Wat Do in DC

[brewster]

We saw the mint with the kids, it was actually pretty cool. If you really want off the beaten path there's a military medical museum a little ways out of town, we stopped there on our drive home. It wasn't big, but it was pretty interesting.

The National Museum of Health and Medicine was established during the Civil War as the Army Medical Museum, a center for the collection of specimens for research in military medicine and surgery. In 1862, Surgeon General William Hammond directed medical officers in the field to collect "specimens of morbid anatomy together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed" and to forward them to the newly founded museum for study. The Museum's first curator, John Brinton, visited mid-Atlantic battlefields and solicited contributions from doctors throughout the Union Army. During and after the war, Museum staff took pictures of wounded soldiers showing effects of gunshot wounds as well as results of amputations and other surgical procedures.

[ssu]

I remember the last time twenty years ago went to DC with a friend from school. My friend's sister lives in the US and so my friend knew a family that lived in the Capitol. The Dad and son from that family came along with us to act as guides to their city. After seeing the Smithsonian (of course), the father asked where would we want to go after that. I suggested to see Capitol Hill. The son (who was our age, in his 20's then) was surprised about this and asked: "Wait... you can go there?"

That was pre-9/11 era, but I guess you can still visit it. Definately a place worth going to.

[kybkh]

Was limited by kids so I didn't get to do as much as would have liked...

Best new site I visited was the National Cathedral and lunch at the Cactus Cantina. (Great for hot days)

Went to Ford's Theater... Was a snoozer for anyone with a basic understanding of Civil War History.

Went to American History Museum which had some really interesting stuff but next to nothing in detail concerning the importance of each piece. More like visiting a SJW antique shop.

Took daughter to Space and Science like always. Got there just in time for free tour. We stuck with it til the speaker bent down to my daughter, while discussing about the secrecy of the US air and space program, and said "people didn't know about this stuff cause it was "classified", that's what guys do when they find something really cool to do, they classify it. You don't have to worry about that anymore young lady". There was a lot of neat Cold War era exhibits but obvious propaganda. Best thing was WWI art exhibit they had on display. Harvey Thomas Dunn was prominently featured.



https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/edit ... attlefield

Had some good sushi in Alexandria at Mumu's and got to see a Trump Cabinet member at a speaking engagement which only further's my belief that Trump is way more NY Dem then MW Rep.

[ssu]

got to see a Trump Cabinet member at a speaking engagement which only further's my belief that Trump is way more NY Dem then MW Rep.

Interesting.

[TheReal_ND]

Oh great the Finnish pogue has a new shill tactic

[de officiis]

You could take a walk along the C&O canal and visit Glen Echo Park.

[C-Mag]

In DC for a week.

3rd trip here and looking for new shit to see.

I recommend Ping Pong Pizza......................... Order the Cheese Pizza, I hear it's the best. They add young Haitian cheese.

[kybkh]

got to see a Trump Cabinet member at a speaking engagement which only further's my belief that Trump is way more NY Dem then MW Rep.

Interesting.

This isn't really news. From the start of the Trump candidacy one thing the board was almost in entire agreement about was that Trump's greatest threat to the Dem Party was he stole their old platform to middle-class families.

Anti-free trade:

Ted Kennedy on Free Trade

Rated 25% by CATO, indicating a pro-fair trade voting record.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Internationa ... _Trade.htm

Lowered tensions with Russia:



Ending Foreign Intervention's

FOR the last 20 years we have lived amid the furious clangor of war — and debates over how to wage it. The intense and urgent clashes in the 1990s over “humanitarian intervention” gave way to pitched battles over “regime change” and “democracy promotion” after 9/11, and then to arguments over “counterinsurgency strategy,” a new battle for hearts and minds, as Barack Obama ramped up the war in Afghanistan.

The foreign policy debate has often felt like an ideological cockfight. And now, although we have not yet realized it, that era has come to an end.

For proof, you need look no further than the Pentagon’s new “strategic guidance” document, issued last month in the wake of Mr. Obama’s pledge to cut $485 billion from the defense budget over the coming decade.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/opini ... ntion.html

And securing the border to control the influx of immigrants:

BILL CLINTON: We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4351026/ ... ation-sotu

[MilSpecs]

The Library of Congress is amazing - one of the most beautiful public buildings in the world IMO. The main reading room was jaw-dropping.

[Ex-California]

I went in 8th Grade and got to go to the Smithsonian among everything else. I went back to DC probably 5 times for work and never had time to do anything cool.

I want to go back. And I don't want to wait for my son's 8th grade trip and I actually think I'd have more fun if I went without my family