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FOX News is Funding the Ground Zero Mosque
August 24, 2010 By View Comments
Bloomberg Injects Common Sense, Courage and Decency into Ground Zero Mosque ‘Debate’
August 6, 2010 By View Comments
Since its conception the idea of putting a mosque and an Islamic cultural center at Ground Zero has been under attack from every imaginable angle. No, wait, I mean it’s been under attack from the self-serving wingnut bigots on the far right.
Regardless of all the negative, bias attacks that have plagued the issue, earlier this week the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted 9 to 0 to give the project the green light. Immediately the fear-mongering turned to, “well, umm, well where are they going to get the money to build this mosque (a.k.a. church)?”
Bloomberg put those questions to rest:
“People say, well, you know, ‘Do they have the money? Can they raise the money? Where does it come from?’ ” the mayor said Friday on his WOR-AM radio show with John Gambling.
“I don’t know, and government shouldn’t — do you really want every time they pass the basket in your church and you throw a buck in, they run over and say, ‘Okay, now, you know, where do you come from? Who are your parents? Where’d you get this money?’
“No! This is just not — and I can’t for the life of me — a handful of people ought to be ashamed of themselves.”
Kudos Mr. Bloomberg.
It’s Hard to Imagine that in 2010 People are Still Bigoted About Who They’re Willing to Live with Based Solely on Their iPhone. Wait, what?
August 6, 2010 By View Comments
People have always known that New York City is a place you can blend in. Even if you have an unnatural hatred for iPhones.
A guy put an ad on Craigslist looking for a roommate situation for when he moves in at the end of August. His only stipulation? Said roommate must not have an iPhone and, “Oh, and probably no iPads, either”.
$1400 25 yo professional male looking for a room – NO IPHONES (SoHo)
Oh, hello. I’m moving to NYC at the end of August, and am looking to sign a one year lease somewhere in Manhattan. The more happening the area, the better.
Other than budget ($1400 or less), I have two major criteria
1) NO IPHONE USERS. I refuse to live with anyone that has sold their immortal soul to Steve Jobs. I don’t care about your app that tells you when you need to water your plants. I don’t care that your phone can function as a Speak N Spell. I don’t care that your phone has a million “exciting” features that exist elsewhere. NO IPHONES. Oh, and probably no iPads, either. Upon meeting, you must show me your phone (no scammers! I will be calling it in person to confirm that it is indeed your phone)
2) STARCRAFT 2 experience is a big plus. If you play, please post a link to your battle.net profile. The more experience, the better. No bronze leaguers.Looking forward to hearing from you!
Word has it that this is all part of this guy’s forty year plan, then end of which culminates with him retiring and moving back to where he came from to tell those pesky kids to get off his damn lawn.
New BlackBerry Torch Makes Front Page of the Post
August 4, 2010 By View Comments
Am I the only one that finds this odd? When was the last time a BlackBerry launch made the cover of any paper?
NYC Subway’s Finally Set to Get WiFi and Cell Phone Access
July 30, 2010 By View Comments
If you live in New York and use public transportation lately you probably also know that the subway, no matter how hot or smelly or crowded it can be, is also a brief reprieve from digital leashes that are harnessed to you the entire today. At least that’s what you could tell yourself to try and make the smell of urine more palatable.
Now, even that “silver lining” is about to come to an end.
After an almost three-year delay, work is set to begin on a $200 million plan to bring mobile- phone and Wi-Fi service to New York’s subway stations.
After three years with no progress many New Yorkers assumed the project had fallen by the way side. Thanks to Broadcast Australia’s injection of a new revenue stream the project is once again gearing up and will reportedly have six stations wired up and ready to go within the next two months.
Does anyone want to get in on the over/under on the first cell phone related brawl happening on a subway platform?
Waiting for a training on a hot, smelly platform while running late for work can be stressful enough. Add into that equation a hundred or so people with no sense of “inside voice” having conversations on their cell phones around you.
This is quite possibly the worst thing I can imagine happening to the MTA Subway system.
Brooklyn Museum, Struggling to Find Its Niche, Should Embrace its Unique Brooklyn Edge
June 16, 2010 By View Comments
Photo courtesy of WallyG's Flickr
I did however have the privilege to live directly across the street from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Brooklyn Museum for almost three years, both of which provided me and my family with countless hours and days of entertainment. No matter how many times I walked by the museum I was always eager to take in the beautiful old majestic building. The size and grandeur of the building itself are just amazing.
That being said, I do have the ability to go online and see what other museums have to offer and, for my money, the Brooklyn Museum has incredibly interesting and important collections and some outstanding cutting edge exhibits as well.
Add into the mix their awesome First Saturday events and your have what would seem like a winning recipe for a museum in New York City, albeit in Brooklyn.
