No Olympics for NYC?

[sdelmonte]

I say hooray! I dislike the IOC. I dislike the jingoism. I dislike the commericialism. I hate the amount of money cities are expected to spend on limited use facilities. I despised the plans for Flushing Meadows Park. I hated the idea of two weeks of pereptual traffic and security checks that would have made the nonsense of last year's Republican convention look tame.

I am very relieved. And I think many New Yorkers feel this way, even if most also would have cheered NYC getting the games.

Comments

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I've been dreading the prospect.

[kimpire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's in 2012.

You'll have made aliya by then, right?

Right?

Right???

*looks innocent*

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm all for jingoism and commercialism, but I agree with all your other objections. I'd be perfectly happy to be all jingoistic and commercial about, say, Boston or Philadelphia. Just NIMBY, thank you.

[madfilkentist]

Hey, we had the Democratic convention! Let some other city get a turn at being overrun with security mania. Or better still, hold the Olympics in Lost Gulch, Kansas, where they won't bother a lot of people.

[doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com]

I say hooray!

I'll see your hooray! and raise you a Huzzah!