Sen. Charles Schumer said he would push as well for added funding for rail security and commuter and passenger train track inspections and more monitoring of stations nationwide.
When most people see news about a potential terrorist attack, they get a little scared and take a bit of solace knowing their government is aware of it. When Chuck Schumer sees it, he sees a chance to stuff his state with more transportation funding.
He called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to expand the Secure Flight monitoring program, which cross-checks air travelers with the terror watch list in an attempt to prevent anyone on the “no-fly list” from boarding, for use on Amtrak.
Let the terrorists ride, Schumer. Amtrak needs all the customers it can get. That thing is a money pit. There are surely more names on that dumb list than people who have taken a train since 9/11. [Reuters]
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Does the bidding of Wall Street.
Obsessed with trains.
People are always asking who the fuck he is.
Oh, shit! Chuck Schumer is John Galt!
Was Ayn Rand cool with the Jews, though? This is prolly a Mac Guffin.
At least John Galt had the decency to disappear.
So, hey I'm curious….I notice you have Arabic script in your name and being an average American I cannot read or understand anything written in a language other than Southern broken English. My question is, what does it mean? If it's in Farsi and I don't recognize it…my ex-soon to be on again girlfriend will get angry because ya know…Persians REALLY don't like being mistaken for Arabs (I have personal proof of that, it's a good thing I'm fairly wordly inspite of being from Utah originally so I didn't make the same mistake…eh, I digress). Point is, I think I'm on solid ground here by guessing it's Arabic script. I know, that's useless background information, but I just felt like providing it anyway.
"No Kids". I know the little fuckers terrorize the shit out of me.
No-ride list? Have these people never watched a western? Everyone knows that you derail a train by blowing up the trestle.
Amateurs.
This trestle was in use until last year. (It's just down the road from me).
Plus all you need to hijack a train is horses and a couple of six-shooters.
He figures all them Al Kady guys have been watching the digitally remastered DVD of Lawrence of Arabia on Osama's awesome TV, and they keep watching the train-derailing scene over and over. So, the no-train list should be made up of anyone Arab, and Peter O'Toole.
I'm no conspiracy theorist, but 'terrorists are going to destroy our trains' is a great excuse for whenever the next railroad bridge collapses due to a lack of investment in our infrastructure.
Easy list-Scratch "Census" off the Census list and write "No Ride;" remove Biden's name on No Ride List, because near as I can tell, he's the only one riding anyway.
Then he must take one helluva lot of rides, since Amtrak just set a record for ridership last year, and is on pace to break it this year by 36%.
http://tinyurl.com/6aycufg
But why let facts get in the way of your "joke".
BTW, Senator Chuckie is completely full of it, in case you think I am defending him. Just for starters, how in the world is he planning to enfore it?
I'm not "sure" what your "point" is, but a good "hat" will surely "help."
Glad you like the train and "facts." Both are pointless, and I like trains.
I can't wait for TSA style security lines to get on the subway.
No doubt Senator Chuckie will then propose a "no standing in lines" list.
Which reminds me: when a terrorist decides to kill a bunch of people standing in line to be screened, where do we go from there?
Based on the epic FAIL of Atlas Shat The Bed, I think anyone associated with or all 25 people who saw that movie should be on the no Choo Choo list.
Seriously, Chuck? Just cause you think you can doesn't mean you should, asshole.
Someday, there will be a no – ride list for the freeways, and we'll have to show ID at the entrance ramp. What the hell, traffic in Los Angeles is bad enough that we won't be held up by much anyway. Yes, it will be one big festive traffic jam, where we'll all thank the TSA agent for looking out after us. Truly looking forward to this…
It makes sense to me. Anyone too stupid to handle 2D motion should be put on the no drive list. Of course, that would never happen.
Also, keep those loud terrorist children away from the Thomas the Tank Engine set at my Barnes & Noble.
How am I supposed to drink my coffee, read all their books for free, and absorb the pee smell from those comfy chairs with all that racket going on?
I think we need to beef up security on the Tilt-O-Whirl… imagine if one of those broke free… no more water balloon in the clown's mouth game.
Schumer is looking for someone to pull a train on him. Better keep looking, senator.
"The Washington 500"
Will there be a no-sail list for cargo ships?
Great, one of the nice things about Amtrak is that you don't have to go through the ridiculous security theater that American airports put you through; but Chucky's trying to change that.
In order to preserve freedom, you must give up freedom. Don't try to understand it.
My one experience with Amtrak included arriving 12 hours late.
Wow… it's a sad day when I have to disagree with just about everybody here. I take Amtrak pretty frequently and have seen fellow passengers brandish all manner of weaponry. There's absolutely no security checkpoints, aside from the bored ticket agent who barely glances at your ID. I don't think it would hurt to step up security a notch or two, say by installing metal detectors or x-raying bags.
Also, why is everybody hating on Chuck? He's my senator, and I've been pretty pleased with him (with a few exceptions.)
Look what Chuckie made, it's the 'Little Press Release That Could'.
Yes We Can! Yes We Can! Yes We Can!
This is excellent, seeing how well it's currently working. Lots of kids and Moslems will not be able to take trains.
Laugh away, but if a terrorist boards one of these trains with a box cutter, he will crash that baby into the nearest sky-scraper. Who'll be laughing then? Well, not Bin Laden. But somebody.
Train crashes out of building
Don't believe for a second that al Quaida haven't seen Silver Streak.
Chuck should make train routes classified information… Why would you tell the terrorist the exact path of the train? People with nothing to hide need to know where the train makes stops and nothing more.
I think the MTA and LIRR are already doing this from what I can tell.
As long as Schumer gets tossed off Acela in the middle of the New Jersey swamps for refusing to shut off his cell phone, I'm ok with this.
I demand that everyone who wants to take Amtrak be subjected to enhanced interrogation. If we fail to do this then the Muslins have won.
Don't forget the sexytimes security groping and porn x-ray shot.
Worry not: the Quad City DJs shall arise & stop this abomination.
Like other failing businesses, look for "terrorists" blowing up trains for insurance money.
You realize this means that now Cat Stevens can't ride the Peace Train either…
He's now known as Yusuf Islam. Easy to keep THAT name on the no-ride list.
It was prolly a mag-lev, anyway. Commie.
Hey, the mag-lev is really cool! Too hi-tech for T-tard America, though.
Sen. Chuck S. marches along nicely, most of the time, aggressively promoting our side's policies. Then he fires off one of these statements, and I remember why I'm glad I left NYC to return to the Heartland.
I'm waiting for the day we have to enter thumbprints in our portable GPSs. so we can't go anywhere. You know, for the terrorism.
Amtrak doesn't need a no-ride list — all they have to do is promise that every train will stop for an hour at the Newark station with the doors wide open and they won't have a terrorist problem. They won't have a passenger problem either, but they've dealt with that before.
They do that now.
And how about bridges? We should check everyone who crosses a bridge. Before they all routinely collapse from lack of maintenance.
Let's just give Cheney the frigging list, and have him torture everyone on it. (Sure, they'll bitch about it, but John Yoo can explain to them how it's good for America.)
Amtrak: It's How America Travels With Weed(tm)
I think it's ridiculous how New York City lets just anybody onto the sidewalks. Are you listening, Chuck?
# DO NOT WALK LIST
I can see the new and improved HSA-approved pedestrian signals, flashing "Walk", "Don't Walk", and "TERRORIST!!"
Will they hire TSA Hobos?
Oh, fuck, no. When did we become such a nation of wussies?
Drudge is leading the freakout:
Sen. Schumer Calls For Amtrak 'Do Not Ride' List…
Two tunnel 'breaches' cause scare in NYC…
SUV 'bomb' scare …
Threats Divert Planes in Three Separate Incidents…
Scary Flight To Chicago…
Threatening Note In Bathroom Departing Detroit…
'Are we gonna blow up?'
Dallas Train Station Evacuated: Man Asked For Help Carrying Packages…
4 Arrested For Videotaping TSA Line At Denver…
Suspicious package found in mailbox: Cellphone sent back to company…
SHOCK PHOTO: TSA LOOKING FOR 'POOP BOMBS?'
Notice: nothing on Drudge about threatening note in Anchorage airport.
Next on Chuckie's list of proposed legislation: TSA validation before being allowed to rent a Segway.
I just hope this fucknut doesn't learn that his butt buddy Chucky Grasley has a Twatter machine on his Crackberry. I'll bet his tweets will take "stupid" to a completely different stratosphere.
"…Amtrak needs all the customers it can get. That thing is a money pit…."
Jack, from a link posted on Balloon Juice Amtrak On Pace to Set All-Time Ridership Record.
Jack, you're sounding like a Teabagger. Amtrak is no money pit. Their biggest problem right now is that they don't have enough capacity to meet demand, because they are perpetually starved for cash by being made into a political toy.
Bush Junior tried in 2004 to completely defund Amtrak, the Dems responded with a multi-billion dollar budget, and the compromise was just enough to get Amtrak to squeak by. This happens year after year.
China has a fucking MAGLEV from downtown Shanghai to the airport. Japan has trains that go over 200 mph running all over the country. In Europe, you can take a train from Istanbul to central London without getting onto a ferry or an airplane. Yet US America pours billions of dollars into highway and air transport projects and pretends that railroads don't exist.
/snark back on
If we could pitch it as "following Ayn Rand", the libertardians would spin around and authorize $100 billion for a national rail system.
Maybe we need a 2nd amendment for trains.
“I think you’re going too far here,” said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday. He was speaking in opposition to a bill that would keep people on the F.B.I. terrorist watch list from buying guns and explosives.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/opinion/06gcoll...
Hey, let 'em buy all the ammo and dynamite they want. So long as they can't get on a train, what could possibly go wrong?
Ham biscuits fer everbody, even terrorists!
How about a "No-Slide" list for kids' playgrounds?
Or a "No-Glide" list for disco dancefloors?
A "No-Cried" list for LA Laker fans?
And a "No-Lied" list for married men?
A "No-Pied" list for clowns seems particularly appropriate.
"No-Tied" for S&M fetishists?
"No-Wide" for red-state fatties.
(And a "No-Sighed" list for Wonketeers.)
Whoa!
Been along time since I rode a choo-choo.
Lonely, lonely, lonely time…
Goodness, Chuckster, I can't even manage the snark here. How about you just don't bring the fucking TSA into my daily commute? Asshat.
Charlie say, "Love my Good 'n' Plenty!"
Charlie says, "Really rings a bell!"
Charlie says, "Love my Good 'n' Plenty!
Don't know any other candy that I love so well!"
I bet Hitler regrets not implementing that no fly list for Zepelins.
Charles Schumer and his 'government' lists
great for extortion, blackmail, and bribery
Can't wait for Schumer to join ranks with the likes of Alan "Crankypants" Simpson on the roster of "Former Revered Elder Statesmen" or, as I like to call them: Old Wrinkled Asshats. Sleep tight tonight, Chucky; maybe you'll dream up some more ways to piss away tax dollars and fuck over the citizenry.
Greyhound next?
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