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Sep. 6th, 2003 06:56 pmLet's hear iit for Mahmoud Abbas. A man who was willing, for almost four months of what must have been sheer hell, to take on a task everyone knew from the start was impossible. Abu Mizen, I salute you.
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Sep. 6th, 2003 07:11 pmA while back ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_babalon was asking about September 11 stories. Here's one I just remembered.
About a year ago I wound up talking and flirting and drinking with a woman in the French Quarter. We were having a grand old time, but as the prospect of sunrise began to loom it was apparent she had had waayy too much to drink and needed to get home. So (after a series of misadventures of the sort two tipsy women can expect to have in the Quarter in the wee hours) when we finally got to her Ninth Ward apartment and talked for a few moments she started crying and cursing the Sept. 11 hijackers.
She then claimed that before September 11 she had worked for an intelligence agency and was one of many people whose failure had allowed it to happen. Furthermore, she was so depressed after the attacks that she hadn't been able to work since. I found the second claim to be very believable. The first was enough for me to conclude that she was delusional or, more likely, schizophrenic. The few schizophrenic people I have encountered are like psychic radio receivers who can pick up on other people's thoughts and emotions and are unable to tune them out -- and so, meeting her made me very aware of the high level of psychic detritus in the country's air since the attacks.
It's been almost two years now, and I don't think the country is even close to healing. The Iraq war certainly hasn't helped the healing process, either... I think most Americans have an innate understanding that it was unjust, but feel still feel to powerless and helpless from September 11 to do much about it.
lady_babalon was asking about September 11 stories. Here's one I just remembered.About a year ago I wound up talking and flirting and drinking with a woman in the French Quarter. We were having a grand old time, but as the prospect of sunrise began to loom it was apparent she had had waayy too much to drink and needed to get home. So (after a series of misadventures of the sort two tipsy women can expect to have in the Quarter in the wee hours) when we finally got to her Ninth Ward apartment and talked for a few moments she started crying and cursing the Sept. 11 hijackers.
She then claimed that before September 11 she had worked for an intelligence agency and was one of many people whose failure had allowed it to happen. Furthermore, she was so depressed after the attacks that she hadn't been able to work since. I found the second claim to be very believable. The first was enough for me to conclude that she was delusional or, more likely, schizophrenic. The few schizophrenic people I have encountered are like psychic radio receivers who can pick up on other people's thoughts and emotions and are unable to tune them out -- and so, meeting her made me very aware of the high level of psychic detritus in the country's air since the attacks.
It's been almost two years now, and I don't think the country is even close to healing. The Iraq war certainly hasn't helped the healing process, either... I think most Americans have an innate understanding that it was unjust, but feel still feel to powerless and helpless from September 11 to do much about it.
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Sep. 6th, 2003 08:40 pmWell, I have my journal in a new format using S2. Please tell me what you think.
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lgbtx and made me laugh out loud:
Editorial comment, in regard to Bishop Gene Robinson. Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2003 -
"The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, his wife Anne Boleyn, his wife Jane Seymour, his wife Anne of Cleves, his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on our 'traditional Christian marriage.'"
lgbtx and made me laugh out loud:Editorial comment, in regard to Bishop Gene Robinson. Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2003 -
"The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, his wife Anne Boleyn, his wife Jane Seymour, his wife Anne of Cleves, his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on our 'traditional Christian marriage.'"