you know, here's the thing. watching the news feed at the y while working out this morning, and then having to go find some vacuous fitness magazine to look at instead so i don't have to see the same loop of images replaying, over and over again.
never forget. right. as if the people that were there, that lost someone, that walk around with scars yet today could ever forget what happened that day. like i could ever forget what happened in that place, on that day.
you know what i wish people would never forget? how this administration used that tragedy, those lives lost, to lie to us, to manipulate us, to inflate our fears and mistrust and increase our isolationism. to justify a war based on false premises, and to erode our civil rights and civil liberties in the name of the war against terror.
i wish we would never forget the lessons hard learned on that day, but i don't think very many of us ever learned them to begin with.
9/11/08
9/2/08
dead people and dying campaigns
i traveled to new orleans late last week, to participate in the katrina memorial dedication. we weren't even sure it was still going to happen as we flew down, what with gustav wreaking havoc on plans and giving nagin an excuse to hyperventilate a lot and slam every level of government but his own. sorry, i'm not a fan, he's done jack for the city since he was reelected, except point fingers elsewhere.
anyway. did you know that 84 bodies have been sitting in refrigeration units for the last three years? unclaimed, most, though some were unidentified, the memorial is their final resting place and the foundation was the largest single private contributor. the jazz funeral scheduled for friday morning was scrubbed, but the dedication still went forward. seven bodies were interred as part of the ceremony. it was beautiful, and overdue, and completely and totally overshadowed both by the impending hurricane and mccain's masturbatory choice of running mate. so it goes, i guess.
as a side note, i wandered over to cafe du monde for au lait and beignets around 5:00 friday morning. about three minutes after i entered, a secret service agent wandered in, followed by dhs' own michael chertoff. he's shorter in person. and has bigger ears.
i would speak of mccain, and palin, but i think i am at a total loss of words. is it me, or did he just give the one-fingered salute to the entire electorate?
anyway. did you know that 84 bodies have been sitting in refrigeration units for the last three years? unclaimed, most, though some were unidentified, the memorial is their final resting place and the foundation was the largest single private contributor. the jazz funeral scheduled for friday morning was scrubbed, but the dedication still went forward. seven bodies were interred as part of the ceremony. it was beautiful, and overdue, and completely and totally overshadowed both by the impending hurricane and mccain's masturbatory choice of running mate. so it goes, i guess.
as a side note, i wandered over to cafe du monde for au lait and beignets around 5:00 friday morning. about three minutes after i entered, a secret service agent wandered in, followed by dhs' own michael chertoff. he's shorter in person. and has bigger ears.
i would speak of mccain, and palin, but i think i am at a total loss of words. is it me, or did he just give the one-fingered salute to the entire electorate?
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