Apr 182011
Yesterday:
Here’s a good reason to maintain distance from this wretched hive of scum and villainy and socialism (but then, I repeat myself). In short, a cop gets shot during a robbery at a Brooklyn auto parts store. A citizen (a “school safety agent,” I’m guessing a security guard at some New York City hellhole grade school) picks up the wounded cops gun and returns fire at the robbers. And I quote:
The agent, who is not licensed to carry a gun, could face charges, sources said.
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So, you just did a drive by?
At the highest velocity the law would allow.
Looks like they changed their mind about charges:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/04/18/2011-04-18_no_charges_for_school_safety_agent_who_fired_at_thieves_in_brooklyn_gun_battle.html
They need to give our medals for putting holes in bad guys like that.
Come visit some time – it is among the safest cities in the country, the seat of business in our hemisphere, and lots of fun. Crime rates are the lowest since 1963, when reliable statistics were first taken, and when the population was about .5 million lower. I doubt you are interested in food, art, music, parks, architecture, history, etc… but it does have the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum which is pretty cool right up your alley.
Pray tell, where do you live? And what makes it so much better? (Other than no socialism and no black people or gay people.) And how many NYC schools have you been to that you call them hellholes? Because I went to one, and it was actually really good. Or is this all based on fox news and what Glenn Beck told you?
> Pray tell, where do you live? And what makes it so much better? (Other than no socialism and no black people or gay people.)
Your constant combining of willful ignorance with intentional race-baiting points you out as a troll.
Those old memories of the beginning scenes of “Welcome Back Kotter”
with the neigborhood scenes and the graffiti painted “L” trains never
turned me on either.
> …never turned me on either.
I’ve lived in small towns, rural areas, suburbs and on the outskirts of massive metropolitan areas (so far I’ve avoided the hearts of such), and in every single case… the packing of large numbers of people into small volumes, forcing them to be reliant upon government systems while stripping them of freedom (like, in the case listed above, the freedom to defend oneself while at the same time setting up the inevitability of clashes between people who just want to live their lives, and people who want to impose their lives on others) and removing them from any selmblance of the natural world has *always* creeped me right the hell out.
And as we’ve just seen, some people are so twisted up inside that they see any disagreement with the love of major urban arcologies as not only being equivalent to racism or “homophobia,” but *exactly* *the* *same* *thing* as racism and “homophobia There is a distinctly disturbing nature to the insular elitism that many major cities breed. The stereotype – upheld by a great many real-life examples – holds that New Yorkers think NYC is the best place in the world. Los Angelenos feel the same about LA. Chicagoans are all kinds of uptight about Chicago. Philadelphia, Dalls, London, paris, etc. And I’ve no doubt that each place has it’s special charms. But just becuase a New Yorker might happen to think that Broadway is just the coolest doesn’t mean that a Broadway show is measurably superior in any meaningful way to a play at some small art house, a night at the movies, a barn dance, an evening hiking, pointing a telescope at the stars, reading a book or just watching TV. It’ll probably be much more expensive, however.
I imagine that New York has some awesome bookstores one could get lost in. One of the few overnight talk radio hosts I can actually stand is Doug McIntyre of Red Eye radio.
http://www.wabcradio.com/showdj.asp?DJID=53816
http://kabc.com/showdj.asp?DJID=53949
I know the term “Small Business Authority” might strike a good libertarian like yourself as an oxymoron, but it is a good location that Doug Broadcasts from. What is more, he is a rabin fan of the Wright brothers and adores aviation. Now you might have to tone down the politics a bit, but he could be a good resource for you–and perhaps a sounding board.
New York is a distillation off all things, and should be treasured. I just wish I could afford to visit there.
> I imagine that New York has some awesome bookstores one could get lost in.
Lots of cities do. Salt Lake and Denver both have their share of really good bookstores, used and new. Denver had (or at least had, it’s been a few years) the “Tattered Cover,” which billed itself as the worlds largest bookstore. Dunno if that’s true but it was four or five stories of books…
> New York is a distillation off all things, and should be treasured.
Lots of things that should be treasured need not be something that everyone should necessarily want to experience. Given the insane rage that was expressed to me (in email and comments) for daring to not display the proper reverence for NYC, it’s clear that at least *some* New Yorkers take their peoplezoo entirely too damned seriously. As much as some people dislike excessive shows of national patriotism, these very same people can sometimes display equivalent levels of “city” patriotism. Hell, you see that whenever The Local Sports Collective competes against the Visiting Out-Of-State Sports Collective, and riots ensue.
