This is the first holiday season at Pike & Rose since the development's Phase II section opened earlier this year, so the lights and decorations are spread out over several blocks, rather than the one dead-end street of previous years. The Christmas tree is close to where it has been previously, just no longer in the roadway stub of Grand Park Avenue. A menorah is in the new Rose Park, near the just-opened L.L. Bean store. Porsche Bethesda is about to become the newest business at the Federal Realty development, having set an opening date of December 4. Will you have a 911 Turbo S under the tree this year?
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Is there any kind of outdoor play area? I was going to take my kids on Friday to the tree lighting but we got too busy. They still want to see the tree there, but I'm hoping there's room for them to run around also.
Pike & Rose sucks. Sorry, but it does. Parking garages are poorly designed, there is no cover for pedestrians when it rains or snows, that LL Bean, contrary to their marketing, is way way way smaller than the one at Tysons and has very little of their product to buy, and getting from one place to another can be a significant walk, which goes back to the parking situation.
Huge fail, MoCo. Huge.
"Huge fail, MoCo. Huge."
Nope. That would be Federal Realty, who actually developed the property.
I think Pike & Rose is great. It's like a mini city of a few blocks now. I hope they can expand even further.
It's urban, so you may have to walk a block from parking- no big deal. It's actually a good pedestrian experience.
7:58 PM
Perhaps you should just continue to use Montgomery Mall or those in Tyson’s if you want covered walkways and huge connected parking decks. The concept of the modern regional shopping mall has destroyed many great urban downtowns across the country and the world. The rest of us will enjoy well sorted new urbanism and transit oriented design that restablishes walkable urban streets. By the way, they have a new invention for portable protection from the elements. They are called umbrellas .Maybe you could try one and stroll around a great new urban streetscape like Pike and Rose.
The only negative I see is the sizable walk from the Metro. I hope they can add a north entrance to the White Flint Metro Station.
Pike and Rose sucks because its Rockville/North Bethesda, it is not Bethesda.
@7:58am
How exactly is the parking worse than in any other urban area, say Bethesda Row or Downtown Silver Spring? My only criticism is that the turning clearances at the end of the aisles in the central garage are really tight, but parking is a breeze compared to the overcrowded garages at Bethesda Row.
"there is no cover for pedestrians when it rains or snows"
The entire point is that it's not supposed to be an indoor shopping mall (like the now-demolished White Flint down the street)
7:44: Yes, Rose Park is located in front of the new L.L. Bean store. It has enough room to run around. It's a block up from the tree on Grand Park Avenue.
Why do crappy drivers always try to blame their crappiness on garages? I've been to P&R a dozen times and it's just like every other parking garage in the world. The turning radiuses are a little tight, but again, if you can't navigate that then you probably shouldn't be on the road, anyways.
Why is it that every year, the Christmas crap has to be displayed earlier and earlier? What happened to the day after Thanksgiving when everything was displayed?
7:58 AM YOU ARE THE WEAKEST LINK! Stay moribund.
Most people appreciate the street trees wrapped in white lights, etc. once the leaves fall and sunset is before 5pm. Waiting a couple weeks to put up the Christmas tree itself would be fine.
Meanwhile, Dyer attended a conference of his peers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/richard-spencer-hosted-an-event-at-a-maryland-farm-halfway-through-everyone-was-kicked-out/2017/11/21/1cd92dfe-9f33-40c4-b6f5-a271a8874c5d_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_spencer-1050am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.db5028ba73c1
Hey Robert, have our piece of shit MOCO council members commented yet on this? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/police-ms-13-members-in-maryland-stab-man-more-than-100-times-and-decapitate-him/2017/11/22/0cba9760-cf7e-11e7-a1a3-0d1e45a6de3d_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.0133d350a31c
11:33: No, in fact, WMAL's Larry O'Connor invited each Councilmember to come on the air to defend their sanctuary policy in light of my two stories that revealed it led to two confirmed homicides in the last two weeks (the one in the story you linked to, and the young mother 2 weeks ago in Wheaton) - - not a single councilmember had the guts to come on the air and defend the policy.
Why should Councilmembers subject themselves to a Breitbart/Fox News wacko like O'Connor?
Dyer wrote: "...defend their sanctuary policy in light of my two stories that revealed it led to two confirmed homicides in the last two weeks..."
You revealed no such linkage.
Rather you blamed MS-13 and the County sanctuary efforts without a single shred of evidence. And a great deal of evidence that neither issue was in play in these two stories.
Fake News.
9:38: Wrong! I provided clear evidence using court records, which proved that each alleged killer would have been deported years ago, had MoCo and Rockville police been allowed to verify immigration status. Instead, they were put back on the streets, and now two people are dead. Heckuva job, Brownie!
12:07: Considering the feds haven't come up with a single shred of information about the Las Vegas shooting almost 2 months later, no one can credibly state with confidence that the official version of events is definitively correct. We know nothing more today than we knew 24 hours after the shooting. Not one second of the Mandalay Bay CCTV footage has been released - and we know it exists, because the police and FBI said they had reviewed it. Those are the results of the full investigative prowess of our crack "17 intelligence services?" Either they are grossly inept, or this is a JFK-assassination-level total cover-up.
You can't deport a citizen, but you can deport a non-citizen, and lives are saved in the process, old sport.
Dyer, are you seriously trying to suggest that someone other than your fellow lone old white dude committed the Las Vegas massacre?
9:25: I'm seriously suggesting that a complete lack of any sign of serious investigation, and zero information being provided to the public - including the surveillance camera footage the FBI admits exists - is not only virtually unprecedented, but gives no credibility to support the already-unconvincing official explanation of events.
A guy who had only worked for the federal government, and was clearly laundering massive amounts of cash for an undisclosed provider of said cash (unless you believe that the house always loses, and you can make millions playing no-skill machines at casinos, as the FBI would have us believe (!!)), was living off-the-grid in the way that a criminal or spy would (not as a recluse would), and then supposedly "snapped" with no motive, but carried out an elaborate plan (for which no video evidence has been provided of him doing so) while in a multi-week "snapping" episode?
Please.
Where is the video footage from the 32nd floor to easily establish the timeline of events with the security guard and engineer using the on-screen timestamps? Where is *any* of the video footage? Why is a second gun that is clearly in a different location heard firing in the taxi video, along with the one directly overhead at Mandalay Bay? You can listen to that video yourself online.
It would be very easy to back up the official story by showing the time-stamped videos from all over the hotel. Why didn't they do that 8 weeks ago?
Instead of theorizing, why don't you call them up and ask? Seriously. Ask these blunt questions.
Sometimes it's just a lone crazy person.
Ted Kaczynski
Pulse niteclub
VA Tech shootings
"[A] JFK-assassination-level total cover-up."
OK, I'll bite. Who do you believe assassinated JFK?
Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock "lived a mostly nocturnal life, gambling after dark and sleeping during the day; he generally disliked being out in the sun."
One of Robert Dyer's fellow opossums.
4:35: I agree it sometimes is a crazy person. Unfortunately, as I outlined above, the facts indicate this was not the case in Las Vegas.
4:50: The "Deep State."
Hey Dyer - those were strobe lights on the fourth floor, not "muzzle flashes".
Snopes is your friend, not Alex Jones or "YourNewsWire".
https://www.snopes.com/second-gunman-shoot-fourth-floor-mandalay-bay/
Wait, wait a second here. Robert Dyer believes that the "Deep State" assassinated JFK; and that the Las Vegas hotel sniper killings were by a sane, "Deep State" supported assassin, with multiple shooters involved?
Please tell me you are just kidding here, and not serious about these claims.
Saith Dyer: "...a guy who only worked for the federal government..."
How does it happen that every single thing you say is 180 degrees opposite the truth?
Paddock last worked for the federal government in 1985. "Relatives said Paddock was worth at least US$2 million when he sold off the real-estate business. Among his most profitable investments was an apartment complex purchased in 2004, which gave him more than $500,000 in annual income by 2011. The IRS records show he made $5 million to $6 million in profits from its sale in 2015."
@ 4:35 PM - Looks like we know more about Stephen Paddock's source of income, than Robert Dyer's.
4:53: Uh, yeah, he only ever worked for the federal government, then suddenly was loaded as an real estate investor. There are no public "IRS records" for Paddock. Not only are those profits estimated by someone speculating, but they don't explain where the money came from for such investments - he put down $8 million to buy that complex, which another reporter speculates he *might* have amassed from other property sales.
None of this is verified or publicly available for review. His real estate investments could have been just one more avenue for laundering money.
The ordinary person buying everything with cash like he did would have set off all kinds of alarms - you can't do anything over $10,000 in cash without the feds coming down on you like a ton of bricks. There's no evidence the feds ever bothered him at all.
6:51: You don't know about anybody's financial situation, because bank and IRS records are not open to the public.
7:56: You're the one bringing up muzzle flashes, not me. I never even mentioned that theory, which has been discredited a long time ago. What I said, which can be verified by anyone who listens to the taxi video, is that you can hear a second "automatic" weapon firing from a second location when the taxi is waiting under the canopy outside the Mandalay Bay. It is clearly at a distance, compared to the loud gunfire coming from the Mandalay Bay.
"The thing I am concerned about, and so is (deputy attorney general) Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin." - J. Edgar Hoover
9:46: You're the one making the claims about Vegas. I never made any such statement about the "Deep State" or anyone else being responsible - I said that we right now don't know definitively who was responsible, because the feds either don't know and are completely incompetent, or are withholding information from the public 8 weeks after the largest mass shooting in American history. The official story currently does not add up in any way, if you know even a small amount about the gaming industry, surveillance cameras in casinos, no-skill gaming machines in casinos, money laundering, and the extreme federal scrutiny of cash financial transactions.
The "deep state," a term used by the paranoid/ignorant to describe fellow citizens who devote themselves to public service.
"You can hear a second 'automatic' weapon firing from a second location when the taxi is waiting under the canopy outside the Mandalay Bay. It is clearly at a distance, compared to the loud gunfire coming from the Mandalay Bay."
I searched the Internet for this, and found nothing. But what you're describing sounds like an echo. Did you or your fellow kooks consider this?
"The ordinary person buying everything with cash like he did would have set off all kinds of alarms - you can't do anything over $10,000 in cash without the feds coming down on you like a ton of bricks. There's no evidence the feds ever bothered him at all."
The reason we know about Paddock's large cash transactions is because they were reported to the Feds at the time they were made.
There is no prohibition on cash transactions over $10,000, as you appear to believe. Just a requirement that all such transactions be properly reported.
6:52: That's your opinion. In reality, it's the rank and file agents who are "citizens who devote themselves to public service." I've known some of them. The "Deep State" refers to a small group at the top of various agencies, whose allegiance is to foreign interests and the globalist agenda. They've now openly emerged into the public realm following the election of Donald Trump, because they realize what a threat he represents to their agenda. I suspect they would have done the same if Bernie had won. They would have been very satisfied with Hillary or Jeb, as the Clinton-Bush crime families have presided over globalism's finest hours.
9:34: The shot pattern is different; it's not an echo. It's the people who accept an explanation that makes no sense who are the "kooks," people who don't find it odd that no security camera footage that could clear up many of the controversial holes in the story has been released - 2 months later! Insane.
10:08: There's no evidence they ever investigated him, a bizarre exemption for someone clearly laundering this much cash. You find it odd that someone would question gaping factual holes in a non-existent investigation of the biggest mass shooting, but not the all-cash spending of Paddock? You are either a crook yourself, or don't want to go where the facts lead in this case for ideological reasons.
"The 'Deep State' refers to a small group at the top of various agencies, whose allegiance is to foreign interests"
You just described the Trump administration. Thank God Mueller is Draining The Swamp.
"Debating a person who is fractally wrong leads to infinite regress, as every refutation you make of that person's opinions will lead to a rejoinder, full of half-truths, leaps of poor logic, and outright lies, which requires just as much refutation to debunk as the first one—kind of like a recursive Gish Gallop, where each point both surrounds and is surrounded by an equally wrong argument. It is worth noting that being fractally wrong can be handy for the losing side in a public debate, since you are likely to leave your opponent looking baffled and unable to deal with each level of wrongness."
You know you sound crazy arguing the Vegas shooting off the top of your head when you don't know everything the authorities know and your zero involvement in the case, right?
Guess what we had for dinner last night. Go ahead. Guess. You know as much about it as you do the Vegas shooting. Let's see how well you do. :)
What "security camera footage" are you looking for, Dyer? Paddock didn't shoot from the casino, he shot from his hotel room. Hotel rooms don't have security cameras in them.
Security camera footage from elsewhere in the hotel does show Paddock bringing several large pieces of luggage - which would be consistent with the 23 firearms which were recovered from his hotel room.
Saith Dyer: "You...don't want to go where the facts lead in this case for ideological reasons."
Straight to Hans Riemer, obviously.
3:24: I've made no claims other than what is factually known. That's the problem - 8 weeks later, the FBI has released no more information than what we knew a day after the shooting, besides the holiday PR dump of the total number of rounds fired. I know no less than you know about it. There's nothing crazy about holding the government that works for us, the taxpayers, accountable.
3:45: Uh, the security camera footage from everywhere but the hotel room. 32nd floor corridor camera should show Jesus Campos, the building engineer, and the door of Paddock's suite, which was at the end of the hallway. Staircase camera would show - if Campos told the truth - someone attaching something to the door there. Timestamps would give the exact timeline of when shots came "through the door" at Campos and the engineer. Casino floor camera would show Paddock using video machines. Lobby camera and elevator cameras would show whoever transported 23 weapons to the 32nd floor.
Now you're just making things up when you talk about video "does show Paddock?" THERE IS NO VIDEO showing Paddock. If there was, it would be all over the internet. There aren't even stills from video showing him doing anything.
11:37: Another argle-bargle word salad.
11:31: Mueller is a the guardian of the swamp. There isn't a single smoking gun yet about Trump, but plenty of evidence the Deep State's allegiance is to foreign interests. Tell me when you finally find the WMDs in Iraq LOL!
I had no trouble understanding 11:37.
But, you could have googled it.
Fractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution.
That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's overall view is incorrect; and furthermore, if you focus on any small part of that person's overall view, that part is just as wrong as the whole view.
You do understand there are reasons the authorities don't release everything, explain everything, & connect all the dots so to speak, right? They have been releasing bits and pieces of info all along, even into this month.
11/22/17: "Gunman Stephen Paddock fired more than 1,100 rounds the night of the Las Vegas shooting, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo told the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Wednesday.
The new total includes about 200 rounds fired from Paddock’s Mandalay Bay corner suite and into the hallway of the 32nd floor late Oct. 1, injuring hotel security guard Jesus Campos."
Vegas Review-Journal
6:39: There haven't been any "bits and pieces," other than the number of rounds (which I already cited in my comment above), and bickering over what the timeline was with Mandalay Bay.
And, no, I don't understand why they don't tell us the details - you and they are claiming it was a lone shooter, right? And he's dead. So...what is the reason to hold on to any details at this point? If it's a lone shooter, and he's dead, there's no trial to prosecute. End of story.
The only fractal wrongness here has been Sheriff Lombardo and his FBI handlers'.
Saith Dyer @ 7:59 AM: "...the number of rounds (which I already cited in my comment above..."
Here is what Dyer actually said @ 5:48 AM: "...the holiday PR dump of the total number of rounds fired."
I can't believe that Robert Dyer, of all people, is challenging timestamps.
"Staircase camera would show - if Campos told the truth..."
Ah...now I see where this is going. Dyer is hoping to show that Campos is an illegal MS-13 gangbanger who actually did the massacre, not Dyer's fellow white loan nut.
Saith Dyer @ 2:33 PM:
"Uh, yeah, he only ever worked for the federal government, then suddenly was loaded as an real estate investor."
I love the way Dyer jumps from 1985 to 2017 - a span of 32 years - and calls it "suddenly".
9:48: I never made such a claim. Here's what we do know about Campos: he's not registered as a security guard with the state of Nevada despite working in a casino(!), he escaped with a wound minor enough to drive himself to Mexico days later and walk across the stage on MGM-sponsored Ellen, and there are no less than 3 explanations of what he was responding to on the 32nd floor A) sound of gunfire B) smoke detector triggered by smoke from weapons fire, and his final explanation, a door alarm triggered by something attached to prevent it from closing. His role is not well established in any respect.
Campos was treated in the hospital for two shrapnel wounds in his left thigh. Shortly thereafter he went to Mexico on a previously scheduled trip to see his family, and police were fully aware of his trip.
"He escaped with a wound minor enough..."
Any bullets (or fragments thereof) that hit Campos were fired through the wall of Paddock's hotel room, diminishing their force considerably.
There ya go, changing what I said to fit your narrative. What a crock.
I NEVER said or indicated anything.
In fact, all I did was provide a definition of a phrase, ask a question and post a link decrying your ludicrous comment that no new info has been released.
Personally FWIW, I'm going to believe the Vegas police and the FBI more than a Bethesda Maryland guy, with no law enforcement background, who write a blog. Just sayin'
12:33: OK, so a guy walking with his back to that door, totally unaware someone is about to open fire on him...a sitting duck. And a shooter unloads right at him through the door, and all he has are two minor shrapnel wounds? Again, can we have the surveillance footage from that hallway, so we can watch this Matrix-like performance by Campos?
If you had any kind of leg wound from gunfire, would it make sense to drive yourself hundreds of miles a few days later? Hint: NO!
4:23: Problem is, what I'm saying is very limited and totally fact-based, unlike what the Vegas police and FBI have told us so far.
What makes you think the authorities need to provide you with all the details of an ongoing case?
You're writing fiction with your suppositions, inferences and flat-out guesses about what happened when.
Why do you do that?
6:37: Because I'm paying for these investigations as a taxpayer, and 58 people were killed. The public has a right to know what happened. It's not an "ongoing case," unless you're saying there was more than one shooter. If it was a lone shooter, there's no trial, and no reason to withhold information.
No, you don't have a right to know all the details simply because you claim to be a taxpayer. I'm not sure why you think you do. Even a FOIA document will have parts redacted.
And if you think the "investigation" is over and done, then you are woefully misinformed.
"And a shooter unloads right at him through the door, and all he has are two minor shrapnel wounds?"
Paddock didn't fire at Campos through an open door. He fired blindly through an opaque wall that would have absorbed a significant amount of the momentum in the bullets.
"Because I'm paying for these investigations as a taxpayer"
First, you are paying absolutely nothing towards the State of Nevada's investigation.
Second, assuming that you actually pay federal taxes on anything but booze, you are one out of 122 million. Meaning that even if the federal investigation cost as much as $1 million, your personal share of that expense would only be 8 cents.
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