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Yet just 3 months later, Bush forgot, and let Osama Bin Laden escape at Tora Bora, to peaceful retirement in Pakistan. And then another 15 months later, invaded the wrong country.
I found this very touching. The flags gently bowed in a row. ... My alma mater lost two at the Trade Center, so. Thank you for helping honor our fallen. Respect.
4:27 AM - Displays of remembrance around Bethesda are "insignificant?" You're really embarrassing the political folks you represent in the county, who apparently will stoop to playing politics by criticizing blog posts that remember 9/11. I am astonished. Unbelievable.
A fire station remembrance of 9/11, flags at half-staff for 9/11 and a dramatic flag draped over a skyscraper for 9/11 are "insignificant"? No amount of reading of your comments criticizing photos showing commemorations of 9/11 makes them any less embarrassing or outrageous for you - and the folks who must be compensating you for posting them. This is why you're anonymous, because if your comments could be tied to a political individual or organization in the County, it would be a PR disaster for them. Criticizing someone for posting scenes of people's efforts to remember 9/11 is beyond the pale. I would like to see you make this same criticism with your real name in public, so we can get you on record.
5:04 - You're just straight-out lying. Look at both fire station photos (and clearly, you have the time), and you will see they are taken at two different times of day. Not the same photo. What you can't ignore is that you've stooped to the level of posting nasty comments on a 9/11 remembrance post, and have belittled the efforts of downtown businesses and organizations to remember it as "insignificant." This dishonorable activity has damaged your credibility, as well as the politicians and organizations you are associated with. If you had any credibility, you would be posting under your real name like I do. Stop embarrassing yourself. There was no 9/11 post better than this in the local market. To come on here with nasty comments doesn't change that, as much as you wish it would. You know that, were you not cowering behind anonymous, whoever's paying you to post this would have a PR disaster on their hands. Selling your product and political faction on a 9/11 post? Lowdown, shameful and embarrassing.
Robert Dyer can't believe that anyone would have a bad word to say about his website if they didn't have ulterior motives, which is funny, because it means Robert Dyers thinks his website is good. (He's the only one not in on the joke.)
6:04 Ever heard of Gilbert Gude, Jim Gleason, Charles Matthias, Howard Denis, Connie Morella, Betty Ann Krahnke and Nancy Dacek? All Republicans who won in Montgomery County. The ratio of Dems to GOP in MoCo and Maryland is less than that in NYC when Giuliani and Bloomberg won. The "impossibility" is entirely fictional propaganda put forward by voter suppression actors like you and the local papers. Now, is there a psychological study of the psychological benefits of posting childlike criticism and insults anonymously on websites?
4:15 The problem is, you do have ulterior motives. Other than elected officials and the MoCo political machine, nobody cares so much about what Robert Dyer puts on his website. Oh yeah, your other problem is that you brought your political axe to grind onto a 9/11 post, and said community efforts (including a local fire department) to remember 9/11 were insignificant. Total backfire for you, and the councilmembers you support. Rick Perry said it best: "Oops."
Yes, I've heard of all those names. You're stuck in another decade. Just as Democrats haven't been the party of Strom Thurmond or Orvall Faubus for half a century now, there hasn't been room for centrists such as Morella, Mathias, and the other Marylanders you list, as well as for other centrists like Arlen Specter, Lowell Weicker, Warren Rudman and Dick Lugar in today's GOP. And Michael Bloomberg quit the party in 2009. Even conservatives like Eric Cantor are "RINOs" in today's GOP.
If you really identify with the perspectives of those people whom you listed, then your place is in the Democratic Party, not today's Grand Old Tea Party.
Inquiring minds wish to know: How is it that anyone can be proud of the idea of what I have heard referred to as a "single party state"? This is the U. S., right?
I may well be nobody, but your perspective and personality make this blogsite truly engaging.
5:02 I think it's important to remember that one faction, or one party leader, does not represent or speak for every single party member. Just because one group has a different view, or some nincompoop makes a fool of himself on the national stage, doesn't mean I have to leave the party. The Ken Burns program on The Roosevelts is an excellent opportunity for Americans to see that the Republican Party actually stood for something in the past, and that there are those who still believe in those progressive ideas. There are plenty of smart people in both parties in this county, and I think collaboration on solutions is a better direction than prioritizing extinction of one party or another.
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riveting stuff
13 years later, Bethesda still remembers.
Yet just 3 months later, Bush forgot, and let Osama Bin Laden escape at Tora Bora, to peaceful retirement in Pakistan. And then another 15 months later, invaded the wrong country.
Friends don't let friends vote Republican.
11:47 A new low for you to have to post negative comments on a 9/11 memorial post. Sad.
I found this very touching. The flags gently bowed in a row. ... My alma mater lost two at the Trade Center, so. Thank you for helping honor our fallen. Respect.
the comment isn't negative about 9/11, it's negative about your insignificant attempt to remember it
4:27 AM - Displays of remembrance around Bethesda are "insignificant?" You're really embarrassing the political folks you represent in the county, who apparently will stoop to playing politics by criticizing blog posts that remember 9/11. I am astonished. Unbelievable.
I was expecting to see a picture of a toppled-over patio chair with the caption "WE WILL REBUILD!"
No. Read again. YOUR ATTEMPTS to remember it (with three dopey cell phone photos) are insignificant.
You're really embarrassing yourself with your lack of reading ability and critical thinking skills.
What's more appropriate than a photo of a firehouse remembering fallen heroes? That sums it up for me.
A fire station remembrance of 9/11, flags at half-staff for 9/11 and a dramatic flag draped over a skyscraper for 9/11 are "insignificant"? No amount of reading of your comments criticizing photos showing commemorations of 9/11 makes them any less embarrassing or outrageous for you - and the folks who must be compensating you for posting them. This is why you're anonymous, because if your comments could be tied to a political individual or organization in the County, it would be a PR disaster for them. Criticizing someone for posting scenes of people's efforts to remember 9/11 is beyond the pale. I would like to see you make this same criticism with your real name in public, so we can get you on record.
keep ignoring the fact you did a very lazy Remember 9/11 post, using the same photo you used for the fire station story on the same day
5:04, You must think about Robert 24/7. You are the only one embarrassing yourself.
5:04 - You're just straight-out lying. Look at both fire station photos (and clearly, you have the time), and you will see they are taken at two different times of day. Not the same photo. What you can't ignore is that you've stooped to the level of posting nasty comments on a 9/11 remembrance post, and have belittled the efforts of downtown businesses and organizations to remember it as "insignificant." This dishonorable activity has damaged your credibility, as well as the politicians and organizations you are associated with. If you had any credibility, you would be posting under your real name like I do. Stop embarrassing yourself. There was no 9/11 post better than this in the local market. To come on here with nasty comments doesn't change that, as much as you wish it would. You know that, were you not cowering behind anonymous, whoever's paying you to post this would have a PR disaster on their hands. Selling your product and political faction on a 9/11 post? Lowdown, shameful and embarrassing.
The Clark Building is not a "skyscraper" even by local standards. It's only 16 floors, and 215 feet above the ground.
4:59 - True. The real skyscrapers are all where the high-wage jobs and corporate headquarters are: in Northern Virginia.
So move to NoVa and quit yer whinin'.
Robert Dyer can't believe that anyone would have a bad word to say about his website if they didn't have ulterior motives, which is funny, because it means Robert Dyers thinks his website is good. (He's the only one not in on the joke.)
Running as a Republican candidate in Virginia = possible task.
Running as a Republican candidate in Maryland = impossible task.
See Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer" regarding the psychological benefits of failing at impossible tasks.
6:04 Ever heard of Gilbert Gude, Jim Gleason, Charles Matthias, Howard Denis, Connie Morella, Betty Ann Krahnke and Nancy Dacek? All Republicans who won in Montgomery County. The ratio of Dems to GOP in MoCo and Maryland is less than that in NYC when Giuliani and Bloomberg won. The "impossibility" is entirely fictional propaganda put forward by voter suppression actors like you and the local papers. Now, is there a psychological study of the psychological benefits of posting childlike criticism and insults anonymously on websites?
4:15 The problem is, you do have ulterior motives. Other than elected officials and the MoCo political machine, nobody cares so much about what Robert Dyer puts on his website. Oh yeah, your other problem is that you brought your political axe to grind onto a 9/11 post, and said community efforts (including a local fire department) to remember 9/11 were insignificant. Total backfire for you, and the councilmembers you support. Rick Perry said it best: "Oops."
@ 4:54 PM:
Yes, I've heard of all those names. You're stuck in another decade. Just as Democrats haven't been the party of Strom Thurmond or Orvall Faubus for half a century now, there hasn't been room for centrists such as Morella, Mathias, and the other Marylanders you list, as well as for other centrists like Arlen Specter, Lowell Weicker, Warren Rudman and Dick Lugar in today's GOP. And Michael Bloomberg quit the party in 2009. Even conservatives like Eric Cantor are "RINOs" in today's GOP.
If you really identify with the perspectives of those people whom you listed, then your place is in the Democratic Party, not today's Grand Old Tea Party.
Inquiring minds wish to know: How is it that anyone can be proud of the idea of what I have heard referred to as a "single party state"? This is the U. S., right?
I may well be nobody, but your perspective and personality make this blogsite truly engaging.
@ 4:26 AM - The USA needs two viable, sane parties. Sadly, today's Republican Party is neither.
5:02 I think it's important to remember that one faction, or one party leader, does not represent or speak for every single party member. Just because one group has a different view, or some nincompoop makes a fool of himself on the national stage, doesn't mean I have to leave the party. The Ken Burns program on The Roosevelts is an excellent opportunity for Americans to see that the Republican Party actually stood for something in the past, and that there are those who still believe in those progressive ideas. There are plenty of smart people in both parties in this county, and I think collaboration on solutions is a better direction than prioritizing extinction of one party or another.
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