Thursday, May 19, 2005
And his hair is terrific too
Donald Trump offers to rebuild World Trade Center twin towers
To Donald Trump, the proposals for the replacement for the World Trade Center look like a junkyard. His solution? Rebuild the twin towers, more or less.
Standing in the lobby of his Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, the developer turned TV star on Wednesday presented a model of his own envisioned towers, reflecting the original shape of the skyscrapers that fell Sept. 11, 2001.
The towers he advocates would be 111 stories tall — one floor taller than the lost towers.
Plans for the site, to be dominated by a 1,776-foot Freedom Tower, have been stalled lately because of security concerns, though Gov. George Pataki assured New Yorkers last week that the project was not losing momentum.
“Failure to rebuild is not an option,” the Republican governor said in a speech in downtown Manhattan.
But Trump had little use for the futuristic, angular Freedom Tower model.
The plan “looks like a junkyard, a series of broken-down angles that don’t match each other. And we have to live with this for hundreds of years?” he said. “It is the worst pile of crap architecture I’ve ever seen in my life.”
OK, before I say anything...just look:
Posted by JimK at 08:57 AM on May 19, 2005
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005
About all he shares is a surname
Hey, remember this asshole? Well, looks like he’s one step closer to accepting that he’s a useless boil on the ass of humanity.
Ward Churchill, who headed the University of Colorado’s Department of Ethnic Studies, resigned his chair Monday. While he plans to stay on as a professor, some people are calling on the university to fire him.
Monday’s announcement follows a growing furor over written comments Churchill made about the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
In the essay, he called the victims of the attacks “little Eichmanns.” Adolf Eichmann was the Nazi who oversaw the plan to exterminate millions of Jews in World War II.
Churchill says his remarks have been taken out of context. He said he wrote the essay to explain how America’s terrorist enemies view Americans and to build the case that American foreign policy has bred terrorist attacks.
Don’t you just love that “out of context” excuse? What context could possibly justify calling the victims of 9/11 “little Eichmanns?” Asshole.
Hopefully step two will result in the college no longer requiring his services. Free speech exists, but consequence-free speech doesn’t.
*UPDATE*
Jeff Goldstein lets loose on fans of Churchill (I bet I can name a certain leftist filmmaker that shares a fanbase with this piece of filth!), and links to a few other opinions as well. Check out the crazed defenses of Churchill in the last link at Jeff’s site. Jeff says he shouldn’t be fired, though. I’m not going to cry about it.
My original question stands. Does Churchill work for free? And is he aware of the janitors and restaurant workers and security guards and other blue-collar regular people that were killed in the towers? Does he even stop for a half a heartbeat to think about how his words affect their families, or if his words are even remotely accurate?
People that would defend that kind of filth make me sick. I’d like to see him look one of the children of one of the murdered blue-collar joes in the Towers or on one of the planes right in the eye, face to face, and tell them their daddy deserved to die because he was a “little Eichmanns.”
Asshole.
Posted by JimK at 12:21 PM on February 01, 2005
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Friday, January 28, 2005
Liberal academia or just asshole academia?
Parents of children attending Hamilton College; witness your tuition dollars at work.
But professor Ward Churchill, chairman of the ethnic studies department at CU- Boulder, said he wouldn’t back off his statement that the victims were “little Eichmanns.”
His comparison of the victims to Adolph Eichmann, who managed the Nazi plan to exterminate Jews, has split New York’s Hamilton College, where Churchill is scheduled to speak on a panel next week.
Posters have gone up showing Churchill holding a machine gun, questioning whether his appearance is a good use of tuition money and repeating Churchill’s “little Eichmanns” quote, school officials said.
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But a defiant Churchill, acquitted last week in Denver of blocking the 2004 Columbus Day parade, said he would not back off the Eichmann comparison and would concentrate on that theme when he speaks at Hamilton, a school of about 1,800 students.
Churchill said Eichmann was a technocrat who “crunched numbers” and made the trains that carried Jews to death camps run on time. And likewise, he said Thursday, those in the Trade Center were technocrats whose work was just as deadly.
His point, in his own words, is that those who worked in the towers were, like Eichmann, “technocrats whose work was just as deadly.” The “work” can only mean the business of capitalism, since that equates to the “number-crunching” he referred to when speaking about Eichmann’s job.
So...does he get paid for these speaking engagements? Does he accept a salary above the minimum needed to sustain life for his work as a tenured professor?
If only these scumbags practiced what they preach, someone might be able to respect them on some level.
Posted by JimK at 09:28 PM on January 28, 2005
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Sunday, October 31, 2004
Saddam and al Qaeda
This is simply amazing to me. After watching the left scream and yell about this for two-plus years, to see someone not only assemble the evidence, but have a court rule that there was in fact a connection?
Nicely done. The site contains great amounts of detail and research that I will not even attempt to summarize. Go. Read. Learn.
A lot of people owe the President an apology. Starting with the propagandist who pretends he’s from Flint.
Thus, there is abundant and undeniable evidence that Saddam Hussein provided money, diplomatic services, shelter, medical care, and training to terrorists of every stripe, including those complicit in the 1993 WTC bombing and — according to a Clinton-appointed federal judge — the September 11 attacks. The Iraqi dictator aided al-Qaeda and other global terrorists who murdered Americans, both at home and abroad.
Hat tip to Drumwaster for the link.
Posted by JimK at 06:02 PM on October 31, 2004
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Saturday, October 30, 2004
Osama
Everyone’s talking about Osama. What should we do, what’s he trying to say, who does he want to see as President, blah blah blah.
I DON’T CARE.
I don’t care why he’s saying things. I don’t even care what he says. I know exactly who he wants to see as President. The idea of Kerry as the POTUS gives him a chubby, if he can still get one.
The only things I need to know about Osama are right here, behind the “More” link.
Posted by JimK at 07:15 PM on October 30, 2004
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Spitzer lays the smack down
This is a little follow-up to Lee’s post here. I’m not a big fan of Elliot Spitzer, but I think he’s right on with this one.
Spitzer halts sale of Sept. 11 coins he calls fraud
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday obtained a court order to temporarily suspend the sale of commemorative Sept. 11 coins heavily advertised as being minted from silver recovered at ground zero.
Spitzer said the sale of the silver dollars emblazoned with the World Trade Center towers on one side and the planned Freedom Tower on the flip side is a fraud and he’s investigating the claim the silver came from the ruins of the twin towers.
“It is a shameless attempt to profit from a national tragedy,” Spitzer said. “This product has been promoted with claims that are false, misleading or unsubstantiated.”
Yeah, that coin is tasteless enough, but if it turns out that the silver didn’t come from the WTC site...I don’t know, somehow that makes it even worse.
Posted by JimK at 03:04 PM on October 13, 2004
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Saturday, September 11, 2004
9/11/04
That day still guides my decisions in a lot of things. I still get choked up when I look at a small handful of photos I keep on my hard drive. I do this to keep it fresh in my mind. Time has dulled the memory for so many. We’re not in a position to be able to afford to put this behind us just yet. Soon, but not yet.
Never forget.
My thoughts from those days, 1, 2 and 3.
See also Michele’s piece today at A Small Victory. Amazing. And for a positive message, See Free Will’s past, present and future WTC story.
For a great story by someone who I call partner at Moorewatch, who was at the Pentagon that day, read paratrooper’s recount. It explains why he’s still so angry with Michael Moore.
*Update* I guess I’ll just add links as I find them. Blogs of War has an amazing entry. Which led me to Right On Red. Which led me to the roundup at In The Bullpen.
I believe that we owe it to ourselves to read these things. I believe we owe it to the people on four planes and in three buildings. We owe it to each other. It may be hard and it may make you sad, but most of all, above all else, it should make you mad.
Mad is still what we need. That’s just how I feel.
Posted by JimK at 02:16 PM on September 11, 2004
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004
When pacifism becomes evil
Before I hit the sack, I like to read a little escapist fare, usually SciFi of one kind or another. Lately it has been the series of Star Wars novels that take place just before, during and after the Clone Wars. I just started “The Clone Wars Short Stories” and was struck, as I often am when reading the Clone Wars saga, of how things described can parallel the world we live in today. This one jumped out at me as particularly interesting.
“It is just as clear, Aayla, when pacifism becomes evil. If beings are capable of protecting others but refuse to take action to preserve their own sense of peace, they are being selfish. They place themselves and their sense of peace over the peace of others, and so they defend a philosophy instead of lives. In this way, they fail everyone. This is where their choice is evil.”
To me, this passage illustrates what is wrong with the repusively loud and obnoxious segment of the American Left. It made me think specifically of Iraq. I’m literally at the point where if the President comes on TV this Thursday and says “I completely lied, fully intended to fool all of you and I did it to invade Iraq, so suck it, bitches.” I am not sure I would care at *all*.
Why? Why would I forgoive something like that? Because thousands...maybe hundreds of thousands...potentially MILLIONS of lives were saved. Whatever the reason you believe we went to Iraq, we saved lives.
Think about that for a minute.
We. Saved. Lives.
Forget WMD. Forget the UN resolutions. Forget supporting terrorism. Forget every single justification you have ever heard about Iraq. Open your mind to this fact: For every life that has been lost, we saved tens, maybe hundreds more. Does anyone on earth believe Saddam was going to stop killing people? Does anyone believe that Uday and/or Hussay were going to be any less murderous? No matter how you feel about the war, you simply cannot argue that Saddam wasn’t killing scores of people every week, and his horrifying sons were literally revelling in torturing Iraqi citizens for fun, and sometimes profit. Mostly for fun, though.
Pacifism becomes evil when you can do something to save lives and you don’t. There are many places in the world that need something to be done, and we will do them, given time and support. And that is why I will be voting for George W. Bush this time. No, I do not think he’s the best protector of civil liberties. No, I do not believe he has anywhere near the right ideas on certain aspects of science, religion as a *government* institution, gays, etc. But when it comes to the jobs I think the federal government should be doing...protecting my ability to breathe and forwarding the cause of freedom, I believe he is exactly the right man at exactly the right time.
And that is precisely what men like Michael Moore can never understand, because their selfishness is causing them to do evil. They protect a philosophy, not lives. And that is evil. For all Moore’s railing about corporate criminals...that’s not evil, that’s greed. That’s unethical and criminal, but no one was fed into an industrial plastics shredder when Bill Gates stole technology and crushed innovation in the browser market. Athletes weren’t tortured and killed for not winning when Scott Sullivan and Andersen took millions out of WorldCom. Women weren’t raped by the thousands when Ken Lay milked millions out of Enron.
When you do nothing in the face of unspeakable horrors being perpetrated on innocent people who just want to make a living and raise their kids...that is evil. And when you try to prevent others from acting because your philosophy is more important than the lives at stake, today and in the future, that is evil. When you actively seek to undermine the office of the President to protect your philosophy instead of lives...that is evil.
Who knew you could learn so much from The Force? :)
Posted by JimK at 06:29 AM on September 01, 2004
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Monday, August 30, 2004
Powerful in a way no protest can match
Neil Boortz took a picture from the window of his hotel room.
Posted by JimK at 09:21 PM on August 30, 2004
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Saturday, August 28, 2004
I so so SO hate people
Firm recalls candy with 9/11 attack toy
Small toys showing an airplane flying into the World Trade Center were packed inside more than 14,000 bags of candy and sent to small groceries around the country before being recalled.
Lisy Corp., the wholesaler that distributed the candy, said Friday that the toys were purchased in bulk from a Miami-based import company.
The toys came in an assortment purchased sight unseen from L&M Import in Miami and included the toys depicting the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the twin towers, whistles and other small toys, said Luis Pedron, Lisy’s national sales manager. The invoice said the toy was a plastic swing set.
“I hate to blame the importer. He probably did not know what he was getting. He brings them in 40-foot containers. But whoever made it knew exactly what they were making,” Pedron said.
Pedron said Lisy did not notice the small plastic figurines until two people complained, but there is no mistaking what the toys represent: At the bottom of each is the product number 9011.
Who could make this? What kind of scum-sucking pile of dog shit thinks this is a good thing to design, mold and produce?
A woman who answered the telephone at L&M and refused to give her name said Friday she did not know anything about the toy.
Yeah. I bet you didn’t.
Posted by JimK at 11:34 PM on August 28, 2004
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