“Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly.” — T Roosevelt – 1918
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” — Abraham Lincoln
Johnny Cash, John Ritter and Jesus all hang out in heaven in this sketch by Benjamin J Claassen, artist. You can buy it on eBay.
Total U.S. Dead since March 20th: 295
Total Coalition Dead since March 20th: 347
Total US Wounded since March 20th: 1491
See the complete figures.
For this week, Bush asks for another $87 Billion (three times the amount Bush intends to spend on education this year). Halliburton can’t figure out how to spend that wisely, the FCC throws support to Schwarzenegger. Also, aside from being a poacher on protected game preserves (something I’ve written about here in the past, Ted Nugent is also a dead-beat dad.
This was posted on Here Is The Big Gay Agenda and I removed it to not give them a pingback and pulled it up to address it separately.
Hate to say it, but your [sic] wrong. If the homosexual community wanted to be left alone then they should have just shut up years ago. People in general dont [sic] hate gays, we hate the fact that gays are trying to force their lifestyle on to everyone else. Sorry, but im [sic] not teaching my children to think this is ok. And if anyone can read the bible and think that homosexuality is ok then they are blinded by their own ignorance. Christians dont hate gays they just know the truth and want to lead gay people away from hell and toward Jesus Christ. Hers [sic] an idea. Take all that money your [sic] wasting on your real agenda and use that for your retirement and insurance, then drop the attitude, come to church, change your lifestyle, and maybe die and go to heaven someday. Sounds better than whining for the rest of your lives.
John
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2006-09-14 08:20:10
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Some thoughts:
I love my house. It’s so beautiful. Or at least, it was so beautiful before it was neglected and mistreated for decades. And it will be beautiful again. A lot more so in the next few weeks, in fact. I’m so excited to be giving the house a real repair and paint job on the exterior. Where the ornamental details will be picked out in a different color so that they can be seen from the street… and all the siding will be perfect and rain resistant. I love my house so much I think about it all the time when I’m at work.
I was cruising along to work this morning and The Proclaimers song “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” was on the radio, and I realized I was singing along TO MY HOUSE. Isn’t that the dorkiest thing?
Well, I’ll be god-damned. I never would have thought I’d read something like this in the Star. And editorial questioning what we’re spending in Iraq, questioning the Patriot Act. Holy crap. Time to get a subscription.
That was certainly a surprising thing to read. He was so young. I didn’t realize that he was the son of Tex Ritter, the country musician.
What shocked and upset me most on September 11 and the days afterward was the photograph… everyone knows, probably, what one I’m talking about. The photograph of the falling man, the man who jumped to his death from the towers. It ran in the papers only once, and there was very brief video footage on one news channel that showed people jumping and falling from one of the towers. Watching that short film made me throw up; one of the few times I’ve ever vomited when I wasn’t sick or hung over. I immediately blocked the image from my mind. I was horrified that the picture was published in the paper.
Two years later, I can finally think about it. Those images made the tragedy real, and drove home the reality that it wasn’t just glass and steel but human bodies being destroyed. Human lives being lost. And at that time… It was unbearable to see.
Now I’m glad that that Richard Drew was able to take the photo of the falling man. Because it’s a record of what really happened. And it reminds me of what’s important and because it helps to honor his life, and honor the way he chose to die.
It’s also compelling that people are now, two years later, really able to examine the people who jumped from the towers, the one aspect of the tragedy that no one has really been able to face or talk about. Many people still won’t talk about them as “jumpers” but insist to themselves that they fell or were blown from the building. Because acknowledging that they jumped means to put oneself in their shoes, to imagine making that terrible choice. How horrible it must have been, whatever was happening up there, that they chose to die instead by jumping from a great height.
With all the lies the George Bush has told, with the way he has twisted the tragedy of September 11, 2001, used it to consolidate power and manipulate the world, seeing that image again reminded me of what’s true, what’s real, what’s important. It reminds me that these people, too, were Americans, the ones who jumped. And to them, we have some responsibility.
Relations break down between U.S. and Them
After decades of antagonism between the two global powers, the U.S. has officially severed relations with Them, Bush administration officials announced Tuesday. “They have refused to comply with the U.S. time and time again,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, following failed 11th-hour negotiations Monday night. “It’s always unfortunate when diplomacy fails, but we could not back down. We have to be ready to fight back, in the name of freedom, against all of Them at once, if necessary.”