The Future: Where Will All The Jobs Go?

Print Media Is Now What Radio "Stories" Were To Broadcast Media

I was recently listening to an episode of "This Week In Tech", where guest Kevin Rose of Digg.com was talking about his new Amazon Kindle. One of the focuses was the dramatic price drop to a mere $139, no doubt to fend off the mighty Apple iPad, which at the time of it's debut, was just a couple hundred dollars more than a Kindle, with a LOT more functionality.

More likely than not, within a couple years, the Kindle will be free with the promise of a few book downloads. So, that means everyone will be able to have a device which allows them to read books and newspapers on them at all times.
Even if you don't want to go the Kindle route, I'll bet most of you as of this typing, have a device in your possession on which you can access up to the minute news, right?
Sure you do. After all, at the very least, you have the computer that you're reading this on right now. It has access to all sorts of news, and it's updated every single second.

For the techies out there....remember the days where you'd have to wait until your favorite magazine ran it's features on the most impressive items from CES or E3? It's much nicer being able to watch the presentations streaming live, isn't it?

What would ever make you want to go back to the way things were?

Sure, print media served us well for a VERY long time, but now that we can have things beamed to our devices, why should we stay that course?
Why would we want to?

Some of you may be thinking "Yeah, but what about when you're in an area where there's no decent Wi-Fi?" Well, sure...that's a problem right now, but how big of a problem will it be in the near future?

The White Space Spectrum

Remember all those airwaves that were getting used when broadcast television was analog?
No...the way you used to get it before digital conversion?
Ok...when you still used rabbit ear antennas....THAT broadcast signal!
Well, those are all freed up now, and the FCC has cleared the path for White Space Wi-Fi to begin rolling out. Right now, it's download speeds are not what most people are accustomed to, but they're more than adequate for text based downloads....like your newspapers, magazines, etc.
So, while still in it's infancy, White Space Spectrum will eventually blanket this Country in Wi-Fi, the same way television did not that long ago. You WILL be able to get your newspaper wherever you are.

Menus Are Printed Too

Yes, in a way, menus are also print media, but restaurants have already begun eliminating them too.
I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I'm taking things way too far now, right?
You're thinking that I'm talking about some sort of "Jetsons" future, right?
Well, you're wrong.

The following video is just an example of what is beginning to happen around the World.
A little bit later, I'll explain to you what this all means.



Well, what did you think?
Pretty high tech, huh?
Not as much as you may think.

This is Inamo in London.
iPads are a little too pedestrian for them....so at Inamo, your whole F'N table is a touch screen menu.



What This Means To You And Me, Rusty

How do you feel about all of this?
Does it frighten you? Because maybe it should.
There's a lot of focus being put on the print media industry these days, and it's ability or non-ability to survive in an ever growing, ever evolving, technological landscape.
I've just shown you here how unlikely it is that there will still be print news even ten years from now.
USA Today has even announced that they are going to begin "de-emphasizing" their print edition. That basically means killing it off, boys and girls. They just don't want to flat out say it, and send shockwaves into an industry that's already hanging on by a thread.

But let's go beyond the print world now, shall we?
Think back to the videos you just watched with the iPad and touch screen table menus.
I KNOW you have a short attention span because you been diagnosed with A.D.D., but think real hard.
Remember now?
Ok.
Besides printed menus, there's something else missing from those restaurants now too. Do you know what it is?
It's a wait staff.
That's right, the wait staff isn't really needed anymore. Just someone to bring the food from the kitchen to the table. Ordering your meal is far more expeditious with an iPad; you never have to wait for someone to "get around to you"...you just order when you're ready. And it's far more cost effective for a restaurant to pay ONCE for an iPad, than to pay weekly for a full wait staff. Even the least bright among us can do that math.
So, sorry waiters and waitresses out there...your time is short.
The days of nice tips are over.
You could always get a job at a local fast food place or something.
Or can you?

The way I see it, if we've reached a point where we don't need wait staff anymore, we CERTAINLY won't be needing cashiers at fast food chains.
You'll simply walk up to the touch screen, touch "Two double triple Big Macs, a Super Dooper size chocolate covered fries, and a small Diet Coke."...then swipe your debit card, or insert your cash, and voila...out comes your heart attack on a dirty tray.

Drive Thru, you say? NO PROBLEM!
How about a Wi-Fi sync that allows you to place the order on your way to the restaurant, on your touch screen handheld device? You simply are handed the food at the window when you arrive, and it's automatically billed to your debit once you hit "Submit Order" on your handheld.

What about your job?
Can you think of ways in which this kind of stuff can eliminate the need for you?
And where will all these people go? What will they do for income?
See, this is about to get a WHOLE LOT BIGGER than print media. This isn't some distant future, this is now. THIS, is the genesis of the new world....it's just that no one is paying attention that closely.
They never do, until it affects them.

Lucky for you, you have me.

Ines Sainz: A Guide To All You Need To Know About Her

 

Yup.

That about covers it.

At least, I would think that's all SHE wants you to know, right?
After all, if you do a Google image search, there isn't a single picture of her, in which she doesn't look like she's on her way to shoot "Booty Wreckers 8: Return Of Ass Mangler". (I made that title up, by the way, and I swear if there's EVER a character known as Ass Mangler, I'm suing!)

Now, for anyone to be upset, that men responded to her THE WAY SHE WANTS THEM TO, is the upper echelon of insanity. She is dressing in a way that she knows men find incredibly attractive.

For the record, that is one of the greatest asses I have seen in recent memory.
I know it.
You know it.
Ines knows it.
And we judge a "great ass" based on...get ready for it....SEXUAL DESIRE.
There are shapes and characteristics that men find incredibly appealing, and Ines' ass contains ALL of them.
So what does she do? She wears things that do their damnedest to accentuate every curve and crevice.
And who does she does this for?
Men.

Unless she gets down with broads too, in which case she only becomes MORE desirable to men.

Women, let me break this down for you....YOU have responsibility here too. You are not exonerated of your crime, just because you are female.
Sorry.
If you want to exercise your right to enter the mens locker room, then you also need to exercise something else....common sense and a semblance of professionalism. And there is NOTHING professional about what Ines wears when she enters these locker rooms.

If you don't want to be treated like a whore, then don't dress like you're up for "Best Interracial Gang Bang" at the AVN Awards.
It's just....that....simple.

By the way, how come you don't see men in the women's locker rooms?
Oh that's right, because it's probably not a good idea.

Announcement: I Need Your Attention!

Since Pastor Terry Jones chickened out and decided not to stage his book burning, I truly believe that something needs to be done to show our protest, as Americans. In this turbulent age we find ourselves living in, we as Americans can not afford to just sit by on the sidelines and do nothing. We must fight back! We must stand up for ourselves and secure our sacred landmarks, preserve our culture -- our very way of life.

With that in mind, I am hereby announcing that I will be holding a book burning at my home in Milford Delaware in my backyard fire pit this Saturday, September 18th.

It has recently come to my attention that Mad Magazine is headquartered and published in New York City, a mere thirty blocks or so from Ground Zero. This is intolerable. We as Americans can not let this continue. Mad Magazine has been a subversive force in America for more than 50 years. They have taken unwarranted shots at our American political system, our culture, even baseball and apple pie -- the very fabric of our society.



They supported the hippie movement in the 60's; they were against Reagan in the 80's; they continue to support gun control, abortion, stem cell research, ear-marks, high taxes, welfare for the needy, Obama-care -- all things anti-American...(well I'm not really sure about anything in this last paragraph, I really just made all this up).



Do not forget about those Spy vs. Spy bastards. This is like a mini terrorist training manual, where these guys teach us ways to plant bombs and set booby traps, in each and every issue.

Lastly, the final page has some kind of cryptic fold up message that if decrypted properly lays a path for Americas destruction...again, they publish this magazine only thirty or so blocks away from Ground Zero!

So join me in burning as many copies of Mad magazine as we can gather. I have gathered almost a dozen copies and will be accepting donations from local churches, schools, and libraries. I will be holding a press conference later this week to announce my final plans, so stay tuned.

God bless America.

September 11, 2001

You know, growing up I always heard people say "I remember EXACTLY what I was doing when John Kennedy was killed.", and I used to think..."Yeah, whatever...I'm sure you remember exactly what you were doing , asshat."
Hey, I've told you before, I'm a bit of an asshole.
BUT, I'm no where near the asshole that I USED to be, AND, I tell you that I'm an asshole.
Other people just act like they're friendly and such, then pull the rug out from under you.

Guess what?
I remember EXACTLY what I was doing on September 11, 2001.

I was working in Greenville, DE. My employee Ryan and I were listening to the radio, and installing 4 inch by 3/4 select red oak in the upstairs bedroom of a customer of mine, whom I had done work for over the years. This was the last room for me to install wood in, as I had already done the rest of her house.
Ryan and I were discussing another guy we know who just the day before returned to work at the company that we both previously worked for.

Then Howard Stern cut from his banter to mention that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.

Almost in unison with Stern, Ryan and I laughingly wondered how someone could be such a dumb ass and hit something so huge. And also in unison with Stern, we said..."Must have been a small commuter plane".

Along with the rest of America....the rest of the World, we soon realized that it was something much, much more.

The hour that followed was filled with panic, as false reports were coming in of bombs going off all over Washington D.C., AND some douche shooting something off near the jobsite we were on.
At that moment, we were under the impression that an all out attack was going down.

I called my wife at the time, and she seemed to not fully grasp the gravity of the situation, even though she told me that someone at the Capital Management firm she worked at, was on the phone with someone at Cantor Fitzgerald when he heard yelling and then silence as the phone went dead.
THAT, is something that would haunt me forever....hell, it sticks with ME as it is, and I didn't even hear it.

For all of us who were alive that day, the feeling was indescribable. I remember just being numb, not able to process what I was seeing. Somehow feeling like it was footage from a Michael Bay film, but knowing that it was incredibly, and horribly real.

I don't think I've ever viewed life the same way again.
What I mean is, I know that I was never the same person again after that day...that September 10, 2001, was the last time I was the carefree moron that viewed the World with such a sense of levity and frivolity.

I remember my only, albeit smallest bit of comfort that day, was the knowledge that I personally didn't know anyone in the Towers.
Or so I thought.

Following my divorce, I learned through the person I was dating that I indeed did know someone who died there that day.
Now, I don't mean to claim that I knew him well at all...just that I knew WHO he was, which is why it took years for me to ever even realize he was gone.
I had ONE interaction with him, but for some reason I always remembered it. Not because it was anything out of the ordinary, but it just stuck with me.

Probably around 1990 or so, I went to a party in the townhouse where the friend of the girl I was now dating lived. Or so I *think*....I'm a little fuzzy on that part....but hey, it was a long time ago...how many specifics about a house party that you went to do YOU remember, junior???

Anyway, at the time I was playing guitar a bit, and this was after "Goodfellas" was released. I was so impressed with the scene that used the outro to "Layla", that I was attempting to learn the guitar part at the time.
When I got into the party, there was no where left to sit, so I ended up sitting on the end of a piano seat, where this other guy was sitting. As I sat there with my back to him, I barely clung to the edge so as to not look like Edith to his Archie, I began to hear the outro from Layla coming from the piano.
It wasn't perfect or anything, but it was really solid, so I turned to him and said "Hey man, I've been trying to get the guitar part down for this....but I kinda suck." I remember he laughed, and we began to talk a bit about music.

His name was David Marc Sullins....but everyone I ever knew called him Marc.
He was a paramedic for Cabrini Medical Center and died trying to save others lives in the South Tower of The World Trade Center.

That was my one and only interaction with him...but like I said, for some reason, I always remembered it.

Upon being told that he perished in the World Trade Center, I recanted this very story to my girlfriend at the time. It was more or less a simple anecdotal note when answering the question "Did you know Marc?"

Months later, when going through old pictures of hers, there was one single photograph from that party.....it was of me, sitting barely on the edge of that piano seat, and Marc Sullins...back to the camera, tapping away at the keys.
What a weird thing.

Now, I'm not trying to attach myself to Marc for your pity, because as I said, I had one interaction with him in my entire life, and the thought of doing so is perverse and appalling to me.
I'm simply conveying my personal remembrance of one person who died that horrendous day, because for years, I simply felt terrible for faces and names that I saw flash across my television screen, but I had no personal attachment to any of them.

But now, I can't think of that day without remembering the outro to Layla.

Marc Sullins Memorial Site

Christmas Is NOT The "N Word", So Stop Treating It That Way

Yes, I know it's September.
Yes, I AM aware that I'm the guy who says all religions are crazy.
Yes, I know this drum has been beaten to death now.
But will you just bare with me for a minute, this is gonna be short, I swear.

Today, my children have off from school for Rosh Hashanah, which in case you live in a world of pork rinds and Jerry Springer, is a Jewish holiday. In brief, Rosh Hashanah is a time when Jews spend time reflecting on their relationship with God and creation.

Yes, the same God that you may NOT mention during the Pledge Of Allegiance.
What?
Well, I don't know why you can have a day off from school to reflect on him, but you can't say his name....that's what I'm trying to figure out here, along with you.

Many years ago, I remember noticing that the Christmas Concert at the schools, were now called the Holiday Concert, or the Winter Concert. Songs were carefully chosen to reflect aspects of the individual culture's holidays, but to not directly say any of them by name.
I find that fucking ridiculous.
But I also say "fucking", and that would make the people who get upset when they hear "Merry Christmas", go into catatonic shock.

While we're on that....is there ANYONE out there who seriously gets upset when they hear the word Christmas?? I mean, are you telling me that there are people who are truly rocked to their foundation by the acknowledgement of the birth of Christ? Which, by the way, in America, really only means presents and Gingerbread Lattes from Starbucks, these days.
Mmmmm Gingerbread Lattes!!! Triple shot, of course!

Anyway, if you are out there....please send me an email explaining IN DETAIL, exactly why you're such a bitchsissy, at anuddercast@gmail.com.
I look forward to making you cry, and increasing your therapist's workload.
Seriously.
I don't like people like you.
You're all whiny and Nazi like at the same time.
I'll bet you always used to tell the teacher on everybody too, didn't you?

Point is, this goes back to the whole Burlington Coat Mosque thing, it's groups of people trying to control another group's right to believe and express joy about whatever religion they choose, in a Country founded on a belief of not persecuting anyone based on their religion.
See how even handed I am?

So I say this, it's time for all parent's in these school systems to DEMAND the end to this politically correct bullshit. If our children can have off for a religious holiday that is designed to reflect on one's relationship with God, then it can again at least openly speak the name of the day marking the birth of his son.
It's not some dark day of shame that needs to be hidden away.
It's not a member of the Klan.

Christmas is NOT the "N Word"!!
Yamsayin? You feel me, my Christma's?

Into The Future: The Jersey Shore

I know, you're asking how I went from tackling the political hatred that's running rampant through America right now, to stooping so low as to analyzing personalities on The Jersey Shore...well, because I can do whatever I want here...THAT'S why.

PLUS, I'm being "Pop Culture Topical"!
See, I can be a very hep cat when I want to be.
Wait...doesn't anyone say hep cat anymore?

Eh, who cares?

SO, being someone who shamefully admits that I've been watching the show from Season One, I feel as if I have *kind of* a handle on the people in the house....well, as much as you can with phony "reality" tv.

For instance, I think that Vinnie is smarter than everyone else in the house, and will be more successful than anyone else there....in the long run. What I mean by that is, like the New Kids On The Block, there will be a day when all the hoopla (<---old timey word) surrounding the Guidos and Guidettes is nothing more than trivia question fare, and they will be featured on a "I Love The 10's" thing on VH1...ON WHICH, Michael Ian Black will still be participating...yup, even then. Realistically though, they won't wait until the 20's to air this....more like 2011, when we are actually still IN the 10's, and most of what they are asking us to remember happened last week.

But I digress....
During this recanting of all things cool during the 10's, we will see a commercial break that says "When we come back, we're gonna get into a little "Situation" with some Gym, Tan, and Laundry, when "I Love The 10's" continues!"

See how well I did that?
I mean, when you read it, you actually HEARD the voice of the VH1 voice-over guy, didn't you?
That's why I type things that people read, and you just finished typing:

"2 tired 2 talk. C u 2nite dawg......PEACE!"

But that's neither here nor there.

Point is, during the course of the show, we will find out that Vinnie, unlike the others on the show, wisely invested his cash, and now is working as an investment banker or lawyer. And when asked about his days on The Jersey Shore, he maturely will reflect back with a casual "We were young and crazy. Who isn't crazy when they're young?, but will shy away from behaving in any manner that would make him appear as if he still has urges to "fight the beat" in the clubs.

I think The Situation will end up in a decent position too, maybe not with as stable of a foundation as Vinnie, (whose current financial standing at the time, won't be entirely reflective of his show business days) but being that he stands to pull in $5 Million dollars this year, and doesn't seem like an idiot to me, I think life will be just fine for ole' Mikey The Situation. 

As for the rest....

Sammi - Married with kids, to a doctor or something, who was a total geek as of this writing. He hit Sammi up for a date when he met her at a "World Of Wheels" Car Show as she was signing autographs. His timing was impeccable, as this was right around the time she was hitting 30 and felt she was running out of options.

Ronnie - Died of alcohol poisoning four days before the filming of "Return To The Jersey Shore"; a show about the original cast returning to the beach house, five years after Season Three. His last words, as he pounded away to Deadmau5, were "Bro....check me out, Bro!", before falling on his face, never to regain consciousness.

DJ Pauly D -  Too old to be a hip club DJ anymore, Pauly D is producing "New Age" meditation music. He converted to Buddhism at 37, after his hair began to fall out, thus forcing him to examine the TRUE meaning of life. "Dude, it's like, if your hair isn't there to put product in, did you ever really, like, have it at all?"

Angelina - Who fuckin' cares? Oh, but she still doesn't understand why everyone hates her.

Snooki -  After gaining a SHIT-TON of weight, and doing a brief stint as a "Snack Cake Pornstar" (a new type of porn where large women and men...and women, smash each other with Ho Hos, Ding Dongs, and Chocodiles, and then engage in various sex acts), Snooki goes into a massive depression, which after an extensive time going through peaks and valleys, leads her to become a fitness and self help guru. She has a website where you can pay to download her latest workout video with Tony Horton, entitled "P90Snook".

JWoww -  Having come to terms with who she really is, AND having had her breast implants removed, JWoww now reads spoken word poetry at the "Hot Cup Of Va Jay Jay" coffee shop in The Village which is owned by her girlfriend Saja. During "Return To The Jersey Shore", a short haired Jenny surprised everyone by revealing that she was living a lie for years, and now realizes that the source of her hostility, and for lack of a better word, Linebacker-esqe behavior, around the house, was a result of repressed feelings for Sammi. To which, Sammi responded "I ain't gonna clam slap wit choo, BITCH!", and then was subsequently kicked in the vagina by JWoww, whom MTV had to then remove from the house. Confident that the remaining anger is now gone, Jenny stays far away from the Jersey Shore cast, and focuses on her art and poetry.

I'm serious about the last part, by the way.

I think that really may be the case! I mean look how she struts around like she's ready to throw down at the drop of a hat. And have you ever seen a woman whose answer to EVERYTHING is to punch someone in the face, or threaten to punch them in the face...or think about punching them in the face....or draw a picture of punching them in the face?

Whatever. 

 

The "Christian/Patriot" Hate Machine

Are you noticing what I'm noticing?
This Country, is slowly reverting to a civil rights era atmosphere right before our very eyes. Muslim cab drivers being stabbed for being...well...Muslim. A Mosque site in Murfreesboro, TN being set on fire for being...well...a mosque.
We're returning to a complete "us vs. them" mentality, and it's all being done by groups of people who are claiming they're "Restoring Honor". People who are constantly telling us what the Founding Fathers would think if they saw the state of America today.

Part of what they're saying is probably true.
That's something that I'll say, that they won't ever say regarding people who think differently than they do.
No sir, they'll be the ones to yell "Nazi" at the "other side" for a contradictory point of view.
Thing is, I think everyone has some valid points of view...if you really open your mind, and listen.

But, there's also a lot of crazy out there too....afterall, people pay real money to see Lady Gaga in concert!!

Eh, on to serious matters.....
This is a flyer...one of many, that are currently posted all around Ground Zero in New York City.

Picture from Reddit.com

"The answer to the GROUND ZERO MOSQUE is to know the life transforming love of Jesus Christ"

Is that what's happening here? Love?

When I think of love, I think of kindness, compassion, caring, and selflessness.

When I think of Jesus Christ, I think of tales of the same...."turning the other cheek", even to the point of torture and subsequent death.

Is that what's happening here with these so-called "Christians"?

Let's take a moment to examine the hosts of the services promoted on the flyer, Live Prayer.com, shall we?
THIS, is their front page....

Picture from Reddit.com

So, as we can see, Barack Obama is "God's Enemy", AND apparently the worst Photoshopper in the World, would have you believe that he used to go to Titty Bars with Adolf Hitler on Friday nights for the 1/2 price wings and $1.50 Miller Lite drafts.

Silly me, I thought God's only REAL enemy was Satan, all this time!
Oh, and that's another thing while we're here...the whole Adolf Hitler thing is TOTALLY fucked out at this point.
It literally has no impact anymore.
Congratulations, "Patriots", you have likened so many people to Adolf Hitler, that Hitler's name has no punch anymore. I miss the days when you would say "That motherfucker is like Hitler!!!" and people would gasp at your assertion!!
By the way, Christians and Patriots, when you're downplaying the leader of The Third Reich like this, it's REALLY disrespectful to Jews who endured a little thing called THE HOLOCAUST at his hands.
But that wasn't a big deal, was it?
I mean soon, I'll probably be....oh I don't know...selling shirts that say "I Am Just Like Adolf Hitler Too!", to completely finish off ANY semblance of meaning that his name could still be retaining.

Don't worry, I won't even get into how not a single American President has come close to Hitler-esqe levels of anything, because it would be completely lost on you.
Besides, you aren't really interested in learning anything anyway, are you?
I mean, that would take all the fun out of the name calling thing that you like to do....in the name of Christ of course!

Because all of this...all this bullshit, and hatred, and judgement...THAT is what Christ was ALL about, right?

I remember when Christ used to make stone carvings of Pontius Pilate hanging out with Lucifer at Hooters....that guy had MAD skills with Adobe Carvoshop.
The only thing that sucked about him, was when he would get drunk and CONSTANTLY be going off about "fags". Every minute was "Is that guy a fag? My father HATES him! Let's kick his ass!".
It was REALLY annoying.

Huh?
Whadda ya mean, Christ never did or said shit like that?
Well, I don't understand, YOU do, and you tell me it's in the name of Christianity???

Maybe I need to check my definition of Christianity....

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Of Nazareth.

Hmm....just as I was thinking, it's based on Jesus' teachings...sooooo if he didn't condone this kind of behavior, and he never did things like what I claimed, why are you acting this way, if you're living your life as he did??

More importantly, why does the "Ground Zero Mosque" need to be "answered"?
Are you in some sort of street gang battle?
A religious war....like a....*GASP*....Jihad?!?!?!?
That can't be...only crazy Muslims engage in things like that.
Why couldn't you have JUST promoted your hour of worship to those who are interested in...well...an hour of worship?
Because that wouldn't have quite enough hate in it, would it? 


On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh committed, what was until September 11, 2001, the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil, when he detonated a bomb at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK. He was a former U.S. Army Soldier, an Irish Catholic, and a white man.
He killed 168 people and wounded 450 that day.
Many of the dead were children and babies who were located at a day care on the first floor of the building, right near the detonation.

McVeigh issued this statement regarding the loss of life:

"To these people in Oklahoma who have lost a loved one, I'm sorry but it happens every day. You're not the first mother to lose a kid, or the first grandparent to lose a grandson or a granddaughter. It happens every day, somewhere in the world. I'm not going to go into that courtroom, curl into a fetal ball and cry just because the victims want me to do that."

Where were all the "Patriots" then?

I'll tell you where....they were in Tim McVeigh's jail cell: Population - One.
You see, Tim McVeigh did what he did, in the NAME of Patriotism....in the name of a "True America". He felt that the Government's attack on David Koresh's Branch Davidians in Waco, TX, and the Ruby Ridge standoff between the Government and Randy Weaver, were signs of a Government out of control, so he took matters in his own hands.
He wanted to start a revolution that would send America back down the path of what The Founding Fathers intended....to get things back on course again....a sort of "restoring honor" of his own, if you will.

My point in all of this?
My point is, if you aren't careful, the lines can blur quickly, and you can lose sight of what we were all supposed to be about here in America. That YOUR version of the "True America" may not be someone else's. I know mine isn't the same as ole' Timmy's!

It's not about "who has the bigger religious dick".
It's about letting everyone worship the way they please. Freedom from religious persecution!
And it makes no more sense to forbid a mosque from being built blocks away from Ground Zero, than it would to forbid a Catholic Church from being built blocks from the site of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City.

In every religion, and in every country, there are fringe assholes that will do some REALLY terrible things in the name of what they believe.

There's nothing "honorable" about becoming one of them.
I hope people start realizing that, because it seems things are quickly heading to a bad place.