9/11: Remembrance and resistance
Update 1:30pm Eastern. Memorial photo of the day comes from Iraq, via MNF-I:
The caption reads:
Never Forget
Task Force Marne Soldiers take time on the sixth anniversary of the attacks Sept. 11, 2001, for a remembrance ceremony at the Task Force Marne Headquarters. Camp Victory firefighters are also present to represent the emergency responders who lost their lives six years ago. Photo by Tony Lindback, 302nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.
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Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not submit/surrender”
What do you remember? When I think back to September 11, 2001, the crisp morning before jihadists struck on American soil, I remember transluscent blue skies. Green-gold leaves. And the blush pink cheeks of my then-one-year-old daughter, who was waiting to go for a walk while I did a double-take at the first cable TV reports of a “small commuter plane” crashing into the World Trade Center.
Then the skies turned black. And the Twin Towers turned to ash.
Zogby released a poll for the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks showing that “77 percent of those living in the East and 46 percent of those living in the West — 61 percent overall — said they think about the attacks at least weekly. Eighty-one percent — 90 percent in the East and 75 percent in the West — said the attacks were the most significant historical events of their lives.”
I am, like most of my readers, one of those people. Sixteen percent of those polled said said they had visited Ground Zero in NYC. This summer, my family and I became part of that group. An American flag flies at the Tribute Center across from GZ:
A view of the construction site:
A memorial at the fire station across from Ground Zero:
What won’t you forget? These are the 9/11 sounds and images burned onto my mental hard drive:
The Falling Man.
The Hanson family.
The 9/11 babies.
Melissa Doi:
Betty Ong:
The cross at Ground Zero:
And Old Glory at the Pentagon unfurled the day after the attacks:
But remembrance without resistance to jihad and its enablers is a recipe for another 9/11. This is what fueled my first two books, on immigration enforcement and profiling. This is what fuels much of the work on this blog and at Hot Air. Not every American wears a military uniform. But every American has a role to play in protecting our homeland–not just from Muslim terrorists, but from their financiers, their public relations machine, their sharia-pimping activists, the anti-war goons, the civil liberties absolutists, and the academic apologists for our enemies.
The Left greets such a commitment with mockery and derision, preferring instead to suck its collective thumb, play the grievance card, and engage in hindsight hypocrisy.
As the most infamous of all Internet leftists once said: Screw them.
The 9/10 crowd stubbornly refuses to connect the dots to see any connection at all between 9/11 and the Iraq war. But it is all of a piece, and the troops who joined the military after the terrorist attacks and volunteered to go back again and again see it clearly. Watch. “Kill them over there so they don’t kill us over here” isn’t just an empty slogan for them. They live and die for it. For their children and ours. In Iraq and around the world.
There are 9/10 people and there are 9/12 people.
This is a 9/10 person:
Cindy Sheehan and company’s CAIR-approved t-shirt reads, “We will not be silent.” Their vow is not a vow to report suspicious behavior or assist counterterrorism efforts. Their vow is a vow to bitch and moan about every effort to combat jihad at home and abroad.
What is your vow?
It’s not just a once-a-year slogan. It’s a 24/7 frame of mind.
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Readers are asking where to get the “Lan astaslem” t-shirt. You can buy them here. All proceeds will be donated to Soldiers’ Angels.
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Resistance. Baron Bodissey liveblogs the Stop Islamisation of Europe protest in Brussels.
Remembrance. Lorie Byrd pays tribute in words, photos, and links.
Resistance. Terrorism expert Laura Mansfield has the latest bin Laden propaganda audio/video release.
Remembrance. Is 9/11 becoming just another calendar date?
Resistance. Debra Burlingame, sister of Charles “Chic” Burlingame, the pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, and one of my personal heroines, is joining the Divest Terror campaign:
As the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, Ms. Burlingame, whose brother was killed when the hijacked plane he was piloting crashed into the Pentagon, has a new cause.
The 53-year-old former television producer and lawyer has aligned herself with a group called Divest Terror, which is attempting to convince American pension funds and investors to pull their money from companies that do business with countries that sponsor terrorism, such as Iran.
“It is something that can put the squeeze on terror-sponsoring countries without shedding a drop of blood or firing a bullet,” she said yesterday during an interview at The New York Sun’s offices. “It is marshaling the economic power of this country against our enemies and people who want to wreak havoc in the Middle East and other parts of the world.”
Remembrance. Daily Kos-style. Click only on an empty stomach.
Resistance. An LGF reader blows the whistle on 9/11 whitewashing at the Liberty Science Museum in NJ.
Remembrance. Villainous Company asks:
Did you open your eyes and hope it never happened
Close your eyes and not go to sleep
Did you notice the sunset the first time in ages
Speak with some stranger on the street
Did you lay down at night and think of tomorrow
Go out and buy you a gun
Did you turn off that violent old movie you’re watching
And turn on “I Love Lucy” reruns
Did you go to a church and hold hands with some stranger
Stand in line and give your own blood
Did you just stay home and cling tight to your family
Thank God you had somebody to love
I’m just a singer of simple songs
I’m not a real political man
I watch CNN but I’m not sure I can tell you
The difference in Iraq and Iran
But I know Jesus and I talk to God
And I remember this from when I was young
Faith hope and love are some good things he gave us
And the greatest is love
The greatest is love
The greatest is love…
Where were you
when the world stopped turning
that September day?
Remembrance, BBC-style. Again, click only on an empty stomach.
Resistance. Meet the Anti-Jihad Federation.
Remembrance, milblogger-style. Greyhawk reflects from the battlefield in Baghdad:
As I write it’s 16:45 my time. In America it’s Tueday, September 11, 2007.
And it’s 8:45. Six years ago that was the last minute of peace before the beginning of the war on terror.
Six years later, how many people know why Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States? It’s not a difficult topic – he stated the reasons himself in his 1998 fatwa. Americans were in Saudi Arabia enforcing sanctions against Iraq. It’s just that simple, boys and girls…
Rebuilding. Lawhawk reports on Ground Zero.
Remembrance, moonbat-style. Same health warning applies. Read Mary Katharine Ham’s account of 9/11 conspiracy theorists disrupting somber memorial gatherings. One shouted at mourners: “You’re sheep! You are sheep!”
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AlohaGuy
if that had been the case the Taliban would still be running Afghanistan, Saddam would still be defying the U.N. sanctions and killing his people, and we would have probably not been able to stop the attempts at more bombings such as the Hancock and Sears buildings in Chicago, the other NYC buildings and bridges, LAX, etc., etc., etc.
DesertLover – exactly!
A must see tribute created for the FDNY:
http://www.fdnylodd.com/BloodofHeroes.html
Never forget.
#59 oh you mean that democrat that was in office prior in “93″ and attacks on American Interests around the world????
The only American President with more attacks on American Interests than any other?????
Or the one in office when 9/11 was being planned after the 1st one and was warned by Clarke and Freeh it would happen again?????
I believe his name was Clinton one of the most corrupt Presidents we ever had!!!!!
Thanks. I will never forget
xler8bmw #63-
Sorry, but you missed a few other terrorist attacks that occured under the clinton watch…
WTC 1, USS Cole, Khobar Towers US Embassy, one other attack on a US Embassy (can’t recall off the top of my head where) and partial responsibilty for 9/11 since it was his policies (along with janet reno) that restricted the various law enforcement agencies from sharing information with each other.
“To close for missiles-Switching to guns!” (Many thanks to VFA-105!)
There will be a lot of attempts to shift the blame from the Clinton administration to virtually anyone else. Let’s not forget that Clinton and Gore prevented Bush from assuming the Presidency in an effective manner. Some 7 months after Bush took office, 9/11 happened because the transition from a corrupt Democrat administration to a young Republican administration was in still progress. I hope that Bush treats the next President, regardless of Party, with greater respect and support.
The odd thing is that I knew something like 9/11 was going to happen because the Clinton’s were very opposed to the FBI, CIA and DoD doing their job. The Clintons were and are a very shallow bunch bent on self-satisfaction at the expense of the USA. They know how to run a campaign but they do not know how to run a government.
xler8bmw, gunslingerpatriot, publiuswarmac9999, all exactly right!
#63 Speaking of Clinton…
“Nero fiddled,
Clinton diddled.”
Gunslinger #65 Thxs but, that’s why said American Interests around the world attacks under Clinton too long of a list LOL!
Publius #66 ABSOULTELY!
My alarm went off and the radio came on to the news report. All I remember was someone saying that it looked as if a small cessna hit the trade tower and that if you are by a “TV you should turn it on and look for yourself”. So i did. I saw the second plane hit and screamed. My roomate came downstairs. We both watched for a good twenty minutes in horror. On my way to work, down a windy road in Moraga, CA I heard news the Pentagon was hit and started to cry. By the freeway (680 south through Walnut Creek, CA) I heard of the 1st tower, then by the time I was at work in Pleasanton the second tower.
I had just graduated from college the month before. I was officially a Democrat/Liberal no more. I remember making the switch that day. I registered as an Independant soon thereafter. It was 9-11 that made me switch direction. I will NEVER forget.
Feebie #70
I heard that from so many people! Welcome to the darkside LOL!
What I will remember most about being in New York during the time of 9/11 is not the day of the attack (although I’ll never forget that either) but the days and weeks following when the side streets and subway stations filled up with homemade posters of people’s loved ones that were missing. It was heartbreaking in a way that I have never felt before and to this day it brings tears to my eyes and a lump to my throat. I remember news correspondents breaking down on air listening to the stories of those still looking. I hope I will never feel that kind of grief ever again.
What about the mystery, one could say cover-up of TWA Flight 800? IF nothing else the Clintonista’s hampering of the investigation….See Book “First Strike”, http://www.cashill.com/firststrike.htm
#73 Yeah that one is still a little blurry…..But I try not to take too much into conspiracy theory stuff without concrete proof.
I had a good friend of mine flying the following Saturday on the same 800 flight to Paris.
I was sitting at my computer working when we all listened to the news of the first tower being hit. We all thought it was a terrible accident. There was a silence when the second tower was hit and I look at the guys and said, “That was no accident.” My heart sunk even though I live in south Florida because I knew in an instant our world was going to change.
The second time I was that stunned was watching “Flight 93” the movie on the big screen. I couldn’t even move for 5 minutes after it was over. Hero’s one and all.
I was never more ticked off when I watched that stooped truther movie that said flight 93 was diverted to Boston and the passengers were offloaded in an abandoned hanger. On the day I watched that movie I realized even though I am a devout Christian, I could actually kill someone. I have repented from that thought but I sure could punch their lights out (and then turn the other cheek).
Don’t feed the trolls!
#75 I’m still trying to figure out what witness protection program those people from FL93 are in and where. I can’t believe the moonbats are so gullible.
I’m stunned anyone can believe that there a Government Coverup over the Bush Administration blowing up the Twin Towers.
We can’t prevent leaks about freaking NSA programs, you think 100% of the people in the know about Bush having two major buildings in downtown Manhattan demolished could keep quiet?
Sadly, logic is lost on these people…
swj719AWG
logic requires the mental capacity to analyze and evaluate facts …
good thing those are not needed to just open one’s mouth and repeat talking points …
if mental capacity was a major requirement all the Dems would be permanently speechless …
Want to thank everyone for sharing where they were and what they were doing when the country came under attack. I believe this was a significant emotional event for those of us that get it. I actually found myself having to fight from being teary eyed when reading some of today’s post not appropriate for a tough old retired Senior NCO (haven’t done that since the last Military funeral I went to for a close friend, always loose it when they play Taps).
Michelle,
Thanks for giving us a place to remember and share our grief for the fellow citizens we lost on our generation’s modern day of infamy.
I was watching the “Debunking the 9-11 Conspiracy” program on the History Channel the other night and was shocked to see that the crazies that made that “Loose Change” movie all looked like high school kids.
This is the basis for the whole conspiracy movements?
These peoples hatred has blinded them.
#80 They were just out of high school when they made that piece of crap. See what happens when your parents continue to let live in the basment…….with too much time on your hands!
They weren’t old enough to be able to distinguish truth and fiction of what they found on the internet.
LOL, I know. I was thinking the same thing when I saw it.
Debunking video online:
Here
I’ve probably listened to these tapes and others dozens of times during the past six years, yet I still weep whenever I hear them.
Went to the BBC site and gave them a piece of my mind. Very convenient of them to forget their own history in the mid-East. Also, very convenient of them to forget that we were their to protect the nation of Kuwait.
About the only thing I can say is that Winston Churchill faced much the same garbage when he was warning about WW-II. And the “peace in our time” idiots of that era were shocked when Hitler attack.
9/11 was al queda and bin Laden’s concoction, and to blame it on the USA is about as ignorant and self-serving as it gets.
We will never forget:
I will never forget how I felt on 9/11.
I will never forget to pray for those who lost loved ones on every anniversary of 9/11.
I will never forget the brave people on Flight 93.
I will never forget the brave NYC fire fighters or police.
I will never forget the brave citizens of NYC and D.C.that day.
I will never forget President Bush speaking with his bullhorn.
I will never forget Congress singing “God Bless America.”
I will never, ever forget our brave troops who enlisted after that terrible day.
I will never forget Muslims who celebrated in the streets.
How can anyone in the USA not feel the same way? Instead I saw truthers picketing at a busy intersection an hour ago. No one paid them any attention, nor honked in support. They were all the same: homely hippies with evil grins on their faces. Had I given them the one finger salute it would have justified their moment. I was happy to see them ignored.
I will not submit.Ever.
Thank you, Michelle, for all you do. Real heroes were born that day and you are one of them. Thanks to all who post here as well. May God bless America.
#86 – Yup, its a day like any other in San Francisco. No memorials, no moments of silence, no tributes, no flags, NADA.
OH, exept our small scare on BART today. Apperantly a man of Middle Eastern decent came in with three large bags onto a bart train and started stuffing them under the seat. Apperantly (according to my co-worker who was seated next to the gentleman) a man got up and DEMANDED to see where he put his bag and WHAT was in it.
Pretty creepy having all trains stop, cops and dogs everywhere and our conductor asking for passangers to report any suspicious activities, packages or etc. to the train conductor IMMEDIATELY.
I’ve seen nothing about the outcome? Not sure if it was a false alarm or what. Probably never will.
You mean San Fascistco?
Where in the world in Rusty today?
I was on my way to a social group meeting in Tel Aviv when it happened. It was only later on in the day that I heard the horrific news, that the towers collapsed.
Please! It was a photo-op. It took him five minutes, then he was back on the plane. It was days after the attack and the fires had gone out. There were fighter jets overhead (I was about 2 miles from ground zero) to protect him. The fighters left when Bush left, leaving the rest of to know who is more important, 8 million New Yorkers or the boy President.
lgm – you may have missed it, but the President always travels with security. In the days after 9/11 it was ramped up and included fighters. Is your maturity level so low you don’t understand that you don’t get your own personal jet? But the Air Force was on heightened security in case you and other New Yorkers came under attack again. He was the President on the scene of an attack on U.S. soil that killed more than Pearl Harbor. If he hadn’t shown up you’d be criticising him for not having “compassion” – yet when he shows up you dismiss it as a photo op. Did you expect him to get a shovel and start digging? Frankly we as Americans should stand behind any President on a day like that.
Your trivial remarks are as tiresome as they are sophomoric. Don’t you have Congressional hearing somewhere you need to interrupt?
#91 – its a heck of a lot better than trying to inspire people from an ivory tower. if he didn’t go, you’d be complaining about that right now.
I can’t imagine if it was wee-willy-winky sitting there in WH at the time. (I will refrain from a narrative at this time.)
I work for the DoD and was working a later schedule back in those days – going in at 0930 CDT. I always flipped on CNN Headline News and listened to the news as I got ready for work. When the news came about WTC1, I flipped over to CNN and sat down on the bed to watch. I kept thinking the hole in the building was a little big for a small commuter plane or a Cessna or something like that. Then I watched the second tower get hit and I just kept repeating “No f***ing way was that an accident”. I eventually managed to pull myself away from the TV and leave for work, only to hear on the radio on the way that the Pentagon had been hit. Promptly go pulled over by a cop for speed, attention to my driving not being foremost on my mind, and got let off with a warning when I showed him my DoD ID and explained what I’d just heard about the Pentagon (he hadn’t heard that yet). Got to work just as the first tower fell – I couldn’t quite comprehend what I was hearing. Watching TV at work, when the second tower fell, I thought at first they were replaying video of the first tower coming down. Didn’t do a bit of work that day. Afterwards, went home long enough to check in on the dog, then went to church. This is one of those days, fifty years from now, that I’ll be able to look back and say “I remember where I was when…” It saddens me that only six years later, so many have forgotten.
The lad is just confused, AlohaGuy, and the cluelessness would be humorous on another day.
Liberals always have a very tough time understanding anything even remotely military. Maybe that’s part of why they confess to “loathing” it.
At any rate , anyone with even just one working brain cell (covers most lefties) knows fighter jets can’t protect the President. (That’s not a fighter jets’ purpose.) They couldn’t have saved President Kennedy, Lincoln, Garfield or McKinley.
Anyone with a working mind and memory (again, that excludes libs) remembers that jet fighters were patroling the skies of all major US cities that day, as they did the days before and the days after. It took a week before things would even begin to move back to “normal”.
Too bad some people feel a need for the usual completely non-sensical full-fledged BDS on this day.
Why don’t you people do something for the Soldiers dying now in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Dart:
That comment comes close to being the most idiotic ever left on this site.
I’d congratulate you but I’ll let others do that for me.
By your “reasoning,” we should never carry out rememberances of anything – always live in the here and now.
No Fourth of July.
No Veterans Day (Why not do something for the soldiers in Iraq, right?)
No Memorial Day
No remembering VE Day, VJ Day, or any other event in American history.
We remember 9/11 so dumbasses like you don’t let us forget what happened that day.
Just curious: Do you think those “soldiers dying in Iraq and Afghanistan” are remembering 9/11 today?
What a twit.
No more O’Reilly for me. Anyone see his show tonight? Had a segment about some ‘nude lube wrestling’ with plenty of video. On 9/11. WTF. And Megyn Kelly and the other lady could not have been more annoying, trying to make this idiotic story on 9/11 seem important. Dude, where’s my country?
Intrepid Culture Warrior huh? Yeah, right.
Peep:
LGM continues to amaze me with the most jaw dropping idiocy. And A. Guy was spot on when he said that fighters were patrolling over New York City and elsewhere for weeks following 9/11.
And what’s with the complaint about the President waiting until Ground Zero was relatively safe before showing up? What kind of an idiot thinks the President should go into an area where he could get hurt or killed?
Moron.
btw – the fires were burning for weeks after the President’s appearance. If you’re going to spout inanities, at least give people the impression you know what you’re talking about. Otherwise, you end up with egg all over your face – as you did in this case – because you thought you’d try and show off how brilliant you are when, in fact, you’re an ignoramous as commenters have all pointed out.
Close?
Heh.
Up next: The Britney, Lindsay and Paris panel discussion on reductionism and particle physics. What say you?
A mathematics professor at NYU? Shocka!
Dart and LGM have provided us with great insight regarding the intellectual horsepower of the left. Unfortunately, the power generated is less than one horse, so we will have to use a different animal as the unit of measure – a sheep seems highly appropriate.
And if a body’s gonna really lay the shinola on, he’s best advised not to do it about something so incredibly unforgettable. Especially to those of us who live near major airports and who remember those first weeks so very well.
Even a tougher sell to those who’ve served protecting us and defending our skies in Operation Noble Eagle.
By way of a starter to get the lad up to speed on that account:
“Within minutes of the attacks, fighter aircraft under NORAD control were airborne over key cities, and kept a near-constant sortie pace for almost six months. They flew more than 19,000 sorties, and since the attacks have racked up more than 34,000 sorties supporting Noble Eagle. In 2000, by contrast, the NORAD air defense mission logged only 147 sorties. National Guard fighter units made up the backbone of what would eventually become a large network of surveillance, support and war fighting aircraft flying Noble Eagle missions.”
About.Com – US Military – Air Denfense
No I don’t think soldiers are thinking bout today. They are thinking about their wives and children and friends. Mcdonalds, Football season, sex and their wives and children. They’re thinking about staying alive and how much the heat sucks. They’re thinking “how did I get into this sh*t?
There thinging where is my fu*king full page ad in the times? Or , why does our side let Harry Reid say we lost and not confront him? They’re thinking..”if I can just get home, surely they won’t send me back again.
9-11? No I don’t thing they are. What did you do today Rick? Big Mouth? What did you do to “support the troops?” Where’s the link where you called someone out on some BS they said about “the troops?” Where did you and the other 97 commenters here demand that our side stop pussyfooting around and really fight back. Today I heard Hannity call the lowlifes attacking Petreaus “pompous elitists” Then Ann Coulter called them “idiots” You tell me Rick, who threw the punch? Do you know why Hannity won’t say it? Or Michelle or Bill O? Tell me because the only thing I can come up with is “job security” Is that supporting the troops?
Take a look at the number of responses here in the archives when the topic is taking on the leftist scum and helping defend the military from those who have created this chasm from which our sons and daughters are caught dead center. How many comments there huh? Too boring is it…supporting the troops” You people pat yourselves on the back for supporting the troops because you feel special and like cuddling up to Michelle here. SCREW THAT.
Yeah I remember 9-11…I remember that Harry Reid called Iraq Bush’s War, I remember Pelois saying it was Bushs War, I remember scum like KOS cherry picking testimony to make a honorable man look like a fool and a liar.I remember reading page after page of action bulletins and alerts from leftists bent on our destruction and the collapse of our way of life, regardless of the horror and suffering it may inflict. Do you remember these things Rick?
No I don’t think so. I don’t think any of you people deserve to pat yourselves at all. Dumb A**
Six years ago today, I watched several friends die. Some were casual friends from college and grad school. Some were family friends. Two were in my wedding party.
Six years ago today, my wife and I were sudden babysitters of several children whose parents could not get out of their Manhattan workplaces.
Six years ago today, my mother – a survivor of the London airblitz – explained to my panicky wife that everyone has to develop “an everyday sort of courage.”
Six years ago today, my world changed. I changed. I developed a quiet anger. And I’m still angry.
chsw
Soldiers and 9-11…I think they are tryiing to remember what their children look like, what their wives and husbands feel and smell like. Cool breezes and relaxation. 9-11 is not there. They are trying to stay alive. And asking how did I get in this shi*. When am I ever gonna get home and surely they won’t send me back again. And where in the hell is my full page ad in the times. No I think 9-11 is far from their minds.
What about you though Rick? Where are you at? you see I remember Pelosi and Reid standing smugly before buglike “reporters” playing the “Iraq id Bush’s war” card. I remember scum at Kos picking a snippet from General Petreaus’s testimony so as to mock him and call him a liar. I say page after page of action alerts and bulletins at moveon and then I came here and say this.
Did you hear Hannity today Ricky? Did you hear him call the slimy lowlifes attacking the man who has given his entire life to service of his country…”pompous elitists”? And then, quess what..Ann Coulter called them “Idiots”
Who threw the punch ? And why? Why does are side not throw punches? Any ideas…perhaps..Job Security?
I remember just fine…but I am too busy trying to fight back I can’t pine on it…Neither should any of you.
Today I voted in an election.
At first I was annoyed that the run-off for Mayor of Nashville,TN was being held today. Then, I thought about it. It seemed perfect. An absolutely PERFECT way to say to Caveboy and his fascist acolytes:
SCREW YOU JIHADIS, WE STILL STAND AND SO DOES EVERYTHING WE BELIEVE IN!! I VOTED AND MADE A FREE CHOICE!!
I am EVERYTHING they HATE: a FREE WOMAN who can CHOOSE who governs!
It made ME feel better!
God Bless the USA and MOST especially our Armed Forces, our First Responders and our Presiden!
You just seem to have a wee bit of a problem in confusing your emotions with facts, bladie. When a person learns to distinuish between the two he’s just started the first step of a stroll down the path of wisdom. But until then it’s just gibberish because you can’t argue emotions.
I’m still angry too. And deeply deeply upset.
And the deniers are just adding to my anger. I’ll never understand why so many people are unable to grasp the dire world changing event that 9/11 was… are they so completely detached from anything that doesn’t happen directly to the,?
Are you really that incredibly stupid peeps. Do you not hear what I am saying. Screw you and your snide crap.
WE HAVE KIDS DYING….WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW PEEPS? NOT ONE DAMN THING THATS WHAT. DON’T GIVE ME THIS EMOTION BS.
What does your pathetic smug crap about wisdom have to do with soldiers dying and no one here fighting for them? Tell me that jerkoff?
It does indeed sounds like ya got enough to already handle. You can disagree but I just believe going with facts over odd emotional explosions is more helpful. Easier on the keyboard, too, what with pounding away at all caps and all.
OT, but this seems to be the only active thread…
Just returned from Hannity’s Freedom Concert and wanted to let everyone know that Geraldo Rivera showed up, spent perhaps 30 seconds on stage, and he was booed. He was the only person who was booed the entire night. The best part: someone nearby shouted out: “Who you gonna spit at?” Geraldo heard it but ignored it. The booing stopped as soon as Geraldo said something about our wonderful troops.
God Bless America. Land of the free because of the brave.
It’s off topic, but what did you have in mind?
Great job! Incredible memorial post and roundup, thank God for all you do Ms. Malkin!
we will NEVER forget
you 9/11 victims
will get justice
past mistake -
accepting terrorism
like hurricanes
hijackers on board -
passengers MUST STOP them
preferably kill
when Bush heard the news
he should have said: Children, I
must go, duty calls…
remember to stay in school
and always love your country
get Bin Laden -
we just need big SWAT team
and search warrant
peace is best -
but you must hit back
post viscious attack
Muslims bomb Muslims -
try democracy or not
their chance to choose
enemies of God -
terrorists must stop or die
Allah free their souls
severing heads -
shows sick barbaric
primitive culture
hate evil
embrace the feeling
- but what is it?
history’s fascists -
those ones Christian were
led NOT by Bible
Muslim ones claim God’s will
words of Quran justify
anniversary?
six years ago some friends lost
way too many friends
painful truth -
9/11 should be our
wakeup call
we will NOT forget
you 9/11 victims
will get justice
.
Both the Arizona and the Pennsylvania memorials are still memorials to the Muslim terrorists who attacked this country. The liberals of NY continue to try to turn the World Trade Center into a ‘Peace’ memorial which is really dedicated to the disarmament and capitulation of America to the greater wisdom evidenced by the savages who attacked us. Why, you may ask? No one asks. So we don’t know. We really do not know why the left wants to surrender to these savages. No one knows. Will some one please ask?????
In viewing what’s going on in the wake of 9/11, I feel the following poem by W.B. Yeats is most appropriate.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
Dart; Your grammatical errors and crude comments speak volumes.
dartagnans_blade said:
Why don’t you people do something for the Soldiers dying now in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Near as I can tell we’re all supposed to become unhinged and type in ALL CAPS.
We face soulless bastards on two fronts in this war for our survival – Islamic fascists and despicable politicians with their move-on supporters. If our country is to survive in any recognizable form, we must defeat the enemies of our country on both fronts.
Dart:
First, get off your high horse. There are a gazillion ex military people who comment on this blog you just insulted by making light of the way they support the troops. You are NOT the only one with the answers. To believe so is arrogant and stupid.
The only point I was trying to make about your stupid comment above regarding “Why don’t you people do something for the Soldiers dying now in Iraq and Afghanistan?” was that there are days to bash the left and then there are days to ignore them and remember. 9/11 is one of the days we remember and honor the dead.
Today, we can go back to taking the left to task for their lies and calumnies. But my point about the idiocy of your comment stands. And your insults to those who have served or are serving are unacceptable.
No…I will not. Show me some comments here whereby people military or otherwise demand more from our side in the war of hearts and minds. Just one beside mine. Again….Where is our and their front page times ad? Why does Hannity say..pompous, elitist, while Coulter says Idiot? Where other than meeting the scum in DC with counter protests are our action plans to mobilize to fight this onslaught of hate coming daily from the left?
Show me a single comment from any of you on this blog anywhere begging, pleading, demanding more.Do you think we are winning the battle of words? If the left is “supporting the terrorists by promoting failure why don’t we say it anywhere other than Fox and on radio. Our soldiers and their familys deserve more.
I fight back everyday. I post retorts to garbage on liberal blogs, I email owners of liberal blogs when they ban me(kos), I do vids on youtube standing up for my nephews and others, I pay for a domain to fight them…What are we doing here and elsewhere? Why are we getting our ass kicked ? Why do we have to go to DC to meet the protesters…Why are we not the protesters to begin with? Protesting the dems, the fringe, the media, on and on and on.
I have a donation…let me know where to send it..
Where is the soldiers front page ad?…Can any of you answer that without attacking me?
Dart:
You really are quite full of yourself, aren’t you? In fact, you are a right wing hysteric. People like you don’t convince anybody. You do the cause more harm than good.
The fact is that you are blind to this due to your extraordinary ego. My suggestion is to take a step back and get a hold of yourself. People do what they can when they can. You not accepting that matters not a whit to anyone else.
Get a grip.
Michelle,
I was at Hannity’s Freedom Concert last night at Great Adventure. Of all the people who got rousing ovations, the only person to get a tepid response was Geraldo. Several people did not want to clap for him, and you were a part of that.
I was tempted to remark out loud that he should apologize to you (I was in the front row), but I did not want to act in a manner benath your dignity. Also, it was 9/11, and I was on my best behavior.
I just wanted you to know that the cheering crowd was much quieter when he came out.
http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/9117-sean-hannitys-freedom-concert/
I wish your family a peaceful Rosh Hashanah, and I am dealing with the ethical issue of whether or not to blog on those days. Jewish Law says I should not. I will decide tomorrow.
Respectfully,
eric http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
Right wing?…….Alrighty then…lol
So that is your answer…people do what they can when they can?
Post #122…what do you disagree with?