Those costs would have actually been in our project budget originally. Why didnt we know about it . What didnt we do that should have been done . Im not sure there was anything we could have done to actually find it. What happens in these during preconstruction is you have a site with that is very difficult to access, and what you do is you drill borings. We drilled i think 18,000 feet worth of borings. So we did very extensive. We brought in a helicopter to lay platforms and rigs to do work on a very steep slope. And the difference is what you do construction, the entire face of the slope is exposed and you have the total puzzle is exposed to you as opposed to these fine points in various location. So its not unusual for dam projects to actually encounter changes like those, ive actually been reading a lot about it recently, because of the difficulty in being able to identify all of these fissures. Keep in mind were in a very active seismic area as well, which makes things even harder
Debatest clades. Republican senators proposing a resolution calling on the federal government to stop cohearsing states to adopt the highly controversial education standards. News of how much it would actually cost to implement the program has many states rethinking the whole program. Here with more Michael Mcshane a fellow in education policy study at the American Enterprise institute. Hes coed or it of the new book common core meets education reform. What it all means. Welcome back to the show, mike. So lindsay graham, republican senator and several others saying the government is doing is essentially coerce. Do you agree . Coercion is a strong word. I think strong promotion is a pretty accurate way to describe it. In the race to the top program that was part of the economic stimulus package, as well as no child left behind waivers which were regulatory relief offered by the department of education. Those encouraged states to adopt the common corps. Standards or common and College Ca
We had a vote several months ago on putting minimal things about gun control in, and it got voted against it. We had congressmen that had 85 of their district that were for this. And you sound like youre hopeful that we can do something about this . [laughter] i mean, i just dont see that this could happen. How do we do this . How can you be hopeful . Okay, you discouraged me, i quit. [laughter] i guess its part of, you know, you gotta have hope, you gotta keep trying. Things take time, and, you know, ive been discouraged certainly, when i heard the news about newtown, i was just so depressed partly because it shouldnt have had to have happened. Again, you cant stop all evil, maybe something bad still would have happened, but it shouldnt have had to be this bad of a situation. And its just youve got to keep pushing. I believe that right does triumph, that people do come to their senses, that you can make a difference, and if i didnt believe that, im not sure i could get up in the morni
In this material and other types of material. And create a blind spot and intelligence collection. You have to think about the technical complexity you are suggesting so this is segregated in some way, treat it in some way. That could lead to a training issues. We actually do it in a way that would be different from other types the we handled. One brief point to this, the last decade and at half, they were set up to investigate after a variety of terrorism events 9 11, fort hood, the underwear bomber and so on, consistently everyone of those commissions has found that we need to eliminate barriers to making use of information that is lawfully in our possession to better protect the nation and requiring some kind of additional process before we can query this information directly contrary to the recommendations of all those. I see my time is up. I never had a chance to introduce the panel to the benefits that they are familiar to us and benefit the audience. We have jim baker who is gen
Involved. Propaganda involved. I think it was one of the worst mistakes ever made and we will pay the price for many years. I did a cartoon. When there were 2000 American Service members killed during the iraq war i did a cartoon and wrote the word why with that . And drew it the size. I wrote the names of all the troops that had been killed in iraq in the letters. That generated a lot of controversy and was at a time when people still thought the war was a good thing. I think that was responsible for you getting a Pulitzer Prize that year. I was a very strong opponent of the war from the start. I got a lot of heat for it at the time but felt very strongly about it. I will tell you an interesting story. You might recall the patriot act that was done in secret for several weeks and everyone was wanting to know what was going on behind closed doors. After berating John Ashcroft to come forward publicly he eventually did and gave a presentation and did this in front of the senate committe