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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
The Decider, indeed!
Today is indeed 9/11. And I think its a day to remember the people we lost, and reflect on what this country should mean in the world. If we work our way through today and focus on nothing other than the reading of a children’s story in a Florida classroom, then we’ve missed a lot.
in the world began going down the drain in that Florida classroom. Those minutes of confusion and indecision by Bush were a foreshadowing of what was to come.
I feel like it’s a day to mourn everything that has been done in the name of 9/11, 9/11, 9/11 since then.
A moment in time that has shown how social structures have the capacity to over ride the normal supportive structure of the human village. It is this overide that has to be thrown out. 4 million displaced in Iraq, Darfur genocide, DRC genocide, the ongoing destruction of the new born women in China, the ongoing capacity to justify the steady destruction of the uninsured in the USA. And on and on and on.
And thats a fact.
What it means to me is that life goes on despite the bumblers and fools that we like to believe will take responsibility for us.
There was tragedy on that day, and there was real community, even though there is always ignorance and evil.
I intend to remember that day entirely without the aid of a television.
And last night I caught some of Betrayus on Faux of all things. I have to limit the time, the upchuck factor of it all.
Different take though is that he is not actually lying but lacks the background of why we actually went into Iraq in the first place. For oil, Halliburton profits and to conduct yet another update of modern urban setting war games. The selling of bombing Iran was evident here as was the detailed accounts of jihad forces entering Iraq.
Gee, what was that place we have, “The school of the Americas”?
This morning the local wingnut even acknowledges what he calls “the kooks”, the 911 inside job people, and he carefully equates them with those liberal radicals over at MoveOn.
He misrepresents every single concept for right wing political gains but that is just Michael Graham.