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They started moving the old piece out. It looks like it hs moved about half way. Got started about 3-4 hours late. They had to stabilize the bridge so that it wouldn't move and leave a space smaller than the new piece. I also heard that they are moving the pieces on teflon rails lubricated with tons of dawn dishwashing liquid!

Maddow reminds me of the 18 year old Fred Savage. Could be twins.

Because Obama IS a socialist.In 8 months he has had the government control the banking and auto industries. Now he's after the health care industry. He hires communists (his 'green czar"). Most people are legitimately scared that our way of life will be lost. You can't say you didn't expect this. Hannity and others were warning how left Obama was during the campaign. Obama has proved them right.

Random thought from a 45-55 year old: Why are the 25-35 year olds so dumb?

The grid acted like it's supposed to so that the overloads will not fry the infrastructure.

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.