Monday, September 11, 2006

9/11

Here are a few places to visit for clarity:
Michelle Malkin
Burt Prelutsky
Doug Giles (He's obnoxious, can be funny, and right.)

The Clintons seem to only hate censorship when the truth hurts them. Bubba and the gang have sent the following to ABC about that little story based on the 9/11 Commission report. (The Commission, by the way, was a nonpartisan group of folks who were charged with the fun job of finding out what actually happened to us on that dreadful day.)

“The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and
ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely.” In
the Washington Post
, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright described
one scene as “false and defamatory” and former national-security adviser Sandy
Berger — last seen trying to sneak classified documents out of the National Archives— said the show “flagrantly misrepresents my personal actions.”


And, in case you were just sick enough to feel gross, but can't quite vomit, this is better than sticking your finger down your throat:

From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle newspaper:

At the Briarwood and Seneca elementary schools in West Irondequoit,
morning announcements will ask students to remember the heroes such as police
officers and firefighters and other people in the community who are there to
help in a crisis.
But one thing educators in those schools won't do this Patriot's Day — the fifth anniversary of the day terrorist hijackers crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center's twin towers, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pa. — is talk extensively about the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
"We don't have any formalized instruction about Sept. 11," said David Bills, principal of Briarwood and Seneca, both kindergarten-through-third-grade schools. "And that's consistent with what we did when Sept. 11 happened. We decided it was not developmentally appropriate for it to be an instructional moment (empahsis mine). At that time, we addressed any concerns the kids had as they arose, and we are still positioned to do that."
Only five years in the past, the events of Sept. 11 aren't yet in many history books, except possibly some of the newer high school texts, said Deborah Ryan Johnson, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction in Rush-Henrietta.

If you must, the whole thing is here.


Well, time to start the day with the kiddos. I think we'll actually talk about 9/11 today in our school. Go figure.

UPDATE: Commander Salamander has just what I was looking for. And I agree, Commander, we need to see it agin, and again, and again, as we are so quick to forget what it reallywas that happened to those innocent Americans that day.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:20 AM

    Malkin, Prelutsky and Giles are right on. When are we going to stop the insanity?

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  2. I fear it may take at least another kick upside the head. And I pray that that is all it takes. Sometimes, Mama, I feel like Alice through the looking glass. Up is down, right is wrong...

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  3. Anonymous4:09 PM

    Thanks for the link to the CDR Salamander video. I watched it and cried and broke out in goosebumps. I feel exactly the same way I did the day it happened. So sad.

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  4. Yep, anon, I wholeheartedly agree.

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