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Many years ago I wrote a story called "Harvey and Fifth." It's still one of my favorite stories, written in reaction to seeing the Oklahoma City memorial. I wrote it, and sent it out for submission, in August 2001. Needless to say, it took a while to find a home. The story is told from the point of view of a child survivor, and there's a line in there that still gives me sad shivers:

There's a space within her that always tells Oklahoma time. 9:01. 9:03.

You know what my time is.

It is an everyday.
It will never be any other day.

Let the sounds today be not of silence, but Life.


( a prayer )

( and a song )

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Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Anarchists, Unaffiliateds, foreigners [resident or otherwise], and more all died in the events of 9/11.

So here's my suggestion on how we can best honor them all.

No politics. A 24 hour quiet zone.

No politicians speaking at memorials. No political pundits screaming this or that. No campaign ads aired or internet rumors spread. Nobody claiming this or that, no beating up on another party or pointing a finger...

Just... people, remembering not just the dead of this day but all the victims.


Crazy, huh?

all right, I didn't make it until midnight before I got political again...

People are giving me too many ire-worthy links.

What are the Issues Obama and McCain should be addressing? rosenhaus laid it all out for you, better than I could have.
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This is not political: this is disgraceful. If you haven't read this, you're, um, missing out on the way the country's being run. Into the ground.

Seriously.

WASHINGTON — As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting gifts from energy companies, cocaine use and sexual misconduct

"Drill, baby, drill" indeed.
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And then there's this. The source may be screamingly liberal but the meat of the matter should offend everyone no matter what their political stripe.

"The McCain campaign's surrogates have sucked up a lot of air time this past week shouting "Palin is a victim of sexism!" every time her credentials for the second highest office in the land are questioned. Yet so far they've managed to avoid hard questioning about Palin's role as mayor of Wasilla in overseeing policy that charged REAL victims, rape victims, for the expensive medical and forensic test necessary for prosecuting rapists.

A policy, mind you, that may have been illegal as well as heartless."

This is the woman they claimed would appeal to supporters of Hillary Clinton?
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I spent the evening in a bar with an old friend and some new ones. NYers in a bar on 9/11. You think Republican ears were burning? Like farkin' napalm, baby...