First Tour and the Snow

The Snow in DC was bad, last week - pathetic, actually. Well, I'll tell you what was pathetic - the LACK of clearing that had been done.

And I'm SICK of hearing about budgets - the Park Rangers are at the memorials EVERY day - so.... here's a great way to keep warm in that chilly weather - SHOVEL that darn snow away.

I had a great group, last week. They were wonderful, actually. Here's what they saw at the World War II Memorial...


This is what it SHOULD look like:


And I'm not talking about the lack of water or the sunshine.

Here they are walking TREACHEROUSLY up the path....


Sure... that's SAFE...

But here's what they saw in New York City...


And Philadelphia...


Because those cities aren't run by the Federal Government...

Tell me, Mr. Mayor - don't you think that if you CLEAR this snow bank, the people will be able to PARK on the street, and use your Parking Meters, thereby increasing the REVENUE you are so sorely lacking?

And this is difficult for me to understand, since EVERY SINGLE BUS that drives into your our city has to pay a fee. Every day. So, how are you so incredibly short of money? You charge everybody for everything. All those free museums... they're not eating into YOUR profits. They're ours.

Interesting note about museums in DC. The NEWSEUM (for profit, privately owned) was open EVERY SINGLE DAY of the snowstorm. The Smithsonian... (owned by we the people, a gift from James Smithson, an Englishman who never even sterpped foot in our country)... closed for a week...