On September 10, 2013

It has been over 10 years since the planes hit the towers, and other planes were hijacked.  I confess to knowing that we were going to be perfectly safe where we live since there are likely zero zealots from half-destroyed countries that have even heard of this state.  Even if they live in the U.S.  And in the grand scheme of things this state does not rank highly enough in *anything* to be called "grand" or be included in any schemes.  While there are still plenty of extremists here, they are too few in number and too poor in resource (now) to be the center of much national activity.

Why, then, did the governor deem it important to set up blockades around the statehouse in a city that even US citizens barely know, and many of them cannot name (let alone having the said zealots from another country know)?  Again, there is no strategic value here -- so both the paranoia was not justified.    Perhaps historians might be able to figure this out, if there is any reason to bother.

Nationally (or even within this state), why do we have to have yet another flag-waving ceremony for something that set the US on an abysmal international disaster course?  Have we not yet waved enough flags to prove that we are vacuous? with incredibly short memories? unable to make up our own minds? and willing to follow along any lie that fits in with our belief systems?  Rather than talk about that whole nonsense:

Perhaps we could  *sincerely* honor those who died on that day by taking care of those who were injured, and taking care of those whose family member(s) died on that day.

If it was up to me, I would declare September 11 to be National Data Day -- in which we look at the difference between facts and not-facts, in which we look at how our beliefs beg us to reject anything we don't like.  It would be a day of tolerance for differences, reflection over our *real* international record, a day of non-aggression and non-intervention.  A day in which no one could ever have any reason to attack the US's national symbols of power and wealth.