The "New" New York City All Star Pizza Pie Tossing Contest

Article from Gizmodo:

The fastest commercial train in the world is now fully armed and operational, covering the line between New York and San Francisco. OK, I lied. Actually, that's what I wanted to write. Sadly for us, it's in China.

Developed with Siemens, Bombardier and Alstom, the new train swooshes across the red land at 245mph (394km/h). The service covers 663 miles (1,068 kilometers) at an average of 217mph (350km/h), which means it's the fastest train in operation in the world according to China's railways ministry. It's part of the network of 42 high-speed lines that will be finished by 2012. If you have never tried these amazing trains in Europe or Japan, imagine going from New York to Chicago in just a bit over three hours, no absurd controls, no waits, no taxis needed.

The new Chinese high-speed lines will increase their total network from 53,437 miles to 74,564 miles. That's still smaller than the US railway system which, but ours only has one single "high-speed" line, bridging the 456 miles that separate Boston from Washington at a whooping 70mph average, totaling seven hours. Don't take that line. It will liquify your brain.

Barry,

Imagine all the pizza you could get delivered if this train was ever built here in the goode olde USA.

The United States as a North American country is a nation of many religions, cultures, and races therefore racism shouldn't and should exist.. but fascism can never exist in a Republic when it is in denial. It is a part of a long historical process that it is now useless to discuss it. You can question it's indigenous population, African-Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Irish, Italians, Catholics, etc about it.  Every human being who has entered the new world at one point or another will tell you of similar experiences. It is no different today than yesterday. 

Have you heard of the Black Code or Jim Crow? The Shakers? Do you know about the Ku Klux Klan? How about the Black Panthers? Or the initials FALN? The Almighty Latin King Nation? National Council of La Raza? Weather Underground Organization? Young Lords? The Five Percenters? Have you heard about Commander George Lincoln Rockwell Phase I of American Nazi Party? These are all american groups. What about "Shama Lama Ding Dong"? Otis Day & The Knights were cool when they played at Delta Tau Chi House but things changed for Otter, Pinto, Boon, and Flounder when they took that road trip.

America is a country of right of passage. A testing ground. An initiation process where only the strong survive. Cruel but no different than the new kid in school. America is not europe nor will it ever be. Like the French Foreign Legion it's soldiers are diversified. You can see them all over the planet for the last hundred years. Americans are not racist. Warriors more than anything else. They will fight anytime against any race, culture, or religion the world has to offer. When they run out of enemies they shall fight among themselves. Regardless what they tell you U.S. soldiers are not peacemakers. Patton is their grandfather.

However you are correct about the sign of the times dictating ideologies and current events along with economic crisis but it would never stir such a revolution in the form of a social attack which would overturn a regime which has been implanted in the deep seeded roots of colonialism, imperialism, slavery, annihilation, nuclear warfare, internment camps, human medical experimentation, for the last 200+ years of it's social evolution.  Some people play musical chairs as children. When they grow up they play russian roulette. When america grows up it will be like China cause Mao Zedong said so.

Fascism in Germany was different than fascism in Brazil, Spain, Italy, and Imperial Rule Assistance Association(Japan). German Fascism was more biological...Fascists are not unified on issues of racism.

Fascism was considered the third way.. the balancing factor between Capitalism and Communism to prevent one form of government from gaining total control. There is no third factor today. It is extinct.

Have you read "Agent of Chaos" by Norman Spinrod? I never did but Noel Monk did. I did read "Venus on the Half-Shell" by Kilgore Trout. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. told me about him. After all he has been to Tralfamadore. I never have.

The power elite today wants to keep the masses controlled and the world population divided in order to maintain control. They have no loyalty to one flag, nation, church, or god. They feel they are beyond it. It is all a question of personal choice to believe this to be true. I would ask Fidel Castro myself if I could. Benito Mussolini is dead. One would be ignorant not to notice or accept this reality. In order for the Roman Empire to co-exist Gaius Julius Caesar had to be sacrificed but Napoleon Bonaparte resurrected him. The earth continues to spin round and round. There will be others. Che Guevara was murdered but he didn't die.

The United States is a country with freedom of speech.  Americans might not agree with one another some of the time or most of the time but they will remain united against outside forces to protect their different ways of life. The Tuskegee Airmen proved this. So did the Purple Heart Battalion. So did Jesse Owens and Jim Thorpe. Cesar Chavez. They are so internal that they can speak freely among themselves because we all belong to the same biological order of primates. We still carry samurai swords. Ignore the "Haitorei Edict". The swastika is a sacred symbol in Shamanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Mithraism. Religion comes first. Must Abraham sacrifice his son, Isaac to God? The dollar will become stronger than the euro but not the pound. Sell me something I can't use. I prefer pesos. Viva Zapata!! 

Some say that those who enter the country illegally are committing a crime. They are invaders. Undocumented. Unregistered.. thus unable to monitor Sex Offenders in the community especially Child Molesters. Convicted felons. Gary Glitter should have stayed in England. "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" is a good song by the Beatles but I prefer "El Rey" by Vincente Fernandez. I only disguise myself to the Anglo-Saxon. Did you really think I'm a part of your race? Does it frighten you now to discover I'm different. To many I'm not. Shame on you. Didn't think a spic could read or write. David Alfaro Siqueras and Jose Clemente Orosco are poets in form to me. So is Diego Rivera. He is my brother but that's not the reason I would never sleep with Frida. Not a woman with One Eye Brow or Two Mustache. Trotsky must have been desperate. Are they waiting for someone to lead them. They have not been led yet. There are over 48 million of us in the United States. Only about 12 million are illegal. Imagine Central and South America combined. Imagine the Caribbean. Spain. Chavez, Ortega, Morales. Does your last name end with a "Z" or a vowel? Maybe an "S". Didn't I tell you "Che" was alive not dead. Neither is Pancho Villa. Pershing could never capture him.

Illegal immigration is a negative thing because it permits people to be taken advantage of. I am a freedom fighter not a terrorist. Call me a rebel if you want but I prefer the term revolutionary. Dr. Benjamin Franklin told us so. He gave us a Republic if we could hold on to it.. The first european city in America was St. Augustine. It was a Spanish city. Made from Spanish steel. The conquistadors hit them with the Spanish Horse.  The Edit of Expulsion. The Mexican-American War. The Spanish-American War. The Bay of Pigs. Cuban Missile Crisis. Cubans in the Congo, Mozambique. Ethiopia, Angola, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Viet Nam. The Korea War set them off after The Voyage of the Damned. The Aztecs. The Mayan Calendar. Cahokia Mounds. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Little Big Horn. Crazy Horse. Georgia O'Keefe. Who blinks first? Dusty Springfield? Wayne Newtown or Cantinfla?

I have never been to Auschwitz or Treblinka.. Armenia? Turkey? Do you prefer S21, Rwanda or Darfur?  What the hell did I have to do with that? My former U.S Army unit liberated the camp. Did yours? My mentors have all been Holocaust survivors. How many did you know? Any negative terms implied to such people is not an act of fascism. It is an act of patriotism. The economic collapse of state governments such as California and soon to be New York is due in part to a welfare system of health, education, and criminal justice based on social reforms which has drained the tax payer mostly the middle class of it resources. There will be other cities. Haven't we lost New Orleans and Detroit. The New Deal. FDR. Herbert Hoover. J. Edgar Hoover. John Dillinger was an American Hero. So was Jesse James. How about Jack Dempsey or Ty Cobb? I believe Satchell Paige was the greatest pitcher of all time but I also liked Shoeless Joe Jackson. He played baseball not cricket. I prefer boxing. Teofilo Stevenson is my favorite boxer of all time but I respect Max Schmeling.

Where you born before the Berlin Blockage/Berlin Airlift? Air-Berlin had a plane skid off the runaway today. No one can perfect themselves.

...the combination of every race, religion, and culture that New York City has to offer is nurtured in me.. a trend that Fascism derives from prejudism just couldn't be. You would have to hate one group for that but what if you hated everyone would you have to include yourself? I'll never eat green eggs and ham but I do like spam.  Grouches against immigrants..well that just isn't true. I won't try to take your burrito away but please don't hit me with a potato. There are children starving in this world. Don't waste food. If people started to complain what would they do. Send in the tanks like Tiananmen Square or shall we have crumpets and tea. Maybe they'll build another Berlin Wall but I prefer PIZZA GOD DAMN IT!! Don't mess with pizza. It's the best. Better than fascism.