May 30, 2008
Morning Roundup: Hard Targets Edition
Happy Friday, Washington. We hope the end of this week seemed to come faster than normal, the way weeks following major national holidays are supposed to. The 34 people convicted yesterday on misdemeanor charges from a January protest at the Supreme Court against the Guantanamo Bay military prison are likely taking less of a "working for the weekend" approach to their Friday. Each of the convicted faces up to 60 days in jail thanks to their march to the plaza of the Supreme Court, where protests are banned. Most of them will probably get probation, however.
Maryland State Senator's Home Raided by FBI: FBI agents raided the District Heights home of Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie (D-Prince George's) yesterday, as well as the Lanham headquarters of the grocery company that operates Shoppers Food Warehouse, where Currie has served as an "outside consultant." The Post says that Currie did not report income from the consulting job with Shoppers in 2007 or the preceding two years.
Deaf D.C. Residents Victims of Multiple Burglaries: The Post reports on a string of home break-ins near Gallaudet University in Northeast where deaf D.C. residents have been the victims. At least eight burglaries or attempted break-ins have been reported in the past two weeks in the neighborhood. Officers in the MPD's Deaf and Hard of Hearing Unit are passing out fliers and meeting with deaf residents to answer their questions.
Briefly Noted: Anacostia riverfront projects threatening District debt cap ... Teen on moped hit by car ... Repaving of Canal Rd. starts Monday ... Teen gets 55 years in fatal Columbia, Md. shooting.
This Day in DCist: In 2007 we were encouraging Mayor Adrian Fenty to do a cannonball to open the city's swimming pools (he didn't), and in 2006 Gilbert Arenas had been arrested in Miami.
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good to see PG county keeping up their string of terrible public officals...
Those who have been victimizing the "Deaf" are as low as anybody can go and if caught, they should do some jail time and not probation!!!!
If a burglar throws a brick through a deaf person's window and steals a TV, does he make a noise?
Those who have been victimizing the "Deaf" are as low as anybody can go and if caught, they should do some jail time and not probation!!!!
Why should the deaf be protected against robbery any more than a non-hearing impaired person?
It even says in the article that one of the houses that got broken into had no signs of forced entry - they left the deadbolt unlocked and the other lock was bypassed. Is this someone necessarily preying upon the deaf or simply a theif who knows what he's doing?
I don't think anyone's calling for deaf people to become a protected class, or to have these declared "hate crimes." But you gotta admit, anyone who's low enough to knowingly rob from a deaf person would steal an accordion from a blind monkey.
Ulysses Currie? Best. Name. Ever. It sounds like Indian food so hot that it'll trample your colon like so many Trojans.
Now I'm inspired to come up with my own dish. . . Oepdius Vindaloo. When it's through with you, you'll wake up wanting to claw your eyes out and wondering why your mom is laying in bed naked smoking a cigarette.
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It's about time somebody hit one of those punks on the minibikes. God knows they've almost ran over me on the sidewalk about hundred times.
I'd pass on the Achilles Pakora. It's really greasy and sulks in his tent.
And the Ajax Somosa goes through you like Comet cleanser.
Astyanax Paneer
I'd pass on the Achilles Pakora. It's really greasy and sulks in his tent.
That, and the damn thing's fried so hard that you can only bite into the corner.
I'd also pass on the Medea Chutney, for obvious reasons. No wait, there's plenty of people's kids I'd love to feed it to.
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