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« Reply #105 on: April 17, 2008, 04:36:05 pm »
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Just an FYI to all coming in from out of town.

The Pope is in NYC this weekend (starting tomorrow) so expect really bad traffic and street closings.


They are closing the Cross county expressway from 2PM - 10PM on 04/19.


Any idea how "bad" this will be?

Like, should I rethink my idea of driving down?

(Right now I am thinking of changing my route - cross the hudson up north, then come in from the other side of manhatten...)


I would always say use mass transit but seeing as this show will go past 2AM or close to it that might not be a solution. If you have a way to hang in the city until around 6AM I would say take the train in and out.

The traffic is usually bad anyway. You have the Pope in town, Green Apple is going on etc.

If you aren\'t planning to come down until later on Saturday night you may be ok.

I would definitely not cross the Hudson twice tho.

Tune in to 1010wins (AM) they have traffic and transit on the 1\'s so you shoul dget a good idea as you approach which will be the best way in
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« Reply #106 on: April 17, 2008, 10:59:48 pm »
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Just an FYI to all coming in from out of town.

The Pope is in NYC this weekend (starting tomorrow) so expect really bad traffic and street closings.


They are closing the Cross county expressway from 2PM - 10PM on 04/19.

Any idea how "bad" this will be?

Like, should I rethink my idea of driving down?

(Right now I am thinking of changing my route - cross the hudson up north, then come in from the other side of manhatten...)

I would always say use mass transit but seeing as this show will go past 2AM or close to it that might not be a solution. If you have a way to hang in the city until around 6AM I would say take the train in and out.

The traffic is usually bad anyway. You have the Pope in town, Green Apple is going on etc.

If you aren\'t planning to come down until later on Saturday night you may be ok.

I would definitely not cross the Hudson twice tho.

Tune in to 1010wins (AM) they have traffic and transit on the 1\'s so you shoul dget a good idea as you approach which will be the best way in

1010 AM - on the 1\'s
1130 AM - on the 5\'s
880 AM - on the 8\'s.

Keep switching between the three stations and you can essentially hear nothing but traffic reports the entire trip.  :P

I suppose one detour you could consider would be to take either the Throg\'s Neck or Whitestone Bridge over to Long Island (Queens actually) and take the Long Island Expressway (495) west, going through the Mid-Town Tunnel and getting out on 35th street.
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« Reply #107 on: April 17, 2008, 11:47:37 pm »
the pope\'s really screwing up my weekend here....
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« Reply #108 on: April 18, 2008, 09:27:18 am »
That\'s why I\'m driving down after the show tonight. I have no interest in dealing with closed roads or bridges and such tomorrow. Since I\'m not familiar with the layout of the city, is the Pope going to be anywhere near the Mercury Lounge?
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« Reply #109 on: April 18, 2008, 09:42:44 am »
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That\'s why I\'m driving down after the show tonight. I have no interest in dealing with closed roads or bridges and such tomorrow. Since I\'m not familiar with the layout of the city, is the Pope going to be anywhere near the Mercury Lounge?


Actually, I\'m aiming to leave worcester area at or around 5 or 6am saturday morning...hoping to get in to NYC early enough to miss most pope-related traffic.
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« Reply #110 on: April 18, 2008, 10:21:29 am »
im going to drive in on the pope-mobile golfcart
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« Reply #111 on: April 18, 2008, 10:29:37 am »
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That\'s why I\'m driving down after the show tonight. I have no interest in dealing with closed roads or bridges and such tomorrow. Since I\'m not familiar with the layout of the city, is the Pope going to be anywhere near the Mercury Lounge?


no, the pope\'s going to be up in yonkers, just north of the bronx.  the mercury lounge is in downtown manhattan so once you\'re IN manhattan, you should be golden.
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« Reply #112 on: April 18, 2008, 10:42:38 am »

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« Reply #113 on: April 18, 2008, 01:43:53 pm »
fuck the pope

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« Reply #114 on: April 18, 2008, 01:51:23 pm »
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« Reply #115 on: April 18, 2008, 01:59:01 pm »
I know that this is a little out of the way, but you could come down over the Tap and and then drive to Hoboken and take the path to 33rd and hoof it the rest of the way.  That way you know the path runs through the night, the longest you\'ll wait for a train is half an hour.
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« Reply #116 on: April 18, 2008, 02:41:47 pm »
"And, finally, New Rule: Whenever you combine a secretive compound, religion and weirdos in pioneer outfits, there’s going to be some child-f*cking going on. In fact, whenever a cult leader sets himself up as “God’s infallible wing man” here on earth, lock away the kids.

Which is why I’d like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound. And this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. [photo of the Pope shown]

That’s right. The Pope is coming to America this week, and, ladies, he’s single! Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Bill, you can’t be saying that the Catholic Church is no better than this creepy Texas cult! For one thing, altar boys can’t even get pregnant.”

But, really, what tripped up the “little cult on the prairie” was that they only abused hundreds of kids, not thousands all over the world. Cults get raided. Religions get parades. How does the Catholic Church get away with all of their buggery? VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME!

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you “Pope.”

It’s like if you can’t pay your mortgage, you’re a deadbeat, but if you can’t pay a million mortgages, you’re Bear Stearns, and we bail you out. And that’s who the Catholic Church is, the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia. Too big to fail.

When the - when the current Pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul’s Dick Cheney - he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors secret until the statute of limitations ran out. And that’s the Church’s attitude: “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.”

Which is fine. Far be it from me to criticize religion. But, just remember one thing: if the Pope was, instead of a religiou s figure, merely the CEO of a nationwide chain of daycare centers where thousands of employees had been caught molesting kids and then covering it up, he’d be arrested faster than you can say, “Who wants to touch Mister Wiggle?”
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« Reply #117 on: April 18, 2008, 03:51:16 pm »
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"And, finally, New Rule: Whenever you combine a secretive compound, religion and weirdos in pioneer outfits, there’s going to be some child-f*cking going on. In fact, whenever a cult leader sets himself up as “God’s infallible wing man” here on earth, lock away the kids.

Which is why I’d like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult. Its leader also has a compound. And this guy not only operates outside the bounds of the law, but he used to be a Nazi and he wears funny hats. [photo of the Pope shown]

That’s right. The Pope is coming to America this week, and, ladies, he’s single! Now, I know what you’re thinking: “Bill, you can’t be saying that the Catholic Church is no better than this creepy Texas cult! For one thing, altar boys can’t even get pregnant.”

But, really, what tripped up the “little cult on the prairie” was that they only abused hundreds of kids, not thousands all over the world. Cults get raided. Religions get parades. How does the Catholic Church get away with all of their buggery? VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME!

If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you “Pope.”

It’s like if you can’t pay your mortgage, you’re a deadbeat, but if you can’t pay a million mortgages, you’re Bear Stearns, and we bail you out. And that’s who the Catholic Church is, the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia. Too big to fail.

When the - when the current Pope was in his previous Vatican job as John Paul’s Dick Cheney - he wrote a letter instructing every Catholic bishop to keep the sex abuse of minors secret until the statute of limitations ran out. And that’s the Church’s attitude: “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.”

Which is fine. Far be it from me to criticize religion. But, just remember one thing: if the Pope was, instead of a religiou s figure, merely the CEO of a nationwide chain of daycare centers where thousands of employees had been caught molesting kids and then covering it up, he’d be arrested faster than you can say, “Who wants to touch Mister Wiggle?”
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Bill might like to read the news. The entire reason that the police were called (Texas) at all was some crazy biatch in Colorado (middle aged black woman)called the cops pretending to be a 16 year (white child) old held captive at the compound. I guess the woman from Colorado has done this before. So they went in and took all those kids away on a false charge.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4678143&page=1
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« Reply #118 on: April 18, 2008, 04:53:36 pm »
my school was in the wrath zone today.  i plan on celebrating the popes arrival by going play my guitar for girls in their underwear in the park while i drink tequila.
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« Reply #119 on: April 18, 2008, 04:58:01 pm »
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Bill might like to read the news. The entire reason that the police were called (Texas) at all was some crazy biatch in Colorado (middle aged black woman)called the cops pretending to be a 16 year (white child) old held captive at the compound. I guess the woman from Colorado has done this before. So they went in and took all those kids away on a false charge.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4678143&page=1


damned if you do, damned if you don\'t.

If they didn\'t take steps to protect those kids and there was abuse going on, people would have been in an uproar pointing fingers at the authorities.

So now they can reunite those families and let 50 year old dudes start marrying 16 year old children again.  Everybody\'s happy.