You said: "The only good thing in NO was jazz."
Which anyone who has been to New Orleans and bothered to step out of the hotel or off of Bourbon Street can tell you is patently false and shortsighted.
I then illustrated said shortsighted falsehood by continuing your sentence with:"...and the food, and the museums, and the history, and the architecture, and the industry.
...and then, yes, I asked you to shut up. I was hoping to spare you the continued embarrasment of speaking from outside of your knowledge.
At no point did I mention that I thought your magical 200 billion dollar figure SHOULD be spent on New Orleans. At no point did you bother ask me if I believed that it should be spent on New Orleans before attacking me FOR BELIEVEING that it should.
Then again, why would you ask anyone anything... it's obvious that you are just here to hear yourself talk.
At which point you attacked like a scalded cobra.
Which anyone who has been to New Orleans and bothered to step out of the hotel or off of Bourbon Street can tell you is patently false and shortsighted.
I reply that anyone who knows how to read knows when someone's tongue is in their cheek. My consistent point has been that federal expenditure to rebuild the place is an abomination. The reason is moral and constitutional; it would be just as wrong to rebuild Saybrook CT, even though it's the Shining Jewel of the Universe(TM).
However, I did offer a few rhetorical arguments against rebuilding New Orleans specifically, and the main one is: why in the world would we be so eager to re-create the city whose murder rate was ten times the national average? Even if the food is awesome?
While you ponder that question, here's some beads--lets see them boobies o' yours.
...and then, yes, I asked you to shut up.
You told me to shut the eff up. Your description makes it sound so nearly... courteous. Then, because you have a gift for irony, you called me a "jerk".