DCist: Morning Roundup: Rest and Reprieve Edition

dcguy20001

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:38:32 -0500

Ever get the feeling the DC city council is sorta reactive rather than proactive...hearings on the checkpoints after they have happened...what's next hearings on metro's accident reimbursement policies...nahhh me thinks not

Jaynuze

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:03:20 -0500

"The Examiner says a recent survey that may or may not be at all scientific shows a majority of Trinidad residents are against the checkpoints." Yeah! It's messing up our drug trafficking! How's a person supposed to make a living around here anymore? I guess I'll have to file some claims against Metro ... seems to work for Ward 8.

OldPosterKnownAsCranky

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:50:11 -0500

How about an update on the Comet v. Frank Winstead battle?

Mike Licht

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:42:25 -0500

Two bucks a gallon? I woulda bought that, and I don't have a car.

Dauragon

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:34:50 -0500

"Yesterday's thunderstorms have left behind one of the most beautiful days we could have hoped for. " Dammit! stop jinxing us!! ;)

drew in adams morgan

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:33:32 -0500

Cranky: It seems like one of those things where only those who are either really in favor or really against something will actually respond. People who don't have an opinion or don't care typically won't respond. In this case, the 55 people who did respond were really against.

OldPosterKnownAsCranky

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:21:34 -0500

The Examiner is such a joke. That "survey" was a questionnaire Thomas distributed at a meeting of around 100 people. Some 55 people filled out the survey. Most of them opposed the checkpoints. To say that a 55-person survey shows much of anything is utterly ridiculous. Yet the Examiner breathelessly overhypes the survey "results" as being meaningful. Also funny that the Examiner didn't quote Lanier when she trashed a bunch of their previous stories for being full of crap and never getting MPD's reaction.

IMGoph

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:16:54 -0500

i'll admit, sommer, i was happy to see someone using the phrase batshit crazy, as i don't think it gets used enough in the contemporary vernacular. but, monkey makes a point. you might have really, really cursed us this time. this is worse than cursed frogurt.

monkeyrotica

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:09:50 -0500

Show that totally batshit crazy mother nature who's boss You just do not effing learn, do you? So you've already pissed off the Pepco and Metro gods. Now you're peeing in Mother Nature's face? Why don't you just say "Even God himself can't sink DC" and act suprised when an iceburg tears the hull open and James Cameron makes a boring-ass movie about it? I predict live frog rains followed by a plague of boils and painful rectal itch. Thank you, dcist. Thank you so f***ing much.

RJ

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:58:27 -0500

Sure hope the zoo is stocked up with frozen peas.