Do you think that the greatest generation of American’s would have allowed the Imperial Japanese to build a shrine at Pearl Harbor less than 10 years after the attack? It pushes me to ask the question, where is our spine? Has political correctness become more important than the preservation of our great country? How can New Yorkers, of all people, let this stand? Not only did the NYC board approve the building of the mosque and victory tower, they approved it by a vote of 29-1. I hate to say this but the voters in New York should be ashamed of themselves for electing these people to represent them because they clearly do not, or do they?
I believe in religious freedom but why is it that Christianity seems to be the only religion censored? Where is the civility? Why would any Muslims want to rub every American’s nose in the falling of the Twin Towers by radical Muslims by building a mosque on the bodies of the fallen?
A couple of years ago, Michelle Obama said that the first time she was proud of her country was when her husband was nominated for President. Well, Mrs. Obama, this is the first time, in my life, that I have been embarrassed by my country. Let me correct that statement, I am not embarrassed by my country, only by the man leading it and those who believe as he does. Heaven forbid we offend a group of people that refuse to stand for themselves and speak against those who bastardize their religion or do they all believe the same as those who brought the towers down?
The man sitting in the Oval office has done more to bring this country down than any President in our glorious history and now this. Where is the media? Where is the outrage? Where are those who would defend our way of life? Why is it that we would sacrifice all of our history and all the past has taught us and take the direction that we are taking? This is just another example of the pussification of America running amok. If Muslims want peace and for us all to get along why are they standing in silence?
Enough is enough, we are Americans it is time that we start acting like it.
Dan Spencer
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Jeff Emanuel
Yeah, Why Not let Them Rub It In.
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Wednesday, May 26th at 2:38PM EDT (link)Barack Obama is much more likely to visit this mosque than he is to be seen in Arlington Cemetary on Memorial Day.
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Is there a link?
RedLeader (Diary) Wednesday, May 26th at 2:46PM EDT (link)I’ve seen this on a few blogs but haven’t seen a news story on it. I’m trying to figure out who is doing this, who approved it, etc. I saw somewhere that it’s the city, but here you’re blaming Obama. This is disgusting and offensive, and it would be nice to know if there’s any way to stop it. First, though, we have to figure out who is at fault.
No blame
jburr (Diary) Wednesday, May 26th at 3:56PM EDT (link)I am not blaming Obama on this he is only a symptom of the bigger problem, now if I wanted I could find a six degrees of separation to place blame on him but that was not the purpose of this post. We are losing our historical perspective due to over bearing political correctness. We are willing to bend our moral foundation in order to not offend someone. No one is worrying about offending us. Where is the pride of being an American and calling it as we see it. I love it and will tell anyone why we are the best. It is not bragging if it is a fact. Research who the leaders of this mosque are. To sit by and let a group of people who took pride in the towers falling rub our collective noses in our greatest tragedy is unacceptable and any American that allows it should be ashamed of themselves. There are thousands of places in NY that a mosque could be built, why on the graves of the fallen? I will give you one guess. They are collectively saying ha ha ha ha ha ha to all of us in hopes that we do not have the will to stop them.
The "Ground Zero" mosque is a scandal, and I have unique understandings of why.
barrypopik (Diary) Thursday, May 27th at 12:11AM EDT (link)I’ll probably do a lengthy Red State post on the same topic, but considering that no one read my last “Waste, fraud and abuse at the 2010 Census” post, I’m wondering if it’s worth the effort.
The ‘Ground Zero Mosque” is a scandal. Political correctness surely cannot go THIS far, but it has. I am glad that I left NYC (for Texas).
In 2005, I ran unsuccessfully for Manhattan Borough President. The current Manhattan Borough President, Scott Stringer, has called a tea party person a “Nazi” on just this very issue. Stringer has been very open and has hosted events with CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Islamic charities scandal.
Who has $100 million to build this mosque? Foregin governments. Rudy Giuliani would have said no, but Michael Bloomberg (who is Jewish) is a liberal disaster.
Neal Boortz talked about this today on his radio show. The Islamic world sees one sign in this mosque–CONQUEST.
Oh, I’ve got a lot to say about this disgrace…
I'm trying to connect the dots
CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Thursday, May 27th at 12:47AM EDT (link)between your being “glad that (you) left NYC” in 2010 and your having been motivated enough to run for Manhattan Beep in 2005, which term, had you won, would have expired on the cusp of 2010 and presumably required, if not a burning passion for both the welfare and the company of the people you were hoping to serve, at least enough self-restraint to avoid public declaration of joy at being delivered from their presence.
Where was the change? In you, or in your potential constituents?
Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)
soli Deo gloria
It's a long story.
barrypopik (Diary) Thursday, May 27th at 1:23AM EDT (link)I left NYC in 2006, not in 2010. Not only had I lost the 2005 election, but my wife’s uncle was murdered by a hit-and-run driver in Manhattan in July 2006. We wanted to raise a family, and we wanted to raise our children in a house (not a studio apartment), located near good schools.
NYC politicians almost always get re-elected, as was Manhattan BP Scott Stringer in 2009. One 2005 platform I had was to approach the Charter Revision Commission to either eliminate or strengthen the borough president position (rendered largely ceremonial under the new city charter),, so maybe there wouldn’t have been anything to run for in 2009. “Nothing” would have been better than the BP now in office.
Republicans are outnumbered by Democrats in Manhattan by about 7-1. A Republican stands little chance of ever being Manhattan Borough President. I haven’t changed. My potential constituents haven’t changed, and that’s really the problem and the explanation for an abomination such as the Ground Zero Mosque.
My story is well-documented. I solved the origin of “the Big Apple.” I gave my heart and soul to New York City (I was born in a NYC suburb), and I’ve done wonderful, amazing things for New York City. I have a “Big Apple” blog that explains New York City terms in great detail.
Sometimes–like being a Jew in 1930s Germany–you just realize that you’re not going to change things, and for the health and welfare of yourself and your family, you have to leave.
New York City is going bankrupt. I would have liked to have been the Chris Christie of New York, but the labor unions are just too powerful. Let someone else pay the insanely high taxes. Let someone else experience the constant service cuts.
I gave New York everything I had and did all I could.
From "someone else" then,
CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Thursday, May 27th at 1:52AM EDT (link)thank you for the courteous response, and I do hope that you will find in Texas what you apparently did not find here. In the meantime, in light of your propensity to refer to your own accomplishments and the perceived slight of not being duly recognized at this site, I would ask that you re-examine the scale on which you measure whether, and how, you would be able to “change things”.
Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)
soli Deo gloria
For example, about those NYC community boards...
barrypopik (Diary) Thursday, May 27th at 2:24AM EDT (link)It’s all political. The community boards (one of which overwhelming approved the Ground Zero Mosque) are a Democrat club.
After I lost for Manhattan Borough President, I applied for a community board (an unpaid position). They were conducting interviews until the first week of the months, it was announced, and no one even called me. I got a call over a week after the supposed closing of interviews, on a Thursday, to reply immediately and to come in on Friday (the next day). I was working that Friday, and so, no community board for me! My wife said forget it all, they obviously don’t want you–it’s time to leave NY.
I research Americanisms (words and phrases), and it’s a penniless scholar or Rodney Dangerfield thing to do, Everything has been very, very difficult. I submitted my original research work on the origin of “the Big Apple” to the Manhattan Borough President/Manhattan Historian 20 years ago, without any reply. When I finally dedicated “Big Apple Corner” at Broadway & West 54th Street, no one came.
The problem was that I GAVE to New York. If you TAKE from New York, like the powerful labor unions do, the politicians love you. They’re on the take, too.
The Ground Zero Mosque is really the ultimate abomination, a disgrace to the memory of all of those who died on 9-11.
Perhaps it will take a Greece-type bankruptcy for New Yorkers to finally learn that things have to be changed, that the labor unions can’t continually take, and that the money’s all gone.
What that sad chaos of financial destitution comes for New York, I owe it to my family not to be there.
Too bad you apparently didn't get to know some of the people I know here
CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Thursday, May 27th at 2:44AM EDT (link)who have been instrumental in bringing about far more enduring change than the Council, Beeps or even Mayors could ever accomplish. Funny thing is, it would be inconceivable for as monumental a thing as a street-corner dedication to be made in honor of their work, and funnier still, none of them would mind the oversight in the least.
Before I end my threadjack, have you crossed paths with Wolfgang Mieder in your research? I took German–badly–from him in another life before he delved into his work on proverbs.
Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)
soli Deo gloria
Wolfgang Meider is a colleague, but I've never met him.
barrypopik (Diary) Thursday, May 27th at 6:12AM EDT (link)Wolfgang Mieder is a colleague at the American Dialect Society & American Name Society, but I’ve never met him. I love his research on proverbs. I also research American proverbs, using new computer databases and puttting it all online.
FYI, I used to adjudicate parking tickets that the Bronx Help Center on Westchester Square. I worked in a windowless room, not much bigger than the bathroom of your house, without an emergency exit and without air circulation. We were always told to work faster and faster, and I always felt like dirt.
I’m glad you’re doing good stuff in the Bronx. I found it nearly impossible to accomplish any reforms, in my workplace or in anything else. No one was listening.
"No comment." And put that on the record.
SoFiMil (Diary) Thursday, May 27th at 1:54AM EDT (link)n/t
BP: I’ll probably do a lengthy Red State post on the same topic, but considering that no one read my last “Waste, fraud and abuse at the 2010 Census” post, I’m wondering if it’s worth the effort.
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