Major bridge collapse in Baltimore

Yeah, and your pork-addicted Repugs will be right out front there, working hard for home funds to make their own bridges forever safe from those little trans queers and the pregnant mother of three who now must risk death because the Rich White BullyMen say her fourth child, who has no chance of survival, nevertheless has a God-given right to be stillborn for 5 minutes.

LOL, I might have reached nirvana on this one. ... cc: YankeeFan, STAT!!!

 

Since time was, since the first goddamn Congress, the way money got spent on things, necessary or otherwise, was to spend money on other things a bunch of Reps and Senators also wanted done. To object to that is to object to night following day.

 

He's the new Pat Robertson

 

Gonna be a big moment. Let's all make sure to inspect the legislation. Every line.
Come September or October, when a hurricane, intensified by climate change that the Trumpist klan has ignored for decades, strikes SEC states, there will be no such scrutiny from that klan. They'll push through non-germane stuff and Democrats will not object. Nor should they.
But Tebow forbid there should be fedruhl legislation helping a 60% Black city. Nope. We can't have that.

 

What bullshit.

To object to "that," and to fight for justified progress
and the advancements of a proper, forward-thinking society,
is what America has always hoped to be about. To rise up
and stand strong against corruption kinda used to be our thing, ya know.

We seem to be blowing it all apart now.
And all because those pork barrel deals still go on?
Screw that crap. To not object to that is to give up and die inside.

 

One man's pork is another man's vital bridge repair. The two bridges connecting Cape Cod to the mainland were built in the Depression and have maybe 10 years of shelf life left. To me, that's a vital issue. To a Senator from Nebraska, maybe not so much. But if there's something Nebraska needs, then by all means put the two things in one bill for votes. Nothing sinister about it.

 

Let me guess: They wonder why we are fixing this bridge when all the money should be spent on the border?

Same ones who take credit for bringing infrastructure project to their districts after voting against the bill.

 

So the FBI and other federal investigators went aboard the ship today to do some investigating. We'll see where that goes.

 

What if I told you that dead ships are more common than you think?

The Post analysis found that 424 cargo ships longer than 600 feet reported losing propulsion — meaning the engines were shut down — in U.S. waters over the past three years. About a quarter of the incidents occurred near a port, bridge or other infrastructure, the analysis found.​

The records on propulsion loss were up to date through March 17, before the incidents involving the Dali and the Qingdao. After reports of the Qingdao incident surfaced on social media, the Coast Guard said the ship suffered a loss of propulsion.​

In some cases reviewed by The Post, engines suddenly cut out. In others, crews were compelled to shut them down to deal with operating problems. The owner and operator of the APL Qingdao said that its engine was shut down in a “controlled” manner after an engine alarm was triggered and that the ship did not lose electrical power.​

‘We’re a dead ship’: Hundreds of cargo ships lost propulsion in U.S. waters in recent years — The Washington Post

 

Like the newspaper, the byzantine structure of shipping makes its overwhelming success rate a daily miracle.

 

Hard to believe this was almost 30 years ago, but when they said the Dali lost power the Bright Field incident was the first thing I thought of.
Just before Christmas in 1996, a 730-foot freighter lost power while traveling under the Mississippi River bridge in New Orleans. It crashed into a crowded shopping mall and between a cruise ship and a riverboat casino that were both full. Amazingly, no one was killed because of a last-second shift that effectively "parallel parked" it between the two ships. The mall security did a good job clearing people out of the area as well.

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/...-prevented-tragedy-says-captain/289-370260696

 

Capt. Ted Davisson should have been Capt. Sully before Capt. Sully happened. On the other hand, I don't think anyone was injured at all in the Miracle on the Hudson.