Aug 19 2010

GZM Is To Ground Zero, As …

Published by at 2:10 pm under All General Discussions

Update: Hopefully Lucianne will not mind me borrowing this cartoon:

-end update

Let’s all play along shall we?

The Ground Zero Mosque (GZM) is to WTC Ground Zero, as …

  • The “Timothy McVeigh Militia Center” would be to the OKC Memorial (militia’s are not illegal organizations, but …)
  • A Mexican cultural center would be to the Alamo
  • A US WWII Victory Memorial would be to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  • A Christian Church or Jewish Synagogue would be to Mecca (of course, this is illegal …)

Update: Got one from Adam Baldwin over Twitter:

  • Adam Baldwin: As would be Hanoi Jane Fonda’s name chiseled into The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

Feel free to add to the list!

Updates: will be moving the good ones in the comments up. Trent gets the first one! These are good, and this is getting to be way too much fun. Folks, I will keep stopping by to pull them out of the comments, be patient!

  • Trent_Telenko: A Japanese Shinto shrine dedicated to Emperor Hirohito and Japanese war dead rising 15 stories above the battleship Arizona monument at Pearl Harbor in 1952.
  • Aitch748: A Westboro Baptist Church Outreach Center rising fifteen stories above the middle of Arlington Cemetery.
  • mbabbit: A Kool-Aid Market Research Institute next door to the cemetary where many members of the Jim Jones church are buried.
  • DeadSerious:  A shooting range next door to Columbine High.
  • Trent Telenko: A 25 by 50 foot Confederate States battle flag, on a flag pole rising 15 stories above Cemetary Ridge, at the High Water Mark of the Confederate advance, on the Gettysburg battlefield in 1870.
  • WWS: A statue of Charles Manson in front of Roman Polanski’s Swiss villa.
  • Terrye: A German war memorial at Buchenwald.
  • DJStrata: A statue of Lord Voldemort on the grounds of Hogwarts 9 years after Dumbledore’s death.

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21 Responses to “GZM Is To Ground Zero, As …”

  1. […] is correct, that is a poor analogy. Our reader Trent_Telenko put it precisely right: Trent_Telenko: A Japanese Shinto shrine dedicated to Emperor Hirohito and Japanese war dead rising […]