Posted on 02/01/2013 9:52:31 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Former New York City mayor Ed Koch died Friday morning at the age of 88. He plans to be buried in Manhattan, the three-term mayor said in 2008. His headstone and a memorial bench, placed at Trinity Church Cemetery in 2009, evoke his faith and his admiration of a murdered journalist. Koch explained his plans to the Associated Press:
The marker will bear the Star of David and a Hebrew prayer, “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.” It also will be inscribed with the last words of journalist Daniel Pearl before he was murdered by terrorists in 2002: “My father is Jewish. My mother is Jewish. I am Jewish.”
Koch explained that he had been moved that Pearl chose to affirm his faith and heritage in his last moments.
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and beheaded while in Pakistan investigating Al Qaeda. He died 11 years ago today.
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I grew up in Queens, and I left New York in 1980. I can’t imagine ever returning to that Hellhole. I felt for Bernie Getz, I would have done the same thing if I had stayed there.
Dinkins was worse.
I have a sister-in-law from Sunnyside. Abe Beam, Ed Koch and David Dinkins, The Uhholy Three.
what you said.
And he voted for Obama when he knew he shouldn’t, like Dershowitz.
Barry is the Uh-Uh-Uh-Holy Won.
Found this the other day re: Blackmail of Roberts. Interesting. http://www.libertycaucus.net/forum/index.php?topic=113.0
Thanks for the heads up. I assumed it was a threat against Roberts’s children. No need, really, to explain his fears by any wrongdoing on his part; he has children, and is therefore vulnerable to threats.
There had to be some explanation for the reason changed his mind. He was said to have believed strongly that the ACA was unconstitutional, and then suddenly in May he changed his mind and began presenting convoluted, weak arguments to friends like Thomas and Scalia.
LOL. You must be a New Yorker. I was wondering when someone was going to pick up on that. God Almighty was that annoying!! Far from looking like an intelligent man he came off as a stuttering fool.
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