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jack sommerset
08-26-2011, 04:39 PM
"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 deputy mayor under Bloomberg’s predecessor Rudy Giuliani, who organized a nationally televised interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium in the days after the 2001 attacks.

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/bloomberg-911-bans-religion/2011/08/24/id/408556

The mayor says fuck all the religions. No ground zero mosque, no clergy can speak at citys commemoration of the 10 anniversary of 9/11.
clambake
08-26-2011, 04:53 PM
religion should be outlawed.
ChumpDumper
08-26-2011, 04:54 PM
No ground zero mosqueIt's a Burlington Coat Factory.
DarrinS
08-26-2011, 04:56 PM
How about a moment of silence? Is that considered religious?
ChumpDumper
08-26-2011, 04:56 PM
Silence has also been banned.
jack sommerset
08-26-2011, 04:58 PM
How about a moment of silence? Is that considered religious?

There has to be a moment of silence, isn't there?
JoeChalupa
08-26-2011, 05:03 PM
I pray all the time and nobody even knows it other than the man upstairs. So nobody can keep me from praying.
jack sommerset
08-26-2011, 05:07 PM
I pray as well, I just don't know who hears it.
ElNono
08-26-2011, 05:17 PM
I really like Bloomberg for President, tbh. Dems should go ahead and start to lure him back into the party. I think he would be a heck of a President.
DarrinS
08-26-2011, 06:51 PM
I really like Bloomberg for President, tbh. Dems should go ahead and start to lure him back into the party. I think he would be a heck of a President.

Based on what?
ChuckD
08-26-2011, 07:11 PM
Based on what?

Well, for one, you can't buy a guy who's already a billionaire. He also understands how to run a business, something our leaders have been sorely lacking in for years.
mavs>spurs
08-26-2011, 07:11 PM
when it comes to bloomberg what else do you expect?
DarrinS
08-26-2011, 07:38 PM
Well, for one, you can't buy a guy who's already a billionaire. He also understands how to run a business, something our leaders have been sorely lacking in for years.

Disaree with first statement. The rest I agree with.
Bender
08-26-2011, 07:50 PM
bloomberg is a rabid gun-hater... although I know no one here cares about that
4>0rings
08-26-2011, 07:53 PM
Hurricane Irene 'bout to do it's job.
Trainwreck2100
08-26-2011, 07:58 PM
it would be nice if irene took out those wall street fucks
jack sommerset
08-26-2011, 08:56 PM
I dont think most new yorkers want mike bloomberg as mayor now.
mingus
08-26-2011, 09:06 PM
a lot of people who represented different religions died on 9/11. one religion should not be favored. it should be treated as a personal matter because it is.
jack sommerset
08-26-2011, 09:26 PM
Is there a muslim willing to go up to the podium and pray for the victims of 9/11 and their families?
ElNono
08-26-2011, 09:29 PM
Based on what?

The job he's done in NYC (which is basically local to me). Balanced the budget, always prepared when shit hits the fan (like Irene). He takes the time to inform the public both in English and Spanish.

He's a liberal on social matters and a conservative in fiscal matters. And it shows in the work he does.

We were just talking with my wife the huge difference between how Christie is handling this storm stuff and how Bloomberg is dealing with it.
RandomGuy
08-26-2011, 09:30 PM
The mayor’s spokeswoman Evelyn Erskine defended the decision not to invite religious leaders to speak. "There are hundreds of important people that have offered to participate over the last nine years, but the focus remains on the families of the thousands who died on Sept. 11," she said.

:rolleyes

So it is less "banning religion" than choosing not to have any religious figures to directly speak.
ElNono
08-26-2011, 09:30 PM
I dont think most new yorkers want mike bloomberg as mayor now.

He's on his 3rd term... I'm pretty sure most new yorkers voted for him all 3 times.
jack sommerset
08-26-2011, 09:32 PM
He's on his 3rd term... I'm pretty sure most new yorkers voted for him all 3 times.

I'm talking about now. His popularity has gone down a bit.
DMX7
08-26-2011, 09:33 PM
Is there a muslim willing to go up to the podium and pray for the victims of 9/11 and their families?

Pray to whom?
jack sommerset
08-26-2011, 09:35 PM
Pray to whom?

Allah, wait he would have wanted all those infidels dead. I have no clue.
ElNono
08-26-2011, 09:36 PM
I'm talking about now. His popularity has gone down a bit.

Aug 10, 2011: Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 49% approval ranking declined 15.5% since last September, and it is the mayor's fourth lowest ranking since he was elected in 2002.


It did. But at 49% being at the helm for 9 years it's still pretty impressive.

Compare to Christie at 40%...