Nazi Party

At John Spencer's press conference this afternoon, held in defense of anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers," one Christopher Slattery of Expectant Mother Care offered this to back up the candidate beside him, according to a transcript:

I think that this issue is not just an issue of advertising fairness, that both sides should not be deceptive. The fact is that crisis pregnancy centers across America don't have to wear a pro-life Star of David to honestly advertise. We don't have to be forced to place baby images and fetus photos and crosses in our ads as clear turn off symbols, we don't have to be forced to use the pro-life pejorative term in our advertising to be truthful. We are quite capable of advertising to the public in a secular manner.

Because being pro-life is kind of like being a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Of course, there are quite a few characters in Red Hook, but The Real Estate never figured that the neighborhood would have a Nazi Party headquarters.
Lo, this weekend we were scouring the streets, looking for new developments, when we came across the freshly poured foundation of 71 Coffey Street, which is at the corner of Richards Street. Coffey Gardens LLC is developing two carriage houses, each with three stories and 3,442 square feet. A rendering, if you can call it that, was nailed up on the construction site.
Pretty ugly! Coffey Gardens is using Bricolage Designs, a company that seems to turn out horrible brick rowhouses that are remarkable for nothing more than their tedious uniformity and dullness. By the looks of it, 71 Coffey Street won't improve that track record too much.
But check out the building next door! High up top, you can make out a swastika—which is, in this case, actually a rather oddly Celtic-looking piece of ornamentation. The building was erected in 1926, while Adolf Hitler was in prison writing Mein Kampf. And sure, the swastika wasn't even removed from the British Boy Scout's Medal of Merit until 1934—but still, you'd think someone might have come along and altered this building circa, oh, 1944?
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