Go Home Already: Shouts and Murmurs
Man Stops Traffic at 17th and K to Demand $200 Million
Morning Roundup: Goodbye, Abe Edition
Judge Throws Out WTU Suit Over Teacher Layoffs
Vegetate to Close at the End of the Month
On a sad day after the killing of 13 people at Ft. Hood in Texas, the Post is delving into the local ties of suspected shooter Maj. Nidal M. Hasan. He was born in Arlington, graduated from Virginia Tech, prayed at a mosque in Silver Spring and spent the better part of his professional career caring for trauma victims at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He apparently went on the shooting rampage in response to his upcoming deployment to Iraq; he had expressed opposition to both the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rhee Gets Engaged: It looks like D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is engaged to her covert West coast boyfriend, Sacramento mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson, reports the Post's Reliable Source. (For Johnson it's a slam dunk, for Rhee an A+. Hey-o!) No date has been set for the wedding, and neither seems to be ready to give up their day jobs just yet.
Graham Faces Second Challenger: The Examiner is reporting that Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), already facing questions over his role in the developing taxicab corruption scandal, may now be facing two people in next year's fight for his seat. ANC Commissioner Bryan Weaver announced that he was forming an exploratory committee earlier this week, and now former Board of Education member Jeff Smith has similarly thrown his hat into the ring.
Lanier Becomes Literary Inspiration: D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier may have served as the inspiration for two characters in a recently released fictional crime thriller, writes WTOP. David Baldacci's latest book, "True Blue," features a fictional D.C. Police Chief Beth Perry, who owns a blind dog. Lanier owns five. The similarities also extend to Perry's sister Mason. While writing the book, Baldacci rode along with D.C. police and interviewed Lanier, likely prompting ideas that became his characters.
O'Malley's Popularity Drops: Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is losing support amongst voters, reports the Examiner, but he'd still beat former Republican Gov. Bob Ehrlich in a head-to-head contest.
Briefly Noted: Same-sex marriage debate may have prompted Georgetown assaults ... Did you hear about that tea party by the Capitol? Yeah, it's really a "tea party" when you're there to see your representatives ... Metro to fight wage increases ... MoCo fixes traffic light glitch.
This Day in DCist: On this day in 2008, we wondered where Sasha and Malia would go to school and how the new Senate would vote on D.C. voting rights. In 2007, the D.C. DMV announced plans to install SmarTrip chips in driver's licenses. By 2008. Yeah, like that ever happened.
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"Jim is a very popular three-term incumbent," said Chuck Thies, adviser and spokesman for Graham's campaign. "He has a history of reforming government, unearthing corruption and seeing to it that the individuals responsible for that corruption were put on trial."
Indeed, if it weren't for Jim Graham's dogged determination and relentless perseverence, he would never have hired Ted Loza. Wait. What?
Mason Perry? Really? What a hack.
What's up with the early posts this week? Nice.
Two years ago, the county began working on a project to update the area's traffic light system. The project requires a $35 million investment and is expected to take six years to complete, according to county spokeswoman Esther Bowring.
Isn't it a little premature to say the traffic light problem is "fixed?" More like they've stopped breaking for the moment. They won't be "fixed" for another 4 years. Of course, by 2013, we'll have more sensible, carbon-neutral alternatives to gridlock like commuting via monkey-navigated jetpack, ski-lift and Venetian gondola, trebuchet, and via the Flaming Gaylord Poop Chute.
On a totally unrelated matter, can someone on DCist recommend a reliable person/company to get a cord of firewood delivered?
The door to door guys are a scam ($200 for 1/3 cord!!-but she did stress that it was 'hand split'), and I've been short changed before (some of these guys assume us city slickers don't know the difference between a full cord and a face cord).
Well, lessee. There's Oakie Doke's over on 7th. The Funeral Pyre on 7th. There's also Woodsy Al's, also on 7th. It's next door to The Lost Cord. Matter of fact, they're all on 7th. It's the cordwood district.
I considered buying from Major Wood near Quantico or Montgomery Burns in MoCo, but thought better of it.
Whatever you do, you want to avoid Morning Wood IN MY PANTS. It would be...bad. Just ask my wife.
I don't need to ask. She already told me.
HiYo....
Funny you should say that. Bread for the City on 7th used to be a lumber warehouse.
Now mostly people get wood in the alley out back.
Man, I just never get tired of this story.
It's the diaper.
Luuuuuke....use the Force. Force that thing in there! Just like I showed you with those puppets. But don't tell anyone or you'll get in trou-ble!
WTF do you need an entire CORD for? I've got a guy that will give a half cord for $120, delivery included. Less if you have cash (gee, wonder why). Not cheap, but not expensive either.
Because my tiny little house was built when Abe Lincoln was a Congressman.
Hahaha 'hand split,' now that's a good one. Surely in this case hand-split means they loaded the logs onto the gas-powered splitting machine by hand.
Keep in mind that a full cord of wood is 4x4x8 feet.
I also agree that a full cord is a lot of wood for ambiance purposes. As we all know, a standard wood-burning fireplace actually cools your house (all the heat goes out the chimney!) so I wouldn't plan on trying to heat your home that way.
Trust me, I am thoroughly aware of the heat potential of a fireplace, the size of a cord, and our fire use. The fireplace does heat the room you are in. Long-term heating solutions aside, yes, I need a full cord.
Star Hollow Farm sells firewood - they have the farmstand on the left at the Adams Morgan farmers market on Saturdays. Contact info is on their website www.starhollowfarm.com
Pretty sure that where 270 humps the Beltway IS the Flaming Gaylord Poop Chute.
Unbelievable that Chief Lanier is lauded for being irresponsible. Ins't she wonderful, she has blind dogs that she takes care of? Well, no she is not. She has all of those blind dogs because she tried to make money by breeding dogs and despoite being severely warned about the consequences, she bred a brother and sister and all of the puppies had serious birth defecet (e.g., blindness). She couldn't sell any of them and had to keep them. How does her greed and recklessness become an assett that is celebrated in a book?
Well, in her defense, I don't think she has that practical a grasp on breeding.
ba-ding!
A few busloads of senile crazies came and went, signifying nothing.
True story: I went out for my run around 2pm yesterday (so as to not preempt going out with friends last night - another true story that I am still reeling from...) and these idiots were taking up every square inch of sidewalk around the Capitol building. Halfway up the hill along Independence Ave there's a guy walking and holding an outstretched flag, thereby taking up half the sidewalk space. The flag read: Don't Tread On Me. What an a**hole!
I dunno about you, but that would be my cue to stomp their lousy asses. What were they thinking? They might as well ask Nick Cho for an iced latté
I'm not against banishing Nick Cho to a life of opening up Junkpuncher's Coffee in the Ozarks. 2 birds, 1 junkpunch.
Also, I deplore the idiots with the American flags with 13 starts surrounding an "11"/twin towers. My father was IN the WTC and because of lucky timing made it out and got out of the area. Overweight, under-educated "Real 'mericans"(TM) from NOWHERE NEAR NYC (and who hate everything they think NYC symbolizes) can take their patriotic flagpoles and shove it straight up their collective Puritan puckered a**es - after they take Glenn Beck's d**k out first of course.
Also, "11" encircled by 13 stars on an American flag? Morons...
Also
+2, just for good measure!
Also ... drivers who have the Remember 9-11 bumper stickers are the worst assholes drivers in the area.
"Same-sex marriage debate may have prompted Georgetown assaults"
So we're blaming the victims now? If only those ho-mo-sexuals would have stayed in their place they never would have brought this on themselves?
No, not at all. Maybe the word-choice wasn't good, but read the article. D.C. police are simply saying that they think the assaults were related to the same-sex marriage debate in D.C.
Rest assured, Martin - surely nobody else interpreted your wording the way fightindaman did. Sheesh.