Comments on: In Memoriam Desi Deschaine: Loose Lips Daily http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/in-memoriam-desi-deschaine-loose-lips-daily/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:05:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: downtown rez http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/in-memoriam-desi-deschaine-loose-lips-daily/comment-page-1/#comment-631415 downtown rez Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:40:17 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=27269#comment-631415 Q- My initial point was about how both drinking and pissing in public (Gerard Park) and bragged-about fraud and theft (marion barry) are blatantly illegal. I was using your own two examples from your 3:06 post in this thread to illustrate the point that blatantly illegal practices generally get corrected. You don't need a conspiracy theory to see how this happens. But since you make a point about the Girard Street Park, just know that I don't really care much about it. I don't live there, nor do I know anyone in the high rises around it, most of which appear to be 50's-70's vintage. I'd always assumed those high rises were, at least in part, public housing. I also assume they're not going anywhere anytime soon. And I don't really see anything wrong with sprucing up the park that is in their midst. I'm sure plenty of folks who live there didn't appreciate people drinking and pissing where their children might play, and welcome the improvements. By the way, similar will happen at the old Kennedy playground on the 600 block of N NW. Do you think the United House of Prayer residents like having drunks and drug addicts gambling (and shooting) under their windows at all hours? Do you really think the intent of the renovations will be to force UHoP to sell its property and the existing residents out? Q- People who (mis)use these parks do so at the expense of the surrounding population. That's what accounts for the government wanting to improve them, not some bizarre underhanded race/class/whatever scheme. Q- My initial point was about how both drinking and pissing in public (Gerard Park) and bragged-about fraud and theft (marion barry) are blatantly illegal. I was using your own two examples from your 3:06 post in this thread to illustrate the point that blatantly illegal practices generally get corrected. You don't need a conspiracy theory to see how this happens.
But since you make a point about the Girard Street Park, just know that I don't really care much about it. I don't live there, nor do I know anyone in the high rises around it, most of which appear to be 50's-70's vintage. I'd always assumed those high rises were, at least in part, public housing. I also assume they're not going anywhere anytime soon. And I don't really see anything wrong with sprucing up the park that is in their midst. I'm sure plenty of folks who live there didn't appreciate people drinking and pissing where their children might play, and welcome the improvements.
By the way, similar will happen at the old Kennedy playground on the 600 block of N NW. Do you think the United House of Prayer residents like having drunks and drug addicts gambling (and shooting) under their windows at all hours? Do you really think the intent of the renovations will be to force UHoP to sell its property and the existing residents out?
Q- People who (mis)use these parks do so at the expense of the surrounding population. That's what accounts for the government wanting to improve them, not some bizarre underhanded race/class/whatever scheme.

]]> By: Q http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/in-memoriam-desi-deschaine-loose-lips-daily/comment-page-1/#comment-631144 Q Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:52:45 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=27269#comment-631144 Downtown Rez, I drove by the 14th & Girard Park...gentrification is an understatement. It's more like a fenced in Patio or a closed in Private Park. If this was the 1950's, there are a couple of "ethnic" Only signs that would be right at home posted on this park. Before I make any more criticisms, I'm going to check out DPR's website and see what they have to say. I'm all for renovating a forgotten eyesore park, but it's a little more than obvious why this park got moved up in priorities. Downtown Rez, I drove by the 14th & Girard Park...gentrification is an understatement. It's more like a fenced in Patio or a closed in Private Park. If this was the 1950's, there are a couple of "ethnic" Only signs that would be right at home posted on this park. Before I make any more criticisms, I'm going to check out DPR's website and see what they have to say. I'm all for renovating a forgotten eyesore park, but it's a little more than obvious why this park got moved up in priorities.

]]> By: Downtown rez http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/in-memoriam-desi-deschaine-loose-lips-daily/comment-page-1/#comment-630858 Downtown rez Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:18:40 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=27269#comment-630858 Q- Where in my message are you getting that I think renaming it will change its reputation? Because, to be clear, I don't. I do, however, think enforcing no drinking/no public urination laws might do something along those lines. Q- Where in my message are you getting that I think renaming it will change its reputation? Because, to be clear, I don't.
I do, however, think enforcing no drinking/no public urination laws might do something along those lines.

]]> By: Q http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/in-memoriam-desi-deschaine-loose-lips-daily/comment-page-1/#comment-630842 Q Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:46:25 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=27269#comment-630842 So Downtown rez, renaming it after Obama is supposed to change its reputation? Good luck with that. If that works, let's rebadge DCPS as BHODCPS. Or better yet, let's put Barack Obama's name as part those six non-profits' name. So Downtown rez, renaming it after Obama is supposed to change its reputation? Good luck with that. If that works, let's rebadge DCPS as BHODCPS. Or better yet, let's put Barack Obama's name as part those six non-profits' name.

]]> By: Downtown rez http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/in-memoriam-desi-deschaine-loose-lips-daily/comment-page-1/#comment-630837 Downtown rez Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:32:58 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=27269#comment-630837 Q- Drinking and pissing out in the open in a public park? Blatant and Illegal. Fraud and graft? Blatant and Illegal. The larger point is that when people act legal this sort of stuff doesn't happen to them so much. Q- Drinking and pissing out in the open in a public park? Blatant and Illegal. Fraud and graft? Blatant and Illegal. The larger point is that when people act legal this sort of stuff doesn't happen to them so much.

]]> By: Q http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/in-memoriam-desi-deschaine-loose-lips-daily/comment-page-1/#comment-630822 Q Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:06:08 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=27269#comment-630822 "Would Marion Barry’s problems go away if he’d just keep his mouth shut?" YES! What was the name of the Park on 14th and Girard before. I know it is getting refurbished (Darrow might have a before and after shot of it), but in all my years of living in DC I only knew it as the chess/checkers and park where locals can drink 40oz without being harassed...that is until the big Columbia Heights project. I've never heard of a Park being gentrified, but I believe it is going to happen. Finally, thanks Del Waters for setting things straight and raising sentiments that I was just yesterday criticize over. ‘I feel it is necessary to ask, if not beg, my fellow journalists to move on. Not because I think Marion isn’t guilty of most of the crimes he is accused of, he is. It is instead because he has become a whipping boy in a system that has far bigger problems.’ "Would Marion Barry’s problems go away if he’d just keep his mouth shut?" YES!

What was the name of the Park on 14th and Girard before. I know it is getting refurbished (Darrow might have a before and after shot of it), but in all my years of living in DC I only knew it as the chess/checkers and park where locals can drink 40oz without being harassed...that is until the big Columbia Heights project. I've never heard of a Park being gentrified, but I believe it is going to happen.

Finally, thanks Del Waters for setting things straight and raising sentiments that I was just yesterday criticize over. ‘I feel it is necessary to ask, if not beg, my fellow journalists to move on. Not because I think Marion isn’t guilty of most of the crimes he is accused of, he is. It is instead because he has become a whipping boy in a system that has far bigger problems.’

]]> By: Dave http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/07/15/in-memoriam-desi-deschaine-loose-lips-daily/comment-page-1/#comment-630735 Dave Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:04:36 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/?p=27269#comment-630735 Re: WMATA's sensors still broken... I don't know why it took so long for anyone to notice this. The 'revelation' wasn't first made at the hearing yesterday, it was put out in a WMATA press release on Monday. "In spite of the issuance of this recommendation, the NTSB still has not determined the root cause of the accident. Every component of that circuit has been replaced, but the problem still persists." Re: WMATA's sensors still broken... I don't know why it took so long for anyone to notice this.

The 'revelation' wasn't first made at the hearing yesterday, it was put out in a WMATA press release on Monday.

"In spite of the issuance of this recommendation, the NTSB still has not determined the root cause of the accident. Every component of that circuit has been replaced, but the problem still persists."

]]>