The Guild 9-11-2003 Remember

9-11-2003

[BigWaveBetty]

Prays for Barbara and Ted Olson, he must miss her terribly.

[BigWaveBetty]

British police officers walk together carrying the American and British flags as they arrive at the 'ground zero' site of the World Trade Center disaster where family members and friends of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks gathered for a ceremony marking the two year anniversary of the attacks in New York, September 11, 2003. REUTERS/Mike Segar

[Endeavor]

Based on her moving and evangelical memorial service and on the fact that a number of her close friends are serious Christians, I feel certain that our Lord welcomed Barbara into Heaven the moment that plane hit the Pentagon.

I think her loss is most difficult for her family and friends - please remember them all in your prayers tonight.

[BigWaveBetty]

Tony Giuffredo of Parsippany, N.J., walks among the flags at a 'Healing Fields' display at the Salaam Shrine Center in Livingston, N.J., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003. The shrine erected flags remembering each of the over 3,400 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)

Rebecca Goros, left, of Dunellen, N.J., and Cindie Schulman of Scotch Plains, N.J., take pictures among the flags at a 'Healing Fields' display at the Salaam Shrine Center in Livingston, N.J., Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003. The shrine erected flags remembering each of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer

United States Army soldiers stand in front of the Stars and Stripes flag during a commemoration for the victims of attacks on New York's World Trade Center and Washington's Pentagon (news - web sites) two years ago, at a former palace in Baghdad of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) September 11, 2003. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh

[mountaineer]

three of the nine dwarfs were positive that Saddam had no link to al Qaeda and the 9/11 attacks.

Wonder where the military genius stands on the issue?

Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark has told friends he is likely to become the 10th Democratic presidential candidate, a move that could shake up the crowded field just four months before the first ballots are cast. Clark, 58, has not made a final decision, but the Arkansas resident is aggressively recruiting campaign staff and plans to announce his intentions next week, friends and party officials said on condition of anonymity.

Clark confirmed that he was putting a campaign plan together but chalked it up to the type of "parallel planning" common in the military. "If you want to find out whether you're going to go ahead, you have to have financial resources and you have to have staff available," he told The Associated Press. ...

Clark believes his four-star military service would counter Bush's political advantage as a wartime commander in chief, friends say. The retired general has been critical of the Iraq war and Bush's postwar efforts, positions that would put him alongside Dean, Graham and Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio as the most vocal anti-war candidates. link

[lodwick]

Look for a PIAPS/Clark ticket...scary thought.

[lodwick]

Quotes & Toasts of the Day -

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." – Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

“An armed society is a polite society" – Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon

"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another." - G. K. Chesterton

[BigWaveBetty]

Julia Coombs of Abington, Mass., who lost her father Jeffrey Coombs in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, carries a pot of flowers Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003, to the site of a planned memorial for Massachusetts victims in Boston's Public Garden. Jeffrey Coombs was aboard American Flight 11, one of the jets that was crashed into the World Trade center by terrorists. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, Pool)

President Bush (news - web sites) and first lady Laura Bush bow their heads as they take part in a moment of silence, Thursday, Sept 11, 2003, on the South Lawn of the White House with other White House staff in rememberance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)

New York Governor George Pataki hugs an unidentified woman upon his decent down a ramp into the World Trade Center site where family members of the victims of the September 11, attacks on the World Trade Center gathered for a ceremony marking the two year anniversary of the attacks in New York, Thursday, September 11, 2003. (AP Photo/Mike Segar,pool

Solictor General Ted Olson, whose wife, Barbara, died in the attack on the Pentagon (news - web sites), addresses 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)

Barbara Olson, a lady of grace that will be sorely missed. God rest her soul.

[daisyscarlett]

Thanks for the post about this also being Ted Olson's birthday. When he was being interviewed by Larry King he also told that when he finally went up to his bedroom at the end of that very long day, he found a note that Barbara had left under his pillow, saying "Thinking about you...I love you"...Tore me up...

[daisyscarlett]

Sounds like Rush had a great show today. I was out running errands so only heard bits and pieces but did hear the discussion about why can't Israel get rid of Arafat-he is a teerorist etc...Made sense to me..

Loved when he called Hillary a "screaming witch" and how he handled the callers who said he was a meanie for calling her that. The first caller said, why did you call her a witch and Rush said, "I did not call her a witch, I called her a "screaming witch"...

On one of Hillary's websites, they are asking for donations "to combat those who call her names etc"...lol...must be a sore spot for the PIAPS screaming witch...hee hee

[BigWaveBetty]

Clark believes his four-star military service would counter Bush's political advantage as a wartime commander in chief, friends say.

Apparently the river denial is a long one.

Does Clark think that whopper he told back in March is just going to fade away? Bwahahahaha!

And oh btw, didn't clintoon dismiss him as commander during the engagement with Kosovo?

Bill talked him up so that he'd enter to stir things up so hilly has a clean shot at '08.

I don't care how low GWB numbers go, hilly doesn't have the gonads to go up against GWB and possibly lose.

Especially since she knows GWB has all the WMD and who supplied Saddam with it in documentation just waiting to be released. Ha!

Look for billybob to be extrememly quiet this month and next (working feverously on his book, hilly' helping too!), so don't expect to see their ugly mugs fof quite a while.

[lodwick]

Thanks for the nice BKO information and thoughts.

Some folks are so very special.

Cheers out there.

[daisyscarlett]

You are very welcome. You are right, some people are so very special, they are never forgotten.

Thanks also for the heads up last night about Arnold being on O'Reilly. I thought he did quite well and O'Reilly later, while talking with Dickie Morris, predicted that Arnold would win...Dickie was shocked-he predicts otherwise...When was the last time he (Morris) was right anyway?...lol...

Now I have a heads up for you...Arnold and Maria are going to be on Oprah on Monday for her season opener. If he kisses Oprah, ala the way W did and not the way Gore did, he will pick up many votes, IMO...LOL...

[daisyscarlett]

so don't expect to see their ugly mugs for quite a while.

Hillary's ugly mug is all over the place today...She was on Katie Couric (where she bashed Bush about the EPA) and on CNN with Woodruff (where she bashed Bush about spending too much time on Iraq and not on homeland security). Can you even fathom that? If it were not for she and her dear hubby, there would not even been a 9-11...

As for Clintoon, he is coming to California on Sunday to campaign with Gray Davis in the black section of L.A. and then he is off to Iowa for some steak dinner where he is the keynote speaker.

[Endeavor]

Thanks BWB - that's the exact pic I was trying to post.

And thanks to you, DS, for that lovely tribute to BKO. I didn't know about the note.

May we never forget all those who died senselessly and needlessly September 11th, 2001. And may we never forget those who've given their lives since then in battles in Afghanistan, Iraq, and many other countries - some of whom have died in events we will never know about, but who nonetheless died fighting for our freedom. God bless them.

[daisyscarlett]

U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) speaks to the press after visiting soldiers wounded in Iraq (news - web sites), at the Walter Reed Army hospital in Washington, September 11, 2003. With the President are first lady Laura Bush, hospital commander Major General Kevin C. Kiley (2nd R) and hospital health care system commander Colonel Jonathan H. Jaffin (R). Bush awarded purple heart medals to 11 soldiers wounded in Iraq as he visited them on the second anniversary of the 2001 attacks on New York and Washington. REUTERS/Jason Reed

[mountaineer]

I must be wearing an "aggravate me" sign today. Some pro-druggie is harassing the heck out of me on a thread about Tommy Chong pleading guilty to selling drug paraphernalia. Funny how the defendant didn't even see any point to fighting the charge, or argue against the war on drugs, but these FR keyboard commandos are toking and typing like mad on the issue. This just isn't the day for it - there are more important things to think about today than the right to sell bongs.

[BigWaveBetty]

Go back over to that thread and start posting pictures of munchie foods like twinkies, chocolate cookies, bananna splits, doritos and cheese puffs.

He'll disappear like a magic trick. :-)

[BigWaveBetty]

My pleasure E, that is a beautiful picture of Barbara. That was the exact one you were trying to post? Great minds....

[mountaineer]

You must listen to this audio montage of Sept. 11 (about 6 1/2 minutes long).

Another find (thanks to LittleGreenFootballs), Mohammed Atta's written instructions. Excerpt:

12) Bless your body with some verses of the Qur'an [done by reading verses into one's hands and then rubbing the hands over whatever is to be blessed], the luggage, clothes, the knife, your personal effects, your ID, passport, and all your papers.

13) Check your weapon before you leave and long before you leave. (You must make your knife sharp and must not discomfort your animal during the slaughter).