Remembering September 11, 2001
by sarabeth at 6:00 am on September 11th, 2006 in War on TerrorI want you to ask yourself two questions today.
Based on everything you have seen President Bush say and do in the last five years, do you think he has felt one single moment of compassion for the victims (as you and I understand the term, not as Tony Snow or Scott McClellan might define it)?
What do you think you can do, today and in the future, to honor the memory of the victims and the heroes?
And I want you to make yourself a promise.
Whatever you came up with for the second question, promise yourself that you will do it.
Whatever our government does, or claims it is doing, or doesn’t do, to fight terrorism, this is how you and I can fight it. And who is to say that in the ultimate analysis our efforts will not be more important than the government’s?
jamie beth wrote:
as all other september 11ths since 2001 i am spending the day walking around manhattan. i started the morning with a walk in riverside park and ran straight into a fireman’s memorial. i will now take the train downtown and wander home….i don’t know how this honors anyone’s memories except my own, but i know it’s important to me to “be a part of the city” today.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 7:39 am ¶
jamie beth wrote:
i forgot to mention i will be wearing my “i do not consent” shirt:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiebeths/37718705/in/set-833035/
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 8:18 am ¶
shmedd wrote:
I’ll be taking my 5 year old daughter (6 months old on 9/11) to our front porch and lighting a couple of candles and trying to explain to her what/how this happened. I don’t expect it to be easy but I also feel it’s important that she get a sense of the magnitude of the tragedy and why we should remember.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 10:35 am ¶
jamie beth wrote:
report from the site:
it’s a beautiful day in manhattan. a little cooler and breezier than it was in 2001. lower manahttan is an interesting mix of people today:
(1) survivors/family members/firemen/public here to commemorate the day
(2) tourists
(3) people here to work as they would be on any other day
(4) protesters
all in all, a fairly typical day in new york, i would say.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 10:54 am ¶
sac wrote:
Nice, uh, shirt.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 11:12 am ¶
matt wrote:
is that a rack joke?
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 2:57 pm ¶
jamie beth wrote:
i think it is …. i wasn’t going to say anything, but as my big brother, can you please defend me?
thanks.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:00 pm ¶
sac wrote:
No, I simply forgot how to spell “shirt” for a brief moment, hence the “uh.”
Alright, it was a rack joke.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:14 pm ¶
matt wrote:
thin ice. although, she did open the door…
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:18 pm ¶
sac wrote:
Also, I had no idea you two were related. Even so, daaaamn.
I kid.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:21 pm ¶
sarabeth wrote:
Your sense of humor seems to be just about on par with that of George Bush.
I don’t see how anyone who claims to read this site regularly can say that. It has come up repeatedly.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:25 pm ¶
matt wrote:
i’m sure he was kidding
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:27 pm ¶
sarabeth wrote:
like I said, what he calls a sense of humor is anything but.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:29 pm ¶
sac wrote:
Oh for chrissakes.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:30 pm ¶
jamie beth wrote:
um, sara beth? anyone? help here? i OPENED the door by having big boobs?! that is NOT defending your sister, matt.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:32 pm ¶
sarabeth wrote:
If he had a sac, he would apologize, I’m sure.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:44 pm ¶
sac wrote:
Ha. I admit, I can be juvenile. Sorry if I offended thee.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:45 pm ¶
jamie beth wrote:
apology accepted. done.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:53 pm ¶
sarabeth wrote:
Ha ha ha. That’s an apology?
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:53 pm ¶
sac wrote:
To paraphrase Dr. Frank -n-Furter: I wasn’t apologizing to YOU.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 3:55 pm ¶
sarabeth wrote:
Since my IQ is greater than my age, I’m perfectly aware of that.
So now you’re trying to say that I can only comment on things addressed specifically to me?
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 4:02 pm ¶
sac wrote:
In this case, yeah. Why should you question someone else’s acceptance of an apology? Also, that Rocky Horror line popped into my head as soon as I read your comment.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 4:13 pm ¶
sarabeth wrote:
If you had an IQ greater than your age, you would realize that I posted my comment before I saw Jamie’s acceptance.
What the hell does that even mean?
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 4:18 pm ¶
sac wrote:
Sorry, didn’t read the time stamp, but it did appear after.
Please continue personal attacks.
Posted 11 Sep 2006 at 4:29 pm ¶
tom wrote:
you should see matt’s rack.
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 7:25 am ¶
sarabeth wrote:
Sure thing. And you feel free any time to tell me how I’m allowed to behave in my own house.
If you say idiotic things, I will call you an idiot. Every time.
The fact that it was a quote from Rocky Horror and it popped into your head doesn’t change the fact that it was a totally idiotic thing to say.
Also, when comments are flying back and forth at the speed they were yesterday afternoon, one doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that messages sometimes get crossed. Especially since it had already happened before in this very thread, when Jamie called on me to help after I had stepped in. When it didn’t make sense that I would question the apology after Jamie had accepted it, the obvious thing to do was check the time stamp. But you, of course, were too busy taking umbrage.
Maybe, just maybe, if you can’t take a simple “Ha ha ha. That’s an apology?” or an “If you had an IQ greater than your age, you would realize that I posted my comment before I saw Jamie’s acceptance”, you should think twice in the future about making rack jokes at someone else’s expense?
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 7:42 am ¶
sac wrote:
I told you to continue personal attacks. You did so. Apparently I can tell you what to do in your own house.
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 7:53 am ¶
sarabeth wrote:
If you see the last comment as a personal attack, you really have no business making the joke at Jamie’s expense that you did.
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 7:59 am ¶
sac wrote:
Clarify the meaning of “idiot” for me, then.
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 8:01 am ¶
sarabeth wrote:
No comment.
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 8:04 am ¶
jamie wrote:
sorry to say, this is not the first time my rack has caused such a ruckus. let’s put this one to bed. i’m happily married and there are plenty of more important things to argue about. sara beth, thanks for fighting the good fight. matt, thanks for nothing!
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 8:17 am ¶
sarabeth wrote:
You’re welcome. It was interesting to be a damsel in shining armor.
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 2:46 pm ¶
sac wrote:
I can’t tell you how many bad jokes are running through my head right now, like this one:
See, I’m just used to being good-naturedly crass online, and getting the same in return. If you read my old blog, you’d find that was pretty much the entire content of it, from commenters, as well. I forget not everyone shares that sensibility.
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 2:57 pm ¶
sarabeth wrote:
If you’re used to it, how come you have such a thin skin?
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 3:07 pm ¶
sac wrote:
I don’t have a thin skin. You guys are the ones who launch into personal attacks when you don’t agree with something I say. Not every time, but enough that it gets noticed. I think the only time I ever did around here is when I called Matt an asshole. I don’t really care that I get called an idiot.
Also, the “good-naturedly” is the key word. It was all in fun. I can’t say there’s anything inherently fun around here, not that that’s a bad thing as this is a political site.
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 3:19 pm ¶
matt wrote:
ok, that’s more than enough on this. don’t make me post pictures of someone else’s rack.
now that offends me.
Posted 12 Sep 2006 at 3:51 pm ¶