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re: NOLA Monuments: Crane company says city never hired it to move them
Posted on 2/2/16 at 5:28 pm to ballscaster
Posted on 2/2/16 at 5:28 pm to ballscaster
This guy has equipment from the leprechaun
Posted on 2/2/16 at 5:29 pm to bencoleman
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village idiot
quote:Somebody's bringing it today.
toddler
(Can you just not think of anything to add, so that's why you're doing this?)
Posted on 2/2/16 at 5:29 pm to bencoleman
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Lying sack of shite
This is what you said when I mentioned the guy who had his car torched and received death threats:
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Good. I wish nothing but ill on anyone that touches one of those statues.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 5:37 pm to Big Scrub TX
Not to mention, no real vendor GAS about working for the City of New Orleans under normal circumstances, since getting paid always involves drama.
This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 2/2/16 at 5:42 pm to VetteGuy
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eah, a guy who can't pay his bills or his employees suddenly has his car torched. Oh, and the security system was off.
True or not, some posters are pulling for such violence...over statues.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 5:49 pm to ballscaster
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(Can you just not think of anything to add, so that's why you're doing this
You feel that the people that those statues represent should be defined by one episode in their lives frick anything else they've done or accomplished. Yet you are concerned about my contribution to the thread.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 6:56 pm to jlc05
Are there any minority-owned crane companies that can handle a multi-million dollar (and extremely important) monument removal?
Eta: With the working capital to not get paid for a few years because it is a job for the chocolate city?
Eta: With the working capital to not get paid for a few years because it is a job for the chocolate city?
This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 2/2/16 at 6:58 pm to Hammertime
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Are there any minority-owned crane companies that can handle a multi-million dollar (and extremely important) monument removal
Yeah. Right. I bet that's a long list.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 7:00 pm to Hammertime
They can sure as hell hire a minority owned company who will sub to a crane company and make a 30% mark up.
It happens all the damn time in the gov related procurement world where it's required that so much business goes to minority owned firms
It happens all the damn time in the gov related procurement world where it's required that so much business goes to minority owned firms
Posted on 2/2/16 at 7:20 pm to Big Scrub TX
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True or not, some posters are pulling for such violence...over statues.
It's disgust over the whole sad affair. We have now have a controversy created from thin air by the mayor who swore public money wouldn't be involved, and now it looks like piblic money will have to be used to solve an issue that didn't exist until he created it. In a cash strapped city that can't afford adequate police. Meanwhile, it does nothing to heal any racial divide that exists. It merely divides. Just as Nagin became known for his racial Chocolate City rant, this is what Mitch will be remembered for. Not to mention the slippery slope of tearing down any artwork/statue/street name/building name/anything that offends anyone. While a reasonable case can be made that these confederate statues do not belong on public property, one wonders what will be next. History is made by people, and people are imperfect.
Remember when the Taliban destroyed ancient statues Bc it conflicted with their religious views? They were ridiculed. But how far away are we from that route today in the US? Hell, the Taliban did it for religious purposes which frankly is a better reason than vague assertions of being "offended".
Most folks just want the governments to focus on meaningful issues, and if everyone would simply act civil, there won't be a need to erase every reminder of the past. People will get along and prosper.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 7:20 pm to biglego
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Most people I guarantee couldn't tell you who the statues depicted or where they were all located except for the Lee Circle one.
I bet most still can't but someone told them they should be offended.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 7:36 pm to biglego
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But how far away are we from that route today in the US
Very very far.
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ell, the Taliban did it for religious purposes which frankly is a better reason than vague assertions of being "offended".
Posted on 2/2/16 at 7:38 pm to JS87
I'm sure some minority owned crane company will step up and do the work
Posted on 2/2/16 at 7:41 pm to bencoleman
quote:Those statues were erected to commemorate one episode in their lives; just look at what Lee is wearing in his statue. Not his West Point uniform, though he spent just as much time there as he did in gray. The message board patriots who whine incessantly about the opposition to these statues fixate specifically on one four-year episode in their ancestry. Furthermore, President Lincoln pardoned these people lest they be defined by one episode in their lives.
You feel that the people that those statues represent should be defined by one episode in their lives frick anything else they've done or accomplished
So it isn't I who thinks that these people should be defined by one episode in their lives; its you.
Sorry man. We just don't like slavery in this country.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 7:42 pm to Big Scrub TX
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I truly don't care if they come down or not. I don't live in NOLA. And last time I was there, I didn't go see them. I just don't understand how it can rile someone up so when - through legitimate local governance means (the supposed holy grail of governance) - it's been determined that they be removed. Seriously. It's fricking statues.
Most of these are historical landmarks which are also architectural gems. Lee Circle is an iconic piece of art in New Orleans.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 7:58 pm to Big Scrub TX
What's funny? If you really truly believe in your religion then it is the most important thing in life and you act accordingly. Destroying those statues was gods will. Destroying the Nola statues is Mitch's solution to a problem he just created.
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:02 pm to ihometiger
This is a rigging contractors job and no rigging/ crane contractor in this state or the gulf south is going to touch it. Whoever comes in from out of state will never get a sniff on a project in this state ever again. Even outside of the politics of it, they suck to get paid.
I can see some monkey business of getting somone on board and "qualified" to go in and tear the stuff up getting it out in the process. Maybe the city even buying their own crane and self performing with this idiot supervising.
I can see some monkey business of getting somone on board and "qualified" to go in and tear the stuff up getting it out in the process. Maybe the city even buying their own crane and self performing with this idiot supervising.
This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 8:17 pm
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:05 pm to Hammertime
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Are there any minority-owned crane companies
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:06 pm to JS87
This would be amazing if every single company tells mitch to frick himself in his pc arse and they have no way of getting them down
Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:14 pm to ballscaster
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Sorry man. We just don't like slavery in this country.
Nice deflection. What you mean to say is that you don't like history, and I would guess in particular Southern history.
Just keep your sorry arse up North. We'll all be happier that way.
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