GinghamQuaker

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• Commented on The Hamlin Park Neighborhood: A Strong Community and One You Should be Seriously Considering
  Would the neighbors be ok with a gay couple moving in? Honest question....
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  I find it fascinating that education policy stirs up so much hostility. It is probably the single issue that people of all genders, races, income levels, and political affiliations agree on the desired outcome: a well prepared population of young...
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  I actually do agree with a majority of your post CindyLee, but was turned off by what I perceived as an attack on a group of people that was never expanded on, or related to the rest of your comment....
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  OP, Clarence, Williamsville, and Amherst are also overwhelmingly Republican (and all Republicans are tea-baggers, right?). Perhaps misbehaved children are learning from the liberal "elite" who are ok with using a derogatory sexual term to classify a belief system....
• Commented on School Board Elections Today
  Shockingly "tea-baggers" are more often than not the parents raising those well behaved kids. I'm glad you put that so early in your post though, because it allowed me to mentally tune out....
• Commented on Construction Watch: Catholic Health HQ
  Yay, bashing Buffalo sports teams. That's the community spirit!...
• Commented on Warm up to Don Tequila
  In fairness, they aren't at the BuffaloEats level of awful....
• Commented on Warm up to Don Tequila
  The sombreros hanging from the ceiling won me over. I'm in....
• Commented on Interview an Atheist at Church Day
  I'm a gay Catholic...I don't hate gay people. Imagine that....
• Commented on Construction Watch: Catholic Health HQ
  Ahh, yes. Nothing says urbanism like a big vacant lot next to a highway....
• Commented on Fiamma's second chance to make a first impression
  Just responding to the guy who wanted to criticize me, while admitting that my point was correct. I'm sure the food will be fine, but this city really allows people to get away with too much laziness the second they...
• Commented on Fiamma's second chance to make a first impression
  Sorry, he only left up a sign stating January until late March then...so much better. Guess it's ok if he uses food two months after its expiration date as well....
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  One school is referenced with immigrant children. The article also talks about small school sizes. A noble idea, and also much easier to make a reality in a country of 5 million....
• Commented on Fiamma's second chance to make a first impression
  Has he taken down the "Re-Ignition January 2013" sign yet? Because it was still up two weeks ago. It's a bit embarrassing and doesn't give me a ton of confidence that he'll be on top of his game....
• Commented on Book Review: Government Schools are Bad for Your Kids
  Homogeneity is the single largest reason for more successful schools in other parts of the world. It might make some feel good about themselves to willfully ignore this, but it's true....
• Commented on Back Lot Bash Comes to Buffalo for Pride 2013!
  As a gay man, I must say I'm fairly offended by the bat shit craziness of the Buffalo LGBT population....
• Commented on Ellicott Development Moving on Creamery Renovation
  Those countries have less than half the population of the US, spread out over a smaller area, with far less diversity, and far fewer government free loaders. But every place is the same, right?...
• Commented on Ellicott Development Moving on Creamery Renovation
  Was just thinking how nice it will be to have a renovation project that doesn't involve a hotel....
• Commented on Dinosaur Bar-B-Que Plans October Opening
  Along with Good Luck. Someone seriously needs to open a bar of that quality in Buffalo. Maybe I'll do it some day soon....
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  Our oil supply is in Alaska, but you don't want them touching that, do you?...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  Hey maybe I should take my decent suburban salary and move out of the city then? That sounds like the best way to help Buffalo. I'll drive down Delavan on my way to work when people stop walking across the...
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  As a city resident who works by the airport, I assure you the 190, 290, nor city "Avenues" meet my needs. A downgraded Parkway would be ideal....
• Commented on Parks are not empty space to put highways! Go to this meeting if you agree.
  I don't live remotely close to the 190 or 290, but very close to the 198. Are you going to pay for all the extra fuel (POLLUTION! BAD!) it would require me to get to work every day?...
• Commented on Something like this?
  This can't be real life? That NYC garage is horrible!...
• Commented on Webster Block Plan Advances; Alternative Vision Floated
  This doesn't even deserve anyone's time. Open air ice rinks? What the hell is the point of that? It's also ugly as sin....
• Commented on A petition for municipal sidewalk snowplowing in Buffalo
  The city can't adequately plow my street, and now I'm supposed to get behind giving them more money to inadequately plow my sidewalk? No thanks. Ever notice how much better the suburbs plow? If the city could achieve those results,...
• Commented on Cities: Rather Than Patronizing Young People, Give Them What They Ask For
  No, but they are flocking to areas like Austin, Raleigh, and Atlanta for lower taxes and affordable housing. Oh, and jobs, which business owners create fewer of when there are more tax burdens on them....
• Commented on Tappo Promises to Bring New Life to Ellicott Street
  Hopefully they say no to this horrible Buffalo trend of taking reservations, but considering that Cantina Loco is perhaps the worst offender, I'm not optimistic. At least get more pleasant employees this time around....
• Commented on Erie Freight House - An Alternative View
  So you are proposing developing it into ____________, with ____________ money, and owned and operated by ____________? Ok, as long as we're on the same page....
• Commented on SoHo Burger Bar: A Year in Review
  They will all be wasted by one thing or another. Drinking is a thoroughly enjoyable way to waste them....