Posted on 08/24/2011 4:02:06 PM PDT by khnyny
Some New York politicians and religious leaders are criticizing Mayor Michael Bloomberg for not offering clergy members a role in the high-profile ceremonies marking 10 years since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"This is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," said Rudy Washington, a former deputy mayor under Rudolph Giuliani. "I feel like America has lost its way."
A spokewoman from Bloomberg's office told The Journal that the focus, as in past years, will be on the family members of the fallen. Rabbi Joseph Potasnik told the paper he understood the mayor's decision, saying, "I don't know how to make it possible for everyone to have a place at the table."
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There’s been a Muslim representative EVERY year. That is nothing new.
What’s more likely is that he’s been pressured by his Saudi friends (you know, of the GZ mosque) to get rid of the Jews and Catholics and Protestants.
Please spare me.
Unless you were born and raised in NYC, you really have no idea how much better off we would be as a nation if they started from scratch over there.
There is no saving the place.
It is full of clueless immigrants who get the hell out once they get a clue, and a bunch of monstrous socialist crook politicians and apparatchik city workers who squeeze the middle class who work in the private sector of every last dime they can.
I am talking about a city work force who is charged with VICTIMIZING THE POPULACE AS A STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE, insane violence by welfare recipients and organized crime, and a police force who commutes in everyday from Long Island and look the other way while the animals kill each other and the innocent.
Screw NYC, screw New Yorkers, and screw King Bloomberg, the dictator who works overtime figuring out new ways to separate the working man from his cash.
Mayor Bloomberg pushes for traffic light cameras ‘on every corner’
BY Erin Einhorn
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF
Mayor Bloomberg wants to blanket the city with red light cameras - and maybe even publish the names of scofflaws who blow through intersections.
“I think we should have ‘em on every corner if we could,” the mayor said of the controversial cameras that trigger tickets to drivers caught running red lights.
“If people didn’t go through red lights, you’d save a lot of lives of elderly and kids,” Hizzoner told reporters Monday during a press conference.
Bloomberg was responding to a Daily News report on the $52 million in fines the city issued last year to drivers caught by cameras - really a $55 million haul with penalties included.
Bloomberg wants Albany to increase the number of cameras permitted on city streets to 225, up from the current 150.
A bill to hike the number of cameras passed the state Senate in June, but stalled in the Democratic-controlled Assembly.
The city is allowed to put up as many cameras as it wants but needs state approval to fine drivers for the related infractions.
The mayor mused that the city could put up the cameras - then try to embarrass the rule-breakers.
“Maybe what we should do is do it and start publishing in the paper who does it and then a list of the senators and assemblymen who keep us from having cameras \[that can levy fines\],” the mayor suggested.
“Every time there’s somebody hit, it would be nice to say ‘Ok, assemblyman and senator so-and-so didn’t think that person’s life \[was important\] ... This is our lives of our people we’re talking about! This is not something cute and we’ve got to do something about it.”
Bloomberg said he would also support speed cameras to catch drivers going too fast - a proposal that’s the subject of an Assembly bill but has not yet been introduced in the Senate.
“We cannot afford to put a cop on every corner,” Bloomberg said. “We’re going to have to do more with technology.”
How about all the first responders who aren’t invited either? Very wrong, Mr Mayor!
I live in NYC and all i can say is screw you.
Oh born and raised as well.
Get out before Bloomberg puts up a wall and you can’t.
Mike Bloomberg is a Humanist piece of crap who never met a Muslim he didn’t like. Anyone one else can take a hike.
Ah...but this is a Muslim President.......
Your original comment lamenting that 9-11 didn’t finish the job, hoping that NYC would get nuked, and that over 8 million men, women and children would die was reprehensible. Apparently the mod who deleted it agreed.
One can only hope.
He’s done. He’s yesterdays news. He’s a complete idiot. So? I have news for you. We are overrun with idiot politicians in every state and at every damn level of government.
I hope the people stand up and begin to pray in tandem....like that did at some Board Meeting..
BEST POST OF THE NIGHT!!!! YES!!! A very loud Hail Mary or an Our Father and drown the Humanist piece of crap out.
People wishing that NYC gets nuked and all 8 million + who live there die, and people commenting about godless Jews in the entertainment business don’t make it to my list of people with whom I would ever have a discussion, not here or anywhere else. I’ll take my leave of this thread now.
or this is to prevent attention being drawn to the port authority dispute with the church that was destroyed, (churches?)
Whatever...
Toughen up - life is rough - and that includes anonymous comments on a web site.
And stick the Jew card back in your wallet, the Jewish people are amongst the finest on the planet, and I and 99% of the people on this site support Israel and conservative American Jewry.
How they let you back on this thread is beyond me. Probably they can’t control it - they’d have to ban you. Wait! I like that idea.
At least your earlier, cruel post was terse. Who has time to read through your stupid screed now?
Hey, I’m sittin’ here on East 30th Street. Want me dead?
You have EVERY right to be angry. I join you in that. Free Republic has changed over the last few years. The anti-semitism is driving me crazy. The NYC nukers have been here since 9/11, unfortunately. I fought with those creeps years ago and now they’re back.
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