NYC Mayor Bloomberg: “Don’t Call It Ground Zero Anymore”…
Hey, it’s not like 3,000 people died there or anything . . . no, wait?
(Daily Mail) — People should stop calling the site of the September 11 attacks ‘Ground Zero,’ New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said today, urging Americans to move past a term long linked with the World Trade Center’s twin towers destruction.
‘We will never forget the devastation of the area that came to be known as ground zero. Never. But the time has come to call those 16 acres what they are: The World Trade Center and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum,’ Bloomberg said in a speech on the rebuilding of lower Manhattan.
Ground Zero originated as a term to describe the site of a nuclear explosion and later was used to refer to the point of any dramatic or violent event.
New Yorkers started calling the World Trade Center site Ground Zero shortly after suicide hijackers destroyed the twin towers and killed nearly 3,000 people.
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Yeah Mike , you can stop calling it that but WE WILL NEVER calling it anything but what it is .
Screw you, you little fascist.
We’ll call it whatever we want to call it.
Isn’t there a food cart selling salty snacks somewhere?
Bloomberg wants to forgive and forget. This has to stop. He probably thinks we deserved it.
Bloom it out your ass Bloomberg, what a dick.
Bloomberg can shove it up his a$%!!!….he is the one who supported the damn Mosque and he is the one who is pandering to the enemy.
Right.
And Pearl Harbor is just a memorial with no prior history attached to it.
whaddafuckingtool.
RTS
Hard to get a mosque there when you call it Ground Zero, ain’t it, you little piece of shit.
He is just trying to get around people talking about the Ground Zero Mosque.
OK then, we’ll call it the mass grave where the World Trade Center used to stand.
Isn’t it time for that idiot mayor to retire?
It looks like our rulers are trying at a list of banned words and phrases….
Ground Zero
Muslim terrorist (but Tea Party terrorist is promoted)
Stimulus
ObamaCare
……..
“And Pearl Harbor is just a memorial with no prior history attached to it.”
But, but, buuut it was called Pearl Harbor before it was bombed. The World Trade Center was never called Ground Zero before 9/11.
He must be a convert to islam or deep, deep in bed with islamic connetctions. Who the fuck does he think he is? He’s a fucking mayor. He needs to be dragged out of office for obvious conflict of interest.
GROUND ZERO!
GROUND ZERO!
GROUND ZERO!
MUSLIMS DID IT!
MUSLIMS DID IT!
MUSLIMS DID IT!
USA!
USA!
USA!
I can’t wait till next November and boy do I sure hope we hurl these stupid Leftists/Marxists/Communists/Liberals/self-hating types out of power hard and fast.
What is it with liberals that they believe renaming things will change the facts? Yeah, I know Bloomberg is officially a Republican. But he’s as much a Republican as Obama is a Jew.
Bloomberg reminds me of that kooky Mayor of London – Livingstone. Man, he was an absolute jacktard.
Mikey, I did the math and not only are you into Dubai for Two Billion large ,I think they also have pictures of you in some compromising positions…you, O and Larry Sinclair….just guessing
Why else would you ever throw your fellow Jews to the gallows for a temporary restraining order…you are a detestable little turd…and yes things in history are a lot closer than they appear
Don’t tell me what words I can use and don’t suggest that more foreign nationals should be let into the country
City Worker Jailed for Stealing $10M from Fund to Identify 9/11 Remains Still Holding on to Cash
Tina Moore, NY Daily News, September 4, 2011
Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, ex-city worker Natarajan Venkataram says he’s sorry he stole millions of dollars meant for identifying the remains of trade center victims.
He’s just not sorry enough to turn over $400,000 sitting in his bank account in India.
The city has recovered $7 million of the $10 million he and an accomplice stole, but he went to court to hold onto this final portion of his ill-gotten gains.
In a phone interview from the federal prison camp at Fort Dix, N.J., Venkataram, 46, whined about jail conditions and apologized repeatedly for his crime.
Asked about the disputed cash, Venkataram said: “All the issues are still pending in the court.”
The city medical examiner’s office got millions of dollars from the feds to help identify the remains of nearly 3,000 victims.
Venkataram, then a manager dealing with the medical examiner’s computer system, and his girlfriend, Rosa Abreu, siphoned off millions via shell companies and fake contract bids.
When Venkataram learned probers were on to him, he transferred $1 million to his Indian bank accounts, prosecutors say.
Arrested in 2005, Venkataram pleaded guilty to embezzlement and money laundering. He got 15 years in jail; Abreu got six.
Venkataram also was ordered to pay $2.9 million in restitution. Hoping to retrieve even more, the city sued him and won an $8 million judgment in 2009.
“We’ve been using that judgment to collect any other money that we can find of his,” city lawyer Eric Proshansky said.
The city — led by the Department of Investigation — has recovered nearly $7 million from the scheme, including $6 million from an overseas company.
“DOI’s work helped identify how the funds were routed so they could be recovered,” DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn said.
Probers discovered a bank in India containing about $700,000. The bank froze the money in 2006, but Venkataram’s sister sued in India to get the money.
In September 2010, U.S courts barred Venkataram and his reps from touching the money.
Venkataram’s court filings have ranged from “contradictory” to “misleading,” Manhattan Federal Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in July.
He claimed much of the money deposited in his name belongs to relatives and “should not be seized or forfeited.”
He said the money was in his name because India forbids “native residents” from keeping U.S. money in state banks.
In June, the bank transferred $223,000 to the city, records show; approximately $400,000 remains in the account.
Law Department spokeswoman Kate O’Brien Ahlers said the city is relentlessly looking for the rest of the money.
“It may or may not be out there, but if it is out there we’re certainly going to do everything we can to find it,” she said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/04/2011-09-04_city_worker_jailed_for_stealing_10m_from_fund_to_identify_911_remains_still_hold.html
We can call it anything we want.
How about “the spot where Muslim terrorists committed their largest attack against America by murdering nearly 3,000 people”?
Is that acceptable Bloomturd?
landing gear?
is that on display at the 9/11 memorial?
I wonder where that artiFACT is being sequestered…
Gotta love the libs, when it’s not working for them anymore, change the name. Stimulus-jobs program, globalwarming-climate crisis, unemployment and food stamps-stimulus, death panel-end of life counseling, murder of the unborn-Planned Parenthood.
muslim caused grave site
@Rupaula
There you go again, babbling out bullshit. Pearl Harbor this, Ground Zero that.
I see no Shinto Temple next to the Arizona, yet Bloomturd wants a mosque next to Ground Zero.
Since you like it so much, here’s some deep shit. Pearl Harbor was attacked because of panty hose, which should be right up your 2 alleys.
I know it’s tough, but study history a little…there are wonderful things buries out there.
Michael Bloomberg is a former Democrat that switched to the Republican party in 2001, and switched to Independent (current) in 2007.
He is officially a political opportunist.
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Pendog – don’t forget your Federal Family and kinetic military action – oh! And undocumented migrants.
sorry Bloomy, you will always be known as the champion of the ground zero victory mosque. buzz off you little fascist.
How about we call you unemployed Mikey? Sounds good huh.
Now GTFO of the Ground Zero site, and GTFO of New York you wanker.
Thank ye
A well wisher
Hey Bloomberg, we’ll call it Ground Zero for as long as we wish! And there is nothing you can do about it!
who the hell is he to tell people what to call it??
its ground zero and always will be!
what a PO$ jerk!!!!
Teacake says:
September 6, 2011 at 9:18 pm
muslim caused grave site
so simple, so classic… so dead pan..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh78T–ZUxY
grammatical summing is a fine art..
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Ground Zero is a perfect descriptive term as the World Trade Center site was targeted by the Islamic jihadist BEFORE it was destroyed.
MADJACK, you are feeling ambitious this evening, nice work! Couldn’t have said it better(or more often).
So now they are “suicidal hijackers”? When and why has this happened? Never mind….I already know the why. Only 10 years and the left is furiously trying to rewrite history.
Never forget.
When does Michael Bloomberg go up before the NY fags to get re-elected? Yup if you live in NY u r gayly represented by ur mayor. You voted for the fag didn’t you ?
@RuPaula,
Right.
And the first thing normal (not you) people think of when they hear the words “Pearl Harbor” are….
And the first thing normal (not you) people think of when they hear the words “Ground Zero” are….
A word that might common to both is….
And in front of that word you have to name the perpetrators responsible….
Which is maybe what “hizzona” is trying get people to NOT do….
Catch my drift….?
and RuToola please….
Shut the Fuck Up.
RTS
Suicide hijackers? No they were islamist murderers, and I don’t give a bleep if they died along with their victims.
Blood-on-his-hands Turd doesn’t want it called Ground Zero since the Ground Zero Mega Mosque is at Ground Zero.
@Rupaula–
“But, but, buuut it was called Pearl Harbor before it was bombed. The World Trade Center was never called Ground Zero before 9/11.”
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Although you were “technically”/linguistically correct, you lose big time with that comment. You should never have gone there.
Mike…take the silver spoon out of your mouth…we can’t
understand you. You said WHAT? Put the spoon back in
and STFU.
WHY DONT BLOOMING IDIOT BLOMBURG GO AND TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT PEIR
We have to change our history said Michelle.
Hey Bloomers lets say we call your brain ground ZERO! Go to hell you elitist MF’er.
Call it whatever you like. Just dont forget what happened there and who did it.
And never ever forget the innocents murdered there and elsewhere by the fanatical followers of a 7th century camel thief.
The stain of Islam must be wiped from the world forever.
If I get to see Bloomberg drive by or walk by any day, perhaps I will just yell out two phrases: “More guns, less crime” and “Ground Zero”.
Oh yeah, and one more “bloomberg sold out to the arab devil”.
I gotta agree with an earlier poster, on this thread:
Bloomie’s probably getting money from the Saudis, or some other band of oil-ticks; what’s more, they’ve probably got compromising photos, or Emails, they’re threatening him with, if he doesn’t do what they say.
GROUND ZERO! GROUND ZERO! GROUND ZERO!
“Zero”….
The term must really ruffle ol’ Blooming-idiot’s tail feathers since it only serves to underscore exactly how much progress has been made in either REAL (as opposed to “PC”) memorial construction or in actually rebuilding (in historic, defiant, American, “In your face, you fascist SOBs!” fashion) on that far-too-long smoldering crater in the ground.
Zero seems to sum up only way too much the sum total of Bloomie’s views and “accomplishments” so I suppose one can understand his sensitivity….
…to anything relating to HIMSELF, but not so much as to other legitimate sensitivities (not to be confused with those loudly whined by CAIR, et al).
And I’ll stop calling it Ground Zero as long as we can call you BUTT BOY.
Taken from the wikipedia article “Christmas at Ground Zero.”
The expression “ground zero” was largely connected with nuclear explosions at the time this song was written. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the term was co-opted by the media to refer to the large hole over which the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the attacks had stood.
So please explain to me how the WTC site can still be called ground zero WHEN ITS NO LONGER GOING TO BE A LARGE WHOLE!?!?!?
How the fuck is it unpatriotic to drop the Ground Zero description when its no longer a giant whole? We are rebuilding. That dosen’t mean forget. If you need the term ground zero to help you remember the lives that were lost then congratulations your playing a retarded game of semantics.-
This is why Christmas At Ground Zero can’t be played on the radio anymore……… says:
September 7, 2011 at 3:29 pm
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If you mean “large hole”, then try to refrain from calling it a “large whole” or “giant whole”, whether in CAPS or in lower case letters.
That, plus your other misspellings and grammatical mistakes, makes me guess that English may not be your first language.
Finally, Wikipedia’s explanation states that “ground zero” refers to the point on the ground directly below the detonation. It makes no mention of a “hole” at all. No matter what is built on that spot, it will still remain–even in just the technical sense–”ground zero”, just as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Semantics is very important, Mr/Ms This is Why….have you ever read Orwell’s 1984? “Retarded” doesn’t enter into it at all.
I actually don’t think it’s healthy for us to keep calling it ground zero when it’s becoming the new WTC. America will honor the dead, but the nation must move on. It isn’t a smoldering site of molten metal anymore, the site is becoming a memorial and center of commerce.
@MaryfromMarin
Look on the bright side. After a few decades 9/11 will be forgotten and a holiday simply to get half off shoes at Wal-Mart. ; D
Unfortunately, if we have a few more decades like the last one, the only place we’d be able to get shoes at all is at Wal-Mosque. No joke intended.