Laurie: I just heard that there are plans to build a mosque two blocks from where the World Trade Center used to be.  Let the protests begin!  Two city blocks from where over 3000 people lost their lives?  How inconsiderate, how in your face, how ridiculous!  Yes, the    people who flew the planes on 9/11 were Muslim (and believe me, if I happen to be flying on any particular day, I am all for racial profiling.  I’ll take my chances against 80-year-old nuns, airport security; you just check out the young Middle Eastern guys) but I don’t think they were a representative group for the religion.  If I’m wrong, let me live in ignorance please.  But let’s say they were.  Wouldn’t it be better to have them within camera range of the original site of the offense?  Because if that structure is ever completed (and that is where the outrage should begin), you can bet your bippy that security will be over-the-top tight.  And it may even give pause to those who would plan to destroy the subway system that runs beneath the mosque.  If these radicals go berserk over cartoons that feature Allah, they sure as hell aren’t going to blow up his house.

elizabeth: Don’t you get a little crazed when all women are dumped into one category? And it usually is in insulting. What about southerners? Well, you won’t get an argument from me. J But I am so sick and tired of people thinking if we put them all in jail or just go and kill them all then we will be safe. There would be no one left on the planet. There is not one nationality or religion that can say throw stones at my glass houses. Stop me before I use another proverb. In1989 I was interrogated at Heathrow Airport twice (while trying to board a plane to fly home) and my suitcases were gone through and you know why – I looked like someone else. It was very intimidating and I am one of the nicest people I know. So if we are going to keep us safe from terrorists then profile everyone. Thought only men were the problem? Out popped female suicide bombers. Everybody and their bippy should be profiled. We all have the potential to cause mass destruction. So get in line.

And the mosque a few blocks from the World Trade Center – if they can get the masque up in less than 10 years then maybe they can help the committee to get the new towers up. God fearing (or should it be God loving) people do not blow people out of the sky.

Laurie: And along the same lines, famed author Joe McGinniss has just purchased a new homestead in Wasilla, Alaska.  Right next door to Sarah Palin.  Now McGinniss has been known to write a few critical articles about the ex-Governor – obviously a man of wisdom and good judgment.  And Ms. Palin is whining (once again) about the injustice of it all.  You just don’t get it, Sarah.  You wanna be a star without the notoriety, kind of like you wanted to be a governor without completing the job.  You can’t continue to say stupid things like “Drill, baby, drill” and “Don’t retreat, reload” and “I can see Russian from my house” and expect people to leave you alone.  There’s more to celebrity than winking, reading from your hand, and quitting.  Welcome to America, the place you say you want to reclaim, where people have the right to live wherever they want.  Well, maybe not in Texas where they are busy rewriting history, but Alaskans and New Yorkers may as well begin practicing their cake-baking skills so they can welcome their new neighbors.

elizabeth: Sarah Palin in boring the crap out of me. Sarah – here’s the deal:

you have a home to go home to, you can put food on your table (not sure if shooting innocent animals from a copter qualifies as shopping at the Pig and Whistle), you can shop at Good Will or Rodeo Drive and you can drive your daughter to CVS to pick up her birth control pills. I guess what I want to say is – you are living the American Dream. You even got your body back after having your last child. So what if some famous author moves next door to you. He’s not a pedophile, right?  You want to move to another neighborhood and have to worry about that? Get over yourself. And stop the winking. It causes wrinkles.

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