Taraji Henson apologizes to officers after racial profiling claims - CNN.com
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Veterans Airlift Command
Wounded warrior gets lift from Veteran’s Airlift Command | WJLA.com
Veterans Airlift Command (www.veteransairlift.org) will gratefully accept your contributions to their wonderful work. (They are also on FB.)
Veterans Airlift Command (www.veteransairlift.org) will gratefully accept your contributions to their wonderful work. (They are also on FB.)
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Silver Spring's own Josh Hart
Providence Friars vs. Villanova Wildcats - Recap - March 13, 2015 - ESPN
Let's hear it for Silver Spring MD's own Josh Hart!
a credit to his team, his school, his family and his community!
Let's hear it for "Josh Hart Day" in Silver Spring MD!
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
another miracle
2 injured after concrete stair collapse at Arlington home - DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG
Incredible! Clearly, the ground didn't "drop out from underneath" this front stoop. Clearly, it's not supported by the ground. Not unlike any above-grade structure, e.g., any floor in a multistory building other than the lowest floor, if it's supported on the ground, a bridge, etc., this stoop spans the walls below it at the stoop's perimeter. From the looks of it, the (probably unreinforced) stoop sheared off at the inside of the perimeter walls. Amazing!
The 900 block of N. Madison St. is about halfway between 1008 N. Madison St. where my wife grew up (and 5936 N. 10th St. where I grew up prior to the 8th grade) and 940 N. Quantico St. (where I grew up after the 8th grade). These houses are as old as I am! I sympathize with anyone who lives in one of them now.
Incredible! Clearly, the ground didn't "drop out from underneath" this front stoop. Clearly, it's not supported by the ground. Not unlike any above-grade structure, e.g., any floor in a multistory building other than the lowest floor, if it's supported on the ground, a bridge, etc., this stoop spans the walls below it at the stoop's perimeter. From the looks of it, the (probably unreinforced) stoop sheared off at the inside of the perimeter walls. Amazing!
The 900 block of N. Madison St. is about halfway between 1008 N. Madison St. where my wife grew up (and 5936 N. 10th St. where I grew up prior to the 8th grade) and 940 N. Quantico St. (where I grew up after the 8th grade). These houses are as old as I am! I sympathize with anyone who lives in one of them now.
"...mysterious voice..."
Utah officers say mysterious voice called them to rescue baby trapped inside car | Fox News
paranormal? yes.
God?
They report; you decide.
paranormal? yes.
God?
They report; you decide.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Hypocrite Hillary Clinton and her government-paid minions
Emails show Clinton aides running interference during Benghazi attack | Fox News
"The emails emerged as Clinton fields criticism over revelations that she used personal email during her tenure as secretary. She is now asking the department to make public thousands of emails she has turned over.
On Friday, the State Department spokeswoman was pushed to explain how they will review the Clinton emails under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, and what will be made public.
"We will use FOIA standards for the review," spokeswoman Marie Harf said. "What we determine is appropriate under those FOIA standards will be public."
Harf also was questioned on a State Department unclassified cable, obtained exclusively by Fox News. The cable shows in 2011, Clinton's office told employees not to use personal email for government business, citing security reasons -- while she carried out government business exclusively on private accounts.
"This isn't her best practice guidance,” Harf said. “Her name is at the bottom of the cable, as is practiced for cables coming from Washington … some think she wrote it, which is not accurate."
"The emails emerged as Clinton fields criticism over revelations that she used personal email during her tenure as secretary. She is now asking the department to make public thousands of emails she has turned over.
On Friday, the State Department spokeswoman was pushed to explain how they will review the Clinton emails under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, and what will be made public.
"We will use FOIA standards for the review," spokeswoman Marie Harf said. "What we determine is appropriate under those FOIA standards will be public."
Harf also was questioned on a State Department unclassified cable, obtained exclusively by Fox News. The cable shows in 2011, Clinton's office told employees not to use personal email for government business, citing security reasons -- while she carried out government business exclusively on private accounts.
"This isn't her best practice guidance,” Harf said. “Her name is at the bottom of the cable, as is practiced for cables coming from Washington … some think she wrote it, which is not accurate."
Hillary Clinton, among other things, is a hypocrite. Marie Harf, and others on the government payroll, shouldn't be running political interference for Hillary Clinton.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
transit
Public transit on the ropes - The Washington Post
It all boils down to promises vs. performance. Promises are just talk; performance is reality. Given METRO's tunnel fire and fatality, operational, equipment and fiscal problems, etc., Montgomery County's Silver Spring Transit Center, and DC's streetcar, public transit is deservedly on the ropes because performance is lousy.
It all boils down to promises vs. performance. Promises are just talk; performance is reality. Given METRO's tunnel fire and fatality, operational, equipment and fiscal problems, etc., Montgomery County's Silver Spring Transit Center, and DC's streetcar, public transit is deservedly on the ropes because performance is lousy.
Monday, March 2, 2015
Lenten reflection
Second Monday of Lent
Second Monday of Lent
When I was in middle school, I was fortunate enough to spend most Easters at a cabin in Vermont with my family. One year, my mother discovered The Weston Priory, a nearby abbey of Benedictine Monks. Each Lent, I still remember the voices of the monks as they sang a song one of them had written about the prophet Hosea, who desperately and passionately wanted his wife back and treated her with love even though she had betrayed him. Hosea expresses an echo of the mercy God has for us:
Come back to me with all your heart
Don’t let fear keep us apart
…
Long have I waited for
Your coming home to me
And living deeply our new life
Don’t let fear keep us apart
…
Long have I waited for
Your coming home to me
And living deeply our new life
The readings today are first about God’s mercy. Like Hosea, the Lord is calling us and WANTS us badly, no matter how utterly undeserving we know we are, how bitterly unfaithful we have been and how wretched we feel. The reading from Deuteronomy and from Psalm 79 contain our confidence the Lord will show us mercy and we will be welcomed and consoled in His embrace: “We are shamefaced…for having sinned against you. But yours, O Lord, our God, are compassion and forgiveness!”
The readings today are also equally about how we are called to treat others in the light of God’s mercy. This can be summed up in two words: “Don’t Judge.”
“Don’t Judge” is the expression of the moment. It is typically said somewhat in jest after a personal revelation. The expression seems to have traction in our culture as response to all the negativity of judgment that surrounds us and as a response to a culture that demands conformity on the level of ideas and values, much less on the plane of the inane and superficial. And yet, more ominously, the popularity of “Don’t Judge!” is in part due to its role as standard bearer of secular culture’s critique of people who claim to know Truth. In these cases in particular, ‘Don’t Judge!” bespeaks a “judgment” that those who are trying to live faithful to the Lord’s call surely are “judgmental” of those who are not.
But the truth is, “Don’t Judge” is a core Christian value! Luke reports in today’s Gospel that Jesus directly tells the disciples: “Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.”
This Lent, let us recommit to not judging ourselves or others, and to being merciful with each other as the Father always has been and ever shall be with us.
Sarah-Vaughan Brakman
Philosophy
Philosophy
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Major Arthur D. Nicholson, Jr.--the Cold War Era's last casualty
Major Arthur D. Nicholson, Jr. Becomes Last Cold War Casualty. This Week in History | Article | The United States Army
The Cold War Museum at Vint Hill commemorates the Cold War Era's last casualty, Major Arthur D. Nicholson, Jr. I'm a baby boomer--born in 1946. I remember the Soviet Union and the Cold War. To Russia's Vladimir Putin I say now, and will always say, "nyet!"
The Cold War Museum at Vint Hill commemorates the Cold War Era's last casualty, Major Arthur D. Nicholson, Jr. I'm a baby boomer--born in 1946. I remember the Soviet Union and the Cold War. To Russia's Vladimir Putin I say now, and will always say, "nyet!"
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