In some hideous inversion of Gandhi’s “Be the change you want to see,” has America become the disaster movie it always wanted to see?

I hope not and I don’t think it is.

In the 1980s when our economy was seriously depressed there were a lot of depressed people too. The music and movies and politics reflected that.

Today, after the Clinton era of peace and prosperity and post-Soviet-relief, the people want to be relaxed and just live well. But, we’re all on this bus being driven by a bunch of Crazies and we can’t get them to let go of the controls.

So, no, I don’t think it’s a reflection of the people. Today’s story is just normal people whose lives are upturned by some crazy event.

TheOtherWA @ 135

First, they have to FIND him to serve the subpoena. Hasn’t happened yet.

Just emailed my army major efriend, asking him what the deal on Kensinger is. Doesn’t seem very military to me, let alone Special Forces, to run away from a process server. Heck, if that’s all it takes to rout the U.S. military, then OBL needs to sue them. What a f***ing coward.

Now now. Be nice. He might be one of those few men of character and, unlike the “I don’t recall.” types, may have gone to the committee through a back door or maybe he knew he’d done a terrible thing and just hung himself. Let’s wait and see a bit more before jumping to conclusions.

yellowdog jim @ 124

… so HOW is he not getting, like, arrested for stiffing a subpoena?

Being a well-trained soldier he’s actively hiding from US Marshals.

Amazing, eh?

No problem, just dangle a cushy, lucrative ‘revolving door’ military contractor job in the air and wait 2 1/2 minutes. Works with the Air Force every time.

OldCoastie @ 88

… OT – did they ever locate the General who refused to show up for the Tillman hearing today?
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… so HOW is he not getting, like, arrested for stiffing a subpoena?

Being a well-trained soldier he’s actively hiding from US Marshals.

Amazing, eh?

Here something not to say on a political blog, who on the Dem.s side do you think can work on both repairing our foreign policy and reputation, and repair whats broken in America?

It’s usually congressional leaders who are inspired to spend federal dollars locally and any Dem president would go along with that kind of legislation.

The biggest differences are when you have a Repub Congress and they spend money on ‘a bridge to nowhere’, rather than on real bridges.

Congratulations on introducing a blog about infrastructure breakdown with a 404 error message. Subtle, yet very effective.

Is there a specific “Bridge not found” error message?

Something caught my eye in the CNN.com image gallery. Photo #8 shows a considerable cluster of rust at one of the plated joiner sections that failed, while the rest of the girders show a good amount of green anti-rust primercoat. I couldn’t possibly say either way whether this was cause or effect, just looks a little curious.

“There are two main hypotheses about the cause of yesterday’s bridge collapse in Minneapolis – terrorism or accident. There are two types of terrorists – domestic (Tim McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski) and imported (9/11 hombres). Some domestic terrorists are disenfranchised Republicans (McVeigh) and others are disenfranchised Democrats (Kaczynski).

So there are four main hypotheses:

a. accident
b. foreign terrrorist
c. domestic rightwing terrorist
d. domestic leftwing terrorist

I’m almost 100% sure it was an intentional act of sabotage and not an accident and it makes me rethink my assumption that the collapse in Berkeley a few months ago was an accident.

So it’s b, c or d and given that both locations are pretty liberal, I’d say we’re looking at a type d terrorist attack.”