Crowder Time
Steven Crowder is always fun. Good to see him back.
Yes, Crowder is fun. But he makes a good point.
On 9/11 muslims brought down the World Trade Center towers. Which, if I’m not mistaken, were privately owned. Privately insured, no doubt.
Why is the Federal government involved at all? Private corporations lost private property. They should be allowed to rebuild as they wish, at their expense. Yes, it was an attack on America. That doesn’t rescind private property rights. ‘America’, aka ‘the federal government’ doesn’t have jurisdiction over the rebuilding. None of these ‘commissions’ to ‘design’ a ‘memorial’ have any Constitutional footing.
The Federal government has already responded by taking the war to the muslims in Afghanistan, Iraq, and soon Iran, Pakistan, etc. Though, with this current ‘president’, I’ve little hope for victory. Hell, with this current ‘president’ we’ll be attacked constan… wait, Ft. Hood? Fruit-of-Kaboom?
Yeah, as usual, DemocRats are weak on defense.
The best ‘memorial’ to 9/11 is to let the private sector rebuild on the site of the attack. Let business proceed as usual. That alone will p*ss off the muslims.
Oldcatman?
Drew, you let him back in? He’s housebroken now?
All funnin’ aside, I’ve missed you OCM. Welcome back.
OCM, Remind me to stay upwind… and never be beside you in the men’s room.
Hey Drew! Gonna let steel deal back too?
I’m thinking there are many ex-BMEWsers who should be given a second chance. Though I suspect several just reregistered under new nom-de-plumes (a little French lingo there.)
I’d really like to see Vilmar back. I know, he has his own blog, but still, he’s the surviving part of the team that started BMEWS.
Christopher, no one is banned from this blog at this point. No one. Any of the old timers who want to come back can do so. And as long as they can mostly behave, they’re welcome.
Some of the folks that the Skipper booted will have to re-register, that’s all. And registration is by simple email. That’s all it takes.
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the twin towers site was sorta privately owned.
The problem is the people before silverstein leased the land from NYC for i think 99 years.
silverstein bought the lease contract from the previous owner and there was some kind of sharing with the New Jersey Transit authority. basically the city ran the basement where the trains were and silverstein became a land lord who’s duties were upkeep of the buildings and getting tenants to move in.
when the building came down, the city stepped in and said they wanted the land back and there was a big lawsuit that i think they are still fighting. Silverstein wanted to put the buildings back up and every liberal idiot politician came out of the wood work to add there 3 cents to the project.
then it went from a construction site to a hey were idiot progressive politicians lets make this site have everything and nothing. So pataki the governor washed his hands over it, and decided it was easier to throw the project into limbo and have design competitions and treat it like a political football as an issue. The other building around the WTC that were 100% privately owned went right back up within 3 years. building 7 is apparently not on city leased land or something so they city had no say in it when it was rebuilt.
the reason the WTC site is still empty is simple. It is a government works project now with ZERO direction they want it to be a office building a museum, a court, a police station, a bus depot, a community outreach center, a homeless shelter, ETC .... Basically like when the government first designed the M1 tank in the 1970s. They wanted it to be anything but a tank.
So now its a hot potatoes that nobody wants to touch, bloomberg won’t touch it and basically all work is halted on the site now anyway.
remember they made a big stink about the first shovel into the earth for the freedom tower going up? well what happened to that? they haven’t even poured concrete yet and its been 2 years.
so its basically become a storage depot for city equipment now. They did the same thing to a new water treatment plant they were building by my parents house 10 years ago.
city came in took swamp land from the parks dept and raised it, poured a foundation, then the libtuards came in and started crying about the Smelt Snail Habit and then there was a lawsuit about the best use the land.... 10 years later you can barely see the original foundation for the structure as the swamp has reclaimed it and the 10000000000$ worth of equipment the city left on the site. in fact in the paper a few weeks ago they spoke about how 3 bulldozers had mysteriously disappeared from the abandoned construction site over the years, i hope the bulldozers are in private hands since my tax money was rotting anyway.F NY Progressive politicians
Posted by furball
02/22/2010 at 12:18 PM
Is there anything that bureaucrats CAN’T F_ _ K UP?
No, but you can be certain they won’t give up looking for more.
02/23/2010 at 05:26 AM
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