Just because it’s September 12th doesn’t mean 9/11 is over. Much like Guidi Ruliani, it will never go away. However, the Jets came back from 14 points down to beat the Cowboys last night, so once again the terrorists have been defeated. Otherwise, it was a fairly productive weekend, as I installed pellet stove #2, and ran it for a while. Hopefully it won’t crap out again on me this year. And I installed a cap on another chimney and repaired/repointed the brick work (I am no mason, but I think it’ll make it through the winter, which is all I ask at this point). Plus, I patched the largest of driveway cracks. Oh, there’s lots more to do, but, unfortunately, it’s off to work today – and an early one at that. And a 5-day week, with nothing to look forward to except getting my snow plow delivered on Wednesday. Let’s just hope I don’t have to use it too soon.
George W. Bush revealed the most nervous moment of his presidency in an HBO documentary about 9/11 that aired Sunday.
Throwing the opening pitch in the third game of the 2001 World Series was Bush’s most worried moment.
“It was the most nervous I had ever been,” he said. “It was the most nervous moment of my entire presidency, it turns out.”
He’d thrown out pitches before, but all eyes were the Yankees-Diamondbacks series, which occurred just weeks after the attacks.
“The adrenaline was coursing through my veins, and the ball felt like a shotput,” he said.
Yankees’ shortstop Derek Jeter offered no help.
“Don’t bounce it, they’ll boo you,” Bush remembers him saying.
Thankfully, he managed to overcome the stress.
“I took a deep breath and threw it,” he said
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/george-bush-reveals_n_958744.html
Managed to avoid most of the media-induced pity party yesterday.
Was fortunate to be able to participate in a musical performance that I hope was meaningful for anyone suffering a loss of any kind at any time.
I still mourn the loss of what was left of this country that was destroyed by the human shaped pile of feces that is bushcheney. 👿
Took some bitter pleasure in watching Fareed Zacharia take rumsfeld apart on CNN.
A bit of a startling moment happened near the end of Monday night’s CNN debate when a hypothetical question was posed to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).
What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn’t have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? “Are you saying society should just let him die?” Wolf Blitzer asked.
“Yeah!” several members of the crowd yelled out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/tea-party-debate-health-care_n_959354.html
I guess it’s OK as long as it isn’t a fetus.
Jeebus, I’m almost 30×2 sitting by the Atlantic arguing with a niece’s husband who makes Ron Paul look tame and a nephew who has cut himself from all forms of media that he thinks might be slanted and is making up his own version of reality. One thinks that the education situation in America is just dandy and the people who are not getting higher education oby the FCC rather than the providers reaping their profits r will be defaulting on student loans are all smoking blunts and drinking 40s. The other thinks the poor state of the American internets compared to the rest of the world is because of regulations by the FCC and gubment. For them, everything is the fault of gubment and yet they don’t know a gawddamn thing about anything that they are talking about.
I am pretty much off the phone/internets grid for now but I saw some of the MSNBC re-broadcast of the actual b’casts of the day 10 years ago. I found them very interesting on a number of levels, mainly because they stopped showing a lot of the key footage after a few days because of the tender sensibilities of the American people even though to this day the whole series of events continues to be used to manipulate the populace with fear.
Thanks, art, for your meaningful choral contribution honoring the human losses of the day and more.
pj, I may be missing something but I think it might be unfair to lump Alan Jackson in with that other guy. All country musicians are not necessarily ‘boot up your ass’ rednecks. Please let me know if Jackson has done something that I am not aware of.
Oh, yeah, one more example of my problem: my nephew-in-law got really upset that I used the word revenue as a dishonest substitute for taxes. I asked him about the work of Frank Luntz and he didn’t have a clue of who I was talking about.