[Dilbert San Diego]

So Bloomberg doesn’t want this event to be either political or religious? Everyone will be given a scrap of paper with a poem to read??????

I hope someone deviates from their assigned lines, and puts in a good word for God and our collective religious faith in this country, at such a solemn occasion.

Since an idiot like Kanye West was allowed to deviate from his lines at the Katrina memorial event, and liberals celebrated his attack on Bush, then clearly good liberals are okay with deviance, and would celebrate someone not just reciting their assigned lines.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Never happens on our side.

Besides, there won’t be any speakers from our side.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I suggest that everyone (like an orderly flash mob) start sneezing on cue, and the others respond by saying “God Bless You.”

[miss marmelstein]

Knowing Bloomberg’s brilliant cultural mind, I guess we can expect a Rod McKuen poem to be read. Or may that Soviet hack, Yevteshanko, or whatever his name was. Better yet, Maya Angelou.