Weekend service was not originally in the plans and at this point their web site shows no weekend schedule. Will the Road Runner have weekend service in the future? Only time will tell, but it looks like it will pay to have a few trains running between Belen and Santa Fe on Saturdays at least.

Rumor has it that now Taos is interested in a feeder line and I think it would be an excellent idea to have the system run all the way south to Las Cruces.

Lets hope the system is a big success. I-25 between Albuquerque and Santa Fe is usually a congested mess and getting a bunch of commuters of the road and on to the train will help that a lot.

In 2004  CDR Financial Programs of Beverley Hills, CA got hired by the New Mexico Finance Authority to work on the $1.6 billion bond issue used to fund highway projects and the Rail Runner commuter train. This was all part of  GRIP or Governor’s Reinvestment Partnership, a Bond Program to pay for road improvements and the Railrunner Commuter Train. CDR’s owner, David Rubin, then went on to make two contributions to political organizations close to Gov. Bill Richardson totaling $85,000. One of the organizations being looked at by the feds is Si Se Puede!, a PAC formed in 2004 to pay the bills for Richardson and his staff to attend the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Richardson was convention chairman. The PAC raised $191,000 which $130,000 came from financial companies involved in the GRIP bonds.

Looks like the gov will be back and the Lt. Governor, Diane Denish, who had already begun gathering together a transition team will be back at her old office for the next 2 years. This is too bad because she is a decent person and would have made a good governor.

This election was a flood and make no mistake about it. With the election of Barak Obama, and even more far left Democrats in the Senate and the House, the American electorate has voted for utopian change and they are going to get it in a big way but will it be the change they think they are getting? I predict it will not. History teaches us that utopian dreams always end up as nightmares; witness Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia and the recent rise of fundamentalist Islam.

The public has made a bargain with evil and what will come forth will be a flood of filth that will wash over this nation as never before. The Culture of Death has been ratified. The abortion mills, greased with taxpayer money,  will be running overtime. With the advent of universal health care euthanasia will become commonplace as it will be decided that the sick, elderly and handicapped are no longer assets but liabilities, protecting children from pedophiles will be considered passe and hate speech laws will be attempted to be used to prosecute anyone who dares protest any of this. We will see attempts to use special police to enforce the coming “crime against society” laws and if things get really bad our military’s guns will not be used against our enemies but against our own citizens.

Robert Bork, some years back, wrote a book called “Slouching Towards Gomorrah”. We are not slouching towards Gomorrah any more. We are running towards it and as it was in that day there will be judgment. God will only tolerate the slaughter of the innocents so long.

Finally one more thought. Obama says he wants to unify this nation but this nation is more divided than it has been since the 1960′s. Unity will not happen but now he and the Democratic Party own the problems and there are going to be a bunch of us that will hold both him and the Democratic Party responsible because it is no longer “Bush’s fault”.