What? You say that there are plenty of leftists who say that 9/11 was a case of America getting what it had coming? They compared the dead to Nazi functionaries? Surely they have no support?

Right?

s/but/and

I can’t blame it on the lack of preview…

I’m sure it was no coincidence that they were all big Bush supporters – several of them had that fuundraising thank-you photo of the Chimp and his Robowife hanging in their offices.

At the beginning of this year, I was visiting my boyfriend, who at the time was working for a small business as a salesperson. We stopped into his office over the weekend to pick something up, and he briefly pointed out his boss’s office, which had one of those fundraising pictures in it as well. I already had some idea about this guy, but it was at that point I knew all I needed to know about him. He was only was quite an asshole, but apparently doesn’t know how to run a business worth a flying fuck—we have been friends with his operations manager (who essentially runs the business for him and gets no credit) and hoo boy does he have stories.

I used to work for a company that thought it would be a great idea to have a Patriot Day picnic a few years back. The flyers they circulated were just ghastly – talking about softball games and squirt-gun fights as an appropriate way to mark the day. When I pointed out the utter tastelessness of the whole idea to my boss and to the other company owners, they all just stared at me as if I had three heads. I’m sure it was no coincidence that they were all big Bush supporters – several of them had that fuundraising thank-you photo of the Chimp and his Robowife hanging in their offices.

It was at that precise moment that I decided I needed to seek out other career opportunities.

The only people who truly honour the dead are the individuals who knew and loved them. The rest? Deserve to be interred in a landfill.

This is no day. Not a day to celebrate, not a day to come together.

Perhaps a day to mourn, nothing more.

We lost people because things that happened well outside of our purview caused 19 young men to throw away their lives in order to kill thousands of innocents.

What does this day mean? It means something has gone well off the tracks. It means that killing Americans was the most important thing in the lives of 19 young men. It means that those 19 young men couldn’t reach the people who they had been brought up to hate. It means that the coincidence of anger, religion and indoctrination leads to unspeakable acts.

It’s important to remember that unspeakable acts were committed long before september 2001. It’s important to mourn our dead. But it’s important to THINK. Come on, people, this isn’t hard. War forever and ever amen, or find a way to peace. If you want to honor the memory of the people who died that day six years ago, think about what might be acomplished by talking and living together. Think about your sadness, your loss. Multiply that by ten thousand, and that is the sadness and loss we have brought down on innocent iraqis and afghanis.

What will make it stop? You don’t need me to tell you the obvious. You KNOW how to end it. The violence, the killing, the horror. It’s really simple, after all.

The sadness of this day is the lessons not learned…

mikey

Gary:
This is OUR day, Patriot Day, and we will observe it with remeberrance, vengence and support for troops and USA power of freedom the world over.

Patriot Day is in the spring, you vile troll, and has been so observed in New England for many, many years. Apparently ‘remeberrance’ is a flavor ingredient in the cheap booze you suck to drown the psychic pain of being a boil on the butt of the human condition, because you’re not even doing your usual semi-competent job of cutting & pasting this morning’s talking-points from the bowels of the RNC. If contempt is the emotion that feeds your tiny, withered soul, you’ve just earned enough to keep you and a half-dozen of your equally parasitic fellow-travellers (I won’t use the word “friends”, because people like you don’t have any) squirming blindly in the dank hell that is your pathetic existence for at least the next several months. Take that as an excuse to go the fuck away, and take your band of sockpuppets and lampreys with you.

Aye-up. Just pulled it right out of my ass.

I’ve found my muse is strong when blood is spilled.

It’s beautiful.

Thanks, m’man…

mikey

Wasn’t that the bombing that injured

Ali Ismail Abbas

And what’s with the Clenis and Berger act from last week? I saw neither of them on the news, and when was the last time Berger was in the government?

Indeed. This is why I couldn’t bring myself to watch more than an hour of so of the Petraeus Show (Now with 30% more Petraeus!!). I said it this way over at the Great Orange Satan:

Behind it all is an utter lack of humanity. People– formerly living humans with hopes and dreams and families and worries about the future– are collapsed into colorful bar graphs. See? The colorful bar that stands in for their corpses is a little shorter than the one that represents those who were killed last month! That’s “progress!”

What? Your son was shot in the head? Well, which side of the head? Its terribly important, you know, because if it was on the front side then it doesn’t count. He gets left out of the colorful bar chart representing “sectarian violence” because that shows even more “progress”.

Its utterly inhuman, insane, disgusting, and absurd in the worst possible way. Its the Ultimate Bad Craziness, yet everyone plays along because its so much more comforting to squint at a bar chart, or argue over data collection methodology than to contemplate the faces of the dead, and how they got that way.

As for your friend, Gavin, I really don’t know what to say. He’s gone, but his music is still here. Maybe bust open the windows and crank his music up to 11. Share what he left behind.

And the loaded term “Patriot Day” still pisses me off. If anything, it’s a “Remembrance Day,” and always will be for me and many others I know. Now of all days, I’m not in the mood for emotional blackmail.

– Jim (who for today just can’t post as Senator Ted)

George Bush, August 6, 2001

You conservatives sure do own this day Gary.

Michael: Shut the fuck up. Now ain’t the time.

Please. No.