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Friday, April 27, 2018
Sign installed at Thelo Greek Grill (Photos)
The sign is up on the front of Thelo Greek Grill, opening soon at 8009 Norfolk Avenue. It replaces the recently-closed Bistro LaZeez. They are currently still hiring for all positions.
As I don't get to that part of town frequently, I was unaware a new Greek place was getting ready to open. Yay! I for one appreciate the heads up. :) #hatersbegone #whatswrongwithyoupeople
I think everyone agrees Montgomery County is pretty bad at attracting private sector employers, but instead of engaging in rational discourse or proposing solutions, all Dyer has been doing is flinging personal insults at any and everyone, and spreading conspiracy theories.
He even goes as far to attack the very companies that are critical to improving the county's economy like Amazon, Marriott, and various developers.
8:19 AM My question as a resident to Hans Riemer is: Will he publically disavow his supporters threats against Mr. Dyer? It's relevant and goes to judgement. (Riemer has been arrested earlier this year and has shown poor leadership).
But that is a side show. The main issue is the County's economy, which has rapidly declined over the term of the current old Council. We simply can't have Riemer elected back in if he can't even accept the problem. Dyer has diagnosed the problems and is on the campaign trail now with a prescription to solve it.
8:22 AM Plenty of reports on those DC and Arlington sites without "phone calls". Sears was reported closed in Bethesda without any phone call and you weren't complaining.
Dyer and his family have been threatened by Hans' supporters here. Strange that Hans wants to target Robert's family, but I guess it shows how low he'll go.
8:27AM...really? can you link me to some? This really is the only local blog I read, unless someone links to a story or something.
If Dyer's family was actually threatened, why aren't there reports and warnings? The man is running for county council for heacven's sake. That would be a serious thing! The Bethesda MCPD doesn't know about these reports of threats...I asked. Get off your duff and report it!
If that's true and given all the things said against Riemer here...it's a good thing the council building has those metal detectors!
8:42am Dyer has deleted the threats but has screenshots. There were quite a few recently but the troll seems to have been scared off for now. Certain topics set the troll off.
I've never seen an actual threat posted here and I pop in at all different times of the day. I've seen a bunch of insults and posting of publicly garnered information, but no threats.
You either haven't been reading through the comments on this blog often - in which case I don't blame you since I've been visiting this blog less and less - or you're lying.
Dyer has called county council members and readers every single insult ever used by kids in grade school. There are trolls - who seem to enjoy getting Dyer riled up - but they are in the minority of readers.
9:14am schoolyard insults are one thing (yes, Hans is low energy). Calling a journalist a rapist, mentally ill and threatening their family is quite another (defamation and harassment).
Again I ask...threatening how? What do they threaten?
What makes you claim they're Hans supporters and what makes you demand that Hans Riemer disavow them? You honestly think the Council President is purposely instructing his people to insult Dyer on his little blog?
Calling someone mentally ill is not a threat and if it's defamation then Dyer is the guiltiest of all.
If there are real, actual, verifiable threats against Dyer's family then why hasn't it been reported to the authorities? Get off your duff and report it!
There some fault on both sides of the Dyer-divide as to why this comment section gets uncivil at times. That being said, we all keep coming back so everyone clearly enjoys it.
The article effectively shows that whoever is running this county is doing a terrible job: 1) There are five (5) net new businesses in the county since 2011 2) The county ran a $5.6 billlion deficit in 2016. 3) Appears to be a consensus that red-tape regulations are killing businesses here (this is coming from the Washington Post, which doesn't often assert that viewpoint)
Anytime Dyer brings up these points, he gets personally attacked and called a word that starts with R, which is indefensible. The economy is the single most important vehicle for creating social change and our county is failing on the job, bottom line.
10:57 AM It's funny when the councilmen running for re-election or promotions are now going to tell us they have the solution to fix the mess they got us into.
If they had the answers, why didn't they do anything for 8+ years!?
11:27 AM Hans is running to come back to the Council. Our County is a mess economically. We're in stagnation. It's fair to raise questions about Hans' failures. That's not an attack, it's fact.
I'm more concerned about our deficits, business killing regulations and crime than how many votes Hans got last election. Time to move forward.
11:28 AM No idea if Hans is involved or coordinating the attacks here, but it is his supporters. Disavow!
At his next event, someone needs to ask Mr. Dyer why he calls the council he hopes to join corrupt and needing to be jailed, why he blames Mr. Riemer for the county's failures and why he insists that Mr. Riemer's supporters are threatening him.
11:11 AM I doubt the man who anonymously posts here would last long if kept harassing the Post reporter, continuously posting he knows where she lives, talking about her family members, claiming she's a rapist, mentally ill, claiming to watch her at public meetings, etc.
Why accept it when the anonymous man posts that stuff here about Dyer?
How appalling. You have no idea...none...zero...yet you're perfectly comfortable insisting it's Riemer's supporters.
None. zero. no proof. Absolutely not one iota of evidence. But you're willing to stick your Anonymous neck out and do the exact thing that you're railing on others for doing to Dyer.
All that information is publicly available through perfectly legal google searches. It's currently plastered on his very own campaign site.
I'm willing to bet that the Post reporter doesn't insult others with low-testosterone jabs and threaten 5-finger death punches when they disagree with her.
11:49 AM If you're claiming there's a time it's ok to falsely claim someone is a rapist, mentally ill, obsess about their family members, continuously tell them you know where they live, post their address and talk about watching them at public meetings? Wow- scary if you think that is acceptable.
You wouldn't last long if you continuously posted the Post's reporters address on every article and did everything I listed above.
11:34 AM Sounds like you're a no-show at all of the Council candidate forums so far. Now you want *someone else* to go for you? Come on man, drop the charade and fake names.
A lot of the personal attacks against Dyer also come with praise for Hans, so people are making the connection that these are Reimer supporters. Its not a big jump.
12:42 PM It does pain you and others that Dyer is able to freely publish MoCo news across his Network of sites. That damn freedom of the press. Dyer is the only independent news outlet in the County.
Plenty of other sources if you want cheerleading. It is getting harder to spin our local economy, shortfalls, etc.
We've had this debate before, "Tim" You insult me. Refuse to believe I'm who I say I am. Then we have the back-and-forth. At some point when referring to Dyer you stop saying "he" and start saying "I." Happens everytime. You're still hiding behind the curtain of anonymity.
I was right by the AH Library earlier that day, but unable to change my evening plans at the last minute. Maybe next time.
2:01pm I don't recall Dyer claiming someone else is "retarded", a rapist, posting their addresses, obsessing about family members, claiming to have stalked them at public meetings, etc.
Yet, the man who posts anonymously here did all of the above.
8:04: Where have I "attacked Marriott and Amazon?"
Total fiction! Classic BS artist. What I love is that the County is so badly run and moribund now, that the cartel troll has to repeatedly resort to fiction.
3:44: No fooling - Of course I deleted the threats to me and my family, and of course I retained screenshots to supply to the police and FBI once your identity is exposed. You might end up in a cell next to Cosby! He'll tell you you're like a failing MCPS school on Sunday. No class.
@6:01: Let’s also not forget about Mr. Dyer’s penchant for insults like “moron” and “girly-man”, which can’t possibly go over well with voters in the County.
Did anybody make it to see Mr. Dyer at the Aspen Hill debate the other night? Did Roald bring a thermos of coffee?
You don't get away deleting this little bit of truth Blogger Anna said...
Say what you will, but..............
Remember, Anonymous Boyce Bowles, that Dyer went to a website I do not read to disparage and lie about me. It's twisted, whack, and, from from what I've been advised, a step towards a case I could have against him.
I posted as Rugby, proved it with links back to MY ACTUAL POSTS and you were proven WRONG. That's the truth, that's what happened. I know it, you know it and all the readers of this little blog know it.
YOU never apologized for calling me a liar. Cough it up buddy. You called me a liar, I proved you wrong. The next step of an honorable person would be to apologize, but instead you attack.
Isn't it curious how I lay the truth out re: "Tim" and the next post is "Rugby" insulting me?
“People who fail to regard the truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted in matters that are great.” — Albert Einstein
Hey Dyer (signed and unsigned) - have you considered the possibility that readers may actually be indifferent to Riemer, but post his name here just to trigger you?
Blogger Robert Dyer said... 8:04: Where have I "attacked Marriott and Amazon?"
Total fiction! Classic BS artist. What I love is that the County is so badly run and moribund now, that the cartel troll has to repeatedly resort to fiction.
"January 18, 2018 Robert Dyer said... Nice political statement by Jeff Bezos. As a business decision...not so much. He looks foolish.
Amazon is one of the few companies we almost have a shot at winning, only because the CEO is politically aligned with our far-left extremist elected officials. Like the "new" Marriott, he might be willing to take a big financial hit to make a political statement."
"November 6, 2017 Robert Dyer said... The Washington Post has recently been utilized by Jeff Bezos to go after Safeway (an Amazon.com grocery competitor), and they tried to say Safeway was discriminating against black people"
"Robert Dyer said... November 26, 2017 10:12: J.W. Marriott died in 1985. Bill Marriott, outwardly at least, has operated a very liberal and progressive company in recent years, and now controls the establishment Maryland Democratic Party. J.W. Marriott would find all of this alien if he returned from the Great Beyond."
"The Washington Post has recently been utilized by Jeff Bezos to go after Safeway (an Amazon.com grocery competitor), and they tried to say Safeway was discriminating against black people"
That's funny, I can't find this story anywhere in the Post.
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Looking forward to this.
bobby's blog about signs
6:25 & 6:26: it's hyperlocal journalism, my friend.
Now go and pick up the councilman's dry cleaning before he throws a tantrum again.
As I don't get to that part of town frequently, I was unaware a new Greek place was getting ready to open. Yay! I for one appreciate the heads up. :) #hatersbegone #whatswrongwithyoupeople
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/economic-gloom-and-doom-in-marylands-largest-jurisdiction/2018/04/27/7592721a-496a-11e8-9072-f6d4bc32f223_story.html?utm_term=.6d3ccb515ec1
^Dyer's been saying it all along - Washington Post picked up on it
Randy:
I think everyone agrees Montgomery County is pretty bad at attracting private sector employers, but instead of engaging in rational discourse or proposing solutions, all Dyer has been doing is flinging personal insults at any and everyone, and spreading conspiracy theories.
He even goes as far to attack the very companies that are critical to improving the county's economy like Amazon, Marriott, and various developers.
8:04am Dyer hasn't insulted Marriott or Amazon. I call BS on that.
In politics, you have debate and contrast positions with other candidates.
Dyer has not attacked Hams Riemer personally, just on his lousy record.
Meanwhile, Hans Riemer supporters have called Dyer every name in the book, made weird attempts to threaten his family, etc.
Get some perspective.
No, people you call Riemer supporters. Anyone who disagrees with Dyer you label as a Riemer supporter.
I for one have been very vocal about not liking Mr. Reimer. As have many others.
Get some perspective.
8:14 AM Plenty of other hyperlocal news sources in DC, Arlington, etc. have the same reports. No one is calling them voyeurs. Get a grip.
8:19 AM My question as a resident to Hans Riemer is: Will he publically disavow his supporters threats against Mr. Dyer? It's relevant and goes to judgement. (Riemer has been arrested earlier this year and has shown poor leadership).
But that is a side show. The main issue is the County's economy, which has rapidly declined over the term of the current old Council. We simply can't have Riemer elected back in if he can't even accept the problem. Dyer has diagnosed the problems and is on the campaign trail now with a prescription to solve it.
8:22 AM Plenty of reports on those DC and Arlington sites without "phone calls". Sears was reported closed in Bethesda without any phone call and you weren't complaining.
Dyer and his family have been threatened by Hans' supporters here. Strange that Hans wants to target Robert's family, but I guess it shows how low he'll go.
8:27AM...really? can you link me to some? This really is the only local blog I read, unless someone links to a story or something.
If Dyer's family was actually threatened, why aren't there reports and warnings? The man is running for county council for heacven's sake. That would be a serious thing! The Bethesda MCPD doesn't know about these reports of threats...I asked. Get off your duff and report it!
If that's true and given all the things said against Riemer here...it's a good thing the council building has those metal detectors!
8:42am Dyer has deleted the threats but has screenshots. There were quite a few recently but the troll seems to have been scared off for now. Certain topics set the troll off.
8:42am Dyer has warned the man who posts threats here. Hopefully he'll stop.
I've never seen an actual threat posted here and I pop in at all different times of the day. I've seen a bunch of insults and posting of publicly garnered information, but no threats.
What do they say? What do they threaten?
8:59am Defamation is a real thing.
Defamation is certainly a real thing. But it's not akin to threatening someone.
Read Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.
Boyce Boyles:
You either haven't been reading through the comments on this blog often - in which case I don't blame you since I've been visiting this blog less and less - or you're lying.
Dyer has called county council members and readers every single insult ever used by kids in grade school. There are trolls - who seem to enjoy getting Dyer riled up - but they are in the minority of readers.
- 8:11
9:14am schoolyard insults are one thing (yes, Hans is low energy). Calling a journalist a rapist, mentally ill and threatening their family is quite another (defamation and harassment).
Again I ask...threatening how? What do they threaten?
What makes you claim they're Hans supporters and what makes you demand that Hans Riemer disavow them? You honestly think the Council President is purposely instructing his people to insult Dyer on his little blog?
Calling someone mentally ill is not a threat and if it's defamation then Dyer is the guiltiest of all.
If there are real, actual, verifiable threats against Dyer's family then why hasn't it been reported to the authorities? Get off your duff and report it!
There some fault on both sides of the Dyer-divide as to why this comment section gets uncivil at times. That being said, we all keep coming back so everyone clearly enjoys it.
The article effectively shows that whoever is running this county is doing a terrible job:
1) There are five (5) net new businesses in the county since 2011
2) The county ran a $5.6 billlion deficit in 2016.
3) Appears to be a consensus that red-tape regulations are killing businesses here (this is coming from the Washington Post, which doesn't often assert that viewpoint)
Anytime Dyer brings up these points, he gets personally attacked and called a word that starts with R, which is indefensible. The economy is the single most important vehicle for creating social change and our county is failing on the job, bottom line.
10:31 AM Dyer has asked the man posting those personal attacks to stop. Hopefully that is enough.
And, yes, posting publically that someone is mentally ill, a criminal, etc. is defamation. Better to just give the man posting it fair warning.
No idea what type of coordination is going on with the attacks from Hans' supporters. Hans just needs to disavow.
10:57 AM It's funny when the councilmen running for re-election or promotions are now going to tell us they have the solution to fix the mess they got us into.
If they had the answers, why didn't they do anything for 8+ years!?
11:27 AM Hans is running to come back to the Council. Our County is a mess economically. We're in stagnation.
It's fair to raise questions about Hans' failures. That's not an attack, it's fact.
I'm more concerned about our deficits, business killing regulations and crime than how many votes Hans got last election. Time to move forward.
11:28 AM No idea if Hans is involved or coordinating the attacks here, but it is his supporters. Disavow!
At his next event, someone needs to ask Mr. Dyer why he calls the council he hopes to join corrupt and needing to be jailed, why he blames Mr. Riemer for the county's failures and why he insists that Mr. Riemer's supporters are threatening him.
11:11 AM I doubt the man who anonymously posts here would last long if kept harassing the Post reporter, continuously posting he knows where she lives, talking about her family members, claiming she's a rapist, mentally ill, claiming to watch her at public meetings, etc.
Why accept it when the anonymous man posts that stuff here about Dyer?
How appalling.
You have no idea...none...zero...yet you're perfectly comfortable insisting it's Riemer's supporters.
None. zero. no proof. Absolutely not one iota of evidence.
But you're willing to stick your Anonymous neck out and do the exact thing that you're railing on others for doing to Dyer.
All that information is publicly available through perfectly legal google searches. It's currently plastered on his very own campaign site.
I'm willing to bet that the Post reporter doesn't insult others with low-testosterone jabs and threaten 5-finger death punches when they disagree with her.
11:49 AM If you're claiming there's a time it's ok to falsely claim someone is a rapist, mentally ill, obsess about their family members, continuously tell them you know where they live, post their address and talk about watching them at public meetings? Wow- scary if you think that is acceptable.
You wouldn't last long if you continuously posted the Post's reporters address on every article and did everything I listed above.
11:34 AM Sounds like you're a no-show at all of the Council candidate forums so far. Now you want *someone else* to go for you? Come on man, drop the charade and fake names.
Back on topic- I agree with this:
It's funny when the councilmen running for re-election or promotions are now going to tell us they have the solution to fix the mess they got us into.
If they had the answers, why didn't they do anything for 8+ years!?
12:39 PM You just made up a bunch of stuff that Dyer never said or did.
I bet you want to talk about anything other than the real issues the County faces.
A lot of the personal attacks against Dyer also come with praise for Hans, so people are making the connection that these are Reimer supporters. Its not a big jump.
12:42 PM It does pain you and others that Dyer is able to freely publish MoCo news across his Network of sites. That damn freedom of the press. Dyer is the only independent news outlet in the County.
Plenty of other sources if you want cheerleading. It is getting harder to spin our local economy, shortfalls, etc.
I translate 12:42 PM to mean: Stop being critical of our local government and I'll stop harassing you.
Wow. Just wow.
We've had this debate before, "Tim" You insult me. Refuse to believe I'm who I say I am. Then we have the back-and-forth.
At some point when referring to Dyer you stop saying "he" and start saying "I."
Happens everytime.
You're still hiding behind the curtain of anonymity.
I was right by the AH Library earlier that day, but unable to change my evening plans at the last minute. Maybe next time.
1:08 you lost all credibility when you claimed to be me and said you posted my comments.
2:01pm I don't recall Dyer claiming someone else is "retarded", a rapist, posting their addresses, obsessing about family members, claiming to have stalked them at public meetings, etc.
Yet, the man who posts anonymously here did all of the above.
8:04: Where have I "attacked Marriott and Amazon?"
Total fiction! Classic BS artist. What I love is that the County is so badly run and moribund now, that the cartel troll has to repeatedly resort to fiction.
Looks like Dyer was typing furiously between 6:13 AM and 2:08 PM (Dyer time).
"Dyer has deleted the threats but has screenshots."
"Dyer has warned the man who posts threats here."
LOL, whom do you think you're fooling?
3:44: No fooling - Of course I deleted the threats to me and my family, and of course I retained screenshots to supply to the police and FBI once your identity is exposed. You might end up in a cell next to Cosby! He'll tell you you're like a failing MCPS school on Sunday. No class.
@6:01: Let’s also not forget about Mr. Dyer’s penchant for insults like “moron” and “girly-man”, which can’t possibly go over well with voters in the County.
Did anybody make it to see Mr. Dyer at the Aspen Hill debate the other night? Did Roald bring a thermos of coffee?
The day that Dyer actually contacts the FBI is the same day that he calls 311. LOL
You don't get away deleting this little bit of truth
Blogger Anna said...
Say what you will, but..............
Remember, Anonymous Boyce Bowles, that Dyer went to a website I do not read to disparage and lie about me. It's twisted, whack, and, from from what I've been advised, a step towards a case I could have against him.
9:19 AM
1:39 Are your knickers in a twist again?
I posted as Rugby, proved it with links back to MY ACTUAL POSTS and you were proven WRONG. That's the truth, that's what happened. I know it, you know it and all the readers of this little blog know it.
YOU never apologized for calling me a liar. Cough it up buddy. You called me a liar, I proved you wrong. The next step of an honorable person would be to apologize, but instead you attack.
Isn't it curious how I lay the truth out re: "Tim" and the next post is "Rugby" insulting me?
“People who fail to regard the truth seriously in small matters, cannot be trusted in matters that are great.” — Albert Einstein
Hey Dyer (signed and unsigned) - have you considered the possibility that readers may actually be indifferent to Riemer, but post his name here just to trigger you?
Blogger Robert Dyer said...
8:04: Where have I "attacked Marriott and Amazon?"
Total fiction! Classic BS artist. What I love is that the County is so badly run and moribund now, that the cartel troll has to repeatedly resort to fiction.
"January 18, 2018
Robert Dyer said...
Nice political statement by Jeff Bezos. As a business decision...not so much. He looks foolish.
Amazon is one of the few companies we almost have a shot at winning, only because the CEO is politically aligned with our far-left extremist elected officials. Like the "new" Marriott, he might be willing to take a big financial hit to make a political statement."
"November 6, 2017
Robert Dyer said...
The Washington Post has recently been utilized by Jeff Bezos to go after Safeway (an Amazon.com grocery competitor), and they tried to say Safeway was discriminating against black people"
"Robert Dyer said...
November 26, 2017
10:12: J.W. Marriott died in 1985. Bill Marriott, outwardly at least, has operated a very liberal and progressive company in recent years, and now controls the establishment Maryland Democratic Party. J.W. Marriott would find all of this alien if he returned from the Great Beyond."
The small and slightly-failing Safeway...
"The Washington Post has recently been utilized by Jeff Bezos to go after Safeway (an Amazon.com grocery competitor), and they tried to say Safeway was discriminating against black people"
That's funny, I can't find this story anywhere in the Post.
Dyer?
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