Third World Disasters

What is wrong with America lately? Our latest news blurbs sound like we are having disasters that usually only occur in third world countries. The biggest of late is the bridge collapse in Minneapolis. We have the bridge over a major traffic artery in a major US city that just plunges into the Mississippi and it makes us look like we can’t manage our own infrastructure. What are we the Soviet Union? Maybe we should go to those rope suspension bridges that you see in the Indiana Jones movies. At least there you are at the mercy of some knife wielding fanatic with a turban and not the inattentiveness of bridge inspectors.

Today we have a coal mine collapse in Utah. What is going on? Just recently we had a major metropolitan area submerge beneath a flood and latest reports are that the recovery is taking much longer than expected. The greatest nation in the world is suffering from a case of terminal bad luck. What is going to happen next? Maybe a volcano in Georgia or a tidal wave on the Great Lakes? How about forest fires raging throughout the west? Oh yea, those are actually happening.

Now the one theory I have not heard yet as to what was to blame for the bridge collapse is global warming. I mean the Iraq war, inattentiveness by George Bush, not raising gas taxes in Minnesota, and Detroit iron being too heavy are just a few of the blind stabs at the real truth. Someone did not perform a proper inspection on the bridge and their gross incompetence is what allowed this disaster to happen. It took a thought process that is way beyond mine to develop an answer that stabbed at the heart of total ignorance. Anyone that tried to place the blame on anything but the reason the bridge came down is fishing for an excuse to politicize the issue and not assign a cause. Can you say kook fringe?

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Cobb