of way.

Oh yes they do.

Their comments are completely open.

Feel free to hear scorn upon them.

I bought my wife an '86 Olds, brand new. What a POS!! My wife said I was trying to kill her.

I just bought the biggest Toyota Avalon there is! Black with gold chrome! Basically a Lexus.
At my age and the rate I put miles on a car, my kids will be taking away the keys long before this baby is ready to trade in!

I'd kill my dog before I'd buy one of those Government Motors Trabant Schmuckmobiles or even take a free one.

Two commuter train wrecks in as many months; one in California and the other in New York. In both cases the 5 miles of free space between trains became 5 microns real quick.

Who's naming these things? The Parasite. The Volkswagon Piss-Ant. The Citroen (which means Lemon in French). The Chevy No-Va (which means it doesn't go in Spanish).

Test Drive the New 2010 Klunka! (with an umlaut over the U).

If you have prius, see a urologist right away.

Trains have right of way.

Watch it, Jay. The gang in Washington will fix that. Good-bye trains.

Could maybe the gigantic metro rail crash in DC last week, with news clips of one giant metro piled on top of the other and injured people racing for cover, possibly have a damping effect on people wanting to ride these mopeds on live rails?

You Tube videos will quadruple if these things got made. I think rocket rollerskates make more sense.

One of the commenters on the site said "Give an idiot a CAD program and look what happens!"

I'm just wondering if those things suspended magically in the air in the first picture are rails or not.

And are those arms attached directly to the wheel?

I can see masses of morons buying these things and tracks everywhere being swarmed with them. An unsuspecting train comes up on a traffic jam and plows through several miles of morons. This happens a few times and trains are banned forever. The result; huge decrease in freight transportation. Another big blow to the economy, to the further delight of moonbats.

Many of us park our cars at the railway station and then catch the local train to work or wherever it is that we have to go. Building on this theory is the Paracité, a single person commuter car that plans on putting the car itself on the rail tracks.

Doesn't that kind of defeat the whole purpose of 'mass transit'?

"Trains have right of way.
"Oh yes they do.
"Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 2, 2009 9:50 AM"

"Trains are holy, blameless creatures; they can't stop for you stupid crackers!" LAST CLEAR CHANCE (MST3K version)

"The Chevy No-Va (which means it doesn't go in Spanish).
"Posted by: Norman Hines at July 2, 2009 10:38 AM"

You have to wonder about the subtext of naming something after a star that BLOWED UP REAL GOOD.

This is the concept of the future 'smart' travel.

Yet liberals want to ban motorcycles everywhere because of the public burden and safety issues.

Geeeeeee. This is a much better and safer solution! Playing on the train tracks in a beer can. Got to love that superior intellectual brain power at work.

Thank god for the liberal mind to keep me safe to my old age when they can deny me health care and social security benefits, because I actually worked and saved.

What happens when these things come to a road crossing? Would the crossing guards come down, or would they have to stop to look for cars? There was just a train versus truck accident in Pueblo at a level crossing yesterday. Can I point out that the reason why modern cars are so heavy and non-fuel-efficient is because of the government SAFETY requirements? Think these things can take an impact? Not! Hey, what happens when you meet somebody going the other way?

Most of the non-electrified rail in the country is privately owned. No way a railroad company will allow those things - the liability concerns would break the proverbial bank.

Absolutely no way anyone is going to let then near an electric third rail for the same reason.

I wouldn't invest in the company that dreamed these up.

Kind of reminds me of those light cycles from that movie TRON

Putting tiny, flimsy shopping trolleys onto train tracks is such a ridiculously terrible idea I'm speechless.

How many fatalities have been caused so far this year in the U.S. by trains running into other trains?

Quick let's put more congestion on the lines, with basically zero protection for the passengers.

Fgn idiots.

Everyone of these travel pod concepts seems to be designed to be used only indoors. There is no provision for protection from cold or inclement weather, and there is no way to clean the window while moving. It is more like a prop from Logan's Run than something that someone would voluntarily get into.
There is slo to room to carry anything more than the passenger himself. No room for a gym bag, a briefcase or groceries.

Guys, go comment on the linked site. The goof that "designed" this concept is reading them. Let's make him feel like the total idjut he is!

There was something like this maybe a decade ago that was actually considered for a demonstration project here in suburban Chicago. It was called "Personal Rapid Transit." The idea was that a special rail line would connect office complexes, shopping malls, and -- this is key -- any other location that decided on its own to connect to the system.

Please suspend judgment for a minute, and consider that it's actually kind of cool. Instead of being packed in like sardines into smelly buses or scary L trains, on routes designed solely by bureaucrats, this thing would pretty much go where you wanted to go. You take any available PRT car, and punch in a destination, and read or look out the window while it takes you directly there. And it charges you commensurately.

The biggest problem, besides the huge startup cost, would be its fascistic feeling. The state owns the car and the rails and you're taken out of your personal car. But note that's true for contemporary (but not 19th century) transit systems as well.

Now consider the horribly-named "Paracite". (How come we Americans are laughed at for unintentionally bad names when heard overseas, but no one laughs at other countries doing the same?)

Rail lines ARE very much underused, yet they offer wonderful rights-of-way to all kinds of directions people want to go, but we're not allowed to use them. This thing makes use of that right-of-way. Here in Chicago, we're crisscrossed by rail lines all over the place, but the transit agency thinks everybody commutes along specific channels between downtown Chicago and specific suburbs.

But the really good thing is, if I understand it, is that this thing is PRIVATELY owned, and it runs on rail lines that are (mostly) PRIVATELY owned, and you are still free to switch off and use normal roads rather than have a controlling entity tell you where you are allowed to go.

As a conservative and a city dweller, I think this concept actually has merit!

So do you pay for a pass to use the rail, or do you just latch on like a hobo for the "free ride"

Kevin,



I agree. This is a totally cool idea. The rails have historically been at the vanguard of transportation, goods and services and capitalism in general, and the Paracite may make even more use of them.

No question: between the Dyson vacuum cleaner and the Paracite car, we are at the pinnacle of technology in America.

Let's just hope the trains are coming anytime soon and we can reach the platform if they are.

And if the guy in front of you is going a little too slow, all you have to do is pass ... uh, scratch that.

Your an idiot with that little car. How many jobs will be created with this $500 car and Why don't you move to France where you belong.

We need to remain the strongest nation on earth by maintining the strongest economy in the world JERKO. Anyone who suggest elsewise is a traitor...As are you.

Why not create ELECTRIC cars. After all with 80% of the electricy made by COAL PLANTS you greenies should like the soot covering them in the morning.

Oh, by the way-We have no grid to support them and EVERY new power line (and plants) are tied up in endlesss litigation.

GREAT-Plug in your car and shut off the AC in your house. (Electric cars have no AC or heat for that matter-hope you know that.

You people scare the shit out of me.

For years, since the 1970s I warned the Republicans and the Conservatives to "protest,"....and do it loudly, be indignant and take action against the lies, smears, and name calling....by the Left.

I was told to be "ladylike" and "keep MY mouth shut." Instead, the GOP and the Cons...went back to their country clubs and martinis...and just talked about "how awful" the Left was behaving... but did nothing.

When the Left Wing Media...acted like Communist Apparatchiks for the Democrat Party...I joined Accuracy in Media and strongly recommended that we boycott ALL advertisers who supported the Left Wing Media....

Again...I was told by Mr. Arneaud de Borchgrave et al...to "stand back" and don't make them "mad" or the Left might get upset. At every turn...when the Left turned up the heat..."our side" turned into cowards and fled the battlefield.

I began reading Left Wing textbooks to understand how and "why" the Left was motivated to commit mindless "suicide" and engage in nonthinking and reactive destructive "hate" of this country.

I read Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals." I followed the ongoing "Cloward-Pivens" strategies, in which the LEFT demanded more and more of your tax dollars using American "white" guilt to manipulate all you nice voters into handing over more of the tax payers' income and rights. I was outraged as such simpering cowardice.The proof of how and why the Left was successful was not a secret...but yet, the Right refused to learn anything about the growing "enemy" in our midst.

(The Cloward-Pivens strategy has been around for a long time...in which it is designed to use the "Christian values" of guilt, tolerance, and the forgiveness of sins...through legislative fiat that also includes spending this country into bankruptcy supporting ideological Left Wing goals masquerading as "social justice," and entitlements. Mr. Cloward and Ms Pivens...stated that once this country was "bankrupt" on every level...then it would by default become a socialist state. They were right...and what did the Right do while this was happening? Nothing...they continued to read the Wall Street Journal, Barons, and their Bible.)

In order to "combat" the left in their own territory, I went to Journalism school...and was appalled at how many "J" schools across the US were teaching future reporters to "be involved in social justice" meaning--follow the exact menu and agenda of the Socialists and the Democrat Party. In found that "J" school instructors, professors, and their publications were biased as far back as the 1980s and stated in every way possible...that the GOP and the Conservatives were "against poor people and worse...homophobic racists." What did "our side" do? Nothing...they mostly gave speeches to each other, but did not go into the lair of the Left Wing Liars... confront editors or journalists, or keep track of who their associates were.

One small group, funded by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)...gave out summer internships and stipends...but "controlled" Right Wing journalists to the point, that no one was allowed to engage in exploratory journalism of the Left. Instead, the AEI lectured to the choir, and concentrated it focus on "making money." During this experience...I thought "Fine, as long as we have some money to invest." The group I hated the most during this period, were the "wannabe" journalists who were in reality arrogant little Right Wing Snots...who were absolutely assured that they would never have to do much but "look good"...and that they would always be "free" to make money and be at the top of the "heap."

The Country Club elitist Republicans failed us...and their parents failed us, and other Conservative/GOP organizations failed...to explore who and what the enemy was doing on every level...and confront it. IF we are to not just survive, but win back our rights...these arrogant Country Club types are going to have to fight in the streets along with the rest of us...or get the hell out of the way in this war for our Independence and Freedom Part II.

The GOP has always had the power to acquire excess campaign funding...but never used such funding or journalists to save this country. Until Dan Rather was "caught forging documents" against George Bush...Rather had been a major fund raiser for the Democrat Party for 30 years. Not once did I hear a "peep" out of the so called "Right" regarding this outrage, nor did the Right use the same successful tactics of the Left. We we all told, that "ladies and gentlemen" did not engage in such "low" tactics. What does the GOP think now?

The past 50 years have been very painful for me...as I watched as the Left forced the US out of Vietnam. What followed was a bloody massacre of 3 million people by the Viet Cong and the Communists. Not once did I hear or see any finger pointing at the DNC by the Republican Party or Conservatives "who" were responsible for this genocide. It I had been in charge of the RNC...every time the DNC had a major meeting, I would have been holding up signs...stating..."The Democrats Murdered 3 million people!"

I was in the Contra camps...watching children die of starvation, while the Left "organized" the most massive public relations' campaign in American history...using money smuggle in by the Communists and the International Socialists to fund them. Time and time again, the Democrats have been caught...and not once did the Right take advantage of it. Instead, they stayed home watching football, and took their kids to "soccer" practice. In the early 1980s, I was a hired "mole" at a Marxists' Scholar's Conference at the University of Louisville, when Jesse "The Extortionist" Jackson was caught red-handed taking money from the Communist Party USA's "bag man." Did the Right become outraged at this? No...because Jackson was "black" somehow, it excused every one of his hundreds of blackmail and extortion schemes. When Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition was caught cheating on their taxes...what did the Right do? Nothing.

Year after year...when ACORN and at least 1000 other associated "scams" funded by the US tax payers...were used to "organized" the Left...what did the Right do? Nothing...it barely noticed.

During the 1980s...the Right didn't even whimper when the Left "booked" every single library, student union, community center, local public TV and radio stations to "organize." The Right said nothing when the Left began a massive PR war against the US "saving" the Nicaraguans (i.e. Five groups of Contras) from the Marxist Sandinistas. I was only 1 of 2 journalists in the US...that reported on the Contras and the first journalist to document the Marxist Sandinista genocidal atrocities against the Moskito, Suma, and Rama Indians, which was entered into the US Congressional Record in July 1985.

What did the GOP do...when the Left Wing pro-Marxist Congress refused to allow the Contras to use public relations to state its side of the conflict...but yet, the American Left Wing journalists...were allowed to print documented "lies" about the Contras day in and day out? Nothing...

I begged, wrote articles, visited the offices of Congress...I was outraged and indignant...and stated that there should be a movement to require that all such "advocate" journalists should have to "register as lobbiests for the Democrat Party...because when they printed their lies and slants...they were NOT journalists...

I was again told...that they had the right of "Free Speech," and that somehow God or Jesus would find a way to "overcome" the evil Left. While, the "Right" prayed...the Left worked over time at a grass-roots level...and took over this country lock, stock, and barrel.

I again protested when the Religious Right had one single issue...abortion....which was the equivalent of "Nero fiddling while Rome burned" in the distance...If ProLifers do not want an abortion, then they have a right to not have one. But...the Right...became "religious" and demanded that "pregnancy be turned into a 9-month jail sentence...and that while pregnant, the Right...inferred that women no longer had a right to control, own, or determine the fate of their own bodies."

And so here we are...nearly 100% of all universities, colleges, and the media is controlled by the Left. The Left now dominates the Congress, the White House, and all government agencies, including the US Military, IRS, FBI, CIA etc is at the beck and call of Hussein Obama and his Chicago Thugs...

For more than 40 years, the American school system...has de-evolved into a pro-Marxist union that promotes every Left Wing, socialist, anti-American individual rights issue. Reviewing a middle-grades English curriculum, I did not find a single "lesson plan" that involved grammar, writing skills, or vocabulary...but "social justice and diversity" themes.

Millions of students now have to become trained to become "unthinking" and involuntary slaves of the state"...for whom it is mandated that they "volunteer" for community service before they can graduate from high school...or enter college. What did the Right do? The Right whined a little, but complied like good little boys and girls...trying to make the "daddy-state" happy.

So now ...when the Left Wing wolf is not only at our door, but is eating our future, taking our money, and our property...and making state-slaves out of our children well into the 22nd Century...and is well on its way to turning the US into the Socialist States of America.... now... you protest.

Again...I am going to warn you to "prepare" because the worst is yet to come.

The Left has a vicious, jealous, mean streak, and they are not going to go willingly into the "night" like "ladies and Gentlemen." The Left smells the "blood" of our demise and self-induced helplessness.

Many of today's Left Wing leaders...are not only on the payroll of George Soros and can "afford" to "organize" 14 hours a day, 7 days a week...and have fun while ripping away your rights and will to protest....they have been training thousands of "professional protesters" to beat your heads in. The fun has just begun. Don't even bet that this war for your rights is going to be "won" by waving a few signs around, attending a few "tea parties" and yelling at Town Hall meetings.

What exactly is the "Right" going to have to do? Begin impeachment movements against every single Left Wing, stand on street corners, take over community centers, set up booths at university campuses, man the phones...and yes "mob" the streets in protest. Make "them" afraid...to deny you your Constitutional Rights and property. Make the Left and the elitist politicians you even voted for...know that its not business as usual.

When the votes were counted for SotoMayor...the most outrageous "racist" to ever become a Supreme Court judge...100% of the GOP should have voted against her. SotoMayor by the way...was the legal representative for the Latinos' "La Raza" party. Now how many of the GOP know that "La Raza" means "the race." La Raza is the most racist group in the US, and the equivalent of the racist Black Panthers. By the way...what La Raza wants besides revenge against "whitey" is open American borders... Already 1/6th of the entire Mexican population now lives in the US. La Raza wants to make it 100%.

Many of today's Left Wing Leaders...many of whom are Obama's good friends, fought bloody street battles in the 1960s and 1970s and are not afraid to go to war, and if necessary...murder. The leaders of the violent Anti-Vietnam war protesters are still here, with many of them holding powerful professorships in American universities, who are...organizing future battles against the Right.

Knowing this...I wonder what the Right is going to do? Hide out behind gated communities, enclave themselves at the country club again...and over their Glen Livet Scotch, simply muse about how "awful" it all is?

I have a small hope...that finally the Right is growing a "backbone" and will begin protesting as they should have done 4o years ago, when the onslaught or organized lies and smears began. And I...

Thank you...its about GD time....and by the way, not only did I tell you what the future was going to be as it was self-evident...but those of you who told me to "keep my mouth shut" and "act like a lady"...while this country was being raped and robbed...now owe me an apology.

Judy Weismonger PhD