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Sunday, May 24, 2015

Nat's: A+   4-1 win over the Phillies!

METRO: F

• Train FULL (no seats; no standing room) WHEN IT LEFT VIENNA @ 11 AM
• Platform JAMMED at Navy Yard after the game
• Crowd pushing and shoving at the bottom of the escalator
• no place to go
• DANGEROUS!
• standing room ONLY on trains ALL THE WAY from the Navy Yard to Vienna!

SHAME ON YOU, METRO!

A person making minimum wage could do as good a job managing METRO as those who are being paid hundreds of thousands a year to manage it. More than $100 million in claims over the past few years! UNSATISFACTORY!  UNACCEPTABLE!

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Villanova Student Honors Returning Veterans By Sending Them To Sports Events « CBS Philly

death penalty

why DC should have the death penalty:
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Mansion-Murder-NW-DC-Woodley-Four-Dead-Savopoulos-Housekeeper-304439421.html

Good job!

CAPTURED: Quadruple murder suspect Daron Wint arrested in Northe - DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG

Nice work by law enforcement.

in cold blood

Source: Money was motive for D.C. house fire - CNN.com

eerily similar to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Cold_Blood

setting the record straight

Pope Francis Did Not Call Abbas an ‘Angel of Peace’ | National Review Online

Thank you, National Review, for setting the record straight (unlike the BBC, NY Times, and many other media outlets).

nice job, FRA!

Amtrak Told to Expand Automatic Braking System Use - NYTimes.com

Possibly the best example of "closing the barn door after the horse ran away" that I've ever seen.

physics

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

Benjamin Franklin

There's one more--physics.

What happens when a train goes 100+ mph into a curve that is rated for 50 mph? derailment. carnage.     Amtrak derailment     It's physics--centripetal force. 

I pray for those who died, their families and those who were injured in the Amtrak train derailment.

What happens when structures are unable to withstand forces applied to them?    Failure. destruction. carnage.     Watergate garage      Nepal earthquake

I pray that the Silver Spring Transit Center doesn't become another example of the unrelenting, unyielding laws of physics, resulting in property damage, injury and death.

silver spring transit center

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and physics."

silent treatment

silent treatment - Google Search

The silent treatment is the punishment that offenders place on those who they offend.

tongue wagging

Tongues wag | Define Tongues wag at Dictionary.com

Quotes About Wagging Tongues (3 quotes)

tongue wagging - Google Search

BIG government

It may take a village to raise a child; but, it doesn't take the federal government.

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." Thomas Jefferson