Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 09/11/2009 9:37:21 AM PDT by AJKauf
We can all remember the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Almost all of us can remember the second anniversary. The third, a lot less; the fourth, even less. Eventually, something happened: we forgot about 9/11.
I began working at Hollywood Video, a movie rental store, in 2004 and saw this process happen. On September 11 of each year, I’d walk in and almost no one would mention the significance of the date, and the number of those that did steadily declined to zero by 2008, my final year there. Customers frequently asked the date, as they always did, not even realizing that it was September 11, but they always managed to remember the release date of the movie they were waiting for. And, I must add, this was in New Jersey, only a short train ride from New York City.
This complacency can be seen in public opinion polls, the media, and even the government’s reaction to incidents that would have sparked fear nationwide and saturated media coverage in the years immediately following 9/11.
Take some of the incidents where radical Islam showed its head this year alone...
(Excerpt) Read more at pajamasmedia.com ...
GETTING complacent?
Are “we”?!!
Look who’s gotten elected as President.
I am amazed at how so many have forgotten what happened, it saddens me, yet gives me resolve at the same time.
All this and every rogue on the world stage is running unchecked.
Obama Administration: US Has Overinvested In Oil, Gas
By Siobhan Hughes 10 September, 2009 Dow Jones News Service
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The Obama administration opened a new front in its effort to impose $31.5 billion in taxes on oil and gas companies, saying that the nation puts too much emphasis on oil and gas at the expense of other industries.
The chief economist in the Obama administration's Treasury Department testified before a Senate panel that current subsidies "lead to overinvestment" in the oil and gas industry. That went beyond previous statements about the need to protect taxpayers and was the clearest signal yet that the federal government hopes to end its role in nurturing domestic oil and gas production.
Yeah, the US producing too much oil and natural gas is a big problem all right. The Obama administration plans to do something about that.
If they were TRYING to make the US more dependent on ME oil, what would they do different?
You know an import tax on imported oil and natural gas (exempting CA and MX) would discourage imports without hurting domestic production. But LOWERING DOMESTIC PRODUCTION is the explicit GOAL and the Treasury economists arguments make that clear. The "subsidies" the Obama administration is targeting ie. tax deductions like intangible drilling costs - that only is for domestic production. See this listing of tax advantages for DOMESTIC production (targeted by the Obama adm) by an outfit a few miles up the road from me (not that I have anything to do with them except live and work nearby):
I would have to argue that we ARE complacent. Yes, more people are getting involved in the political process and becoming more knowledgeable about current events, but there’s still many out there who just don’t care.
I’ve had people say to me, “It doesn’t affect me, so why should I worry about it?” “There’s nothing I can do about it, so why should I care?”
And then there’s Christians who have told me that “I should just pray and not really pay attention to anything and just focus on God, because anything else will hurt my mind.”
Sorry, those arguments just don’t cut it! It’s called being complacent and apathetic and thoese things are toxic, in my book.
Maybe. But now that Dear Leader has designated today a Day of National Service, we can all rest easier.
I searched and it seems that Dow Jones article wasn’t posted. I posted it: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337343/posts
No, more like apathetic.
I’m not complacent. The media has succeeded in burying memories of this hateful event perpetrated by 19 representatives of the death cult.
How many express outrage on December 7th? How about “Remember the Maine”? 9/11 is fading just as those faded. Heck, we nuked two Japanese cities and fired-bombed a dozen more not to mention killing hundreds-of-thousands (millions?) of Japanese soldiers and civilians in response to the December 7th attack. Our response to 9/11, an assault that killed more of our citizens than the 12/7 attack (the vast majority of whom were civilians not even remotely involved in U.S. policy decisions or military matters) has been limited and has slowly deteriorated to the point where Islamist regimes that quaked in fear immediately after the attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq now openly and brazenly threaten us and our allies with attack and supply arms, money and training to enemy units in Iraq and Afghanistan without retaliation from us.
The subversive left has engaged in a campaign of sedition and defeatism with considerable success. There have been cases of open support of the enemies of this nation (Code Pink sending money to Islamist groups, the NYT publishing secret memos and exposing important clandestine programs rendering them ineffective). But most of all they have pushed the whole 9/11 attack into the background. They have worked to ensure that except on the anniversary itself there are no images broadcast or published in the SRM and that it is mentioned as little as possible and then only as a referrence point for attacks on America’s response to the assault.
There are any number of enemies to America in this world but by far the most dangerous and effective is the left and their enablers and allies inside this nation.
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