Evidently, this “fire” superheated the steel undergirding, causing the “collapse”—though Rosie O’Donnell and I know better. No siree. You won’t catch us falling for Schwarzenegger’s “official” tale of fire melting steel.
Two words: missile strike.
Working theory: Bush is trying to get us into a war with bay area sea lions. For its part, though, the MSM is sopping up the lies:
A gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Sunday, creating such intense heat that a heavily trafficked stretch of highway melted and collapsed.
Authorities said the accident on a maze of highway ramps that feed the Bay Bridge and other vital arteries would cause the worst disruption for Bay Area commuters since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the bridge itself.
State transportation officials said it could take months to repair the damaged roads, and advised motorists to use public transportation into and out of San Francisco. The tanker carrying 8,600 gallons of gasoline ignited after crashing into a guardrail on the interchange connecting westbound lanes of Interstate 80 to southbound Interstate 880. A preliminary investigation indicates Mosqueda may have been speeding as he navigated the curving road, but neither alcohol nor drugs appeared to be a factor in the crash, Cross said.
[…]
Heat from the flames exceeded 2,750 degrees and caused the steel beams holding up the overpass to buckle and bolts holding the structure together to melt, California Department of Transportation director Will Kempton said.
To review: Never in the history of ever has fire melted steel.
And now we’re supposed to believe it’s happened twice— both times, “coincidentally,” under the Bush regime’s rein of terror?
Please. Do the math, people. That’s all Rosie and I are saying.
Meanwhile, the right-wing smear machine continues to perpetuate the lie that the entire Duke Lacrosse team did not in fact sodomize a black single mother.
Bastards.
What is a post like this without a:
“Google it, people”
This was the exact thing I thought when I heard this. FIRE CAN’T MELT STEEL!!
I’m betting, and as a lefty I have a feel for these things, that Schwarzenegger did this so he can campaign against tanker trucks and the wave of popularity to changing the Constitution and allow the foreign born to become President. He is so devious
Your mother warned you! This is the type of thinking that happens when you play with your Rosie.
Next, warts and hair on the palms.
And it all happened under the Bush Regime!
tw (de)based43
Mosqueda…..al Quaeda
You connect the dots.
Once may be bad luck…..
Twice maybe coincidence..
um
I’ll have to get back to you on this one.
Bwaa HaHa! That’s exactly what I though at 5:30 this morning.
Great minds think … well … occasionally diverge … sorta …
NO BLOOD FOR TANKERS FILLED WITH GASOLINE ON CALIFORNIA FREEWAYS!!!
Even back in the fourth century, wingnuts, Indians were making wootz in electric induction furnaces.
Christ, you idjits will believe anything.
I question the geography. That is Pelosi’s district.
Fire melts steel? Since when?
Lew, are you saying Arnold or the Bushies were sending a message to Pelosi? I doubt that. Melting an overpass in a Congressperson’s district is just an excuse to rebuild it with Federal money.
No way Pelosi masterminded it. She wouldn’t have anything to do with energy shipments.
I still say it was Arnold masterminding that Constitutional Amendment.
Just another excuse for the California government to throw billions of dollars at corporate shills. Loma Prieta…google it.
You have no idea how easy my metallurgy final just got. Thanks, nutroots!
Steel beams and joists are mined at a secret location in northwestern Montana and shipped to the “steel mills” in closed rail cars. They are then cut to the needed length while the “hot spark generators” make a show for the passerbys.
Those of us who have actually “seen” steel plants in operation in Lorain, Oh and Pueblo, Co were given that goofy brown acid.
Come to think of it Arnold was there at the Pueblo Mill!!!!
I need to take another pill…
The loons are already winding up at DU. They’re not in major force, and the majority of folks there are busy smacking them down (and good for them!). But the one or two Truthy Believers are still hammering away at it.
It is impossible for a highway to fall the way it fell without explosives being involved.
To say that it somehow “melted” by “fire” is beyond ignorant.
Google it, people!
Alright, enough of this…
ROSIE! LOOK! THEY HAVE FREE SWEDISH MEATBALLS OVER AT DU!! FLAMEBROILED!!
That should take care of it…
…and just like that, my cutting torch no longer works.
AHA! Slart, you can CUT steel with a gas axe, but can you MELT it?
(I googled “Rosie O’Donnell” and got a picture of a hog eating a Krispy Kreme franchise. Did I mis-spell it or something?)
Two words that cannot be used in the same sentence, unless, as in this case, it is negative.
Hey, my chicken-wire and cup of kerosene experiment PROVED that fire can’t melt steel.
GOOGLE IT!
Crashed into a gaurdrail?
Gaurdrails prevent accidents.
Google it people!
Actually, Jack Bauer was meeting a representative of the Chinese gov’t on that overpass to hand over the control chip of the last 2 suitcase nukes in exchange for his lady-love Audrey Raines. He had gooped the circuit board up with C4 and was planning on destroying it as soon as the hot but whiny Audrey was in the clear. That fuckin’ Doyle was dead set on stopping Bauer from handing over the world-destabilizing item so he brought in an incomplete tac team and lay in wait for the shit to go down. Doyle got antsy, and started firing prematurely, causing the Chinese to sneak off the overpass out the back way, and Bauer set off the C4 and destroyed the San Fran traffic pattern for the next 3 months. It’s all on my Tivo.
The first thing I thought was “man, that Photoshop software is so cool.” Then I realized I was living in the 80’s in that America where Sheryl Crow never goes.
tw: real95. No, I95 is East of there.
Speaking of melting, I was just prescribed Klonopin with Xanax as a back up. Yup feel pretty good right about now…..
I think Rosie should outsource the math…. and google Diane Feinstein’s husband.
He did it.
Evilcabalperini.
Well, she should google him once she gets the Krispy Kreme glaze off her cloven hooves
Dang. Now I’m jonesing for pasta.
The worst day I ever had on a freeway, was the best day I ever had driving in the Bay Area. I can’t imagine how it is now, especially with all those Chinese fighter pilots and their swooping eight lane lane changes.
An why ya’ll be invokin the lezpig who shall not be named, anyways? Fuk dat hairy bitch…
al wins the thread. Again.
My disdain for this site and its blogger is known. That said…this post is really, really funny. Can we kick 9/11 truth people out of the left?
All your steel are belong to us…
The evildoers have struck again!!
The article says “the cause of the bridge collapse [is] under investigation,†but we all know that “investigation†will be nothing but a cover-up. The Truth is out there!
45 minutes after the 580/880 fire, Ramp 7 mysteriously collapsed in a symmetrical footprint that suggests a controlled demolition. Google it, people.
I’m trying to find a few quotes from the South Park episode, “Mystery of the Urinal Deuce,” but to no avail. Suffice it to say that when Stan and Kyle estimate that one fourth of Americans are retarded, they very well may be dead on, as can be evidenced by this thread.
Really though, steel does not have to melt to lose its structural integrity. Deformation begins at less than half the melting temperature of steel. Its physical properties change, and it is no longer able to support the same amount of weight that it previously could.
I don’t know why I’m saying this, though. Anyone who thinks that terrorists or the government would attack such a strategically important… highway… overpass. Yeah. To that, I say:
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And yes, I realize that this will cause major traffic disruptions for quite some time, but come on.
I’m on ur bridgez meltin ur steelz.
The “conspiracy theorists” (read: ‘paranoid schizophrenics’
that believe that this was a missile strike or organized explosives detonation aren’t just crazy, they’re friggen high too.
Have any of you been over there by the EBMUD? I drive past this place literally every day, even now. The traffic impact has been exaggerated and the plans put into place by the city have been taking care of traffic pretty effectively. Again, let me restate, I work less than 2 miles from the collapsed section of overpass, I’ve walked right underneath, there is literally no freakin’ way that a conspiracy network could have taken that out in military style without half of Oak-town watching it go down. Put down the pipe folks.
There is incontrovertable evidence that Saddam Hussein is behind this heinous act. I read it on the aluminum intertubes. We must bomb Prague immediately.
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