Tag: 9/11
Sweet, Sweet Republican Tears
by Zephyr on Jan.22, 2009, under Politics
As I was watching the Inauguration on Tuesday, I kept thinking to myself, "Wow, Obama is really bitchslapping Bush. Good. He deserves it.", but I wasn’t sure whether or not I was making a big deal out of it. Apparently not. Seems that the plane trip from Washington DC to Texas was full of crying GOPs.
Personally, I think they deserve it - and then some. You don’t do what you did to this country and then just get to walk away from it pretending like you actually accomplished something. While Bush, himself, seemed oblivious to the whole thing, his supporters are throwing fits.
Mr. McKinnon said there were good wishes for the new president and “an absence of malice one normally sees among the constituencies of the vanquished.” But he also said there were “some critical reviews of the speech, complaints about taking unnecessary shots and grousing about borrowed ideas.”
Right, so after attacking Obama at every step in the road during the candidacy, they now want a medal for not acting like the jerks they are during the transition. Umm… no?
Can these guys whine any harder? Oh wait, they can!
9/11 Made Richard Dawkins Bold
by Zephyr on Jan.12, 2009, under Atheism
My my, that Atheist bus campaign sure is stirring up quite a bit of conversation off in the land of the UK. I only wish it was happening here, too. Unfortunately, the former Archbishio of Canterbury has it somewhat wrong:
“I have no doubt that one can trace a direct link from 9/11 to the aggressive and strident tones of such writers as Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and others. The result is a widening gap between religion and science; an unwillingness to engage, concluding in a dialogue of the deaf.”
I’d say this statement is at least partially accurate. At least for us in the US (where the attack actually happened), it was as it someone took a baseball bat to a hornet’s nest that had been slowly building for a few decades. After 9/11, the fundamentalists couldn’t be shut up and any chance at us all living together and peacefully minding each other’s religions went out the window.
