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13 years ago @ Commentary Magazine - Congress Must Act Now ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Mr. Boot, I'd like to see you address the aspect of "both parties negotiated the deal". I know part of politics is strategizing and protecting your constituency, but what would reneging on only one part of the agreement while INSISTING that the other part proceed do to future negotiating on Capitol Hill? I hope you don't take this as a partisan question and that you can address that aspect of it.

13 years ago @ http://unsuckdcmetro.b... - Rider Hall of Shame: B... · 0 replies · +5 points

The people on the glass are not just there because they're reading, usually they're there staking out our territory. That's fine if YOU STEP OFF THE TRAIN AT A STOP AND LET PEOPLE IN AND OFF *THEN* go back to "your spot". I'm a very patient person, and i don't care about a few rowdy kids being kids, or escalators not working, but this standing up on the glass really gets my blood boiling.

13 years ago @ http://unsuckdcmetro.b... - Metro Surfing · 1 reply · -20 points

Please.

That criticism is like saying if I support a sports team and I say "I don't like how they play X" or it was dumb to buy Y, that the obvious question is "why am I supporting a team thats' not to my taste". That's missing the point, and running away from it. Better to defend the point (i.e. support of the type of comments I was referring to).

I was just making a general observation on the tone and vibe of comments that *I* find alarming and way over the top that's all. It appeared to me the author(s) of the blog encouraged/liked/were ok with that. Author(s) of this blog didn't seem offended anyway and argued why he lets it slide.

13 years ago @ http://unsuckdcmetro.b... - Metro Surfing · 7 replies · -31 points

This is what unsuckdc has come down to? Hey to the blog authors, much as metro is often incompetent and your shining a light on it, beware of hubris.

Your'e attracting quite the lowest-common denominator here. Often I see comments directed at certain segments of population calling them "sub-human trash" etc etc. Now there's comments wishing death on kids.

Shocking vitriol.

Does being a loud kid make one subhuman or deserving "to be killed"?

14 years ago @ http://unsuckdcmetro.b... - A Lonely Voice? · 0 replies · +1 points

Jessica, where do you leave and how do you find the MARC commute? Is it cost-effective compared to Metro?

14 years ago @ http://unsuckdcmetro.b... - Is Metro\'s Fight Prob... · 0 replies · +1 points

I am going to ask the Washington Post Ombdusan and ask about why coverage was uneven. You can do so here too: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/link...

Be civil, and be polite of course.

14 years ago @ http://unsuckdcmetro.b... - Is Metro\'s Fight Prob... · 1 reply · +1 points

"With the Gallery Place incident, however, innocent bystanders were targeted and seriously injured."

Hmm. Mind expanding on that? I didn't know innocent bystanders were *targeted*, which is not the same thing as being caught in a stampede or something....but it may be an aspect of the story I missed.

14 years ago @ http://unsuckdcmetro.b... - Is Metro\'s Fight Prob... · 1 reply · 0 points

- It is uneven. This was NOWHERE on the Washington Post. At all. I'm actually pretty surprised by that. You have people talking about unsafe stations, or "that's what you get on the green line" when before this, the previosu two high profile brawls were at Union Station and Bethesda.

- odd thing is if you read the comments on the Post articles on the Gallery Place brawl, there's lots of call of security and increased police president. I have a hunch that the same crowd would also complain about nanny state and police state if "orderly conduct" was made a law, or if there were more cops. For me I'm neutral on that, I'm not afraid of "loud young teenagers", who are apparently scaring droves of people away from the Metro station.

- Speaking about the Gallery Place brawl, where is the number of brawlers (70) coming from? What's the source on that? Security/police estimates? I haven't seen it questioned. I have a feeling it was possibly as few as 15-20 people.

- Other question--what happens in New York? I'm curious.

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