TOnight RIght Will Be Wrong

best health care in world right (wing)? 

terrific. let;s see what happens

• when a semi segregationist like Rand Paul (nice name) wins a national office. Strom Thurmond resurrected (he is dead right?)
• how much the media will spout endlessly about the Tea party kicking ass (which is o.k, but the coverage of Obama in 2008 was liberal biased media im sure), even though the Democrats were close to winning the Senate by 9:30 pm Eastern time
• i wonder when everyone will realize that the Tea partiers are more affluent  than the average American and it may be that they just  want lower taxes for themselves, and couldn't  care less about less government when the gays become discriminated against or when they themselves  want the Constitutional right of freedom of religion abolished for Muslims 
• again we'll "see" how much the problems now have nothing to do with Bush and everything to do with Obama. oh i left (left!) out Clinton, everything bad now is his fault too. 
• when we again ignore facts like the ones that support state supported health care in Europe being  better than our "best system in America" that ranks 35th in the World Health Organization's rankings

A Visit to the Lower Manhattan Muslim Center Site

tolerance and equality, please

today, out of curiosity, finally.  


it is really close to the World trade center, i thought. but then i also thought about something more important: that Muslims died in the tragedy as well. 


talked to a cool cop that was stationed there. said they have to be around 24 hours now. but not much trouble since Sept 11. 


i think the deal that i feel worst about is the fact that the building, which housed a Burlington coat factory (holy ground!), is a nice,  old fashioned, i think neo Federalist style building.  i think a military guy is trying to get it on landmark status now (which im sure he would've  done if there were no Muslims moving in, and im sure he's not doing it to keep Muslims away!) 


old fashioned bigotry also  still runs in NYC though unfortunately, lately: literal  gay bashing (even in the STONEWALL INN and Chelsea recently!), immigrant bashing, and the above.  the first area settled by European colonialists, still bigoted after all these years. 

Is Staten Island too Close to New Jersey?

great, cheap view

•  it is of course literally close to Jersey
• aren't a majority  of those Jersey shore geniuses really from Staten Island?
• wasn't the Real World with maybe  the most champs  (saying a lot) the one that took place in Staten island? (have to say: thanks for the  brain tobacco MTV  producers!)
• NJ-like  inferiority complex: S.I was disproportionately big on hte subway maps that were used  for around 10 years (the whole island has i think one subway line. Manhattan has the most of course and it was relatively small). the recent new maps have put S.I smaller, appropriately (on a subway map, and it's by far the smallest borough in population)

and now some old time NY stereotypes in the mix: 

• recent immigrant beatings
• a mosque has been rejected in one of their neighborhoods after outspoken and public  bigotry against it. also the Catholic diocese that owned the land/building reneged on their deal (how many molestation accusations have been brought against imams  lately?)

yeah it seems rough. however as a tour guide i used to try to express the good places  of all the boroughs, for instance S.I: Museum of Tibetan art, zoo, botanical garden, Ferry of course. but i would love the bigotry, ignorance,  idiocy to stop. come on folks, the largest garbage dump in the world closes and this is what takes its place? 

A Good Wall (St) Makes Good Muslim Neighbors?

im a licensed NY City tour guide and know way too much about our history.  the Dutch were the first European settlers in lower Manhattan and they came here to make money, and it's been that way ever since. however they were advanced enough to "buy out" the Natives and not massacre them.

Wall st is so named because the Dutch  erected a wall there to keep out the British, or Natives, depending on your source. and so began the segregation way back then.


keep in mind the Europeans started settling at lower Manhattan and built their way up contuiing north, generally. so after the Dutch came the British and they fought.  the new Americans fought with the Brits (and now  im talking guns, prisoners, disease, not bigots with signs and/or politicians). everyone put down the blacks for a long time of course. later, the natives (now we're talking euro descendants) and at times the government  fought against the Irish, Jews, Italians, Asians. . the infamous 5 Points was pretty close to the future World trade center, and the Lower East Side close to that. "different" folks, "immigration problems", "security". sounds familiar im sure.





interesting though, that the Muslims have been there for a while now: the people, a mosque right down there before  the WTC.  Muslims were killed on Sept 11 itself.

and the Financial district went from people advanced enough to trade and not kill, to having  "greed is good" as their absolute,  to sociopaths severely damaging the economy of the entire world. not much movement to get them out of there either, besides Michael Moore  in a poorly reviewed film.

you see New York should maybe be called the city of the phoenix even more so than the western city. especially with an area like lower Manhattan. an area of horrible bigotry, violence, war, disease, poverty, that has risen up repeatedly through its history to give us a world leader in commerce, great architecture, at times great leadership, and of course great history.

and i hope that our city rises again in defiance of terrorists, bigots, extremists, ignorance, avarice, sociopathology. irregardless of who perpetuates such crimes against humanity: American, Muslim, rich, poor, extremist, politician, "average joe".

More Political Hypocrisy

right wing belief in small government yet supporting American military presence everywhere, including tens of thousands of U.S troops in each nation of Germany, Japan, S Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, and troops in over 150 nations. also the biggest nuclear and weapons of mass destruction stockpile on earth.

also a roaring protest any time that the UN even thinks about influence on "the greatest best nation that God ever gave the earth" or whatever that asshole Sean Hannity said.

also roaring protest at any other nation, besides our temporary allies like Israel, Pakistan, India, that even makes an attempt at getting nuclear weapons.

also small government belief but denial of basic personal human rights for gays.

the high percentage of right wingers that are elderly, are civil servants like police and fire, the military, and/or have kids in school, yet shout out against universal health care while they have Medicare, are paid and have benefits by a socialistic government system, and have kids in public schools.

strong war cry of Sept 11 yet showing zero remorse for killing tens of thousands of innocent foreigners.

does anyone wonder why i speak out against our elected officials?