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To: Neeka who wrote (356043)	3/28/2010 2:07:40 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793908

Found some things...'specially the last thing: You must have gone to the Capitol before 2002-2008....they just finished a Visitors Center there in 2008 (or so I read) The VC has a 'restaurant' with 500+ seats in it now.... In those directions though, I didn't see the Senate and the House cafeteria....wonder where it is....(are they all hiding?) When did Congress ceremonially break ground for the Capitol Visitor Center? On June 20, 2000, members of the Capitol Preservation Commission, the guiding board of Congressional leaders who spearheaded the Capitol Visitor Center initiative on behalf of the entire U.S. Congress, ceremonially broke ground to signal the beginning of the project. When did construction of the Capitol Visitor Center begin? Actual construction work began in 2002 after a major reassessment of the project following the events of September 11. Excavation of the East Front Plaza began in August, 2002. In the fall of 2003, excavation was essentially complete and build-up of the Visitor Center structure began. In July 2008, the Architect of the Capitol’s Fire Marshal issued a Certificate of Occupancy allowing for personnel to begin occupying the facility. visitthecapitol.gov Then, while looking about I found this: Check out this blog by Amy Ridenhour….think what she'd have shown IF she wasn't in favor of the current Adm….<heh!> nationalcenter.org Shows more of the Tea Party pictures at the Nation's Capital on March 21….the signs are really all good! Especially liked this one…. lh4.ggpht.com And then go to the Website Home for Amy Ridenour and see this one below from March 25, 2010! The Washington Post Should Fire Courtland Milloy A long-time Washington Post columnist, Courtland Milloy, tells his readers how he would like to spit on Americans who protest against big government, and hit them and knock out all their teeth: <<<<< I know how the 'tea party' people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their 'Obama Plan White Slavery' signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads. I am sick of these people -- and those who make excuses for them and their victim-whiner mentality. They aren't racists, the apologists say. They just don't like deficits and government takeover of health care. So what does using vile epithets for black or gay congressmen have to do with that? The tea party people didn't refer to white Democrats using racial epithets. No one yelled 'white trash' or 'redneck cracker' at any of those congressmen. And none of their own ever stands up and declares that such practices are morally wrong. <<<<< If the Washington Post has apologized for this, and fired Courtland Milloy, both of which are called for, I am unaware of it. Milloy's piece in the Post contains an embedded link in the words "Obama Plan White Slavery," but if you click the link it goes to a long Post photo spread of the March 20 Tea Party at the Capitol, and not a single sign in the entire series contains the term "white slavery," or, unlike Milloy's column,anything else remotely racialist or pro-violence. ________________________________________ E-mail comments to info@nationalcenter.org. \| Subscribe to feed. \| Follow the National Center for Public Policy Research on Twitter. \| Download Shattered Lives: 100 Victims of Government Health Care. Labels: Government Health Care, Health Care, Liberals, Media, Protests Posted by Amy Ridenour at 6:34 PM