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Saturday, June 18, 2016
Bobby's Burger Palace open again at Westfield Montgomery Mall
Bobby's Burger Palace is open again at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda, after closing for a couple of days this week due to what they termed maintenance issues.
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ALL HAIL HANS RIEMER ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
11:29: I didn't cause them to lose any business, you nutjob, they closed a couple of days due to technical or mechanical issues. They reopened. I just report the news, I don't run the restaurant. God, what a moron.
County council hopeful Robert Dyer thinks his potential constituents are morons as he runs for office a third time following two unsuccessful campaigns.
5:24: Marc Elrich ran ten times before winning and is currently the most popular Democrat in the County, which shows how much you know about politics, knucklehead.
9:41PM If you followed local politics, you'd know there are good folks even on the municipal level councils who have had many losses before winning their seat.
Please get informed before commenting, you are embarrassing yourself.
9:02: You keep referring to some crazy idea that if a candidate is defeated by a powerful political cartel an arbitrary number of times, he or she is disqualified from running again. Elrich proves you are wrong.
9:02: She was sentenced for "driving while impaired" (DWI). Wake up.
I reported Smashburger was for lease, not that it closed - can be verified by anyone using the links to the online listings I included in my article. Stop lying.
In MoCo schools, black students are suspended 3x as often as white students; in Texas, the number is less than 3x...do the math, "Mr. Dumass."
9:59: You're contending Elrich won on his first try? Second try? Third try? You obviously are a novice to County politics. Stop embarrassing yourself. Elrich himself acknowledged how challenging it was to get elected without the MoCo cartel behind him.
@ 9:35 PM - The studies to which you linked clearly stated that Texas had a racial disparity in suspensions of MORE than three times. How many more times do you plan to deny this?
@9:46 PM - "Marc Elrich ran ten times before winning" is your contention that Elrich lost 9 elections before winning a political election. This is untrue. This is fiction.
Elrich was elected and served on the Takoma Park City Council for 19 years, 1987-2006. Marc Elrich was elected to his first at-large term on the Montgomery County Council in November 2006.
Considering just his electoral history for the County Council, he lost four elections prior to November, 2006 -- twice as a District 3 representative, and twice as an At-Large candidate. He did not lose 9 times as you stated.
Dyer, I can't believe that, several months later, you still can't correctly interpret the statistics on racial disparities in suspensions for Texas vs. Montgomery County.
Dyer: "A recent report...showed African-American students in Montgomery County Public Schools are 3 times as likely to be suspended from school as white and Asian students...the Texas Appleseed report, titled "Suspended Childhood", found that black students in that state are less likely to be suspended than black students in Montgomery County. Black students in Texas are more than 2 times as likely to be suspended as whites - not laudable, but lower than in MCPS schools."
From the Texas study: "Black students make up about 13% of the elementary school population in Texas, but they account for 42% of all Pre-K through 5th grade out-of-school suspensions."
Three times 13% is 39%. 42% is not "twice" 13%. It is greater than three times 13%.
6:29AM - If you don't understand the report just admit it instead of bringing up only the numbers that might lean your direction. Just because you say it with conviction doesn't make it true.
If that all it takes, the council should hire you to tell the citizens that they(the citizens) had asked for and approved buying the land for the bus lot.
"If you don't understand the report just admit it instead of bringing up only the numbers that might lean your direction. Just because you say it with conviction doesn't make it true."
"4:56: That's twice as many times as I've lost a Council race. So much for your assertion that losses disqualify a person from running."
I never made such an assertion. I did however state the fact that he did not lose 9 elections as you stated. It is genuinely puzzling to me as to why you would lie about Mark Elrich's electoral record.
The Dyer record to date for Council elections held in 2010 and 2014 show that nearly 92% of the votes cast in both elections were not a vote for Robert Dyer.
6:29: You're lying again. If it was actually 3x, the study authors would have said 3x to further enhance their case. You're obviously taking numbers from another part of the report to obfuscate the fact that blacks are more likely to be suspended by MCPS than by public schools in Texas. Is this a strategy you learned from the Koch Brothers when they were inspiring the Council recently?
11:47 AM: "The Dyer record to date for Council elections held in 2010 and 2014 show that nearly 92% of the votes cast in both elections were not a vote for Robert Dyer."
Yes. And isn't it rather fascinating how statistics can function like kaleidescopes, depending on how they are shaken and stirred? For what stands out to me is the wonderment of how this guy managed to procure 80,991 votes spending less than $1,000 on his campaign, and with an abysmally low coverage by radio, television, and The Post, by comparison to the incumbents.
After all, Marc Elrich received the most votes, 160,914, less than twice the votes Robert Dyer got. 65.31% of the votes were cast for Democrats. Only 31.57% were cast for Republicans.
The curious question is: How did unadvertised, Republican Robert manage to receive over half the number of votes that each of the Democrat incumbents with a plethora of financial and media PR support received?
I'm not a shill. I was passionate about the last election, and if someone is going to bring up that 92% loss, I'm adding my two cents' worth of context.
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ALL HAIL HANS RIEMER ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
Your "breaking news" is two days late. Hopefully you did not cause BBO to lose much business.
11:29: I didn't cause them to lose any business, you nutjob, they closed a couple of days due to technical or mechanical issues. They reopened. I just report the news, I don't run the restaurant. God, what a moron.
Previously on Dyer:
"after a string of recent restaurant shutterings at the mall, any darkened eatery gets the Spider Sense tingling."
County council hopeful Robert Dyer thinks his potential constituents are morons as he runs for office a third time following two unsuccessful campaigns.
5:24: Marc Elrich ran ten times before winning and is currently the most popular Democrat in the County, which shows how much you know about politics, knucklehead.
Looks like you have eight elections to go, then. Seven, if you count your unsuccessful run for the General Assembly.
See you in 2046.
9:41PM If you followed local politics, you'd know there are good folks even on the municipal level councils who have had many losses before winning their seat.
Please get informed before commenting, you are embarrassing yourself.
#DesperatelyDefendingDyer
6:17, you are wrong.
What did my comment have anything to do with Elrich? Are you incapable of fielding criticism about yourself without redirecting to another person?
Hahah. 2046!!! I'll vote for you Dyer if you are running then.
9:02: You keep referring to some crazy idea that if a candidate is defeated by a powerful political cartel an arbitrary number of times, he or she is disqualified from running again. Elrich proves you are wrong.
The voters of Montgomery County are a "powerful political cartel"?
"Marc Elrich is currently the most popular Democrat in the County"
Not in Olazzo.
"Marc Elrich ran ten times before winning"
Nope. 100% wrong.
"Marc Elrich ran ten times before winning ..."
This is complete fiction.
Never said that. Re-read. Simply stated you've run unsuccessfully twice and call people you might represent names.
Looks like Robert Dyer's "spider sense" was dead wrong. what else is he wrong about?
@ 6:22 PM - among other things...
-T. Eloise Foster being "convicted" of "DWI".
-Smashburger "closing".
-Texas schools having a "lower" racial disparity in suspensions, than MoCo.
9:02: She was sentenced for "driving while impaired" (DWI). Wake up.
I reported Smashburger was for lease, not that it closed - can be verified by anyone using the links to the online listings I included in my article. Stop lying.
In MoCo schools, black students are suspended 3x as often as white students; in Texas, the number is less than 3x...do the math, "Mr. Dumass."
9:59: You're contending Elrich won on his first try? Second try? Third try? You obviously are a novice to County politics. Stop embarrassing yourself. Elrich himself acknowledged how challenging it was to get elected without the MoCo cartel behind him.
@ 9:35 PM - The studies to which you linked clearly stated that Texas had a racial disparity in suspensions of MORE than three times. How many more times do you plan to deny this?
@9:46 PM - "Marc Elrich ran ten times before winning" is your contention that Elrich lost 9 elections before winning a political election. This is untrue. This is fiction.
Elrich was elected and served on the Takoma Park City Council for 19 years, 1987-2006. Marc Elrich was elected to his first at-large term on the Montgomery County Council in November 2006.
Considering just his electoral history for the County Council, he lost four elections prior to November, 2006 -- twice as a District 3 representative, and twice as an At-Large candidate. He did not lose 9 times as you stated.
9:46: Total BS, liar. It's MoCo that has suspensions of blacks 3x as often as whites. Texas had only "more than 2x" the rate. Get a calculator.
4:56: That's twice as many times as I've lost a Council race. So much for your assertion that losses disqualify a person from running.
Dyer just can't ever admit that he was wrong. He just doubles-down and triples-down on his bullshit.
Don't forget that, in addition to his two unsuccessful runs for County Council, he also ran for General Assembly, also unsuccessfully.
Dyer, I can't believe that, several months later, you still can't correctly interpret the statistics on racial disparities in suspensions for Texas vs. Montgomery County.
Dyer: "A recent report...showed African-American students in Montgomery County Public Schools are 3 times as likely to be suspended from school as white and Asian students...the Texas Appleseed report, titled "Suspended Childhood", found that black students in that state are less likely to be suspended than black students in Montgomery County. Black students in Texas are more than 2 times as likely to be suspended as whites - not laudable, but lower than in MCPS schools."
From the Texas study: "Black students make up about 13% of the elementary school population in Texas, but they account for 42% of all Pre-K through 5th grade out-of-school suspensions."
Three times 13% is 39%. 42% is not "twice" 13%. It is greater than three times 13%.
And then there's Dyer's claim of "$6 million for Hans Riemer's" sidewalk snow shoveling program, the cost of which was actually $100,000.
Me suspect the shutdown was vermin related.
Me suspect Dyer plugged the toilet.
6:29AM - If you don't understand the report just admit it instead of bringing up only the numbers that might lean your direction. Just because you say it with conviction doesn't make it true.
If that all it takes, the council should hire you to tell the citizens that they(the citizens) had asked for and approved buying the land for the bus lot.
"If you don't understand the report just admit it instead of bringing up only the numbers that might lean your direction."
What is this pile of word salad supposed to mean?
Dyer forgot to sign in again. LOL
7:09 - Exactly. You just proved 7:04's point. "If you don't understand"
"If you don't understand the report just admit it instead of bringing up only the numbers that might lean your direction. Just because you say it with conviction doesn't make it true."
Shouldn't this comment be directed at Dyer?
Hi Robert Dyer, all this talk of Riemer is off topic and you need to delete yours and others as they violate your comment policy of being off topic.
"4:56: That's twice as many times as I've lost a Council race. So much for your assertion that losses disqualify a person from running."
I never made such an assertion. I did however state the fact that he did not lose 9 elections as you stated. It is genuinely puzzling to me as to why you would lie about Mark Elrich's electoral record.
The Dyer record to date for Council elections held in 2010 and 2014 show that nearly 92% of the votes cast in both elections were not a vote for Robert Dyer.
Agreed.
You're the one suggesting limits.
11:47: I understand the cemetery precincts came in strong for the Council incumbents those years, so not exactly fair numbers.
6:29: You're lying again. If it was actually 3x, the study authors would have said 3x to further enhance their case. You're obviously taking numbers from another part of the report to obfuscate the fact that blacks are more likely to be suspended by MCPS than by public schools in Texas. Is this a strategy you learned from the Koch Brothers when they were inspiring the Council recently?
The Texas report said that the racial disparity for suspensions was 13% for whites versus 42% for African-Americans.
What were the numbers for Montgomery County?
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11:47 AM: "The Dyer record to date for Council elections held in 2010 and 2014 show that nearly 92% of the votes cast in both elections were not a vote for Robert Dyer."
Yes. And isn't it rather fascinating how statistics can function like kaleidescopes, depending on how they are shaken and stirred? For what stands out to me is the wonderment of how this guy managed to procure 80,991 votes spending less than $1,000 on his campaign, and with an abysmally low coverage by radio, television, and The Post, by comparison to the incumbents.
After all, Marc Elrich received the most votes, 160,914, less than twice the votes Robert Dyer got. 65.31% of the votes were cast for Democrats. Only 31.57% were cast for Republicans.
The curious question is: How did unadvertised, Republican Robert manage to receive over half the number of votes that each of the Democrat incumbents with a plethora of financial and media PR support received?
I'm not a shill. I was passionate about the last election, and if someone is going to bring up that 92% loss, I'm adding my two cents' worth of context.
I can't believe anyone other than his blind supporters voted for him at all.
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