Posted on 01/30/2021 3:56:32 PM PST by McGruff
Today, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a statement calling on the U.S. Capitol Police to allow sledding at the Capitol tomorrow and next week in anticipation of a snowstorm.
“The west side of the Capitol is well known as perhaps the best place for sledding in D.C.’s high-density urban environment. Annually, I get a provision included in the Legislative Branch Appropriations bill directing the Capitol Police to allow sledding on Capitol grounds. While the Capitol complex has been closed since the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, sledding can be done safely by allowing only children and adults accompanied by children with sleds or other sled-like devices to use the Capitol grounds for sledding.
“This could be the only snowstorm D.C. gets this winter, and may be one of the best for sledding in years. Children and their parents should be able to enjoy sledding on one of the best hills in the city.
“Children across America have endured an extremely challenging year, and D.C. children in particular have not only endured the coronavirus pandemic but now the militarization of their city, with the hostile symbols of fences and barbed wire. Sledding is a simple, childhood thrill. It is the least we can allow for our resilient children this winter season.”
Couldn’t a sled be a deadly weapon? On the Capitol grounds?
yes indeedie! our Congresscritters have their priorities .. when it isn’t bashing or slandering or threatening President Trump its sledding
President Biden attended Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Georgetown tonight (same church he attended last Sunday with his family .... snow in DC forecast tomorrow)
6:30 PM · Jan 30, 2021
Wouldn't be funny if they didn't get any snow.
What does Biden do at Mass, hang out in the Confessional?
He’s in the habit of sniffing nuns.
I swear, when I read that, I thought, “the Bee does it again, dammit!” :-)
I say NO ....let them suffer from the choices they make. You want a damned wall round the capitol, then live with it in it’s entirety.
“Completely unmolested until we came across our congressman’s office...”
(Was I the only one expecting a hair sniffer or something?)
“This could be the only snowstorm D.C. gets this winter, and may be one of the best for sledding in years. Children and their parents should be able to enjoy sledding on one of the best hills in the city.
But....but....what if they’re patriotic Americans?
Are they banned?
Nah - I think she sounds like a left-wing nutcase wanting to make the abnormal appear semi-normal to keep the sedition masked.
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