Ted's Down and Dirty, Git the Islamo Fascist Filth, Thread

What is wrong with the Freedom Tower design?

Post 41

Monday, September 11, 2006 - 9:08am

I dream of being in a train when knife wielding Jihadis invade, and am forced to attack them in self defense, for example

I hear the military is getting pretty desperate.

Post 42

Monday, September 11, 2006 - 9:20am

"What is wrong with the Freedom Tower design?"

See Rebuild the Towers.

Post 43

Monday, September 11, 2006 - 7:36pm

SEIZE THE U.N. / T.V. MA VSL

The 'feardom tower' is any empty shell above its 80th floor, the top one quarter is just a facade with no floors or office space. The mock-ups don't make this clear and the press-releases ignore the fact. The form is purposefully harsh and asymmetrical, Libeskind (German for bastard) originally designed a set of buildings that looked like broken shards of glass. (Sense of life?) The current plan has a decapitated edifice which serves no purpose except as a metaphorical flag of surrender standing among some tilted gravestones. The "memorial" - reflecting absence - has an estimated up-front cost of ONE BILLION dollars. An engineering rule of thumb is that the annual maintainace of a project will exceed 1% (here, $10 Million) of the cost of construction.

The proper response would be to build new East and West towers, larger than the original North and South towers in all dimensions. The so-called (and-nonexistent) foot prints could easily be made into a park with one tree planted for each person killed on one "footprint" and a memorial (non-denominational) chapel incorporating structural elements from the original towers on the other footprint. The upper floors (but not the topmost) should be used to house the U.N. and the consulates of Russia, China, France, the muslim and Arab states and our other "friends." All property owned by foreign powers and their agents who have not stood by us in Iraq & Afghanistan should be seized and resold and the profits from the resale be used to maintain the memorial park and chapel. The top floors of new towers would be easily leasable to private concerns, many have expressed such interest.

Ted Keer, Sep 11, 2006, Ground Zero

[Edited to remove an offensive section]

(Edited by Joseph Rowlands on 11/27, 8:55pm)

Post 44

Monday, September 11, 2006 - 7:53pm

Monday, September 11, 2006 - 9:11pm

Mr. Keer,

I agree completely that the twin towers should be rebuilt bigger and better than before. And OPENED for BUSINESS.

I thought the second half of your post was quite entertaining. The most enjoyment I've gotten from a post with the name "Baker" affixed to it, in fact. Sadly, I can only sanction it once. You should have broken it into two posts.

Post 46

Monday, September 11, 2006 - 11:26pm

Mike,

I am afraid your appreciation will encourage me. Have you not already read all of my posts, click on my name and follow the strings, some of what I write is not bad.

Theresa, I hope those are exclamations of joy.

Ted

BTW It had been my policy to just ignore baker, but I just couldn't pass up the opening.

Post 47

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 6:26am

More like shock. I never would have expected that out of you. Because I ignore most of Chris's submissions, I had to go back and try to figure out that response.

Loved your critique of the "Feardom Tower."

Post 48

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 6:28am

The first telephone call I received this moring, Sep, 11, was from my girlfriend Cheryl of the 82nd Airborne, currently serving in Kabul, but who has also been posted to Iraq. After her first two-year stint, she voluntarily re-enlisted. Military morale is very high. She would love to stop by and see you sometime in Wheeling, which she visits regularly.

Wheeling? If your girl friend wants to pay me a visit, that's cool. Of course, if I have a few hours with her, she won't be your girl friend anymore.

Post 49

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 6:31am

"What is wrong with the Freedom Tower design?"

It doesn't matter much to me. If it is private property, they can do it what they want with it. And it should be private property, but it sounds like it isn't.

Post 50

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 5:26pm

GOOD WITH CHILDREN AND ANIMALS

Teresa,

I did try to warn people with both the title and TV MA VSL ratings, sorry to surprise you. I ignore that person's posts too. But I felt that given the implied insult both to me & to the military, my mere words were warranted. Read the post that provoked me and the words of mine that were quoted out of context, think where I work, and you should understand. Given that I have gotten four times as many sanctions for that post than any other, I think there must have been some sympathy for what I said.

Ever seen the movies Port Apache, the Bronx or The Taking of Pelham 123? I lived for a decade in the South Bronx. This brouhaha was nothing. As I usually tell obnoxious people who disturb the peace in my presence in NYC, "My parole officer has warned me not to get into any more fights." So I will try to keep it civil from here forward. This matter is a distraction, everyone here knows I have much more to say of a constructive nature. I don't just post to see my name.

Ted

(Edited by Ted Keer
on 9/12, 7:36pm)

Post 51

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 6:29pm

I don't just post to see my name.

:) I know.

Post 52

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 7:51pm

NYC UNVEILS 9/11 MEMORIAL HOLE

NEW YORK - Days before the fifth anniversary of the destruction of New York's World Trade Center by terrorists, city officials gathered on the site where the Twin Towers once stood to dedicate the newly completed 9/11 Memorial Hole.

"From the wreckage and ashes of the World Trade Center we have created a recess in the ground befitting the American spirit," said New York Governor George Pataki..."

...Begun only days after the 2001 attacks, the Hole covers almost the entire footprint of the original World Trade Center, contains over 16 acres of empty space, and is visible as far away as Hoboken, NJ. Over $175 million has been spent on the Hole's development, and thousands of pages of proposals...

- The Onion, September 7, 2006 onion.com

Post 53

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 8:28pm

"From the wreckage and ashes of the World Trade Center we have created a recess in the ground befitting the American spirit," said New York Governor George Pataki..."

Oh my gawd.... That is the most obscene thing I have ever heard come out of a government official in recent memory. Seriously, my jaw dropped.

Ya'know, I've never been to Pearl Harbor, but I hear the memorials there are touching and poignant, unlike a massive "hole" in the ground, which is just a perpetual sense of void, a chronic sense of "lacking," as in something that can never be overcome. Worse, something that should not be overcome. "Shoulds" seem to be hopelessly missing in this project. What the hell are they thinking??

Disgusting, Ted.

I was completely clueless about this, and honestly, had less than a casual interest, until now.

Post 54

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 10:52pm

The Onion is a satirical newspaper distributed in NYC and I know not where else. So the quote is fake. But Pataki and Mayor Bloomberg are much bigger assholes than is commonly known outside NY. I believe some 60 to 80% of NY'ers want the Towers rebuilt bigger. The numbers are never released. Pataki is a play-it-safe middle of the road in-name-only Republican (state spending has gone up more under him than his "big government" predecessor M. Cuomo.)

Mayor Bloomberg is a liberal Democrat who owns real-estate that puts him in a conflict of interest against the WTC. He won election as a Republican in NYC because he bought a lot of posters in Spanish and got the Latino vote and the vote of complacent Republicans who wouldn't vote for his Democratic opponent, who was to Bloomberg's right. Bloomberg is so smarmy he makes me want to puke when I see or hear him. He's the type who, if he were homosexual, wouldn't have the decency to have a boyfriend. He'd get married for appearances and so that he'd have kids to push around.

He got elected promising to cut taxes, after the election he discovered a surprise deficit and raised taxes enormously, and then pushed through a smoking ban that he had never campaigned on. I truly think he is nurse Ratchit incarnate.

The truth is much worse than the satire I excerpted.

Ted

Post 55

Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 11:50pm

LET'S ROLL

Had we not given them the tools, the beasts could not have felled what we raised up.

The one plane that day that flew out of Newark airport, a NYC hub, the city of trade and moxie, went down in glory in a Pennsylvania field. The proper tribute to them would be the bronze sculpture of an airliner, three times bigger than life, flying up out of the ground, nose skyward, only its tail fin anchored in the earth. Instead they tried to give us a crescent shaped wall, so we settled for nothing.

And Osama, in Western fatigues, wagged his American-made wristwatch at us.

The other three planes that flew that day originated in Boston, the town of the Puritans, of "gentility" and of old money. The second and third of these planes knew of their fate, their passengers huddling in the back, on their cell phones, not acting, but asking "what should we do?" They should have died with honor. I don't pretend to see into their souls. I liked the doomed Barbara Olsen who flew from Boston to the Pentagon. But fuck the regulations. Let's roll.

Ted Keer, Sep. 13, 2006, NYC

Post 56

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 5:14am

The one plane that day that flew out of Newark airport, a NYC hub, the city of trade and moxie, went down in glory in a Pennsylvania field. The proper tribute to them would be the bronze sculpture of an airliner, three times bigger than life, flying up out of the ground, nose skyward, only its tail fin anchored in the earth.

Love it.

I wondered about the Onion quote, but it sounded so genuine, because it was so not funny. No wonder that E-zine is as popular as it is.

Post 57

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 11:15am

Ted,

You write about 9-11 with the certainty of an eyewitness. Unfortunately, the only eyewitnesses to the tragedy are dead. So, I really don't know what happened.

Post 58

Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 8:59pm

"Bint al Kalb?"

Does anyone know how to say "daughter of a dog" in grammatical Arabic? Or "son of a dog/bitch?"

Ted

Post 59

Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 9:53pm