You could point out that there's been an actual mosque in the neighborhood for 40 years...
Jayne: What're you gonna tell the others? Mal: About what? Jayne: About why I'm dead. Mal: Hadn't thought about it. Jayne: Make something up. Don't tell 'em what I did.
'Ariel'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 16, 2010 5:06:08 am PDT #18185 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hil R. - Aug 16, 2010 5:09:45 am PDT #18186 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Or that people usually say, "If there are all these moderate Muslims out there, why don't they stand up and say something, rather than letting the terrorists be the only voice of Islam, if they want to change Islam's image?" and now that actual "moderate" (whatever that means) Muslims want to build a center (which is largely modeled after the Y -- what can be more mainstream American than that?), the response is, "You're all terrorists."
Trudy Booth - Aug 16, 2010 5:19:35 am PDT #18187 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Or that the community who actually fled for their lives, survived the attacks, and spent months and years rebuilding their lives voted overwhelmingly for the needed zoning. (Apparently they don't find a YMMA particularly disrespectful)
msbelle - Aug 16, 2010 5:48:29 am PDT #18188 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
or you could just say "Shut your pie holes!"
eta: The "Fuckers!" is implied there, right?
Tom Scola - Aug 16, 2010 5:48:48 am PDT #18189 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Look at the photos. This neighborhood is not hallowed. The people who live and work here are not obsessed with 9/11. The blocks around Ground Zero are like every other hard-working neighborhood in New York, where Muslims are just another thread of the city fabric.
Aims - Aug 16, 2010 5:51:15 am PDT #18190 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
or you could just say "Shut your pie holes!"
That's honestly where I was heading. Not enough @@ in the universe for idiots who refuse to get it about pluralism in this country.
Connie Neil - Aug 16, 2010 5:52:04 am PDT #18191 of 30001
brillig
Today we went to the Denver Art Museum for the King Tut exhibit
Envy! Envy! Denver is so damned close, but car is not reliable and planes are not cheap.
megan walker - Aug 16, 2010 5:56:02 am PDT #18192 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's like the people protesting the Atlantic Yards development because it was destroying the "neighborhood." Um, yeah, I was living in Prospect Heights at the time and a) it was not part of the neighborhood, and, even if it was, most of that neighborhood was a total eyesore.
In short, people are stupid.
(Not that there weren't valid reasons to argue against AY, it's just that that was a bullshit one.)
Jesse - Aug 16, 2010 5:58:32 am PDT #18193 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I liked the Daily Show's piece with all the halal lunch trucks. Good times.
smonster - Aug 16, 2010 6:37:35 am PDT #18194 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Don't remember where Gris hangs out, but CONGRATULATIONS!