Maggie's Farm

This is a blatant attempt to use this "crisis" to lobby for more tax money for bridges. The bridge was not unsafe and it did not fail because it should have been replaced. It failed simply because it was heavily loaded and then a major support component was destroyed by the truck impact. This design, like so much of what humans build, depends upon all of the components bearing weight/force/moment in predictable ways. Once any component is bent or twisted it can no longer support the weight and the entire structure collapses. This bridge was old and but that had nothing to do with the failure. If the bridge had just been built and was in perfect shape the same accident would have resulted in the same failure. The problem was the high and heavy load not simply that the bridge was old.

This won't stop those who want to spend you money. Notice how quickly the store pivoted from an accident to the fact that thousands of our bridges are old and should be replaced. Not to dissimilar from how the tradgey of Sandy Hook was pivoted to anti-2nd amendment propaganda.

Here is the question the government needs to answer: What happened to the billions and billions (perhaps trillions) in the highway fund? It was earmarked for highways and bridges but was spent on other things and a lot of it was spent building highways to nowhere in the states of influential congressmen. So if this accident in any way relates to lack of maintenance shouldn't some congressmen go to jail???

Islam is a religion of terror. It is what they teach and what they believe in. In every country where the muslims have a majority all non-believers are killed, driven out or at best treated worse then 2nd class citizens. There are a couple dozen countries around the world today where Islam is at war with non-Islam. Of course not every muslim is a terrorists or is plottingf to kill you. But unlike every other religion and every other culture even the moderate muslims will not speak up against what is going on, will not move to stop it in countries where non-muslims are oppressed and will not really disagree with the beliefs and actions of terrorists because after all doesn't allah say that non-muslims who will not convert should be killed? It is impossible for a strong muslim culture to coexist with non-muslims. The only viable coexistence with muslims is if they are weak and confined to their backward (12 century) countries where they can behead an occasional infidel and sell 9 year old girls to men for wives. I am sorry to have to say that what we are seeing is the tip of the iceberg and short of a massive attack that bombs muslim countries back into the stone age that world wide war is the only possible result. If they get nuclear weapons they will use them. Israel is ground zero, Europe is the 2nd target and the U.S. is vying with Europe for 2nd place as a target. It will happen unless we realize that WW III has already begun and take it seriously. It is just a natter of time and logistics. I also predict that when a nuclear cloud is rising over Tel Aviv, or Paris or London or New York City that those in the media will still be looking for a way to deny it is Islam and somehow claim it is a few bad people maybe even criminals.