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Paging Dr. Rosie: Did Schwarzenegger Demolish Bay Bridge Interchange?

Collapse A gasoline tanker caught fire underneath an offramp from the San Francisco Bay Bridge this morning, causing a 250-foot section of the overpass to collapse.  That's what they want you to believe, anyway.

Let's look at the facts in the manner taught us by our nation's foremost civil engineer and demolition expert.

--  The overpass was made of concrete and steel rebar.  This would mark only the 4th time in history that fire has melted steel.  The first 3 of course trace back to the morning of 9/11, when - the government would have you believe - burning jet fuel miraculously managed to weaken steel to the point of bringing down WTC 1, 2, and most notably, WTC 7, which housed secret WorldCom and Enron e-mails.

--  The collapsed section of the so-called MacArthur Maze, which distributes traffic to and from the Bay Bridge, is said to be "draped like a blanket" over the roadway below (damning images of collapse available here), clearly suggesting a controlled, orderly demolition.

--  The driver of the tanker that caused this catastrophic damage (presumably an employee of an as yet unnamed American oil company) managed to walk away from the crash nearly unscathed and reportedly "hailed a taxi" to flee the scene.

--  Below this roadway is housed "a Caltrans property full of equipment being used to rebuild the Bay Bridge."

--  In 2005, a few months after Governor Schwarzenegger hand-picked a new director of Caltrans, the agency came under a wide-ranging investigation, including FBI subpoenas for documents that Caltrans was conveniently unable to find.  Documents, perhaps, that were located in the Caltrans facility directly underneath the miraculously collapsing roadway.

--  To date, Schwarzenegger has been curiously silent about these amazing coincidences, further proof of a cover-up.

--  The collapsed section of the interchange connects the San Francisco Bay Bridge (Interstate 80) to Interstate 580.

--  It's Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution that requires candidates for President to be natural born citizens, rendering Schwarzenegger ineligible.

--  8+0=8; 5+8+0=13; 8+13=21

--  580-80=500; 5+0+0=5

--  21, 5; Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5...

Coincidence?  Numbers don't lie.

Okay, aspiring 4/29 Truthers, let's remember the creed.

lets start here
ok…go slow
remember 2 breathe
use google


Update:  Professor O'Donnell has been holding online office hours to straighten out a few puzzled Americans who naively mistook the collapse of the Bay Bridge interchange as evidence that Rosie might've been wrong to dismiss heat's supposed, magical steel-weakening powers, rather than recognizing the incident as just another conspiratorial abomination brought to you by Dick Cheney, Jeff Skilling, Bernie Ebbers, and Ehud Olmert (Pro Ro's responses in bold).

Patricia writes:

Did you hear the news about the fiery car wreck in San Fran today?STEEL was MELTED by the intensity of that fire; please rethink the delusional theory of WTC7….

free fall speed
pulverized concrete
into its own foot print

stay asleep if u want

See, that's what offers us such comfort when we're snuggled tight in our pleasantly intervolved conspiracy logic.  Whenever one logical premise based on a lay supposition is invalidated by "actual science", there's always another one we can blindly cling to.  Sure, maybe gasoline and jet fuel do theoretically burn hot enough to weaken steel to the point that it loses structural integrity, but Patricia, are you trying to tell me that pulverized concrete - at free fall speed, no less - can descend in an orderly and controlled fashion?  Doesn't that at least sound *mildly surprising*?  Wake up, Patty.  Unless and until several authorities convincingly refute Dr. O's latest dictum that "Rocks Can't Fall Straight", we enlightened few will continue to delight in the grandeur of our independent thinking, thanks.

Skippy writes:

You owe the Bush Administration a public apology for your fire melting steel claims. The Bay Bridge has proved your ignorance to even the most gullible viewer.

oh skippy

open ur eyes

a bridge vs a 45 story building

Pheh, yeah.  Bridge... building.  Different things, Skippy.  Wake up to the lies.

Amy writes:

take a physics class.
Some of us chicks are capable of understanding melting points, weakening steel and collapses causing concrete to turn to dust.
You make us shudder and you encourage chauvenists

and u need to wake up

Seriously, Amy, you're just embarrassing yourself.  Trifle us not with your sciency trinkets.  Pro Ro has selected the sciency trinkets we'll be focusing on.  Just accept the fact that you're wrong and go about your naively obedient, line-toeingly unconscious life.

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Comments

This, of course, comes as news to steelworkers, blacksmiths, firefighters, weaponsmiths, and all other metalworkers who for hundreds if not thousands of years erroneously thought that steel was forged in furnaces using fire.

Posted by: Sprezzatura | Apr 29, 2007 3:22:13 PM

'Paging Dr. Rosie' B R I L L I A N T!

Posted by: Erectomax | Apr 29, 2007 5:31:50 PM

Last time I checked, the Iron Age started about 3000 years ago, when blacksmiths discovered how to make fires hot enough (invention of the bellows, probably) to melt iron and steel.

Posted by: BobC | Apr 30, 2007 11:13:44 AM

Brilliant satire :-) I love it!

Posted by: Fritz | Apr 30, 2007 12:32:54 PM

Hahaha all too amusing. Esp the person who thinks the iron age started 3000 years ago! BobC, check again!

Posted by: Greg | May 2, 2007 12:04:29 AM

This just in: an eyewitness spotted men in California corrections jumpsuits shouting "You see what you get when you mess with the Orphans?" as the 580/880 structure burned. At www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#51359 .

Posted by: E.T. | May 2, 2007 5:55:28 PM

Who said fire melted steel? I read the screws melted. Did anybody say the steel aloy in those screws were UL rated to 2800f? Since the NIST, the National Institute of Science and Standards, the group of Bush appointed weapons industry scientists who are responsible for the official story on how three steel buildings collapsed on 9/11 agree that "dirty" petrocarbon fires cannot melt steel. So, are you all stupid? Witnesses stated the fireball was orange. Science pegs orange flame at no more than 1000 F. Torches and blast furnaces produce a blue flame (hot enough to melt steel) when compressed oxygen is mixed with fuel. Here's our own Bush Scientists telling you the WTC fires were not hot enough to melt steel. Please don't be stupid. Noone said steel melted, you just assumed. -------- http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/factsheets/faqs_8_2006.htm In no instance did NIST report that steel in the WTC towers melted due to the fires. The melting point of steel is about 1,500 degrees Celsius (2,800 degrees Fahrenheit). Normal building fires and hydrocarbon (e.g., jet fuel) fires generate temperatures up to about 1,100 degrees Celsius (2,000 degrees Fahrenheit). NIST reported maximum upper layer air temperatures of about 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,800 degrees Fahrenheit) in the WTC towers (for example, see NCSTAR 1, Figure 6-36).

Posted by: dog food | May 2, 2007 8:50:59 PM

I've read a lot of whackjob blogs lately, but this one takes the cake.

Posted by: Bert | May 6, 2007 12:49:08 PM

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