Franz Kafka Rides DC's Rails In The Czech Republic

D.C. streetcars roll in Czech Republic
It's like something out of a Franz Kafka novel -- a city buys streetcars for $10 million, but has no tracks to run them.

Kafka was a famous Czech writer and the streetcars are in the Czech Republic. The city that bought the streetcars -- with no tracks -- is the District of Columbia.

3 years ago the District of Columbia bought the streetcars. 3 years ago the District of Columbia had no tracks for streetcars and presumably someone in government understood that. Presumably.

D.C. Department of Transportation Director Emeka Moneme tells WTOP the holdup is tracks for the streetcars to run on. They have not been put down, and there is no current timetable for when those tracks will go down.

So, for the last 3 years DC's streetcars have been taken out for periodic spins in the Czech Republic because some genius bought them when they could not be used. That about sums up governance in DC. Oh, and when they do get around to putting in tracks, DC wants ridership to be free.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. Franz Kafka

Church On Wheels

DRIVING FAITH

"New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland, with a combined population smaller than Poland...have more automobiles in service than the whole world outside of the United States," wrote William Joseph Showalter in his October 1923 National Geographic article, "The Automobile Industry." Pictured in that issue was one of those New York cars in service—to a higher power. The Reverend Branford Clarke's Brooklyn-based "traveling chapel" was equipped with stained-glass windows, an organ for his wife to play, and a fold-down steeple to help the whole thing fit in his garage.—Margaret G. Zackowitz

Harry Reid Thinks About Sex. A Lot.

What a letch.

Reid: GOP is 'making love to Wall Street'

Harry and his son do make money from bad sex.

David Obey, Mr Progressive, Quits

David Obey, a follower of Robert "case of the nerves" La Follette, is calling it quits. A blue state flu appears to have broken out in DC which causes one to hope that there is no vaccine.

David Obey won't seek reelection

As a Progressive, Obey has sponsored and championed some of the most onerous legislation enlarging government power and control while lessening individual and business rights.

Ta-Ta.

Bin Laden is in DC!

Osama Bin Laden Not in Iran, More Likely in D.C.

He'd fit right in. How much better could he hide than amongst arrogant politicians with Napoleonic complexes bent on ramming down our throats policy that we don't want and increasingly call for civil penalties for voicing opposition? Hell, he may be leading Congress.

Declassified Docs Show Kent State Protesters Planned To Incite Violence Through Sniper and Fire

New light shed on Kent State killings
Shots fired at Guard, declassified files indicate
Previously undisclosed FBI documents suggest that the Kent State antiwar protests were more meticulously planned than originally thought and that one or more gunshots may have been fired at embattled Ohio National Guardsmen before their killings of four students and woundings of at least nine others on that searing day in May 1970.

I clearly remember talk of a sniper firing on the Guardsmen in 1970. I also clearly remember the attitude of some of the protesters, especially the leaders, who clearly thought rioting, violence and destruction would change the world into what they wanted. Most other s thought the protests to be a lark. They were ignorant then and ignorant now.

Wake Up, Become A Jihadist, Bomb Times Square.

The left is so disappointed that the Times Square loser bomber wasn't a blue haired old white lady on a Tea Party Jihad.

Recap of what we've been told:

Faisal Shahzad is a Pakistani-American
He is a naturalized American citizen
He had one of his properties in foreclosure
He used a disposable cell phone
He scanned Craigslist for a vehicle
He bought the SUV with cash
He packed the SUV with explosives
He drove it to Times Square
He left it running in a no parking zone
He walked away
He was arrested on an airplane about to take off

Okay, what else?

He had just been in Pakistan for 5 months
He appears to have no job
He appears to have no money
He's supporting his family
He's paying for trans continental flights
He's bought a SUV
He bought explosives and excelerants
He had bomb making knowledge

Okay, what more?

He used the wrong material in his bomb so it didn't explode
He left a running vehicle running in a no parking zone
Times Square is heavily guarded
It was a street vendor alerted authorities
He attended terror camps in Pakistan
He was not on the Terror Watch List
Pakistan was (too) quick to make arrests
He supposedly is a lone bomber


What all this tells us:

That his bomb didn't explode was a mistake
That it was a street vendor that started the investigation
That our security forces appears to been completely in the dark
That he is not a lone bomber
That he is a Muslim
He is either a sleeper or newly made Jihadi
He was assisted in his effort

One more thing:

He is not the only one.

The Taxman Knows Where You Live

And he knows if you've been naughty or nice. So be good for goodness sakes and give him his slice.

From North Korea With Love

We’ll judge our mortal enemy, the American imperialists who deserve to die, until the very end!


불구대천의 원쑤 미제와 끝까지 결판을 낼것이다!
 
2009

Seek Medical Attention If After 4 Hours...

Tennessee Flood

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Riker-Photography/132995183757

Ticket, Please.

Why Illegal Immigration Needs To Be Stopped. Now.

It isn't just the smuggling of illegal aliens nor just the smuggling of illegal drugs, it is also the beatings, the rapes, the extortion of life savings and forced prostitution and that's just whats happening to Mexicans. American home and properties are being violated, by some accounts by Mexican military and police, and Americans are being robbed, raped, murdered and left for dead.

And who is it that wants this to continue or be codified into law? Hint, it's not Republicans.

Deputy shot; illegal immigrants suspected
A veteran sheriff's deputy was shot and wounded Friday after encountering a group of suspected illegal immigrants who apparently had been hauling bales of marijuana along a major smuggling corridor in the Arizona desert- a violent episode that comes amid a heated national debate over immigration.

It is time to start a systematic removal of illegal aliens from within the United States and to stop the flow at the borders. Finish the wall between Mexico and the United States, stop the teachings of a separatist South West by groups such as La Raza (in our schools!) and heavily fine those employers who employ illegal aliens. Otherwise the problem will continue to grow worse.

E.J. Dionne, Jr Panders To The Economic Left

E. J. Dionne, Jr. speaks to the wonders of redistribution of wealth by government fiat. FDR did it so it must be good! That FDR moved our system close enough to Marxism that Marx himself was proven wrong seems to produce no irony in E. J. Dionne, Jr..

Want to save capitalism? Regulate it.
Marx's predictions about the inevitable collapse of capitalism have been wrong so far because the system has worked reasonably well, thanks to the rules and redistributive programs established after the Great Depression.

The lesson is that the surest way to save capitalism is to regulate it in the public interest. The surest way to create socialists is for everyone to experience the economic consequences of counting only on the goodness in the hearts of Mr. Potter and Fabrice Tourre.

Well, Mr. E. J. Dionne, Jr. must be happy because we have in place an administration that believes it knows better than the market place so they'll just keep on piling more regulation on until we are what Marx wanted, a deflated and stagnant economy.

Shakira And Linda Ronstadt Speak Out Against Arizona Immigration Law

Celebs Speak Out Against Arizona Law
Colombian-born Grammy winner Shakira met with police and officials in Phoenix. She said the law infringes on human and civil rights, and goes "against all human dignity."

Tucson native Linda Rondstadt said at a news conference that "Mexican-Americans are not going to take this lying down."

First, why are police officials in Phoenix taking the time to meet with a master crime fighter like Shakira? To gain her expertise? Maybe officials should look to the dignity of their citizens that need their help.

Now we find that Mexican Americans aren't going to be lying down any time soon from a different drum.

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

Maybe they can get Sean Penn to travel with them to Mexico City to form a boycott or something. Or they could just sing.

A Primer On Respect For Constituents By Politicians

Last night, I attended an event in my district, and ran into a voter who lives in District 7. This person was a total asshole. Really, truly, a fantastically foul, very visible, demonstrative, to the point of other people noticing, asshole. In fact, let’s call him Mr. Asshole.

I feel the love, the respect and the trust in voters written into the above statement. Living in a Republic does allow one to see how sausage is made, but just like with elections, one shouldn't observe the process just before dining. It might cause a lack of appetite. Of course, one could just sit and hope for a dinner of observation and snappy repartee, eh?

How Stupid And Useless Is The United Nations?

So much so that it is impossible to measure. The UN is actually harmful to the planet and its inhabitants.

U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights

Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest."

An indication of just how bad the UN is might be their decision to award to James Earl Carter (D-Prez-Worst) its first Human Rights Prize. Another indicator might be any place in Africa that the UN stepped in to help. Oh, just pick any decision they've made. The UN is a carnival of corruptocrats.

Biggest DUH! Of The Day

Illegals plan to leave AZ over law...


BONUS: Moron of the Day:
 
Mack (R) compares Ariz. law to Nazi Germany
"This law of 'frontier justice' – where law enforcement officials are required to stop anyone based on 'reasonable suspicion' that they may be in the country illegally – is reminiscent of a time during World War II when the Gestapo in Germany stopped people on the street and asked for their papers without probable cause," Mack said in a statement.
 
Nice, Connie. Our frontier is Nazi Germany?Our law enforcers are like the Gestapo? Unfortunately Connie, your statement that law enforcers are "required to stop anyone based on 'reasonable suspicion' that they may be in the country illegally" is false. Read the legislation before you employ your mouth.

Obama TV Series Needs Pat Boone

What with all those mean Republicans I think Pat could best relay the inner most thoughts going through Obama's (Rahm's) head.

I give you the series theme song.

Obama TV Coming Soon

So Who’s Going To Play Candidate Obama?
Open wants to get it on air within the next 12 to 18 months. Shaps tells me that what appealed to him about Woolfe’s book is that it is a multi-layered portrait of Obama, not a simplistic hero worship. “The questions that have since emerged about what he’s going to do with the Presidency were, to some extent, already there during the campaign,” Shaps says. “We will get to the root of what Obama wants to do with America.”

Who? I suggest Pat Boone.