The day Bin Laden was captured, I very likely could have been the last to know. I quit turning on the news long ago and hadn’t hopped online yet.
But there were other signs — plenty of them. Something was up.
There was a rumble, if you will, in the street. There was chatter, in my quiet neighborhood and off in the distance I heard fireworks. Odd, I thought, this time of day, this time of year.
Then a stream of music came up from my Iranian neighbor’s home. Nothing particularly new for them, this was a party crowd. But never at this hour! Early Sunday afternoon. Hmmm.
I peered over the fence and noticed the street was lined with cars. Joy was everywhere. “Did our team win?,” I wondered? Was there even a game on?
Fortunately it was my son who sent me a text and brought me up to speed. So now I understood what the enthusiasm around town was all about. Although I didn’t partake, I appreciated the warm, rich sense of being American.
I won’t get into “what took them so long” or why we didn’t return for our downed stealth chopper the very next day (do we really need permission from the Pakistani government?), but I will share a clever piece that came across my desk regarding “tolerance” for the proposed Mosque near Ground Zero.
If I could credit the author, I would, if I knew who.
Tolerance
I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another
mosque being built here in Manhattan .
I think it should be the goal of all of us & other countries to be tolerant.
Thus the Mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance….!
That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque.
We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, “The Turban Cowboy,” and the other a topless bar called “You Mecca Me Hot.”
Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbeque pork restaurant, called “Iraq o’ Ribs.”
Across the street there could be a lingerie store called “Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret,” with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the clothes.
Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, “Koranal Knowledge,” its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side a liquor store called “Morehammered.”
All of this would encourage the Muslim world to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so the mosque problem would be solved.
If you agree with promoting tolerance, that all things are equal, and you think this is a good plan, please pass it on…
Renegade Financial Planner
