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[ebonlock]

This damn near killed me:
Live blogging for Lieberman or how Bill Kristol saved my life

And I needed a good laugh after reading this:

Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.

You know thinking about these people voting, or hell, even driving, is enough to keep me awake at night. On the other hand it does help explain that staggeringly high percentage of people who still think Saddam was involved with the 9/11 attacks, or had stockpiles of WMDs...

Comments

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

But... but he *DID* have WMDs! The librel MSM just won't *report* it! Because they hate America.

[razorjak.livejournal.com]

My people, they do not wear the pants.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

How do you read lines like "White Castle wrappers littered the floor and the air reeked of a mixture of sweat, urine, and Hai Karate aftershave" in your office and not howl with laughter such as to cause Lucy to run in to see if you're in pain? :)

Thanks for the link.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Sheer unmitigated force of will.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

I am so impressed with you right now, you have no idea.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

If you could use a good laugh yourself, I highly recommend taking a look at the Rock-Stupid side of the blog-o-sphere for the whole photo cloning kerfluffle. Here's a great place to start, (http://sadlyno.com/archives/003558.htm) and it contains one of the greatest comments ever:

I don�t know if �michael� from CY�s comment board came from S,N! or not but his comment bears repeating:

My understanding is that Hezbolleh has a special corpse-launching mortar stationed at a central location in each major city in Lebanon. Whenever an Israeli rocket lands, Hezbolleh launches a couple of prepared bodies in a high arc over the city to the recently-hit building. The bodies land, and the force of the impact creates �wounds� consistent with being at ground zero when a missile lands.

I mean, it�s the only reasonable possibility.

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Not sure if this was meant to be a reply to me, but the link doesn't work.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Hrm, try this. (http://sadlyno.com/archives/003558.html)

[moonlightnrain.livejournal.com]

Oh, the comedy. :)

[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.

Now that's just fucking sad. :\

There's no nice way to say this, so I won't...

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

If you don't know what year the September 11 attacks took place, you shouldn't be allowed to vote. In fact, you probably should be stripped of your citizenship and dumped on a raft somewhere near Antarctica. It's no wonder we have this clown show government - it's the natural result of having the stupidest fucking electorate on the face of the earth.

(exhale loudly)

Well! I feel better already.

[perrrfect-angel.livejournal.com]

Wow... I remember just where I was when it happened, and where I was when I heard about the attacks, as I'm generally NOT a person who listens to news. Oddly enough, I am fairly certain also of the date without checking it first as a Tuesday, a day I wasn't working. Work closed down that day, "in honor of the fallen," which was one PC way of saying that the tragedy had robbed most locals of the desire to watch movies. (I found out about them closing the next day after coming in to work.)

The film "Collateral Damage" was pushed back for fear of inciting fools to try Arnie's way of handling terrorists. The original trailers for the first Spiderman movie (of the current set, that is) were pulled. THEY had a scene showing a getaway copter caught in a spiderweb between the Twin Towers. And they pulled the original posters, too. Reflected in Spidy's eye... the Twin Towers.

Oh yeah... it was business as usual the next day, even if more subdued than usual.

I remember hearing about all the air traffic being grounded, the halting restart of commercial flights. It was more than a year after that before my next flight, and while AZ was fairly lax about the guards, in LAX there were soldiers with rifles, NOT standing at ease. It was creepy, seeing armed men (didn't see any women that time) standing around, watching the rest of us go about our lives.