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2007-10-11 Home Front: WoT

Jaw Dropper: Empire State Building to Go Green For Ramadan

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Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-11 01:14|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 They should just hang an illuminated bulls-eye near the 80th floor.

It would make the next targeting flight so much easier, you know.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-10-11 02:17|| 2007-10-11 02:17|| Front Page Top

#2 New York's equivalent of a giant 'Kick me!' note slapped on its back.

Posted by WTF 2007-10-11 08:51|| 2007-10-11 08:51|| Front Page Top

#3 "And of course, the last sentence is a CAIR-promoted lie. The Pew Research Center estimates the total population of Muslims in the United States at 2.35 million."

-do you think it's more or less? If it is 2.35M then we are accomodating less than 1% of the population w/this non-sense. Supposedly 6% of americans are gay, might as well have the ESB be draped in little rainbows for gay pride day or some such crap.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-11 09:33|| 2007-10-11 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 BH6: I'm sure you're quoting "MSM" sources on your gay thing, but it's not true. Otherwise, there's more than 18 MILLION gays out there???

That's more than NYC and LA combined. I call B.S. on that "statistic" too. Sure, they're concentrated in San Francisco, Atlanta and a few other cities, but even then, I'd bet that's only a few million at most. Even if ALL of Atlanta were gay (City Limits), that's only 450,000 or so.

Posted by BA 2007-10-11 11:27|| 2007-10-11 11:27|| Front Page Top

#5 BA - hence I caveated w/"supposedly 6%" - Actually the MSM says 10% of all Americans. I got 6% from some source I heard O'Reilly & Boortz use. I'm still wondering what the actual # of muzzies is.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-10-11 12:22|| 2007-10-11 12:22|| Front Page Top

#6 I think the real number is 3-4%. The GLBT Alliance has admitted inflating the numbers because 3% doesn't seem very important.

Posted by SR-71 2007-10-11 14:25|| 2007-10-11 14:25|| Front Page Top

#7 I figured so, BH!

Well, pulling data from the Census website, here's the data as of July 1, 2006 (by race):

* TOTAL: 299,398,484
* Whites: 239,746,254
* Blacks: 38,342,549
* Amer. Indian/Alaska Native: 2,902,851
* Asian: 13,159,343
* Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 528,818
* 2 or more races: 4,718,669

Now, let's assume that most Muslims are Asians. Yet, I would assume the largest Asian blocks of immigrant groups are not Muslim (Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Thai, etc.). Add into that, the fact that large #s of other Asians (including former USSR republics) have recently immigrated, and I'd venture to guess that maybe 10% of the Asian population *could* be Muslim (Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Malay, Indonesian, etc.).

So, let's just assume that 10% of Asian immigrants are Muslim (that's just a shot in the dark). That gives you 1.3 million. Then, add in the fact that Arabs might consider themselves "White", let's add in another 50%. You're still only around 2 million. And, my gut tells me that's generous.

Of course, you have an up and coming Black-Muslim population too, but they're not *true* Muslims in the eyes of the faithful.

Posted by BA 2007-10-11 14:35|| 2007-10-11 14:35|| Front Page Top

#8 hope that some of the tenants 'forget' to put in the green light bulbs........

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-10-11 14:47|| 2007-10-11 14:47|| Front Page Top

#9 For kicks and giggles, some of the bulbs should be replaced with red ones. That should shake things up.

What color's do the Druids use? Let's be fair about this.

Posted by Delphi 2007-10-11 15:44|| 2007-10-11 15:44|| Front Page Top

#10 I only hope the electrician is a rantburger and sets the green lights in the shape of a pig.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-10-11 17:11|| 2007-10-11 17:11|| Front Page Top

#11 Imagine that you are on a subway train at 5PM during Ramadan, and the driver is a starving Muslim. He is weakened from 12 hours of not being able to eat or drink. All the protein nutrients have dissolved in his stomach, and the body is cannibalizing his muscle tissue, weakening him in the process. In addition, he is dehydrated and exhausted.

Worse scenario: the starving muhammedan is a pilot, as is his co-pilot.

Posted by McZoid 2007-10-11 18:02|| 2007-10-11 18:02|| Front Page Top

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