Bookworm on Apr 16 2008 | Filed under: 9/11, Iran
Sometimes, if you want to run a sanity check, it’s helpful to look at those who share the same views you do. Perhaps some of the Truthers might be a little shaken in their beliefs if they realized that apocalyto-nut Ahmadinejad is also a Truther. On second thought, when I think about who the Truthers [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2008 | Filed under: 9/11, Islam, Jihad, Muslim violence
One of the things about conspiracy theorists is that they live in a hazy world of innuendo and speculation. There’s never any hard evidence to support their theory, just a lot of disparate facts that can be spun together into a tangled and usually nonsensical tapestry. As often as not, the beauty of the theories [...]
Bookworm on Feb 11 2008 | Filed under: 9/11
Immediately after reading an email from Danny Lemieux in which he says it should be interesting if the loonies on the Left shriek hysterically about the proposed death penalty for the 9/11 terrorists, I read Cheat Seeking Missiles and saw that Laer made precisely the same point. I hadn’t thought about the subject at [...]
Bookworm on Dec 17 2007 | Filed under: 9/11
This squiblet showed up in today’s Chronicle:
The San Francisco Tea Party for 9/11 for Truth was held in San Francisco Sunday on the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. Similar events were held in Boston and other cities across the country. Party attendees marched from Pier 39 to the end of the Municipal Pier [...]
Bookworm on Oct 25 2007 | Filed under: 9/11
Bill Clinton deserves huge kudos for this:
Clinton’s 50-minute speech, which started about an hour behind schedule, was derailed briefly by several hecklers in the audience who shouted that the 2001 terrorist attacks were a fraud. Rather than ignoring them, Clinton seemed to relish a direct confrontation.
“A fraud? No, it wasn’t a fraud,” Clinton said, as [...]
Bookworm on Sep 16 2007 | Filed under: 9/11, Anti-war, Multiculturalism
This is the beginning of yet another must-read Mark Steyn column:
This year I marked the anniversary of Sept. 11 by driving through Massachusetts. It wasn’t exactly planned that way, just the way things panned out. So, heading toward Boston, I tuned to Bay State radio talk-show colossus Howie Carr and heard him reading out portions [...]
Bookworm on Sep 13 2007 | Filed under: 9/11, Anti-Americanism, Germany
Truther madness has invaded Germany at the highest levels: one of the government-run TV stations ran an “investigative” show that examined whether it was OBL or the US government that took down the Twin Towers and tried to destroy the Pentagon and other buildings in D.C.:
Have you heard this one before?
Jupp says to his [...]
Bookworm on Sep 12 2007 | Filed under: 9/11, Education
I offer no comment, just the story:
STUDENTS at Madrone High School in San Rafael put together a “peace flag” Tuesday in memory of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Each student received the afternoon off to decorate a square of fabric with a message of peace.
An administrative assistant at the 50-student school [...]
Bookworm on Sep 12 2007 | Filed under: 9/11, San Francisco
Betty Ong was one of the flight attendants who died on 9/11. She was also a native San Franciscan. Since 1994, a large mural in San Francisco’s Chinatown has celebrated the Chinese in San Francisco. In 2003, the site’s owners and the artist added a tribute to Ms. Ong to that mural. [...]
Bookworm on Sep 11 2007 | Filed under: 9/11
Lorie Byrd has written a thoughtful article about the lessons we’ve learned from 9/11 and, more importantly, the lessons we keep ignoring. She was kind enough to link to one of my posts on the subject, which I really appreciate. She sees, as I do, an overwhelming tension between those who think 9/11 was a [...]
Bookworm on Sep 10 2007 | Filed under: 9/11
We say we won’t forget, but we do. We forget when we get up in the morning and hustle the kids off to school. And we forget when we rush through our morning ablutions and throw ourselves in the work of the day. We forget when we stand in the bright [...]
Bookworm on Sep 09 2007 | Filed under: 9/11
At American Digest, you can read a lovely essay about 9/11, the day the smoke rose in the sky. I’m especially envious of its beauty because, as we near the Sixth Anniversary of that day, I find myself with nothing to say. As always, I mourn the dead, but I also mourn the death [...]
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