This reads like a spoof of the pc media, although you've got to give the writer points for originality... 

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

oh my god... this is just bizarre...

Unbelievable!

Give me a frakkin' break!

This is lazy reporting/journalism/news at it's worst ... But I could be wrong.  They could get even lower ...

BTW -

Somali rights = shriah law for ALL

"They are investing in the wrong places."

We may soon be" investing" in Somalia, so Abbi Osman please feel free to go home and take advantage.

Since when does anyone care what foreigners think about us, especially Muslim foreigners.

 Didn't a Muslim just get elected as Governor to MN?

The American Revolution Continued

My BS alarm is going off.  Have any of you ever talked to young folks from places like Somalia?  I've talked to a lot of young and old folks from these places, and I can't imagine one of them making the statements attributed to Abii Osman.  Also, most immigrants I've talked to always refer to anything US as ours, we, etc., as they are trying to see themselves as Americans.  I can't remember ever hearing an immigrant saying "they". 

I would bet that those words are 100% made up by Torriero as I can't imagine a young immigrant from Somalia talking about improper US investment policy or using "they".

" 'Instead of building bridges, they spent more on invading countries,' said Abbi Osman."  No, instead of building bridges, Minnesota wastes our gas tax money on light-rail transit. And oh yeah, the Somali community even bi*ched about that because MNDOT didn't put the riding instructions in Somali.  I would love to see Minnesota use our taxes to build the right infrastructure, but apparently we have to pander to every interest group first.

I call horse puckey. I've BEEN to Somalia and I don't think there's as much steel in the entire city of Mogadishu as in that bridge. I'm damn sure there are no paved highways, let alone 4-lane interstates.

I doubt this is a real quote, but if it is, the quotee is pulling legs.

We have all seen mental gymnastics on the part of liberal MSM members on pretty much a daily, if not almost hourly, basis around here, but this takes that concept to an entirely new level.

The pain Mr.Torriero must have undergone to come up with this lunacy must have been nigh onto unbearable.

Help Fred defeat everybody.

There is a simple solution to these ungrateful Somali complainers and that is put them on a Cosco container ship from communist China, as the Chicoms transport thousands of people every year this way and desposit them into any number of Muslim countries where Somali's will not have to worry about bridges.......as they have none.

It is time America mandates a new policy. If these squatters can not speak English in 1 year, pass an 8th grade exam on history and at least dress like American culture for one day.....then ship them back out.

By year 5 if they have not paid in more taxes than grants taken out, do not have a house at least 1/3rd paid for and their children are not assimilated in being honor students....ship them out.

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

 How much do 20 million II weigh?

Why on earth did they all drive across the bridge AT THE SAME TIME?

Entitlement over infrastructure every SINGLE time.

I find it interesting that the Somalians that were interviewed were "busy" playing a board game when the collapse of the bridge occured.  Meanwhile, the rest of the city was still trying to make their way home from work.

By the way, even by African standards, Somalia is simply referred to as that sh*t hole.  This is a country where telephones are non existent, electricity - generate your own, transportation - are you kidding - do you want to be kidnapped, tortured and murdered?, TV - forget about it, per capita income - $600 a year/average. 

So, the author is the one adding insult to injury.  As for the Somalias - they should be counting their luck stars that they are fortunate enough to somehow have made it to our shores.   

I heard Rush's comments.  I looked up the Hiawatha Transit Corridor Project.  Then I found some articles in the Minn Daily News.  It was amazing.  The Minn Daily News said 4 years ago that all their transportation money was being shifted to "general fund" and to mass "transit" and there would be "nothing left to build and repair" roads.  Then I found the DOT report on problems with the Hiawatha project relating to cost overruns and lack of sufficient funding and etc.

It is amazing what I found.  Just do a Yahoo search and see what you find.  They could pass a 10 billion dollar tax increase in Minn and the last thing they would have spent it on was bridge and road repair.

Thank god for Rush.

I just love it when a prediction of mine comes true.

In a previous comment I wrote: Don’t be surprised that an investigation reveals that the Minnesota Highway Trust Fund money was diverted by its legislature to other social projects.

Today, on Rush Limbaugh’s program, he read a news item that stated that Minnesota’s Highway Trust Fund money was diverted to build a rail transportation system.

 Let the figure pointing  begin.

Ok so much to my shock there seem to be quite a few people from minnesota on these forums.  That being said, and the fact that I have not lived there in 9 years.  If I, and no im not exactly being hypothetical, were to return home (MN is my home no matter how long I have been gone) and seek a govenorship, what issues are particularly pressing.  I heard alot about the light rail, which sounded like a disaster and was compleatly un needed for a city of their size/traffic.  Anyone who is interested please shoot me a mail, I would love to bounce ideas off people as I consider my chances for running on either a repub or indie ticket.

As for the article, what a moron.  Who cares about somalia anyway.  Last time we were there I remember libs screaming we needed to leave them alone, now suddenly were supposed to care what they think?

Sadly, many people will believe this just because it's in the paper. 

A co-worker of mine actually believes Bush is using money from the social security trust fund (which doesn't exist, by the way) to fund the war in Iraq...  This guy has a college degree...  Scary!

"If you do not read the newspapers, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed" - Mark Twain

All these Muslim crybabies *could* head back to their native countries.  What a concept!  Go somewhere you actually fit in.  Oh wait, I forgot...you WANT what America can GIVE you.  Forget all that B.S. Kennedy talk about "ask not what your Country can do for you, ask what you can do for your Country".  Fricken' leeches.