CRC just got $5M more to advance the design. Of course, this design in of the bridge in the first place is unfundable yet they're still going to go on and do it anyways.
Because that is the way that Amerika does things! Even if the money could be used for better things.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Don't Screw with the Public
SAN FRANCISCO—Hackers again targeted a California transit agency that came under fire last week for turning off cellphone service in its stations to thwart a potential protest.
This time, the hackers gained access to a Bay Area Rapid Transit police union website and posted personal information on more than 100 officers.
BART Police Deputy Chief Daniel Hartwig said his office "has been made aware of the breach" on Wednesday and referred inquiries to the BART Police Officers Association. Union president Jesse Sekhon didn't immediately return a phone call.
The union's website was disabled later Wednesday.
Last week, hackers broke into BART's marketing website and released personal information on more than 2,000 customers.
http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576514681763537032.html?mod=googlenews_wsj&mg=com-wsj&mg=reno-secaucus-wsj
This time, the hackers gained access to a Bay Area Rapid Transit police union website and posted personal information on more than 100 officers.
BART Police Deputy Chief Daniel Hartwig said his office "has been made aware of the breach" on Wednesday and referred inquiries to the BART Police Officers Association. Union president Jesse Sekhon didn't immediately return a phone call.
The union's website was disabled later Wednesday.
Last week, hackers broke into BART's marketing website and released personal information on more than 2,000 customers.
http://professional.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903596904576514681763537032.html?mod=googlenews_wsj&mg=com-wsj&mg=reno-secaucus-wsj
The self-serving must stop!
I challenge you to read this and NOT have the will to pass it on…
No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense..
Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?
35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.
This is an idea that we should address.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of theUnited States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ..."
Now, what are you going to do about it? Read and delete, or work for reform
No one has been able to explain to me why young men and women serve in the U.S. Military for 20 years, risking their lives protecting freedom, and only get 50% of their pay. While Politicians hold their political positions in the safe confines of the capital, protected by these same men and women, and receive full pay retirement after serving one term. It just does not make any sense..
Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?
35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.
This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.
This is an idea that we should address.
For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of theUnited States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States ..."
Now, what are you going to do about it? Read and delete, or work for reform
Ouch.
The real unemployment rate: 19.6%
It's amazing how the government cooks or ignores numbers it doesn't like. Inflation doesn't count food and energy prices, and unemployment doesn't count people who are permanently unemployed.
It's sort of like the City of Portland's triple-A credit rating -- true yet misleading.
Jack Bogdanski
Milwaukie light rail commitment based on ‘quicksand of lies’
It is obvious that TriMet, Milwaukie, and Clackamas County are convinced they can never win a light rail vote, so they are fighting in every way they possibly can to keep the people from having their say.
http://www.clackamasreview.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=131362276547363900
Another statement tossed around by the rail advocates is, "It's too far along in development to stop it now." If the world were being threatened by an imminent, cataclysmic collision with a meteor the size of Los Angeles, wouldn't we implore our leaders to do everything in their power to stop it? Relatively speaking, this situation is just about what Clackamas County and Milwaukie are facing, only we're going to be a lot worse off.
http://www.clackamasreview.com/opinion/story.php?story_id=131362276547363900
More than just the Columbia River Crossing is at stake in the transportation bill debate
This big funding cut will choke our region. Mica's proposal includes a huge cut to transit, eliminates funding to improve air quality, removes pedestrian and bike funding, continues poor policy, and on and on. Our transit system has already undergone multiple fare hikes and 200,000 hours of service cuts over the past two years. The Mica proposal would cut transit funding by one-third, deepening the pain for TriMet riders who rely on transit to get to work, worsening traffic congestion and air pollution as people are forced to give up on transit and get back into cars.
We have hundreds of bridges that are structurally deficient, streets without sidewalks and lots of basic street maintenance needs. And on top of the one-third cut to funding, the focus on major highways in Mica's proposal makes projects on critical local roads and bridges, like the Sellwood Bridge, much harder to fund.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/08/more_than_just_the_columbia_ri.html
We have hundreds of bridges that are structurally deficient, streets without sidewalks and lots of basic street maintenance needs. And on top of the one-third cut to funding, the focus on major highways in Mica's proposal makes projects on critical local roads and bridges, like the Sellwood Bridge, much harder to fund.
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2011/08/more_than_just_the_columbia_ri.html
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