Pragmatists rejoice, even New York wants to make nice and be Politically Correct.
‘Freedom’ out at WTC: Port Authority says The Freedom Tower is now 1 World Trade CenterThe Port Authority is taking the “Freedom” out of the Freedom Tower.
Although the 1,776- foot tower hasn’t been fully built, funded or leased – and won’t be occupied until 2014 – the agency decreed Thursday it will no longer be called the Freedom Tower. It will simply be known as 1 World Trade Center.
The name change for the 102story, $3.1 billion skyscraper, unveiled after a PA board meeting, drew a sharp rebuke from former Gov. George Pataki, whose April 24, 2003, speech gave the building its brand.
“The Freedom Tower is not simply another piece of real estate and not just a name for marketing purposes,” Pataki said.
“In design and name, it is symbolic of our commitment to rise above the attacks of Sept. 11. Where 1 and 2 World Trade Center once stood, there will be a memorial with two voids to honor the heroes we lost – and, in my view, those addresses should never be used again.”
Governor Pataki (R) is so off the cocktail circuit with that obstructionist attitude! Who does he think he is with such confrontational talk? Didn’t he get the memo about carefully picking his words not to offend?
The change came after board members voted to sign a 21-year lease deal with Vantone Industrial Co., a Chinese real estate giant, which will become the first commercial tenant at Ground Zero. It plans to create the China Center, a trade and cultural facility, in 191,000 square feet on floors 64 through 69.The negotiations with Vantone, which is closely affiliated with the Chinese Communist government, had nothing to do with the name change, PA officials insisted, but was based primarily on bottom-line marketing considerations.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. How are those plans going on selling the Brooklyn Bridge?
This more than just ‘freedom’ is out of fashion
Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles Burlingame was the pilot aboard American Airlines Flight 77 that was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, said the renaming of the tower is one more example that the nation is forgetting 9/11.“If we can’t say the word freedom out loud, God help us,” she said.
Debra, you’re just not being a pragmatist. All the good people realize that and, by golly, they will make sure you do, too.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/27 @ 7:58 am #
Let fiefdom reign!
Comment by B Moe on 3/27 @ 8:07 am #
“If ‘Freedom Tower’ is the popular name, that will be the choice of the people as to how they think of downtown,” said PA Executive Director Chris Ward.
“On the other hand, this is a piece of real estate. It has an address – legally, it is 1 World Trade Center.”
This is key. The city can dictate the address. The building will be named by what we call it.
Comment by Eric in Atlanta on 3/27 @ 8:16 am #
B Moe is exactly right. NYC could address it “42 Flapjack Circle” and that would be the legal address.
Besides that, what does the legal address have to do with the name of the building? Let’s rename the Sears Tower to be “233 South Wacker Drive”.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/27 @ 8:16 am #
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.
Comment by brian on 3/27 @ 8:17 am #
OK, which is it then? Is this a case of “Empire State Building” == “350 5th Avenue”? Or is it another case of “Peace Circle” == “Crescent pointed at Mecca”.
Comment by Joe on 3/27 @ 8:17 am #
Darleen, if you can’t express a contrary opinion at Little Green Footballs or Patterico’s, then why would you be surprised over this? Do you feel like you are one of the last in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
Comment by serr8d on 3/27 @ 8:18 am #
Hmmmph. Before this epic spendulous vaporous money creation — socialism funding scheme Baracky’s party is pushing is done, China may well own the entire tower. And, the rest of Manhattan, the Grand Canyon, all of California (they can have it!) and, well, Washington D.C.
Did anyone catch the last episode of Boston Legal? Denny Crane, we need your paintball gun~!
Comment by Carin on 3/27 @ 8:22 am #
“Freedom” has that redneck, NASCAR, knee-jerk Patriotism feel to it. What does Chris Buckley think? How about ‘Historical Manumission” … I don’t think that term has ever been used in a Country/Western song. THAT’s a word the country club conservatives shouldn’t be ashamed to use.
Comment by Joe on 3/27 @ 8:25 am #
Don’t fall asleep…
Comment by Joe on 3/27 @ 8:25 am #
Or you will end up like Patterico
Comment by happyfeet on 3/27 @ 8:25 am #
New York City is not about freedom.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/27 @ 8:26 am #
Maybe you’re thinking of Singapore?
Comment by Joe on 3/27 @ 8:31 am #
So Justine, was Abe Lincoln really the rail spliter?
Comment by Curmudgeon on 3/27 @ 8:45 am #
The Commiecrats turned Dhimmicrats at work. I am not surprised.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/27 @ 8:49 am #
Also remember how the socialists want to reframe September 11… it’s in their fascist National Service plan…
September 11 is not not not about freedom to our dipshit socialist president… It’s about falling in line.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 3/27 @ 8:52 am #
How long until Ground Zero becomes the 4,058th holiest Islamic site, and remembrance of the victims is forbidden altogether?
Comment by Curmudgeon on 3/27 @ 8:56 am #
How long until Ground Zero becomes the 4,058th holiest Islamic site, and remembrance of the victims is forbidden altogether?
Give the Dhimmicrats a few decades. Then the victims will become martyrs, and the Jooooos will be said to have flown the planes.
Comment by Joe on 3/27 @ 8:56 am #
I like Sinapore fish head soup. Especially with lots of Tiger beer to go along with it.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/27 @ 8:56 am #
September 11th was the Kristallnacht of our time, remember? Surely they’d want to memorialize that.
Speaking of which, I went to the Orlando Tea Party just to see what kind of people would show, and there was an actual 9-11 truther there. It’s a testament to folks’ self-restraint that he exited unasskicked.
At least, he was still devoid of phsyical scathe when I left.
Comment by Carin on 3/27 @ 8:57 am #
and help rekindle the vital spirit of unity and compassion that was evident and essential throughout the nation following the terrorist attacks on the United States; and
Rekindle what? Compassion wasn’t exactly what I was feeling the days following 9/11. It was in the mix, but not exactly in the top five.
Comment by Joe on 3/27 @ 8:58 am #
Can I experience Life on Mars and go back to 1973 NYC.
Things were better then.
Comment by Joe on 3/27 @ 9:00 am #
Patterico engages in some self reflection:
“This is how the left has operated for eight years: foster a cartoonish view of someone based on a distortion of their words taken out of its proper context (in this case a legal one), and then level an inflammatory charge. In the legal context, the game is to judge every decision by its result rather than its reasoning.”
Oh wait, he was talking about Barney Frank. Nevermind.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/27 @ 9:12 am #
Um, nope.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/27 @ 9:17 am #
I don’t know why we have to mock Mr. Patterico when he says stuff we … agree with.
Comment by rrpjr on 3/27 @ 9:18 am #
It would be an interesting exercise to keep track of how many times Obama uses the words “freedom” and “liberty” in the next four years. My guess is that “liberty” won’t be heard at all, and freedom only in a context that a slightly more studied analysis will reveal as doublespeak.
Comment by B Moe on 3/27 @ 9:20 am #
I don’t know why we have to mock Mr. Patterico when he says stuff we … agree with.
Because we worship at the feet of a serial cock-slapper, what I heard.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/27 @ 9:25 am #
oh. right. This is true. I’m all for defining your opponent before he defines you I guess. Also is it just me or are Pop Tarts thinner than they used to be?
Comment by geoffb on 3/27 @ 9:27 am #
RTO Trainer put up early this morning that it is no longer the Global War on Terror it’s now “Overseas Contingency Operations.â€. Probably against those “Man-made Disaster Specialists in Training”.
Newspeak, it’s for everyone.
Comment by Balzar on 3/27 @ 9:28 am #
Why not change all of your public names to Freedom this or that, Freedom Tower, Freedom Plaza, Freedom fries, Freedom Flapjacks, Freedom this, Freedom that etc. The way you guys use it the word loses its meaning. Face it, you guys wouldn’t know real freedom if it came up and bit you on the ass.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/27 @ 9:30 am #
I think we should change the name to Socialist Cocksucker Plaza actually.
Comment by Eben on 3/27 @ 9:32 am #
To me it seems appropriate to change the name. The sheeple have moved on, 9/11 is ancient history, the first tenant is Chinese and New York has become the symbol of socialism not freedom.
In my mind we’re so far gone as nation that these types of affronts barely register.
Comment by The Sanity Inspector on 3/27 @ 9:32 am #
I don’t know why we have to mock Mr. Patterico when he says stuff we … agree with.
In a big tent republicanism, he and we should be allies. Not identical, but allies.
Comment by Eben on 3/27 @ 9:33 am #
I would impress Balzar to define ‘real freedom’ so that I can figure out whether or not I have been bitten by it.
Comment by BJTexs on 3/27 @ 9:40 am #
Wait a minute; IT FINALLY HAPPENED! According to Balzar, i’m part of the “in” group known as “you guys!” Ive no idea what club i belong to, what the rules are, whether or not they’ll be a painful initiation or if gold bordered certificates will be issued but , HEY! I’m one of you!
Um .. whoever you … er … me … are …
As long as happyfeet brings those great burritos, I’m in! Um .. wherever we are …
LONG LIVE “YOU GUYS!!”
Comment by Curmudgeon on 3/27 @ 9:40 am #
I would impress Balzar to define ‘real freedom’ so that I can figure out whether or not I have been bitten by it.
I can do that. For Balzar and his ilk, “Freedom” is the ability to put anything in his mouth or up his anus without consequence, and then free health care to deal with the results.
Comment by SarahW on 3/27 @ 9:41 am #
Freedom is when you don’t have to make any decisions, Eben. Freedom is total surrender to the state.
Comment by kelly on 3/27 @ 9:42 am #
WTF? I mean, really. WTF?
Comment by The Monster on 3/27 @ 9:43 am #
Slart, by their thinking, 9/11 wasn’t Kristallnacht, it was the Reichstag fire.
Comment by geoffb on 3/27 @ 9:43 am #
Ah, “Slavery is Freedom”. Right?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/27 @ 9:44 am #
It’s not as if we named it French something, like French fries or French dressing or French Bread. Look what’s become of the French since we started pasting their name on everything.
Comment by B Moe on 3/27 @ 9:44 am #
Imma name my dog Freedom and start sicking it on lefties. That way I won’t have to call it Boy any more.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/27 @ 9:45 am #
“Slart, by their thinking, 9/11 wasn’t Kristallnacht, it was the Reichstag fire”
Oh, yeah, you’re right. In my defense, I don’t try to understand the mentally incompetent too deeply, because I don’t need to deal with them on any kind of regular basis.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/27 @ 9:46 am #
“Face it, you guys wouldn’t know real freedom if it came up and bit you on the ass.”
I don’t know this ass-biting Freedom of which you speak. Please tell me more.
Also, I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Comment by rrpjr on 3/27 @ 9:48 am #
“Face it, you guys wouldn’t know real freedom if it came up and bit you on the ass.”
Don’t you mean sneak up behind you and bite you on the ass, or is it come up and hit you in the face?
But you’re right in either case, because freedom doesn’t do either of these things. It doesn’t come after you at all. You go after it, and you work to get it, and work harder to keep it. The “biting on the ass” phenomenon, that’s something else entirely.
Comment by Obstrperous Infidel on 3/27 @ 9:50 am #
I was about to ask ballsack the same question, but then Eben comes along and asks it and then Curmudgeon answers it for ballsack, I’m betting, fairly accurately.
Freedom is being able to vote for the American Idol contestant you like best! Yowza, now that’s freedom and dammit, we have it!
Comment by Pablo on 3/27 @ 9:50 am #
I blame French Vanilla.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 3/27 @ 9:52 am #
Freedom is being able to mis-spell your own blog alias at will!
Comment by BJTexs on 3/27 @ 9:54 am #
Come on, “you guys.” Real Freedom! Not that fakey patriotic individual liberty flag worshiping freedom that spawns hordes of bark sucking hick weeds who belch to the sounds of stock cars and murder little furry animals for fun and then go to church on Sunday to contemplate their moral superiority to their betters.
You know, real freedom, like wearing a Che T-shirt and carrying a Red Star message bag to hold the I Phone, a copy of Alinsky’s book and the Gameboy. Freedom to sit at the Bolshevist record and pamphlet store, sipping herbal chai and debate the next phase of national transition after the emerging soft socialism of Hope and Change! It’s drawing up lists of things to berate people into volunteering for and planning the slopping of pig’s blood onto financial executives so that they can feel, FEEL, MAN, the sweat and blood of the working man ground beneath their capitalist running dog Italian shoes … just before we yank them out of their beds in the middle of the night and transport them to the Capitalist Re-Education Camp.
Real freedom, best expressed with a doobie the size of a mini sub and a frequent guest card from the local free clinic.
FASCISTS!!
Comment by Kevin B on 3/27 @ 9:54 am #
happyfeet 27:
Pop Tarts are always getting thinner. They get thinner and thinner until they bring out the All New Giant SuperSize Pop Tarts that are nearly as big as Pop Tarts used to be and only cost 20% more.
Then they start getting thinner again.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 3/27 @ 9:55 am #
Freedom isn’t free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don’t all chip in
We’ll never pay that bill
Freedom isn’t free
No, there’s a hefty fuckin’ fee.
And if you don’t throw in your buck ‘o five
Who will?
Comment by Curmudgeon on 3/27 @ 9:56 am #
and then Curmudgeon answers it for ballsack, I’m betting, fairly accurately.
SarahW at #36 defines Balzar’s idea of “Freedom” as well; she is just looking at the other side of the same coin.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 3/27 @ 10:00 am #
Freedom is not being able to own a car if it is painted black. For teh children!!!!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/26/AR2009032603316.html
Comment by Mr. Pink on 3/27 @ 10:06 am #
Freedom, real and true FREEDOM, only comes when you are born 30 thousand dollars in debt. Cause’ it is really not about teh Children!!, but about teh Children’s Children’s Children.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 3/27 @ 10:07 am #
September 11 is not not not about freedom to our dipshit socialist president… It’s about falling in line.
This Commie-Deathworshipping “Call to [His] Service Campaign” makes Mother Teresa’s work look like atheistic Capitalism gone wild.
Obama wants to enslave us. I want Him to fail.
Ok, maybe He just wants to feast upon our flesh for a while, then move on. Maybe the “vast middle” understands Zombies better than they do Commies?
Comment by Mr. Pink on 3/27 @ 10:17 am #
How are you free if you are born over 30 grand indebt to the government? Sounds alot like a serf or a slave to me. Whatever though keep voting for assholes like Obama maybe we can be born indebt 50 grand all so he can buy your vote and you can masterbate to pictures of his flabby pecs.
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 3/27 @ 10:18 am #
Face it, you guys wouldn’t know real freedom if it came up and bit you on the ass.
Conveniently, that happens to be Zombie “love”, too.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 3/27 @ 10:25 am #
Freedom is Slavery.
Democracy is Tyranny.
Market is Command.
Spending is Deficit Reduction.
War is Peace.
Mandatory is Voluntary.
DVDs are Diplomacy.
Comment by A fine scotch on 3/27 @ 10:28 am #
Dammit, happy (@ #30), you owe me a new keyboard. Water & wireless do not go well together…
Comment by Mr. Pink on 3/27 @ 10:31 am #
Damn look now even after we are spent into oblivion and forced into “service” to our community we will not even be able to seek the sweet sweet release of death.
http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/41958387.html
Comment by Freedom Carin on 3/27 @ 10:32 am #
Trying out my new handle for size.
Comment by Freedom Carin on 3/27 @ 10:35 am #
Obama is delivering freedom from work here in Michigan. Unemployment hits 12%!
Of course, Jenny is helping him.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/27 @ 10:38 am #
Mr. Pink, do you remember DC putting up a barrier on the Ellington bridge whereupon the jumpers just shifted over a couple of blocks and leapt off the Taft instead?
Comment by Freedom Carin on 3/27 @ 10:38 am #
I don’t know why we have to mock Mr. Patterico when he says stuff we … agree with.
Because he has no honor?
Comment by Frenchy Le Dowd on 3/27 @ 10:43 am #
Of courze you do not know thees “freedom”, your ero, Heinlein, said there was no such thing:
Tanstaf, there is no such thing as free(dom).
Comment by Mr. Pink on 3/27 @ 10:50 am #
No sorry but have been stopped at traffic cause some ahole was being a wuss and not actually jumping off the Woodrow Wilson.
Comment by Big D on 3/27 @ 10:51 am #
Obama is delivering freedom from work here in Michigan. Unemployment hits 12%!
But…but…didn’t Jenny inherit a bad economy from George Romney? Couldn’t possibly be her fault.
Comment by MarkD on 3/27 @ 10:51 am #
New York doesn’t know Jack about freedom anyway. No initiative, referendum, or recall. We have one party rule, and the sheep love it. Our willfully blind whoremongering governor was replaced by …. No, don’t go there, Mark.
It looks like Wall Street won’t be saving us this time. The Times is in a death spiral. The civil servants (there’s an oxymoron for you) threaten the governor if he cuts anything, while the people who pay for them lose their jobs and savings.
They’re into sharing, but only the earnings and profits. Losses are your problem.
Meanwhile, Spitzer is trying to rehabilitate himself instead of serving the prison sentence he deserves, and the Freedom Tower gets renamed to avoid someone taking offence. There’s a profile in courage for our time.
Comment by Daryl Herbert on 3/27 @ 10:55 am #
They should consider taking a few feet off the tower, so it could be 1770 feet tall or so. That way, it reflects America under King George, instead of under the
terroristsfreedom fightersman-made disaster causal agents who got thousands of people killed for “freedom” (and had they not rebelled, we would probably have single-payer healthcare and a parliamentary system today).Comment by Veeshir on 3/27 @ 11:00 am #
so it could be 1770 feet tall or so
Heh, good one Daryl.
I bet they actually make it 910 feet tall.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/27 @ 11:08 am #
Do we see Pres. Obama intentionally blind himself to the very good outcome on offer in Iraq, choosing instead to run that situation down at every opportunity, in order that he may never have to admit that Pres. Bush had done well? If this is so, is Obama free? Or is he apprehension of the truth about the world constrained by his prejudice?
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 3/27 @ 11:08 am #
“FREE! Health care
Freedom! From Poverty!
Freedom! From Injustice!
Freedom! From Racism!
Freedom from…”
THUMP! [gurgle]
How about freedom from whining, bitch? OUTLAW FREEDOM!!
Comment by Sdferr on 3/27 @ 11:09 am #
his, not he
Comment by Spiny Norman on 3/27 @ 11:11 am #
Andrew the Noisy,
By Baracky, I think he’s got it!
Comment by J."Trashman" Peden on 3/27 @ 11:18 am #
Tanstaf, there is no such thing as free(dom).
Speak for yourself, Robert, and of course the French – but just try telling that to a Zombie!
Comment by Spiny Norman on 3/27 @ 11:18 am #
Carin (Freedom),Obama is delivering freedom from work here in Michigan. Unemployment hits 12%!MarkD
We here in California are catching up to you guys in a big hurry. After getting a $110 million bitch-slap from the California Teachers’ Union during his first year in office, the “Governator” is now as emasculated as the squishy Gray Davis he replaced. He’s utterly, and embarrassingly, useless.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 3/27 @ 11:20 am #
Carin (Freedom),
MarkD
We here in California are catching up to you guys in a big hurry. After getting a $110 million bitch-slap from the California Teachers’ Union during his first year in office, the “Governator†is now as emasculated as the squishy Gray Davis he replaced. He’s utterly, and embarrassingly, useless.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 3/27 @ 11:22 am #
Damned tags.
Comment by Lyndsey on 3/27 @ 11:29 am #
I like how they are determining what “appropriate and meaningful” actions Americans can take to express themselves about the tragedy of 9/11.
I find it fitting (or do I mean ironic?) that in Columbus,OH, just up the road a ways…our Obama-created jobs entail the building of a bridge barrier…designed to stop people from committing suicide. Hmmm…are they clairvoyant or just anticipating the effects their ridiculous policies will have on the average person?
Comment by Patrick on 3/27 @ 11:30 am #
Imma name my dog Freedom and start sicking it on lefties. That way I won’t have to call it Boy any more.
“I had a dog once. I named him Stay.”
Comment by Lyndsey on 3/27 @ 11:31 am #
OMG, did I just make a death threat? Crap…
Comment by Freedom (The Original) Patrick on 3/27 @ 11:32 am #
I’ve been meaning to disambiguate my name. I think I’ll jump on the freedom bandwagon.
Comment by LTC John on 3/27 @ 11:33 am #
“Face it, you guys wouldn’t know real freedom if it came up and bit you on the ass.”
Tell me of this “Freedom”. It sounds interesting!
Comment by mojo on 3/27 @ 11:42 am #
The official name means nothing. MEME. people. MEME.
I suggest calling it the “Fuck You, Islam” tower…
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Comment by Veeshir on 3/27 @ 11:59 am #
Good idea Freedom (the original) Patrick. I’ll go with “Freeshir”
Although that looks too much like “Freeper” so I had better be careful not to alienate the middle.
I’ll stick with Veeshir I guess.
Although, I’m such a meany, I alienate the middle. I’ll go to Ohio before they get their wall built.
Oh crap, did I just make a death threat against myself?
Comment by gus on 3/27 @ 12:01 pm #
I missed something here. Did they name it THE ONE…WORLD TRADE CENTER??
Comment by gus on 3/27 @ 12:04 pm #
Isn’t it hilarious watching touch guy, terminator, Mr. Universe Schwarzeneggface became a bumbling neo-Lib with shrunken steroid balls??
Oh how the mighty have fallen. When he says, “I’ll be baaaack”. California bends over and grabs it’s collective ankles.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/27 @ 12:08 pm #
Arnold is a castrato joke I think. But he’s the one what enthusiastically grabs his ankles for the socialists.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/27 @ 12:10 pm #
“give it to me good and hard!,” says Arnold, “Do me like how Uncle Teddy does!”
Comment by psycho... on 3/27 @ 12:15 pm #
The righty line on the “politically correct” fails to account for its being — or explain how it became, and why it’s so eager now to proclaim itself — a “bottom-line marketing consideration.” A fatal weakness.
But I’d rather bitch about this sentence:
It’s not a sentence. Subclauses are just too wild for journalists to handle.
It was editing their illiterate crap, and their so often being enraged by my having rendered it in English, that made me really, truly, way-more-than-you-guys-do hate the dumb motherfuckers.
I can’t remember the last time I read a newspaper or magazine story that wasn’t plain shitty.
Comment by Andrew the Noisy on 3/27 @ 12:16 pm #
“It looks like Wall Street won’t be saving us this time. The Times is in a death spiral. The civil servants (there’s an oxymoron for you) threaten the governor if he cuts anything, while the people who pay for them lose their jobs and savings.”
I remember making a similar analysis during the transit strike back in ‘05, when I was driving into the city to propose to my wife. Except I made it with very many more four-letter-words. To wit:
“You know what else is dead?
[rant]My love for New York City. Dead as Dillinger.
The worst thing about this transit strike I’m suffering through with my new fiance in Brooklyn isn’t that it makes getting into Manhattan impossible, isn’t that we’re going to have to leave Brooklyn at 4 in the morning just to be permitted to leave without picking up two hitchhikers, isn’t the fact that she’ll have to come back to the City to take her finals.
No, the worst thing is that everyone involved in this bullshit is an employee of New York City, and thus, the money that they’re fighting over like dogs in a boneyard is money that originates with the people they’re all collectively screwing.
So fuck the Mayor. If every twerp in city hall hadn’t made a habit to bend over like the pretty boy in an Istanbul bath-house to the public sector unions going back to the 30’s, none of this nonsense would be happening. If you’d done like London and San Diego and every other city west of Shanghai and farmed out transit contracts to private firms, there likewise wouldn’t be kids stranded at college for the holidays, working families unable to buy presents for their kids, and babies being walked to day-care in their strollers in 20-degree-weather. Yeah, go walk across the bridge, you fucking RINO. Make sure they get your good side.
Double-fuck the MTA. What is it you say that…you DO here? I mean, aside from making inane rules about bringing coffee on subway trains (because, Heaven knows, we wouldn’t want a spill to spoil the decor), and passing messages to your workers through the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB. Yes, they’re called PERB), seriously, what’s your purpose? From all appearances, you have Authority the way China is a People’s Republic. Hey Bloomy, you wanna save money? Fire every one of you losers.
Finally, triple-dog fuck the Transit Worker’s Union. You fuckers have SOME NERVE. Please partake of the following reality check: You get paid the same as cops and firemen, to PUSH BUTTONS. No difficult decisions or political gamesmanship, such as affects cops, firemen, and ahem, teachers, are part of your job description. What the fuck is so demanding that you have to retire at age 55 instead of in your 60’s like the rest of us? As for your pension bitching, if you Epsilons had Brain One in your tiny little heads, you’d ask for 401k’s. But you don’t, so you’re just going to go on suckling at New York’s teat until all the money’s gone. So just keep on Sticking it to the Man. Pay no attention to the 21st Century going on behind the turnstile.
One thing more: all the irritants of being on the subways and buses, the derelicts peeing nearby, being a target for terrorists, etc, all affect EVERYONE ELSE that uses subways and buses. Trust me, Slappy, al-Qaeda has not yet perfect a bomb that affects only GED-holders who’s cousin knows a guy who knows a guy who got one of the Local bosses laid in Chelsea one night with a girl named Summmmmer Clearance.
A plague on all your houses. Thank you, try the veal.[/rant]
We now return you to your regularly scheduled pithy commentary.“
Comment by PWT on 3/27 @ 12:24 pm #
I think that even ‘One World Trade Center’ is too confrontational. After all, isn’t it likely that two, three and not to mention seven world trade center may feel inferior given that they are later in line with higher numbers. The solution, obviously, is to name is the ‘Cock-sucking little bitch tower” so as not to offend.
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 3/27 @ 12:26 pm #
Happyfeet: #’s 88 & 89 have me weeping tears, especially the latter. Well done!
Comment by gus on 3/27 @ 12:32 pm #
Just think all that juice that Ahnold pumped into him shrunk his testies, but it took a Kennedy to fully emasculate him! At least his EGO hasn’t gotten smaller. Not his deficit.
Comment by gus on 3/27 @ 12:38 pm #
Let’s review. It was called the FREEDOM TOWER since the idea’s inception. Then the Chine$e decide to purcha$e lea$e$ totaling 190,000 $qare feet and POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF Freedom is gone.
How Chine$e of them. The term CHA CHING is very Chine$e these day$.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/27 @ 12:47 pm #
How about the “Osama bin Laden Takes It In The Ass Tower”?
What? Too long?
Comment by mossberg500 on 3/27 @ 12:52 pm #
Face it, you guys wouldn’t know real freedom if it came up and bit you on the ass.
Q:If Balzar was an STD, which one would s/he/it be, and what would be the manifestation?
A:Herpetic Anal Wart.
Comment by Veeshir on 3/27 @ 1:15 pm #
I would have guessed suppurating pustule.
Comment by pdbuttons on 3/27 @ 1:17 pm #
will the new chinese tower have
sideways vagi…elevators?
Comment by Veeshir on 3/27 @ 1:26 pm #
Wonkavators!
Comment by Free Lunch* on 3/27 @ 1:28 pm #
*Well “free” in the sense that someone will pay for it in the future.
Comment by Cloud William on 3/27 @ 1:32 pm #
Free-dom?
That is our worship word. You will not speak it.
Comment by When Liberty Is Outlawed Only Outlaws Will Have Liberty on 3/27 @ 1:47 pm #
I say name it after my new handle.
Comment by Letitbeme on 3/27 @ 2:11 pm #
They could jack it up to 1917 feet. That’s the revolution that really matters to them.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 3/27 @ 2:21 pm #
Wow, color me shocked. Ballsack never came back to tell us his definition of “real” freedom? How is one a coward on the fucking internet?
Comment by bill on 3/27 @ 2:53 pm #
How about taking the money from the Saudi sheik that Rudy refused and letting him name the tower. Maybe One Goat Humper Boulevard or Smelly Flea Bit Camel Sack Licker Exhibition Center.
Comment by Rusty on 3/27 @ 3:50 pm #
#29
Comment by Balzar on 3/27 @ 9:28 am #
Why not change all of your public names to Freedom this or that, Freedom Tower, Freedom Plaza, Freedom fries, Freedom Flapjacks, Freedom this, Freedom that etc. The way you guys use it the word loses its meaning. Face it, you guys wouldn’t know real freedom if it came up and bit you on the ass.
Maybe not, but I know when someone is tying to take it away.
Comment by Sailingwindward on 3/27 @ 8:02 pm #
It’s the Chinese government that now owns most of the tower, there is no word for freedom in the chinese dictionary, so we will call it the we got all your jobs, money and buy our tainted products stupid Americans tower.
Comment by Darleen on 3/27 @ 8:07 pm #
geez, meya, do you have any suggestions how we could rename that large government building also in NYC known as the Statue of Liberty?
Just so would could assuage your moral outrage over teh fascism.
Comment by Rebecca on 3/27 @ 10:58 pm #
Freedom is being able to call a building any damn thing you please.
There’s a reason that freedom of speech is the first amendment. Without that, none of the rest matters.
Comment by Rusty on 3/28 @ 6:38 am #
Maybe we should haul that cracked bell in Philidelphia down to the scrap yard. You know how much brass is going for these days?!
Comment by BJT-FREE! on 3/28 @ 6:57 am #
Sorry to say, Rusty, that the scrap metal markets has crashed and brass and iron are not worth much these days.
Sorta like freedom and liberty …
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/28 @ 11:46 am #
I’m familiar with several different Liberties:
Liberty walking
Liberty standing
Liberty seated
Even disembodied-head Liberty
There’s even the crazy-ass do-it-yourself Liberty currency.
But this ass-biting Liberty I haven’t seen. It’d be cool if you could throw us a link.