ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Posted by Andrew Roman on September 29, 2009
A little Mao in the Apple
From the “I’m Sorry, I Must Be Missing Something File” file …
Tomorrow, you best make sure you have your noise-makers handy, and if at all possible, get yourself a huge slice of birthday cake.
Party hats and streamers may seem a bit over the top, but who cares?
It’s a once in a lifetime event.
Remember, a little excess is okay now and then – especially when celebrating the anniversary of a communist nation.
So, go ahead, put on your dancing shoes, grab some punch, get your cameras ready, and be sure to look up at the Empire State Building tomorrow, because the tallest building in New York City will be lit up in red and yellow to commemorate the 60th birthday of Red China!
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you ….
From the AFP:
The Chinese consul, Peng Keyu, and other officials will take part in the lighting ceremony which will bathe the skyscraper in the colors of the People’s Republic until Thursday, Empire State Building representatives said in a statement.
The upper sections of the building are regularly illuminated to mark special occasions, ranging from all blue to mark “Old Blue Eyes” Frank Sinatra’s death in 1998 to green for the annual Saint Patrick’s Day.
Just last week the tower turned bright red.
However, that was not to mark some other communist achievement, but the 70th anniversary of the film “The Wizard of Oz” in which Dorothy wears ruby slippers rather than the silver of the original L. Frank Baum novel.
What better use of one of the world’s most recognizable structures, which oddly enough sits in the heart of Capitalist New York, than to honor a nation that killed tens of millions of its own people?
I can’t think of one.
Now that’s a “special occasion!”
Perhaps the Empire State Building will someday illuminate its upper portion in a charcoal grey light to commemorate and represent the rotting corpses of the dead of communist China.
While they’re at it, why not use a black light of some sort to pay tribute to the Islamo-Nazi terrorists in black hoods who slice the throats of innocents?
Wasn’t Saddam Hussein’s favorite color blue? How about a nice deep cyan to show him a little posthumous love as well?
I’m a little lost as to what color can be used to honor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
I’ll have to think about that.
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