The Guild 9-11-2003 Remember

9-11-2003

[Timeout]

Front page cartoon in Le Monde today, 9/11/03:

It would be so unfair if there was another 9-11.
[OMC = World Trade Organisation]

(Note how the Twin Towers have been made to look like gas pumps)

[mountaineer]

Sad to see stuff like that on this anniversary day.

This, too:

GEORGETTE Mosbacher didn't let "60 Minutes" executive producer Don Hewitt get away with his Bush-bashing yesterday. At a breakfast event at '21,' Hewitt said, "I'm not anti-Bush, I think Laura is terrific." Hewitt also said, "George Bush speaks too loudly and doesn't carry a big enough stick." But when he referred to Bush as "Miss Mosbacher's president," the flame-haired Republican forced him to admit, "He's my president too." Hewitt also railed against born-again Christians, likening them to recovering alcoholics. ...

SEN. Hillary Clinton is keeping the door open to running for president next year in order to scare off support for Wesley Clark. "The last thing the Clintons want is for a Democrat from Arkansas to defeat Bush next year," says our spy about the ex-general who is expected to announce his candidacy next month. At a dinner at her house in Chappaqua Sunday, Sen. Clinton teased her most generous donors by coyly requesting they contribute to "my next campaign, whatever that may be." Our source adds, "The Clinton master plan is for a Hillary candidacy in 2008 and they will subtly sabotage the Democratic candidate in 2004. That's why they insist on keeping their personal operative, Terry McAuliffe, in charge of the Democratic committee."

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[mountaineer]

Oops, forgot to add what the man who - thank you, Lord - is not president is doing:

WHILE we all try to cope with the postponement of Jennifer Lopez's wedding to Ben Affleck, we can report that at least one other celebrity "marriage" is still on - the union of lesbian lovebirds Melissa Etheridge and her gal pal of two years, actress Tammy Lynn Michaels. The sapphic ceremony will supposedly take place in Malibu this weekend, and we're told that Al and Tipper Gore are on the guest list.

[mountaineer]

The darkness went on a grimly long time, and Juan Cruz-Santiago was not sure it would ever lift. It outlasted the early days, when doctors sewed his eyelids shut to protect what was left of his sight. It obscured his sense of the surrounding world through 40 surgeries and 87 days in a hospital bed, through his homecoming and his whispered prayers and month after month of slow healing.

Then, unexpectedly, he began to detect outlines and shapes. He saw his way through his hallway and living room. He took in his wife's dark eyes, his daughter's smile, the pink roses he had planted years before outside his kitchen window. "This we thought would never happen," said his wife, Veronica.

Two years after he was nearly killed at the Pentagon, Cruz can also see in vivid detail what before he could only feel and imagine: the amputated stubs of his fingers, the scorching burns on his neck, the bone-deep wound on his scarred leg. He is still undergoing surgery, still on painkillers -- better than he once was, never the same. rest of story, WashPost

[lodwick]

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning. Thank you for bringint this to us.

A Somber day, indeed.

[mountaineer]

Another long, spellbinding account of getting out of the WTC #2 that day: here (also here, in case the first one doesn't work).

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Madonna's Children's Book: The first volume in Madonna's five-book series for kids is due out next week. Here are the book titles:

* You Were Born Naked
* Goldie Locks and Her Three Male Bi-Sexual Dancers
* Where the Wild Things Are... in My Bedroom
* The Grinch Who Pans All My Movies
*Ex-Mouseketeers are Easy

[daisyscarlett]

We still miss her too, Ted...

Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites), right, talks to Solictor General Ted Olson, whose wife, Barbara, died in the attack on the Pentagon (news - web sites), after Olson's address before a Sept. 11 commemoration, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003 at the Justice Department (news - web sites) in Washington. Olson told Justice Department employees that an unrelenting fight against terrorism is the best way to honor the memory of those who perished. (AP Photo/Lisa Nipp)

[daisyscarlett]

President Bush (news - web sites), with first lady Laura Bush, comments on the heroism and tragic events of the attacks on America two years ago after a memorial service at St. John's Episcopal Church , in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

[anniegetyourgun]

This is so precious:

Sgt. Rhonda Gwynn of 230 Finance of the Fourth Division of the U.S. army prays during a memorial service to mark the second anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington, at one of the palaces of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) in Tikrit, about 110 miles northwest of Baghdad Sept. 11, 2003. Security in Tikrit has been tightened for the second anniversary of Sept. 11. (Arko Datta/Reuters)

[daisyscarlett]

This is so precious

Indeed it is...gives me the chills....that brave young American is in Tikrit surrounded by hostility...How can these dim dems look at this picture and not get why we are over there?

Thanks for sharing...hope this photo is picked up by lots of newspapers and mags over the next few days...

[Timeout]

Rush just read an editorial from the Jerusalem Post stating it's time send Arafat to Paradise. This will horrify the weanies.

And it occurred to me: If we knew Bin Laden was in a compound 5 miles outside our border, wouldn't we take him out????

[habs4ever]

Yes, it is :) Thanks AGYG.

[BigWaveBetty]

I'm confused after reading the Fox Facts, are we gong to send Arafat to his room or remove him?

[BigWaveBetty]

Thanks for finding that pic and bringing it to uss.

Another moving photo that shows our troops know excatly what they're fighting for.

US soldiers stand as they observe a moment of silence during the 9-11 Day of Commemoration Prayer Breakfast for US troops at Baghdad International Airport. The US military is holding a series of memorial services throughout Iraq (news - web sites) to mark the second anniversary of terrorist attacks on US soil.(AFP/Robert Sullivan)

[BigWaveBetty]

Did you hear the clip on Rush of Ed Koch interveiwed by Blizter? Ed really let the dim have it. I thought I heard Blitzer choking in the background as Koch told Blitzer that he would vote for GWB he's so disgusted with the dims. Koch told him twice he'd vote for GWB!!! ahahahaha!!!

[BigWaveBetty]

Those stories are so incredible, I'm glad I didn't put any mascara on today.

Thanks for posting them here.

[Endeavor]

DS - thank you for including that photo of Ted Olson and remembering Barbara.

I tried to post her photo to this thread last night, but alas, I'm on a new computer and couldnt' get the pic to work.

Please pray for Ted today - not only is it the day he lost his wife, but it is also his birthday, and the reason that Barbara had changed her flight plans - she'd intended to fly to LA on Monday, September 10, 2001, to appear on Bill Maher's show on the 11th, but changed her plans to be with her husband the morning of his birthday, September 11th.

God bless Ted Olson, and thank you, God, for giving us Barbara Olson - she is yours, now, but I so appreciate her years with us here on earth. -E

[BigWaveBetty]

Last night on Special Report with Brit Hume he point out that three of the nine dwarfs were positive that Saddam had no link to al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks. Those being Kuchinich, Dean and my all time fav, Bob Graham.

Brits guest was Monsor Ijaz to tell us what he knows about the alliance between the two thugs.

Ijaz said he'd give a pass to Dean and Kuchinich because they are ignorant of the facts. Graham on the other hand should know better since he spent 10 years on the Intell. Comm. and was the ranking member for a few years.

He was astounded that Graham could make such bold faced lies, just to discret the president.

There is indeed proof that Saddam and obl were in cahoots together and Ijaz is sure that Saddam had a hand in 9/11 that would probably be forth coming in David Kay's report.

And people banter Graham's name around as VP material????