Stine hates Americans who made him rich!
Bigots.
One day that asshat is going to realize that most of the foreign policy decisions that get America drawn into brouhahas are caused by people in New York and DC. But it's the rest of America whose kids are sent to fight in the wars that result.
Scary people are starting to notice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNqK4jngcs
They hate us, but love our tax money that supports their system.
I’m from NYC and I have to admit that I am not in tune with the style of the tea party demonstrators. But I am 100% in support of the substance.
The comments are pure NYC. The article snides that NYC’ers are too cool to be impressed with celebrity (actors) but brags it is excited by ‘real people’ (Sully, the pilot who landed the plane on the river, one of the Chilean miners). So someone else commented that Sully and the miner are exactly the type of people (from flyover country) that NYC’ers purport to hate.
I liked this comment:
The sentiment is reciprocated. My Grandfather was billeted with men from NYC during the First World War. He preferred the French, (...and if you knew his opinion of the French!) Well, let’s just say the boys from NYC didn’t impress my grandfather - they were neither men nor soldiers.
It was my understanding the “RL Stine” was not a real person. Different authors contributed to the series, but they were all attributed to “RL Stine”.
This really brings home the Abortion Culture to me.
These people are saying “Why wasn’t that baby aborted?!” or “How could you have a baby; you idiot?!”
The other part of it is they do not even want to see a baby. Like the author pointed out
“Except in select ’hoods like Park Slope and perhaps the Upper West Side, children are viewed as mysterious beings, rarely sighted and only occasionally understood, like pixies or magical small butlers.”
I imagine the people at this party a some of the wealthier people who if they haven’t aborted their children they pay someone else to raise them and only deal with them on a one on one basis only rarely.
Here in flyover country if a woman shows up to a party with a baby in tow she is greeted with OOO’s and AAAhh’s and the baby is passed around and fawned over.
Typically if children are not wanted at a party here in flyover country it is spelled out in the invitation and it is only rarely done because there would be some inappropriate material for children on scene.
What can I say these people are just plain rude.
‘s OK, The feeling is mutual. NY is ok for a short visit but I thank God I don’t have to live there. Wait for the war to start when 0 tells us we taxpayers absolutely must bail out NY and CA.
Perhaps total birth control would be appropriate in New York City.
He wrote those crappy books? Sheesh, 95% of FReepers write better.
Thomas Jefferson
What, New York City has seceded and joined Canada? Oh, I just woke up from the wonderful dream that it had.
I’ve often wondered how a city and state, such as New York, which prides itself upon being a leader, a robust, culturally rich grouping of society, politically elite, could not find a single candidate within their entire political spectrum to represent them, who had any historical residency from their state, when they elected Hillary Clinton as their Senator.
The culturally elite had to find a wife of an Arkansas pervert to mirror their political aspirations. Incredibly bizarre. Such is the legacy of NY.
I grew up in NYC and I loved it, but the problem with New York is that it is the Perfect Democrat Storm. It has a bunch of rich celebrities and academics (very few of them originally from New York, btw) combined with a sullen, aggressive union and municipal employee culture and herds of immigrants who are drafted into the Democratic Party practically as soon as they set foot on US soil.
In fact, the comments about residents of places outside of New York are even applied by the celebs and academics to anybody who lives outside of certain areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn, people who live in the dread “Outer Boroughs.”
There are a lot of real people who live in New York and there are even a number of very conservative people. But they are politically powerless and they are invisible to the media. Hence it looks like a city of nothing but 20-something twits and aging lefty professors with their bellies busting out of the denim workshirts they wear to show solidarity with the “people.”
Furthermore, the city has a tradition of mindless political “progressivism” that goes back to the 1930s. There was a brief reaction against it when people voted for Giuliani, but even he changed over the years and nanny-state progressivism returned with a vengeance under Bloomberg. And the whole point of progressivism is that the elite know better than everybody else - which is exactly what New York’s in-crowd seems to believe about themselves.
it’s astonishing how parochial people are. “If you want to find Middle America,” says one friend of mine, “just drive an hour outside of any city.” The Panhandle states, he says, are thought of as “the Redneck Riviera”; Wyoming and Montana are Unabomber country.
It’s true
and proud of it.
Now canI tell you what I think of you ... ???
Thought not.
I worked in NYC "BG" (Before Giuliani) -- and I remember! There has been an almost unprecedented -- for NYC -- string of 5 NYC mayoral elections now where the winner has been Republican, or at least someone who is semi-sane. Bloomberg has indicated that he won't run for a fourth term, and the next mayoral election is 2013. I'll give it to 2015, at the latest, when NYC reverts to it natural chaotic state.
Really, my daughter works in NYC and I told her she'd best try to make arrangements to telecommute from NJ before then.