Register to leave a comment, or log in if you already have an account
Dona – I think that’s true, paulie sounds like a card – but see I love people like that b/c they keep nyc real – that’s how my father was.
I was friendly with most of my neighbors when I lived in my house on 15th street in south slope, but over here it’s like a whole new world – but my husband never skips a beat and says hello to everyone(but like Dibs said – he’s black and he’s from park slope – so he feels it’s just as much his hood as it is the old timer who he says hello to) plus that’s how he was raised
ok my social experiment will to say hello more to my neighbors
Rob -I’m a gemini – air signs stick together: – do you know the rest of your chart
my moon is in cancer(a great place to be) and my ascendant is virgo (urgh!)
legion- you aren’t smart enough to argue like MM or I.
But here is the problem I have with you (and benson). You come in and immediately insult those of us who disagree with you politically by telling us “we don’t get it”- although you, presumably do. You tell us we’re stupid because we don’t agree with your rightwing philosophy. You post our little fibonacci sequence, thinking we were too stupid to recognize it- I find you overreaching and condescending. Now what the New Black Panther Party case has to do with our opinions of the Tea Party I don’t know. The TP is not an individual, it’s many many people who have an agenda. The NBPP is a fringe group and not a force to be reckoned with.
I also have found it interesting that while many republicans support the Tea Party, it seems just as many, if not more don’t, because they see the TP as extremists and they are uncomfortable with the rhetoric.
lech- what means this? “it’s not surprising at all that it has not recurred independently of the original evolution of our species.”
— tolerates the TP extremists, nay, gets in bed with them
did you see my post about the New Black Panther Party
and the Obama dept. of justice?
— allows borderline racist ads and statements by its members
did you see my post about the New Black Panther Party and the Obama dept. of justice?
— thinks that millionaires are not taxed enough
do you have something against people making money in a capitalist society? this is simply class warfare. You act as if we live in a static society. This year’s millionaire was a guard at Riker’s last year. Didn’t you see the recent story about the Lotto millionaire from East New York?
— is against a first small step to get some health-care equity for us
lol, as if people weren’t getting treated in ER’s for the past 240 years. Oh yeah, we have the “WORST” system in the world, nevermind that leaders from around the world come here for treatment.
— has negligible representation amongst minorities
lol again, so easy to discount the millions of black, hispanic, asians and other minorities who vote Repubican year in and year out.
— is supremely jingoistic about immigration
do you actually support an open border? why not let a billion more people just come on in? Who cares about quality of life anyway? or sovereignty for that matter, we’ll just live free like the wind on good will and meade.
— has a standard bearer (McCain) who has flip-flopped about 20 times on so many conceivable issues that he might, indeed, be considered a ‘maverick’ after all
…uh, have you heard of John Kerry? That guy has more flip flops than a Chinese sandal factory.
— listens to Palin, that demagogic, semi-literate ignoramus as a major mover and shaker
say what you will, not everyone can move people to action. you have to give her that. She must be doing something right.
— has Gingrich, that charmer who told his wife about the divorce in hospital bed and who thinks Obama is affected by his Keynan-ness, as a king-maker and potential pres. candidate
last I heard, there were more than a few 9/11 “truthers” in the ranks of the Democratic party, and don’t even start on ethics if you aren’t willing to bring in Slick Willy.
— Has the WSJ as its spokespaper
as opposed to the estimable NYTimes, the paper that hires people who make up stories whole sale. Remember the Blair incident?
— Tolerates Dines D’Souza’s rubbishy rants
As opposed to tolerating rants by Kruger et al, at the NYTimes? Tit for tat.
DAVE: I’m going out on a limb here saying this but it’s only the older residents, mostly black folks who always say hello and usually they are first. never do any of the (largely white) transplants (largely younger douchebag, er I mean hipster types) ever acknowledge anyone’s existence.
Just posted about Paulie Love up there.
The people on my block are beautiful. Lots of old-timers, but from getting to know their grandmas, and aunts, and some of the older men, I know know many of the young people. It is easy to snarl when you are a teenager, but the little gangs are transformed when the kids greet me and I ask them how their grandmother is.
Some of the transplants are nice and “GET” the fact that they are living in a special place. A very special place. But if the current crop is any indication (and they do come in crops), they are a different breed.
>your reasons come off as uninformed and intolerant because they are either hasty generalizations or ad hominem attacks.
do you have any philosophical substance to your objections?
obviously, even you must admit,there is another side to the story
Of course there is. But do the Republicans in power ever state it? THEY are the ones making this a do-or-die debate.
Not all ad hominem, btw: Souza’s beliefs inform his writings and if Gingrich repeats them, I’m entitled to comment on his state of mind. His relationship with his wife is important only so far as so many rightwingers toot the family/values horn.
I also think there were far more “Fuck Bush” signs than there was racist behaviour towards Obama. And the “Fuck Bush” people were far more vocal about it.
Dave, I think you are being overly harsh to cmu. He didn’t say anything that was all that closeminded, intolerant or racist. Is it racist to say that the Republican party “has negligible representation amongst minorities.” That happens to be the truth, as are many of his other statements. I have no idea what Dines D’Souza’s been up to lately, so I can’t comment on that.
Dona – I think that’s true, paulie sounds like a card – but see I love people like that b/c they keep nyc real – that’s how my father was.
I was friendly with most of my neighbors when I lived in my house on 15th street in south slope, but over here it’s like a whole new world – but my husband never skips a beat and says hello to everyone(but like Dibs said – he’s black and he’s from park slope – so he feels it’s just as much his hood as it is the old timer who he says hello to) plus that’s how he was raised
ok my social experiment will to say hello more to my neighbors
Rob -I’m a gemini – air signs stick together: – do you know the rest of your chart
my moon is in cancer(a great place to be) and my ascendant is virgo (urgh!)
legion- you aren’t smart enough to argue like MM or I.
But here is the problem I have with you (and benson). You come in and immediately insult those of us who disagree with you politically by telling us “we don’t get it”- although you, presumably do. You tell us we’re stupid because we don’t agree with your rightwing philosophy. You post our little fibonacci sequence, thinking we were too stupid to recognize it- I find you overreaching and condescending. Now what the New Black Panther Party case has to do with our opinions of the Tea Party I don’t know. The TP is not an individual, it’s many many people who have an agenda. The NBPP is a fringe group and not a force to be reckoned with.
I also have found it interesting that while many republicans support the Tea Party, it seems just as many, if not more don’t, because they see the TP as extremists and they are uncomfortable with the rhetoric.
lech- what means this? “it’s not surprising at all that it has not recurred independently of the original evolution of our species.”
dona, How long have you lived in your house/neighborhood? Just curious, can’t recall.
Here’s a link to an old post. Too bad It doesn’t link to the rest of the pictures.
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2005/08/today_on_my_bro_1.php
— tolerates the TP extremists, nay, gets in bed with them
did you see my post about the New Black Panther Party
and the Obama dept. of justice?
— allows borderline racist ads and statements by its members
did you see my post about the New Black Panther Party and the Obama dept. of justice?
— thinks that millionaires are not taxed enough
do you have something against people making money in a capitalist society? this is simply class warfare. You act as if we live in a static society. This year’s millionaire was a guard at Riker’s last year. Didn’t you see the recent story about the Lotto millionaire from East New York?
— is against a first small step to get some health-care equity for us
lol, as if people weren’t getting treated in ER’s for the past 240 years. Oh yeah, we have the “WORST” system in the world, nevermind that leaders from around the world come here for treatment.
— has negligible representation amongst minorities
lol again, so easy to discount the millions of black, hispanic, asians and other minorities who vote Repubican year in and year out.
— is supremely jingoistic about immigration
do you actually support an open border? why not let a billion more people just come on in? Who cares about quality of life anyway? or sovereignty for that matter, we’ll just live free like the wind on good will and meade.
— has a standard bearer (McCain) who has flip-flopped about 20 times on so many conceivable issues that he might, indeed, be considered a ‘maverick’ after all
…uh, have you heard of John Kerry? That guy has more flip flops than a Chinese sandal factory.
— listens to Palin, that demagogic, semi-literate ignoramus as a major mover and shaker
say what you will, not everyone can move people to action. you have to give her that. She must be doing something right.
— has Gingrich, that charmer who told his wife about the divorce in hospital bed and who thinks Obama is affected by his Keynan-ness, as a king-maker and potential pres. candidate
last I heard, there were more than a few 9/11 “truthers” in the ranks of the Democratic party, and don’t even start on ethics if you aren’t willing to bring in Slick Willy.
— Has the WSJ as its spokespaper
as opposed to the estimable NYTimes, the paper that hires people who make up stories whole sale. Remember the Blair incident?
— Tolerates Dines D’Souza’s rubbishy rants
As opposed to tolerating rants by Kruger et al, at the NYTimes? Tit for tat.
DAVE: I’m going out on a limb here saying this but it’s only the older residents, mostly black folks who always say hello and usually they are first. never do any of the (largely white) transplants (largely younger douchebag, er I mean hipster types) ever acknowledge anyone’s existence.
Just posted about Paulie Love up there.
The people on my block are beautiful. Lots of old-timers, but from getting to know their grandmas, and aunts, and some of the older men, I know know many of the young people. It is easy to snarl when you are a teenager, but the little gangs are transformed when the kids greet me and I ask them how their grandmother is.
Some of the transplants are nice and “GET” the fact that they are living in a special place. A very special place. But if the current crop is any indication (and they do come in crops), they are a different breed.
>your reasons come off as uninformed and intolerant because they are either hasty generalizations or ad hominem attacks.
do you have any philosophical substance to your objections?
obviously, even you must admit,there is another side to the story
Of course there is. But do the Republicans in power ever state it? THEY are the ones making this a do-or-die debate.
Not all ad hominem, btw: Souza’s beliefs inform his writings and if Gingrich repeats them, I’m entitled to comment on his state of mind. His relationship with his wife is important only so far as so many rightwingers toot the family/values horn.
I also think there were far more “Fuck Bush” signs than there was racist behaviour towards Obama. And the “Fuck Bush” people were far more vocal about it.
Dave, I think you are being overly harsh to cmu. He didn’t say anything that was all that closeminded, intolerant or racist. Is it racist to say that the Republican party “has negligible representation amongst minorities.” That happens to be the truth, as are many of his other statements. I have no idea what Dines D’Souza’s been up to lately, so I can’t comment on that.