From Wonkette:

Over the past decade or so I’ve noticed a direct and proportional relationship between the distance someone lives from Washington and New York (ie the places that were actually attacked on 9/11) and how keen they are to try and exploit it for their own wingnutty reasons. Hence the people of New York - who live alongside countless peace-loving Muslims, appreciate that they’re not all terrorists, and know that actually quite a lot of Muslims died in the attacks - generally support the mosque, while it’s morons from Buttfuck, Mississippi who start furiously masturbating over pictures of weeping eagles at the very thought of evil muslins being allowed near the hallowed ground where thousands of East Coast liberals died.

Deny landmark status to that beautiful edifice of unity and brotherhood? Pour quoi?

Stupid stupid conservatives. Reactionaries ALL!

But seriously, I just want to see the building open up like Pandora’s Box and usher in a new dark age of CGI rendered disasters, plastic surgery gone awry, and vapid mothers reverting back to high school personas on live television.

Waitaminit….

@moving quotes—Don’t you see? IT’S A GIANT HELLRAISER BOX!

Over the past decade or so I’ve noticed a direct and proportional relationship between the distance someone lives from Washington and New York (ie the places that were actually attacked on 9/11) and how keen they are to try and exploit it for their own wingnutty reasons.

Exactly. And since NYC & DC are both hot beds of liberalcommiehomomarxism, I’m suprised they care. It’s almost as if there’s another factor prompting the screams of outrage.

Hmmm…

But as someone who grew up and still lives within spitting distance of the REAL ground zero, plus the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, plus anti-social nutjobs in weaponised Crown Vics, plus the general knowledge that this place is on every sick fuck’s list of places to see and shoot up, I’ve been really, really sick of people pissing their pants on my behalf since about midnight, September 10, 2001.

weaponised Crown Vics

That’s a terrible, if wholly appropriate, thing to say about cabbies.

“WHEN this FKER is erected NYorker folks NEED to burn it down the way they did the towers…”

New Yorkers burned down the Twin Towers?? How did I not know about this??!!

Sadly, this is what happens when your brain has been so thoroughly stewed in its own (self-) righteous outrage: you forget how to form coherent sentences. And when to use the “Caps Lock” key. And that destroying this as-yet-nonexistent building out of “revenge” would put “NYorker folks” on the same moral and ethical level as the terrorists who attacked the WTC and Pentagon.

(And by the way, dipshit: Would you be there in righteous solidarity alongside those “NYorker folks” burning down the building, risking your own safety and the wrath of local law enforcement for the sake of taking revenge on those dirty, evil brownskins? Somehow I doubt it.)

I absolutely don’t get the kind of cognitive split, like some severing of left and right brain, or some kind of political agnosonia, that allows these rubes from the sticks to imagine that actual New Yorkers aren’t capable of deciding what should or should not be in actual New York.  But its the same weird split that enables white racists to shout “Robert Byrd the ex Klansman” is the real racist while Strom Thurmond, the proud segregationist, is somehow…not.  Or that enables the PUMAs to essentially find even Hillary Clinton not pro-Clinton enough since she went to work with for the guy who beat her in the primary.

aimai

I’ve been really, really sick of people pissing their pants on my behalf

There’s a quote I love from back in the War Fever days, can’t remember who said it, it was probably just some random NYer on a comment thread—“stop leading with my chin.”