good, bad & ugly

Saturday, May 21, 2016

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"

Thursday, May 19, 2016

George Raveling's Villanova commencement address

https://www.theshadowleague.com/articles/george-raveling-s-villanova-commencement-address

George Raveling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Little Sisters happy with Supreme Court contraception opinion

Little Sisters happy with Supreme Court contraception opinion - The Denver Post

Filthy Mouths & Bad Attitudes - The Blues Brothers (1/9) Movie CLIP (1980) HD - YouTube

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Screwed up? ask for more $

Long lines prompt TSA to ask congress for more money | WSOC-TV

With SafeTrack Repairs On The Horizon, Are Metro Fares On The Rise? | WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio

A Year After the Amtrak Crash, Casey Calls for More Money for Train Safety | News | Philadelphia Magazine

http://silverspringtransitcenter.com.blogspot.com/2016/02/court-casino.html

heart health report

https://w3.hearthealthreport.com/LP/Health/CHH/Crandall-Heart-Kit-Video-G?dkt_nbr=1y5ef6dk&gclid=CO2zr7Of4cwCFQlahgodfy8ORA

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/heart-health/half-people-who-have-heart-attacks-don-t-even-know-n574896

Monday, May 16, 2016

exercise

5 Core Exercises for Men Over 60 : Senior Fitness - YouTube

The race for their party's nomination for president in our two party system is characterized by personal attacks. Both of the presumptive nominees, and their party faithful, have been more about personal attacks and politics than about providing their plan for leading our country. It's shameful!

Wake up, America! Take the pledge.

By withholding our support for the Republican and Democratic parties, maybe by the 2020 presidential election there will be less politics of personal destruction and more constructive ideas and viable choices for president of the United States--who shares our core values.

This cartoon says it all: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/393009504964489625/

Friday, May 13, 2016

Helluva way to run a railroad

DEBORAH SIMMONS: Metro workers slam union, WMATA - Washington Times

privatization? like the Paul S. Sarbanes Silver Spring Transit Center? there has to be a better way to run a railroad, unions and other financial and political silos notwithstanding.

Thursday, May 12, 2016

How to screw up a railroad in less than 40 years

Foxx threatens to shut down Metro if WMATA doesn’t follow orders - POLITICO

Monday, May 9, 2016

FUBAR

Metro senior management: Where are they now? - WTOP

NTSB doesn't name names. Mortimer Downey says that everybody is to blame.

And, so it goes, on and on...

SNAFU

FUBAR

Saturday, May 7, 2016

R.I.P., Anthony Payne

Prosecutor calls suspected bus hijacker violent and erratic - The Washington Post

tragic

"In the gas station’s parking lot, police said, he jumped two curbs and weaved the bus between gas pumps before approaching Payne,who was throwing trash into a bin. The court affidavit says Loving, “in an apparent effort to leave the parking lot, propelled the bus forward and turned the bus directly towards the decedent.” Payne’s legs were pinned under the bus; a bystander pulled him free, though Payne died shortly after arriving at a hospital.

Payne’s relatives could not be reached Wednesday. He lived on the second floor of a three-story apartment building on W Street in LeDroit Park. His downstairs neighbor, Mary Anthony, 52, said he moved there in 1999 and lived alone.

Anthony said Payne picked up odd jobs here and there. “He was always helping people,” Anthony said, noting he had recently cleaned her oven. “He didn’t have much, but he helped you with what he had.”

Two workers at the Crown Station said Payne occasionally stopped in to barter. On Tuesday, they gave him chips and a soda for taking out the trash, the task he was performing when he was hit by the bus."

What a legacy! “He was always helping people,” Anthony said, noting he had recently cleaned her oven. “He didn’t have much, but he helped you with what he had.”

I believe that Anthony Payne is in a much better place now.

Friday, May 6, 2016

expen$ive ineptitude

NTSB: Metro has had a ‘severe learning disability’ when it comes to improving safety - The Washington Post

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

pledge

In December 1775, Benjamin Franklin published an essay in the Pennsylvania Journal under the pseudonym American Guesser in which he suggested that the rattlesnake was a good symbol for the American spirit:

I recollected that her eye excelled in brightness, that of any other animal, and that she has no eye-lids—She may therefore be esteemed an emblem of vigilance.—She never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders: She is therefore an emblem of magnanimity and true courage.—As if anxious to prevent all pretensions of quarreling with her, the weapons with which nature has furnished her, she conceals in the roof of her mouth, so that, to those who are unacquainted with her, she appears to be a most defenseless animal; and even when those weapons are shown and extended for her defense, they appear weak and contemptible; but their wounds however small, are decisive and fatal:—Conscious of this, she never wounds till she has generously given notice, even to her enemy, and cautioned him against the danger of stepping on her.—Was I wrong, Sir, in thinking this a strong picture of the temper and conduct of America?^[4]

Gadsden flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

Need a good night's rest? Choose therapy over pills

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy linked to reduced depressive relapse risk: Those who received MBCT, and in many cases tapered or discontinued antidepressant medication, were 23% less likely to relapse to major depression -- ScienceDaily

Oxford Mindfulness Centre

Friday, April 22, 2016

Earth Day slackers

Happy Earth Day 2016

While politicians are out celebrating Earth Day, and patting themselves on the back for the GREAT job that they're doing, recycling rates across the country are going DOWN.
http://www.deq.virginia.gov/…/2014%20recycling%20rate%20rep…

We're drowning in trash.

We could be doing MUCH more if it weren't for gutless politicians and apathetic citizens.

The Commonwealth of Virginia requires each city, county, town or region to maintain a minimum recycling rate--15% in rural areas and 25% in urban areas. BIG whup!

Prince William County achieved a recycle rate of 38.7% in 2014. The Prince William County Public Works, Solid Waste Division Recycling Office received confirmation from Virginia Department of Environment Quality (DEQ) of the County’s Recycling Rate in May. This is a decline from the 2013 rate of 40.5% and a 2012 recycling rate of 41.3%.

http://www.pwcgov.org/…/p…/trash/Pages/Annual-Reporting.aspx

Shame on the slackers--the VA General Assembly for Virginia's pathetic mandatory recycle rates and on urban, affluent Prince William County for not doing better.