(2006-09-11) — On the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, an unnamed businessman reported today that he completed an entire cross-country flight from Newark to San Francisco without worry, or even a second thought, about the plane being hijacked, blown up or flown into a building.
The unnamed passenger said that during his uneventful flight his “mind didn’t wander to thoughts of box-cutters and flaming towers.”
According the passenger, he neglected to scan the faces of every other person in the departure lounge at Newark, wondering, “Is it him? Does he look nervous?”
Once on board, he said, he failed to monitor the movements of other passengers about the cabin, and “didn’t really notice if there were any on the flight who appeared to be Muslim.”
In addition, he left his cell phone in the overhead compartment, instead of keeping it close at hand for a last phone call to his wife to tell her he loves her. He said didn’t even wonder if he would see his children again, or consider how his wife might bear up under the loss of her husband.
The unperturbed airline customer said that during today’s flight he never once pondered if he would have the courage to storm the flight deck and wrestle hijackers away from the plane’s controls. The phrase “Let’s roll” did not flit through his imagination at any time, he said, nor did he offer even a quick prayer to God for protection.
“They said 9/11 had changed America forever,” he added, “but it’s been a long time. Life is pretty much back to normal now.”
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1 camojack // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:03 am
Same old, same old?
2 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:16 am
Of course, we all know there is no more “normal.”
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief.~~Psalm 31:9
3 TouchyFeely // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:20 am
Sandy Berger saw the movie coming. He has been thinking lawsuit all along. He just needed to get some damning evidence out of the way. One wonders just what he stuck in his socks and destroyed. One also wonders why nobody gave a damn.
Never forget. Thanks ABC. (Never thought I’d hear myself saying that)
4 MargeinMI // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:21 am
Nothing to see here folks. Move along now.
Methinks Scott’s anonamous passenger is probably (a) Dim.
5 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:26 am
It’s still a dangerous world, but if you’re a moonbat you don’t believe you’re safer today than you were five years ago.
I wonder when Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell will hijack an Egypt Air flight and fly it into a holy place in Mecca during a pilgrimage. Given how the radical left hates Christianity and yet constantly reminds us how Islam is the “religion of peace”, you would have thought Pat and Jerry had done precisely that.
6 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:40 am
I was backing out of my gravel driveway along side of my beautiful circa 1918 home on the crisp fall morning September 11, 2001.
My mind was on several things. The diagnosis of MS several months before, the need for more rye bread for Rubens at the restaurant, payroll and the daily special, you know, the same old, same old.
I hit the button on the dash board that would turn on the radio just in time to hear the news report about the first plane hitting the twin towers………
Now, I no longer think about the daily special when I arise from my bed, nor the diagnosis of MS. The restaurant is gone for good and the MS is here to stay.
A million things have changed over the years, but I still look to the sky every time a plane flies overhead, I still cry when I hear stories about that fateful day-somethings never change.
If a person goes about the day today with no thought of five years past, then sad is that person.
7 gafisher // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:41 am
As we’ve been told ENDLESSLY, America feels no safer now than before 9/11. But you know what? We felt pretty safe then!
Thanks to the work of our President, most of the government, and by the grace of God we feel pretty much as safe as we could hope to.
8 mattomatic102 // Sep 11, 2006 at 9:03 am
I mentioned this video on another post, but I think it applies here too:
I really liked this video about guys at barbeque talking about September 11th five years later.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7808696975666289637
Matt Hoops
9 tomg // Sep 11, 2006 at 9:23 am
Changed my desktop to Liberty mom this morning.
http://www.locksley.com/mom.htm
10 conserve-a-tip // Sep 11, 2006 at 9:31 am
Good morning Scrapplers. Ms Rightwing, Ink, you made me cry. What a beautiful way that you have of putting things. Thank you.
My parents are flying overseas this morning. I was uncomfortable with their decision, but God is greater than I!
That morning of 911…I was walking past the television set in the den, heading for the car to drop my high school son off at Vo Tech for aviation maintenance training. He loves planes and flying and so the horrified commentator announcing that a plane had flown into one of the towers caught both of our attentions.
We watched for a second, but hurried out the door, thinking that a pilot had miscalculated. But as we headed down the road, with radio on, the awful news that another had hit and another, the pentagon, we realized we were under attack. Visions of the Oklahoma City bombing came tumbling back and this was so much worse. Make no mistake, we are at war and this entire nation must pull together to fight a common enemy. It is time to stop the power struggles…a house divided stands against itself.
11 camojack // Sep 11, 2006 at 9:33 am
The eleventeenth of September…at long last.
12 Hawkeye // Sep 11, 2006 at 9:34 am
In related news, Sandy Berger, former National Security Advisor in the Clinton administration was caught on surveillance cameras leaving the ABC movie studios with portions of the film “Path To 9/11″ stuffed into his socks and underwear.
“We think we now know where the missing 5 minutes of the movie went toâ€, said an ABC executive. Berger is still at large.
13 RedPepper // Sep 11, 2006 at 9:45 am
I had called work that morning to tell them I was running late and would be there in half an hour. Had the news on the TV while I was pulling on my clothes and choking down my coffee. The reports of the first plane strike were fragmented and confused. I was ready to leave by the time they started getting live camera feeds, but I could not pull myself away. Then plane #2 made a direct hit on-screen and I knew immediately that this was no accident. God Almighty! How can they forget ?
14 Maggie // Sep 11, 2006 at 10:20 am
To visit my grand children about every 2 months,I fly the “friendly skies”.Not one minute goes by that I don’t think of those things mentioned in Scott’s post.The difference ‘now’ is that I would not go down without a fight.My cane can do a lot of damage. Thanks to the terrorists, my resolve is strong and I am not afraid.
(btw….Nato forces are kicking ‘Butt’ in Afghanistan)
15 Maggie // Sep 11, 2006 at 10:29 am
gafisher re#7…..profound thoughts……awesome
16 Shelly // Sep 11, 2006 at 10:45 am
Fellow Scrapplers, may the Peace of our Lord be with all of you today and each day. tomg, thanks for the awesome image. My desktop is now the “End the Unjust Israeli occupation of Arab land” that Hawkeye has on his site. If you haven’t seen it, go check it out. Thanks to all who comment here and serve as wonderful examples and great witnesses, like Ms. RW and Maggie. While I’ve never met you, I consider myself lucky to number you among my friends. I’ve had a few teary moments, but the greatest waterworks happened when I saw Vice President Cheney with Prime Minister Thatcher, who had come to participate in today’s rememberance despite her ailing health. She is the very definition of Class Act in my book.
17 red satellites // Sep 11, 2006 at 10:59 am
Good morning Scrapplers….
I certainly will never forget….and I made sure I captured my thoughts in my post today..
God Bless America
18 Frodo // Sep 11, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Sad, but many people new feel that way. I remember taking that first flight after 9/11 and doing just as this story says, scanning the crowd for who was the one to make trouble … I still tend to get nervous at airports … of course a tour in Iraq didn’t help my paranoia one bit!
19 Libby Gone // Sep 11, 2006 at 12:08 pm
May the peace of GOD be with the families of not only the victims, but the survivors of that awful day.
20 J. Cougar Melancholy // Sep 11, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Tis a Melancholy morn.
I was watching Meet the Press Sunday morning, and Tim Russert was interviewing Dick Cheney, and to give Russert full credit, he was not letting Cheney slide. In fact, Russert might be the only person in the press who I’ve seen interview Bush and Cheney and not give them softballs or easy questions. And I think that the reason he can get away with it is that the core constituency that Bush and Cheney should be afraid to alienate are not spending their Sunday mornings watching Meet the Press.
I have to say that watching Cheney cemented exactly the thing I admire most about him. I’d tried to figure it out for years, and it became crystal clear: He is not afraid to be what he is; an openly evil puppetmaster pulling the strings. I used to watch Disney cartoons, wondering why no one suspected the main villain was up to no good, what with their wearing dark capes, laughing maniacally at the slightest provocation, and singing songs about how much better life would be once the hero was dead and the world was under their thumb.
In fact, if I was going to make a movie about a bent, twisted villain super-genius bent on world conquest, I would cast Cheney in a heartbeat. You know, like the kind of man who shoots his friend in the face and gets the victim to issue a public apology for embarrassing him. The kind of man who could watch the biggest terrorist attack on US soil in history, and immediately start the wheels spinning, figuring how to turn that into an excuse to attack Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with it.
And the fact that he makes no bones about who he is is the masterstroke. If he had any kind of positive charisma, he would be the most dangerous man in America, if not the world. Instead, he’s a cantankerous, contemptuous cesspit of sarcasm and bilious spittle who can go on a show like Meet the Press and be confronted with his lies, and not only show no remorse, but lie about the fact that he had lied, denying it with the fervor of a six year-old, with his hand in the cookie jar, denying that he was trying to eat a cookie.
Five years ago, God hit the snooze button a few times too many whilst Allah swam laps around America.
Lil’ pink houses y’all.
21 Hawkeye // Sep 11, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Shelly,
Thanks for the nod, the warm words, and I’m glad to count you as a friend too.
Best regards…
22 CaptainEd // Sep 11, 2006 at 12:22 pm
My Imperfect Nightmare-The Democrats Perfect War
A few days after 9/11, President Bush resigned.
He said he had failed America. People in his administration, he admitted, had conspired with nice non-descript types of vague descriptions who flew planes into the WTC. He and Jewish terrorists were responsible and he regretted what they had done. So he decided to let the Democrats have the country.
Soon after, Osama Bin Laden announced that the Zionists weren’t responsible, it was he, leader of Al Queda, who had planned the attack and to leave George Bush alone or he would declare double-jihad on them. So President Gore said to Mr. Bin Laden “time to partyâ€.
A massive coalition of 100 UN troops, 300 American members of the military, 200 British soldiers, 50 French chef-collaborators and 6000 members of the print and television media invaded Afghanistan. For six months, they were bogged down, eking out a beachhead inch by inch while eating very well and hosting cable talk programs in their quiet time. The Taliban, President Gore said, had better camels and since he refused to authorize fuel shipments to troops, coalition tanks were being used as hot tubs. The President pointed to positive flowcharts that showed air pollution levels continued to drop in the Mideast. Unfortunately, ozone levels had risen along with the unacceptable amount of dromedary flatulence.
The search for Bin Laden was going nowhere until intelligence found the last phone book available in the Kabul public library and there he was. Once located, Mr. B. Laden cut off the heads of two process servers before he finally answered the summons which led to a new war because Mr. B declared poverty so lawyers were appointed and then the subpoenas and depositions got ugly. Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein (no relation to real terrorists or terror camps or WMDs) invaded Paris.
Psychologists appointed by the President declared Osama Bin Laden culturally tall and unfairly challenged by a lack of effective deodorants. Therefore, they suggested we give him Chicago. Mr. Gore said that was unacceptable, but settled for Poukeepsie because he always had had a hard time spelling it. Bin Laden set up training facilities and shooting ranges and soon began exporting his brand of terror to Pennsylvania.
After the fall of Pittsburgh, President Gore told Al Queda that he was about to get tough. Because he refused to allow pictures of Bin Ladens’ organization to be published (might lead people to generalize unfairly), he did allow first and last initials to be included after every café bombing or disco explosion. But the ACLU sued on the grounds that people might figure out who was responsible for the attacks and find them.
They won. A judge in California, just prior to its return to the government of Mexico, sided with the ACLU and awarded Al Queda 10 billion dollars in damages. That award was changed on appeal and instead they got 15 billion.
Al Gore was reelected in the year 2004 by promising to bring the troops home. Unfortunately, Al Queda had all the airports covered so the troops hit the beach just south of Daytona and immediately switched to street clothes where they melted into the tourist and student populations. That was the Presidents idea and he got the Nobel award for flavored dynamite or something.
In 2006 President Gore, under advice from Jimmy Carter, found twelve angry lawyers and sued Bin Laden for peace. Osama invited the Muslim world to divide up America and they did. They shot those who disagreed, and ordered six flags renamed MeccaAmerica. Every American must go there at least once in their lifetime if only just to ride the “AllahCoasterÔâ€.
Then I woke up. I’m afraid of heights. Told you it was a nightmare.
23 Maggie // Sep 11, 2006 at 12:23 pm
JCM…. you are a sad, pitiful, little man.
Little pink out houses to you.
24 Libby Gone // Sep 11, 2006 at 12:27 pm
JCM,
So you got your two cents in. Ever think maybe today would be a good day to think of the peoples lives that were TORN APART? At least blame the effheads who DID IT?
Tomorrow you can go back to hating Americans. You make me sick.
25 Hawkeye // Sep 11, 2006 at 12:29 pm
JCM-
I too saw Cheney and was impressed by the fact that he didn’t get angry or lower himself to try and respond to those false accusations. Russert was just playing to the libs, but Cheney was a class act. If anyone’s been lying, it’s not Cheney… it’s all those Demdonks that first supported the Iraq war and then did an about-face out of sheer partisan politics.
And don’t blame God for a crime committed by evil MEN. We’re not fighting God. We’re fighting TERRORISTS!!
26 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 12:58 pm
BLAIR HECKLED IN LEBANON…
Gee, I would have thought those Muslim fundamentalists would have applauded Mr. Blair.
2 Georgia Races May Threaten Democrats’ Struggle for Power…
Wait, I don’t understand. According to the LLL media I thought the Democrats had already won back the U.S. Congress!
Sex Offender Sues Va. to Keep Name off Web…
Hey, sex perverts have privacy rights, too!
Al Qaeda warn: ‘We will target Israel and Gulf States next’…
I thought Islamic fundamentalism was the religion of peace. Oh, I get it, al Qaeda is merely targetting them as missionary fields, but I thought the Gulf States were already Muslim. [In best Vinnie Barbarino voice] I’M SO CONFUSED!
27 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 1:12 pm
LEST THEY FORGET
Michelle Malkin’s blogsite has two video that the anti-war left should have their eyes wired open to watch for hours on end. But that’s liberals for you, eyes wide shut.
The first is the collapse of the North Tower. The second shows Americans jumping to their deaths to escape the encroaching flames. The second video is the one the lamestream media, in its infinitely sensitive and politically-correct wisdom, pulled the plug on after several minutes on air, later claiming they didn’t want to inflame American public opinion.
Yeah, like Americans were going to run out and torch every mosque in sight like how Muslim fundamentalists torch or bomb churches and synagogues when angered.
28 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 11, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Do Not Worry
29 J. Cougar Melancholy // Sep 11, 2006 at 1:14 pm
I love Americans. Honest, free thinkers who aren’t in control of our destinies or those abroad.
Know your enemies and pick your battles people.
Rock on Libby!
30 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 11, 2006 at 1:26 pm
was auch immer Sie sagen, herr commandant
31 da Bunny // Sep 11, 2006 at 1:32 pm
On the morning of 9/11/01, I was finishing my second cup of coffee, and had just finished watching a Joyce Meyer sermon on TV. As was my habit at the time, I flipped over to Fox News to catch the “latest,” and saw that one of the WTC towers was on fire, apparently from an off-course aircraft crashing into it. I remember thinking how sad it was for those who had just gone to work that day at the WTC, only to have this terrible thing happen, when all of a sudden I saw the second jet slamming into that second tower! It took a moment for it to register, and then I realized what I had just seen, and I began to cry. I knew we were at war, and I WILL NEVER FORGET the horror and sadness of that day as long as I live.
ABC’s “Path to 9/11″ merely confirms what anyone with a functioning brain cell left in their cranial cavity already knows…the dereliction of duty by Clinton, Sandy Burglar, Madwoman Not-Bright, et al, served to enable the islamofascist terrorists to carry out their evil acts on 9/11. Nor can we forget the evil ineptitude of the Reno/Gorelick team and their “wall,” the lack of cojones on the part of George Tenant [sp?]…a domino-effect, if you will. These people should all be in prison for deliberately failing to take appropriate actions to protect the US from these attacks, instead of out making millions writing books and making senseless, anti-American “speeches.” Have fun with trying to “build that legacy,” there, Slicko. Only the morons of the world are buying into your bilge.
32 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 1:33 pm
JCM, get back on your lithium. If your believe yourself to be a “free thinker” you deceive yourself. No man is an island and you’re no exception. Far from it, you’ve demonstrated yourself to be a slave to the conventional “wisdom” which is inexorably shaped by the LLL media. I really do pity your blindness with regard to your own condition. How many people here have arrogantly proclaimed themselves to be “free thinkers” when we know we’re being shaped by any number of external news stimuli?
BTW, weren’t you one of the trolls beating their chest over Plamegate? The only scandal there was the “free thinking” kangaroo courts that those on the left side of the aisle were conducting in absence of any real evidence.
Different topic. Here’s the audio file of Bill Clinton admitting that he let Usama bin Laden get away.
Since that time both he and Madeline Albright have publicly sworn this was merely an Internet myth. Buwahahahahaha. Liars! Oh wait, that’s right, the evil Bu$Hitler regime and the vast reich-wing conspiracy forged the tape to embarass Clinton and to distract from the Chimperor’s illegal and immoral war in Iraq!
33 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 1:52 pm
I was out on Rt. 130 testing the rejetted Edlebrock carburetor on my son’s ‘71 Chevelle. As I was several blocks from my home and it was about two minutes before 8:00, I heard the breaking news report of a jetliner slamming into one of the WTC towers. My first reaction was, gee, this sounds like when a B-25 slammed into the Empire State building, how could a pilot get that far off course and that low?
I was in the house and ran downstairs and flipped on the television by 8:01. In a matter of minutes the second plane hit and I knew then this was no accident. What I do remember is the totally blank look on the face of Peter Jennings who matter-of-factly noted the second crash. Then and there I knew these were no accidents, that it was radical Muslims who did this, and that we were at war.
I remember praying two things as I was going to work thirty minutes later, despite my initial impressions about who did this, please don’t let this be some nutbag anarchist militia types who committed these atrocities and second, may God give President Bush the strength and resolve to act on his constitutional responsibilities to take the war to whomever did this.
It was only later that my thoughts were similarly clarified that not only must Muslim terrorists and their ilk pay a steep price for murdering nearly 3000 innocent Americans and internationals, but also any rogue Muslim regime that has and continues to offer any kind of safe haven and weapons to these murderous nutcases must also pay the price.
I had hoped at that time that that even though Muslim fanatics started this fight, that we Americans would have the united will and resolve to finish the fight. But I see now most liberals have copped-out over the course of these last five years. Like one conservative pundit observed: “You can be sure liberals will make all the appropriate noise about being with you when the fight starts, but they usually won’t be there to help finish the fight when the going gets tough.”
Some real fine fair-weather, “free thinking” patriots liberals are, right JCM?
34 J. Cougar Melancholy // Sep 11, 2006 at 2:23 pm
I was living on 30th st. in Manhattan sitting in bed with my wife watching Katie Couric. We saw a flash come in through the window. She says, “I’ll bet Bin Laden hit the WTC again.” Sure enough, Katie’s face morphed into the first tower hit. I live in Brooklyn now and everytime I look across the East river and see the void 9/11 made and the flowers still there and dried up on the promenade, I remember.
Darth,
It seem the tighter you and the other 36% tighten your fist against liberals, the more actual terrorists who hate America slip through your drag-knuckled fingers.
Thinking freely,
The Cougmeister
PS - I do like your family’s taste in AMERICAN built muscle cars! Git ‘Er Done!!
35 myword // Sep 11, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Captain Ed
Oh no, now your nightmare is my nightmare. I’d better have a cup’a cocoa tonight before I go to sleep.
My nightmare is nothing compared to the nightmares the detainees at Abu Ghraib have now that the prison has been turned over to the Iraqi’s. Now there is “real” torture. The Red Cross and Human Rights Commission no longer make visits to A G. And the MSM is not reporting it. Found this in the LondonTelegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/10/wirq10.xml
36 SGT USMC 1ea // Sep 11, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Uh yeah Jcougar….Uhmm whatever.
Hello Scrappleville,
I pray that the Lord will be amongst you during this time of national mourning. I hope you do not have to listen to Tim Russert while you are praying but if you do say an extra word for him.
Deus est Semper Fidelis
37 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 11, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Gore gets gored.
38 nylecoj // Sep 11, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Re#27 the third video on that Michelle Malkin page is the most gripping. It puts a single voice on the terror.
When we watched here at the office (there were a group of us around the computer) there was a stunned silence for many seconds after.
We are having a very subdued day here, Fox news running since shortly after dawn, and our new flag for our new building standing tall.
39 The Great Santini // Sep 11, 2006 at 5:28 pm
My daughter, a junior college student at the time, had tuned in to check the weather before heading for school. I was leaving for the office when she said, “Dad, come look at the TV, it’s so horrible, it’s so awful.”
I entered the TV room just as video of the South Tower’s collapse was running. I thought it was a movie, or something, but then I noticed the TV was tuned to Fox News; this was real. I stared at the screen, transfixed, for the next half hour.
I felt ashamed of occupying the same planet and of breathing the same air with men whose hearts were malignant enough to rejoice in committing mass murder on this scale, indiscriminately killing ordinary persons who had committed no crime, and getting “God” in on the deal. I wept tears of sadness for the victims, and of rage at the palpable evil motivating those who organized, enabled, and sympathized with the event.
I was as guilty as anyone, up to then, of what we now call the “9-10 mindset”. But no longer; the events of 9-11 disabused me of such illusions.
Our sole option now is to kill jihadis in numbers sufficient to vanquish them, as occurred at Tours (732 A.D.) and Vienna (1683 A.D.) during the two previous all-out Muslim onslaughts against Western Civilization. They will quit when they’re licked. I hate the arithmetic and the process, but, as should be obvious to anyone not determined to avoid the evidence, nothing else will work.
The question is whether the West will arise from its post-9-11 somnambulism and pay the price, like the Franks at Tours and the Poles and Austrians at Vienna. This time, the Islamists are counting on the continuous inner decay and demoralization of the West to win, and they will not compromise short of victory. We should remember 9-11 always, but the question remains—will we be more committed than the Islamists? What a tragedy that question must be asked.
40 tomg // Sep 11, 2006 at 5:36 pm
9-11-01
Breakfast of empanaditos & cafe negro grande
8:00 EDT - Conference room in PDVSA offices, Caracas
9:XX Engineer leaves room for cell call, and then says a plant crash into WTC. Meeting continues
9:XX Summoned to corner office with TV, for CNN en Espanol. I don’t understand squat.
10:XX I’m asked what this means. I say I feel so
41 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Darth,
It seem the tighter you and the other 36% tighten your fist against liberals, the more actual terrorists who hate America slip through your drag-knuckled fingers.
Hmmm, sounds like you’re calling liberals terrorists, JCM. Your subconscious mind betrays you, young Cougarwalker.
42 tomg // Sep 11, 2006 at 5:40 pm
I did not mean to post that - meant to quit.
Oh well - I said I felt sorry for whoever did that.
Weirdest thing is I got on my Aeropostal flight at 4:50 from Caracas to Marutin. (yes, they are not a clothing company). The whole plane crosses themselves when we land. But they always do. I’ve never felt so much support. Or felt so hopeless.
43 J. Cougar Melancholy // Sep 11, 2006 at 5:41 pm
OMG Darth! Are you my real father?!
44 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Only in a galaxy far, far away.
More headline news:
BLAIR HECKLED IN LEBANON…’He is a dog and if we see him we will kill him’…
The followers of the religion of peace speaking truth to power again. I guess Blair is the sock puppet of Zionist pigs, too.
VIRGINA CONGRESSMAN JEERED FOR GOING POLITICAL DURING MEMORIAL…
Another moonbat DemDonk attempts to turn a somber and sobering occasion into another Wellstone memorial debacle. Do these Democrats have class or what?
DROPS BELOW $65 BRIEFLY…
Muscle car owners rejoice … briefly.
>b>CIA: 5,000 Terrorists Captured or Killed…
The number is probably five times that but the CIA didn’t want to offend the sensibilities of liberals who believe them to be Muslim freedom fighters.
45 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Sorry, should read:
OIL DROPS BELOW $65 BRIEFLY…
Muscle car owners rejoice … briefly.
CIA: 5,000 Terrorists Captured or Killed…
The number is probably five times that but the CIA didn’t want to offend the sensibilities of liberals who believe them to be Muslim freedom fighters.
46 onlineanalyst // Sep 11, 2006 at 6:00 pm
You all (except Cougie) have expressed so eloquently my own feelings and thoughts of that day five years ago that I feel inadequate to add my sentiments on this melancholy anniversary. A self-declared enemy threw down the gauntlet in a spectacular way. Do we have the unity to defeat its threat to our Western culture?
47 Rock Slatestone // Sep 11, 2006 at 6:07 pm
It’s safe to fly again…yeah!
Sir, are you going to eat those complimentary peanuts?
48 tomg // Sep 11, 2006 at 6:10 pm
When was the last time the Druids attacked us?
Huh? There are hardly any left!
Exactly.
Islamo-fascists are thinking the same thing, but not as a joke.
So, what so you call 5,000 dead terrorists?
A good …..
49 Libby Gone // Sep 11, 2006 at 6:27 pm
JCM,
Ya know maybe I was a little harsh earlier. 9/11 will always be an emotional day for me. After all, those 2996 people were just living, going to work, probably thinking about the spouse or significant other they miss, LOVE and wish they were with at that moment. Not a day to pick on each other, politicians or otherwise. I am sorry for my remark directed to you. I love free speech, I have explored it abundantly. I just want to say I am glad you post here because it is good to hear other peoples opinions.
50 R.A.M. // Sep 11, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Ms Rightwing: #6-made me remember too!
A few months before 9/11, my father had passed away, then two weeks later, I was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. These two things, while devastating, were pushed to the back of my mind when while “surfing the net”, saw that the first tower had been hit.
I flipped through the channels on TV. I had never watched Fox News before, but somehow, started watching, and couldn’t quit! (To this day!)
I have not forgotten that day, (nor my father)!
To do so, would mean my current life is more important than my father, or those who died on 9/11, (and those who MAY in the future)!
That, in my opinion, would be selfish, to put it mildly!
51 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 11, 2006 at 7:03 pm
REMEMBERING EILEEN MARSHA GREENSTEIN
http://shellyscafe.blogspot.com/
New York City’s 1,419th victim of Islamic hatred
52 R.A.M. // Sep 11, 2006 at 7:34 pm
If you want to see the video from the ABC documentary that was edited out by “Bubba”, —-it is at:
http://traditionalvalues.org/clinton_abc.html
Guess those ABC executives just had to give in to Bubba when he started biting his lip.
That or they remembered Vince Foster, or Mr. Brown?
53 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 11, 2006 at 7:48 pm
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.
’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
’Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me,
His Word my hope secures;
He will my Shield and Portion be,
As long as life endures.
Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, Who called me here below,
Will be forever mine.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’d first begun.
54 GnuCarSmell // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:03 pm
It was a rare day that revealed at once the two extremes of human nature — absolute evil and absolute good.
My girlfriend called and asked if I was watching TV (I wasn’t). Her voice told me something bad had happened. I turned on the TV and saw the first tower in flames, believing a tragic accident had happened. When the second plane hit, it was at that moment that I made a promise to myself: I would never again vote for anyone who was not absolutely committed to go after the sub-humans who did this. From now on, every politician must prove to me they understand we are at war. They must prove to me that they are determined to win against this absolute evil.
55 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:17 pm
RE: #52~~
Ditto.
56 upnorthlurkin // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Re: #52 - Amen!
57 nylecoj // Sep 11, 2006 at 8:53 pm
Many years ago I developed the extremely bad habit of sleeping with the television on. It was on the morning of 9.11.2001, I opened my eyes to see smoke rising from the towers, for a split second my sleep addled mind (as many of you know I am on the west coast so it was early) expected to see Bruce Willis, as I rubbed my eyes I realized I was watching the news. In a zombie like state I got up and dressed in the mean time the Pentagon was hit, the scene on the TV was bouncing back and forth. I left the house about then, I do not know how I got to the office. I do know that I got hold of one of the guys so he would bring in a tv set. That television helped us alot that day, everyone was able to wander in and out of the lunch room as they needed to see what was going on.
The other thing was our people’s families, they showed up here just to sit with each other, or, as I did, some of us just went home for a couple of hours in the middle of the day to sit with our family at home.
We now have cable and a permanent tv installed in the lunch room. No one here can stand not to know what is going on almost every minute.
58 JamesonLewis3rd // Sep 11, 2006 at 9:18 pm
God Bless President Bush
59 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 9:20 pm
President Bush is hitting homeruns in his unity speech. Liberals must be going beserk. Been watching “The Path to 9/11″ when Bush broke in with his speech.
I bet the moonbat bloggers are claiming it’s a conspiracy between ABC and Bu$Hitler.
Yeah, libs, do you believe we’re at war? And if we are, who are you fighting against, other Americans or the Islamofascists. Will you put aside you divisive partisanship and lies and join with us in this noble cause being fought on the frontiers of freedom by brave American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines?
60 Darthmeister // Sep 11, 2006 at 9:25 pm
I’m struck by “The Path to 9/11″ (even if just half of it is true), that the Clinton Administration piddled and diddled and put off the hard work of addressing the increasing depradations of Muslim jihadists while the Bush Administration, CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies were similarly hamstrung by the bureaucratic culture, PC multi-culturalism, and the Gorelick “wall” which kept the various intelligence agencies from connecting-the-dots.
Oh, yeah, I’m seeing a lot of righteous indignation and screams of conspiracy welling up from the radical left. How dare ABC air this “Bush propaganda” just three months before the November elections. Buwahahahaha!
61 TouchyFeely // Sep 11, 2006 at 10:35 pm
According to Boortz or Limbaugh, I can’t remember who right now, but some retired Colonel has just written a book. He carried the nuclear “football” for Clinton for four years. One of the things he says, according to the afforementioned talkmeister, was that more than once, Clinton refused to pick up on a call from Berger, because he was tired of talking about the Bin Laden stuff.
62 conserve-a-tip // Sep 11, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Well, I just finished watching 9-11 and the President’s speech. I sat in awe at Bush’s words and I will have to say that I cried over the movie. I didn’t just cry, I sobbed. It is too terrible to even imagine what those peoples’ families are dealing with today. Such anger and sadness they must feel. I just hurt for them.
And I hurt for our president. Can those who have belittled him and accused him and derided him feel ANYTHING at all for him? Can they imagine being the one who is in that top chair and who has sworn to serve and protect, who has to watch helplessly as nearly 3,000 people are sacrificed at the alter of Islamic fundamentalism? Who, in their right mind would want to be in his shoes?
I beg all Americans, I don’t care to which party you belong, recognize us all as a great and wonderful family. Family members can bicker and accuse all day long, but let someone from outside attack the family, most families pull together. It is past time for this family to do the same.
Good night all.
63 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 11, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Sorry, but somehow I was not led to watch any of the 9/11 specials. Perhaps I am to weak to take on the misery of the world so I will let others do that for me. I am touched, though, by the words and notes others have posted here and certainly the talk show pundits will have enough to say in the days to come.
I alluded to my 9/11 experience above (re:6) but I might add the experience of that day in my restaurant will echo through my mind forever. We had no TV and I could not leave the kitchen to find one since we had a rather busy day as customers came in wanting to talk about the disasters taking place. It may have been a healing situation for many to sit with strangers or faint acquaintances and just breath and talk about life, I don’t really know.
I finally got the last customer out around five p.m. and after cleaning and setting up for the next day, I finally made it home after 7 or so. Then, believe it or not I got the first view of the both the planes and the collapse of the towers. It was old news to many by that time but it was as if I had to relive the whole day over again. I could not take in what I saw, but yet by only listening to it on the radio I felt the heart of the commentators as well as the later visuals of the camera.
The rest of the week remained an erie silence. Nearly every restaurant in the country dropped in sales for the next few days and I often wondered why I even stayed open. It nearly bankrupted me, but slowly folks came back out into the streets again.
On my deck where I lived at that time I could look into the pre 9/11 night sky and see airplanes flying into landing positions at the Akron-Canton, Cleveland and likely Pittsburgh airports. The sky, at one time was like blinking fireflies. No more. For that following week I would look into the skies hoping to see another plane again. So strange was the evening.
Eventually all the plaques in the front yards saying God Bless America faded away. People soon turned their attention to life once more. I sat down and wrote several letters to loved ones not seen in years and told them how the 9/11 and my diagnosis of MS has caused me to seek comfort with lost family and others. When the letters came back in a negative fashion, then I knew America had once again returned to love they neighbor, but only when forced. How sad.
64 Darthmeister // Sep 12, 2006 at 5:46 am
How soon liberals forget history. Those who continue to whine about Bush equals Hitler and how America is becoming fascist need only look to their own free state of being to see how false their own lies have been. Given the ability to clandestinely track down IP addresses, those who have been venomous in their hatred of this administration would have soon disappeared if America was truly fascist in any real sense of the word. This great irony highlights the ridiculous hyperbole that lying liberals engage in even though the most effective counter-argument to their screeds is their own existence! The only people who have been incarcerated in America since 9/11 have been criminals, Muslim terrorist cell members, and maybe one or two outright traitors - and far too few of the latter species I might add.
Orin Kerr reminds us all how the Bush Administration never resorted to the more stringent curtailment of American civil rights as discussed by even the liberal media and law professors shortyly after 9/11:
During the week following the September 11 attacks, most major newspapers ran stories on the very plausible prospect that 9/11 could lead to a radical overhaul of civil liberties in the United States. The articles included sober discussions by law professors of whether we would have internment camps for Muslims, citing the camps for Japanese during World War II, or whether there would be a suspension of habeas corpus, citing the precedent of the Civil War. Fortunately for all of us, this didn’t happen. While there were some aggressive law enforcement steps taken, particularly with regard to immigration offenses, for the most part the changes in existing statutory and constitutional law have been minor. . . .
Where does that leave us? To me it suggests that the impact of 9/11 on the law is still largely an open question, but that as a general matter the impact has been notably less significant than most of us would have predicted on the afternoon of 9/11. Maybe this will change in the future: Senator Specter’s NSA bill is still pending, and a few Supreme Court vacancies might alter the picture. But on the five-year anniversary of 9/11, I’m struck more by how little the law has changed than by how much.
65 Darthmeister // Sep 12, 2006 at 5:57 am
Touchy Feely,
That was Air Force attaché Colonel “Buzz” Patterson. He wrote a book about his experience carrying the nuclear football for Clinton (Clinton also lost the code to access the football at one point!). He mentioned this fact of Clinton refusing Sandy Berger’s phone calls regarding clandestine CIA operations in his book, Dereliction of Duty.
BTW, given the liar Senator Jay Rockefeller’s recent attacks on the Bush Administration for claiming there was an al Qaeda connection with Saddam’s regime, Rockefeller looked at the same evidence President Bush did and came to this very public conclusion:
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-MOON): “There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years … We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction.” (Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Congressional Record, 10/10/02, p. S10305)
When asked about an Iraq-al Qaeda relationship by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on February 5, 2003, Rockefeller agreed with Republican Senator Pat Roberts that Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s presence in Iraq before the war and his links to a poison camp in northern Iraq were troubling. Rockefeller continued: “The fact that Zarqawi certainly is related to the death of the U.S. aid officer and that he is very close to bin Laden puts at rest, in fairly dramatic terms, that there is at least a substantial connection between Saddam and al Qaeda.”
66 J. Cougar Melancholy // Sep 12, 2006 at 11:18 am
It’s all good Libby! Looks like I was the only troll here and someone had to slap eventually. Ouch Maggie!
67 rv // Sep 12, 2006 at 9:40 pm
#8 Matt:
What exactly did you like about that insipid improv video?
#20 JCM:
Some 3000 people woke up, got out of bed and went to work. They had every expectation that they were gonna have a normal day. Instead they faced the end result of evil.
The end result of talking your usual moonbat smack on this site will almost always result in some kind of smackdown.
And many of us will continue to pray that your eyes will be opened and your ears will be unstopped so that you can see and hear TRUTH.
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