Washington DC or Springfield, IL??

[MrFun]

Originally posted by notyoueither


You're less likely to make connections with other people in the profession in a smaller centre.

Working in DC could lead to much bigger and better things if only through the people you get to know, let alone the resources that you will be living on top of.

It's like asking a British historian if he would rather be paid to live and work in Liverpool or London. It's a no-brainer.

So it's better to live homeless as long as you're working in a city like Washington DC?

[OzzyKP]

You can make some good money begging for change in DC...

[lord of the mark]

re safety

How safe do you wanna be?

Most crime takes place in Dee Cee east of the Anacostia, in the part of NE DC west of the river, and in the part of NW DC from Georgia Avenue east, plus a few parts of PG county that adjoin the eastern corner of DC.

Really cautious folks here avoid anyplace in DC east of Rock Park, all of PG except maybe College Park, silver spring - wheaton, the parts of Old Town Alex away from King Street, and part of South Arlington. Those folks would probably find places to avoid in Springfield, IL, though, and are generally silly, IMO.

[KrazyHorse]

Here's a hint: when burned-out or abandoned buildings are more prevalent than ~10% of total landscape you should go back in the direction you came.

That, being aware of everybody around me and looking mean make up the safety mantra I've followed in Baltimore, and I've yet to be shot.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
No, then we would have suggested Baltimore.

You lily-liver.

Are you going to come to DC meet? We'll try to keep the first few hours okay for <21

[Kuciwalker]

I can't, I'm completely booked this weekend. Thanks, though.

[KrazyHorse]

I fart in your general direction

[Kuciwalker]

I have to spend 8 hours learning how to yank people out of pools and resuscitate them

[KrazyHorse]

Why are you doing lifeguard training? Summer job?

[Kuciwalker]

Yes.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I can't, I'm completely booked this weekend. Thanks, though.

A meet this weekend is rather last minute regardless. Make an appearance in the other thread and perhaps suggest a better day.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
re safety

How safe do you wanna be?

Most crime takes place in Dee Cee east of the Anacostia, in the part of NE DC west of the river, and in the part of NW DC from Georgia Avenue east, plus a few parts of PG county that adjoin the eastern corner of DC.

Really cautious folks here avoid anyplace in DC east of Rock Park, all of PG except maybe College Park, silver spring - wheaton, the parts of Old Town Alex away from King Street, and part of South Arlington. Those folks would probably find places to avoid in Springfield, IL, though, and are generally silly, IMO.

thanks

[Slaughtermeyer]

Originally posted by OzzyKP


Don't say **** like that, I'm working at ground zero now....

Here's some more reason to be concerned.

The greatest threat now is "a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities."
- Dick Cheney on Face the Nation, CBS, April 15, 2007

Remember, the person who conducted the anthrax attack against Congress and specifically against the senators who were holding up passage of the Patriot Act is still at large. Because he had access to weapons-grade anthrax from a government facility, he might also be able to get a nuke from the government. Also remember that Bush and Cheney started taking the anti-anthrax drug Cipro one week before the first anthrax attack took place.

Also, the Bush administration is deliberately keeping secret their plans for what they would do in the event that Congress is wiped out:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/118489654058910.xml&coll=7

I suggest for your own personal safety you get some Lugol's Iodine, which is an antidote for radiaton poisoning. Lugol's is given by the Israeli government to everyone living near their Dimona nuclear facility in the event of a radiation leak. You can get Lugol's on Amazon.com but it was out of stock when I tried to order some for myself.

Here's some more food for thought:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070720/69340886.html

[lord of the mark]

The New York Post and National Enquirer opposed the Patriot Act?

Frankly, I dont even recall that Tom Daschle opposed it.

The strain, which came from Ft Detrick, was distributed to several other research labs in the US and abroad.

I wouldnt worry, coming here.

[MrFun]

This thread is seriously outdated, considering the turn of bad fortune as related to my OP.


Instead of making a stupid post in a thread that is now not only irrelevant, but was always unrelated to your obsession with conspiracy theories, you should have made your own thread.