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The View From The Highest Point In The Western Hemisphere
For those vertiginously challenged, look away; for everyone else, the fastest trip up the new World Trade Center... (or is this what it feels like to be the Nikkei?)
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3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”
8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
Bzzzzzzzzz, wrong! Babel literally means Gate of God(s), no more different than Bethel = House of God(s). Jews did a piss poor attempt at plagerizing the Sumerian texts...
Say what you want about us taking twelve years to build a fucking building that we....er19 hijackers tore down in hours, I'll give the construction workers some credit. There are some crazy bastards right there. I sure as hell wouldn't be on the top of that spire while a crane is setting the final piece. Kudos to you guys.
If they'd had any balls, they would have built a park there. But it's ALWAYS about the money, so they didn't.
I would have argued the highest point in the western hemisphere is apathy. Except I don't care.
+ 1000 Very very good
I would have argued Mt. Acnoncagua, but for my personal apathy.
Its actually the stack of FRN's that dear old Benny keeps pumping out...
After 9/11 we gained a new symbol of freedom (new trade towers) but less actual freedoms (Patriot Act, TSA molestation, camera and computer trackers everywhere, personal banking regulation, etc.). Yep, we sure won that battle against terrrerrists...
Symbolism - it's what's for dinner.
Paramilitary police at all large public events; "hate speech" laws obviously aimed at one demographic (host forbidden from criticizing the parasites); boarding an airplane or entering any public building requires full body checks for every man, woman and child despite the problem demographics being obvious to a 3 year old; surveillance of everyone at all times and subsequent punishment if you don't toe the party line; massive taxation of the productive class to pay for it all.
That's all that, but here's the real kicker: it is NEVER going to get better. It will never reach a point one day where they say "Ok guys, the problems are over, now we can finally go back to the way it was and everyone can be free again." Rather, the Chuck Schumers and their Elizabeth Warren useful idiots are going to keep importing future terrorists on the grounds that "no one can make generalizations about anyone or anything," keep coddling the criminal class while accusing the productive class of being rayciss and not 'giving' enough, and keep looking for more opportunities to pass 2,000 page legislation because the average American is too stupid to understand that for every law congress passes the less freedom they have over their own lives.
Brown shirts...you're talking about brown shirts.
You either build something with the life you've been given or you don't ..either way time or the Man will confiscate it...your job is to carry on
Extravagant, inefficient, unecessary, ugly monument to bureaucracy and arrogance. Its perfect; I love it!
"Any jackass can tear down a building..but it takes a carpenter/steelworker to build one"....
The correllary to this is "anyone can design a building, but it takes an engineer to design one that just barely doesn't fall down."
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.
According to Wikipedaia this is the highest point in the Western and Southern hemispheres:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aconcagua
There's a difference between those Americans who can and do put out a solid day's work for a solid day's pay and the opportunities they have to do so on projects that are not funded by force and lies. Unfortunately, many of the guys working in this video probably don't get the difference, and are almost assuredly government-privileged union thugs in any case.
So, honest skill and effort vs graft, and liberty vs. coercion. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have honest skill and effort along with liberty, instead of whatever corrupted, bastardized version of work people can find to survive.
If plunder is made easier than production, then plunder you will get.
I cannot believe the sick, sick comments on here. I cannot believe Americans would say such things against the 3100 who perished there. For the Americans who said such things here, lest ye forget.
time to wake up buddy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9lhSuWFfk
- YAWN - I've climbed El Capitan five times, which is overhanging in places and almost twice as high.