Even though Giuliani’s campaign suffered crib death yesterday, that’s no reason not to hold the Baby 9/11 to your chest, clutch it tight, and never let it go.
In an article at the Politico, Ben Smith and David Paul Kuhn have decided that Rudy Giuliani’s defeat “marks the end of 9/11 politics.” The question of whether or not Rudy relied too heavily on his 9/11 performance must be separated from the fact that our lives continue to be defined by the attacks of that day. For the most flagrant abusers of “9/11 politics” are those who have come to label every Republican reminder of the attacks as nothing more than a cheap GOP stratagem. Republicans who dare point out that 9/11 has necessarily altered America’s political landscape come under immediate fire from hordes of Democrats accusing them of exploitation.
Without Communists, it’s more important than ever that we never forget 9/11.
If nothing else, there will always be those damned godless tax-and-spend libruls.
the gop can’t really run on spendthrift democrats anymore. not with record breaking deficits, a costly foreign war, and the economy in the shitter.
Speeking of fear politics, See this from The Onion today…
We Must All Do Our Part To Preserve This Climate Of Fear
“our lives continue to be defined by the attacks of that day”
Sure, if you’re some sorry-ass loser whose life lacks definition otherwise. My life, and I suspect most healthy people’s lives, are defined by things that never make the national news.
When I want my husband to do something and he asks, “Why should I?” I say, “If you don’t change the sheets on the beds, then the terrorist win.” See, the politics of fear can be very useful in daily life.
Of course, he is from a (formerly) communist country, so maybe I can use that too.
In $FORMER_COMMUNIST_COUNTRY, sheets change YOU!
I’ve been
dyingtrying to figure out PHP or MySQL so I can do some sort of database for my company site…I really have no idea what I’m doing, but that coding is getting to me.I’d do the MySQL first, mostly because once you figure out the mechanics of how a database works, getting PHP or Perl or Python or any other language to do what you want with that database will suddenly make a lot more sense. Besides, you can go in and repair things through the MySQL interface if they get out of whack (which they will). SQL is not all that hard to learn, and even reads sort of like English: “Select all items from inventory where price < 10 and quantity < 100” is a perfectly valid SQL statement.
If you already have access to a webserver and aren’t afraid to try a little experimentation I’d install PHP and MySQL and then set up phpMyAdmin. It’s a web-based front end to your MySQL installation that gives you convenient access to your data.