I just think that it was so expensive to have to buy drinks and pay for the ticket and it was not My boyfriend and I were walking down times square with no set plans for the night it was out first time in new york.
A friend had suggested I keep an ear open for people selling Louis CK tickets, as he usually performs randomly at some comedy club. I love Louis CK. Once we get to the place and take a look around, we immediately realize we have been "hustled".
I hate Dane Cook. I'm sure Louis CK would hate him too. I don't know why that didn't register in our heads as odd but anyway, yea, unless you don't care about seeing random people try comedy in a dingy old hole in the wall location, WALK AWAY. A little expensive, but I don't have a problem with that. What I do have a problem with is this huckster. So we arrive at 11 and the show began at If we had arrived when he told us, we'd have missed the entire show.
The guy is tattooed, tall with dark hair and eyes, he was in Times Square. Lol comedy, you need to FIRE this guy, he is lying to and cheating your customers. We didn't really have any plans, being as we had just arrived that same day. We think "what the heck? With the help of some friendly locals we find the comedy club.
Which is a small, almost recreational looking center, but stacked up on itself. We grab a slice of pizza and walk over. As we proudly present the tickets we had so smartly haggled down the guy at the door says "thats ok just walk on in. Oh well, we keep good faith and climb the stairs, to the elevator, to the hallway, where we wait. Warning: this building is the opposite of swanky.
Think dirty carpet, blinking lights, peeling paint, and odd smells. But wait it gets better. Once we are seated we are immediately addressed by the waiter who needs to know our order for the two drink minimum. We order a White Russian. But no, they don't have that. What about a Bloody Mary? Sorry, no such luck. Just regular domestic beers and watered down, less than half full of liquor, mixed drinks.
So we get some bud lights. The waiter asks do you want the same drinks for your second round? We aren't sure if we do, but we have to decide right away because they must have your two drink minimum order before the show begins!
We think this odd but we are all fairly good natured and think it can't get much worse. And the good thing is it didn't! We drink our beers and just decide to have a good attitude.
The comics come out, some were hilarious, some not so much. More made me laugh than not. And still, Ultra-Orthodox Jews complain of "anti-Semitism" at the drop of a hat. Thanks, but I don't need a lesson. I'm mostly conservative and libertarian. Always voted either GOP or Libertarian. I've been listening to conservative talk radio since the late s, through to the early s. I stopped about then, because I was disgusted with conservatism's pro-Iraq War stance.
I also subscribed to various conservative and libertarians magazines throughout the s to early s: National Review, The American Spectator, Chronicles of Culture, Liberty, The American Conservative. Also to The Nation and CounterPunch. Do you prefer the word "criticize" rather than "bash"?
Yes, I know, conservatism is about "individualism," yada, yada. But many of its writers do name blacks and Latinos as a group when discussing welfare -- yet carefully refrain from treating Ultra-Orthodox Jews on welfare with equal disdain.
Instead, it's all praise for the latter's "conservative values," ignoring that welfare dependency is not a conservative value. Conservatives are hypocrites on the Ultra-Orthodox Jews -- as are progressives. Put a cross on public property, and progressives will scream until it's removed.
Yet progressives utter not a peep as to all the giant menorahs on public property every Hannukhah. Originally Posted by nightcrawler. Shame on them. The difference between conservatives and progressives is that conservatives see people as individuals capable of taking personal responsibility regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation, whereas progressives lump people together by labels and race.
Originally Posted by jonbenson. This thread is about masks not about you thinking Republicans should bash Ultra-Orthodox Jews in addition to blacks and Hispanics for being on welfare. Originally Posted by speediestevie. Originally Posted by DreamerD. What are they going to say? I have so much medication I have to take. Everybody says, "Calm down. Let God handle it. This is Patrick Markee at Coalition for the Homeless. In New York City, you see that, again, more starkly than in most other places.
But by the time the court reaches a decision, Michelle, Catherine and Katrice will almost certainly be back in the shelter system where they started—this time with no way out. For Democracy Now! Patrick, welcome to Democracy Now! The figures are astounding. The largest number of homeless people in the city since the Depression?
And then, our top headline today, new figures show the recession brought on by the financial crisis has wiped out two decades of wealth for the average U. The fastest-growing segment of the homeless population in the United States is families with kids.
And this has really been the fundamental kind of lunacy of New York City homeless policy, and even homeless policy around the rest of the country, for many years. Here you have a situation where it costs more to do the wrong thing.
We are now facing a situation where Mayor Bloomberg has refused, for years now, to utilize federal housing programs, which we know work to reduce homelessness, which worked under previous New York City mayors.
Even Rudy Giuliani himself utilized federal housing programs to help families get up and out of shelter and secure permanent housing. They refuse to see that this is not a problem of behavior, of people making bad choices, all of these things. If you provide affordable housing assistance to help homeless kids and families escape shelter, they will stay out of shelter. And certainly, we see it in western European countries, in Canada, in other, you know, democracies and other industrialized countries where they have a stronger affordable housing system for low-income people.
California and Florida, other states that were hard hit by the mortgage foreclosure crisis, have also been very hard hit by homelessness. We almost never hear the word "poverty" mentioned by the presidential candidates. What is the single most important way we could deal with homelessness in this country? But we certainly need to see more leadership from the president and Congress, as well. For 17 years we have been exposing Washington lies and untangling media deceit, but now Facebook is drowning us in an ocean of right wing lies.
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