D.C. VS BILLBOARDS

Once again, Mayor Adrian Fenty has managed to appear peculiar. In this case there may be more than a little element of D.C. politicking. The mayor has got to start preparing for his next race for mayor. Fortunately, an absentee mayor has never been a political handicap in Washington, D.C. A mayor here is expected to enjoy as many "perks" as possible, while in office. Life is short; get what you can.

If the mayor is such a typical D.C. mayor, why do I dare to employ the word "peculiar?"

Today's news by television developed the issue of Mayor Fenty making a move against billboard advertisers in the District of Columbia. Apparently, a neighborhood association was organized to force the removal of unwanted billboards, which had long urged the public to buy this or that. As I recall there were two - possibly three - billboards involved. As far as I could tell, they provided a visual shield against some unsightly, abandoned houses.

As I previously mentioned, electioneering has already begun. Mayor Fenty has suddenly become attentive to the desires of this association formed to remove billboards from the city. This group does not appear to be without ambitions to "bring change" to the whole city. Mayor Fenty doesn't want to be their victim; there's just too much of the world he has not yet visited. He NEEDS another term of office.

Does this make him peculiar? No, it does not.

What is peculiar about the entire matter is that the buildings of District of Columbia are often given over to "artists" to paint images on building walls. Few of these have artistic merit. There are hundreds of buildings that have been "improved" by artist, craftsmen, amateurs (adult and children), and vandals. Some D.C. buildings have several images which make the word "primitive" seem suggestive of Michelangelo. They are eye-sores! The District government is very proud of this kindergarten image-making.

On the other hand the companies that construct the ad imagery include skillful photographers, models, set designers and ad copy. At least the imagery making falls under the category of "commercial art." If it is a lesser and more meretricious form of art, it still maintains the title of "art." This word cannot be said to truthfully apply to 90% or more of the image-making seen on District buildings' sides, backs, and even fronts. They are frivolous and without merit.

Parenthetically, the huge ads of commercial artists that sometimes can be seen from the East-West Freeway on adjacent buildings might arguably be described as "traffic hazards," due to the use of strikingly good-looking women in imagery that pitches a sale to the passing traffic. This can't be said for the District's beloved "The People's Collages" festooning the walls of many hapless buildings.

What is odd is that from top to bottom in the District of Columbia, this image-making with oils, spray-paint, and the like is viewed warmly as expressing the "diversity of inspiration" among the people of this city. Virtually no one in the District can distinguish a traditionally Western standard of beauty from a traditionally Western perception of ugly and incompetent.

The latter point underlies the District's descent into the egalitarian false-view of "It's all good!" In this limited sense, the District may be a kind of negative avant-garde leader, with the rest of America falling into the "V" formation which is typical of geese. In the District even the heads of famous Art Museums applaud the "people's art."

Can one praise or respect people of low standards - or none at all? This is the ugly essence of the movers and shakers of the District, as well as the masses of incompetent "artists" dwelling therein. Since the rest of the people are very comfortable with either, there is no real diversity in the District. The District is a confederation of people of pre-primitive sensibilities.

SKINS SCALPED

As a working stiff, I haven't had an opportunity to see the Washington Redskins play this year. As there has been so much controversy amongst the various elements of Redskins Inc., I thought I'd take a look at the Monday Night Football. In that featured game the Redskins would take on the New York Giants.

There was much chatter about Mr. Daniel Snyder hiring Mr. Bruce Allen as the new "general manager" of the Redskins, what that might mean to the future of Jim Zorn, the present football coach, and what it meant to the team and to the fans. Sports pundits perused every angle.

With that as a preface, I made bold to get a network featuring the Monday Night Football game to manifest itself on my quirky television. I succeeded.

Almost immediately I saw that this game was between a good professional football team (Giants) and Confusion Incarnate. The Redskins football team played such an inconceivably inept game that one wondered how they managed to maintain their status as a "National Football League" team.

Then it occurred to me that there may have been a plot amongst certain Redskins to "throw the game" to hasten the exit of Jim Zorn. I do recall Jason Campbell during the training camp period making some comment about Coach Zorn's "little arm." The reference was to the coach (a former quarterback) tossing a few balls to illustrate how he wanted a pass thrown on a certain pattern. Basically, I sensed then that Coach Zorn wasn't really respected by important elements of the team.

If the players aren't "into" a coach by one means or the other, he's going to have a hard time melding them into a team with a common purpose. Instead, there will be a bunch of individuals out there, each of whom cherishes his own thing. Patterns are run by receivers according to how they think they should be run, while the quarterback throws according to how he thinks the patterns should be run. The coach has his own views about how patterns should be run, but his results are so poorly realized that an new offensive play-caller is brought in midstream. He, too, has his view of how a pattern should be run. Professional anarchy replaced professional football.

Jason Campbell got so little protection from his offensive line that he became "unglued." How could anyone focus with several Giant hands swatting at his head on every play? Further, Campbell's short passes were so inept that they brought back memories of Redskin QB Schroeder. It can't help when one is 6' 4" and one's receivers are 5' 9", while Giants are pouring into the backfield.

There were laughable plays by the Redskins in this game. Not good!

Jim Zorn appears at press time as a pathetic, stupified mensch, blandly reaching for some credible comment to serve the wolves now gathered for the feast.

The Giant dominance was so complete that they were grinning from ear-to-ear half way through the second quarter. Party time!

I did have to commend No. 44 of the Giants, who ran very well. Eli Manning, Giant QB, also looked good. If the Giants get into the Play-Offs, they may go far. Getting hot at the right time is more important than regular season records.

If the Redskins didn't purposely "dog" or "tank," then they must be judged to be a frivolous bunch without much merit. There are too many chiefs in the organization and too few braves. If they had any pride, they might offer to give back some of their pay. Not that Mr. Snyder needs it, but it might go to some worthy cause.

SCHMOOZING WITH THE DEAD

Your faithful, ambulance-chasing John Q. Public was doing his thing yesterday, listening to my preferred "Traffic, Weather and 'News'" radio station, when I was startled to hear the name of Adrian Fenty, mayor of Washington, D.C. mentioned. Mayor Fenty is the arrogant bikester and "homeboy trotter" who has been mentioned before by me in my blog comments.

What was the issue that engendered a reporter/commentator's indignation which his radio audience was forced to consider?

Let me provide the readers who are not denizens of D.C. Metro some recent history. The owner of the Washington Wizards (formerly Baltimore Bullets) died recently. He was also a prominent figure in the real estate scene locally. He may have properties elsewhere, also. Still, he is best known for building a sports arena in Largo, MD, which is in Prince Georges County (D.C. suburb), and subsequently, a new sports arena in a relatively unpromising area of the downtown. This new facility is the present home of the Wizards professional basketball team.

In conjunction with the Washington Convention Center the new facility built by the Wizard owner was credited with creating a "renaissance" in that part of downtown Washington, D.C. This renewal was not one of beautiful architecture that seized the imagination of the viewer and impowered the spirit to greater achievements. No one has ever lauded the gentleman-owner of the Wizards on that score - at least no one credible in the area of aesthetics. This renewal was of populations of well-heeled individuals flowing regularly to these two facilities (and to the forest of hotels and restaurants that have arisen to cater to their needs). It is money funneled into this area by fans and convention-goers that revitalized the area. How welcomed this money was!

The buildings themselves are like a cluster of warts on the skin: fascinating, perhaps, to a dermatologists, but not reckoned of much merit or value as examples of architecture to the well-balanced mind.

This owner of the Wizards and builder of buildings became quite rich over time. He was praised for his philanthropy. He appeared to be a man who wanted to leave the world a better place than when he came into it. This in itself would separate him from the great mass of humanity. He retained a certain degree of humility.

A friend within the Jewish community of Washington, D.C., who was a principal in the Giant Food Co. before it was sold, Israel Cohen (as I recall), had referred to him as a "mensch" ("a little man, a common man"). He was not trying to denigrate this owner and builder but praising him for retaining that quality. Perhaps for that reason also he had many devoted friends. He was married to the same woman for fifty-plus years, as I recall. He had children to carry on his way of doing.

This deceased owner of the Wizards was named "Abe Pollin." Clearly, he was a remarkable man.

However, probably contrary to his own character and inclinations, his death has been treated as if it were the death of an important head of state, or a globally revered figure, such as the late Pope John-Paul II or Sister Theresa. He is being presented in his death to first the high and then the low. Politicians of the highest rank have paid their respects. Mr. Pollin has been eulogized by Democrat, Republican, famous athletes, etc. Surely, he has been recognized enough; surely it is time to lay the man to his rest.

But, no. The media at the level of national news may omit certain matters, but the local media is locally focused. The death of Mr. Pollin is "too big" to simply drop.

For that reason this radio "talking voice" took Mayor Adrian Fenty to task for not attending one of the memorial events held in behalf of - of - of the memory of Abe Pollin. No one at this radio station (or anywhere else in Washington) is capable of saying when "enough is enough." Things like the death of Abe Pollin don't end until another bigger and better story arises.

This non-attendance by Mayor Fenty had been mentioned before on this radio station, which is apparently Mormon-owned and Jewish-operated (certainly in terms of talent). One might infer that there is a sub rosa defamation of Adrian Fenty as "anti-Semetic" from the pained tones of the questions regarding his "no-show" at a memorial event. How could anyone not weep and gnash his teeth at the death of such a man? the "talking voice" seemed to lament. The clincher in regard to this is that the radio "talking voice" wondered if Mayor Fenty had not "dissed" Abe Polin and/or his family by not attending the memorial event and, instead, flying down to Miami to watch the Wizards play.


True to character, Mayor Fenty refused to answer the question directly, but hid behind the skirts of his family. He's protecting his family, doncha know? He stone-walled all questions with his insufferable air of overweening arrogance.

What entered my mind was this: Why did not the reporters upbraid the basketball players who comprised the Wizards? They were well-paid beneficiaries of Mr. Pollin's search for a winning team - a champoinship team, which he wanted to give to the people of Washington, D.C. If the memorial event to Abe Pollin was so important, why would his team not be there? If one stated that Abe Pollin "would have wanted his team to play," then why is it not fair to urge that he "would have liked the fans to see the Wizards play, also?" It may be fair to speculate that his spirit was in Miami with his team and, perhaps, sitting right next to Mayor Fenty unbeknownst, rather than at the memorial event with all those other politicians and fakes mumbling pieties and "over-the-top" accolades..

I see in this a false piety, as well as inequality of treatment.

How could it happen? Many people who are not yuppies, urban pioneers, or manical bikesters detests Mayor Adrian Fenty. One really can't blame the radio station for "grasping at straws." However, maybe Fenty isn't all bad. Maybe he knew Abe Pollin better than the radio "talking voices."

Let Abe Pollin finally have his deserved rest.

Disparity and DISPARITY

There I was rolling along the George Washington Parkway, listening to my usual "traffic, weather and 'news'" radio station, when the datum fell upon my ears. Northern Virginia educational nabobs had uncovered disparity at an Alexandria school. This school caters to kids who are viewed by "authorities" as gifted intellectually or exceptionally talented. Are idiot savants welcomed? I can't say authoritatively, but they probably don't fit in.

Where is the disparity? Most of you would probably guess that the school was disproportionately Asian-American. Wrong! There seemed to be too many white students. Parenthetically, white students are the only students who don't possess a dignified, specifically geo-racial characterization.

Why is that? It allows census takers more flexibility in setting preferred proportions. That's not the only reason, but I don't want to get into hate issues in this blog. There is a sort of quota system operating. Having one category into which anyone can be tossed is very useful. Let me give you an example.

In the old Spotlight tabloid there was a second page which had several "News You May Have Missed" items. One day, I saw a brief article about an American citizen who had arrived from Egypt not so many years prior. He was classified as "white." He wasn't aware that this might be a liability until he applied for a minority grant or "set-aside." As I recall, he was an academic type, but he may have been otherwise employed. He was turned down because he wasn't a defined "minority," according to the law. The law provided some sort of affirmative access to the grants, et al, for African Americans, Asian Americans, women, sexually confused, and the like. I am referencing the "usual suspects" in minority set-asides/grants.

This Egyptian American was tagged as "white" and ineligible. He was pissed! In the story he lamented because he was darker and more African in his appearance than General Colin Powell, who was legally categorized as "African American." He planned to sue.

I've always maintained that it isn't easy being a white person. You are always both in a limbo category and - at the same time - you are "it" in all legal issues, as well as the "bad guy" in movies.

I believe that you have by now gotten my drift about the flexibility of this white category in the hands of census takers. I'm sure that there are sensible people working for the census bureau, but no one can strike a rational position, where asylum inmates command the institution.

The issue is disparity. Now this doesn't operate at the supreme Court, where Jews are represented at a disparate rate. It doesn't operate at the White House nor in the top positions of the Executive Branch, where Jews hold positions at disparate rates. It doesn't operate in the U.S. Senate nor the U.S. House of Representatives where the staffs of the collective committees and subcommittees are Jewish at a disparate rate. They gather the information and shape the policies that are basically "rubber-stamped" by senators and representatives.

Usually, the issue of disparity doesn't "touch" the high and mighty. The issue of disparity reaches down to the mensch, the little guy. Yet, it is still a good training exercise for the ascending "talent" that there is such a thing as power - and they don't have it. Since all these federal and state-sanctioned educational commissions/councils/associations are composed of Stepinanfetchits, they are anxious to please the "boss in the big house." Coming down on the side of "disparity" will never hurt your standing nor injure your resume among the powers that be in America presently.

As I recall, this Alexandria school had something like 58% white students. According to the report, there was under representation of African Americans and Latinos. How could there be such a result, unless discrimination - however subtly employed - was not a factor?

Equalitarianism is viewed as the first inflexible law of America. Since inequality cannot exist in nature, disparity of results is the first mortal sin. It is a sin of man against nature.

What I personally wondered was this: Of the 58% "white" student population, how many, or what percentage, were Jews? If a "correction" occurs in the future to rectify this disparity, will the resultant white category be disproportionately Jewish? (It may already be disproportionately Jewish).

Jews are counted as whites except when white are getting pummeled by the system; then Jews are a "religious" minority, who are exempt.

America is a nation where a minority rules over the majority, and confusion is the "letter of the law."

PRIDE GOETH BEFORE A FALL

The recent incidence of Mayor Adrian Fenty's mayoral regime provokes normal sensibilities. However, Washington, D.C., has so few such citizens remaining in the town that outrage cannot and isn't expected by anyone. He glibly signals his innocence and near inability to commit errors. Else, he merely refuses to answer. He peddles his political goods to his 500 dearest friends. Adrian's well-liked by "capitalist pigs." His intentions are noble, even visionary, as he fights "for ole D.C." He sees a shining D.C. nestled upon the Potomac River; it will be a beacon to all mankind (especially well-heeled ones, who share his love of the finer things.) He's part "Little Lord Fauntleroy" in garish sportswear that resembles "pantyhose" and part Artful Dodger.

What is truly disturbing about Adrian Fenty is that he is not alone. He represents a type of Post-Yuppie, Post-Urban Pioneer citizen, who dominates the levers of power in Washington, D.C. This is not to say that they are the ultimate "caller of shots" in D.C. Rather, the real power behinds the scenes allows these people to run amok throughout D.C. They are children on a tear. There is no half-baked idea that doesn't "grab" their imaginations. The only issue in debate is the matter of funding. In the language of children, they seek an "allowance" from Congress, tourists, and commuters.

They are all car-haters. Hence, any idea that is anti-car seems "responsible" and "wise." They hope to force a metropolitan area that has its population zooming to ride public transportation, forgetting utterly in its inability to do that task. They envision every street in D.C. to be a ghetto each of which is walled-in by buses which have been purchased as a "smarter way to travel."

They are seriously considering a trolley system. Why? Why use this older mode of travel when the government has previously abandoned it, and the provision of electricity suitable to keep it going is entirely outside the District officials' ability to guarantee? As Congress wrings its hands over exactly how to provision the booming population of America with electricity and other basic utilities, including water, the District of Columbia will have a vast quantity of trolley cars awaiting the required electricity, not to mention the construction of the system. People, such as Mayor Fenty, will be peddling about expressing enthuasiasm for the project and talking about the new jobs and tourist money that the trolley will bring to Washington. You should understand that what these D.C. creeps are expressing is "San Francisco-envy."

As a real leader, Mayor Fenty peddles around Washington, protected by motorcycle cops and provided by them with an eternal "green light," greeting his people (The Urban Arrogant), promoting fitness, and "envisioning" D.C.'s future. He sees twenty years ahead routinely. What do you call someone who sees things no one else can see? Whatever the proper term, one can say with certainty that he's not alone in dreaming. In the old days this collective "spell" was blamed on "swamp fever."

COULD IT BE ONLY COINCIDENCE?

Although lots of Washingtonians know it, very few outside our metropolitan area realise that a very satisfying event is in the making. There is new construction about to begin in earnest in Southeast Washington, D.C. Its symbolic continuity is almost breathtaking. A gigantic new residence is being constructed on the old grounds of Saint Elizabeth Hospital for the Mentally Disturbed. When completed, it will become the new fortress for Homeland Security. A sprawling "campus" is being fashioned for the new American KGB with its Orwellian title.

How do the French put it? The more things change, the more things remain the same!

Now, let me hasten to add that the name I provided is an approximation. We locals have always referenced it as "St. Elizabeth's" or simply, "St. E's." Everyone knew that it was the site where mentally disturbed individuals were placed. However, under pressure from the "Politically Correct Fascist Alliance" ["PCFA"], most never went further than that with the institution's title. In time the exact title of this hospital receded into the dark and hazy parts of the mind. Using it might create "a scene," if a member of the PCFA was at hand to scold about insensitivity.

However, not everone confined to St. E's was crazy. Ezra Pound was tossed into St. E's for political reasons. He was lucky, some think. Nuremberg Trials oversaw the murder of men not too dissimilar from Pound. People who effectively wielded words were thought to be at least as dangerous as Nazi swordsmen. Although Ezra Pound had no part in the Manhattan Project nor in the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, he was consigned to St. E's for about thirteen years for dropping his dangerous views over the radio airwaves. Over that time period, Ezra Pound was visited by the likes of T. S. Elliot and Ernest Hemingway. They weren't the only men of letters who remembered this gifted man. They would not have continued visiting him and writing letters were he, indeed, "mad."

Of course, men such as Elliot and Hemingway were suspicious characters to the F.B.I., which investigated Hemingway and probably Elliot as well. After the F.B.I. became an international investigative arm of the "World Community," there was a need for a more locally-dedicated spy organization. Voila! Entrez-vous L'Homeland Security. Soon it was apparent to all: they don't take no crepe from anyone!

Initially headed by a quazi-Christian Fascist, Homeland Security was soon under the direction of Michael Chertoff. It was rumored that in Russian his name meant "devil" or "damned." As many people observed, he didn't give a damn about the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Ezra Pound was the sort of man that Homeland Security would have viewed as "dangerous." He would have been spied on by the government; he would have been spied on by special interest groups that specialize in "monitoring" Americans who don't share their agenda. Indeed, if Homeland Security's new home has a detention center where dangerous people could be confined, then Ezra Pound, were he still alive, would probably once again find himself confined on old familiar turf.

What was that again? What did the French say? Cha - cha - changes, do they ever really happen at all?

WHEN NEWSPAPERS HATE

It is said that bad money drives out good. Maybe the same applies to newspapers. Years ago in Washington, D.C., there were at least three or four newspapers to choose from. Some took the "high road" and some took the "low road" in reporting events. Some were more focused on local matters, some more focused on national matters, and others devoted quite a lot of space to world affairs.

In the latter category was The Washinton Post. Its owners were from internationally oriented groups. They guided the Post accordingly. Hence, a confident vision of the future was proffered to its readers. The Post beckoned Washingtonians and world leaders to join them in the world's tomorrow - today. Sure, the Post was accused of being too liberal, too international, and/or too intellectual. How naive we were then!

As it turned out, the Post had taken a "high road" at a high price; they had repressed normal thoughts until such thoughts became twisted, broken and festered within the body of the medium. How could the Post escape sickness?

For the last several years, The Washington Post has periodically flashed the unwholesomeness within. This week from the mouth of the Post issued utterly foul hate which was discharged upon a Virginian, whose only crime had been running for governor as the Republican candidate.

Is The Washington Post at heart perverted? Why does it think it can employ the language of hate, while denouncing "hate crimes" in the presence of solons of national legislation?

MAYOR FENTY: AVANTGARDE OR 'BAMA?

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty of Washington, D.C., is a thoroughly modern politicians, according to criteria used by the contemporary press. He's a "comer" who may be leading a Democrat presidential ticket in eight or ten years. This is especially true if the "movers and shakers" in D.C., including Capitol Hill, can "upgrade" the District of Columbia" into the "State of Columbia." A "make-over" certainly seems possible, especially if all the really positive, enlightened people put their shoulders to it. Governor Fenty is a better platform for president than Mayor Fenty.

Besides being, in the words of Woody Allen, a "glibe, young cosmopolitan," Mayor Fenty is a man of vision. He sees a shining city in a swamp. It's future D.C. All that's needed is a little funding. Construction will be a big part of it, and Metropolitan Washington D.C. has some of the richest builders in America just waiting for politicians to offer them a deal they can't refuse.

Therefore, Mayor Fenty appears to be a "hot" politician. He gets things done.

Still, for all the glittery facade, there is reason to believe that he's just another D.C. 'Bama.

The African American Establishment in Washington, D.C., arose from ambitious sons and grandsons of slavery. A steady train of African Americans worked their way north to D.C., as well as to other places. The liberating forces that began most significantly during the FDR/Truman years carried more of these African Americans into prosperity. The "Ole Southern Charm" of Washington, D.C., was, in a sense, preserved by the established African Americans, rather than the dwindling numbers of White Southerners who still called Washington, D.C., home. The "Gold Coast" in Washington, D.C., was the heart of "Black Dixie."

For many years observant African Americans in small towns throughout the South could see what the White leadership was doing that was working well and what they were doing that was not working well. There was no money-generating plot that worked better than "taxing" Yankee cars passing through the town. They could be "nailed" coming and going. Sheriff's could be creative about moving violations.

A favorite trick was for a major route, allowing 65 miles an hour speed for cars, to pass through a "town" of ten shacks that mandated 15 mile an hour speed limits. Additionally, car break-downs in these robber-barron citadels could end up costing a bundle, starting with the tow.

As Yankees got wealthier and yearned to sample Florida sunshine, the flood of cars heading South became a bonanza. None of this was lost on the leaders of the African America communities in these scattered but numerous towns throughout the New York to Miami corridor. They saw the Scott-Irish preying on their northern neighbors' caravans. They saw that it worked. Ambitious people don't forget money-making schemes. They may re-package them, but they are going to use them again. Why? Because they have seen that they work.

African Americans came up from the South, perhaps bearing little material wealth, but they had within their heads the knowledge of the tried and true means of making money. Tax the "strangers' cars." Money from various routes came to this core of 'Bamas during their transplant years in Washington, D.C. Many grew very wealthy. They created the African American Gold Coast and came to dominant the very important African American institution in D.C., the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge.

It is the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge that has given the local community most of its African American leaders. It has also preserved the "hidden knowledge" of the 'Bama: Tax the Strangers' Cars.

Mayor Fenty is a scion of this tradition. I would be surprised if he was not a member of the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge. I would be surprised if he were not well-known to the Gold Coast Establishment. But, even were he an alien to both, he would still bear in his soul the essence of the D.C. 'Bama: Tax the Strangers' Cars.

Mayor Fenty and former Mayor Williams were and are the High Priests of Vehicular Terrorism. It is my thesis that Robber-Barons aren't "Knights in Shining Armor." This conclusion should be perceived as a political caveat.

D.C.'S NOVEL POLITICS

Washington, D.C. is a city bred to politics, and a political ethos is everywhere evident. In no area of politics has Washinton, the District of Columbia, been more avantgarde than in absentee mayoral leadership. Mayor Fenty has now passed former Mayor Williams as "King of the Road." Whether gay Paris, a Caribbean beach, or meretricious Las Vegas, count Mayor Fenty "in." Absentee mayors are getting to be an urban norm.

Ruling by mobile phone has become very popular with politicians. A few key staff members remain in Washington, the District of Columbia, ever-ready to receive a Fenty-gram or cellphone-ukase. D.C. mayors are thinkers - doncha know? They need to leave the limelight of the Washington fast-life to think about their next five year plan. Stimulated by pleasantly undulating young hips, keeping time to exotic music, the political mind of Mayor Fenty becomes very fertile, siring ideas likety-split.

This is why they were elected - right?

Perhaps no intense political "brainstorming" by a Washington mayor equals that of the struggle against the constitutional design for the nation, which included the District of Columbia as the national seat of government. Just as Freemasons believe that God erred here and there in His design of the Universe generally and Earth specifically (if only He had been advised by the Brotherhood!), so the mayors and pols of Washington, D.C. believe that the Founding Fathers erred. How? The great bulk of Washingtonians will tell you at once: the District of Columbia should have been a state from the outset.

The vanity of these "people of politics" in Washington, D.C. make Ozimandias appear quite modest. Is there an inherent immaturity problem laying waste to sound vision in the District of Columbia? Possibly, but if so, it is an immaturity shared with a majority of "thinkers" on Capitol Hill.

The three main groups of "power-lunchers" in Washington's local government - Freemasonic Blacks, wealthy homosexual "urban pioneers" and Jewish lawyers/office-builders - want to attend meetings of the governors of the fifty states, as equal schmoozers. They yearn to proclaim to their peers that the "great sovereign State of the District of Columbia supports this or that, or opposes this or that. Nay! Not "State of the District of Columbia" but the "sovereign State of Washington II" (too?).

In Washington, D.C. status, turf, and "pecking order" are THE preeminent issues. From it money and fun flow. Hence, by this piece of information the bitter whining about not being a "sovereign state" can be made comprehensible to the "outside" world. ["They don't understand what were trying to say!"]

Every year, Congress grants the District of Columbia a few billion dollars of "other peoples' tax money" ["OPTM"] to try to run a proper government. Every year they fail miserably. It is the sort of place that overpaid "chieftains" abound. They "do lunch" a lot.

One example is the curious pavement on streets in the District that resembles a "sketeboard park" because of all the "rolls and dips" on flat terrain. Clearly, substandard asphalt/paving material is used, as contractors dilute the mix.

Another example is the recent subway train collision. No one in the District EVER thought of a "back-up" system to act as a second monitor of the positions of its speeding or stopped trains.

Still another example is the lack of water hydrants and inadequate water pressure, that seemed to combine to be the "cause" of a real-estate-enriched heiress losing her house and its "priceless" art collection to fire, recently. Sadly, she had probably "entertained" many of these same D.C. politicians at that very home, which is now in ashes.

It is my unofficial understanding that D.C. politicians are "looking into" these problems and that "blue-ribbon" committees are planned to investigate these matters, if Congress will just appropriate "investigative" money.

SUBWAY TRAINS COLLIDE

This latest -and tragic - episode of subway mishap underlines the foolishness of the Washington, D.C., government in attacking cars to force huge numbers of workers to utilize subways and buses. Not only is this subway system inherently limited in its capacity to "haul people," but the bus system is also inherently limited. Although the idiots running Washington, D.C. (and advising this leadership) believe that the use of bicycles and jogging will take up the slack left by rail and bus inadequacy, there is no means of conveyance that can replace automobiles. Use of motorcycles and motor scooters can provide a useful alternate for some. Most people will require a car. They may pool vehicles.

Given this reality - and it is a reality, if Washington is to remain well-populated, one would think that the mayor & council would start the necessary process of going vertical. However, the "robber baron" mentality of the leadership of Washington, D.C., makes any practical plan stillborn by the heavy burden of taxes which they inevitably levy.

These are certainly not the first para-tyrants to envision grandiose schemes for their city. Typically, their "visions" eventually require slaves to complete the labor, as no one would do the work for the hire. Where workers "net" only blisters, which of them will long remain a worker? Hence, they must be compelled by armed force.

Mayor Fenty has a complete scheme for the Southeast Waterfront. Marvelous buildings, entertainment facilities, housing, et al, will enliven as well as grace beloved Washington. Every restaurant will be five-stars, and there will be a bunch. Great chefs from all around the world will be gathered to operate these restaurants. Luxury yachts from around the world will - swanlike - patrol the enchanting waterfront. There will be many new jobs created by these restaurants. Newspapers and television stations will send a plague of "food critics" to daily consider the fare proffered. All their grading systems will be different and obscure.

Who's going to pay for all this development? For the most part only those that get a "tax break" from the leadership of Washington. Once they build the structures and open for business, who is going to pay for their goods and services?

One "natural" is the horde of overpaid consultants advising Mayor Fenty, President Obama, and anyone else who can "pass the check." Assisting them will be the horde of lawyers that assist government to squeeze money out of whoever has it. They'll naturally want a luxury condominium overlooking the revitalized Anacostia River. Such construction will naturally bring in a horde of lobbyist trying to get a cut of Fenty's Tenderloin District. Older Gay Washingtonians, wealthy from urban pioneering, may choose to transfer their shanks to the glistening new face of Washington. ["One gets so tired of the puke and stench of Georgetown and Dupont Circle."]

If the Iranian government is overturned, Mayor Fenty may offer asylum to those wealthy members of the fallen regime ("refugees?"), who no doubt have "bagged" a bunch of oil loot.

In short there are some well-funded individuals out there. Perhaps wealthy athletes may decide to move into Mayor Fenty's wonderland. If athletes, why not entertainers. If President Obama and Mayor Fenty used their vision and their charm, maybe Hollywood film moguls and stars might purchase a luxury unit.

All rich people need servants. There would be a boom in servitude.

Therefore, with such marvelous prospects for the future "makeover" of Southeast Washington, why should the leadership of Washington, D.C. tolerate (hateful word!) automobile drivers? The only way they can be rationalized by the leadership's high-priced advisers is if they will submit to a heavy commuter tax. "If you want to play, then you got to pay!" chortle the mayor and the council.

The problem is that most of them don't go to Washington to play; they go to work.

ABUSE OF TERROR

The recent events at the Holocaust Museum brought transient moments of terror into the lives of some 2000 people who happened to be visiting the museum at that time. Such people are shaken by the thought that they might have been the one who was shot and mortally wounded. A blend of "bad vibrations" lives on within these people for weeks thereafter, as they play out various scenarios and ramifications. For some the experience of a non-specific form of guilt may leave them depressed. For all those who experienced that bloody moment, it was a "bad trip" that will live on for some time - perhaps the remainder of their lives.

However, people are resilient. I believe that most people overcome disasters, whether manmade or "acts of nature," such as volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. Humanity was endowed with a good portion of "moxie" from the outset. That was a good thing, as they regularly have to exhibit it at numerous times and places on this good Earth. Victory may go to the swift, but it also goes to the tough and resourceful.

The importance of the Holocaust Museum's Day of Blood may not be the event per se, but rather, the derivative events that may cause permanent changes in the laws by which we live in America. With the media leading the way, powerful interests will certainly used this event as an opportunity to pass legislation that would permanently wound and cripple the beloved First Amendment. This may well be attempted in several ways that need not be apparently related.

On Capitol Hill there will be rushed into sloppy form a potpouri of previously planned legislation. which have the thrust of preventing "hate crimes." A Bill which protects Jews, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, women, homosexuals, lesbians, transgenderites, warlocks, witches, Rock Stars, vertically- &/or horizontally-challenged people, and Satanists may roll out for a vote before the Fourth of July. President Obama will announce his enthusiatic support for this legislation.

On Capitol Hill there will be rushed into sloppy form a potpouri of previously planned legislation to limit the sale of firearms, bullets, knives, forks and spoons. Anyone who violently uses such weapons with discernable, assumptive, or hypothetical hate on Jews, Blacks, Latinos, Asians, women, homosexuals, lesbians, transgenderites, warlocks, witches, Rock Stars, vertically- &/or horizontally-challenged people, and Satanists will automatically receive a mandatory five year sentence and a one million dollar fine. There will be ardent cries to repeal the Second Amendment. Intellectuals will reason that only Homeland Security should have guns, because they only exist to "protect us."

Sincere futurists may envision and polemicize the need for society to abort post-natal humans who have been deformed by Nazi doctrines, "racism," and Anti-Semitism. They will point out that if Hitler's idea of a Germany owned and operated by Germans found exceptance, then the Era of Anti-Semitism will have been enthroned. If such doctrines were accepted everywhere, there would be no place for Jews to call home - other than the State of Israel (sic). The community of western intellectuals would unite to buy a full page in the New York Times, denouncing such a trend. Congress can be expected to hold "hearings" on this matter. President Obama pledges to support a diversity of Jews in high places throughout the world. Obama assures: This is what democracy is all about.

Opposition to growing neo-Nazi influence, said to now number in the scores of people, will impel Congress and the White House to pass a law to abolish unwarranted freedoms in America. Congress will then promise to imprison every American, if that's what's needed to preserve our precious freedoms.

Did the Holocaust shooter unintentionally shoot Uncle Sam in the heart?


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HELPING THE POST OFFICE

I have been grieved to hear that the United States Postal Service is suffering from money issues. I've had some myself and can vouch for the Postal People's pain. Yes, being broke isn't a young man's dream of the future. Still, as we like to say: What it is!

I have a suggestion. Given the speeding and jaywalking in the Post Offices' parking lots, why not issue tickets? A few hidden cameras which are well calculated to catch people jaywalking could easily make a bunch of loot.

Every time I go to the regional USPS in Merrifield, VA, I find myself almost backing over a visitor, who has chosen to walk right behind my car. Individuals aren't the only problem. Mothers will push their babies right behind a car clearly preparing to leave. People refuse to go the "long way" by utilizing the sidewalks. Only jaywalking citations will get the correct response.

D.C. REPS DECLARE CONCEPTIONAL STATEHOOD

On the frontpage of Technorati for April 7, 2009, was a citation from an article, which read: "The D.C. Council voted today to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, on the same day that Vermont became the fourth state to legalize same-sex unions...." (Emphasis added.)

Since the District of Columbia has many well-educated residents, who tend to be interested in political matters, the wording above is most likely not arrived at by accidental misusage. Further, since the whining legend on license plates issued to cars and other motor vehicles by the District of Columbia make plain to all but the absolutely obtuse that the political leadership understands that the District of Columbia isn't a state of the union but merely the territorial seat of the national government. If these politically interested residents of D.C. wanted to live in a state of the union, all they need do is move to Maryland or Virginia, both of which are only a few miles away.

These are arrogant people. Arrogance and misplaced anger are the two most recognizable traits of residents of the District. They are often apparent when promoting a self-serving cause. Hence, it's not lack of intelligence but disfiguring traits that engender obvious misstatements, such as above cited.

The expression "other states" suggest that the District of Columbia is a "state of the national union." It suggests that there is parity between it and "other states." It is an arrogant "reach" and false comparison.

Although the District of Columbia is not a state of the national union, meaning the United States of America, it is a "state" of the United States. This strange situation came about after a series of deliberations around the turn of the 20th century by the Supreme Court which were collectively called the Insular Decisions. In these series of cases the Court decided that there were three United States. One was the national union of sovereign states. Another was the U.S. represented as a Sovereign among other nations. The last was the United States as a municipal power which exercised "exclusive Legistive Power" through Congress over the Seat of Government, military bases & depots, territories and enclaves. In the latter "United States" Congress functions as the exclusive sovereign, unlimited by the Constitution, or by other branches of government.

By craft and facile terminology our leaders have been able to extend the municipal power of Congress over the citizens of the sovereign states by extending them "privileges," acceptance of which would then effectively waive one's constitutional protections. By this means national law was largely replaced by public policy, which benefits were granted to its "subjects" by the sovereign Congress, rather than "Unalienable Rights" bestowed by God. For the same reason everywhere in every formerly sovereign state, the federal government asserted the primacy of its law. This is the same as asserting its jurisdiction.

No one seemed to care one way or another. The prevailing idiom is: I don't care so long as I get my share. This is pretty much the message in "gangsta rap."

However, one can't really expect to fairly reap more than one sews. Hence, Americans have become rather morally loose. This brings us back to the residents of the District of Columbia. You can't get much looser than these folks. Besides being one of the few jurisdictions with rising levels of AIDs, these brainy Sodomites and their supporters have taken to falling on the streets to block traffic in protest against the ravages of this disease, which is peculiar to proponents of aberrant sexual practices. From this starting point a secondary wave of victims is created.

One of the leaders of the D.C. Council, a Mr. Graham (not known to be a blood relative of Donald Graham, son of Katherine Meyer Graham, the late owner of The Washington Post Company), publicly expressed himself as incensed at the comment of a Montgomery County, Maryland, politician at a public forum that included the word "aberrant" in regard to homosexuality. Needless to say, Mr. Graham is a proud homosexual and publicly-elected D.C. representative. He, his friends, his allies and his supporters not surprisingly are in favor of "gay marriages" or, at a minimum, "same-sex unions."

Therefore, when on the occasion of this supremely unwise and cruel legislation being enacted in Vermont, as it had been in a few other states, this event also offered the D.C. Council an opportunity to support this legislation in principle but also to word it in such a way as to suggest peerage between the sovereign states of the national union and the District of Columbia, seat of the national government. Proponents of "Gay equality" and "states' rights" for the District of Columbia could join forces behind the Council's vote of "recognition." They could be confident of media reportage being favorable.

In a nation ravaged by venereal diseases and tattoos, the signs of outlawry are visible on the very skin. Could their legislation be less bold?