Posted on 07/25/2006 9:02:49 AM PDT by george76
There was a person who posted here that he worked as an engineer on the Big Dig in the past. He was VERY proud of what he did there -- and of the results. He was VERY dismissive of engineers who had not worked on projects as big as he had (that pretty much ruled EVERYONE out). Of course, I am only proud of the projects I worked on that were successes -- not failures, like him. I just wish I remembered his name.
For every loose bolt....
...............................there is a loose nut.
Did the Big Dig win some awards ?
other than the biggest corruption awards...
Not are they taking it laying down here, they're taking it against the wall, over the backs of chairs....
Hard to find a more stupid bunch of sheep than the voters in the Commonwealth of Communists.
The only thing securely fastened in this State is Kennedys fat @$$ to his Senate chair.
Hugh Tickbacks...
did he also do punt returns ?
Only if they were defective.
I wish Jerry Williams (local Boston radio talk show pioneer during the '70s and '80's) who called this to the "T" back in 1987 or whenever it was first funded. He knew the city as well as anybody and had the best nose for corruption I've ever come across. He'd be entitled to the Mother all "Told you so"s.
For you Jerry...."HE TOLD YOU SO!"
http://www.radiohof.org/newstalk/jerrywilliams.html
Also, "This doesn't pass the (sniffs) sniff test."
it is a quagmire, we should get out now
Nope they are standing up. Here is a photo:
Bush's fault!
I used to listen to jerry williams and larry glick all the time, the two of them and howie carr are the reason I realized I was not a MA liberal...
Some of us have sense but most don't. Most Mass. voters are
trained to vote for any Democrat...why, they're the party of the working man! They "invest" in the future! (Dukakis code word for "higher fees, fines, taxes".) Republicans are just a bunch of cold-blooded aristocrats who want to starve your
children, kill the poor, decimate our schools (just ask the
teachers' association).
The "pinky ring union guys", as Howie Carr calls them,
call the shots. You scratch my back and vice versa. On
occasion, some Republicans/conservatives get in but not for long...and admittedly some Republicans (Weld, Cellucci,
Swift, Amorello) played a part in this whole boondoggle.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
>>MassExodus
Your name says it all: I think we were the only state to
lose population, and I wonder why. "Maybe if we're lucky we'll lose a House seat what with the last census figures.
Maybe even two!"--Howie
Wait till a Dem gets back in the corner office. You may not be totally enraptured with Kerry M. Healey or Christy
Mihos, but imagine this state under a Governor Reilly.
Governor Patrick. Governor Gabrieli (and I think I heard
Gabrieli's wife has some kind of hack connection...)
Just wait. No Dem. elected governor since Mike "Pee
Wee" Dukakis in 1986...but what if they get in again
this year? Not that a Republican gov. would have an easy time dealing with a mostly Dem. legislature, as it is...
There ARE some GOP candidates running...Either Kevin Scott or
Ken Chase will be the GOP nominee for Senate, running against Ted.
Just rip it down already! Replace the panels with a thin guage steel panel and be done with it. Sure, it'll have to be replaced every 20 years or so, but it sure beats squishing motorists!
If the denizens of the Peoples Republic of Massachussets want to go into the hole a bit deeper, they can use a titanium alloy instead. It'll do the same job, be just as fire resistant, and yet it will weigh a fraction the weight of the concrete slabs AND it will last forever.
What part of Rightsie-Tightise Lefty-Loosie did the contractors not understand?
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