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Obey All Traffic Signs
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 20 Comments › )Filed under Art, Humor, OOT, Open thread at March 27th, 2012 - 11:00 pm
Office Complex to Nowhere
by 1389AD ( 90 Comments › )Filed under Democratic Party, Environmentalism, Military, Transportation at October 8th, 2010 - 8:30 am
Your tax dollars at work!
Feds Build $1 Billion Virginia Office Complex Without Parking Or Roads to Get To It
By Warner Todd Huston Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The federal government has built a one billion dollar office complex in Virginia to house some 6,400 Pentagon workers that are to be moved soon. It’s a beautiful new office complex that rises like a mountain next to Northern Virginia’s I-395. But there are a few little problems.
There is no parking for one thing and for another, even if there was a parking lot for 6,400 workers, there are no roads to GET them there!
That’s right, there is no access that won’t cause tremendous traffic jams for the area. Worse, there aren’t any bus or Metro train stops anywhere near the building so workers cannot even take advantage of the Washington area’s extensive public transportation network to get to their new offices.
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A giant office complex sits nearing completion costing a billion dollars and no one can get to it.
This is the complete incompetence of government on full display.
And these people want to handle our vital healthcare?
According to the article below, there were plans to put some parking spaces in the complex, but local politicians inserted a provision limiting the parking spaces to a grossly inadequate 1,000 “until a viable transportation plan is hatched that all parties can agree on.” Considering that local tree-huggers have blocked the construction of a ramp connecting the highway to the office complex, it’s anybody’s guess when – or if – any such agreement will ever take place.
The US has already has plenty of nature areas – arguably too many. If local residents insist on a nature area with no highway ramps nearby, it behooves them to buy some land somewhere else, at their own expense, and set it up where it won’t block access to anything important in the foreseeable future.
Everyone is asking why the Defense Department chose such a site and begin building on it without first making certain that there would be no problems with transportation access. While I would agree that this is an example of bad (or no) planning, I must also ask whether the affected Democrat US Representative and Senators, not to mention the tree-huggers, are using the traffic issues as an excuse to block the use of the office complex so as to create impediments to, or show disrespect for, the US military. Where were they when the building was still in its planning stages? All too often, Democrat politicians – and tree-huggers – have refused to acknowledge that the US has foreign enemies, that we need a military to deter aggression, and that the military needs resources in order to do its job.
Gridlock – both traffic and governmental
$1 billion BRAC mistake: Traffic upends plans for 6400-person facility
…Virtually all studies done so far show that surrounding roads — even after planned expansions are completed — cannot accommodate the traffic expected to stream in and out of the Mark Center facility each day. One approach proposed by the Army, which leads the project, would construct a large ramp linking the highway and the building — but it would affect a nearby nature reserve, which the local community rejects.
With no obvious solutions in sight, a battle has erupted on Capitol Hill and the fate of the building lies in limbo, even as the Army puts finishing touches on the facility and pays for construction projects to expand nearby roads and intersections.
“A building of this size — with no access to [Washington’s mass transit system] Metro — should never have been considered at this location,” said Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., who represents the district where the building — and anticipated traffic catastrophe — is located. “With one year until 6,400 people are slated to begin commuting to the Mark Center, we need to act quickly to minimize the negative impact for Northern Virginia’s roads, businesses and neighborhoods.”
Moran authored a provision in the House-passed 2011 Defense authorization bill that would limit parking spaces at the new facility to 1,000 — effectively choking plans to fully open the building — until a viable transportation plan is hatched that all parties can agree on. Affected employees would remain at their current leased offices throughout Northern Virginia until then. Virginia’s two Democratic senators — Jim Webb and John Warner — offered similar amendments to the Senate’s version of the bill, but they have yet to be voted on…
Citizens Of This Blogmocracy: Enlist Now!
by WrathofG-d ( 20 Comments › )Filed under Blogmocracy at March 19th, 2009 - 3:19 pm
“This Blogmocracy will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men and women, who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them, cannot be enslaved.“
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Citizens, you are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real Americans and all real Americans like to fight.
This Blogmocracy was formed from the ashes of a great battle, which we still find ourselves in today. A battle against blog monarchies, ego centric totalitarians, and those who would ask us to sleep while the greater enemy prepares. All through your blogging careers, you have complained about what you call censorship and Nancyism. That, like everything else in this World, has a definite purpose. That purpose is intellectual clarity. Intellectual clarity must be bred into every citizen. I don’t care for a man who’s not willing to look past what his “King” told him. You however are intellectually clear – or you wouldn’t be here.
A true American Blogmocracy is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse manure. The bilious bastards who preach that kind of stuff on their own blogs don’t know any more about real blogmocracy than they know about science!
From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our citizens too hard. I don’t give a good Goshdarn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more blog monarchs we will defeat. The more blog monarchs we defeat, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.
Therefore, we the Admins, call on you all to stand up, and claim the responsibility that comes with your liberty, and freedom here. This is YOUR Blogmocracy and as such you, the citizens of this noble venture must protect the rights given to you by the Almighty who has freed you from the blogging monarchys! Your Blogmocracy calls on you to enlist! Get out there and push hard to bring more traffic, attention and ideas to your Blogmocracy. We are a team! A Blogmocracy! The Admins cannot do it alone!
Once we have acheived our goals, and the “Kings” have been dethroned, there is one great thing that you men and women will all be able to say after this blog war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in for the Great Blogmocracy, you WON’T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, “Well, your Granddaddy shoveled poop to ten people in exile. No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, “Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Blogmocracy and a Son-of-a-Goshdarn-Bitch named WrathofG-d!“
