There’s a probably apocryphal story that Thomas Jefferson, in picking the site for the new national capital (after Philadelphia) chose one in the most inhospitable surroundings he could find, to encourage the legislators and etc. to spend as little time there as possible.
It is worth noting that our present bloated government and bureaucracy only became feasible after the invention of air conditioning.
As part of reducing government spending (by reducing electric billing costs), locking all climate controls in government buildings in Washington D. C. at 75 degrees F. in summer and 65 degrees F. in winter might be worth considering.
Just say it because of manmade Global Climate Change. Since Liberals are the only ones who believe that crap, they should visibly and gleefully accept it.
They needed a nearly uninhabited site large enough for a city, near the center of the 13 states, and with easy access to the ocean because it was much better to send messages by sailboat than by horse relays. All the inhabitable sites near the ocean had already been taken, so we wound up with DC.
The mistake wasn’t the site selection. It was inventing air conditioning and making DC inhabitable.
On second thought, the mistake was the 16th Amendment, which gave the federal government enough tax power to pay for air conditioning the anteroom to Hell – as well as a lot of other stuff that the founding fathers never intended government to do.
February 15, 2025 at 12:55 am
WayneM
Get that girl a good 4 post lift or a 2 post lift!
Laying on the ground is not nearly as fun as it sounds as a hobbyist. Since she’s doing this professionally, even less fun.
First things first: a decent garage/shelter with a concrete floor to get her into the shade, away from the bugs, and out of the rain. And some electricity to light the way.
Upon the advice of a person who was the government’s SME. Now he, and we, know that anyone who’s been working for the government can’t be trusted. Fool me once , your fault.
‘Project Warp speed,’ the effort to quickly develop a useful vaccine against COVID-19, was supposed to fast-track the process of producing a viable solution. Things went sideways when certain companies decided to use the shortcuts for highly dubious experimental vaccines that did not follow the decades-old standard practice of flu vaccine development. It was those vaccines that did the most damage, and the reason? The companies either faked test results in the clinical trials they did run at half the minimum numbers of people as test subjects, or simply made up numbers while not running the trial. This was gone over two or three years ago, I think Baen’s Bar Forum had the most comprehensive collection of News articles on the entire series of events, from when President Trump got one of the Old-School Vaccines, to the hundreds of deaths from the Vaccines, especially in groups that should have had the lowest numbers of Heart problem-related deaths.
The Pfizer Vaccine with artificial gene sequencing was probably the worst.
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“Nuke DC”??
Noooooo!
Think of the museums!
Damn you Jimmy Carter, for stopping the development of the Neutron Bomb!
Maybe we can steal it back from the ChiComs.
There’s a probably apocryphal story that Thomas Jefferson, in picking the site for the new national capital (after Philadelphia) chose one in the most inhospitable surroundings he could find, to encourage the legislators and etc. to spend as little time there as possible.
It is worth noting that our present bloated government and bureaucracy only became feasible after the invention of air conditioning.
As part of reducing government spending (by reducing electric billing costs), locking all climate controls in government buildings in Washington D. C. at 75 degrees F. in summer and 65 degrees F. in winter might be worth considering.
clear ether
eon
You’re too kind. 85F & 55F
And NO dehumidifiers or window screens!
Zar Belk!
Just say it because of manmade Global Climate Change. Since Liberals are the only ones who believe that crap, they should visibly and gleefully accept it.
They needed a nearly uninhabited site large enough for a city, near the center of the 13 states, and with easy access to the ocean because it was much better to send messages by sailboat than by horse relays. All the inhabitable sites near the ocean had already been taken, so we wound up with DC.
The mistake wasn’t the site selection. It was inventing air conditioning and making DC inhabitable.
On second thought, the mistake was the 16th Amendment, which gave the federal government enough tax power to pay for air conditioning the anteroom to Hell – as well as a lot of other stuff that the founding fathers never intended government to do.
Get that girl a good 4 post lift or a 2 post lift!
Laying on the ground is not nearly as fun as it sounds as a hobbyist. Since she’s doing this professionally, even less fun.
First things first: a decent garage/shelter with a concrete floor to get her into the shade, away from the bugs, and out of the rain. And some electricity to light the way.
OK, but let us not forget who it was launched “Project Warp Speed.”
Upon the advice of a person who was the government’s SME. Now he, and we, know that anyone who’s been working for the government can’t be trusted. Fool me once , your fault.
‘Project Warp speed,’ the effort to quickly develop a useful vaccine against COVID-19, was supposed to fast-track the process of producing a viable solution. Things went sideways when certain companies decided to use the shortcuts for highly dubious experimental vaccines that did not follow the decades-old standard practice of flu vaccine development. It was those vaccines that did the most damage, and the reason? The companies either faked test results in the clinical trials they did run at half the minimum numbers of people as test subjects, or simply made up numbers while not running the trial. This was gone over two or three years ago, I think Baen’s Bar Forum had the most comprehensive collection of News articles on the entire series of events, from when President Trump got one of the Old-School Vaccines, to the hundreds of deaths from the Vaccines, especially in groups that should have had the lowest numbers of Heart problem-related deaths.
The Pfizer Vaccine with artificial gene sequencing was probably the worst.
Lotsa DC area real estate becoming available and prices going down. Those remaining employed will be movin’ on up.
Arlington, VA real estate: https://x.com/VladTheInflator/status/1890527179898782076
We’re goin’ on a Bug Hunt !!!
Citizens ONLY !!!