June 25, 2008
Go Home Already: Go Fish
Photo by Aziz Y.
- George Lucas says Barack Obama is a Jedi. Aren't Jedi forbidden from ruling others or acting for personal gain? Or, is there any conceivable reason why anyone should care about what George Lucas thinks about anything? [Yeas and Nays]
- Virginia is set to execute another death row inmate tonight: convicted murdere Robert Stacy Yarbrough is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. [WaPo]
- The annual Smithsonian Folklife Festival kicked off today. Today through Sunday and then again the following Wed.-Sun., you can experience the Smithsonian version of the cultures of Bhutan, Texas, and, oddly, NASA. Doesn't look like there's any astronaut ice cream on the menu.
- WMATA is considering settling the lawsuit brough against them by Monument Realty over the transit authority's decision to sell its 2.2-acre Southeast bus garage to Akridge for $69 million. [Washington Business Journal]
- Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry is calling for EPA testing of DCPS athletic fields over concern that toxic silica sand has been used in them. [D.C. Wire]
- A third-grade teacher at private Beauvoir Elementary School was kicked off campus after accusations that he had inappropriate photos of young boys on a camera. [NBC4]
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What does DCist find so odd about celebrating the culture of NASA? Or is this more gravity-hugging propaganda from the terrestrial elite.
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What other row would they execute someone from?
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Sommer - You misssed it! There is a NASA food technology exhibit, and the festival shop brims with astronaut ice cream, but they don't have any Tang.
Washcycle: What is odd about celebrating the culture of NASA is that they don't do it -- they celebrate the Official Mission of NASA, not the same thing at all. Maybe that is the best they can do under the current administration, but it is disappointing.
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The comments on that Obama/Jedi link are really disgustingly outrageous.
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It's just odd to see NASA at a folklife festival. We were wondering if they were going to have a spaceship made of wicker.
Has anyone tried the Bhutanese "national dish" of chilies, cheese, and fiddlehead ferns yet?
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someone answer this for me:
on wmatas site:
"5:40 p.m. A Green Line train at Branch Ave was dispatched late because two rail cars were isolated from service due to a public health issue. "
this was posted day before yesterday. what defines a ''public health issue''?
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''public health issue''= puke
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i was thinking ''hobo took a crap''
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An Obama/Yoda ticket would be so gangsta.