Should we be looking for bunkers underneath it?
Posted on 03/07/2019 4:02:09 AM PST by vannrox
Oh, come on, don’t let a little fact get in the way of a great conspiracy. Besides, maybe it really was 22 miles and they told us it was 22 million so we wouldn’t panic. :)
I have flown through the Denver airport every year because my parents live in Denver. It makes travelling easier since the gates are far from departure and arrival. You have to take a train. But those murals and painting are all over the place.
Nice terrazzo work in fancy airports. DIA has some
https://images.flydenver.com/Art-at-DIA/Permanent-Works/21st-Century-Artifacts/
Stapleton Field, the previous Denver airport, was beloved for it’s closeness to town but had been outgrown. It was fine when Denver was a skiing waystation and cattle town but I distinctly remember the main runway crossed OVER a major interstate highway!! Can you say “catastrophic disaster with multiple fatalities”? Denver was always one blown tire away from having a 737 run off the runway and onto I-70. Did I mention it frequently snows and ices over in Denver?
So, yes, a new airport was welcome but this one was weird to say the least. First, the terminals could only be accessed by tram with cute little jingles playing canned advisories using celebrity voices. I felt like I was trapped inside a videogame rather than being inside a major airport.
The major terminal had these peaks to simulate the mountain skyline which became, among other things, a perfect roost for pigeons and other birds who were high above any human access and could poop freely on the stressed citizenry below. Like nobody could have predicted this?
The joke goes that DIA is so far away from Denver that the next exit after the airport says “Welcome to Nebraska”. Eventually, many south of the Downtown area found that flying in and out of Colorado Springs was faster and less expensive than flying out of DIA. The airlines eventually fixed that problem by equalizing fares and the population grew so fast along I-25 that some of the time advantages were lost.
But, yeah, there’s a lot of “age inappropriate” images at DIA that make you go “what were they thinking”? But, then, the airport I’ve spent the most time in is Austin Bergstrom where the terminal is named after Rep. Barbara Jordan, a black Democrat woman who once said “Men lack the genetic capacity for compassion.” Sexist much?
The New American published many articles about the demonic aspects of the Denver Airport when it first opened. It was mind-boggling to me at the time, still is. Thanks for posting.
Isn’t it the viewer’s interpretation that matters?
There, fixed it for you!
Some say, that if the comet would have had struck earth, it's would have been back to the stone-age for us.
Terribly-written article, terribly formatted!
Regards,
Australia antigen is a very old term for the surface antigen of Hepatitis B. It would need to be very modified to have any success because in healthcare at least we are all immune.
Got a link for that?
Freakazoid flying a mile high state. Just say no to drugs.
What is the significance of that?
The normal seven rainbow colors:
◾Red
◾Orange
◾Yellow
◾Green
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I’m not going to be able to get “It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All” out of my head for the rest of the day.
Yeah. There’s no way I missed (or FR missed) and 22 mile away comet story...
Oh, by the way, if you click on the highlighted link there, you don’t go to a story on the comet, you go to “Rebel Mouse” website. I know all I need to know about that from two graphics I saw there - a mouse wearing a red hat with a gold star, and a mouse waving a rainbow flag... BYE.
This only proves one thing that Americans are fast asleep, reminds me of the frog in the water he’s happy as a pig in $hit until someone turns up the burner then it’s too late. Sarc off
If I owned the airport there’d be pictures and models of passenger aircraft, past through present, throughout. None of these “modern art masterpieces”.
As to the claim that “no one knows who paid for the airport”, it does take a lot of sleuthing to ferret out an answer.
But the actual answer seems to be a combination of federal funds, and some bonds (debt) set up by either the Denver city government and/or a combination of Denver and the state of Colorado - I’m not sure on that.
It seems impossible to find a direct answer to an Internet search for “who paid for Denver’s airport”.
But here below are two items that do point to the use of federal funds, and tax-exempt municipal bond debt. The premise of the bond-debt was that airport revenue would pay off the bonds.
That issue as been a mess of conflicts between expected and actual airport revenues. Adding to the controversies is the fact that Billary, Inc. put the mayor of Denver, Pena - under whose administration the Denver airport project began - as head of the Department of Transportation, when the airport project was failing to get completed and burdened with big cost overruns. During that time there were federal GAO inspectors questions about where some Denver airport funds were being spent, that appeared to be pointing to corruption and cronyism.
On the positive side, the airport sits on 53 square miles of land. On parts of that land are working oil and gas wells as well as leased farmland; both areas which produce revenue for the airport. Adding all other non-airport operations revenues - vendors of various sorts - the revenue from all non-airline related sources is about 40% of the airport’s revenue. At a cost of $11 or so on a per enplaned passenger basis, Denver sits at about the middle between higher and lower cost airports.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/80/78935.pdf
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-230/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-95-230.pdf
Just something I learned in Med School.
“They remind me so much of the “Man at the Crossroads” (1933) fresco by Diego Rivera, which was very anti-American and Anti-Christian.”
Diego Rivera and Frida Calo, similar idealistically and stylistically. Both communists and as yall stated, anti-American and anti-Christian.
KYPD
I used to go to Denver every summer for vacation for about 10 years. Haven’t been back for at least 6 years. I don’t remember any of that highly offensive art, which should be burned. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention, but I really don’t remember that at the Denver International Airport, way out in the sticks. The only thing I instantly didn’t like was the puffy white peaked tent top, supposed to remind us of the mountains. They didn’t.
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