DISQUS

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

I lived in Washington, DC at the foot of Capital Hill on 9-11-2001. I would NEVER want to be there for the inaugural. There was a no more helpless feeling than being TRAPPED in a metropolitan city that was supposedly under attack with no way to get out, but to somehow HIKE out of the city. After the Pentagon got hit, everyone ran outside my apartment building, and I remember a woman running down the street screaming, "The mall's on fire! The mall's on fire!" There was instant gridlock from parents trying to rescue their kids at the nearby elementary school, and police started driving down the sidewalks telling everyone, "Take cover another plane is on its way! Don't drink your water!" (they thought the water system in DC was possibly poisoned...) Then there was all the fun of being afraid of our mail for months because of the unsolved anthrax attacks.

Call me paranoid, but if I lived there, I would LEAVE the city for all of it. I'm going to be watching from the comfort of my living room in an undisclosed location somewhere here in Oklahoma. I'm going to watch and PRAY nothing happens.

I'm through with that kind of living...

caphillprof · 1 year ago

The thing about DC bars being open all night is that they could provide refuge and bathrooms for lots and lots of people.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

Hey, thats a good point.

shell · 1 year ago

Are you surprised? Bennett is a Mormon, from Utah. You know why HE is obsessing on bars. As for DiFi, she is, in heart, just a little ole Southern Belle: "Why, Mista Bennett -- whatever shall we do?"

vkobaya · 1 year ago

Yep! Safety, water, food, porta-pottys and clean up should be primary on their minds. Alcohol probably contributes to the safety issue, but gut feeling is it is important to Feinstein and Bennett primarily as morality issue, probably unfair on my part. Given that these are politicians, they are more concerned with posturing than real issues, it isn't that unfair of me. Another unfair judgment on my part is they are probably worried that if something should happen and those millions die, they will die in sin, without their Bibles. Gak!

I'm sick and tired of DC and the phonys in that city. Can't wait for Obama to take over. He's lied to us, but the scale of his lies are vastly less than Bush's (in my opinion, of course) and I think he would be far more concerned with real issues than the current asso-in-chief. I hope the Democrats have made their own contingency plans to protect and evacuate Obama given that up to that point the Secret Service belongs to Bush. Obama is a fraud, but that is still a hell of a lot better than Satan's chief lieutenant and all his crap.

Ack! If Obama fries, he also lied to us. Got to stop carrying as I wonder how much he cares about the rest of us.

Indigo · 1 year ago

From where I sit, it looks like the city parentals are carefully creating the conditions that lead to discomfort, unpleasantness and then to rioting. Lovely.

dacnova · 1 year ago

We'll be staying in Arlington and getting a better view on TV. I know it's historic, but I can only take so much.

eclare · 1 year ago

I suppose this makes me a bad patriot, but I am getting the hell out of Dodge that week. I'm renting out my U street apartment and using the proceeds to ski in Vail.

lilybart · 1 year ago

Good god, let the bars and anything and everything stay open, this may be the last good money these places see for some time. With the economy is free fall, isnt; in the interests of DC residents to make as much money as possible on this event?