Subject:	Re: Y2K Will Add to Russia's Woes, Paying for it will add to American's woes.
Date:	1999/10/06
Author:	cory hamasaki <kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net>
	Posting History

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 06:53:17, tcmay@got.net (Tim May) wrote:   > $15.5 million. > > Let's see, that's $2.5 million for administrative overhead and office > costs, $2.5 million for preliminary reviews and contingency exigency > planning, and $10 million for new villas and dachas in Sorrento and Cap > Ferrat for the insiders. > > Which leaves $0.5 million. Which they can buy some locks and "Closed" signs. > > "But, it's a START!" > > --Tim May   Pardon?  Are you talking about firetrucks and Russia or DeeCee?   Recall the "City Car" incident where some pesky reporters tried to find out how many take home cars the Mayor handed out his constituents.  It was up in the thousands.  Granted that these were probably lease-cars and the annual bill was only a few thousand each, the total burden might have been less than ten million dollars per year.   Then there was the issue of the city paid "security improvements" to the Mayor's house.  Landscaping, fencing, etc.   Oh, and before I forget, another bunch of pesky reporters started following the Mayor around.  They tailed him to a private home, knocked on the door, "The mayor is in the bedroom 'resting'."  The Post hinted that the Mayor was engaged in more on the job, hanky-panky.   I should clarify this.  Hanky-panky in Iowa or Georgia might mean goofing off, having a beer in the afternoon, taking an extra 20 minutes for lunch, making a personal phone call on city time.  This mayor was video taped sucking a crack pipe and dropping his pants.   All this while the roads crumbled, the city properties fell into disrepair, the power bill at the morgue went unpaid and the bodies turned green and parts fell off. "Are you sure that's Uncle Joe?  I distinctly recall that he had a nose and ears.  Hey Bob, this one look like Uncle Joe to you?"  "I don't know, scrape off a couple of those mushrooms."   And now the final indignity.  After shaking down the Feds for $120 million, DeeCee is pretending that they're on track to slam the last brick into place on December 31, 1999.  "We'll be ready."   Sadly DeeCee could have been a showcase to the world.  The Federal Era townhouses on New York avenue, abandoned for 20, 30, 40 years, exhibit a style that must be seen.  These are stone and brick 3 and 4 story structures with 10 and 12 foot ceilings,  slate or copper roofs, turrets, used as drug shooting galleries, prostitution houses, and gang hide outs.   cory hamasaki http://www.kiyoinc.com/current.html 

-- a (a@a.a), October 06, 1999

Answers

How depressing.

-- Mumsie (Shezdremn@aol.com), October 06, 1999.

"10 and 12 foot ceilings..."

Rooms like that are very expensive to heat... or to aircondition.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), October 06, 1999.

Gotta chime in here. It truly is jarring to drive through some of the "worst" (i.e. most dangerous) parts of deecee and see such beautiful arhcitecture. All thanks to decades of corrupt city government and piss-poor, self-interested oversight from Congress.

Scott

-- Scott Johnson (scojo@yahoo.com), October 06, 1999.

Look, I grew up in DC. While Cory's got some of the headlines right here, most of what this said is hyperbole. If you take this stuff seriously then you're accepting a very jaded view of the reality.

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), October 06, 1999.

Jeez, Cory. You're talking about the last mayor. Things are different now.

dave

-- dave (wootendave@hotmail.com), October 06, 1999.

I'd be less concerned about mushrooms in DC than over it.....

-- LauraA (Laadedah@aol.com), October 06, 1999.

And anyone who believes ANYTHING that the pathetic piece of shit that sometimes posts under "Buddy" writes would be better off eating the stupid mushrooms. At least they have some substance.

"Buddy", a.k.a. "Doomslayer", actually makes Andy Ray look rational. How many more names are you posting under these days, "Buddy"?

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), October 07, 1999.

DeeCee...Whatta Town...

I'd rather live in Beirut....

-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasn@Yahoo.com), October 07, 1999.

King of Spain,

You like throwing mud balls. Do you eat mud too?

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), October 07, 1999.

Only if you're still in DC in 2000.

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), October 07, 1999.

dave -

Y2K projects had to get funded and fixes had to start going in during Mayor Barry's regime, or they were gonna be seriously late. They weren't and didn't, so now they are.

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.hid), October 07, 1999.