Somebody Wrote: > As far as I can tell the vcdl puts their right to > firearms above above the rights of other property owner's I don't understand what "right" of the restaurant owner you think is being violated. They have the right to make a restaurant that people don't like, and VCDL members have a right to tell each other not to go there because they wouldn't like it. What is the pro
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someguy2 Wrote: > The way they list and berate businesses who don't allow firearms really turns me off. The law that allows open carry is the same one that allows property owners to decide whether others are able to carry there. You're opposed to informing people which restaurants are hostile to gun owners? I don't understand what the problem is.
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Can't they just charge you with some kind of "interfering with a police officer" or "obstruction of justice" charge, though? (One wonders why they would do the bogus light-flashing charge, though.)
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Latest updates... http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/islamsadvance/2008/09/saudi_textbooks_teach_students.html http://saudiwatch.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/behind-the-veil-at-the-islamic-saudi-academy/
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Great American Steak & Buffet in Bailey's Crossroads
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How does it work for condos? How about big places like Skyline?
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watcher Wrote: > Ummm..no. Ummm..the law is illegal and Virginia knows it?
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I thought there was a case about 20 years ago that threw out that Virginia law, because only the FCC has the authority to regulate radios (including radar). The way I remember it, the law was invalidated, but they decided to just keep the signs up and illegally threaten people about it. If a police officer attempts to confiscate your radar detector or says he will charge you with posessing one
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yeaaaaaa Wrote: > I accept that this makes me more than a tad bit > racist because now when I see someone remotely > Mexican/Honduran/Peruvian (insert ethnicity here > because I'm sure you'll say I left one out) I > presume A LOT about them, before they've even > opened their mouth. All I presume is that maybe they speak Spanish. But I'm new around here. I presume other things
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yeaaaaaa Wrote: > You have two choices. > > 1) Move. To an area that resembles what you used > to appreciate in your neighborhood. And hope it > doesn't change. > > 2) Stay. And find a way to not be miserable. > Which means either learning Spanish or being > hard-headed and not learning it... sticking with > your personal ideals. It also means finding a way &g
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WashingToneLocian Wrote: > It is easier for them to presume that all Muslims > are terrorists than to admit that Al Qaeda is a > cult of death with a few thousand mentally ill > followers and that most Muslims are okay. In Fairfax we have a school that is owned and operated by the Saudi government, supposedly "moderate" and "friendly". But they teach hatred of Americans, hatred of Je
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Pulse Wrote: > I went there about a month ago. The chef was had a > runny nose. He kept trying to suck it in...(dont' ask > me to explain) He finally wiped it off with the back > of his hand. I almost felt like throwing up. Yeah, I've seen that before at places. I always call the health department and file a complaint, and also write a letter to the restaurant.
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You should write a letter to the vice president of customer relations at the headquarters for Outback, and inform them that when you did not tip for take-out service, the employee cursed you with "fuck". I don't tip for take-out service. They didn't do anything extra. I tip between 15%-100% (usually 18%) for table/counter service where someone is waiting on me. (I grossly overtip on things lik
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Silver Diner has free wifi in Arlington; not sure about their Reston location.
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Dude Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > pho has been popular for a long time--it's not a recent fad. > What I'm interested in is trying real ramen noodles. Ramen was a fad in the 80s (at least in other parts of the country) and there were noodle bars all over the place. When people realized that the $17 noodles they were serving could be had for about $3 at h
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Must have been gone by around 1976 when I moved from Annandale to Falls Church a few blocks from Loehmans (where I worked at CBSH as a kid). Don't remember any ice cream of note at the plaza from that era. There was soft-serve near the intersection of Annandale & 50, and there was a Bastards & Robbers 31 Flavors there (where I also worked at one time).
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I tried it a couple or three years ago, and was unable to search for books about computers, because all those kinds of search terms brought up any book that had been entered into some kind of digital collection. (I don't remember if that meant the book had been scanned, or what.) Zillions of titles came up because the term "computer" or "digital" had been attached to the catalog entries in some i
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> They already have cameras at Chantilly HS in the > lunch lines. It is nothing new. When I was a student at Annandale, I don't think anyone ever stole food from the lunch line. We didn't have cameras, and we didn't have theft. Something has changed.
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> Don't forget Jews, Hindus, Native Americans, and Bhudists! I can't make any sense out of that.
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WashingToneLocian Wrote: > fears that cannot be substantiated by the facts. Our "moderate" Saudi friends are teaching the little children in Fairfax that the "Jews are the apes and the Christians are swine". That's after they claimed they took out that kind of stuff from their textbooks. Some others report that pupils have been heard saying they want to "kill Americans", praising 9/11 and th
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Adam Wrote: > Leave burgers to Fuddruckers, 5 Guys, and Fosters... I like Fuddruckers a lot, but I don't get what's so great about Five Guys. I've tried them about six or seven times, and, I dunno...it's an OK burger I guess. I wasn't thrilled for some reason and I like the Fuddruckers burgers better. They way people carry on, maybe my expectations were too high. What is Fosters? And ther
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Adam Wrote: > DQ = Ice Cream only.. > Leave burgers to Fuddruckers, 5 Guys, and Fosters... The thing about soft-serve ice cream is that you have to really be persnickety and clean the machines every single day, or else things get nasty. I would have thought of Dairy Queen as a good place to get ice cream, but with my lovely experience at eating their other, easier-to-handle food, I don't
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.native Wrote: > Hm, here is a question. Did you just get out of prison? Sort of: I was living in Massachusetts, which does not recognize the Second Ammendment like Virginia does.
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Mofo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Report them to DQ headquarters or file a health > dept complaint. Inspections don't seem too bad > though. They are inspected twice a year, and in the last one they had 3 failures in the Critical category. (In the preceeding inspection, they had 1 Critical and 4 non-critical, and in the one before that, 3 Critical.)
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I remember Dairy Queen from when I was a kid growing up here. I used to patronize the one in Manassas in the 60s, and in the 70s there was one on 50 by Annandale Road in Falls Church. (At least, I always thought these were DQs. Maybe it was some similar sounding chain?) I recently moved back to the area after several decades away, and I thought I was lucky to have a Dairy Queen across the stre
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WashingToneLocian Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lurker.. Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Fuck oil. > > > > We make NASA work on a car that doesn't use oil > > instead of driving around Mars. > > > I'm sure with all the money DoD and DARPA get, the > Pentagon has already dev
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Eastsider Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Speaking of Hot Shoppes, do you guys remember > Farrell's in Tysons before its major renovation? > That was some good ice cream. Hot Shoppes was some decades before Farrell's, but I used to go to the ice cream in Springfield Mall. (I never knew Farells was also in Tysons.)
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Client 9 from Outerspace Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How about the Red Barn, Burger Chef, Giffords Ice Cream Shops Burger Chef got mentioned when we were talking about Topps/Ginos in Annandale, I think...and the Giffords location that I knew was in Bailey's Crossroads on Columbia Pike... this is all making me really hungry. Let's go to the Hot Shoppes!!
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Client 9 from Outerspace Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lee Hwy and West Ox Rd Drive-ins There was the drive-in movie out by Merrifield near the intersection of 50 and Gallows (turned into a Best Buy type of store after that) next to a school, and there was one up in Bailey's Crossroads where the Giant is now. (And one out further towards Manassasas that we
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There was a lot of equipment working on it this evening, apparently had Route 7 down to one lane over there...
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