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Friday, September 11, 2009

September 9, 2009: Never Forget

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AP: 'Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 11, 2001, America saw its worst day of terrorism. Nearly 3,000 people died when two hijacked jetliners smashed into New York's World Trade Center, causing the twin towers to fall; a commandeered jetliner plowed into the Pentagon; and a fourth hijacked plane was crashed in a field in western Pennsylvania.'

© Janet Crain

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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Death of Innocence on a September Morning

by Janet Crain

Eight years ago today our generation experienced our own Pearl Harbor. The shock and grief that an enemy could attack our citizens on our own soil was almost too much to register. A completely unprovoked attack on civilians, including women and babies, in the middle of a huge powerful city where no one thought such a thing could happen, ripped our innocence to shreds that September morning and September will never be the same.

To me September always evoked memories of the first week of school. High school football, Jr. High kids in stiff new clothes, and kindergarteners clutching bags with Elmers glue and blunt scissors inside. And parents clutching the hand of their little ones about to leave the nest, convinced that we could always keep our loved ones safe. How little we knew.

And even here in Texas hints of the cool weather to come. From out of nowhere, a sharp cool breeze reminding you that another season was just around the corner. Soon it would be Halloween and then Thanksgiving and Christmas. Already?

But that cruel September morning ripped away the happy memories and substituted horrible images in their place. We flew flags and watched television relentlessly. Our congresspersons held hands and stood on the steps together singing America the Beautiful. There was no sacrifice our government could ask of us to right this wrong that we would not support.

I hope for just this one day, eight years later, we can put aside pettiness and reflect on the implications of that day. In addition to the respect and remembrance due the victims of this terrible injustice, try to imagine if that day had never happened.

An exercise in futility? I don't think so. Humility, maybe.

Let's cut our leaders some slack and think about the choices they had. To do their best to insure this terrible day was never repeated.

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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Meg Whitman Says She is a Huge Fan of Van Jones

by Janet Crain
Meg Whitman says she is a huge fan of Van Jones. Van Jones says George Bush was a crackhead, Republicans are A$$holes, minorities have been selectively targeted by polluters, 9/11 was a government plot and espouses many other crackpot theories. That's fine; this is a free country.

But he does not belong in a high position or any position at all in the government he hates.

And by the same token Republicans are free to shun Meg Whitman for any elected office and to shun anyone who seeks her counsel and had her on his campaign committee.

Friday, May 22, 2009

Just Being Pretty Safe is Not Enough.........

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday leveled his harshest indictment yet of President Barack Obama’s approach to the war on terror, saying the president’s efforts to dismantle Bush-era policies have left the nation dangerously exposed to another attack.

“If liberals are unhappy about some decisions, and conservatives are unhappy about other decisions, then it may seem to them that the President is on the path of sensible compromise,” Cheney said. “But in the fight against terrorism, there is no middle ground, and half-measures keep you half exposed.”

“You cannot keep just some nuclear-armed terrorists out of the United States, you must keep every nuclear-armed terrorist out of the United States. Triangulation is a political strategy, not a national security strategy,” Cheney said.

He also says those who call Bush interrogation practices torture — as Obama has — are people who engage in “contrived indignation and phony moralizing on the interrogation methods applied to a few captured terrorists.”

With most Republicans wanting to move forward rather than relitigate the unpopular Bush years, Cheney stepped into the void at the American Enterprise Institute with what amounted to a rebuttal of Obama’s own national security address and a robust defense of the Bush practices.

An unapologetic Cheney gave no ground, and aimed his fire squarely at a president who, in keeping with his political modus operandi, had just sought to balance the demands of left and right.

“There is never a good time to compromise when the lives and safety of the American people are in the balance," he said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22810.html#ixzz0GGnsNaTw&B

Cheney's Speech:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/text_of_cheneys_aei_speech.asp

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Joe, Joe, Joe, say it ain't so.....

How do you know when Joe Biden is committing a gaffe? When his lips are moving! JC

Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.

According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president.

The bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks.

Eleanor Clift, Newsweek magazine's Washington contributing editor, said Biden revealed the location while filling in for President Obama at the dinner, who, along with Grover Cleveland, is the only president to skip the gathering.

According to Clift's report on the Newsweek blog, Biden "said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment."

Clift continued: "The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn't be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall."

On Monday, Biden's press office issued a statement in response to this story, denying the bunker report.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/17/oops-biden-reveals-location-secret-vp-bunker/?test=latestnewscommentscomments

© Janet Crain

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Friday, January 9, 2009

Unhallowed Ground

http://www.newsweek.com/id/177724

This is a fascinating article about the painstaking DNA identification of the terrorists' remains and how they have been separated, when possible, from the victims of 9/11. The article addresses as well the question of where to put these remains. It's the first article worth reading that Newsweek has run in months.

But why now? Why did they wait? Because there was no way they wanted the American public to be reminded of that horrible day before the Election. Because maybe, just maybe, some would have come to their senses and changed their vote?