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originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: CrazyWater
Ha! I knew that because you had mentioned your husband in several comments.
I didn't think that negated my point to Blue, at all.
You could have called her a 'fat, pig slob' and I would assume she would have praised you for "saying what everyone is thinking."
Ya know?
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: onequestion
Of what am I a victim?
originally posted by: onequestion
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: onequestion
Of what am I a victim?
I don't know you said it.
NEW YORK — Score one for the Trumpster. Back in June, when the city's bungled, six-year effort to renovate the Wollman Ice-Skating Rink in Central Park was $12 million over budget with no end in sight, real-estate tycoon Donald Trump stepped forward.
Just give the project to me, he said, and I'll finish the rink by Christmas. This Christmas. And for free. "I have total confidence that we will be able to do it," Trump said at the time. "I am going on record as saying that I will not be embarrassed."
Yesterday morning, in a gala ceremony down in the sunken, tree-shrouded gulch just off Central Park South, Trump unveiled his completed rink - the ''largest man-made skating rink in the world," glistening with a mirror- perfect sheath of virgin ice.
He was two months ahead of schedule, and $750,000 under budget.
"This serves as an example of what New York, the wealthiest city in the world, can do in terms of saving money - if things are done right," an exuberant Trump said. "If we could just plan and execute, it would be billions and billions of dollars that would be saved."
....
The near-circular skating area, built in 1951, was closed in 1980 for repairs, but the project quickly fell behind schedule. By the spring of this year, with a bankrupt general contractor and an expensive, experimental refrigeration system that didn't work, Wollman rink was left to rot.
Parks officials announced they were back at "square one," and predicted it would take another year-and-a-half to complete the renovations.
That's when Trump came forward.
...
Under the agreement, Trump will operate the rink for one year, donating any profits to a "mutually agreed charity." He announced yesterday that the Ice Capades organization had been hired to handle the day-to-day operation.
Trump said he "knew very little about ice rinks" when he stepped into the project, but was tired of hearing about the botched city efforts and "wanted to get it open."
...
"We completed two months ahead of schedule and that's a little change of pace and a nice thing to hear for a lot of New Yorkers," Trump said. "We pushed very hard. We had very good men . . . and it was something we really put a lot of oomph into."
...
"We did a job here and we put a lot of guts into it and we're proud of it," Trump said.
originally posted by: onequestion
It's his first run for office obviously he's going to make mistakes.
Give me a break people.
originally posted by: BlueAjah
a reply to: MotherMayEye
All of this has been explained in depth in other theeads, yet Trump haters just can't seem to see reason or how their misconceptions have been disproved repeatedly.
originally posted by: BlueAjah
a reply to: MotherMayEye
All of this has been explained in depth in other theeads, yet Trump haters just can't seem to see reason or how their misconceptions have been disproved repeatedly.