tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193745359560427451.post1532634374353992218..comments2024-03-28T09:40:11.664-07:00Comments on The Refiner's Fire Blog: Some thoughts on Ted Cruz's "New York values" commentCarmenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14998146626031186940noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193745359560427451.post-53388892837669519342016-01-26T07:21:26.660-08:002016-01-26T07:21:26.660-08:00Sorry for any typos - I'm not awake yet! That...Sorry for any typos - I'm not awake yet! That last paragraph should read:<br /><br />And then I would have simply walked away, knowing that they would cackle and chuckle over my comments...but never forget them. And I would have been content in the knowledge that now, on Judgment Day, they wouldn't be able to say, "I didn't know!"Carmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14998146626031186940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193745359560427451.post-88554282603289347842016-01-26T07:19:30.521-08:002016-01-26T07:19:30.521-08:00Thank you so much for your comment! You are corre...Thank you so much for your comment! You are correct - that "attitude" seems to be only in NYC and not in the rest of NY. Too bad, really, because it's a beautiful city with much to offer. <br /><br />As for those two cabbies, too bad I didn't know God back then, for I would certainly have smiled and said something like this: "Even though you guys live to be rude, crude and mean to people, God loves you, anyway. But He doesn't love your behavior and so you'd better start learning that one day you WILL stand before Him to explain yourselves. On that day it will be too late to give your life to Him, and you'll end up separated from Him forever. Open your Bibles to discover how to have eternal life...or eternal death. Your choice."<br /><br />And then I would have simply walked away, knowing that they would cackled and chuckle over my comments...but never forgetting them. And I would have been content in the knowledge that now, on Judgment Day, they wouldn't be able to say, "I didn't know!"Carmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14998146626031186940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5193745359560427451.post-56640714913107698892016-01-26T05:32:12.833-08:002016-01-26T05:32:12.833-08:00I was born in NYC, and raised on LI. I knew exactl...I was born in NYC, and raised on LI. I knew exactly what Mr. Cruz meant and I actually clapped my hands when he made that statement.When I married my husband and I couldn't get out of the "greater NY area" fast enough. We did not want to raise our children in such a rude place. We moved up to Central NYS. The people could not be anymore different, and they always talk about how the "city" is causing the world to think all New Yorkers are crude,self-centered, sarcastic etc. Believe me the Upstaters get made fun of by the city as well. They say "nothing lives west of the Hudson River". I would like to apologize for the way you were treated. I only hope you get to see the huge difference in the culture between up and down staters. I am positive that many of the people in our small hamlet were cheering the comment by Mr. Cruz and knew exactly that he was speaking of the city and not them.Even Gov. George Pataki came out in a long defence of Mr. Cruz. He is also an upstater and had to deal with their "attitude" regularly. Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206585604122387398noreply@blogger.com