September 11th

[Vladd44]

Today it is time for us to do it all over again.

Today is a time to enjoy politicians of both major political parties reduce the loss of 3000 people's lives to political fodder.

I cannot help but be reminded of an ad slogan for a brand of women's cigarettes in the early eighties. You've come a long ways baby.

To bad it was in the opposite direction than the one needed.

[k-nug]

Nice points you have made, Z, I am thinking about voting Ron Paul, I've been keeping up with him on Youtube for a while now. I really like his Fed Ideas, as well as his foreign policy. I don't like the idea of voting Republican, but as Ron as said himself, the current republican party is far away from the party of old. I see myself as a swing voter, and I can only hope my vote can change the way the US conducts itself in the next administration.

I have become really disappointed in America's cultural attitudes of late, even as a freethinking 'hippie' (for lack of a better word). It's sad that our culture, as 'free' as it is, focuses so much on sex and hedonism when the world around us changes and evolves past us. We have become fat and lazy, in a cultural sense, and are satisfied by creature comforts.

There are younger people in this country who can't point out Iraq on a map, or know what the Fed is. High school has been turned from a place of education into social and class training. The Internet gives even more immediate gratification to today's youth, who seem more concerned with the latest iphone than the crisis' we face in the middle east, Burma or Africa. It's pretty sad.

Of course the headlines everyday are along the lines of pop stars behaving badly. I have to go out of my way to find that NASA launched a new satellite today to explore the asteroid belt, or that Mars rover is exploring a giant crater. I wonder what the ratio is of people who know what and where Ceres and Vesta is vs what britney did last night. Of course when teachers are making a fraction of what your average pop star or rapper makes, it's no surprise.

Sometimes I think the only thing that will save America is a Yellowstone eruption or a comet striking us.

[k-nug]

Just thought I'd post these lyrics in rememberance of the lives that were lost on that day. I think it's a beautiful song, and was written not long after the event.

Dream Theater - Sacrificed Sons

Walls are closing
Anxiously
Channel surfing
Frantically

Burning City
Smoke and fire
Planes we're certain
Faith inspired

No clues
A complete surprise
Who'll be
Coming home tonight

Heads are turning
Towards the sky
Towers crumble
Heroes die

Who would wish this on our people
And proclaim that his will be done
Scriptures they heed have misled them
All praise their sacrificed sons
All praise their sacrificed sons

Teach them what
To think and feel
Your ways so
Enlightening

Words they preach
I can't relate
If God's true love
Are acts of hate

Who would wish this on our people
And proclaim that his will be done
Scriptures they heed have misled them
All praise their sacrificed sons
All praise their sacrifices sons

God on high
Our mistake
Will makind
Be extinct?

There's no time
Time to waste
Who serves the truth
For heaven's sake

I really hate DT these days, their music has gone from bad to worse. It's beyond pretentious. (sorry, irrelevent).

What I really meant to say was, these lyrics are a prime example of America's ignorance of the world.