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I think it’s fixed.
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– The Management
The metamorphosis is complete.
“You get America out of Iraq and Israel out of Palestine and you’ll stop the terrorism,” Sheehan declares.
Sheehan, who is asking for a second meeting with President Bush, says defiantly: “My son was killed in 2004. I am not paying my taxes for 2004. You killed my son, George Bush, and I don’t owe you a penny…you give my son back and I’ll pay my taxes. Come after me (for back taxes) and we’ll put this war on trial.”
“And now I’m going to use another ‘I’ word – impeachment – because we cannot have these people pardoned. They need to be tried on war crimes and go to jail.”
She’s a total wacko who is being led down a path (by the radical left) that she’ll regret, eventually.
Via Captains Quarters: WMD Found in Mosul; Over 1500 gallons of chemicals.
The Moonbats are out in force on this one. They’re trying as hard as they can to discredit the WaPo report. The main talking point seems to be pushing a notion that we conservatives are convinced that the found WMD’s existed BEFORE the war started, and that we’re somehow backtracking from a statement the Bush Administration made admitting that no WMD’s existed in Iraq when Saddam was in power (we all know Bush was pressured by the LEFT and the MSM to somehow resolve the fact that no cache had been found). The Moonies say the weapons were obviously manufactured while the war was underway (you know…when a hundred thousand US service men and women were on the ground killing people and breaking things. How the clever Iraqis could make the WMD while under fire is something those crafty Dimocrats haven’t explained yet).
By the way – NO ONE is officially stating that the discovered WMD’s predate the war. (pssst – I blame Syria)
And the wacko Lefty conclusion? This discovery simply proves that Bush’s decision to go to war made the world a more dangerous place than it was when Saddam was in power. You know…Bush lied, people died, illegitimate war, blah blah blah.
They’ll never give up on this idea.
An 83 year-old woman was stung up to 400 times by bees.
The woman, whose name was not released, was attacked Friday by bees coming from the wall of a storage building outside her home, said Fire Department Capt. Paul McDonough.
A handyman sprayed her with water from a hose until the bees turned on him. He ran and called 911.
Firefighters found the woman lying face down and unconscious in the street. They sprayed the bees with foam, then took her to the hospital, McDonough said.
She was out of intensive care and in fair condition Friday night.
“She was stung 400 times,” said University Medical Center clinical supervisor Kim Hilty. “Everyone was surprised how well she’s doing.”
Unbelievable.
CNN’s “Question of the Hour” asks:
‘Is President Bush taking too much time off…or not enough?’
Does anyone really believe that a U.S. president’s vacation is a real vacation?
When you take time off from work you don’t think about work right? You don’t bring your secretary with you right? You don’t bring your staff with you right? You don’t get regular security briefings every morning right?
The president does, and more.
The president is the president 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He doesn’t get any time off. It doesn’t matter if he’s in DC, Crawford, Kennebunkport, or Anytown USA.
The whole debate is silly.
This has got to be a joke. Christopher Walken for President – 2008
UPDATE: Yep, it’s a joke.
“Somebody yelled something was falling. We didn’t know if it was desks coming out. It turned out it was people coming out, and they started coming out one after the other. We saw the jumpers coming. We didn’t know what it was at first, but then the first body hit and then we knew what it was. And they were just like constant. I was getting sick. I felt like I was intruding on a sacrament. They were choosing to die and I was watching them and shouldn’t have been. So me and another guy turned away and looked at a wall and we could still hear them hit.”
— New York City Firefighter Maureen McArdle-Schulman
Today, the New York City Fire Department released audio transmissions and thousands of pages of oral histories documenting the moments of that day – September 11, 2001. The city didn’t want to do it, but they didn’t have a choice. The release was brought on by a lawsuit filed three years ago by The New York Times.
All Americans were affected by the tragedy of that day. We saw the television footage and the photographs. We visited websites, read the newspapers and the weekly magazines that covered the story. Each of us reacted a little differently to what we saw, what we read and what we heard.
But I’ve come to understand that there were actually two reactions to the terror events of September 11. There was the reaction of citizens who live in California, or Florida, Montana, Texas, Washington State (like me), or any of the other 47 states.
Then there was the reaction of the people who inhabit the other states – New York and Pennsylvania, and our capital Washington, D.C..
These people hear the sounds, see the moving pictures, and read the transcripts of September 11 and relive something I’ll never know. Their memories of that day are incredibly different than many other Americans. And reminders of the terrorism on that Tuesday 4 years ago conjure up pain and emotions that I’ll never know.
I listened to some of the radio calls, and I read a few of the testimonies given by members of the FDNY. They are amazing. But the affects I feel are the same as if I was to read an account from a survivor of the Titanic, a living victim of the Holocaust, a citizen of Srebrenica or a mother of a child killed at the Beslan School. I can feel sorry for what happened to them but I can’t truly feel the pain they do.
For many New Yorkers, people of Shanksville, and for those who live and work in Washington, D.C., the events of September 11 bring up a recollection they simply can’t yet bear. Like Firefighter Maureen McArdle-Schulman, they want to turn away, not look, and not listen. It’s just too much. It’s still too soon.
It’s OK.
Yes, we need to be reminded of September 11. We need to hold onto the memory of the fallen heroes of that day. We need to do everything possible to keep it from happening again.
Yes.
But we also need to remember the living victims of that day. The neighbor whose husband was killed in tower 1. The businessman who lost a colleague aboard United Flight 93. The daughter of the official who went to work in an office of the Pentagon that day. There are so many who still need to heal.
Remember them this day, as they face the memory of That Day once more.
MORE: Jeff Jarvis was there on That Day.
From CNN: British Airways has cancelled all flights in and out of London’s Heathrow Airport until 1 p.m. ET (1700 GMT) Friday due to an employee strike. 70,000 passengers are affected.
I travel regularly, mostly for business purposes, and have been stranded at airports before. When it happens, the first reaction is extreme anger, then acceptance as you realize your powerlessness. The only thing left to do after that is settle in and wait.
It’s a huge disruption, and the ripple effect will touch all air travel through the weekend.
UPDATE: Free at last, free at last.
Yikes.
Not exactly the kind of thing you’d like to have happen on the day you announce your candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Unfortunately for Jeanine Pirro, this might just be her 32 seconds of fame.