The last two images appear to be of the same bridge taken from opposite ends. What’s more disturbing is that there is a failed bridge, built the same way, adjacent to the intact one. (The site where I found these pictures now redirects to something, um, not very nice, so I won’t post the link.)
You guys run on ahead. I’m gonna stay here with the cooler and wait for
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You have to really wonder what is at the other side of the river that is so important that you need to build a bridge like that so you can get to it.
A titty bar on the other side?
Hell it would be easier to start your own titty bar than do the bridge shit.
To escape from your wife?
Rather than build a bridge over that piranha infested river and then go across it life would be much better if you murdered her and spent the rest of your life in jail!
(Aw shit, I didn’t think that one through did I? The jail is on the other side of the river…..)
Anyway, I can think of more reasons not to cross the river than I can think of reasons to build and walk across any of those!
@ Mongoose:
Why would you not just swim across the river?
@ Calo:
Crocodiles?
@ Calo:
Maybe you’re selling things to someone. Or your cash for the titty bar would fall apart if it got wet.
But with those bridges, I’d stay where I was.
Calo wrote:
What part of “piranha infested river” didn’t you understand?
mfhorn wrote:
I would grow my own tits and learn to brew my own beer!
LMAO!
I am on the wrong blog!
*gone…..*
@ Calo:
Meerkats. Cutesy little standy-uppy weasel-lookin’ bastards.
Hi all. Tonight I’m rediscovering A Certain Ratio -
The love child of early New Order and Morris Day and the Time.
@ Mongoose:
Why do chickens cross the road? Whats so important on the other side, is the other side.
hey ya’ll
well, the girl is at camp and i have deconstructed her bathroom
so I can repaint it
joy
(if you only knew how much I hate to paint)
but I promised so it will be done and done well
oh
Falling Skies was freaking AWESOME!
doriangrey wrote:
cause the skunk said it couldn’t be done
rain of lead wrote:
Doesn’t start here for another 20 minutes.
@ doriangrey:
you will likey!
Maybe instead of repairing the bridge, they just build a new one when the old one looks like it is ready to fall down.
Yeah, it’d have to be something really, really important on the other side to make me want to use that bridge. Or something really, really bad coming at me on this side of the bridge.
AZfederalist wrote:
Well, it would probably not seem so bad if you had, well, you know, never seen a proper good bridge before to.
@ doriangrey:
I wouldn’t want to be a chicken and have to go through life crossing roads while wearing my pecker on my face.
@ doriangrey:
oddly enough
a bridge plays a role in falling skies
“I hate snakes. And rope bridges. And refrigerators. I really, really hate refrigerators.”
Dr. Indiana “Fridgenuker” Jones
AZfederalist wrote:
Quit being silly, its not new bridge old bridge, its a two lane bridge so that when traffic is heavy at rush hour people can be going both ways at once.
When I was in the service i attended mountaneering school at ft carson Colorado. being the lowest ranking person in the group, I was the one who got to swim the river with a rope so we could make a rope bridge like the top one.
So much not fun.
JeremyR wrote:
All those mistakes tell me its half past bed time. Good night all.
There’s a lot of chatter about Falling Skies. Unfortunately . . .
-Lost, Battlestar Galactica [remake], Game of Thrones [book series], MASS F@#$^^& EFFECT
I can’t get invested in a series anymore unless I have some assurance that the ending won’t take a long steaming crap on me. I’m sick of it.
Pardon the rant / emo-ness, but -- Mass Effect, y’all.
rain of lead wrote:
Just got to the place where the bridge get’s blown up.
Now France has become a fully socialist controlled country (Senate, Parliament, Presideny) -- and Germany will pay the price for that insanity.
@ Guggi:
…And Make Love With Their Face!
Morning folks. Catching up on pic processing and posting. Which probably means a full week of blogging..
Just an FYI from the Arab Spring: The Islamists have won the Egyptian Presidency:
Civil War? It sure looks likely. I wonder how badly the Egyptian Military is infiltrated by Islamists? Sure, the Generals are all not Islamists, but the troops? What are the odds? Sure is a good thing we backed deposing Mubarak, ain’t it? The best we can hope for now is a military dictatorship in Egypt. Everything else is worse. Far worse.
Good morning. Looks like Greece stays with the Euro.
Yesterdays election allows Conservatives to form a government.
Greece will now graciously accept bailout money.
Merkel will have trouble with the German people.
@ RIX:
Good morning!
After listening to some old-school Dems at work on Saturday, it would seem that this immigration order might be a BIG nail in O’s coffin should he lose in Nov.
@ Bumr50:
Hey Bumr. Obama & the other Dems seem to believe that
“If Congress won’t act, I will.” is just fine.
These people are dangerous because they see the Costitution
as merely an inconvenience that they can ignore.
Plouffe got creamed by Chris Wallace on sunday.
He seemed like a doctoral candidate that did not prepare
for the orals.
@ RIX:
People that don’t usually broach politics were up in arms. It’s something that’s easily understood as wrong.
There is a tremendous amount of backlash. And I guarantee that over 50% of the ranters in the lunchroom were reflexive Dem voters
Then again, these are people that work for a living…
Obama referred to these kids as “Dreamers” and law abiding,
patriotic good students.
All of them? How would he know that?
@ Bumr50:
Remember, Obama can’t be troubled to try and do anything that might produce jobs, but he can open the borders to people wanting to come here illegally. Nice, huh? The unemployment rate should guarantee Obama a place in th eunemployment line, but he is the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT. A lot of people won’t vote against him because of that.; Kind of the opposite to what Axelrod claims, really. Obama wouldn’t stand a whore’s cheance in hell of being re-elected if he were white.
@ Iron Fist:
Everybody knows someone who’s out of work.
I think Obama is getting some really bad advice.
@ Bumr50:
It does establish that the Obama Campaign is desperate.
The economy be damned, it’s all about him.
Also they wait to bait Romney, but the fish atern’t biting.
@ RIX:
The worse the economy, the more people educate themselves as well.
Like, how a million new citizens CHEAPENS the labor market, even if illegal immigration isn’t a huge problem in their area.
Every morning I get up and check the news to see if Obama has stepped on a rake
@ Bumr50:
One Dem & I don’t remember who said that having an immigrant
take you job is good, because you get a promotion!
It was on Sunday & I wish that I could remember who
said it.
@ RIX:
I formed a list of Dems in my head that could possibly say that.
It’s getting longer.
@ RIX:
Illustrates how elitist they think; makes them dumb even though their lips are moving
@ Bumr50:
@ waldensianspirit:
I wish that I could remember which Dem said it.
Surprisingly it was not Biden.
Sea ewe later!
@ RIX:
Ciao.
@ waldensianspirit:
It shows exactly how out of touch they are. With Unemployment over 8% (reality, it is closer to 15%), you’d think simple preservation would kick in, and they wouldn’t say such stupid things, but you’d think wrong. They don’t know anybody that is out of work. After all, everyone they know works for the government.
@ Iron Fist:
Exactly.
We don’t live in a bubble where everything “fails upward,” like in their world.
I’ll bet whoever said that believed it.
@ Bumr50:
I have no doubt that they did believe it. They probably still believe in Barack Obama’s magical pixie dust, too. They won;’t believe it when Obama loses, because everyone they know will have voted for him. They are so insular that they make inbreds look positively diverse.
Iron Fist wrote:
Obama should at least be polling like Ford in ’76 and his loss, even now, should be a foregone conclusion. We’ve had “out of nowhere” candidates that won the presidency, but never one that has performed so abominably and still has heathy numbers. THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENCY is a powerful talisman that chills much outward criticism, but even that is beginning to thaw. Now is the time when people in the administration begin to look at their “post White House” careers and being one of the last Obama defenders will get you nowhere. The Bush (43) White House was tight and there was a lot of loyalty which is why there have been very few tell-all books. The Obama White House is like a colander and they just may to Clinton in terms of unflattering views “from the inside”.
Clinton survived all that because he was a) personally charming, and b) had a remarkably successful presidency because he actively worked with Republicans. Yeah, he emaciated our military in his quest for budget balancing (something everyone seems to forget) but his personal charm seemed to make people forget that as well. That, combined with a booming (if not precipitous) economy still makes people look back with a certain amount of nostalgia.
Obama is “THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT” and he has vaporized a number of terrorists via remote control (presumably without any of the collateral deaths that were so prevalent during the Bush days) and, aside from that, he’s been a colossal failure. He has no domestic accomplishments and, only if you won the Powerball in 2009 can you say that you’re “better off than you were four years ago.”
I’ve always exercised my First Ammendment rights with reckless abandon….until 2008. No stickers, no yard signs. It wasn’t because I was a McCain voter only as a last resort, but because I was afraid of my home being vandalized. Ditto with a sticker on my car. The DoJ’s virtual absolution of Black Panthers wielding clubs at polling places proved my gut feelings correct.
There was a time when one could freely express one’s opinion without fear of a rock (or worse) being hurled through your window or you car being vandalized. That time abruptly ended in 2008….and no, I don’t believe in coincidences.
@ MacDuff:
Last week after the Daily Caller vs. Obama scuffle our local news was pushing the meme that Neil Munro interrupted Obama, but in doing so kept playing the entire exchange which makes Obama look real bad.
Not sure if they played it all weekend.
Bumr50 wrote:
Even stipulating that Munro was rude, the fact is that Bush reacted to a foreign reporter throwing two shoes directly at his head in Iraq with infinitely more style, grace, and graciousness than Obama showed toward Munro. Obama came off as petty and bitchy while Bush came off as good natured and magnanimous. A side-by-side comparison would be illustrative, particularly when the Bush incident happened in a war zone and the Obama incident happened in the Rose Garden.
@ MacDuff:
I’m just waiting for Obama to crack up. He doesn’t give a rat’s behind how he looks anymore. I bet Valerie can barely contain him.
yenta-fada wrote:
When faced wit the slightest obstacle, his “world-class demeanor” becomes that of a spoiled, petulant child. I dare say that both Romney or the eeevil BusHitler faced more obstacles in their lives than Obama.
MacDuff wrote:
The world leaders he is hobnobbing with are totally on to him. They don’t tend to be affirmative action types.
yenta-fada wrote:
Send him back to Hawaii to spend the rest of his daze in a pakalolo induced haze.