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Gov. Romney Shuts Down Big Dig Tunnel
AP/My Way ^ | 07/20/06 | AP/My Way

Posted on 07/20/2006 10:03:32 AM PDT by raccoonradio

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Matt Amorello as Chip Diller in Animal House (ROTC student about to be flattend by crowd): "REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL!"
1 posted on 07/20/2006 10:03:37 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

THE TUNNELS ARE SAFE! REMAIN CALM! ALL IS WELL!!
2 posted on 07/20/2006 10:04:32 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

"No reasons for the closure were immediately released."

You mean you need more of a reason than it collapsing and killing someone?


3 posted on 07/20/2006 10:05:31 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: raccoonradio

Dispute over Ted Williams Tunnel finally comes to a head........


4 posted on 07/20/2006 10:06:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Is Castro dead yet?........)
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To: raccoonradio

from CBS4News:

Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for Romney said an initial assessment from the Turnpike Authority found no potential problems in the Ted Williams Tunnel that rose to the level of a public safety threat.

But Fehrnstrom said, "We've gone back and looked at those areas, and based on what we've seen Gov. Romney is overruling that assessment and shutting down the eastbound section."


5 posted on 07/20/2006 10:06:13 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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more

"The tunnel has a different ceiling design which used lighter panels than the four, 3-ton panels that fell onto the car carrying Del Valle and her husband.

"The $14.6 billion Big Dig buried the old elevated Central Artery that used to slice through the city, replacing it with a series of tunnels. Although it's been considered an engineering marvel, the most expensive highway project in U.S. history also has also been plagued by leaks, falling debris, cost overruns, delays and problems linked to faulty construction."

Who's paying for all this...got a mirror? (I believe it's 80 per cent fed. funding for interstate highway-related?)


6 posted on 07/20/2006 10:07:19 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Red Badger

"Dispute over Ted Williams Tunnel finally comes to a head........"

ROFLMAO!!!


7 posted on 07/20/2006 10:08:05 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Democrats - The reason we need term limits)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Oh, my. Now, no need to lose your head over this, Ted.

Any chance someone can go to the entrance of the tunnel,
remove the word "Williams" and substitute "Kennedy"?


8 posted on 07/20/2006 10:09:59 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Bigh4u2
You mean you need more of a reason than it collapsing and killing someone?

My thoughts exactly!

Still more proof of the lack of functioning brain cells within the heads of those that work for the MSM.

9 posted on 07/20/2006 10:10:23 AM PDT by technomage (NEVER underestimate the depths to which liberals will stoop for power.)
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To: raccoonradio

Another victory for the Socialist State of Taxachusetts!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!


10 posted on 07/20/2006 10:10:29 AM PDT by Eagles Talon IV
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To: Red Badger

That is just so wrong.

So why can't I stop laughing?


11 posted on 07/20/2006 10:10:30 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: raccoonradio

Romney took the step of taking control of the situation, so now he's politically committed to finding a significant and widespread problem.


12 posted on 07/20/2006 10:10:45 AM PDT by untrained skeptic
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To: technomage

"The tunnels are safe"--Matt Amorello, the day after the accident. Surely if they're safe we can drive through them,
right, Fat Matt? I mean, there aren't any defective bolts;
or 2 ton ceiling panels that could fall on us


14 posted on 07/20/2006 10:11:53 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Have they tried to spin this as somehow being the fault of evil conservatives? Can it even be done?


15 posted on 07/20/2006 10:12:09 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: untrained skeptic
Romney took the step of taking control of the situation, so now he's politically committed to finding a significant and widespread problem.

Before it finds him. ;-)

16 posted on 07/20/2006 10:13:09 AM PDT by rhombus
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Dispute over Ted Williams Tunnel finally comes to a head....

Aargh!! Oh, please, the last thing I wanted to think about was Ted William's poor frozen cracked head!

"The operation was completed and Williams' head and body were preserved separately. The head is stored in a steel can filled with liquid nitrogen. It has been shaved, drilled with holes and accidentally cracked 10 times, the magazine said. Williams' body stands upright in a 9-foot tall cylindrical steel tank, also filled with liquid nitrogen."

17 posted on 07/20/2006 10:16:33 AM PDT by xJones
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To: raccoonradio

Lieberals who brought us the Big Dig want the same people running national health care and investing for our retirement. Maybe there was a time in the past, before total sloth and corruption set in, when government could handle these types of projects - Hoover Dam, TVA, Manhattan project - but that time is gone.


18 posted on 07/20/2006 10:16:38 AM PDT by Argus
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>>the fault of evil conservatives?

Well, they point out our last 4 governors have been Republicans.

--Bill Weld (resigned in futile attempt to get Ambassadorship)
--Paul Cellucci (left to be ambassador to Canada, eh? Leaving us with the very competent and skillful...)
--Jane Swift ("I'm in a firing mood"--and hired Fat Matt)
--Mitt Romney (The dashing, clean-cut, Presidential contender to the rescue!!)


19 posted on 07/20/2006 10:16:39 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: theDentist

Are you really that sick? :)


20 posted on 07/20/2006 10:17:26 AM PDT by upchuck (Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.)
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