Comments on: The Bright Side of September 11 https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/ And I'm getting madder. Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:39:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Hammie https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-658817 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:25:11 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-658817 I didn’t realise either Wendy. I’m so sorry Sis. Makes me think though, with all the high tech weaponry available to first world countries like your own, when it came down to it; on September 11 to survive – you had to run.
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]]> By: WendyB https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-653054 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:36:49 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-653054 I didn’t realize Max was at the World Financial Center!

]]> By: Sheri https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-648386 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:18:24 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-648386 Yeah, I should probably lighten up. I can laugh about almost anything, but pathological American patriotism seems too insidious. Even Obama feels the need to end every speech with “God Bless America,” and I can never help but think, “what about everybody else?” Kind of like thinking that God will help YOUR soccer team win, and THEIR soccer team lose. What did they do/not do to deserve such discrimination?

]]> By: Ann https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-648230 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:05:33 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-648230 Keith is actually a registered Independent who has typically voted Republican.

]]> By: Sister Wolf https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-647613 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:17:13 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-647613 Sheri – Yeah, I know what you’re saying. But I can’t help laughing, literally. It’s so stupid and bombastic and tasteless and sincere. I’m perverse that way.

]]> By: Sister Wolf https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-647600 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 07:10:36 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-647600 Channy – Really?!?!?!?!?! God. I don’t want him in my party. Shoo, Toby!

]]> By: Channy https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-647225 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:41:52 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-647225 Ha. Toby Keith is a registered Democrat.

]]> By: Ann https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-647146 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:34:07 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-647146 Toby Keith is awful. He – and even more so, his fans – embody much that is wrong with this country. That same cavalier attitude reared its ugly head again yesterday, as a day of somber reflection was turned into a production reminiscent of the Super Bowl, complete with fireworks and fanfare for all the wrong reasons.

I had never read that Clark quote. Wow, wow and wow.

]]> By: Cricket9 https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-646968 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:18:37 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-646968 Toby “Jingo” Keith – never heard of him either, and just as well. As for the eagle – inevitably I have a picture of the eagle from Stephen Colbert show in my mind, and at the words “land of the free” I hear this voice saying “owned by the Chinese”.
Kinda spoils the effect…

]]> By: My Friend's House https://godammit.com/the-bright-side-of-september-11/comment-page-1/#comment-646795 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 21:01:35 +0000 http://www.godammit.com/?p=8030#comment-646795 Cripes. I just had to google Toby Keith as I’d never heard of him, or the opus you posted. Funny, and not. Kind of grotesquely catchy too. By way of an antidote I thought I’d point you towards a 9/11 story (in the loosest sense) by Laurie Anderson which she read on Jarvis Cocker’s BBC Radio 6 show on Sunday. It’s at 1.06hrs on the player if you feel so inclined.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ptsjd
I like her anyway, and her delivery, but I liked the low-key nature of the story, and its rural setting, suddenly changed.

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