Bridge collapse in MSP

Oh, piss off.
This is growing tiresome, junk. I'm not going to quote all the studies about how divorce, alcoholism, domestic abuse etc. etc. break down on red state-blue state line because, frankly, we've had enough opf that bullshit in our politics. I spent five years of my life driving all over the MW and the south, which is what I was referring to above. I still travel extensively for work.
And, pray, what problems do we easterners have that you don't? Perhaps you should re-think your opinions on unlimited national wiretapping because, after all, it was three east-coast cities that were hit on 9/11.

 

Well, Junkie, once you've had Iron City Beer, you will never go west to find a Bud.

 

Pennsylvania, I believe, is considered "east" by most cartographers over the age of 10.
But, no matter. You've marinated yourself in enough heartland-values swill to be served up en brochette. Please explain, in the context of your latest post, what the "insular world you east coasters live in" means.

 

I tend to think of places in the Eastern time zone, as East, but that's just me and I do have some exceptions.
The McClaughlin Group had an interesting conversation about the crumbling country.
Since most of the stories are so local, you don't hear about them, so people don't realize how bad it actually is.
The other part is that the country hasn't made a serious investment in the national infrastructure since the '50s and does the country have the will to do it again.
The consensus seemed to be no.
The cost is fairly staggering, $1.5 trillion is needed to make the repairs, but if the war drags on to Nov. 2008, the country will have spent a little more than a trillion dollars in Iraq.
That trillion would have fixed a lot of potholes, replaced a lot of electrical transformers, repaired a lot of bridges, built new oil refineries, power plants, water and sewer treatment plants.
It would have had a real impact in the United States, not just with new and improved things, but it would have created jobs and made lives better for people.

 

Just in time for a lot of that stuff to be destroyed, anyway, by our enemies.

 

Circular logic: It's not just for children, anymore.

Fear the foreign and the abstract. Pay no attention to the things that actually affect your life.

 

It would be nice if we'd stop wasting money on our useless pursuits in Iraq and actually fund infrastructure instead, but I'm not holding my breath...

 

The plane -- which was brought down by a brave bunch of people, many of who were from Nancy Pelosi's congressional district, by the way -- was headed for the US Capitol, and you know it. The rest is just just raving silliness.

 

Congestion? Show me 696 or 75 in Detroit.

Pollution? Ever been in Chicago or Los Angeles at rush-hour?

Over-priced everything? Try the San Francisco housing market.

Over-stressed pace of life? Well, you might have me fooled, but the suits in Detroit don't seem to be sleeping well at night lately. At least I hope they aren't.

Not a wholesale defender of Fenian's, but your comments Junkie are BS.

 

Washington wasn't attacked because the attack was thwarted in the middle?
OK.
And I really can't do much about your geographic insecurities. I really can't. Except to say that sarcasm isn't really an argument anywhere.

 

The hijacking was an "intended flight plan."

 

I think you answered your own question.
The Pentagon is in Arlington, Virginia and not in Washington D.C.
Now back to the catfight ...