:) ... and :(

[hkellick]

I'm impressed.
I'm really impressed.
Even if we did lose :/
We need to work on our special teams :/
That was certainly the fastest overtime I ever seen...

In other news, would you people please get over September 11th already? It happened a year ago. Yes, it was terrible. Yes, I know about all those dead innocents, but MOVE ON already.
And above all, stop plastering it in every news program, every magazine, every internet site and every newspaper.
Understand, it's not that I'm sympathetic to the fact that these people are still out there. And I do agree that we need to remember what September 11th means... but it should be a private memory, not one where people only affected distantly can gnash their teeth and shake their heads and think about the poor innocent people they they could never BEGIN to identify with.
September 11th should be a day of private thought and prayer, not a day of Media Blitzes and "9/11: One Year Later".
Hell, Pearl Harbor got less of a Media Blitz than this...

Comments

[dawnstar.livejournal.com]

I second that. I'm taking a Mass Media course this semester and we have two different assignments about 9/11. I stand by my statement that if I /had/ been directly affected by this, I would /want/ to be able to move on with my life and not have my loss constantly thrown in my face every time I turned around.

Hello ... what ever happened to having time to heal??

Well said, my friend.

[lite.livejournal.com]

I was reading an article in Time about a girl whose father was killed.
Her new favorite station is the Food Network, because they never had any TV Coverage on 9/11.
That, to me, says it all.

9/11 media blitz

[kolys.livejournal.com]

Amen to that!! I hate what happened just as much as the next man, but I don't need to be reminded of it every time I look around. So some bunch of fanatics killed three thousand people. My heart goes out to the families of those people, none of whom probably want to commemorate their loved ones with an over-hyped media blitz. My heart also goes out to the families of the MILLION people that our bombs killed in Afghanistan. People who had nothing to do with 9/11. People who don't even KNOW what their heads of state are doing or why. My heart also goes out pre-emptively to the families of the similar numbers of Iraqis that we will probably be killing in the near future, solely because for the last year we have suddenly had an excuse to bomb the shite out of all those people we've been desperate to bomb for ages but haven't had a good enough reason to. My heart goes out to the beautiful planet upon which we seem hell-bent on wreaking disaster. And when the Middle East is nothing more than an uninhabitable plain of black glass, my heart goes out to the rest of the world, who will have to live with the economic and ecological backwash of it long after Bush and Blair are out of office.

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[lite.livejournal.com]

I don't worry too much about the planet.
It's getting it's revenge, you see.
Global warming, apparently, is making our storms nastier and is, in part, responsible for the wildfires in the midwest and the floods in Europe and Asia.

Besides, the planet can survive us. The question is can WE survive us.

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[kolys.livejournal.com]

I read recently about a team of Japanese scientists whose predictions are that global warming will increase until about 2010, then drop off until the Earth starts to cool again. It's supposedly a natural cycle, but one that we're accelerating.

As for whether we can survive us... not at this rate. It takes about two seconds for The Button to be pressed. It takes less than that for the rest of the world's defence systems to notice it and retaliate.

The United States can precipitate that, but heaven forbid some unfriendly government from the 'axis of evil' should get a chance to play in the same sandbox. Because obviously they're not to be trusted, for the sole reason that their views differ from ours. And so of course they're more likely to use such a thing than we are. Despite the fact that we're all acting like gung-ho morons with big guns at the moment, the country that doesn't have that technology yet and is trying to level the playing field is the bad guy. I don't condone Saddam Hussein's actions. I also don't condone anyone else bombing him, especially when he's not directly causing THEM trouble and they're just sticking their noses in.

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[lite.livejournal.com]

I've read a selection of articles that suggest things aren't as bad as the media sometimes makes them out to be, but that things are bad enough that we have to get off our duff and DO something already, a movement which the United States is far from in the foreground of.

As per Iraq... No, I believe Iraq is trouble and I think we need to know what he's been up to.. but I think that you need to reestablish UN weapon inspectors going into Iraq with unlimited access. I think Dubya is trying to start and win the war his father lost and I, for one, am totally against it.

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[kolys.livejournal.com]

I'll certainly agree with the weapons-inspection thing. The trouble is, there's probably just enough truth to hide, and therefore it's being hidden, and Saddam's detractors can make it sound as trivial or as earth-shattering as they wish.

[nissacrosseyed.livejournal.com]

Agreed. This last week was bad, especially since I have just gotten onto the radio kick. Everything was about Sept 11. It drives me nuts. It is becoming commercialized! (Grumble.) A day of private thought and prayer, I like that.

[angiepenguin.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I've been rather oblivious to the whole Sept 11 media blitz. I mean, sure I've read that there'll be tons of specials and stuff on it, but I haven't actually heard/seen anything *yet*. A few advertisements and the TV schedules for next week, that's about it. I probably won't even watch TV that day, except maybe at dinnertime. I'll be at school, and online.

Really, though, Sept 11 will be important to me for a completely different reason than the usual. It's telumehtar and I's 11-month anniversary. As I said to him the other day, I like the fact that while a lot of the country will be remembering and mourning a bad thing, we'll be remembering and celebrating a good thing.

[lite.livejournal.com]

Yes.. there's a special 2 hour 60 minutes tonite followed by a rebroadcast of "9/11" the special with footage from INSIDE the towers.
I'm sure this week will be hell for those of us sick of hearing about 9/11

[childoflove.livejournal.com]

I would have to disagree. As unfortunate as it can be -- but this can't be a debate without the other side wouldn't it? This is friendly though so if anything gets out hand after I post this I will take it down. I don't mean to offend anyone who will read this arguement. I do think media blasting and everything about September 11th -- is a little bit harsh, but I feel that we should be reminded everyday about what happened so we don't forget that there are people out there who hate america and would do anything and I do me anything to see freedom, liberty, and peace fall into the flames. That is why we shouldn't exactly move on -- but take action. Back in 93 when the towers were bomb -- who do you think did that? Probably the same group of people. What happened after it died down? People forgot all that happened and they carried on as they should, but when people forget what others can do -- that is when disaster strikes. America somehow thought it was imortal, and what September 11th taught me was we aren't. That is what it should have taught America. We aren't imortal, and we will never be. We should always be on our guard and defend what we believe in from the cowards that want to take it away. That is how I feel. :) I don't mean to offend anyone, I just wanted to have a debate. ^_^

Shannon Katherine

Feel free to disbute -- that is what this country is all about.

[lite.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... No, I refuse to believe that even the stupidest of Americans are going to forget. Especially when the headlines keep reminding us everyday with "Should we attack Iraq?" and "Osama bin Laden still out there".

And how would you like to remind people every day of what happened without it getting really old really fast?
Heck, alot of the media coverage HAS gotten really old really fast which is why there was, by and large, more agreement to this post than not.

I agree that 1993 should have been a wake-up call.. so should have the Embassy bombings and the Cole... but that said.. I don't think 9/11 will just drift out of memory.

I think, by and large, all of America will remember 9/11.
Just like we all remember the importance of Pearl Harbor 50-some years later.
But I still suggest that it should be a day for people to realize, individually or in small family units, what 9/11 means to them, an individual day of reflection.. not a large nation-wide day of unpointed nationalism.
I, for one, plan on spending 9/11 like the other days of the week.. going to work, going to school.. maybe a little introspective, but otherwise totally normal.

[kareila]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/08/ar911.first.lady/index.html

[lite.livejournal.com]

I saw and I agree.
And I think that she's the smart one in the family. :)

[soreth.livejournal.com]

My TV is only on when I desire to use my Playstation. The apartment I'll be moving in to this Sunday does not have cable. It's been well over two weeks since I watched anything on our satellite TV.

Consequently, I have been completely free of any anniversary madness except that produced by my mind, and that produced by the newspapers.

Sometimes the best way to deal with a problem *is* to ignore it. ;)

[ed note: 'Problem' here refers to the media blitz, NOT the situation that brought about 9/11. No free rant opportunities.]