Adding Tolls to Brooklyn Bridges?
Marty Markowitz was just on the Brian Lehrer show arguing against the Ravitch Commission’s proposal to add tolls to the three bridges in Brooklyn as well as the Queensboro Bridge as part of its solution to the MTA deficits. (Rosie Perez just called in agreeing with Marty too.) Are you in favor of adding the…
Marty Markowitz was just on the Brian Lehrer show arguing against the Ravitch Commission’s proposal to add tolls to the three bridges in Brooklyn as well as the Queensboro Bridge as part of its solution to the MTA deficits. (Rosie Perez just called in agreeing with Marty too.) Are you in favor of adding the tolls?
DBS – yeah sorry about the spelling – must have been thinking about eating Sushi later
HOW ‘BOUT THAT HOTD?????
Wassup?!
Wahhabism.
BRG – who ever said anything about “Islam”???? – I said “their (form of) religion”
I don’t think Jim Jones defined Christianity but his “(form of) religion” certainly advocated things that are despicable (like the mass killing children for example).
All I said was that religious based hatred was a component in the Middle East’s hatred of the West. If your politically correct brain can’t comprehend that basic fact then I am sorry for you.
Oh, good grief!!
“and BTW I am certainly not saying that the Wests actions were never religiously based – or won’t be again – its just that right now such naked religious fervor is currently generally not acceptable in Western Society”
Although we did almost have a VP who thought it was God’s will for us to invade Iraq.
“The hatred that is taught under the guise of a religious mandate comes from the twisted minds of those who have power over an uneducated youth with no hope for job or a life. Those with the power in these situations that have a hatred for the U.S., justified or not, wield it to shape the minds of the young. In now way is this a mainstream teaching of any religion.”
Well ignoring the fact that the actual terrorists (against the U.S.) have generally been shown to be reasonably well educated and middle class (for their societies) – I make no claim as to what the correct (or even “mainstream”) tenets of any religion are. And I will not attempt to quantify “mainstream” either. But even an objective observer (being honest) can see that many of the the teachings of Wasabism (for example) that is promoted by Saudi Arabia (among others) around the world, teaches hatred against non-believers.
Would they hate us anyway, maybe; Did the West’s current and historical “bad” actions influence these teachings or help their adoption, probably – but religious based conflicts have been around since the dawn of time and I seriously doubt that if we could fix every “wrong” we ever perpetrated that there still wouldn’t be some people who based on religion alone wouldn’t seek our destruction – and BTW I am certainly not saying that the Wests actions were never religiously based – or won’t be again – its just that right now such naked religious fervor is currently generally not acceptable in Western Society.
Al Qaeda (for example) does not define Islam.
I’m not going to call you every name in the book.
You just don’t know the facts about (their form) of religion.