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Australia has a marvellous sky and air and blue clarity and a hoary sort of land beneath it, like a Sleeping Princess on whom the dust of ages has settled. Wonder if she'll ever get up.
The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word
'travel' is derived from 'travail', denoting the pains of childbirth.
Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't
'stand for election', they 'run for office.' Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public. O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? Where, indeed? Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully conceded that the victory has been won hands down by the funeral establishment
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Some 26,000 people also died on September 11, 2001 around the world: from starvation, unclean water, and preventable disease.
Shashi Tharoor,
PhD, author, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public
Information of the United Nations
Source
Q One thing, Mr. President, is that you have no idea how much you've done for this country. And another thing is that, how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack? (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Jordan. Well, Jordan, you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida. And my Chief of Staff, Andy Card actually, I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works. I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident.
As the
record shows, President
George W Bush lies
or is terribly confused about how he found out about the 9-11 attack on
America
See also
Bush just sat there (9-11
video)
Americans are asking, why do they hate us? They hate our freedoms our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.
Bush gets it wrong yet again, Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People,
September 20,
2001
Bush's own recollection of the first crash only complicates the picture. Less than two months after the attacks, Bush made the preposterous claim that he had watched the first attack as it happened on live television. This is the seventh different account of how Bush learned about the first crash (in his limousine, from Loewer, from Card, from Rove, from Gottesman, from Rice, from television). On December 4, 2001, Bush was asked: "How did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?" Bush replied, "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower - the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it." [White House, 12/4/01]
There was no film footage of the first attack
until at least the following day, and Bush didn't have access to a
television until 15 or so minutes later. [Washington Times, 10/7/02] The Boston Herald later
noted, "Think about that. Bush's remark implies he saw the first
plane hit the tower. But we all know that video of the first plane hitting
did not surface until the next day. Could Bush have meant he saw the
second plane hit - which many Americans witnessed? No, because he said
that he was in the classroom when Card whispered in his ear that a second
plane hit." [Boston Herald, 10/22/02]
Source 'An Interesting Day' (9-11)
You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. (Laughter.) Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.) But we're fine.
George W Bush, Remarks
at GOP luncheon, February 27,
2002 Source
Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and
the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center.
US Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld speaking of the September 11 attacks; interview with Lyric Wallwork Winik,
Parade Magazine, October
12, 2001 [emphasis mine]
September
11
is
the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (255th
in leap years), with 111
days remaining.
It is usually the first
day of the Coptic calendar (in the period 1900 to 2099
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9-1-1
Emergency Number Day
and Patriot
Day,
USA
Proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan on August 26, 1987 and celebrated since then by some United States communities, particularly the local emergency services. (9-1-1 is the emergency phone number in the USA.) Now also called Patriot Day, commemorating the September 11 attacks.
US House joint resolution 71 was approved by a vote of 407-0 on October 25, 2001. It requested that the President designate September 11 of each year as "Patriot Day." President George W Bush signed the resolution into law on December 18, 2001 (as Public Law 107-89).
On September 4, 2002, President Bush used his authority created by the resolution and proclaimed September 11, 2002 as Patriot Day. On September 4, 2003, he issued a similar proclamation for September 11, 2003.
On this day, the President directs that the flag of the United States be flown at half-staff and displayed from individual American homes. The President also asks Americans to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 a.m. eastern daylight time marking the first plane crash on September 11.
Various greeting card companies have released Patriot Day cards, causing controversy among some.
This designation should not be confused with Patriot's Day, a holiday that is celebrated in the commonwealth of Massachusetts and its former appendage Maine.
2002 proclamation 2003 proclamation 2004 proclamation Source: WikipediaSeptember 11: A suggestion that it be an International day of Mourning
Emergency phone numbers
The first emergency number system to be deployed was in London, United Kingdom on June 30, 1937. In Australia, the number is 000. See a worldwide list here.
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