7 years since 9-11

[mraynrand]

OK, they are different, there is no enemy in Chernobyl. But C. & 911 have more in common than they have difference. They are huge, sad tragedies caused by human failure. People asleep at the switch.

I couldn't disagree more about the comparison between Chernobyl and 9/11. The fucking terrorists killed our citizens. The airport security people did not kill anybody. Their failure didn't CAUSE the terrorists to kill. The terrorist didn't fail at anything - they were wide awake at the switch.


Chernobyl was caused by fucking incompetents.

911 was caused by incompetents. Arabs taking flying lessons, not concerned about landing? Our guard was way down. Amazing, given the bombing of the World Trade Center back in the eary 90's.

I'm sorry Harlan, but you're a fool. You can hold our security people accountable for mistakes, but to say they cause 9/11 is monstrous.

[Harlan Huckleby]

We don't have a national day of mourning over the Great Chicago Fire.

WTF? I didn't know we were attacked, causing the Chicago Fire. Did we go to war over it?

What is your purpose in having an annual day of mourning, anger and grievance over 911? To accomplish what? Should we celebrate the great loss of life at the battle of the Bulge every year?

I have a totally different vision of what is good for the country.

[Harlan Huckleby]

OK, they are different, there is no enemy in Chernobyl. But C. & 911 have more in common than they have difference. They are huge, sad tragedies caused by human failure. People asleep at the switch.

I couldn't disagree more about the comparison between Chernobyl and 9/11. The fucking terrorists killed our citizens. The airport security people did not kill anybody. Their failure didn't CAUSE the terrorists to kill. The terrorist didn't fail at anything - they were wide awake at the switch.


Chernobyl was caused by fucking incompetents.

911 was caused by incompetents. Arabs taking flying lessons, not concerned about landing? Our guard was way down. Amazing, given the bombing of the World Trade Center back in the eary 90's.

I'm sorry Harlan, but you're a fool. You can hold our security people accountable for mistakes, but to say they cause 9/11 is monstrous.

Oh Christ. Ya, right, I'm soft on terrorists, I've absolved them of all responsibility.

[SkinBasket]

I don't think it would be healthy or positive to turn 911 into a national patriotic holiday of mourning and shared grievance. That would be like packer fans having a shared annual cry over the 4-and-21 day, pictures of Mike Sherman hoisted over our heads, reopening the wounds.

Now 9/11 = a Packers loss. Sometimes you just jump into the deep end of the dumb pool head first don't you?

[Zool]

Now 9/11 = a Packers loss. Sometimes you just jump into the deep end of the dumb pool head first don't you?

After the water has been drained.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Now 9/11 = a Packers loss.

not equal, English Major. get your old college notes out and go back to the day where you talked about metaphors.

[mraynrand]

We don't have a national day of mourning over the Great Chicago Fire.

WTF? I didn't know we were attacked, causing the Chicago Fire. Did we go to war over it?

What is your purpose in having an annual day of mourning, anger and grievance over 911? To accomplish what? Should we celebrate the great loss of life at the battle of the Bulge every year?

I have a totally different vision of what is good for the country.

I suspect the amount of time devoted to remembrance will go down every year, just like for every other similar event this nation has experienced. The point wasn't the day, the point is how you characterize 9/11 - as a 'tragedy of human failure' - and how you seem completely unaware of any continued threat to the west.

[Harlan Huckleby]

how you seem completely unaware of any continued threat to the west.

if you know anything about my opinions on foreign policy, you know this is not true. you're just painting with a broad brush, dipped in a stereotype. now THAT was a bad metaphor.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Now 9/11 = a Packers loss.

not equal, English Major. get your old college notes out and go back to the day where you talked about metaphors.

Actually, you used a simile.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Now 9/11 = a Packers loss.

not equal, English Major. get your old college notes out and go back to the day where you talked about metaphors.

Actually, you used a simile.

busted. I guess if you use the word "like" it makes it a simile? I was not an english major, just wished I was one, much prettier girls over there.

[mraynrand]

Now 9/11 = a Packers loss.

not equal, English Major. get your old college notes out and go back to the day where you talked about metaphors.

Actually, you used a simile.

You're like my English lit teacher, a pesky mosquito that never leaves me alone.

[bobblehead]

I learned a new word. MASTABATORY. cool. I already knew several along that line:

choke the chicken, pound the flounder, jerk off, jack off, beat off, polish the knob, bash the bisop, pocket pool, spank the monkey, toss off, whank off, whack off, pull the pud, rub one out, stroke the stork, punch the clown. But I never heard the term matabatory. See, Harlen did contribute something.

[Zool]

wax the dolphin
juggle the plumb
jerkin the gherkin

[hoosier]

Weed the one-eyed garden weasel.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

I learned a new word. MASTABATORY. cool. I already knew several along that line:

Ty will help you learn to spell it: masturbatory.