Patty, So true about Lincoln. Honest Abe would not recognize his party today.

Fun!

Mugsy, while I agree….I don’t need to go back to what we did to Japan (and how they still remember vividly) March 18, 2003 still shocks and awes me….how a great and good country could perpetrate such evil with the gleeful consent of half of its people is deeply shocking and upsetting to me. Worse, the same people are too apathetic to set down their lattes and really think and instead can’t wait to vote for more of the same.

Linda P— Beautiful. I read it several times and copied it onto a laptop ‘post-it’ next to the photo of my brother who recently died. Really helped. Thank you.

Maurine- “Here in the mountains where I live there is a little mom-and-pop shop whose owners are from the Middle East. After 9/11 they had a small sign in the window that said, simply “our hearts have broke.” They were speaking for me ” That’s how I felt too knowing in the small big city of San Francisco the butcher who is from Palestine, and the corner grocer from Iraq, and all the engineers have worked with from Iran, etc…they aren’t ‘the other’ they were just as saddened and shocked. And the entire world has been betrayed by the NeoCons and their myopic supporters that keep them in office when they should be on the docket at The Hague. Apathy is a very dangerous thing.

CO—What you believe depends on your life experience and how good a researcher you are. And fearful people don’t want to know the truth. They can’t stand knowing. But a lot of people do including Paul Craig Roberts who was in the Reagan admin and in the GWB, All the world’s top intelligence agencies know too. There’s lots of information for people who care about the truth, most don’t. That would ruffle their worlds. http://www.wanttoknow.info/050908insidejob911

CFS, “What I took away from September 11th is this: The times change, our friends and enemies change, but our prayers and terrors remain with us. They sleep beneath the surface of our consciousness, needing only the event of a single moment to awaken them again.” Beautifully said.

Bonnie— The Palestine people have been oppressed by the US puppet for many years. Perhaps some of them saw payback….but not all by any means. Queen Rainia of Jordan is from Palestine and one of the most lucid and lovely women in the world who works constantly for peace and whose nation has been destabilzed by taking in so many of the 2.3 M Iraqi war refugees. Saudis did 911. You know: Bush/Cheney’s business partners and close amigos? The bin Laden family has been business partners of the Bushs for decades. Osama bin Laden’s brother was a partner in Harkin Oil. Bush doesn’t want to get OBL in fact he has said—-it’s on tape—“I don’t think about him.” He doesn’t think about the man who designed 911, he blocked and underfunded the investigation because these were and are his families closest business partners. NO planes in the US were allowed to fly from the US on 9/11 EXCEPT the bin Ladens. Quit drinking the Kool Aide and put on the thinking cap. When there is a mass murder—-what investigating agency let’s all the family members of the planner of those murders leave the country without being interviewed by said investigators. What kind of convoluted logic do you Republicans subscribe to? What would you think if you knew the person who’d killed all your family and the police arranged forto that person’s entire family leave the country without asking them one question? What would you think? http://thetruthproject.us/2007/06/21/fbi-knowingly-allowed-bin-laden-to-… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4cOZUJafFY If Mexcio attacked us would you recommend revenge on Canada? http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l176/musiclover1992/BushSaudiKing.jpg

Phyllis, Extreme high compliment to me…thank you.

Phyllis—-You said my words. Such a sadness and such an anger for 7 very long and literally ungodly years.

De B- The world was with us. Chirac said “We’re all New Yorkers now.” The news coverage of people in major capitals in long lines as you described. I remember all the scary rhectoric, the deliberate use of fear “You’re with us or against us….we’ll smoke ‘em out of their caves.” All the two-bit phony cowboyism from someone who is afraid of horses. In that time of super-heated fear and patriotism Obama made his speech in public, on tape against going to war—stating why and all the repercussions that would ensue and which subsequently happened as he predicted. On Feb 15th 2003 I was part of the global wide 80 million people marching in capital streets all over the world, millions in Rome, Madrid, throughout the Middle East, Oceania, the US….San Francisco was wall to wall with marchers. It barely made the MSM. It was exciting because I believed we would stop this inhumane, illegal, and immoral ‘Halliburton-Exxon War’ from happening. Then on Mar 18, 2003 that sickening ‘Shock and Awe.’ How collectively deranged and sick does a group of men have to be to sit around and plan an overwhelming attack on an urban city of 5M, 50% under 15, and call it “rolling out a new product in the fall and KNOWING as the Bush administration KNEW [as did those of us with working brains] that Saddam [Rumsfelds former goody buddy and Halliburton’s good customer] had nothing to do with 911. They programmatically stired up the fervor. All of this done by calculate design and in writing that anyone could read [i.e. news organizations] in the Project for the New American Century signed by Cheney, and all of the Neocons in 1998 stating exactly what would happen. Going into Iraq, removing Saddam, installing 14 permanent US bases [we also built the largest US Embassy in the history of the world] and in the PNAC the words that this could not happen, the American public would not go for it, without a “New Pearl Harbor.’ When golfer Patrick Stewart’s Lear Jet went off course over rural western America and did not respond to air traffic control calls, within minutes US jets were alongside, filming, the film exists. Hundreds of times a year US military jets deploy anytime a plane goes 15% off it’s vector and does not respond to air traffic control. WDC and NYC are the most guarded airspace in the world. My husband was a naval pilot before he completed grad school and eventually became a CEO, his brother was in charge of training all United airline pilots, I’ve seen in real time just how effective the US military at that when once sitting at lunch at a oceanside restaurant in Salem, MA I saw a strange looking black jet in an otherwise bright and empty blue vista and then suddenly two US military jets appearing out of nowhere flying alongside the strange jet, criss crossing in front of it and waving their wings. This was the day Anwar Sadat was killed and the 4 male stockbrokers I was with from the local EF Hutton office said “happens all the time…its a Russian MIG straffing the coast.” To believe the offical story, one needs to believe that a regular action that happens hundreds of times a year, in the most technologically advanced military in history, with jets parked on the tarmac within minutes of the Pentagon, with the Bush administration knowing there were hijacked air craft menandering in our skies in a circuitous route for over an hour—no jets were deployed. Cheney was in charge at that time of military excercises that precisely duplicated what was happening in real time. The “Commander in Chief’ of our US forces sat reading ‘My Pet Goat’ to schoolchildren knowing that our main cities were under attack, that our national iconic buildings had been hit, that our citizens were roasting to death. He did nothing. Hitler burned the Reichstag as a pretext for declaring himself all powerful, to stir up fear [the most blinding force there is] and to start a phony war that eventually killed 70 million people, most of them innocent civilians. Republicans are ‘fall in line people.” They do not question; when questioning is the basic duty of every citizen. We have no real news, we have attractive puppets working ultimately for multinationals like GE that builds bombs and also owns NBC. This phony war and been a gusher for folks like them. McCain is even more of a gun happy war mongering thoughtless fool than Bush, as if that were possible.—he voted with him 90% of the time. Exxon et al will say “do this” and his response will effectively be ‘yessire.’ Republicans have an opportunity to really think, to really investigate and try to draw connections, to care more about the planet and the people and the real America that was great because she was good and was turned into a terrorist, rogue nation by GWB/Cheney and the NeoCons not just to get control of Iraq, but to establish geopolitical control of the entire Middle East, ie look at a map of what countries ring the Caspian Sea that has 33% more oil than Alaska. The US has puppets in most Middle East nations and want them in Iran and Syria too. This does not make us secure, it makes us hated. Former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler, one of 19 to be twice awarded the Medal of Honor wrote ‘War is a Racket.” He wrote how he was nothing but a muscle man for US coporations and that there is nothing as profitable to them as war. None are so blind that will not see, there are consequences to hedgemony and they will be for our children and grandchildren. Imperialist nations have always been the source of their own demise. From 9/11 onward observing the programmed hysteria, the ripping away of everything I’ve loved about America and what has made us great, the unquestioning allegiance of Republicans for their pResident instead of their country and their Constitution, has been like watching the slow and agonizing deathe of the greatest experiment in the history of the world. And now, Republicans are going to vote to continue the horrow show for the rest of us and the rest of the world. And for that they have my total contempt. You vote for it, you’re part of it. The blood is on your hands. Haven’t you destroyed enough? Ever hear of unintended consequences? Blowback? For pete’s sake wake up instead of being a tool of the GOP and making America more a corporatocracy. http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Pearl_Harbor http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&ei=nEnJSLSnJ… http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

That’s “repeatedly made her “Bridge to Nowhere” reformer claim in a stump speach that Time Magazine, CNN, and the Washington Post said is plain false, and that she knows it is. In McCain’s first presidential responsibility he’s chosen an inexperience woman who claims both a refueling stop in Ireland and that Alaska is next to Russia as proof of Foreign Policy experience. McCian’s proved he does not put “Country First.”

What Makes Great Presidents: Each of the elections cited were turning points in the direction of our nation. And we are at another defining juncture today. Leadership organizations like the UN and presidential historians like Arthur Schlesinger agree on the common attributes of Great Presidents: 1.Intelligence and Clear Vision: In under 20 minutes in President Kennedy’s famous 1962 Rice University ‘Moon Speech’ he articulated a complex context of human history, scientific development, American ideals. He laid out where we were, why we needed to be on the moon first, what needed to be done, in what time frame and with which tools. When he completed his speech, listeners understood the innovative powers of Americans when focused, the size of the goal and the urgency of reaching it. Like a commander of a great fleet he established the destination, charted the course and ordered actions. As leading presidential scholar, Arthur Schlesinger wrote, “Great presidents possess a vision of an ideal America. Their passion is to make sure the ship of state sails on the right course.” JFK’s Moon Speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTyYM-dUgCI 2. Influence and Team Building: Great Presidents have clear strategies to build consensus, relationships and coalitions with Congress, the American people and with other nations and across vast ranges of possible key allies and foes. As Historian Elting Morison said of Theodore Roosevelt, “He could get the attention of his fellow citizens and make them think; and how to move people into their thinking beyond short-run self-interest toward some longer view of the general welfare.” Obama’s acceptance speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ato7BtisXzE 3. Great Communication: The President is the Commander in Chief of the military, the CEO of the Federal government, a global policy maker, an advocate, negotiator, facilitator and mediator. Great Presidents understood the needs of their time and were in sympathy with the anxieties and dreams of the people. FDR said that all our great presidents “were leaders of thought at times when certain ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.” And Woodrow Wilson stated they shared profound insight into the common man and for the common good. JFK’s American University Speech, Test Ban Treaty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR4oyWp0PvM McCain’s convention theme “Country First” is a bumper-sticker slogan rendered meaningless by putting politics first (which Rove admitted they did) by the pandering and cynical selection of an unfit VP. A Gov. of a tiny state with the highest tax rate, the highest drop-out rate, and a Gov who has served 19 months. For half of those days, 300+, she bilked the citizens for a travel per diem when she remained at home. And in the 6-days since her selection she’s repeatedly made her “Bridge to Nowhere” reformer clain in a stump speach to Time Magazine, CNN, and the Washington Post.

Never heard that song by Bruce Springsteen…cried all through it. For all that will always be lost. Forgot about 9/11 because my brother’s death of 7 weeks ago has left the days looking the same but feeling surreal…it’s hard to believe someone doesn’t exist anymore anywhere on the planet. All of those people and police, firefighters…. and a courageous FBI expert in terrorism, John O’Neill, he died at the WTC on 911, too. He’d tried to warn everyone something big was coming. He said “All the secrets behind terrorism are hidden in Saudia Arabia by US Big Oil and Big Banks.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/could/911commission.h… http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/victim.wtc.security/ http://www.hereinreality.com/johnoneill.html

Lola….I agree love the DVF and love her such a wonderful lady…for some reason doesn’t suit me but so classic. I hope DD does more videos, isn’t she a doll? Would be great if she went into MoMAs costume museum. But love these kind of newsy vids with designers too.