Strip Clubs and Ground Zero Editorial Cartoon

Strip Club at Ground Zero Cartoon

Props to our old friend Dan McGinley (who has since quit blogging) but is still lurking around the blogosphere.  He came up with this gem about all the “Hallowed” businesses surrounding Ground Zero in New York.

I believe the strip club is the Pussycat Lounge and the horse betting is definitely near as well.  I made up the Checks Cash place but who knows if there is one there.  My joke is that you know your neighborhood has gone down hill when it gets a check cash place and a dollar store.

Thanks Dan!

Comments

74 responses to “Strip Clubs and Ground Zero Editorial Cartoon”

  1. Corve DaCosta Avatar

    What a way to pay respect

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Well they were all there before.

  2. G Avatar

    I don’t think that your neighborhood goes down once you get a dollar store and a check cashing place. I think it goes down once your town starts giving birth to Dunkin’ Donuts.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Heck no! That is when your neighborhood has finally made it!

      1. G Avatar

        I don’t know, my dinky little town has 6 Dunkin’ Donuts and one tiny little Starbucks.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Everyone (who drinks coffee) knows DD’s coffee is better (and cheaper)

          1. Brad Avatar

            No way! Tim Horton’s, eh!

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Tim Hortons only rides on Wendy’s back around Ohio.

  3. Gavin Avatar

    Nice one, Bearman. Hollowed ground indeed. As someone who doesn’t live in the States, this whole mosque debate is strange and depressing to me.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Someone seems to always be on the recieving end no matter what country you go to.

  4. nursemyra Avatar

    Perhaps the dollar store is in the basement of the strip club?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Well that would make sense. There are plenty of singles floating about in that place.

      1. jammer5 Avatar

        Donated a few have you? 🙂

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Definitely NOT!!!! (to that one)

  5. jynksie Avatar

    Imagine all those Muslim hunnys stripping out of their burqa’s at the “Pussycat”! Oh yeah, some Middle Eastern Mamma right there! hooooooooo-weeeeey! o.O

    The mosque is fine where it is intending to go. Personally, I would like to see Muslims leaders use this controversy to open dialogue and speak out against the extremism that runs rampid through their culture/faith. There is an opportunity to enlighten, I just hoped it Isn’t snuffed out!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Why do I have a feeling there is going to be some stripper who throws away her firefighter outfit for a burqa.

  6. tmcelmurry Avatar
    tmcelmurry

    The debate over this is really crazy. The 9/11 tragedy occurred in the heart of the business district. There’s no way to dictate what can/can’t be built around the 9/11 memorial. The Mosque debate is one of those that if the media had stayed out of the issue would have run in a few papers and then died down.

    Have you seen the debate still going on over the Pennsylvania crash site. Some of the ones who lost their loved ones are trying to sue to have the memorial changed cause they feel the shape of some of the landscaping can be interpreted as Islamic symbols.

    I don’t think there will ever be a 100% satisfied group. We all remember and will forever remember what happened that day, and we’ll all pass these monuments and parks with a humbled step for a while, then they will eventually become like the Vietnam wall to most, just a symbol and nothing more, which is really sad, but is in fact the way our lives work. We move past, we move forward, these are just buildings and landscaping, not our loved ones who were lost that day the memory of them resides in us and should be honored by us carrying forward with our lives.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Didn’t see the stuff about Pennsyvania. That reminds me of the recently burned down Touchdown Jesus around here. They are rebuilding it and trying to figure out a form for Jesus’ hands/arms so that it can’t be related to any football ref hand signal.

      I think they should just build it the same way…Touchdown Jesus got them alot of press (that kind of press hasn’t hurt Notre Dame – which also has a TDJ)

      1. lisleman Avatar

        This is why I read the comments – often more interesting than the post.
        I was thinking of posting about Touchdown Jesus. The youtube clips were interesting? If that’s the right word. So ironic that a bolt of lightning would torch the Jesus figure.
        So now they want to have a non NFL type figure? Have you done any cartoons on this subject yet? Instead waiting for it to catch fire maybe they should incorporate fire into the design.
        Too bad Moses didn’t marshmallows when he came upon the burning bush.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Some people made fun of the church as if the lightning that set the fire was “purposefully” sent by god to destroy it. Yet the church said since the fire attendance and donations have been up…so who is laughing now?

      2. Tony Avatar

        Touchdown Jesus??? Does he have Nun cheerleaders???

      3. Tony Avatar

        OK I just googled Touchdown Jesus & I’m not impressed. I think it’s totally wrong naming him that. He’s in a lake. Surely it should be Water Polo Goalie Jesus

        1. Bearman Avatar

          Maybe it is Touchdown Jesus before he could walk on water.

  7. Dr. Cynicism Avatar

    Excellent alternative perspective, haha. Nice!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Sorry you were lost in the spam filter. Next time don’t write comments like a spam bot..haha

  8. jammer5 Avatar

    This is something I’ve been harping about ever since the nut cases have been spewing their hypocritical rants. Hallowed ground? Ya right. You’re correct: more like slum ground. The center would be both a good thing for the neighborhood, and let the world know we are a open society, not some freaking idiots who can’t understand that their call for not building it is NOT what our forefathers fought and died for.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Everyone seems to have an opinion of what our “forefathers” meant and hold it up as if things can’t change. (and many times people on two sides will say that is what the forefathers meant) Many of our forefathers meant to continue slavery but that doesn’t get brought up..haha

      1. Sheila Deeth Avatar

        Very true. And if we could stick them in a time machine to find out what they’d mean now, they might be somewhat startled at what they’d find.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          But they would still love hanging out in a bar.

  9. Nate Fakes Avatar

    I’m surprised they haven’t put a Wal-Mart up there yet

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Wal-Mart…do they have those in NYC??? Walgreens they probably do.

      1. Nate Fakes Avatar

        I know when I was living there they didn’t, but Wal-Mart never ceases to amaze me the places they’ll pop up. Walgreen’s and Duane Reade stores dominate in the meantime.

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I always wondered who that Duane guy was.

          1. Nate Fakes Avatar

            I think he’s a reader? Maybe of Beartoons?

          2. Bearman Avatar

            Sounds more like a drug pusher to me.

  10. Dan McGinley Avatar

    You’re most welcome, Bearman. Nice work!!! I did a Google Earth to walk around ground zero, and my favorite example is a seedy massage parlor above a sushi place! Nothing says “Hallowed Ground” like raw fish with a happy ending. Any more ideas come my way, and I’ll send them to your very talented self!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I bet that entire place smells “fishy”…top to bottom.

      Thanks…feel free to feed my mind anytime.

  11. Friggin Loon Avatar

    What? No golden arches or Hooters? Sheez! Why would you want to build a mosque there, Time Square is a much better option!!!

    1. Bearman Avatar

      But they got rid of all the strippers on Time Square..hah

  12. Vodka and Ground Beef Avatar

    This is like one stop shopping/entertainment for me. Nice.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I’m trying to figure out which place you spend your money at first.

  13. Roland Avatar

    Oh, crap… they just put up a Family Dollar up around my house…

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Better sell before the neighbors figure it out and your home values tumble.

  14. gallowaygrave Avatar

    If the criteria for hallowing ground is where lots of people died in one disaster, most British cities would be sacred from WW2 blitz bombing as would many German cities from the efforts of the Allies. Also Lockerbie for that matter.

    Surely it is what you do about the causes of the deaths that matters?

    dave no longer gallowaygrave

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Now that you outed yourself…can’t you go back to your old email of Dave..haha

      1. gallowaygrave Avatar

        I’m working on it!

  15. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

    The area isn’t really goin’ down until they put in a “Dirt Cheap”. That is where they sell all the stuff that has been returned to Target, the dollar stores and other places. We’ve got ’em every where.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Dirt Cheap…that’s a new one on me. Your neighborhood must really suck..haha

      1. Bo Lumpkin Avatar

        I don’t reckon you can really say I live in a neighborhood. I live 5 miles from the nearest store. I am really country… that ain’t no act.

  16. 25BAR Avatar

    Long time, Bearman!
    How are you?

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Doing good. Sorry you were also stuck in my spam folder and I just found this.

  17. bschooled Avatar

    Haha! Believe it or not, they’re building a cash check place AND a dollar store in my neighborhood.

    I’d rather have the strip club, at least there you can get something to eat…

  18. DadaHyena Avatar

    Could be worse…they could be selling explosives and airline tickets next door to each other.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Isn’t that like having a Jehovahs Witness Church next to a Biker Bar?

      1. Tony Avatar

        I’m a Jehovah’s Witness & I think that’s a good idea. I could ride my scooter to church then knock on their door for a beer & a game of pool afterwards. It just doesn’t get much better than that!!!

        1. Bearman Avatar

          I just read a book about a guy who never drank and was an evangelist minister who started hanging out in bars as he was trying to live like Jesus. He figured it was easy to find people who agreed with him in church but might be better to hang out where the real people go.

  19. George Avatar

    I see that I will be visiting that neighborhood starting from the right and working my way left. 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Funny…I did just the opposite.

  20. Tony Avatar

    Maybe they could all cooperate & have stripping jockeys at the Pussycat club with nude horse photos for sale after the show in the cash checks store

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I am so confused…but I think that might work. haha

  21. jillsy Avatar

    hold on a sec…we have a “dollar tree” near our house, but i think it’s one of those upscale ones! 🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      Of course it is.

  22. WriterDood Avatar

    Very nice. Sums up the issue and puts the whole thing in perspective with one picture.

    1. Bearman Avatar

      I was going to do it with a stripper coaxing a protester inside but am trying to do less wordy ones.

  23. Sheila Deeth Avatar

    Very nice. Very hallowed. Perhaps it’s beyond redemption of any ilk.

    1. Bearman Avatar
  24. SpilledInkGuy Avatar
    SpilledInkGuy

    I’ve got $50.00 on that old one with the limp.
    (How’s that for a set-up, Bearman)?!
    🙂

    1. Bearman Avatar

      They call her Eileen.

  25. Friggin Loon Avatar

    I hope when they are praying to Mecca the brothels don’t get the wrong idea 🙁