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-Great Cultural Revolution
Pittsburgh bridge's 2016 infrastructure funding reportedly diverted to bike lanes and green energy programs
[AT]

You knew this startling revelation was coming.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/30/2022 06:57 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do you mean to tell me, over the course of 50 years (yes, a half-century) there were maintenance funds made available for this structure and it somehow got spent on something else ?

[sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/30/2022 7:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Bike Lane Billy Peduto. They voted for him. First as a city councilman, then as mayor. Got it good and hard. But they are probably proud there that the malfeasance and misfeasance turned into a photo op for their beloved Joe.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/30/2022 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  That photo is a perfect emblem for the Biden Admin's effect on this country
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/30/2022 7:56 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ This problem was brewing a long time. All blue states have only one long term plan for their misspending - to have the rest of the country bail them out.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/30/2022 8:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Still "just saying" ☺.

Isn't interesting how well-timed, that Biden just "happen" to be in the same town where he is pushing a $1.# Trillion infrastructure bill and have Bridge collapse like on cue as an example.

What happened to the recent 2017 $$$$ and other Infrastructure bills passed over the years.

Eg. Like the one that was passed soon after the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed over the Mississippi River (Minneapolis) that killed over 140+ persons.

Were the congressional rules so lax and it became a slush fund used for pet projects like bike lanes instead of bridges for votes?


BTW: The NTSB has officially stated in the past, almost 1 in 10 U.S. Bridges are Structurally Deficient. Where is the $$$$$ going?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/30/2022 10:11 Comments || Top||

#6  they can flap their arms to cross now voted for lied for protected for flap flap get mufon on it call it a progressive flap!
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 01/30/2022 15:13 Comments || Top||

#7  A case of spending seed corn.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/30/2022 18:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Of course the Governor is blaming Republicans.
"Shame on the Republican lawmakers who didn't support the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Pennsylvanian lives are on the line. It's long past time for the political games to come to an end."
He doesn't know or care that the infrastructure bill passed and that the funds to fix the bridge were usurped.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/30/2022 20:09 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Capitol Doors Opened from the Inside says J6 Attorney
[Epoch Times] The two sets of historic doors that lead into the Rotunda were opened by someone on the inside, and not his client, says defense attorney Jonathon Moseley.

Department of Justice video widely circulated on Twitter this week shows a man trying to open the inner doors by leaning against them, before turning around as if listening to someone, then returning to the entrance and opening the left door for protesters.

"The outer doors cast from solid bronze would require a bazooka, an artillery shell or C4 military-grade explosives to breach," Moseley wrote in a letter to federal prosecutors. "That of course did not happen. You would sooner break into a bank vault than to break the bronze outer Columbus Doors."

The 20,000-pound Columbus Doors that lead into the Rotunda on the east side of the U.S. Capitol are secured by magnetic locks that can only be opened from the inside using a security code controlled by Capitol Police, Moseley wrote in an eight-page memo.

The doors are 17 feet high and weigh 20,000 pounds, according to the Architect of the Capitol. Once opened, the giant doors retract into pockets in the walls via built-in tracks.

Moseley said he and an assistant took a tour of the Capitol on Jan. 22, along with other attorneys and investigators. The U.S. Capitol Police officers on duty were emphatic, he said, that the doors could not be opened from the outside.

"These are facts that in the supposedly largest nationwide investigation in the history of the U.S. since the kidnapping of the Charles Lindbergh baby or the search for Al Capone could easily have been investigated, check(ed), and determined before the U.S. Attorney’s Office presented false information to the grand jury," Moseley wrote.

"For these purposes, I don’t care who opened the Columbus Doors from the inside, or why, or who they worked for. History will reveal all of that," Moseley wrote. "History will care very much. But all I care about is that it wasn’t my client or any of these defendants, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office knows that or should have discovered it upon reasonable investigation."
Posted by: Bobby || 01/30/2022 12:19 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  "History will care very much"

Only if the truth comes out. Heads should roll @ Dems, Capitol Police, FBI, and DOJ
Posted by: Frank G || 01/30/2022 13:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Presumably they opened the doors because they were historic and they did not want them damaged...
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/30/2022 16:24 Comments || Top||



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