Updated Forecast: In Excess of 8" of Snow, Plus Wind
And Now, 10-20 Inches
Federal Govt. Closed Tuesday
Snowmaggedon 1.0 in Time Lapse
- SI.com says the Nationals offered Stephen Strasburg about $12.5 million. The deadline to make a deal is midnight tonight.
- Why.i.hate.dc wonders whether half a million dollars isn't too much to spend for a dog park.
- Renew Shaw reports that Shiloh Baptist Church applied for a building license for its vacant property at 1533 9th Street NW. This is one of the properties the church has said it will renovate with proceeds from the sale of two of its other vacants.
- A 22-year-old former Montgomery College student is accused of making threats that led to an evacuation at the Rockville campus Monday morning.
- Police made an arrest in that Saks Fifth Avenue dress shoplifting/assault case: 20-year-old Jonathan Bradley was picked up during a routine traffic stop in Southeast on Thursday.
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Re: Shiloh-
Did they actually list with a broker the properties they were going to put up for sale? At market?
They did call Boris about the properties not sure if he decided to take the listing or not.
Sommer,
Considering this is "Shiloh has a scheme's..." 20th plan of "action" on this issue pardon me as I laugh. For 20 years they have been allowed by a Government who has given the church money to redevelop said properties, overlooked that said properties were vacant AND reclassified them to not be subject to the property tax other vacant properties must pay.
The other laughable "vision" of this corridor of shame is the plans that NPS has for the Carter G. Woodson memorial that should be ready on the 300th anniversary of his death 241 years from now.
My bet is nothing is going to happen...Shiloh will not be able to squeeze even more money out of it's parishioners, Reverend Smith will stay in power and yet again the residents of Shaw (that include me and Sommer) can all feel better as the SLUM status of Shaw is maintained! I have been Charlie Brown one too many times with Shiloh and the rest of the slumlords playing Lucy...I am not going to hope that the football is going to be there when I go to kick it.
Shiloh needs to live up to it's obligations and PAY the back taxes it owes on these properties...our elected officials need to have the "intestinal fortitude" to pass another version of the repealed "vacant tax"...and we need to keep holding landlords, even when they are neighborhood churches, responsible for their actions.
Now, look. Just because they said they were going to fix some properties 19 years ago and still haven't gotten around to it doesn't mean it's going to take another 19 years for them to get their fingers out and fix the properties. It'll probably be more like 50 years. Anyway, I'm sure they'll have this done in time for the 100th Anniversary of the MLK Riots. Have a little faith. Because faith moves mountains. It just doesn't move smug, self-righteous, doubleparking suburban churchies to actually do anything with their slumlord properties.
The answer is clear: instead of cutting the nuisance property tax from 10% to 5%, the city should PAY the churches preserve these valuable examples of 20th Century nuisance architecture. A can of Raid next to that backyard mattress works wonders on that crab infestation, and a little Febreze will knock that dookie stain right out! Add a jar of potpourri, a garden hose, and some soap-on-a-rope and you've got yourself a snappy little outdoor tranny hooker hose-off shower! One person's treebox toilet is another's organic corn and chicken bone composting station! Make every day a celebration of your love! Surprise her with a pasta salad! Tie a miniature beret to your wang!
Strasburg is a National (well, probably a Potomac National)! $15.7 mil
I can't believe it actually happened! I'll be there for his first start, assuming he doesn't tweak his shoulder tomorrow and end up as just another waste of money.
They need to remake "Paris is Burning" with Bradley as the lead transvestite. Then again, no crossdresser worth her bitchiness would shoplift from Saks with a Vera Wang and Yves St. Laurent right around the corner. And last time I checked, if you temped at Saks during their annual blowout sale, you got a ridiculous 40% of employee discount. It's the only way I can afford to keep myself in mink stoles and Blahniks.
[into mirror] Would you f**k me? I'd f**k me. I'd f**k me hard.
Hahahaha, thanks to you I can totally see the security guards at Saks fumbling in the dark with their guns while you watch them through your night vision goggle and try to touch their pretty hair.
"You're a rube...with your good bag and your cheap shoes..."
I pulled up the dress-napping story on WJLA, and Google Ads smacked this little ad underneath the surveillance picture...
Amazing Deals at JCPenney
Hot Buys at Your Washington DC
Store, Grab Them While They Last!
... I never realized that Google Ads had a sense of humor...