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[Travis Retriever]

"Premarital sex only has problems if you're an idiot about it. And you've obviously never been to the Bible belt because we have the highest teen pregnancy, STD, and abortion rate even though we're very religious. At my high school alone there were 7 Christian teen moms in my graduating class.

The number of Atheist students pregnant: 0 because we learned about safe sex from our parents." --renoloverxoxo top comment on this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n16PpvdpMXo

[Travis Retriever]

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[Travis Retriever]

And while I'm on the subject of Global Warming/Climate Change:

https://mises.org/daily/4673/

[AnCap Dave]

"I don't want "Under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.
I want the Pledge of Allegiance removed.
Live beyond blind nationalism." - Justin Quest (friend from Facebook)

[MrBogosity]

"I don't want "Under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.
I want the Pledge of Allegiance removed.
Live beyond blind nationalism." - Justin Quest (friend from Facebook)

The way I usually say it is, "Remove 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance. And the other 29 words as well."

[Ibrahim90]

well, not to butter up or anything, but this was just win:

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So what exactly is the "big dig" about? looking it up, I just get fossil digs or the highlights of Archaeology.

XD

[Travis Retriever]

"Listening to a statist--liberal OR conservative--talk about the state's budget is like listening to a 4 year old talk about his parent's money, but with all the charm removed." -- Me.

What can I say?  I have my moments.

[Goaticus]

So what exactly is the "big dig" about? looking it up, I just get fossil digs or the highlights of Archaeology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

[evensgrey]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

I hadn't bothered to check on how badly that project had gone since my first visit to Boston in 2004 (when it was already 6 years late).  At the time, they were claiming it would all be done by the end of 2004.

[Ibrahim90]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig

wow...just....wow.

growing up, I could name several projects built by illiterate Indian people, with minimal safety (aka none) that went up faster, more cleanly, and WAY more efficiently...All from Kuwait.

helps they were all private real estate deals, but still.

[evensgrey]

wow...just....wow.

growing up, I could name several projects built by illiterate Indian people, with minimal safety (aka none) that went up faster, more cleanly, and WAY more efficiently...All from Kuwait.

helps they were all private real estate deals, but still.

Well, there were probably fewer genuine complications for those as well as fewer political ones.  How many of them involved tunneling through an old garbage dump into a bay?

[Ibrahim90]

Well, there were probably fewer genuine complications for those as well as fewer political ones.  How many of them involved tunneling through an old garbage dump into a bay?

well, there was the one time they tunneled a sewer into a tourist beach...but No one got killed, and people have moved elsewhere for good swimming water.

[MrBogosity]

well, there was the one time they tunneled a sewer into a tourist beach...but No one got killed, and people have moved elsewhere for good swimming water.

Or building a school district on a toxic waste dump--in direct violation of a deed restriction--and then blaming the company who put the waste there.

[Ibrahim90]

Or building a school district on a toxic waste dump--in direct violation of a deed restriction--and then blaming the company who put the waste there.

ah yes, Love canal...No one can forget that one.

[evensgrey]

ah yes, Love canal...No one can forget that one.

I think you're slightly missing the point of my comment.

Some of the technical problems with the Bid Dig have to do with the fact that most of Boston is, in fact, built on what amounts to an old garbage dump, a good deal of it in a swamp.  Naturally, the additional complications of digging through such difficult material was not included in the cost estimates.  I doubt that people in India were going this sort of thing when their projects went through without a hitch.  (I suspect one of those projects is a temporary dam...but well over a thousand years ago, and still carrying out the functions for which the never-built 'permanent' damn was intended.)

A lot of the rest was corruption (always a favorite occupation in Boston) and incompetence.  The business with leaks caused by simply not prepping the concrete pouring sites properly and lighting fixtures ready to fall down onto the roadway because dissimilar metals were directly attached to each other (ever heard of PLASTIC WASHERS, you morons?) are pure incompetence.