This actually doesn’t bother me; I’m more amused than anything else. I figure there’s a limit to how many times he can use the invocation of 9/11 as a kind of political magic wand; it already seems to be losing some of its juice.
So go to it, George. If you want to use 9/11 to justify everything under the sun, please go right to it. I’m in your corner on this one. 
I’m dying for somebody to find a mathematical relationship between 9/11 and 42.
I wonder if I can use this tactic at work:
“Mr. Frog, we’ve noticed you were absent 4 days so far this moneth, and late 12 other times. Can you account for this?”
“You know, sir, ever since September 11th, I feel America has changed. And not just the politics, but the people. We are united. We work together. We are spiritually one. And as my co-workers were here the days I was gone, and on time the days I was late, I’d like to remind you that I was here. I was here spiritually, bonded in hope with my fellow Americans.”
Well, my friend, today is your lucky day!
In binary, 9-11-01 translates to 1001-1011-01.
We’ll get rid of those pesky hyphens, for 1001101101.
Now we convert that number back to decimal notation to get 621.
666 - 621 = 45.
Now there were three buildings crashed into on that fateful day, so we say 45 - 3 = 42! Ta-da!
What’s more, this is the real reason the fourth plane crashed before it could hit anything! It was in fact impossible for that fourth plane to ever hit a building according to the mathematical laws of the universe! If it had hit a fourth building, then the mathematical synthesis of the universe would have been thrown off!
That good enough for ya? (Took me like 5 minutes.)
Not bad, not bad. I’m impressed.
Is anyone really suprised he’s doing this? Do you think another politician wouldn’t?
I’m afraid I don’t get this part.
Eh. I equate it with the Roman senator Cato ending all his speeches with, “And I think Carthage must be destroyed.”
1001101101 is binary for 621.
Am I surprised? No. Are there politicians who wouldn’t be doing it? Certainly.
That’s not really the point, though, is it? The real question, to me, is whether it’s acceptable for any politician – and particularly one who supposedly represents America as a whole – to be engaging in this sort of patently obvious manipulation.
I say no.
Ahh! Ancient history! I would say that that analogy falls apart: If we had in ancient Rome the same leadership of “captain army flex time” I would have seen Cato still saying “And I think Carthage must be destroyed.” and then setting the army to conquer Babylon instead.
I see Iraq as a deserving scapegoat, but a scapegoat nevertheless. Carthage to me is the money people and organizers that are hiding now in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and I am not supporting here an invasion, but to go back to finding the perpetrators of the 9/11 crime.
I agree.
Since he’s getting away with it, it seems that it ain’t that obvious to a bunch of folks.
And that is sad.
That’s what kills me. People buy into this crap.
Why? Why? Why?
Well, here’s a **very small ** consolation - his million dollar “Mission Accomplished” photo op is no longer worth the bandwidth to broadcast. Should have saved the money and hired someone to clean up some of that brush down at Crawford. Maybe get Laura another goddamn new pantsuit.
'Cause it’s easier than thinking?
Especially when that thinking leads to the conclusion that their beloved country has been acting badly, and that they, by their gullible acceptance of outrageous claims, bear responsibility for that bad behavior. That’d be painful, and people don’t like doing things that are hard and painful.
Some people are happily “pre-fooled” and as long as Bush or his hate radio cronies say it, it is as good as the truth for them.
BTW- did the Spartans have a “don’t ask don’t tell” policy?
I don’t think we’re done seeing the flight suit and the “Mission Accomplished” banner. It’ll probably show up on TV spots next summer - grainy, black and white, dissolving into shots of US soldiers filling Walter Reed Army Hospital, then words like “BUSH LIED” or somesuch in large, block letters. Cut to a color view of a determined-but-honest-looking Dean or perhaps Kerry, in color and in focus, and some determined-but-honest-looking positive wording.
Don’t criticize Bush. You’re only encouraging the terrorists. Rumsfeld said so, so it must be true:
Seems that everyone’s determined to make things “complicated”.