Sarah Palin: Why Are The Muslims Choosing A Location 'Just A Block Or Two Away From 9/11'

The proper response to anyone hyperventilating about a Muslim community center two blocks away from Ground Zero is to ask what magic number of blocks would sufficiently mollify their umbrage.

Those leading the charge against the Cordoba House have successfully conflated a distance of two blocks. Two blocks away is equivalent to building on the site itself. If the community center were to be four blocks away, would they then be 50 percent less offended? At eight blocks, only 25 percent offended? Even if so, we are left with a cracked version of Zeno’s dichotomy paradox, for no matter how many times the distance is doubled, the offensiveness never reaches zero.

Of course there is no rational answer. But the controversy is not about reason; it’s about ginning up xenophobia for political gain, and by the same people who take great pride in reminding others that there’s no right to not be offended--except, apparently, when it’s THEY who are offended.

http://shoryland.com/2010/08/two-equals-zero-dichotomy-paradox-and.html

It sounded like a cliché when uttering the cliché Miz Sarah uttered because both the cliché and Miz Sarah are clichés...You betcha!

Can someone please inform Ms. Palin that 9/11 is a date and not a place. The events of 9/11/01 occurred in NYC, Washington, DC and Shanksville, PA.

If she has a problem with its construction, she needs to take it up with the developers. It has no place in federal government dialog.

It's pretty obvious that FNC is the main propaganda organ of the GOP. Or is it the other way around? It's getting hard to tell.
Did the jet that carried Greta up to Alaska burn only oil from $arah's divinely blessed pipeline ("God wants that pipeline, so pray for that")

I believe that the Force of Offensiveness is inversely proportional to the SQUARE of the distance between the Sacred Object and the Offending Mass. In other words,

2
Fo = 1/(Dom) ,

where Fo is the Force of Offensiveness, and Dom is the distance of the Offending Mass from the Sacred Object.

Thus, if the Fo at 2 blocks is X, the Fo at 4 blocks would be 1/4th of X, and at 8 blocks it would be 1/16th of X.

Absurdity, of course, can be infinite at any distance.

Gee, I don't know Sarah.
Instead of playing the media whore and speculating about their motivations in front of an audience, why don't you do the civil thing and ask the mosque planners themselves.

Wonder how Sister Grifter feels about the strip club that's one block "away from 9/11".

Getting beyond the fact that was has been proposed isn't a mosque but a community center etc etc, there is already not one but two freakin' mosques in the neighborhood and they have been there for years!

"Masjid Manhattan, on Warren Street, four blocks from ground zero, was founded in 1970. Masjid al-Farah, formerly on Mercer Street, moved to its present location on West Broadway, about 12 blocks from ground zero, in 1985. Both mosques — essentially one-room operations — routinely turn people away for lack of space."

From: http://tinyurl.com/37zd22d

First they came for the Mexicans, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Mexican.

Then they came for the Musilims, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim.

Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up.

What ever happened to the GOP mantra of "less government intrusiveness"? I wish the dems would grow a pair and call these hyprocrites out. LOUDLY.

Scarah, why don't you remind us all again why American is in Iraq and why over 4,000 Americans have died - -

I thought republicans said "we're in Iraq to fight for the rights of Iraqis to be free"

Duh, does Scarah know that "those Muslims" are Iraqi???

Stooopid Scarah - GO AWAY!!!

Shut up bitch! And while we're at it let's keep all Catholic Churches away from schools to protect your boys from ass raping preists, right Sarah? Why don't you go hunting with Dick Cheney!

WTC WTF

I recently lost my Secret Palinese-English Decoder Ring, so to help me follow along, will someone PLEASE translate the following quote for me?

"Nobody argues that freedom of religion the Muslims have to build that mosque somewhere however there are a 100 mosques already in New York to chose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11 is just that knife it feels like. "

One of my grandmothers was an old-timey English teacher who could recite prose in Old English. It was more intelligible than the Palinese above.

Please help! I think Sarah said something really stupid, but I just can't be sure.

The correct response to the half baked half term governor would be to tell her that it's up to the citizens of New York City to decide what they want, not what some interloper from Wasilla, Alaska wants. And remind her about the 1st Amendment, which a lot of people died defending.

Her kid fought in Iraq. What was he fighting for? Who was he protecting?

Jesus, I find it very hard to hate anyone (even that gasbag Rush Limbaugh), but I really, really, really hate this woman. She represents every characteristic of the ugly American and then some.

Has this dumb, bigoted, ignorant slag ever spent more than an hour in New York City? Does she know that there is already a mosque two blocks from "9/11" as she calls it? Is she going to propose demolishing that mosque? What about all the Muslim-owned businesses in the area? And what if a Muslim decides to open a business in the general vicinity? Will this ignorant bigot then demand that their business license not be approved? Why aren't the Dems just hammering away at the Republicans on this matter. By demonizing Muslims, they're making our job overseas all the more harder.

"a block or two from 9/11"

a little Palin space/time confusion?

I know what she means and it's simple bigotry. Why can't Islam join the many representations of Christianity and Judaism in the neighborhood? I'm sure the benighted statements rejecting the Islamic Center by both Democrats and Republicans are having a negative effect on young Moslems in America.

Meanwhile, is she going to the same hairstylist as Snooki?

The constitution, only when it's convenient. Bible quoting, only when it's convenient.

Oh, to be the party of convenience.

I wonder what Palin's reaction was when Ronald Reagan laid a wreath on the graves of Nazi SS officers in Bitburg, Germany despite the protestations of thousands of American Holocaust survivors. Oh that's right, she was busy buying a training bra at the time.

Instead of using Palin's "logic" against her, let's use it and apply it to other situations. Let's start with Columbine. If you live within X blocks or miles of Columbine High School, you will be stripped of your second amendment rights. I think we can all agree on the horrors of that day, and it must be a stab in the heart to the friends and families of those that died at gunpoint that day to know that there are guns in some of those houses. After all, it is blanket guilt. One gun owner is guilty of murder, so all gun owners are guilty.

Please don't think I'm being insensitive. That is not my intent.

Please someone turn her volume knob to low and break it off.

"It's [sic] sounds cliche [sic] to say that He [sic] just doesn't get it. This is an insensitive move on the part of those Muslims who want to build that mosque in this location. It feels like a stab in the heart of collectively [sic] American [sic] who still have that lingering pain from 9/11."

Ugh.

Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters
Condemned by every syllable she utters
By right she should be taken out and hung,
For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue...

Why do Muslims need another Mosque? The same reason Christians of every stripe need to keep building churches on every city block in this country. And it's awfully rich for Plonk to be whining about someone else's extreme religion when she was courting hard-right "witch hunters" in Africa.

Again, I frankly would appreciate it if everyone would cut the mythical supernatural crap, live their lives, and stop preaching unverifiable stories from antiquity, thereby causing divisions rather than healing them.

By the way, Glynnis, according to Keith Olbermann, it is no longer being called "Cordoba House" -- the group behind the project decided to change it because some had taken offense at the name. They are now calling it "Park 51".

Why continue to give this idiot face time? Look, if TPM, Huff Po and Daily Beast would just stop giving her face time she would whither and vanish. I realize her idiot/MILF persona has some comedic value, but she is really a media creation. You use her for hits. Why not leave her innane spewing to redstate and fox.
If it weren't for the media echo chamber 'death panels' would have been the idiotic joke that it really was.
The blogosphere on the left as much as the right gives this idiot 'credibility' Every time you repeat her ghost written tweets or facebook posts she is elevateded and maintained as a person of some credence.
Any information organ that allows the messages of palin and that douchbag gingrich to be elevated beyond a skid mark is complicit in the toxic contamination of the public discussion.
Editing is not censorship. A little editorial discretion would go a long way to consigning these idiots to the dungheap of history.

Dear God, she's a dumb broad.