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.