Things that are offensive at "Ground Zero"

So I'm watching NBC this morning, and they have this show every Sunday morning called @ Issue where they bring on some folks with opposing views of something and discuss it.  Sometimes it's local, sometimes it's more of a national issue, sometimes it's an issue that shouldn't be an issue.  Like today, discussing the proposed mosque in lower Manhattan.

One of the debaters was a representative from the Independence Hall Tea Party Movement (yeah I know, those Tea Partiers and their Founders symbolism).  After a week of everyone hashing through this whole thing, he more or less conceded up front that he and the other "seventy percent" of America (a fact I still don't quite believe no matter how many times I hear it thrown around) have absolutely no legal basis for their objections to there being a mosque built at 51 Park, two blocks from where the WTC towers once stood.  About time.  End of story.

But of course it isn't, because he believes that the Muslim group wanting to build this mosque/community center is being insensitive to the Americans who sacrificed their lives on that day nearly nine years ago, and the family's and friends who still mourn their loss.  Some claim it is some sort of "victory mosque" for the radical islamists who perpetrated the attacks.  Some are just being straight up racist, and don't really care about their own bigoted hypocrisy.  According to them all - even though they have a right every constitutional right to build there, it is "deeply offensive."

So that got me to thinking - what else is in a two block radius of the "Ground Zero" site?  What else is there that is, I'm sure, offensive to someone?  Aside from the place being called "Ground Zero" for the past nine years, which is of course offensive to those who died in Washington and Pennsylvania as well on that day.

So here's a list of what I found, courtesy of Google Maps:

Citibank, American Express, Meryl Lynch, The American Stock Exchange - offensive to anyone who has been impacted by the financial crisis they and their competitors/partners plunged the United States into these past two years.

Deutsche Bank, Bank of Japan - so near to the epicenter of the financial crisis, the Japanese and Germans (Deutsche sounds German, right?) mock our financial instability.  And let's not forget they fought us in World War II, because seventy years is still too soon.

University of Phoenix - offensive to anyone with a real paper degree from a real university.

New York Public Library - offensive to ghosts (the librarian ghost in Ghostbusters was just doing her job, why must she be persecuted for it?!)

Millennium Hilton - offensive for helping to sustain Paris Hilton.

Irish Hunger Memorial - offensive to potatoes.  Doubly offensive to red (headed) potatoes.

New York State Department of Health - offensive for flaunting it across the Hudson to New Jersey.

Tribute WTC Visitor Center - offensive for helping to keep "9/11 porn" hawkers in business.

Amish Market - offensive to actual Amish.

McDonald's and Burger King - offensive to the health of all Americans.

Starbucks - offensive to anyone who just wants a cheap cup of coffee.

St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church, John Street United Methodist Church, Battery Park Synagogue, St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, St. Paul’s Chapel - offensive to any American Muslim who would like a place to pray and worship in peace unharrassed and persecuted by, supposedly, "seventy percent of Americans."