{"id":120,"date":"2005-11-27T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2006-01-09T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T21:17:37","slug":"washington-dc-special-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/news-to-make-you-blue\/11\/27\/washington-dc-special-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington DC, Special Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as I&#8217;m a nearby resident of the wonderful city of Washington DC, I thought I would do a nice informal edition dedicated to America&#8217;s capital.  Though a wonderful city from bars and clubs to museums and sight-seeing, the city has been in run into the ground by local officials for decades.  As a fathers friend once said to me (who had been involved all over the world with the State Department and USAID &#8212; including numerous Middle East and African governments), &#8220;the District has the most corrupt government I have ever seen.&#8221;  And with that intro, I bring you a special edition to my city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/26\/AR2005112601139.html\">No bid contracts, favoritism passed down from government officials.<\/a> All pretty routine in DC, and now a few years later, everyone acknowledges the problem after the fact.  If you pay taxes in DC, you may as well dump off a large bag of money on Marion Barry&#8217;s front yard.<\/p>\n<p>So basically after you have this happen, the first people that get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/26\/AR2005112600979.html\">short changed are schools.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then after you had white flight from Washington DC in the 1960&#8217;s, you had black flight in the 1980&#8217;s.  What&#8217;s happening now? Oh, crime now flows <em>out<\/em> of Washington DC, into Prince George&#8217;s County in Maryland.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20051122-104110-4612r.htm\">PG County in Maryland, next to DC, has one of the highest murder rates in the Nation.<\/a>  And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20051120-104549-4188r.htm\">DC itself spends over 40 million dollars a year just for security personnel <em>at schools<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2000\/07\/18\/sldn\/index.html\">Navy investigators target gay sailors in DC<\/a>.  That&#8217;s a good way to spend money.  Fuck Iraq or Osama Bin Laden.  I want queers who like Madonna to get nailed.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and all of our sports teams suck.  Especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/27\/AR2005112700313.html\">the Redskins.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as I&#8217;m a nearby resident of the wonderful city of Washington DC, I thought I would do a nice informal edition dedicated to America&#8217;s capital. Though a wonderful city from bars and clubs to museums and sight-seeing, the city has been in run into the ground by local officials for decades. 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