Whenever you have time off coming up, isn’t amazing how quickly that time gets filled? First you have all this time, then you remember 36 things that you told yourself you wanted to do the next time you have free time. There’s that movie you wanted to see and that friend you haven’t seen in 6 months and of course that breast augmentation you’ve been putting off and… well there’s lots of stuff that fills up the schedule real quick.
It seems that every time I tell myself I need to take a break and do nothing for a while, I quickly remember why I don’t take many vacations in the first place: Doing nothing is only fun for a little while, then you get bored.
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July 14th, 2008 - 9:14 pm
Stevie, in your original post, you wrote:
“I hate to say it, but we have no one to blame but ourselves. We screamed for change after Hurricane Katrina but we didn’t have the sack to vote for it when election time came. It’s almost like we’re just looking for a reason to complain…”
Yet you now retort my reply by stating that hometown pride prevented New Orleanians (displaced or not) from voting for the greater of two evils. You can’t win an argument by contradicting yourself.
I have questions about the events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, but that shouldn’t allow you to label me as a conspiracy theorist.
July 16th, 2008 - 4:25 pm
I hate to say it, but we have no one to blame but ourselves. We screamed for change after Hurricane Katrina but we didn’t have the sack to vote for it when election time came. It’s almost like we’re just looking for a reason to complain…
Where in that quote do I say that New Orleanians have no hometown pride? It is possible to have hometown pride and at the same time fear change, isn’t it? Your assertion that I contradicted myself relies on the assumption that there is an objective “greater” and “lesser” of two evils and that New Orleanians picked the “greater” in order to spite the city.
My assertion remains that hometown loving New Orleanians who screamed for change realized how much they feared change when push came to shove and that caused them to stick with “the devil they knew”. New Orleanians have always been stubbornly resistant to change, and that actually stems from their incredible hometown pride. But it can sometimes be to their own detriment, like in this case.
So yes, hometown loving New Orleanians throughout the nation have no one to blame but themselves for not demanding the change they deserved after Hurricane Katrina.
Stevie
PS - I was kidding about the conspiracy theorist thing