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| Aug 19th, 2007 04:13 PM | ||
| El Blanco |
Well, there is the Holocaust denial, the sticking up for the president of Iran when he mentions the need to wipe out Israel, the accusations that Israel dictates our policies, the citing of well known anti-semitic sources for his conspiracy theories, the blaming or foreign aid to Israel for bridges collapsing... Geggy, did you ever mention the 5 dancing Jews? Thats a pretty standard one for your type. |
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| Aug 19th, 2007 02:38 PM | ||
| KevinTheOmnivore | You're really missing out, they make my day. | |
| Aug 19th, 2007 10:46 AM | ||
| Emu | I generally skip over Geggy's posts anyway so I'm curious where all these jew-hating jokes are coming from | |
| Aug 19th, 2007 08:58 AM | ||
| Ant10708 |
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| Aug 15th, 2007 07:10 AM | ||
| Chojin | Bridges are breaking, therefore, kill the jews. | |
| Aug 14th, 2007 11:50 AM | ||
| El Blanco |
A stable ally in the Middle East is in our interest, you tool. And again, what does aid to Israel have to do with the Department of Transportation? Or the agencies run by the individual states? Quote:
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| Aug 14th, 2007 10:57 AM | ||
| Geggy | aaahahaha blanco you are so simple minded. i have no problem with israel's existance and that we should provide them with assistance and security but do you think 30 billion a year is a wee bit too much? what about america's interests...should these come first before israel? | |
| Aug 14th, 2007 10:45 AM | ||
| Geggy |
Learn from the fall of Rome, US warned By Jeremy Grant in Washington Published: August 14 2007 00:06 | Last updated: August 14 2007 00:06 The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country’s top government inspector has warned. David Walker, comptroller general of the US, issued the unusually downbeat assessment of his country’s future in a report that lays out what he called “chilling long-term simulations”. These include “dramatic” tax rises, slashed government services and the large-scale dumping by foreign governments of holdings of US debt. Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were “striking similarities” between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including “declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government”. “Sound familiar?” Mr Walker said. “In my view, it’s time to learn from history and take steps to ensure the American Republic is the first to stand the test of time.” Mr Walker’s views carry weight because he is a non-partisan figure in charge of the Government Accountability Office, often described as the investigative arm of the US Congress. While most of its studies are commissioned by legislators, about 10 per cent – such as the one containing his latest warnings – are initiated by the comptroller general himself. In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Walker said he had mentioned some of the issues before but now wanted to “turn up the volume”. Some of them were too sensitive for others in government to “have their name associated with”. “I’m trying to sound an alarm and issue a wake-up call,” he said. “As comptroller general I’ve got an ability to look longer-range and take on issues that others may be hesitant, and in many cases may not be in a position, to take on. “One of the concerns is obviously we are a great country but we face major sustainability challenges that we are not taking seriously enough,” said Mr Walker, who was appointed during the Clinton administration to the post, which carries a 15-year term. The fiscal imbalance meant the US was “on a path toward an explosion of debt”. “With the looming retirement of baby boomers, spiralling healthcare costs, plummeting savings rates and increasing reliance on foreign lenders, we face unprecedented fiscal risks,” said Mr Walker, a former senior executive at PwC auditing firm. Current US policy on education, energy, the environment, immigration and Iraq also was on an “unsustainable path”. “Our very prosperity is placing greater demands on our physical infrastructure. Billions of dollars will be needed to modernise everything from highways and airports to water and sewage systems. The recent bridge collapse in Minneapolis was a sobering wake-up call.” Mr Walker said he would offer to brief the would-be presidential candidates next spring. “They need to make fiscal responsibility and inter-generational equity one of their top priorities. If they do, I think we have a chance to turn this around but if they don’t, I think the risk of a serious crisis rises considerably”. 
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| Aug 9th, 2007 09:31 AM | ||
| Perndog | It's mostly state and municipal money that goes into these things anyway. So ditto above. | |
| Aug 8th, 2007 01:34 PM | ||
| El Blanco |
Hey, numbnuts, just exactly how much for the DoT's budget was given to DoD? Because unless you can prove that any money at all was taken from Transportation, you're pretty much just talking out your anti-semitic ass. |
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| Aug 8th, 2007 10:54 AM | ||
| Geggy |
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I see the education department has also gone to the shitter due to the excessive spending on the iraq war and the war on terror which ironically was designed to protect us from terrorism. try to think of it more as a wake up call. i already predict that infrastructures across the US will erode because of the wasteful spending. By the way i'm not scared of driving over the bridge, i'm more scared of being stuck in traffic thats backed up for miles bec of collapsing bridges. |
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| Aug 7th, 2007 08:11 PM | ||
| MLE |
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| Aug 7th, 2007 08:22 AM | ||
| Perndog | W was in Minneapolis over the weekend? Funny, no one told me. | |
| Aug 7th, 2007 06:37 AM | ||
| EndersGame | OMG THE WORLDS BRIDGES ARE BREAKING BECAUSE OF A SINGLE INCIDENT!!!! EVERBODY PANIC!!!!!! | |
| Aug 7th, 2007 01:28 AM | ||
| Yggdrasill |
Someone think of the trolls 
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| Aug 7th, 2007 12:21 AM | ||
| zeldasbiggestfan | The Eads bridge is abandoned now. Seriously, its only used during the time people need to get to work and to get back home from St. Louis. People are scared shitless here. | |
| Aug 6th, 2007 08:46 PM | ||
| MLE | And this is why I'm scared shitless of bridges. | |
| Aug 6th, 2007 04:38 PM | ||
| KevinTheOmnivore |
I have a better idea...I've heard that Jew hair is quite durable, and could be put to excellent use on a suspension bridge. Also, data shows that their blood makes for a fantastic concrete mix. It's time for us to do the right thing for our national infrastructure...Holocaust II: The Re-holocausting. |
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| Aug 6th, 2007 03:25 PM | ||
| ItalianStereotype | 500 billion? really? are we putting laser turrets and spinners on our bridges or something? I hate you, Geggy. | |
| Aug 6th, 2007 01:44 PM | ||
| Geggy | I know I'm about to pull a michael moore but the basic steps are to look at the facts, expose the problem and then come up with the best solution. I say we pull the 30 billion dollar yearly aide to israel, reject bush admin's 20 billion dollar proposal to provide military aide to saudi arabia and cut the 450 billion dollar budget toward the pentagon. | |
| Aug 6th, 2007 01:39 PM | ||
| Geggy |
77,000 bridges in need of repair 77,000 US bridges in need of urgent repair · Billions required to fix ageing structures · Five dead and 8 missing after Minnesota collapse Ewen MacAskill in Washington Saturday August 4, 2007 The Guardian About 77,000 bridges across the US share the same "structurally deficient" rating as the one that collapsed over the Mississippi in Minnesota, it emerged yesterday. Transport specialists said billions of dollars would be needed to replace the bridges, many of which were built 40 to 50 years ago and were coming to the end of their life. The Minnesota governor, Tim Pawlenty, said: "I think anybody who looks at the national picture, the national statistics, and says that we don't have a problem would be naive ... We have a major problem." But the federal government and the public over the last few decades have proved unwilling to pay for the upkeep through substantial rises in petrol tax or more road and bridge tolls. The bridge collapsed on Wednesday during the evening rush hour, claiming five lives. The police said yesterday that eight people were missing, reducing earlier estimates of 20-30. There are 756 other bridges in the US with a near-identical design to the Minnesota one. But engineers insisted yesterday that the relatively low death toll vindicated the bridge design. Joseph Schofer, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northwestern University, in Illinois, said the bridge's underlying arch truss stopped heavy pieces of steel from falling on to vehicles after the collapse. The federal authorities, responding to concern about the thousands of bridges designated as structurally deficient, insisted that the Minneapolis collapse had been an "anomaly". President George Bush, who was widely criticised for staying on holiday at his Crawford ranch in Texas after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans two years ago, is to visit the bridge site today. Harry Reid, the Democratic leader in the Senate, said that domestic programmes, such as replacing ageing infrastructure, had been short-changed because of the billions being spent on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Since 9/11 we have taken our eye off the ball," he said. The Democrats had proposed spending $631m (£309m) more on federal highway safety than Mr Bush budgeted for but he had threatened to veto the proposal. William Wilkins, of Trip, a transport thinktank, estimated that $65bn would be needed to replace the ageing bridges. An inspection of the collapsed bridge in the 1990s found cracks caused by fatigue and corrosion and these were repaired. Dan Dorgan, the state bridge engineer, speaking to reporters at the site yesterday, said a recent study had raised concerns about cracks. The state had a choice of adding steel plates or carrying out a further inspection, and had opted for the latter. "We thought we had done all we could. Obviously something went terribly wrong," he said. |
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