this is such a tradition. you are celebrating 115 years of making kids and adults alike go wow by the christmas tree. it is an exciting time for lionel, 115 years. lionel is synonymous with christmas. no christmas is complete until you have lionel under the tree. when you see kid looking, what can you show us? these are the three featured trains? one of them is the polar express. this has been one of our most popular trains of course tied to the movie. we d love to have you drive it. you re in control. as you can see here, this is one of the nice things about this set, this is part of our technology. trains always used to have a transformer. we ve installed a brand-new remote control. it allows you to have more mobility, gives you better sound. if you press the button in
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inequality. state wide poll, we now know the much maligned voters of arizona actually support a path of legalization for the country s undocumented immigrants. according to the poll, even 69% of republicans support so-called earned legalization if a number of conditions are met. we don t know if our political culture is able to nurture our basic sensible decency into humane policy. with new data out from realty track we know u.s. foreclosure activity hit a seven-month high in october. up 7% from the previous month. we also know that our political system continues to be shamefully incapable in taking necessary steps to rectify the situation by imposing some form of debt principle forgiveness. finally, we now know there is no issue too small or too stupid for conservatives to fire up the outrage machine over. a promotional program for christmas trees created by the christmas tree industry and the department of agriculture was put on hold when conservatives such as the heritage foundation
vacancies in the current building that we could move more judges in today. so even the government accountability offices come out and said this $400 million expenditure is not needed and we ought to be selling one of the other courthouses that has vacancies as well. that would make sense. why haven t they done that? you know, it s a challenge that we face across the nation where local congressmen will fight for this district. here in california and l.a., the local members have all come out against this. they want to see the expenditure. new courthouse at any cost. i want to do things smarter. i want to do things better. i think the people have a right to know how their tax dollars are being spent and this is a problem that we have across the entire nation where we ve built a courthouse and then we have hundreds of thousands of square feet that is sitting vacant next door in these cities. sure. and like you said a moment ago, a lot of these courtrooms are only used an hour and a h