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In a Country of His Own
Ruling Class Mayor Bloomberg is out of his mosque. Also: Volt chargers. Bonfire of the nation builders. Plus more.
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The Country Class is educating themselves in Islam. And common sense is common sense.
Jefferson would never have been so
blind!
—
Jo Anne Kroener
Dallas, Texas
I think what Lincoln once said applies here: “If slavery is
not wrong, nothing is wrong.” If putting a mosque this close to
Ground Zero is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Robert Nowall
Cape Coral,
Florida
Don’t forget to add that America was formed as a
Judeo-Christian nation — this fact is what has driven
Islamisists to declare war and hate us so
much.
— Deanna
Whitfield
Aiken, South Carolina
IF the mosque is built, would hog farmers and hog slaughtering plants be willing to very quietly donate hog lagoon waste water for the cement and concrete, hog waste sludge to disperse over the ground, and other pig parts for that ground.
Even a bit of pig feces in that concrete and cement. Then announce those actions after the place is built.
Just an idea.
I’m sure that all involved in the actual construction work
would be willing to cooperate.
—
Donald A.
Holloway
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Yes Mosque
— David Schor
THIRD TIME’S A CHARMER
Re: A. James Antle III’s A
Losing Proposition:
No matter where one stands on Gay Marriage, the fact is, a judge completely overturned a duly won election. Where are the “voter’s’ rights” of those who voted FOR Prop 8 which passed by 52% in spite of the tons of money poured into this election to defeat Prop 8.
Disgusting. It’s the third time that I’m aware of which
election results have been overturned, by a non elected entity —
Prop 187, and California’s initiative making English the Official
language of the State are the other two.
— SarahSue
San Francisco.
California
VOLT FACE
Re: Eric Peters’
Electric Sticker Shock:
If you could get beyond the mindless New York
prejudice against American car makers for a minute, you might
remember that someone at General Motors did tell Obama that
Americans don’t want a $41k Camry. He used to be the CEO; Obama
had him fired.
— Dennis Duggan
Unless I am wrong, the press releases have said that the electric component of the Volt will be good only for 40 miles before re-charge is necessary…meaning that a 20-mile commute to work or other activity is the best hope for a day. But the manufacturer has covered this with a 340-mile capacity of the gasoline engine component. Which is to say that this car is designed to run about 10% green and 90% by traditional internal combustion. Some things just never seem to change.
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Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 9:18AM
Building the mosque is probably an olive branch from muslims, but it is almost like building an SS memorial near the site of an demolished synagogue; or maybe akin to building a Jefferson Davis Confederate Presidential Library next to the birthplace of Martin Luther King.
Well-intentioned, permissible, ecumenical to a certain extent, but not to the best decorum.
FastJohnny| 8.9.10 @ 11:44AM
Even the least learned student of history knows that Islam offers no olive branchs. It never has and never will. Islamic thought only makes value judgements about how to best spread the word of Allah. If there is an olive branch offered it is because it is a discretionary judgement, a retreat that is necessary in order to win at a later date. One piece of good news for those of us that do not want to see a 'cultural center' (really a way to spread the word of Allah across the world of infidels) is that no construction crew in NYC would touch that project. We all know how hard it is to get work done in NYC on projects that non-controversial and not anti-Western, just think about trying to get the project going with this one. Bill O'Reilly from Fox brought this up and I think he is completely right, just try to find any construction union that will touch that with a 10 foot pole.
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 7:38PM
"If there is an olive branch offered it is because it is a discretionary judgment"
That is pretty much what I meant above, although individual-- and even small groups of grass roots muslims-- can be gullible as to their higher-ups motives in building the mosque in question; but not their leaders.
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 8:27PM
Islamics are extreme authoritarians, yes; but not totalitarians, Islam is not monolithic, as Pol Pot's Cambodia was.
Some muslims do think of Cordoba House as an olive branch...
but they are probably not the sharpest crayons in the box.
wolflen| 8.9.10 @ 1:11PM
unions wont work you say...a paycheck not wanted...doubt it highly...it would require unions and their leaders to have a moral compass...and if the crews are illegal aliens from mexico, where they cheered at the 9/11 destruction, and have no allegiance to Americae ....the cultural center will be built
Alan Brooks| 8.9.10 @ 7:45PM
Why don't we compromise on this: permit them to build the mosque, but only if a large, indelible, glow in the dark, bull's eye is painted on top of it.