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Lum and Edna originally appeared in End of the Road
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A few more links recalling the events, and the consequences, of September 11, 2001.
F-16 pilot was ready to give her life on Sept. 11
“We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls of her charge that day. “I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.” ... “Lucky, you’re coming with me,” barked Col. Marc Sasseville.
They were gearing up in the pre-flight life-support area when Sasseville, struggling into his flight suit, met her eye.
“I’m going to go for the cockpit,” Sasseville said.
She replied without hesitating.
“I’ll take the tail.”
It was a plan. And a pact.
A truly memorable moment with President George Bush
Bush pauses to comfort teen
'This girl lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9-11'
"This girl lost her mom in the World Trade Center on 9-11."
Bush stopped and turned back.
"He changed from being the leader of the free world to being a father, a husband and a man," Faulkner said. "He looked right at her and said, 'How are you doing?' He reached out with his hand and pulled her into his chest."
Powerful photo by the girl's father, Lynn Faulkner
(h/t Kathleen Gee at HillBuzz, who speaks for so many when she writes, "Thank you, Mr. President, for your concern, compassion and human decency.")
Recently in Washington, the president said he is grateful for the prayers of the people. His remarks came in a December 13 meeting with representatives from several state-based think tanks. In that meeting I observed firsthand why presidents, especially wartime presidents, need prayer.
Brandon Dutcher December 21, 2001 in The Oklahoman
September 11 Television Archive
This collection contains television news programs recorded live from around September 11, 2001 by the non-profit Television Archive to help patrons research this important part of United States history.
As this chart from the Heritage Foundation shows, there have been at least 40 domestic terror plots –an average of four per year– foiled since September 11th, 2001. (h/t Public Secrets c/o Phineas at Sister Toldjah)
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The Good News: Nothing Much Happened. Again. The Bad News: It happened.
This is a day to honor the 2,977 innocent men, women, and children slaughtered by evil Islamic jihadists — and to vow that “Never again” remains America’s operational stance, not an empty slogan.
Let nothing overshadow their memories today.
His identity has not been confirmed, though many have speculated over the last 4 1/2 years. Tom Junod wrote an extraordinary piece for Eqsuire in September 2003 on “The Falling Man,” offering several possibilities.
The shock of Sept. 11 has melted, but not the sorrow. It is difficult to look in on my own blissfully sleeping toddler without thinking of the empty cribs and broken hearts of children whose lives were stolen or shattered by evil terrorists. Eight children were murdered on hijacked airliners that crashed on Sept. 11.
One decade after 9/11, an unsettling number of images from Ground Zero and environs remain seared in our collective memory -- unsurprising, perhaps, given the scope and scale of the destruction. ...25 most stirring, visceral photographs from that day….
President Obama, Van Jones, militant leftist Lennox Yearwood, and a coalition of left-wing groups including ACORN, various labor organizations, Color of Change, Apollo Alliance, and Jesse Jackson's RainbowPUSH Coalition plotted to use the memory of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, for their own ideological ends.
Apologetic self-abnegation... is the hallmark of America’s approach today.
Attacked on our own soil and across the globe, we have refused to accept that the cause of the slaughter is the openly stated commitment of clerics, pundits, and political leaders to a barbaric ideology of religious war. Schools in Pakistan train Taliban jihadists who kill Americans while we negotiate with so-called “moderates” among them. University academics scream about American sins, praise bloody tyrannies as “liberation movements,” and call Israel “occupied territory.” Newspaper columns predict the ascendance of political Islam, while the maniacal theocracy of Iran makes the prophecy real. Clerics issue fatwas sanctioning the murder of blasphemous writers and artists. Young people are indoctrinated into jihad as the path to paradise. Killers who enjoy the ambrosia of American life murder American soldiers at American military bases.
9/11 flashback: James Woods and the hijacker dry run
George W. Bush’s Flight 93 Memorial Speech
h/t Michelle Malkin
The Path to 9-11, multi-part video playlist on YouTube
Uploaded by BlueReckless on Mar 14, 2007
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A mighty man in the kingdom, winning souls wherever he went.
The tomb of St. Philip the Apostle, one of the original 12 disciples of Christianity's central figure Jesus Christ, has been discovered during the ongoing excavations in Turkey's south-western province of Denizli.
Italian professor Francesco D'Andria, the head of the excavation team at the Hierapolis ancient city in Denizli, told reporters on Tuesday that experts had reached the tomb of St. Philip whose name is mentioned in the Bible as one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus.
Professor D'Andria said archeologists had been working for years to find the tomb of the Biblical figure, and finally, they had managed to reach the monument while working on the ruins of a newly-unearthed church in Hierapolis.
D'Andria said the structure of the tomb and the writings on it proved that it belonged to St. Philip the Apostle, who is recognized as a martyr in the history of Christianity.
Philip went on through the trying times of the Master’s death, participated in the reorganization of the twelve, and was the first to go forth to win souls for the kingdom outside of the immediate Jewish ranks, being most successful in his work for the Samaritans and in all his subsequent labors in behalf of the gospel.
Philip’s wife, who was an efficient member of the women’s corps, became actively associated with her husband in his evangelistic work after their flight from the Jerusalem persecutions. His wife was a fearless woman. She stood at the foot of Philip’s cross encouraging him to proclaim the glad tidings even to his murderers, and when his strength failed, she began the recital of the story of salvation by faith in Jesus and was silenced only when the irate Jews rushed upon her and stoned her to death. Their eldest daughter, Leah, continued their work, later on becoming the renowned prophetess of Hierapolis.
Philip, the onetime steward of the twelve, was a mighty man in the kingdom, winning souls wherever he went; and he was finally crucified for his faith and buried at Hierapolis.
Through the influence of the Christian apostle Paul, a church was founded here while he was at Ephesus.[3] The Christian apostle Philip spent the last years of his life here.[4] In 80 CE, he was martyred by crucifixion and was buried here. His daughters remained active as prophetesses in the region.[citation needed] The Martyrium was built on the spot where Philip was crucified.
—Hierapolis (Wikipedia)
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Somebody posted this somewhere on some blog I ran across.
Forever alone — the chair
(Source: The Good Jokes)
Researching this oddity led me to the "Forever Alone" page on Know Your Meme. This page confirmed what I had come to suspect, "Forever Alone is an exploitable rage comic character that is used to express loneliness and disappointment with life." It's considered a variation on "Rage Guy," and related to 28 others.
There's also This is Photobomb at MemeBase.
I lost additional precious minutes of my life looking through Señor Gif's collection of animated goods. Who can resist d'aawwing at Cutest Bear Attack Ever and Baby Bunny Eating Carrot Finger (warning: very high d'aw factor) and Red Pandas High Five and Cooking with Cats and the electric Bad Hair Day and Deer & Dog Lick Annoyed Kitty? (The kitty didn't look that annoyed to me.)
Who can resist wincing at the painful Tap It, Bro? Or marveling at the incredible Evasion Strategy? There's a nostalgic laugh in The Future of Medical Care, the disturbing suggestion that All Celebrities are the Same People (Person?), and the shocking raw footage from the Manchester Riots 2011: scenes from Whalley Range.
Here's a great Forever Alone riff: Forever Alone on a Dollar Bill One And if there's still any shred of cheer left in you, endure The Forever Alone Meme: A 21-Picture Tour Through Soul-Crushing Loneliness.
That's our meme lesson for the day. You are welcome.
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