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In the past 24 hours, I have had to delete or edit more comments than I’ve had to delete or edit in the almost 5 years I’ve been doing this site.
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WNYM seeks to provide a forum for snarky opinions and open discussion. However, we do need to have some ground rules around this joint. In order to make our comments useful and interesting, the following guidelines have been established for comment users. In short; don’t act like a libelous or hate-filled tool and we’ll get along just fine.
Please refrain from posting false statements about people, and I’m also asking people to stop using real people’s names as their nicknames unless, in fact, they are that person. That means no more “Jack Davis” who isn’t Jack Davis; no more “Glenn Gramigna” who isn’t really Glenn Gramigna. Use whatever nickname you want, but don’t appropriate someone else’s real name.
Got it? Thanks so much.
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i don’t believe i’ve written any articles about parlato this year. and if you have any evidence of city officials discriminating against small businesspeople in order to favor parlato, or of doctors from pennsylvania getting tickets because of confusion caused by his parking lot or of city inspectors condemning the building — like we had last year — i’d be happy to write about them. tell me which “articles” have “gushed favorably” about frank parlato.
I’ve gone to Parlato’s websites. And I searched the Internets for references only to find a site called http://www.shithouserat.com that said, “That fucker’s crazy”.
Hudson – Right now, the only thing more annoying than your posts is your expectation that we would give a shit about your dead grandmother.
I’m man enough to back-peddle a bit on the “gush” comment. But comparing his ugly, hell-hole to Seattle’s Pike Place Market? Some pretty favorable viewpoints in this article.
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/column372.html
The vibe at One Niagara is reminiscent of Seattle’s Pike Place Market, where locals and visitors can mingle, lunch or just relax amid a bustling carnival-like atmosphere that’s fun and entertaining just for itself.
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I am truly curious at what point you began seeing the ugly, condemned “tourist trap” as you often referred to it and the parking problems as a non-issue. Parlato has escalated things 10 fold this year with his copy-cat, official-looking parking signage… the even more, overly aggressive, yelling flag-wavers, (wearing official looking outfits with official looking patches)… and for a couple of days, 2 huge speakers opposite the state park, that could be heard from the Wax Museum, with a recorded message blaring continuously that parking for the falls and maid of the mist was to the right and the left lane was for going to Canada. Did you really miss all this? Have you not noticed that the state park has had to clarify the situation with signs, as so many people felt duped and continue to complain about his aggressive mis-leading tactics. You really don’t know this or just don’t want to risk Parlato’s wealthy ire?
He still hasn’t paid any more taxes… and has claimed he doesn’t have to. Is THAT not worthy of a mention? He bought a property (or part ownership of one) that had conditions and rules and taxes built into the deal. Then he whines about how unfair the situation is to avoid payment.
Most of the problems you wrote about last year continue to get only worse. But I will admit, that you haven’t gushed as much as just avoiding the issue all-together.
Mike, sorry to hear about your grandmother.
And I’ll bet $20 on Powers in November. I don’t really give a shit who wins and it’s not my district, but someone ought to put up some cash after you so generously took the time to ask. Sorry it’s a nominal amount, but after all it’s not about the money, right?
who says he hasn’t paid any of his taxes? some piece of shit anonymous commenter on a web site? the article you post was a general piece about downtown business. he owns and operates a downtown business, so yeah, in the past year i wrote four paragraphs — all of which are true — as part of an article that is 28 paragraphs long. four paragraphs in a year. each year, by the way, i publish approximately 150,000 words, so four paragraphs is a microscopic amount.
“Most of the problems you wrote about last year continue to get only worse,” you write.
i have had exactly zero complaints from real, actual people who aren’t afraid to use their own names about the one niagara operation this year like i did last year. not a single one. if you want to call me up on monday, give me your real name, and register some complaints that are grounded in fact rather than vague generalities, the number is 284-5595.
first you accused me of “gushing” about parlato and now it’s morphed into “avoiding the issue.” what issue? the lawsuit against him by his former partners has been dropped. he recieved a letter from the state judicial board of review apologizing for his treatment in niagara falls city court last year. the cart vendor who said he was being treated unfairly because of parlato’s influence didn’t return to his spot this year and nobody who has parked in his lot has had anything bad to say about it, as far as i know. those were the stories i wrote about him last year.
you apparently don’t like frank parlato. fine. i don’t care. i’ve spoken with him exactly twice this year, and not about anything in particular.
former mayor vince anello spent somewhere around $20,000 to advertise in the reporter prior to my finding out he was taking under the table payoffs from smokin joe anderson, who was also an advertiser. we ran with the story and never saw a dime out of either of them again.
over the past couple of days i’ve been accused of being “owned” by parlato, niagara falls redevelopment, george maziarz and steve pigeon. doen’t it occur to you hayseeds that these people don’t like each other and are often at odds in disputes?
make up your fucking minds.
yer on red.
Sorry about your grandmother Mike.
I’ll put $20 on Jon Powers too, even though I don’t live in the district either (although I did many years ago, before Powers was even born).
hey whats all the shouting about in here?
Man, I wish Davis was paying me for all this. Nope, all this entertainment is coming to you without any sponsorship.
So you are changing the policy of not editing or deleting anything? That used to be a point of pride and superiority for you
I’ve always deleted defamatory material Steel, but I always make it transparent that I’ve made the edit. Not all sites do that.
No Mike, I won’t call you or give you my name. The proudly, profane and nearly hysterical way that you conduct yourself on this blog and in pursuit of your “stories” shows all too well what your character is and what is important to you. Needless to say, what is not important to you is demonstrating respect or sympathy for the failings and plights of others, or even the slightest shred of common decency to anyone that doesn’t have some vital part to play in your personal gain or your self-important existence. You seem to have learned and gained nothing from a lifetime of your own mistakes and misdeeds. You are incapable of acknowledging that the failings and foibles of others are so much closer to the norm of all of us, than the rocky road your life took.
You are the little train that keeps falling off the tracks, all the while telling all the locomotives chugging by that they are doing it wrong.
So I guess you can just refer to me as “some piece of shit” or tell me to “eat shit” or wish me to “die” or whatever passes for you as sane behavior.
BTW… When did Parlato make any payments beyond the initial $100,000 that he paid over a year ago? I seem to remember you being somewhat scornful of the media circus involved in paying such a pittance of his debt. He has recently been quoted that he will withhold his taxes in his laughable quest for white equality with the Senecas. If I am wrong here I will gladly take my abuse… since I accept that is the only kind of of discourse you can dish out.
We have many struggling businesses in the falls that were here long before the Senecas and Parlato came to town, and most have continued to work hard to keep up with their commitments.
And by the way… My views or statements don’t “morph.” When shown to have mis-spoken or mis-represented something I openly correct as necessary. You know… just like you did with your false story of Bush’s plastic turkey photo op with the troops.
russell – what do you get paid for by davis then? did he say blog jobs and you thought blow jobs? man… is there egg on your face – or should i say man-yoke.
Hudson – you’re brothers dead too? was he a fetus so capone can pray for it?
I went back and did a little research and yes Pundit, that is consistent with what you have said in the past.
bark, bark, all you want. There’s not a chance in hell you can get a real Democrat to come out for Jack Davis. Beyond the political-slime swallowing whores like Erick Mullen and Luke Vaughn, Jack’s got nothing. Nothing.
mike hudson, erick mullen, luke vaughn and their ilk (fuck me if ‘ilk’ isn’t perfect) suck the millions out of self-absorbed, self-funded lawn-yellers like Jack Davis. Guys, really, please tell me you don’t touch your kids with those hands.
covering you too beckey….
and deborah…you had a bad experience with parlato and your shitty coffee shop. you already complained to me about the article you cited because it wasn’t rah rah about the miserable failure that was your main street festival. now you come on here, hide behind an alias, and attack. i hope it makes you feel good. perhaps if you grew a personality instead of bitching and moaning all the time your business wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in.
Rather like a long time political strategist ripping at the seams.
I read this stuff and it’s reminiscent of High School lunchroom chatter…Very revealing and illustrative of the mentality in WNY.
mike please shut off the computer and go to bed!!!
Hudson -
Maybe if you drove out to see your dead grandmother instead of sitting around and bitching you’d prove you had family values. 12:45 am and you’re still posting?
Are you just going to do a “fear and loathing” trip and make it out there for the will reading? Don’t forget the salt shaker full of cocaine.
Man, I wish someone was paying me for all of this. Nope, all of this entertainment is brought to you without sponsorship. I was on here going ’round with BP long before Jackie Jacko thought of trying another run and I’ve made it clear I’m not a supporter of Jackie, I just don’t like Jonny. It’s not a zero sum game.
well, you guys have certainly primed the pump for this coming week’s jon powers expose!
thanks!
Hudson… my God man you have gone around the bend, over the cliff and burst into flames! I don’t know who the hell Deborah is, but I sure wish I could listen in on your next conversation with her, as you are going to make quite an ass (sorry… even more of an ass) of yourself than usual
I didn’t realize my writing was so effeminate – but then again I admit that I have never been man enough to become a street punk/thug who was known to pack a gun (no doubt compensating for your lack of stature and self-respect) and can’t brag about my manly “fun” times as a crack dealer/addict as you do. We share similar “packages”, only mine aren’t atrophied from years of endless self-abuse. As far as measuring up to you, the anatomical similarities are all that we share in terms of our respective views of what “manhood” entails.
Obviously, the fact that I don’t have the professional writing chops or rage to pepper every conversation and disagreement with the coarsest of profanity, threats and vitriol makes me less manly to you.
It is a great testament to your professional credentials that you carve up some local business woman on an open forum, based solely on your razor sharp journalistic intuition.
And please… anytime YOU have the mendacity to question or comment on anyones lack of “personality”… it just makes you look like an even bigger buffoon. Now go write your little hate filled rants for the next “reporter” to prove again how manly, sensible and sophisticated you are.