Disgusting panderers of the day: Maddow, Rudy, Scarborough, Dems
The glaring headline at Maddow’s blog reads (via):
Pearl Harbors then and now
In the last surprise attack on American soil before 9/11, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor:
No, Mr. President. I will NOT be “tolerant” of radical Islam – neither should you
I missed this quote from President Obama yesterday regarding the Islamofascist thugs who murdered 3,000 innocents on 9-11:
If it’s not a mosque, then what is it?
Writing in the New York Post, Amir Taheri has an interesting theory of what the proposed mosque/community center/whatever at Ground Zero really represents. He mentions the various types of Islamic buildings, all of which have very specific roles in Islam: for example, the takiyah is a Shiite building dedicated to passion plays about the death of Imam Husayn, while a zawiyyah is a type monastic complex.
9-11: George W. Bush and his bullhorn
Lots of people have written today about that terrible morning: where they were, what they remember, maybe honoring the victims or the many valiant heroes of the battle and its aftermath. I wondered what I would write. I decided that, rather than focus on the day itself, something others have done much more eloquently than I ever could, I wanted to share video of what has become one of my strongest memories from that time: the moment, when, three days later, George W. Bush stood amidst the smoldering ruins from which the dead were still being recovered and rallied a stunned and bloodied nation: