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Today is September 11, 2006; five years after the terrorist attacks on the United States. We must remember this day always to assure us of what we have resolved to do. We must remember what the terrorists with horrific pride did and do without any type of regret or apology. We must be determined in our fight against these horrible people, and never give up until they are killed. These cold-blooded murderers must come to justice.

Allahpundit has posted a video remembrance of the events of 9/11 as they happened on Hot Air. It’s just stunning when you watch it again. You can see President Bush’s stirring speech to a joint session of Congress here, or hear it.

I remember I had just gotten back from New Jersey a couple weeks before. On the visit I had seen the World Trade Center. I was feeling kind of down that day, though I don’t know why, and didn’t hear about the attacks until after both towers had collapsed. It was horrifying to see the New York skyline with the Twin Towers absent. That’s it. Just absent. Not there. Missing. It looked so empty and devoid of a key part. We prayed and prayed.

My uncle had an appointment in one of the towers later that day. He was still doing other business at the time of the attack. Everyone there in the New York area lost some friend or co-worker. Every school had some parent that was missing. Everyone was just in shock.

Then you saw the images of Muslim people out in the streets of the Middle East waving V on their fingers and shouting, “Victory!” and other such cries. All of America was maddened. It is hard not to hate people like that. A religion of peace would never do anything like that.

Then you have maniacs who deny reality. They deny that it was a plane that crashed into the Pentagon, and say that it was CIA-planted bombs that blew up the World Trade Center. It’s just despicable. I’m not even going to go into it. If you believe such things, you’re beyond hope of any kind of reasonable debate. Yet, that leftist blindness has been there from the very beginning. I remember that my local FOX station was having a live call-in time right after the attacks, and I heard some whacked-out woman calling in saying that it was Bush’s fault. “Everything has gone wrong since Bush got in office, and this is just another thing. It’s Bush’s fault somehow.”

Just insanity.

In case you were wondering, the origin of Labor Day does in fact go back to the labor unions. On Tuesday, Sept 5, 1882, The Central Labor Union of New York City put on a parade and a subsequent festival for its union members. This was the blossoming of an idea that several people had for a holiday celebrating the achievements and contributions of the common working people.

The Central Labor Union did the same thing the next year, urging other labor unions to do so as well. By 1885, Labor Day was a common holiday in most industrial cities of America.

Oregon, in 1887, was the first state to formally recognize Labor Day. Other states followed suit until 1894, when Congress recognized it. Some of the governmental recognition was tied to a desire to take Americans’ attention away from May Day, a communistic holiday commemorating the Haymarket Riot of 1886. This holiday was (and is) commonly accompanied by rioting and violent demonstrations by communists, socialists, anarchists, and radicals in general. European nations and other countries were pushed to recognize the holiday, although the US and Canada held out.

Yes, while they riot and yell their hearts out, we sit down for a picnic. We need to celebrate the ideal of the work ethic that has made America great in the world. More info available here.

This is a short post, as will be many of my following posts, I’m afraid I’m getting really busy and don’t have as much time to post now as I did this summer. Daily posts will likely stop, and this blog will become more weekly.
AiG has a really good weekly series going, News to Note, where they reply to the various media articles about creation and evolution. This is their third or fourth one, responding to various things such as DNA discoveries, the ongoing ID controversy in public schools, various stereotypes about creationists, and a few other things.

Israel launched another raid into Lebanon with the expressed intention of stopping a shipment of arms getting to Hezbollah. Of course, everybody is angry about Israel’s supposed violation of the truce, without saying that Hezbollah violated it by trying to get weapons and refusing to disarm. People are disappointed with France, which hasn’t been very reliable or diligent in its obligations to keep the peace. That is to be expected, of course, along with the ceasefire not working, and the UN’s inability to do anything. Just another straw in the barn sized stack of hay showing evidence of the UN’s inability to accomplish its mission.
For you new readers, I would recommend going back to my previous posts and read them to get more of an idea of what this blog is mostly about. The Islam discussion was off topic, though still enjoyable and educational, as all debates are. I hope you will post your thoughts as they come to you in comments, which I will likely be able to answer, since that doesn’t take as much time.

UPDATE: This is also a commemoration of my 100th post, though that passed a few days ago. I also have exactly 200 comments total, as of this writing. That’s an average of 2 comments for every post. Thanks for the responses guys!

In case any of you Hezbollah supporters were thinking that terrorists were good guys, Scotland Yard has foiled a new terrorist plot to blow up an airplane in mid-flight. The Muslim conspirators (man, that seems to be the religion of choice for terrorists) planned to smuggle in explosive liquids in soda bottles, etc. and assemble the bombs in the bathrooms. They were then going to detonate them with devices disguised as common appliances.

These attacks are going to try to keep on coming. The Muslims just hate the West indelibly. I noticed that the reports said that Scotland Yard was noticing that the conspirators were clicking on flights for the US when they surfed the Internet. I guess keeping track of Internet records helps in the fight against terror.

Little Green Footballs has another post running on pictures of one building that was destroyed one night that have been made out by AP as seperate air raids. More things are showing up by the day. Yes, Reutergate could spiral into a huge public discrediting of the liberal media.
On the right is another AP photo of a Hezbollah fighter shooting at Israelis, with a civilian family right next to him. Jubilant children are right behind. You’ve just got to love that Hezbollah strategy.

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin has uncovered the New York Times fudging on another photo of a “rescue worker”.

I am disappointed. When this conflict started on July 13, I thought there would be more support for Israel. They are fighting against a terrorist enemy, Hezbollah. Terrorists attacked us on 9/11, and killed 3,000 of our people. I thought we had resolve against people like that. But no, terrorists are praised in protests in cities across America and the Western World. The MSM are doing their best to make Hezbollah look like a poor little innocent child that the big bad bully, Israel, turned on for no reason. They are trying so hard to give this impression, that they pass through photographs that are clearly hampered.

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Practically the entire civilized world recognizes that. This war started when Hezbollah and Hamas kidnapped several Israeli troops. Then Hezbollah started launching rockets into northern Israeli cities. Israel decided that they were not going to be pushed around and give back the hundreds of prisoners that Hezbollah was asking for, and start another kidnapping binge. So they launched a bombing, artillery firing, naval and air blockading assault on southern Lebanon.

Israel is not fighting against Lebanon. They are fighting against Hezbollah, which the Lebanese government has allowed to control the southern part of the country. Israel has asked the Lebanese government over and over again to get rid of Hezbollah in their country, but to no avail. So, Lebanon has paid the price: their airports have been destroyed, ports blockaded, and civilians killed.

It would be helpful to point out that Israel had to destroy the Beirut airport, various roads, and port areas to stop Hezbollah from being re-supplied by Iran and other sources. When Israel bombs cities and villages, it’s because Hezbollah troops intentionally mix in with the population. Hezbollah troops are rarely in uniform, and launch rockets, patrol in tanks, etc. in areas where many other people are. In the now-infamous bombing of Qana, it was reported that Hezbollah troops were around everywhere just before the bombing. Hezbollah kept the civilians from leaving in the villages it controlled. They needed them for the body shields.

So while Israel can hardly help killing civilians with enemy tactics such as these, and tries to bomb areas where there are no civilians as much as possible, Hezbollah launches rockets into Israeli cities without warning, without a particular target, and with no particular purpose besides that of murdering civilians. I think the moral balance is clear.

I thought I wouldn’t even have to say all the above. I thought it would be obvious to Americans who is in the right and who is in the wrong in this conflict, but I was wrong. Protests in Boston, New York City, and other areas are praising Hezbollah, waving the yellow and green flags, and chanting terrorist slogans. Apparently people don’t care about brutal terror anymore. Apparently people have forgotten what terrorists did to us on 9/11. Apparently people have forgotten that Hezbollah killed hundreds of our troops in the suicide attack on Marine barracks. I cannot believe the amount of support Bostonians and New Yorkers are giving a terrorist organization. It’s just sick.

Meanwhile the media are hard at work. They show dozens of photos of the same dead people held up by the same Hezbollah workers in different situations, and made to look like separate incidents. They rarely show the damage that is being dealt on Israeli cities by unguided rockets, but eat up shots and stories of Israeli bombings. The way the headlines go, you would think it was Israel who just invaded Lebanon for the fun of it.

Now we have the smoke-plume scandal. Adnan Hajj, a local free-lance photographer, took shots of a burning building. Then he cloned certain parts of the picture in Photoshop to make the smoke plume look larger. He also cloned one flare fired by an Israeli F-16 to look like 4 missiles coming down on a residential area. The same photographer was taking shots at Qana. Who knows if those were largely staged, now too? Reuters passed the photos through; apparently eager to get anything that made the conflict (and specifically the Israelis) look more horrible. Charles Johnson, a former graphic designer and writer of Little Green Footballs, caught the error and fully exposed it. I passed up his post when I first read it on Saturday, shaking my head and thinking it was just another bad old thing the media had done. I didn’t realize that it would turn into a big controversy, and Reuters would eventually withdraw the photo. Whatever.

I just hope it’s abundantly clear which side America should be on, and why protesters should be ashamed of themselves.

I just found a really good cartoon on Saber Point that illustrates the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. It’s really true for all wars the US has been in since Vietnam. The Somalis, Iraqis, (the formal army under Saddam) and terrorists in general have all used the same tactic. They have such a lack of civilization that they have to prey on our decent behavior.

Stogie posted it on his blog, but the original source was View from the Right.