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Secularist Grinches: O Tannenbaum, where art thou?
Wall Street Journal ^
| 12/9/03
| Brendan Miniter
Posted on 12/09/2003 7:36:05 PM PST by bdeaner
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:12 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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O Tannenbaum, where art thou?
Tuesday, December 9, 2003 12:01 a.m.
NEW YORK--Ground Zero is a massive stretch of sacred ground. Covering more than 14 acres and reaching several stories deep, the site once housed a complex of two massive towers and five other office buildings as well as train stations and dozens of stores. So why is there no room for a Christmas tree?
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brendanminiter; christmas; christmastree; groundzero; harryblackmun; portauthority
Have they no shame?
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posted on
12/09/2003 7:36:06 PM PST
by
bdeaner
To: bdeaner
Nope. God Almighty is in their way of the World Communist Empire. He must be removed for their evil task to be accomplished.
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posted on
12/09/2003 7:38:38 PM PST
by
Killborn
(I'd rather have Big Bizniz than Big Guvmint.)
To: bdeaner
I walk by Ground Zero fairly often when I'm in the city. Bloomberg has sanitized the site. Most of the wonderful pictures, the offerings from children, and the moving comments scrawled on the construction plywood near the site have been removed.
Rudy Giuliani would never have done this. Bloomberg's idea of "the vision thing," as former president Bush called it, is to send out special squads of smoking police. That's about as high as his vision of the city rises.
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posted on
12/09/2003 7:51:01 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: bdeaner
Tannenbaum?
Mel Tannenbaum?
He ran our corner Deli when I was a kid! Let me have three two cent pretzels for a nickel!
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posted on
12/09/2003 8:00:57 PM PST
by
jaz.357
(We should be more open-minded toward people trying to kill us.)
To: jaz.357
I assume you're joking but, if not, it's that Christmas Carol with the same tune as the Communist Internationale ("The working class..can lick my a*s..I've got the foreman's job at last").
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posted on
12/09/2003 8:42:01 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: bdeaner
I don't understand. Is this a complaint about the size of the tree, the fact that it is in a different site, or that there are other cultural and religious icons to be displayed with it? I'm glad to read the cross is still on site. I would be much more upset to learn that it was removed.
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posted on
12/09/2003 8:53:07 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: Cicero
In 20 years time, the anti-Judeo-Christianity nuts will have the country convinced that 9/11 was caused by the Southern Baptists.
To: Kirkwood
It is a complaint that they are not going to put up the very big tree at the site, and instead put a little tree in a corner where no one can see it, accept relatives of the dead (along with other symbols from other religions).
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:16:38 PM PST
by
bdeaner
To: bdeaner
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posted on
12/09/2003 9:31:36 PM PST
by
ppaul
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