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Also at Pajamas Media, in an increasingly insane world, is a description of the monument to those killed by the Terrorists on 9/11:
http://errortheory.blogspot.com/2006/07/comment-period-now-open-for-flight-93.html

How could anyone SANE accept anything that looks like a crescent under the cirumstances? And it seems that the the number of glass cubes equals the number of victims PLUS the number of villains.

Yet, this plan - with a few very minor tweaks, continues its way to reality…

We are, my friends, losing the war, one day at a time.

Heather–hang in there–some days are bad, some days are good.

ìWe are, my friends, losing the war, one day at a time.î

Youíre way too pessimistic. The odds are on our side. We must merely make sure to protect our First Amendment rights—and vote Republican except in rare instances. Everything else should fall into place.

Kudos to PJM for extensive coverage of this story.

aol.com has given the Mumbai bombings no better than second billing all day. The top story? Catty remarks flying between Bill O’Reilly and Keith Oelbermann. Which, of course, is sooooo much more important than a massive, coordinated terror attack on a major world city and the death or injury of over 600 brown-skinned people.

[rolls eyes]

Maybe we’re getting conditioned to these things. I hate that, but it’s probably a good thing.

Buddy, I always (I think) get your point. And many a fine one you make. But…could you explain to my brandy addled brain what you mean by this last? Just as a favor

Luther, all it was is just, they want to freak us out, and maybe after enough murder, murder won’t freak us out anymore. Then they’re sort of disarmed, in a weird, sad, way.

“Maybe we’re getting conditioned to these things. I hate that, but it’s probably a good thing.”

That could be, but in this case, I rather suspect that the reasoning went, “Well, it’s way over there, and no Westerners were hurt. So who cares?” Heck, Drudge eventually subordinated the Mumbai story to the fact that TV ratings hit an all-time low last week.

I guess my point is that it’s more a case of not understanding how the WoT has really shrunk the world: that New York, Madrid, London, Bali and Mumbai are really not that far apart, because we all face the same enemy, and that enemy makes little distinction between us, whether we are American or European, Catholic or Protestant or Buddhist (there’s Islamic terror in Thailand, too) or Hindi or even not the right sort of Muslim.

Buddy:

“Conditioned” as in being anesthetized to the horrors such that we can’t respond, then no, we don’t want that kind of conditioning.

“Conditioned” as in being steeled and mutually agreed upon what we must do, namely be in a war against theocratic barbarism probably for the rest of the century, then yes, that is very valuable.

The latter, looks like the likely thing. Boy, that post-USSR end-of-history didn’t last much longer than those tv shows Drudge is covering. Back into history we went, yee-haw!

ìBoy, that post-USSR end-of-history didn’t last much longer…î

Yup, naive fools like myself were convinced that America had little to fear. It didnít really matter that Bill Clinton would never feel comfortable being a wartime president. Domestic issues could now dominate our concerns. The USSR was our last major threat—and the Islamic terrorists could easily be handled by our police departments and legal system. Oh well, I once also believed in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus.

Well, the Bombay Sensex closed today–the bombs went off after it closed yesterday–up three percent. A big, big move, only explainable as a huge “F**K YOU” to the terrorists. Just as we were saying up above–the worm is slowly turning.

Buddy, thanks. First I had no internet, then RLS’s comments seemed to be snafued. Could just now get here.

As re your comment, I can be extremely obtuse at times. Yes, I see and agree with your point, sadly.