Shameless blogwhoring, as recommended.

Criticism avidly sought, especially as regards any points I didn’t touch on.

Regards,
Ric

@Ric
That is as fine and dispassionate summary of the issue as I’ve seen. Great work!

As long as we’re breaking down the POTUS’ motives, I’m kind of curious why in that Ramadan iftar speech, when he called on us to remember “who we are fighting against,” he only mentioned Al-Qaeda and left out the Taliban. Hard to credit that to an oversight, given how carefully prepared and worded those remarks were — and the fact that he’s ordered tens of thousands of additional troops into the Afghanistan War.

Oh, well, maybe the Afghanis and the Pakistanis (and the Taliban) won’t notice…

ric your so astute and have a keen eye in regards to what ills face us today

Have we heard from John McCain on the GZM yet? I’ll bet he’s for it.

“I’m all for seeing ecumenical centers at all sorts of hallowed sites, like Mecca, Medina, and Ground Zero. Because if ‘tolerance’ and ’sensitivity’ are not omni-directional, then they may just be cheap talking points proffered by the nefarious.”
Your point is moot.
It’s not a matter of any tolerance or sensitivity being omni-directional or not; I’ve heard this argument before and it strikes me as sadly devoid of any reason.
Our principles are not theirs. Dare I say that our standards are better? Of course.
Therefore any excuse making that seeks to equate their ways with ours is pathetic. WE abide by principles that distinguish us from their Sharia standards.
You fools, unwittingly of course, are playing along into Sharias intolerance by letting your emotions get the best of you.Your arguments state: well Sharia laws wouldn’t allow for religious freedom, so why should ours?
Because we are America.
Anything else reeks of the phony Conservatism you folks espouse.

Raze it.

http://washingtonrebel.typepad.com/washington_rebel/2010/08/razing-the-mosque.html

Ann Coulter had it right. We should have invaded their countries, killed their leaders and converted the survivors to Christianity.

This thing is only opposed by a FREAKING SUPERMAJORITY of Americans.

So much for Democrats being remotely about Democracy. They are about grabbing and exercising power, nothing more.

They never have been about anything else. From 1792 until today, the Democrat Party in all it’s various guises has existed solely to enslave one segment of the American people or another.

Being an elected Democrat is a crime against humanity.

It is almost as if Obama WANTS Democrats to lose the House and Senate, so he can run against an “obstructionist Republican Congress” and blame them for blocking all his brilliant nine-point spending plans that would surely usher in a new Era of Plenty for All Americans Except Remnants of the White Male Patriarchy.

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I don’t understand the tendency of leftists to defend the mosque with the claim it is their “right” to build there. First of all, when else have leftists been so protective about property rights? And surely they have not forgotten the ancient wisdom:

“It is one thing to HAVE the right to do something; to BE right in doing it is another matter entirely.”

young4eyes, that’s not just elitist drivel, it’s suicidal elitist drivel. We have every right to require that newcomers play our game by our rules, and saying that our rules are better misses the point. They are, but much more importantly, they’re our rules — the basis of our society — and we have to insist that they be followed, or our society shatters.

Your formulation amounts to “give in to the bully ’cause you’re better than he is.” That not only gains the bully the lunch money, it gives him the satisfaction of having extorted it — and that was his primary aim, otherwise he wouldn’t be a “bully”. Having succeeded, he’ll be back for another round.

Regards,
Ric

All I have to say is that I found a prairie meadow mouse at the Ground Zero mosque construction site and that an environmental impact report should be done. What kind of impact would a mosque have on an endanger species of mice?

Estragon,

You write:

“It is almost as if Obama WANTS Democrats to lose the House and Senate, so he can run against an ‘obstructionist Republican Congress’”

What do you mean “It is almost as if?”

Nobody who’s not on crack thinks that the Democrats are going to gain seats in either the House or Senate this November.

The Dems’ Senate majority is already slim enough that he’s hard-pressed to get anything passed.

A slim majority is the worst of all possible political worlds — not enough to get what he wants, but enough that his own base can blame him and his party for not getting what THEY want.

Of course he’d rather his party be visibly in the minority and thus more credible when laying blame on the Republicans for everything.

why do people blame bush for the iraq war when the bush hating progressives said saddam had weapons of mass destruction agreeing with bush and i think he had weapons of mass destruction but moved them iran btw youngforeskin you either call out saudi arabia or stfu

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yes mary tillmann bush ordered your son to be murdered because he opposed the war………….jeesh i swear this woman is the jessie ventura of the afghani war

btw will the lefties throw pat tillmanns mom under the bus she beieves clinton is 5x worse as bush on military coverups

Ah, young4eyes so you are in favor of La-Raza building a pyramid in place of Gutfeld’s club so they could re-institute Aztec religious practices. While probably compatible I don’t believe the Aztec facility can actually be inside the “Cordoba Center” (something about the Sun shinning on the alter).

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btw Youngforeskin supports la raza putting uo a religious center for killing the tyrannical zionist honkey gringos

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Is it psychological?

It’s too much over thinking “The Left” or as Robert Gibb’s refers to them “The Professional Left” Hate this country, it’s as simple as that. Of course they are going to side with any of “We the People’s Adversaries”

It’s HATE plain and Simple. If you let HATE into your heart it will make a home there….and apparently a home just blocks from the worse terrorist attack in our nation’s history.

1st Amendment? Religious Freedom? Religious Freedom to promote what exactly?

Sharia is not U.S. Constitutionally Compliant.

http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?s=sharia

At it’s most elemental Sharia is merely another foreign legal system having no standing or relevance of any kind in this country.