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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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Friday, December 13, 2002
Sullivan Seems Convinced He Keeps the Blogosphere Running
You've heard me before so I'll cede to a reader on why it's important to keep the blogosphere running.
Andrew Sullivan, who apparently makes $6000 a month from running his site, is running a pledge week to make it worth his while to keep his writing available on his website. Now I am all for he, and anyone else, making a living from their words but this seems a bit suspect to me. He has such interesting, and sometimes infuriating, things to say. But his web site does not "keep the blogosphere running" no matter how big his ego may have gotten over the last year or so.
I run websites which are pretty popular themselves and I think I have a fair idea of his expenses. If indeed he makes $6000 a month, as he has declared, then he is making a fair wage for his efforts. It would be great if he could make twice that. I wish him luck with that. But please sir don't make comparisons between the health of your web efforts and that of the blogoshpere as a whole. There are many reasons why you write. Only one of them is money and you are already making more money per month than the majority of folks in the country. Don't lose site of what you are doing or give yourself more credit than is your due. It's not becoming.
9:57 AM
Monday, December 02, 2002
The Latest Kissinger Outrage - Why is a proven liar and wanted man in charge of the 9/11 investigation?
When in office, Henry Kissinger organized massive deceptions of Congress and public opinion. The most notorious case concerned the "secret bombing" of Cambodia and Laos and the unleashing of unconstitutional methods by Nixon and Kissinger to repress dissent from this illegal and atrocious policy. But Sen. Frank Church's commission of inquiry into the abuses of U.S. intelligence, which focused on illegal assassinations and the subversion of democratic governments overseas, was given incomplete and misleading information by Kissinger, especially on the matter of Chile. Rep. Otis Pike's parallel inquiry in the House (which brought to light Kissinger's personal role in the not-insignificant matter of the betrayal of the Iraqi Kurds, among other offenses) was thwarted by Kissinger at every turn, and its eventual findings were classified. In other words, the new "commission" will be chaired by a man with a long, proven record of concealing evidence and of lying to Congress, the press, and the public.
I'm feeling you Christopher. But please, you're trying to put an awful lot of stuff into a very awkward and stilting paragraph; your audience requires a surer hand. Often a writer will resort to an arbitrary list of, say, 5 items in a vain attempt to impose cogentability (2-bit word) on a detailed argument. It's such a tiresome tactic. You really hit it later on though:
There is a tendency, some of it paranoid and disreputable, for the citizens of other countries and cultures to regard President Bush's "war on terror" as opportunist and even as contrived. I myself don't take any stock in such propaganda. But can Congress and the media be expected to swallow the appointment of a proven coverup artist, a discredited historian, a busted liar, and a man who is wanted in many jurisdictions for the vilest of offenses? The shame of this, and the open contempt for the families of our victims, ought to be the cause of a storm of protest.
I know I'm all a'storm!
11:13 PM
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
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I can't believe I forget this from last night. Laura and I were being sooo right wing. We sold a lot of people on our tax plans. For instance, there's the rape tax
11:22 PM
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
THE YOUNG AND WAR:
I've been impressed by George W. Bush's support among the young. Maybe it's not as anomalous as I thought. Here's a study by blogger Jim Miller that shows how the young were consistently more supportive of the Vietnam War than their elders - throughout the conflict. - Andrew Sullivan
These would be the same youth who grew up to see the futility of it all now and so stand against this current war.
10:56 PM
Instapundit.com:
Dude, it's cuz he's a tyrant! Duh! What you want, should I cry? Is this surprising somehow to you?
7:54 PM
anil dash - New York Invented Hip Hop
It gets better, too. "The appeal hearing was not public, and only the Justice Department's top appellate lawyer, Theodore Olson, presented arguments." Umm... your secret court had a secret trial and secretly heard arguments from one side?! Can we send in some troops to D.C.? 'Cause I have the feeling we're gonna be needing some liberation. [anil dash]
12:52 AM
Tuesday, November 05, 2002
They Make It So Easy
Sen. Tim Hutchinson, the first GOP senator from Arkansas since Reconstruction, ran in 1996 on a campaign stressing "family values" and was elected with support from the Religious Right. Afterward, he divorced his wife of 29 years and married a Senate aide. Hutchinson faces Democratic state Attorney General Mark Pryor, son of former Sen. David Pryor.
3:47 PM
At least six volunteers for the McBride campaign said they obtained tickets to the Bush rally because they wanted to hear the president speak. However, they said, Republican organizers confiscated their tickets and turned them away at an entrance gate because of the McBride buttons they were wearing.
9:55 AM
So where's the commercial Arianna? Surely such a thing could be bandied about on the net and reach millions of folks.
12:31 AM
Tuesday, October 22, 2002
"Citing the need to redirect resources to the war on terrorism, the Pentagon has quietly decided to scale back its effort to combat international drug trafficking, a central element of the national "war on drugs" for 14 years."
9:27 PM
Mixing Gefilte & Hyperbole
Apparently Andrew Sullivan thinks the left is responsible for a brisk business in selling the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in Central Park. [insert snarky remark here]
10:28 AM
Monday, May 06, 2002
On the news they interviewed some folks in Afghanistan. Evidently there was a complete news blackout on the events of September 11th. These folks were apparently quite pleased at the invasion and ouster of the Taliban. Go figure.
12:57 PM
Friday, April 12, 2002
A few choice selections:
12:06 AM
Friday, January 18, 2002
"They say Sept. 11 was the current generation's Pearl Harbor, and I believe that," Wenger said. "But World War II ended with an official surrender and peace treaty, so everybody knew exactly when they could take their flags down. I highly doubt this thing's gonna end with President Bush and Mullah Omar signing an armistice on the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. Ah, screw it—I'll just leave the things where they are."
10:22 AM
Thursday, January 17, 2002
In October 1993, 18 US soldiers died during a botched mission in Mogadishu. The incident is the subject of a new film, Black Hawk Down. But, asks Alex Cox, why have the deaths of the Somali civilians been forgotten?
5:06 PM
Monday, January 07, 2002
The Mirror Project | Redrick
9:38 PM
Exactly what that would mean for McSally became clear immediately. In a briefing right after she arrived, officers matter-of-factly laid down the rules for travel off base, even on official business: All female personnel would wear the customary head-to-toe gown, the abaya and its matching head scarf, similar to the Afghan burqa. They could not drive. They would ride in the back seat. They would be escorted by males at all times.
10:31 AM
Saturday, January 05, 2002
This is where we were, and it is why our new closure feels so empty. Rather than visit the new, tourist- friendly ground zero, a sharper antidote to complacency may be to travel uptown to a Sept. 11 exhibition at the New-York Historical Society, where a 25-minute impromptu video of the attack, aptly labeled "a Zapruder film for our time" by The Times's Sarah Boxer, runs continuously. The video is jagged and its images are not suitable for framing. It plays out as spontaneously as its cameraman, Evan Fairbanks, shot it. There are no logos, no crawls, no flag graphics, no network anchors to mediate between the viewer and the unfolding events — in fact, no sound at all, either on the tape or from those watching it in stunned silence.
12:34 PM
Wednesday, January 02, 2002
The most obvious bold national project that Mr. Bush could launch now — his version of the race to the moon — would be a program for energy independence, based on developing renewable resources, domestic production and energy efficiency. Not only would every school kid in America be excited by such a project, but it also would be Mr. Bush's equivalent of Richard Nixon going to China — the Texas oilman weaning America off of its dependence on Middle East oil. That would be a political coup!
10:30 PM
But challenged by his father to take up true religious scholarship, Abou El Fadl began a journey of Islamic learning that would transform him into a nemesis of the extremists he once endorsed. Today, at 38, he is a leading warrior in the intellectual struggle that exploded into America's consciousness Sept. 11: Who speaks for Islam? Who defines it?
12:31 PM
Tuesday, January 01, 2002
Averted Disaster Captured on Film
1:29 AM
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