Ballou HS Rocks the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
Morning Roundup: Black Friday Edition
Car Pushed Into Anacostia River By Train
The Saturday Morning Post
- We've now got an ID on the man who was fatally shot by police in Petworth over the weekend. He was identified Monday by authorities as Jamaal Grant, 23, of no fixed address (via the Post).
- The first half of the D.C. Council's same-sex marriage hearing keeps on trucking along. City Desk already has a nice summary of one back and forth exchange between Bishop Harry Jackson and David Catania.
- More bad news for the Washington Post's circulation, courtesy the Washington Business Journal: average daily circulation dropped 6.4 percent in the six months that ended Sept. 30.
- Going Out Gurus preview The Gibson's upstairs expansion, set to be unveiled on Saturday.
- The National Capital Planning Commission has approved a revised security plan for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial planned for the National Mall, allowing construction to begin (via AP/WJLA).
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We went to the Macy's at 12th & G this morning for the Black Friday morning specials. There was a sh
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Ha! I saw the photographer taking this picture. Just outside the frame, the people putting on the car wash are giving him the stinkeye.
i can imagine. that car wash (5th and florida NE) always struck me as a little fly-by-night.
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
Its interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry
"Of no fixed address?" I think we all know what that means.
(Hint: it involves hopping boxcars and bindles tied to the end of sticks.)
Or, in pro wrestling parlance, I believe it's called "Parts Unknown"
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains you never change your socks,
And the little streams of alcohol come a-trickling down the rocks.
The brakemen have to tip their hats and the railroad bulls are blind.
There's a lake of stew and of whiskey, too. You can paddle all around 'em in a big canoe,
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
+1 for David Catania using history for the easy knockdown
-1 for Harry Jackson for not knowing the irony in his use of history
As long as WaPo and NY Times continue to preach commentaries and not report the news, then the circulations will continue to fall. Soon the Post will be as broke as the Times.
I quit the Post after the whole Dan Froomkin thing. It was reinforced by the Paul Wolfowitz op-ed on my last day of the paper.
My dh decided to renew it when the Post sent an offer of a great deal. It showed up for three days and then stopped showing up again. He's decided to bag it.
I thought Catania was remarkable restrained in his questioning of Mr. Jackson, certainly he was a lot nicer than I would have been if given the ability to embarass his carpetbagging self.
Catania made Jackson look like the self-serving hateful rube that he is.
And Catania's example of majority interests voting on rights of the majority was perfect, highlighting the stupidity of the concept and the irony of Jackson's reliance on it.
Jackson is claiming to be a DC resident. Is there any mechanism to force him to pay DC taxes, now that he's claiming residency?
Indeed, Hillman. I also loved the smackdown Catania and Tommy Wells put on the Archdioces when they basically threatened to stop providing social services in the District if they were forced to comply with the legislation.
BTW, did anyone happen to catch the last two women who testified? Hilariously crazy.
I haven't actually seen any video. Just reports of it.
Stunning to me that supposed followers of Christ would threaten to withhold social services if they don't get their way on gay marriage.
Stunning, and sad as well.
christianity in and of itself is a great concept. nothing but love and aid for your fellow man.
christianity as practiced by many of the ossified sects that claim to be the purveyors of the religion—massive ideological fail.
This kind of floors me. When I ran an HIV clinic in the South in the late 90's, the local Catholic church and Catholic Charities were two of the biggest providers of social service and assistance that we had.
They took care of our patients regardless of how they got the virus. In fact they didn't even ask. They were absolutely professional about it. I even asked once about it, and the tough old bird who ran the social service programs smiled and told me that Jesus didn't exactly draw distinction on who we were supposed to love and help.
I'm sure she'd have choice words for the Archdioces here...