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Metro Worse than you thought Possible
Posted on December 10, 2015 by novahockey
Even those who didn’t see the questions beforehand considered the evaluations a breeze. “I’ll be honest with you—I studied harder for fast-food jobs and waiter jobs when I was in college than I did for their program,” says Kenneth Colvin, who was a US Army air-traffic controller before joining Scarbrough and Watkins’s training class. “Their testing program is a joke.”
Things got even stranger when the new hires started on-the-job training and found a workplace that, according to five recent ROCC trainees, was inhospitable to newcomers. The ROCC’s employees were mostly WMATA lifers who almost never left the Landover facility. (Even when the Silver Line opened, controllers watched a DVD about the extension instead of touring it.) Many veterans hardly spoke to the new hires, who felt as if they were being iced out. “They wanted us to fail,” Colvin says.
It’s hard to even recommend it for tourists anymore. I use it sparingly, but honestly, Uber is just so much more convenient. So i’m saying that i’d get in an loosely-regulated jitney driven by a stranger (UberX) before getting on a heaving regulated transit system is all you need to know. Of course, on Tuesday, my UberX driver had a Mercedes C-class Sedan.
Also: What an incredible smell you’ve discovered.
This wasn’t the only troubling thing the feds found in Metro’s plumbing. The FTA discovered that train drivers regularly relieved themselves on the tracks because supervisors, due to inadequate training, weren’t comfortable taking the wheel to give them bathroom breaks.
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Not Radicalized
Posted on December 9, 2015 by novahockey
I’m tired of hearing about how someone became radicalized. It’s a completely backwards way of viewing this problem.
“Counterterrorism officials also told NBC News that Farook and Malik were making preparations for some time to “take care of both grandma and the baby.” The couple lived in a Redlands, California residence with their 6-month-old daughter and Farook’s 62-year-old mother, Rafia Farook. They left their daughter with Rafia Farook on the morning of the attack.
Nobody radicalized them. They had a choice. And they choose to be evil. That’s all there is to it. Nobody twisted their arm or filled their head with nonsense. They went looking for an excuse and found one ready made.
Also, the press lies on mass shootings. And the only reasons this even matters, is we can’t even decided what rights are.
I hear “my right not to be shot outweighs your right to own a gun.” This strikes me as perfectly idiotic. But it’s no more idiotic than an imagined right not to be criticized or offended, which is far more popular in modern America.
We’ve lost the plot. We don’t know where rights come from, we don’t know or care from whom they protect us, we don’t know how to analyze proposed restrictions to them, and brick by brick we’ve built a culture that scorns rights in the face of real or imagined risks. It is therefore inevitable that talk about Second Amendment rights will be met with scorn or shrugs, and that discussions of what restrictions on rights are permissible will be mushy and unprincipled.
So here’s how this places out ..
Two people who looked for a justification to kill are stripped of their agency by Western liberals (aka paternalistic racists), who then lie about the extent of a different problem so they can preen in front of their credentialed but ignorant peers and post pithy, yet asinine things on Facebook about how we need to curtail rights they do not understand and would happily surrender because they reject the idea that evil exists and think that things would be great if we just gave peace a chance.
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The Cortaca Jug
Posted on November 22, 2013 by novahockey
I went to one of the two schools that participate in the Cortaga Jug
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Do You Believe in Miracles?
Posted on October 18, 2013 by novahockey
Story about the stenographer who interrupted the House vote the other day.
What’s interesting to me is that she apparently is a devout Catholic. And it was the Holy Spirit that lead her to do this. And part of me thinks, I believe her. Because if you believe in miracles, why isn’t that possible. I certainly get being frustrated with Congress.
Who knows. My wife is dear friends with a a woman who wont’s come to Georgetown when she visits us, b/c of the steps that were featured in the Exorcist, because as she says, “That shit is real.” Also a devout Catholic. They met at ND. Incredibly smart and talented. My wife kinds of laughed it off. But I wasn’t so sure. Because, like she said, that shit IS real.
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It’s over
Posted on September 10, 2013 by novahockey
I was 14 the last time the Pirates had a winning season. What’s weird about it is a bunch is I found my old Pirates hats in a box this past weekend when I was getting my glove out to have a catch with the little guy. Who is not, apparently, going to be a lefty. My dreams of raising a LOOGY* are over.
*Left-handed one out guy.
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For Troll
Posted on May 16, 2013 by novahockey
Star Trek sequel review from Reason’s Peter Suderman.
“Star Trek Into Darkness” is an apt title for a movie as empty as the vastness of space. The movie moves as if through a vacuum — fast and frictionless, from one scene to another, with a lot of nothing along the way. The warp-speed pacing only barely hides the fact that it never really goes anywhere at all, and doesn’t aim to either. The final frontier? Forget it. This soulless sequel to a reboot is only too happy to go where every generic sci-fi blockbuster has gone before, and not so boldly either.
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Exercise
Posted on March 13, 2013 by novahockey
I started Crossfit a few weeks ago. Really liking it. It’s a team environment, which is a lot more fun that just going to a gym. It’s a bit intense, but we have all ages. There’s guy in my class in his 60s and some women who can’t be more than 110 soaking wet.
The “box” (the lingo for gym) that I go to is owned by a Marine. He tends to name his workouts. This one is named after a 1LT who was killed in Afghanistan. It’s strangly motivating. I find myself working harder, like it owe it to her. Here’s the workout:
U.S. Army First Lieutenant Ashley White, 24, of Alliance, OH, assigned to the 230th Brigade Support Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team, North Carolina National Guard, based in Goldsboro, NC, died on October 22, 2011 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked her unit with an improvised explosive device. She is survived by her husband Captain Jason Stumpf, her parents Robert and Deborah, brother Josh, and sister Brittney.
“White”
5 Rounds of the following.
3 Rope Climbs
10 Toes to Bar
21 OH (overhead) Plate Walking Lunges (45/25) use a 45 or 25 pound plate, hold it above your head, and do lunges
Run 400m
LII — level 2, so not as hart as the “White”
5 Rounds
1 Rope Climb
7 Toes to Bar
21 OH Plate Walking Lunges (45/25)
Run 400m
LI
4 Rounds
3 Rope Pull to Standing
7 Knees to Wherever
21 OH Plate Walking Lunges (25/15)
Run 400m
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Sorry. Really.
Posted on February 22, 2013 by novahockey
Look, I’m sorry. But this was on the radio yesterday morning, it’s been on a loop in my head since then. And the only way to get it out is to give to someone else.
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All Things in Moderation 