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TONS OF REPAVING MATERIAL PARKED ON THE BRIDGE
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THIS IS THE BEST THEORY GOING AT THIS TIME

The New York Times reports that tens of thousands of pounds of material was parked on and stored on the bridge in Minneaopolis at the time of it's collapse. Investigators are putting this information into stress test computer models to check for strain on the bridge at certain key points.

The fact that they were repaving concrete areas on the bridge is not likely a key reason for it's failure, but storing tons of equipment on a bridge designed to hold moving vehicles is likely to prove to be a big mistake.

If so, watch for massive law suits.

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BARRY BONDS' COMING RECORD SHOULD INDEED HAVE THAT ASTERISK IN BASEBALL'S RECORD BOOK

I don't care how great his 'accomplishment' if he cheated to get there

Barry Bonds is probably going to set a new home run record this week in the Giants' home stadium in San Francisco. Some of us can't wait for A-Rod to break it again.

I was listening to overnight night talk radio from San Fran last night on my way home from a concert, and those dear folks in the Gay Bay Area did not disappoint. They do not care how Barry got to this point, they only want to celebrate his new record. Caller after caller to the talk show expressed their confusion - what was the problem here? What was the big deal? Barry's going to break the record, and it's here in San Francisco, and we don't care how he did it!

How fitting it is that these folks do not care about cheating. How appropriate it is that they thumb their noses at those who scoff at a record set with the help of steroids. How telling it is that while true fans of baseball are actually saddened by this 'feat,' Giants fans are on television saying 'we don't care what anyone else thinks!'

Screw natural athletic achievement through hard work, dedication and integrity. To hell with being upright and honest, go ahead and use any drug to enhance your performance. Liberals really do think this way.

For his part, Hank Aaron hasn't yet said a word, hasn't called Bonds to congratulate him for taking steroids, hasn't yet made any public statement. I understand that. I get it. It would be as if you would expect a Republican to congratulate a democrat election victor who had stuffed ballot box; of course, liberals would be thrilled and happy no matter how they got in office. Republicans would be dismayed to learn one of their own cheated - liberals would celebrate it and act as if it was perfectly alright to win that way.

One fellow, Tim Kawakami, gives us real hope for A-Rod's blasting Barry's coming record:

"On Aug. 1, 1996, Barry Bonds was 32 years and 8 days old. His career homer run total to that point: 320.

"On Aug. 4, 2007 (yesterday), Alex Rodriguez was 32 years and 8 days old when he hit his 500th career HR.

"Right now, A-Rod: +180 HRs. Wow."

Another writer, Terrance Moore at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, puts it this way:

"The world hasn't stopped spinning, but it sure feels like it. After 33 years as the sole owner of 755 home runs, Hank Aaron, the people's choice, is sharing the most glorious number in sports with Barry Bonds, few of the people's choice."

Of course, sports wise, Bonds is going to annoy most of us who love sporting achievement in it's purity. But politically, the fans in northern California illustrate for us all over again that liberals are rotten on the inside.

--Jimmy Z

British Petroleum inks deal with Denny's restaurants

A NEWT ONION - British Petroleum (BP) announced today a lucrative deal with Denny's restaurants to recycle the enormous amounts of oil & grease produced by the restaurant chain.

Currently, the oil & grease from restaurants is intercepted before it goes into the sewer system by a large underground concrete vault called a grease interceptor. These grease interceptors are regularly pumped clean by waste management companies that specialize in the handling of waste materials.

The grease is then placed in sealed landfills never to be seen or used again. BP, ever on the cutting edge of emerging energy markets, saw an opportunity to refine this waste into bio-diesel fuel. A BP spokesperson says they plan to ink similar deals with other greasy-spoon restaurants.

A spokesperson for BP said, "The bio-diesel market is the most viable of the new energy markets & with all of these greasy-spoon restaurants around, we feel there is a significant upside to the recycling of these materials."

--Mike Landisberg

By the way, I did not use the word 'consternation' lightly - it is quite appropriate for the moonbat left: Consternation: 'a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay.' *L* 'Consternation' couldn't fit them better. --Jimmy Z

Wait, haul down the white flags -
the surge in Iraq is working
BY PETER BRONSON

We're winning in Iraq.

Ok, I said it. It's crazy. Stupid. Naive. Hopelessly optimistic. And true.

Something has changed, and the cut-and-run crowd in Congress did not get the memo. They insist the war is lost and we should get out yesterday. But the war has taken a turn for the better, like a patient making a sudden recovery after years on life support.

"Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms."

That's not from a Bush loyalist. It's from two analysts at the liberal Brookings Institution, who say they have "harshly criticized the Bush administration's miserable handling of Iraq." After an eight-day tour of the war zone, they wrote a New York Times op-ed that had to give an extra-strength Maalox heartburn to Sen. Harry "this war is lost" Reid.

In "A War We Just Might Win," Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack said they saw "a potential to produce not necessarily 'victory,' but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with."

It's a San Francisco earthquake for politicians
who prematurely waved the white flag. Rep.
James Clyburn admitted as much, saying that
for Democrats, good news "would be a really
big problem for us, no question about that."

They said morale is high under Gen. David Petraeus; civilian fatalities are down by a third since the "surge' of 30,000 additional troops began in mid-June; former allies of al-Qaida have turned against the terrorists; Iraqi military and police units are reliable and effective.

That good news was echoed by New York Times reporter John Burns on the Hugh Hewitt radio show. "I think there's no doubt that those extra 30,000 American troops are making a difference," Burns said. He warned that a retreat would "lead to much higher, and indeed potentially cataclysmic levels of violence, beyond anything we've seen to date."

"And the question then arises, catastrophic as the effect on Iraq and the region would be, you know, what would be the effect on American credibility in the world, American power in the world, and America's sense of itself?"

Michael Yon, a reporter embedded with Operation Arrowhead Ripper, says horrific cruelty by al-Qaida has driven Iraqis to our side. In one battle, he saw "unexpected and overwhelming cooperation of ordinary Iraqi citizens, who pointed out the enemy and many of the bombs set to ambush troops."

"I sense there has been a fundamental shift in Iraq," Yon wrote. "One officer called it a 'change in the seas,' and I believe his words were accurate. Something has changed. The change is fundamental, and for once seems positive."

Success in Iraq could be one of those tectonic shifts that completely rearranges the landscape:

It's a San Francisco earthquake for politicians who prematurely waved the white flag. Rep. James Clyburn admitted as much, saying that for Democrats, good news "would be a really big problem for us, no question about that."

Some in the antiwar left would rather see America lose than see Bush succeed. But most Americans won't forgive losers who tried to snatch defeat from the hands of success.

Staunch supporters of the war and the troops, such as Sen. John McCain, would be vindicated. "Despite this progress," he said of the surge, "Democrats today advocate a precipitous withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. They are wrong, and their approach portends catastrophe for both Iraq and the United States. To fail in Iraq risks creating a sanctuary for al-Qaida, sparking a full scale civil war, genocide and violence that could spread far beyond Iraq's borders. ... We cannot and must not lose this war."

President Bush's anemic popularity would improve. But even those of us who stuck by him wonder: What took so long? Why did it take four years to finally send Gen. "U.S. Grant" Petraeus to do the job right?

Ironically, recent success underlines the previous failure of Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - who begins to look like Bush's Gen. McClellan, whose incompetence was finally exposed by his replacement.

The war is hardly over. Iraq's politicians are nearly as contemptible as our own. The media will bang on their bad-news drum all day. But Bush should grab a megaphone and tell America we're finally winning.

About 3,600 soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Each one was someone's son, father, husband, brother or friend. Every one of them deserves better leadership.

"In a wider sense, the war is as most wars: an evolution from blunders to wisdom," says military historian Victor Davis Hanson. As in the Civil War, World War I and World War II, "the key is the support of a weary public for an ever improving military that must nevertheless endure a final storm before breaking the enemy."

For all the soldiers and their families who believe in the mission, the hasty exodus of Iraq-war political deserters has been as chilling as winter at Valley Forge.

But they said George Washington was crazy too.

The Enquirer, Cincinnati

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