As a lifelong local, I can honestly say there are lots of people for whom this represents reality.
Posted on 11/08/2010 11:41:55 PM PST by roses of sharon
Washington was NOT attacked on 9-11.
As a lifelong local, I can honestly say there are lots of people for whom this represents reality.
The bedbugs are driving them crazy.
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“Washington was NOT attacked on 9-11. “
My mistake, since you want to get technical. It was Arlington, VA, but Washington was the target, and would have been attacked if not for some heroic passengers.
I also understand that the primary target for the attackers who ended up crashed in Pennsylvania was either the Capitol or the White House. That attack was indeed prevented by heroic passengers. That was an attempted attack on Washington.
“This woman talked to me about how she could never live in such isolated areas, and that she loved the city because people are “cultured” there.”
Be _glad_ that she feels the way she does, and that there are millions more of the liberal and left who feel exactly that way.
No matter how bad things get where they are, they so loathe “rurality” that they would never consider leaving the pits they’re in for such places.
What she doesn’t comprehend is that she’s living in the largest target in the world — the bull’s-eye of Islam. Even after the World Trade Center attacks, she (and most other NYC’ers) can’t see this.
Someday, that target is going to be hit by a _real_ “arrow”.
We’ve seen only the preview....
I’ve adapted to living in a small and somewhat strange tourist town in Florida, so it can be done!
One of the things that I liked about NYC when I was a kid back in the 1950s-60s was that it still had room for a lot of weird, disorderly people (the type the nanny state doesn’t like at all), but at the same time Catholic life was very strong in New York City and there was a certain underlying ethic and understanding of the world. It’s still a lot more Catholic than many places, once you get away from the East Village or Park Avenue, but not the way it used to be.
The worst thing about New York now is the nanny state that has always been lurking in the background with the progressives, but which Bloomberg seems to have taken to new idiotic heights. I guess this is partly because the nanny state is blossoming at the federal level, too, so he feels he has a lot of support. I always hoped real New Yorkers would be too independent to put up with the nanny state, but I guess not, alas.
You are fairly correct. Let me give you an example. When we lived in Oklahoma, we belonged to a strong Catholic parish. It had a school building which wasn’t used except for religious ed and church functions. The pastor tried his hardest to get people to contribute to reopen the school, and my husband and I pledged money (and we weren’t well off either) to help. We were homeschooling because the public schools were atrocious. Not enough people were willing to contribute, but I remember that a lot of these people had much larger, nicer houses than dh and I owned.
We then moved to Indiana, and luckily the small town of about 15,000 we moved to not only had a good K-6 Catholic school, which we promptly enrolled our oldest in, but right next door was the 7-12 Catholic school.
Forward to our current home of Fort Smith, which has 3 Catholic schools PK-6, and then one Junior High which schools the 7-9th grades. After that, it’s public school only. One thing dh and I have noticed is that the families associated with the parish school are the most active in the parish and are the ones keeping the parish running. There are 1500 registered families, and 300 students in the school. Again, lots of the families I see in the parish sending their kids to the public schools are driving new cars and making better money than my dh does.
Now we are in the process of getting ready to relocate to southeast OH, and we are once again having the problem of either not finding a Catholic school or finding schools to accomodate any higher than 8th grade. My husband (who is already in Ohio) is going to check out one school today and another on Thursday, but the choices are limited by distance and cost.
So the two things that frustrate me the most are the fact that there are people who are just unwilling to send their kids to these schools at the expense of lifestyle, which therefore limits the ability of the parish to keep schools open. So, dh and I either have to pay more per child or not find a school at all because they don’t exist. Meanwhile, I have to maintain my cool when someone driving a $400/month car payment tells me they can’t afford private school; dh and I are driving older cars and living in a older home to finance our kids’ education and pay for the ‘free’ school that the fancy car drivers send their kids to.
It’s a bitter cycle :P
Let's see what tune he sings when the "just in time" freight transportation system comes to an abrupt interruption/halt. Lessee if he's so elitist and smug then.
That's really sad. Our area had so many Catholic families wanting to send their kids to Catholic high school that they couldn't wait for the bishop to build another, so people pitched in and built & staffed a couple "in the Catholic tradition" since they weren't actually diocesan. I think the two non-diocesan ones might have merged after the diocesan (John Paul the Great) was finished because I've only seen ads for one in the bulletin. Steve & I pitch in for the school collections, trying to keep the cost within reach for everyone. Best of luck to you!
Unfortunately the New Yorkers that show up at the polls with high turnout are all lefties. It’s not that we don’t have conservatives here. It’s that they have been so brainwashed to believe their votes don’t count that their turnout is at historic low levels. We need to change that mindset and get them out to the polls. we have a lot of work to do. If all conservatives and republicans actually showed up at the polls with turnouts of 80% this state would be in our hands.
I suggest a boycott by Americans of this Oikophobe. We should not allow her to educate our children with her second-rate horror stories for kids. Let them read CS Lewis or JRR Tolkein.
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