Allahpundit, I’m surprised that you missed this.

Time Warner Cable customers who live in NYC or the New York Tri-State area please contact Time Warner Cable now and tell them to drop this vile, anti-American propaganda “news” channel. It was bad enough when they broadcast this crap yesterday, but two days in a row of this is simply obscene. As a Time Warner Cable customer I’m appaled that I’m paying for this. Time Warner Cable doesn’t carry Al-Jazeera TV and it shoulnd’t carry this pathetic excuse of a “news” outlet either.

I’m proud to say I bumrushed one of these ****s last year in NYC, and also tripped a Fred Phelps zombie.

What a rush! Highly recommended.

Time Warner Cable customers who live in NYC or the New York Tri-State area please contact Time Warner Cable now and tell them to drop this vile, anti-American propaganda “news” channel. It was bad enough when they broadcast this crap yesterday, but two days in a row of this is simply obscene. As a Time Warner Cable customer I’m appaled that I’m paying for this. Time Warner Cable doesn’t carry Al-Jazeera TV and it shoulnd’t carry this pathetic excuse of a “news” outlet either.

The part that really got to me was this:

All I can say to describe it is: Imagine the sound of thousands of Americans screaming on a city street

It was unbelievable, almost literally

On the other hand they are infinitely fascinated with the animals who carried out the attack and want to know every facet of their miserable existences.

It’s as if they think, “Surely people that sacrifice themselves must be right.”

If someone publicly expressed the same views and sentiments concerning Timothy McVeigh on the other hand, their life wouldn’t be worth two cents. Not that either should be elevated in anyway, but why is it acceptable to these Leftists to do so with the Muslim brand of murderers?

I was also in NYC that day:

- I was getting ready for a conference call and my assistant came in and told me her boyfriend called and said that a plane hit the WTC. I remember thinking “small plane lost in the fog,” then looking outside and seeing what a bright sunny day it was.

- In the midst of the call, a colleague had CNN on his computer and suddenly screamed, “A second one hit!”

- My wife was pregnant with our twin girls and working across town in the Time Inc building. We drove together each day from NJ and parked in the city. I could not get through on the phone, so I immediately left the building and started walking toward hers. Little did I know that she had decided to do the same thing. We both wound up at each other’s building.

-While walking, I will always remember people on the street moving quickly and looking up warily. There was much talk of more planes coming.

- Once my wife and I got together, we sat in a conference room in my building with a security guard who had 2 daughters who worked in the WTC. We watched the buildings collapse together. He just kept hitting redial on his cell phone. My wife cried quietly. (It turns out his daughters had escaped, but he didn’t learn that until that night). I left that company 6 years ago, and he is the only enduring friend I have from there.

-When we heard that the tunnel and bridge had opened, we scurried to our car and started driving west on 49th street. The stream of people moving north was thick, even 2-3 miles from the WTC. It was difficult to get across the intersections, even if the light was green– the pedestrians ignored the lights. At one point I edged through the intersection slowly, and people began pounding on the roof of the car.

- When we got to the west side, it turned out the tunnel opening was a rumor. We found a diner and ate breakfast food. The place was packed, and silent.

AP,

What’s this beta male label you keep claiming? Knock it off, dude.

karl9000 on September 12, 2009 at 7:55 AM

true

it was so touching of him to share his story

What’s this beta male label you keep claiming? Knock it off, dude.

but I remember being 14 and attending a funeral of an FDNY member

It was the most surreal experience

In the days after 9/11, I painted a boat with a friend, and by the end of the day, we had to redo it all, because it was covered in dust from the WTC. You couldn’t see it in the air, but you could see it all over the new coat of paint. It was incredibly disturbing.

my dad flew for american as i mentioned, and he had a flight out of LGA in Nyc on 9/11. he dropped it prior to 9/11, and his friend took it. it turns out that on 9/11, he was sitting on the runway, when the plane was rendered unable to take off due to mechanical issues. as they apologized to the passengers, a handful of middle eastern men said they were “more sorry for your coworkers.” minutes later, the planes hit the towers.

I sat my exams in the towers. I worked in the towers. In London we stayed on the phone with our co-workers during he first attack on the towers and on 9-11 so many friends perished.

There are also many stories of chance survival. My college buddy who never visited me in London because of his morbid fear of terrorism worked for Marsh on one of the top floors and only survived because he bumped into another friend at the elevator bank and they stood there chatting over breakfast as all hell broke loose. They stood in front of a shaft where the cables were severed by the impact. He had to run for his life through awful debris and bodies to escape. My CEO at the time who was booked to fly on one of the planes but missed it because of a late meeting.

We are all touched by what happened and many of us are impacted by the aftermath… Friends, family, and comrades sent to war and harmed in the follow on attacks in Bali, Madrid, London, and elsewhere.

I have a long relationship with terrorism. Six building I have worked in have been obliterated over the years. I have been around bombs and have even had to evacuate my home to let police make it a command post during an attack in London. Then there are all the delayed trains and school evacuations growing up. It could be jihadi fascists, crazed Irish Catholics, anti-American leftists or, one time, just a nut job from Italy. No military experience really prepares you to deal with the horror of these things happening in your civilian life.

We all need to be vigilant. We all need to stay civilized. We will prevail.

yeah, waterboarding is too harsh for terrorists!/

redridinghood on September 12, 2009 at 12:34 AM

It’s a scary fact that that mentality won the election.

Allah’s brilliant analysis, diction, and 14-year-old oak barrel aged 100 proof snark.
From a horrible experience comes a true warrior for our culture.
MadisonConservative on September 11, 2009 at 11:06 PM

MC says what’s in my heart better than I. AP, thanks for sharing.

Although I was further away, upstate in Goshen and Middletown, NY, I won’t forget that day either. I was gasing up my jeep before work, at the Exxon station just off of Route 17, and I saw a passneger plane flying real low, heading downstate (southeast I guess it would be). I thought, wow thats weird, to be flying here, we never see passenger planes here, and so low! I’ve always thought that was one of the planes. Went to my job at the public relations dept. at the hospital. Coworker came in crying and told me tower building was hit. I assumed it was a small plane. Then soon after she came back and said another plane hit. I said its terrorists. Lots of people went home crying because they knew people that worked in the area. I stayed. We had several bomb threats phoned in (how is it some people are so sick?) I spent all day assisting our VP and spokesperson because of those threats. We had received a call that said a bomb would go off at 1:00 that day. They told employees to stay at their desks. One woman, a friendly emergency room doctor, came and told me to go wait outside at that time. Nothing happened, so we all went back inside. Worked furiously until 6:30. Fax and phone lines were disrupted.

All day, I hadn’t had a chance to view a tv, so I didn’t understand the magnitude. I hit a Carvel on the way home and got a birthday cake for my youngest daughter – it was her 15th birthday. When I got home, the house was empty – she was a few blocks away with a friend. Its touched her; birthday will suck always now. My family lives overseas and my sister called the next day, or perhaps it was 2 days later. She said they had all been worried. I assured her that I was quite safe, being about 1 1/2 hours away from the trouble.

2001 was just the strangest year. Started with 9/11. One night in October, my best friend’s husband died of colon cancer. That same night I came home and was informed that my 15-year-old daughter was pregnant. Then, in November, a female coworker that I liked very much was murdered, stabbed to death in her own home. They’ve never found the culprit.

A very bad year indeed. Anyway, sorry. I don’t mean to take away from anyone who was involved in the attacks that horrile day. Just venting I suppose. God bless.

On my monitor,
Images from a web cam
Aimed at a TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RDanD1Z7Ps

Remember the administration who against everyone took the fight to enemy shores

Remember those who fell so other generations may have that warm blanket feeling

Remember those who oppose, who lied, who distorted, who disrupted and sowed discord for political gain

Remember….

I am a Texan now, heehaw ! Does this honorary citizenship by any chance, come with a meet and greet of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders :-)

Well, we will have to work on your diction a bit. But yes we can probably arrange a meet with the cheerleaders as long as I am with you. YEE-HAW!

It’s also remarkable that so many people can recollect with great precision what they did in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. i guess some things stay with you forever.

Never forget.