Around the Horn Friday: Counterfeit Disgust Edition

Well, it has been 6 years since September 11th, 2001. Never before had I seen a united country like we were that week. And never have I seen an event perverted for political purposes on that scale either. Jason put quite a fine point on the issue this week with a post that sparked quite a bit of complaint from the right. Frank Knotts posted a prayer of remembrance and showed that he is ready for this war of terror to last for lifetimes. And then preemptively turned off comments. Duffy posted on how disgusted he was and promptly lost his taste for blogging. A new addition to AthF, Delaware Dem tried to referee the issue by disagreeing with Jason and Dave Burris. As for the least political remembrance of 9/11 (a difficult achievement) I tip my hat to Joe M at Merit Bound Alley.

In an effort to piss of Al Mascitti even more, I’ll mention that Kilroy has been busy all week casting Minner, Carney and Markell as haters for the whole DMA thing. Even when DSEA explains their position, it ain’t good enough. I just want to know if the DSEA letter actually mis-spelled dispute or if Kilroy was retyping the letter himself. In related news, Dana catches a flub by a charter school that could have been disasterous. Who needs stupid regulations anyway?

In the long anticipated report from General Patraeus, there were many posts spawned. Ryan S. stands by the White House report and is encouraged. Somewhat surprisingly, so is Kavips in a well-reasoned change of attitude, if not strategy.

As usual, some of the best blogging has been done by Tom Noyes. He has good stuff on the Christina plan for the City as well as some excellent analysis of the final year of the Carney/Markell primary. Be sure to read his coverage of the Bluewater Wind -Delmarva brinkmanship and possible dirty dealing by Delmarva

I particularly like the Kathy Griffin story covered by Mat Marshall from the “Damn that’s funny” side of the issue, and Paul Smith from the “she is going to burn in Hell for that one” side of the issue.

Nancy covers a brewing Middletown-DelDOT controversy with anti-semitic overtones.

Elsewhere in State government failures, Mike covers the DPC hearing over at DWA.

Ryan Mc has put Liberal Delight on hiatus while looking for a new job. He thinks prospective employers will be unwilling to hire a blogger that sometimes has opinions. Hope they don’t see the Satan worship stuff that you have on there, Ryan… I kid…

As usual, KarmicJay has a review of a movie that, like all of his reviews, inspires me to watch movies that aren’t Snakes on a Plane (which I watched on Wednesday night).

Please make sure you head over to FSP to see Dave dare Mike Protack to sue him.

Be sure to wish Mike Mahaffie a happy 19th anniversary. The flowers are a nice touch.

While surfing around swing on by to see Imparfait, the new poster at The Colossus of Rodney Rhodey. He covers the low pay and standards for substitute teachers.

This weekend is the annual Ocktoberfest in Newark. I highly recommend it and I often arrange my social life in September around it. When I go now, I remember the conversations that I had with people in 2001. It was the first time that I had been in a big social situation since 9/11 and things were still foggy about what had happened and who was responsible. I still sometimes feel equally disoriented when I think about what this country has done to the outpouring of comfort we received in those days. We have been responsible for the deaths of at least 71,985 Iraqis and 3,776 American soldiers. I can’t help feeling that we squandered something special and have betrayed the memory of those innocent lives that were snuffed out 6 years and 3 days ago.