Silver Spring Transit Center: how it happened, who’s at fault and who pays

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On a personal note, it's been frustrating to read and listen to all the "experts" make public statements regarding the safety of the SSTC, and other matters, while lacking basic technical knowledge on the subject--"talking through their hats". Public officials making public statements, especially regarding the safety of the SSTC, should KNOW that their public statements are technically accurate BEFORE they make them. If public officials lack the technical knowledge in construction and engineering to know that the public statements that they make are accurate, then IMHO they shouldn't make them.

The news media have reported numerous times that David Dise, Director of the Montgomery County Department of General Services, says: “The SSTC will absolutely be safe”. HOGWASH! Dise can't guarantee that the SSTC will be safe, any more than ANYONE can predict the future. Dise may THINK that the SSTC will be absolutely safe; but, he doesn’t KNOW that the SSTC will be absolutely safe. It’s Dise’s OPINION that the SSTC will be safe. And, we all know what they say about opinions—they all stink. Stick to the FACTS, Mr. Dise. If you choose to make your OPINIONS public, then be clear to the public that it's your OPINION, NOT A FACT.

the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth

The Vietnam War segment on the CNN series "The Sixties" contains a taped 1965 conversation between Sen. Richard Russell and President Lyndon Johnson in which Russell told Johnson that he "couldn't have inherited a worse mess (the Vietnam war)." 

Johnson replied: "Well, if they say I inherited it, I'd be lucky, but they'll all say I created it. Dick, the trouble is, the great trouble I'm under, a man can fight if he can see daylight down the road somewhere, but there ain't no daylight in Vietnam. There's not a bit."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/us/vietnam-war-five-things/index.html

If Johnson had told the American people "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth", then do you think that the American people would have stood for sending HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of their sons, grandsons, husbands, etc. into a war that we couldn't win?

Government of the People, by the People and for the People lying to the People. 
As Yogi (Berra) said: "It's deja vu all over again."

contempt of congress

Has the traditional meaning of "Contempt of Congress" changed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress)?

Check the daily news: constant partisanship, bickering, In fighting and ineptness. Look at the Congress' approval rating. I believe that the traditional meaning of "Contempt of Congress" has changed.

California teacher tenure

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/10/calif-judge-teacher-tenure-policies-violation/#ixzz34PZZA5ev 

“The evidence this court heard was that it could take anywhere from two to almost ten years and cost $50,000 to $450,000 or more to bring these cases to conclusion under the Dismissal Statutes, and that given these facts, grossly ineffective teachers are being left in the classroom because school officials do not wish to go through the time and expense to investigate and prosecute these cases,” said Judge Treu’s ruling.

Incredible

$100+ million Ripoff

Silver Spring Transit Center, Montgomery County, MD.

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