Posted on 08/26/2011 6:27:43 PM PDT by joeclarke
Bloomberg is a dick.
Well, the liberals of New York believe in almighty gov’t.
Well, at some point they both do involve people getting on their knees.
I wonder what will happen if people decide on their own to pray all at once? Will the cops declare it a riot situation and bring in the riot police to stop it?
How many people would you like to see die this weekend?
he’ll have a moslem mosque,
but no american prayer.
Just what the hell is Bloomie’s problem concerning first responders and clergy? The first responders were the real heroes of 9/11 and this is either very stupid or a deliberate move to piss people off. If people have any scruples at all, they will boycott his little Jihadi kiss-@r$e session and let him speak to rows of empty chairs (except for his “pals” of course)
Just what the hell is Bloomie’s problem concerning first responders and clergy? The first responders were the real heroes of 9/11 and this is either very stupid or a deliberate move to piss people off. If people have any scruples at all, they will boycott his little Jihadi love-in session and let him speak to rows of empty chairs (except for his “pals” of course)
I really hope someone smacks him upside his head, or karma gets him or something.
# ‘em. Pray anyway.
Sooo N.Y. you elected this narcissist dumb ass foor an illegal third term, now shut the hell up and quit eating salt.
Just the liberals & democRATs! I hate ‘em with a passion and the sooner they meet their Maker (whom they don’t believe in anyway), the better.
Some History for NY Mayor Bloomberg:
Benjamin Franklin
Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer
delivered Thursday, June 28, 1787, Philadelphia, PA
Mr. President:
The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close attendance & continual reasonings with each other — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ays, is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding. We indeed seem to feel our own wont of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.
In this situation of this Assembly groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the Divine Protection. — Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance.
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God
governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that “except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall be become a reproach and a bye word down to future age. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human Wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
I therefore beg leave to move — that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the Clergy of this City be requested to officiate in that service.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/benfranklin.htm
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