Comments on: Minnesota Governor Pawlenty Smashes Hopes for Better Bell

By: lolife

lolife — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:10:48 +0000

Umm, phil, perhaps you should reacquaint yourself with the notion of accountability. When you’re the coach and your team loses it is your fault. When you are in charge of the infrastructure and the infrastructure fails, it’s your fault. That’s called accountability.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:49:48 +0000

I think the invisible ones are shut (such as the two on the upper left).But I could be wrong.

By: bernarda

bernarda — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:51:03 +0000

The bridge sort of looks like it fell into the form of a cross. Maybe there is an image of Jesus in one of the concrete blocks?

By: Pyre

Pyre — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:54:15 +0000

Greg, I am seeing three driver doors visibly open, two driver doors visibly shut, and the remainder with driver doors either not visible (as shut or open) or so tilted that gravity would close the door. I don’t know which vehicles had passengers, so I’m not counting closed passenger doors.

By: phil

phil — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:04:25 +0000

You know, I’m not particularly fond of Pawlenty but blaming the bridge collapse on him is abjectly stupid and demented, and makes you credible only to those in your echo chamber. The bridge was up for 40 + years through many different administrations with a poor design from the beginning and no one doing anything about it all that time (I’m sure you can find a way to pin that on George W). Any blame to be cast on Ventura(I), Carlson(R), Perpich(D) etc?I also like how you ignore, (are you even aware or maybe purposely ignoring to score a cheap point?), the information that is out there that an important factor in the collapse was the fact that the bridge was over loaded by too much construction materials and equipment. How in the hell is that Pawlenty’s fault? Probably some good union members to blame for that but, ahh never mind they vote the way you like.People died there, and you’re trying to score some vacuous, inane and bankrupt DFL points on it because you don’t like Pawlenty. Unsurprising yet still nauseating.Go after him for vetoing the Bell Museum or whatever else that has a state employee such as yourself upset, but give up the puerile and dishonest temper tantrum – most unbecoming in a man of your advanced years.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:16:57 +0000

The car doors. Almost all of them are closed. People jumped out of these cars and ran away as fast as they could. But most of them chose to close the door. I would not be surprised if some of them are locked.

By: the real (selfLOATHING) Bobby Fisherman

the real (selfLOATHING) Bobby Fisherman — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:36:25 +0000

looks like the bridge is in the shitter…er…the shitter ios ON the bridge?

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:23:52 +0000

Aside from the fact that WBOB looks to be on fire and the bridge looks like it was resting on plywood? No. I must be missing something.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:51:03 +0000

By the way: Go look at that picture of the I35W bridge in the state of collapse. See anything funny?

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:46:57 +0000

Nicely done. I fired off a nasty email to him yesterday when I heard. Please join me at tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us. Several thousand irate emails couldn’t hurt the cause one iota. Keep up the great work, Greg.