Posted on 11/19/2008 8:58:19 AM PST by Toki
Soaring costs expected to accompany huge crowds in town for the Jan. 20 inauguration of Barack Obama could stick cash-strapped Washington, D.C., with a record-breaking bill for services. Security and capacity measures recommended by the District’s congressional delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and others will almost certainly surpass the $15 million the federal government gives to the District each year to defray the cost of events, Norton said.
One of the strangest things that has ever happened to me - I learned that I am 3 or 4 degrees from Hitler (I never know if I’m supposed to count myself or not when I do these things).
Hitler-Leni Reifenstahl-a member of my PhD committee (a native German) - me. As a convert to Judaism, I just find this very weird indeed.
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