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The last time it closed, in 2007, the contractor for the job was the company that fixed the Northridge damage in weeks and replaced a bridge at the McArthur Maze (at the Oakland end of the bridge)that was destroyed by a tanker fire in 3 weeks! That time it opened up 12 hours ahead of schedule. They also have to watch the winds. If they get too high, they have to suspend work. They say that they expect the winds to be low (<10 mph) this weekend. It's amazing how they thought all this out. The new bridge will be a little higher. When the new cranes for the Port of Oakland come in from China (some say George Lucas got the idea for the Imperial Walkers from them). the ship has to sit out in the bay near Alcatraz until low tide, then scoot under the existing bridge. A guy stands on the top of the crane to be sure there is clearance. He can touch the steel on the bridge!

The Oakland-Bay Bridge (the one that had a piece fall in the 1989 quake) will be closed from 8 PM PDT today to 5 AM PDT Tuesday. This weekend, they are removing a section of the double deck by moving it to the side and moving in a new section that will divert the traffic to a temporary bridge that will allow them to build the suspension portion of the bridge. The roadway they are moving is 150 feet in the air! A smaller section was put into place two years ago, also on Labor Day weekend. That was easier because it was only 30-40 feet in the air. That work was started on a Friday night and finished by Monday at 6 PM. Here is a web site for the construction of the new bridge

Thanks for the link! Machine Head was the first album I bought. Several years later I had a chance to see them in NF, but I had to work that evening.

I forgot who it was, but the head of the Ways and Means Committee would declare Reagan's budgets DOA every year when he submitted them. Gram-Rudman was working until Congress decided to ignore it.

Looks like he will be starting his Obama Youth on Tuesday 9/8.

Forgot Ted's final line: "Get me a Chivas!!!"

What's the difference between that and their normal e-mails?

You forgot kicking out the F'n illegal aliens. That would reduce health care costs and govt costs a lot.

Get Manbearpig to use his mind power to repel the hurricanes.

Now the cops are looking into some unsolved murders of hookers and some tenage girls in the area. They are looking at anther property this animal may own or had owned (it wasn't clear from the news report).

Do you know the toughest democrat golf foursome to play behind? Monica Lewinski...OJ Simpson...Ted Kennedy...& Bill Clinton Monica is a hooker... OJ is a slicer... Kennedy couldn't drive over water...& Clinton doesn't know which hole to play.

Yes it was an unincorporated (county) land. The county building department is across the county. I have to look at building dept files for work. I put in a request to see the files for a property in the same county. It took them 3 weeks to contact me that there were no files for the property I was inspecting (I knew that because it was vacant land), which was 2 weeks after I had finished the report. You have to go to the county legislature for development, so lots of things fly under the radar, building wise.

Type in Walnut Avenue, Antioch, CA into Google Maps. Look for the blue tents . That's the place.

Kevin Federline has been sighted!

I saw the neighbor on the local 7AM news. She isn't the sharpest tool in the shed.

Then what did CBS have?

Bernie Goldberg

If you read it, it says they won't pay the donor for it.

Looks like they are makng the High Anus Port compound into the Kennedy Memorial Distillery and Aquatic Center. Seriously, they are talking about making it a museum. People who are all for estate taxes avoiding them.

Is there anything you AREN'T Bitter about? Not getting the high hard one?

This is out here in the SF Bay area. They lived in Antioch, which was rural until about 5-10 years ago. Then it exploded in population. The main drags are now all built up with plazas and there are many new subdivisions. Sometimes right next to them are old farms. They could have been on one of those. Heard on the local radio just now that it was part of the unincorporated area (country).

Link This link is safe for work. It is to McCleans, a Canadian magazine.

When you get that cash for clunkers or cash for fridges, you better pay the taxes on it. The $4500 for CFC is taxable income, don't cha know.

He put in a request to go to Nam. They turned him down. This came ut in the document dump recently from the Rathergate affair- where Rather got "retired" for the fake memo. He and Mapes knew about this. Rather lost his lawsuit against SeeBS