Bridge falls into Mississippi river

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

I guess my point is that it's not healthy for a nation's first response to calamity to be one of suspicion and cultural animosity. The proper response is "What a shame.", not "Which cowardly bunch of sand-niggers did it this time?"

I would argue that it is not the nation's first response towards a catastrophe of this magnitude. However, it would be Homeland Security's first response, and their job is to make sure everyone knows that they're working so they talk about what isn't terrorism a lot.

I mean, the nation can do several things at once. It's pretty big.

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Originally Posted by Capo

Not really, and not really. I know it's a tragedy, but seven people is a lot better than it could have been. Frankly, I was surprised it wasn't much more.

you all know that that isn't seven people dead, that's seven people confirmed dead, right? There's a couple of dozen people left unaccounted for and probably dead.

Yes, I know it's 1/100th of a 9/11 and thus unworthy of taking up more time than, say, the loss of Paris Hilton's inheritance, but can we keep the jaded musings of an entertainment-news industrial complex gone mad with stupid news stories that only affect white people to at minimum two or three days after the event? Jesus christ.

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Originally Posted by Paco Vato Loco

It was either shoddy engineering (most likely) or the culmination of 40 years of weather fluctuations from bitter cold winters to hot-as-fuck summers. (far-fetched but still theoretically possible)

I'm not an engineer, but I imagine that an interstate bridge constructed with shoddy engineering would not have stood for forty years and, even recently, did not show any signs of significant structural damage. But I did hear that it was deemed structurally deficient a few years back, I'm not saying it's superbridge or wasn't in need of repairs.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I just like how everyone expects that the infrastructure will somehow maintain itself. Maybe it's because the overpasses in my state are crumbling from under me and my state's senate is uninterested in collecting enough taxes in order to maintain our (pithy) quality of life, but I can certainly see more bridges collapsing in ten or twenty years.

No, seriously. Michigan decided that, in order to balance its budget without raising taxes (although everyone says that a tax raise will be inevitable next year), we decided to hold off on paying certain bills. You know your dotty relatives who're always down on their luck and live from paycheck to paycheck? My state is taking its financing cues from them.

threatening to lower our credit rating, and then doing so, didn't make them raise taxes

it's almost like they want us to leave or something

There's nowhere I can't reach.

lol mi republican senate

what's New York's excuse though, I thought they were all dems.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Lies. Rainbows and love shoot out of democrats asses.



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