Posted on 09/14/2005 4:54:48 PM PDT by jimbo123
That was my first thought........arc instead of crescent.
I do not like the design at all!!!
It's his spirit of the design I object to. Typical, in your face, A$$hole. Denial when you call him on it.
We're talking about a field in Pennsylvania. not the WTC.
I think they should do something like I saw on an earlier post. A group of the passengers pushing the drink cart into the door. You know like Iwo Jima with the Marines. What do you all think?
I think they should also put on it somewhere Lets Roll. Like the Verizon operator heard. That would be great, I think that the families would agree.
Aren't you just being a little to nice here. We have been fed the B.S. that art is spatial representation of an idea, ad infinitum.
If you believe that this, artist? living on the west coast, San Francisco no less, is unaware of what he is depicting, perhaps it's time for a redo of Art Appreciation 101.
PING TO YOU!
There's even more B.S. It doesn't follow any natural contour. It cuts across the contour. Sort of like a farmer running a water control terrace from the top to the bottom of a hill, instead of across. Just look at all the contour lines (levels) it crosses.
I was going to say that was simplistic, stupidly shallow attempt at sarcasm, But then, you knew that already didn't you?
Yes, that's exactly what I said, and exactly what I'm hoping for.
You should be an editor, maybe apply at the NY Times.
Ok, I listened to it. Lots of talk about the Tancredo, but no mention that it was people, ie bloggers, who first objected and brought the issue up. And going back to the diagram posted I posted, how do they not see this? Is this what they really want for their loved ones? Too ....weird.
Glad you listened to the interview. I posted it so people can listen and decide for themselves based on what the wife of the pilot who was killed on Flight 93 had to say. She sounds reasonable and I personally believe her.
its the same analog - just because the pilots wife likes the idea, that means we should defer all these decisions to the family members of the victims alone?
No, it's not the same.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1484676/posts?page=68#68
It is facing Mecca, is the most often supposition... and is a slap to the victims, and their families.
It would be nice to find out the opinion of the widow of Todd Beamer (sp?). Somehow I don't think she would agree with the warm, fuzzy platitudes that were expressed in the article responding to Rep. Tancredo's criticism. Just the other day the History Channel or National Geographic channel had a special about Flight 93. It thought it was strange at the time that there was no interview with Mrs. Beamer, but plenty of time for other family members. Could it have something to do with the fact that Mrs. Beamer is a devout Christian and as such as not likely to be taken in by the the garbage spouted by the "families".
It appears to be a battle victory monument more appropriately located somewhere outside of Damascus.
"This is the site where the Sons of Islam sacrificed all to slay the indolent infidels on their plane. They were not successful in achieving their primary objective of killing the American President, but their deaths were not in vane."
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