Retiring Guy's Digest

Friday, May 26, 2023

Mississippi River bridges, Moline Illinois

Photo by Retiring Guy

Starting in the foreground:

Moline-Arsenal Bridge

connects City of Moline with Rock Island Arsenal
Opened: 1981. Replaced poorly constructed 1932 concrete arch bridge which in turn has replaced an 1873 iron bridge built.

(The first) Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge

Design: Steel cable suspension bridge
Construction: Started in 1933. Opened on November 18, 1935 (one span only). Second span constructed in 1959.
Toll bridge until 1970
Became part of Interstate Highway System in 1975

I-74 bridge (Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge)

Design: Basket-handle, through arch twin bridges
Opened: December 1, 2021
Length: 3,372 feet

GET ME REWRITE!! Florida Governor and former Freedom Caucus Crazy Ron DeSantis stands with the Capitol insurrectionists

Washington Post, 5/25/2023

On his first full day as a declared presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) made it even clearer that he plans to run as an echo rather than an alternative to Donald Trump: He said he would consider pardoning people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
Mr. DeSantis offered a false equivalence as his rationale, claiming that right-wing extremists convicted of crimes for which Black Lives Matter protesters were not prosecuted were victims of an “uneven application of justice.”

Let's tell it like it is. DeSantis blows long and hard on a racist dog whistle.

Ron DeSantis's Florida is ground zero for Looney Tunes. (5/16/2023)

Ron DeSantis: Blueprint for America. (5/12/2023)

SURPRISE! SURPISE! GOP Freedom Caucus Crazy Bob Good endorses emeritus member Ron DeSantis for president. (5/10/2023)

There at the creation: Ron DeSantis and the Freedom Caucus Crazies. (4/2/2023)

Day 937 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, USA edition)

Meet the stars of the

ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies

Starring election deniers all over the USA

Headline and map: Facing South, 5/25/2023

According to a new report from the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), number of states at high risk for election denialism, meaning they have few policies in place to guard against attempts to subvert an election: 6.
Of the states at high risk for election denialism, number in the South: 4
Percent of U.S. voters living in states at high or moderate risk for election denialism: 69
Percent of the South's voters living in states at high or moderate risk for election denialism: over 92