It takes a particular type of self-righteous and aggressive ignoramus to think that the real evils of this world will all go away if enough people can be shamed or bullied into denying that those evils exist.
Case in point:
Russell Simmons Unveils ‘Coexist’ Banner Near Ground Zero
Simmons’ apartment on Liberty St. overlooks Ground Zero. Each letter of the banner features different religious and spiritual symbols. Like Bloomberg, Simmons is a big supporter of the planned center: “I was trying to figure out ways I could reach people and promote a message of tolerance…The fact that it is a public discussion, that there’s so many against it is what I think is disappointing to me, that so many people don’t know that we founded our country on the First Amendment,” he told the AP.
I am not the only one to complain
Recently, I have noticed that I am not the only one who despises this asinine symbolic slogan:
YouTube: Allen West Hates the Co-Exist Bumper Sticker
h/t: Kitman TV
More of Allen West’s speech here.
Coexist Reaction: The Good, The Bad, The Just Plain Silly
By Charlie Sykes
Story Created: May 15, 2009
(Story Updated: May 15, 2009)As John McAdams sums up the story so far:
It all started with a parody from Tom McMahon, who was aggravated by the extremely smug and intellectually slovenly bumper sticker in which a variety of religious symbols spell out “COEXIST.”
McMahon produced a parody bumper sticker with Nazi and Communist symbols substituted.
His point, of course, was that some religious views are simply impossible to coexist with, and must (like Nazism and Communism) be fought.
Update: Here’s another parody, courtesy of Mike C. on Blogmocracy:
‘Coexist’ in Firearm Manufacturer Logos
The underlying spiritual problem
When ‘tolerance’ proves to be nothing more than moral indifference and cowardice cloaked in self-righteousness, it is not a virtue but a vice.
Gates of Vienna: The Sin That Believes in Nothing
We Christians strongly believe in tolerance, and this is what British novelist Dorothy Sayers pointed out about “Tolerance”:
In this world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called indifference, the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
If any viewpoint is equally as valid as any other, then no viewpoint has any meaning, and it matters not what any of us thinks, says, or does. This philosophy is truly satanic, and it is called nihilism.
Tags: Ground Zero Mosque, nihilism, Progressives, Religion
Bumper stickers are made to be laughed at.
But I’m sure the folks with the Wellstone bumper stickers on their cars would be offended if anyone laughed at theirs.
@ Da_Beerfreak:
They still have those stickers? I thought he was dead?
Saturday morning, everybody must be asleep.
If you wake up, be sure to read Saturday Lecture Series: From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.
The previous thread should have been up longer before this thread was scheduled, IMO.
Good morning. I find that bumper sticker really annoying.
I saw a derivation on it yesterday using the same symbols spelling
“Believe”
And can the Obama supporters remove the Obama bumper stickers?
Just joining in here -- anyone link to the live feed in DC now on Facebook ? I have an old, tired pc but the feed is perfect -- like watching TV:
http://www.facebook.com/restoringhonor?v=app_136483746394240
Sorry if this has been posted a million times already…
Palin speaking now btw.
RIX wrote:
Believing in everything means believing in nothing.
I’m surprised that the Obozo supporters aren’t afraid of having their cars vandalized for having those stickers.
Oh, I forgot, the tea partiers and other non-progs aren’t violent…
@ 4_Sticks:
My Internet connection isn’t that fast (cellphone link, I live in a motorhome) so it’s pretty choppy on my PC.
Thanks for posting it!
@ RIX:
Obama ’08 stickers I cut some slack because maybe they just didn’t invest time to know. The first Obama ’12 sticker I see will elicit the universal sign for they’re loco, around the bend bonkers.
During the campaign there was nothing but Obama buttons on people in
downtown Chicago.
McCain supporters did not people in their faces.
Even in the burbs yard signs were vanalised including mine.
We had to put out a memo in the office to stop the political bickering.
The offenders were all screaming Obama supporters.
I guess that the reason the Obama 08 stickers bother me is because even during the campaign people were afraid that their cars would be
keyed if they had a McCain/Palin sticker.
We are seeing the Dem Party sink to SEIU thugishness.
You’ve just got the wrong version of the sticker, that’s all…
http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2010/04/15/coexist-in-firearm-manufacturer-logos/
so, how many people are at Glenn Becks Rally?
Bill O’riley said he would give up his timeslot if Beck drew over 100,000 people.
pleasepleasepleaseplease let there be over 100,000 people
@ rain of lead:
CNN has a live feed of the Beck Rally. They haven’t panned the audience since I have been watching.
The Sharpton Rally appears to be set in a stadium. Perhaps, RFK.
If anyone has updates on crowd size, please post.
Mike C. wrote:
Thanks! I just updated the article to show a thumbnail of it.
@ yellow flag:
michelle malkin has a pic that shows both sides of the reflecting pool
PACKED with people
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/08/28/restoring-honor-at-the-lincoln-memorial/
‘Coexist’ would be fine if a certain religion symbolized by the star & crescent weren’t so violently against anyone other than their co-religionists.
I absolutely, 100% believe that everyone is fully entitled to their beliefs, and the right to share those beliefs peacefully with others. That doesn’t mean their beliefs are right, and that doesn’t mean that I respect the beliefs themselves, just that I respect their right to HAVE those beliefs.
There’s no doubt in my mind that, as Christ said, ‘(he is) the way, the truth and the life’, but I can’t, and shouldn’t, force that on anyone. All I can do is share. After that, it’s up to them.
While I support this rally, I think what we REALLY need is an anti-Islam rally. And I do mean anti-Islam. Not anti-radical-Islam or any other mealy-mouthed phrases that fall short of the truth.
I don’t know what it would take to make that happen, and I don’t have the resources to get it going, but that is what we need. Maybe not right now, but at some point.
@ rain of lead:
Thanks for the link. And, Michelle’s post that over 100,000 people are there!!!!
On the local radio stations yesterday in the DC area, they were warning people about delaying their trips (road and train) into DC today because of the expected crowds for this.
Fantastic!
maybe this will help
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-19-crowd_N.htm
if the area all around the reflecting pool is full I would say
200-300 thousand people
@ mfhorn:
I agree with you on that.
This is one more reason why Islam is an ideology that belongs in the same category with Nazism and Communism, and not with the other religions -- it is an enemy of other people’s freedom of religion.
Excellent essay. Very much liked the mock signs -- particularly Mike C’s.
Tolerance of intolerance is not merely nihilism, it is suicide.
wow,
over 117,000 watching the livestream
Schocka! Gallup: Muslims Give Obama Highest Job Approval; Mormons, Lowest
Overlook wrote:
Thanks very much, I appreciate that!
There is no way that I could write these articles without a lot of help from other commenters and bloggers, both on Blogmocracy and on other sites such as JihadWatch and Gates of Vienna, who provide me with the links needed to flesh out the points I am trying to make.
@ mfhorn:
Well put.
I didn’t realize the rally was carried on C Span… apparently C Span will cut to the Sharpton rally at 12n though. To damn bad Sharpton couldn’t find it withing himself to join along here with Beck.
Still divided, thanks Rev Al.
BTW, I cooked up the graphic at the top of the post, the one with the red slash circle, using a freeware software package called GIMP. It is pretty much an open-source equivalent of Photoshop. The user interface takes some getting used to, but it does the job.
Anybody who wants to use that graphic is welcome to do so; no need to bother with crediting me for the modification, because I didn’t come up with the original sticker.
4_Sticks wrote:
He’s just a lefty scumbag who promotes no one’s interests but his own.
‘white privilege’ ? Hmmmm…. that was a bit unsettling although only a blip in her overall speech/message.
1389AD wrote:
Sharpton has never been more than a street thug bigot. It made me mad when the media, even Fox, started giving him a seat at the table as if he had a relevant point of view. *spit*
number of people on ustream watching the rally almost 120,000
@ 1389AD:
Beck managed to do what him and Hi Jack Son weren’t able to accomplish.
Speakin’ of Jackson hes been scarce lately ? I haven’t been paying attention so to speak -- for all I know hes assumed room temp. I do ‘sense’ that Becks name seems to be in the fore these days and Al/Jesse not so much…ymmv.
** Beck just said that estimates of crowd size is between 3 and 5 HUNDRED THOUSAND !! Take that Woodstock Nation !!
Oops, need to get back to ‘PIMF’ ing’.
Glen just said per mfm that crowd size is between 300-500 thousand
that means one heckava lot more
Damn, guess BOR is out of a job
Chuckles is already proclaiming the event as “racist” and a “miserable failure”.
In speaking of WWII, Glenn Beck just said “You can’t coexist with evil.”
@ The Osprey:
fuck-a-chuck
The Osprey wrote:
There’s a reason why envy is numbered as one of the seven deadly sins.
@ rain of lead:
Further proof of the uselessness of the blog.
I can almost hear some politicians teeth grinding. Beck has really done something here.
@ Mike C.:
I like that one best. I hope it annoys the Progs.
just checked the cnn feed for sharptons event
looked like a highschool pep rally
To Charles Nodickens it is a failure because his reprobate mind cannot fathom Glenn Beck’s goal.
yellow flag wrote:
As a longtime secessionist and Constitutionalist, I can’t say that I agree with everything that Beck is saying here. For one thing, I don’t go along with the Lincoln hagiography. That said, he is doing a good job of uniting and inspiring a lot of people to do everything they can on their own, with the help of their faith in God, rather than to rely on the government. And that’s all to the good.
4_Sticks wrote:
Thanks for the link! Watching it now.
“We must defend those that we disagree with, but are honest and have integrity…”
That rules out the practitioners of taqiyya, does it not?
This one really takes the cake…
Uh oh, he said “Creation!”
@ 1389AD:
Sure does!
rain of lead wrote:
Which means in tomorrow’s Washington Compost they’ll say maybe a few thousand anti-Government racist nuts showed up.
@ The Osprey:
If he is truly taking that line, hes f*cked up more than he can imagine.
Beck, a former doper/alcoholic DJ is proving he is one to be reckoned with. After watching/listening to the earlier speakers who were just the ‘average American’ type not used to standfing in front of cameras etc., Beck is coming across as a gifted speaker and a truly passionate patriot with great leadership skills.Chuckles couldn’t shine this mans shoes -- and, if there were any doubts that Chuckles wasn’t delusional before today,by his proclaiming this a ‘failure’ should remove all doubt.
I would imagine that there are still people pouring into DC. The transit systems, roads etc must be taxed to the limit right now.
I’d like to look for some online traffic cameras but I’m too absorbed here…
Wonder if there will be a ‘The “insert highway’ is closed man !!” moment.
Does DC handle these size crowds with ease ? I have no idea what the record is for gatherings there. Does 1/2 million even come close ?? Who the hell am I asking this ?? Anyone who may happen to know these numbers for some reason or other I guess. I don’t dare start Googling -- pc is not forgiving of too many requests at one time.
Matter o’ fact, she gets down right ornery.
so we have 5-6 HUNDRED THOUSAND at the rally
125,000 watching ustream
100,000+ on cspan
100,000+ on facebook
x thousands watching fox,cnn,msnbc etc
wow
yep, that glen beck just some nutjob
/
@ The Osprey:
Nodickens must be avoiding shiny surfaces.
Chuckies gonna hurl!
waldensianspirit wrote:
Either that or the fruit and water diet has worked a miracle that has not been revealed yet.
@ The Osprey:
Because Chuckie-boy has had it so rough…
The Osprey wrote:
Glenn Beck hasn’t had a soft life, comparatively speaking.
Neither have I, in any sense of the word.
CJ certainly has had a soft life.
Pillsbury doughboy? Pot, meet kettle.
@ The Osprey:
Cold turkey’s like that.
The Osprey wrote:
It probably just bloats him up with flatulence.
@ The Osprey:
He’s freaking out because we may actually save this country. We outnumber the Proggy Left, and we have the right on our side. I bet Chuckie-boy is about to puke.
@ The Osprey:
Nodickens has a lord?
@ waldensianspirit:
Don’t you rmemeber? They pray to Satan on LGF…
4_Sticks wrote:
DC handles crowds like this pretty well. They use pre-planned evacuation routes. They have ‘out of town’ bus parking pretty organized. The rails put on extra cars for the crowds. Some screw-ups today is that the rails are doing some track maintenance and there is some road upgrades going on. The radio stations in DC were warning people to postpone going into DC if at all possible today. Traffic conditions are broadcast 24x7 everyday.
@ The Osprey:
This is really insane.
HOW OUT OF TOUCH, DELUSIONAL, PATHETIC can one former jazz musician be ?
You are his-twa as of today Chuckles because I can’t imagine all your ‘members’ are as delusional as you. Anyone watching on C Span, the net etc and switching back (and forth) to his posts has to realize who the nut job is. Of course this presumes a shred of sanity … Chuckles, you are soooo yesterdays news.
@ yellow flag:
Thank you. Does this gathering compare to some of the largest ?? I’m bad at numbers…
They’re all waving at the helicopter camera
I’m diggin’ the guys in the Revolutionary War garb.
Iron Fist wrote:
They truly should think twice about that.
That’ll piss people off! Black robes…Christianists! The Christianists are coming!!!11!!!OMG11ty!!
@ waldensianspirit:
I wouldn’t do it, even in jest…
Check out the ‘pork pie’ hat behind Beck (his left).Brings back memories…
He’s still obsessed with that frog!
What -- no teleprompter ??
@ 4_Sticks:
I believe there have been larger… but this one is big.
The helicopter flying over was probably the Park Service. They fly around DC alot.
@ The Osprey:
Charles Nodickens has only one voice and it audibles like a deadfish handshake feels like.
we have an overhead shot of the rally
scroll dowm to update 5
http://templeofmut.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/over-half-a-million-at-the-restoring-honor-rally-in-dc-today/
This is really, really pathetic.
amazing grace on bagpipes
@ rain of lead:
Holy cow -- crowd is back to the WWII memorial!
Hey MSM do you hear us now?
@ yellow flag:
msm report- a few thousand attend
Palin’s there now!
I have to find a replay, I only caught the last 15 min.
Man, what a set of pipes on this lady !
@ 4_Sticks:
wtf ? A tad flat all of a sudden…
The Osprey wrote:
You know, I’d like hard proof for these assertions. I’m not a big fan of claims pulled from someone’s ass without any basis in reality, yet presented as undoubted fact…
Philip_Daniel wrote:
That is the new lgf operating there, agenda before facts.
@ The Osprey:
Hey dumbshit (not you Osp!), just because you say something doesn’t make it so. Reality has a way of making idiocy a failed evolutionary backwater.
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