i'm a reasonable man get off my case.
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The Day BeforeThe following is a snapshot of what people were talking about and linking to on the 10th of September 2001.
The Jobs LostThe following is a snapshot of jobs and livelihoods which have been lost because of the events 11th of September 2001. Skycaps, florists, horticulturists, retail clerks, janitors, chauffers, airport security personel, INS agents.
The Jobs GainedThe following is a snapshot of the jobs and livelihoods which have been gained because of the events 11th of September 2001. CIA agents, FBI agents, airport security personel, network security engineers.
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Monday, December 31, 2001
The ability to forgive lies at the very basis of the idea of a future society marked by justice and solidarity.
8:37 PM
Terrorism exploits not just people, it exploits God: it ends by making him an idol to be used for one's own purposes.
8:34 PM
Saturday, December 29, 2001
As the President said recently, one in three Afghan children is an orphan and almost half suffer chronic malnutrition. He has asked
American children to help Afghan children by making contributions of one dollar individually or collectively to:
America's Fund for Afghan Children
C/O The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, DC 20509-1600
For more information, go to www.whitehouse.gov/afac/
2:05 PM
Friday, December 28, 2001
11:29 PM
Having rejected modernism and the Saudi royal family, it's no surprise that Bin Laden would turn against Yamasaki's work in particular. He must have seen how Yamasaki had clothed the World Trade Center, a monument of Western capitalism, in the raiment of Islamic spirituality. Such mixing of the sacred and the profane is old hat to us—after all, Gilbert Cass' classic Woolworth Building, dubbed the Cathedral to Commerce, is decked out in extravagant Gothic regalia. But to someone who wants to purify Islam from commercialism, Yamasaki's implicit Mosque to Commerce would be anathema. To Bin Laden, the World Trade Center was probably not only an international landmark but also a false idol. - Laurie Kerr
11:18 PM
You can imagine us being slightly nervous at this point. We were forced to sit down. We had to put hands up to go to the toilet. Anyone standing up was a suspect. The crew decide to show the film "Legally Blonde" to calm us down. It kind of works, until we see F15 fighter jets on starboard. It seems that we landed quickly. The aircraft goes to a quiet bit of the runway and we're surrounded by flashing lights. Police, fire, ambulance, state police etc. We get boarded by a SWAT team in full bulletproof gear and they take him away safely. We slowly deboard, go through customs, get stopped for two hours with no news, get moved to somewhere else (guarded by military police and only allowed to the toilet under escort). 20 FBI agents arrive and start interviewing everyone familiy by family. A nice FBI man named Jamey wishes my father happy birthday. We'd forgotten. Up to the interview nobody had really told us anything. We find out he had a fuse and some explosive in his shoes, possibly C4. and that he had tried to board the same flight the day before but was stopped by police. Only at this point to we realise how serious it is. A guy calls his girlfriend and we find out we're on CNN (they mostly get everything correct). It is currently 9pm. We're still in Boston airport. We've been up 24 hours (time differences). We're exhausted and stressed. The FBI have gone home. We head off to Miami very slowly. They check all our bags for explosives. The machine takes 15 mins per bag. There are about 200 bags. We point out it'll take more than a day. Mob rule when they're nasty to us. I was going to dive on my holidays. I think I'll just lie on the beach.
9:20 AM
Tuesday, December 25, 2001
On the television sing a choir of fire personnel, american heroes, lending their voices to that most Christian of holidays - the Advent.
11:40 PM
Sunday, December 23, 2001
When the plane landed and authorities boarded the plane, according to James, the suspect said: "It will happen the way it's supposed to happen. The way it was written to happen."
10:27 PM
Friday, December 21, 2001
click here
4:00 PM
Wednesday, December 19, 2001
They say the fires at ground zero have gone out.
11:04 PM
Thursday, December 13, 2001
The U.S. government's transcript of the Osama bin Laden video tape.
9:51 PM
Tuesday, December 11, 2001
American Society for the Prevention of Postal Cruelty
Due to wise stamp conservation during the salad days of the nineties the American Society for the Prevention of Postal Cruelty is pleased to announce the availability of United States Postage which DOES NOT feature the American Flag as the central motif of the postage stamp.
We here at the American Society for the Prevention of Postal Cruelty know how painful it can be to maintain a discrete presense as a person of conscious during wartime. Due to the extreme efficiency of the American War MachineTM a person of conscious may find themselves caught in a STATE SITUATION in which the very act of buying stamps, changing coinages, driving their car without the proper American Flag appendage and/or sticker may result in long wastes of time, stress, and apparent crisis to the STATE.
We at the American Society for the Prevention of Postal Cruelty know that these STATE SITUATIONS can have profound effects in their fallout. These types of occurances detract from the WAR EFFORT and needlessly introduce the STATE into your everyday life. No one wants that. Some of us may place our postage stamp on the envelope backwards or upside down in an effort to look "counter-culture", or "anti-war", and hip. Some of us may have genuine feelings of jingoistic fervor but, for example what if, in the by-laws for the Sandia Heights Flower Club it says that all mailings to the membership have to use postage stamps featuring flowers. Of course we could simply excuse the the breaking of that rule, after all it's for the WAR EFFORT, but we do live in a nation of law and if we can't rely on the rules in our flower club to be followed how can we possibly expect people like the United States Attourney General John Ashcroft to follow the law. This is where we come in, the good people at the American Society for the Prevention of Postal Cruelty, with our wonderful collection of generic United States postage in an assortment of attractive designs, colors, and denominations.
We are pleased to announce that the American Society for the Prevention of Postal Cruelty is making available millions of stamps of denominations of: .01,.05.,10.,.32.,.52,.1.00.,3.20., & 12.50 to the general public. All you need do is buy your stamps at the post office as you would normally. When the clerk asks you whether you want this American Flag or that American Flag on your postage you simply smile and take whatever American Flag she recommends. Then drop us a note at postage@chronotope.com (Please do not send us snailmail as it will not be opened due to an apparent anthrax of the postal system) and we will be willing to exchange your new American Flag postage for our non-descript postage. We have moon shots, Elvis, lots of flowers, buildings, figures from history, breast cancer research, you name it we've probably got it.
Tell your friends, tell your family, we at the American Society for the Prevention of Postal Cruelty will unload all the postage we are now carrying as our part of the WAR EFFORT. We are also forming a political action committee to push for legislation forming a National Postage Reserve to avoid this dangerous situation in the future. It is our belief that with an initial small investment of 250 million dollars our nation could place the power to relieve these postal tragedies, through an executive order to open the Postage Reserve, in the President's* Hand.
Won't you join now in preserving our common postal heritage from the tyranny of the AMERICAN FLAG?
* or psuedo-potus, depending on the situation.
10:16 AM
Monday, December 10, 2001
I must admit it is awfully tempting to desire that al-Qaida in the final stronghold be wiped off the planet. I don't want to see them spread out after some truce. I don't want to see them on trial by some god-damn military tribunal. SO conflicted.
10:25 PM
Sunday, December 09, 2001
John Ashcroft, testifying before the Senate on Thursday, declared that those who challenge his wisdom "only aid terrorists" and will "give ammunition to America's enemies." Tough words. They make you wonder what the guy who's charged with helping us whip Al Qaeda is afraid of. The only prominent traitors in sight are the usual civil- liberties watchdogs and a milque- toast senator or two barely known beyond the Beltway and their own constituencies. Polls find the public squarely on the attorney general's side, and even the few pundits who knock him are ridiculed by their journalistic colleagues as hysterics so busy fussing about civil liberties that they forget "there's a war going on."
4:30 PM
Friday, December 07, 2001
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." - Thomas Jefferson "Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty." - Benjamin Franklin
11:35 PM
Saturday, December 01, 2001
You live in a country of war. A country of deprivation confounding its own, a country of war. You live in a war and a country and car you call your own. Live in the war in the country and the car will follow you home. You live in a country of war. You live in a country of war.
12:33 AM
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