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It's 9/11, did you do the right thing today?

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If by that you mean 'did I do what I was supposed to do today', then yes. I studied the whole day. 9/11 was yesterday, but I studied pretty much all yesterday too. Man, I hate physiology...

You still have an X48 mobo. Your entire opinion is mute. Let me ASL that for you...
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MOOT.

Heck, Dec. 7 didn't live in infamy did it? How many people don't even remember that and how many times do you not hear it on the news?



*Cue newsroom morning show Dec. 7 2011"

(Ahem... Hey, how about those cute kitties! Well looks like Sandra over in Oak Park is deciding to sell them to benefit the local girl scouts program so that they can afford new bandanas and a float trip down the yazoo river."

*Cut to dramatic video of japanese warbirds strafing docked warships in Hawaii, and a 10 minute voice-over( "70 years ago to this date, The Empire of Japan attacked the United States of America and provoked a .......")*


*Cue newsroom analyst with expert panelist*
"Good morning, we have expert in WW2 Jim Johnson with us......."

)
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We still remember Guy Fawkes, and he didn't even actually do anything. Imagine if we had a national day of remembrance whenever someone made a conspiracy to commit a terrorist act. We'd never get anything done. To be fair, Guy Fawkes is an excuse to let off fireworks. So if you really want 9/11 remembered forever, do the same. Or blow up papier mâché WTCs. Or whatever.

Heck, this isn't the worst tragedy in American History by FAR. Not even of that century. most audacious man made tragedy? It has some competition here definitely.
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This is what annoys me most about all the 9/11 remembrance stuff. I think we do need to remember loss of life, and all that, but this was 3000 people, 9 years ago. More people have died from suicide since then in the States. To me it's far more appropriate drawing attention to things we can actually do stuff about, rather than taking a collective day to be all miserable and/or hateful for something that we can't ever change.
 
Mr. Pedantic said:
If by that you mean 'did I do what I was supposed to do today', then yes. I studied the whole day. 9/11 was yesterday, but I studied pretty much all yesterday too. Man, I hate physiology...


MOOT.


We still remember Guy Fawkes, and he didn't even actually do anything. Imagine if we had a national day of remembrance whenever someone made a conspiracy to commit a terrorist act. We'd never get anything done. To be fair, Guy Fawkes is an excuse to let off fireworks. So if you really want 9/11 remembered forever, do the same. Or blow up papier mâché WTCs. Or whatever.


This is what annoys me most about all the 9/11 remembrance stuff. I think we do need to remember loss of life, and all that, but this was 3000 people, 9 years ago. More people have died from suicide since then in the States. To me it's far more appropriate drawing attention to things we can actually do stuff about, rather than taking a collective day to be all miserable and/or hateful for something that we can't ever change.
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It's almost as bad as when Lady Di died.
 
It was my buddy's birthday today, so I had some beers with him and friends after the gym, then I watched a couple of movies and catalogued all 162 of the movies I own. Good, productive day today. 🙂

KT
 
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