That 9/11 Feeling

That feeling you get when you hear of a strange smell hovering over NYC - probably just industrial something or other coming over from the NJ refineries due to weather conditions - I'm guessing.

And then you see that downtown Austin is closed because of several birds being found dead in the streets overnight.

And you wonder, just as you started to wonder when the first tower was hit, not being sure until the second one was ... what's going on?

No, I don't know, or even really think the above incidents are related, or linked to terrorism in any way ... it's just that 9/11 feeling we're stuck living with thanks to a bunch of malevolent dirt bags from the Middle East.

Yes, the war - in some fashion, just like that 9/11 feeling, is going to last years, whether we like it, or not.

Comments

[Anony Mouse]

When you are going to wake up and realize most big spectacular terrorist attacks, especially 9/11, are pre-rigged by elements in our government to keep us afraid and support foreign conquests? 9/11 was a complicated event and the 19 hijackers were assisted by people in our military, CIA, FBI and in the office of the vice presidency. Check out 911weknow.com for starters.

[carolh]

Who gets scared when NYC smells bad or dead birds are found in Austin? Not I, and I live in Oklahoma City, the only place other than NYC that has experienced a major terrorist attack. Grow up, use your reason, and stop being afraid. Terrorist want to spread terror and if you let them terrorize you they have won.

[Phoenix]

"...my wife tells me it's blowing over from Jersey City."

P.U. News Bulletin:

Dan Riehl, host of the fabulous, famed, and funky blog, Riehl World View, farted and brought NYC to a standstill.
A couple of pigeons took a swift dirt nap, but most New Yorkers went about their business with the casual sang froid of the already-been-terrorized. Residents of Austin, Texas, went about their business when assured that some stench fogging the city was nothing to worry about. Several bands wrote songs about Stinky Town, Texas where love comes and goes but the stink remains.

[Purple Avenger]

"are pre-rigged by elements in our government to keep us afraid "

Take the truther shit elsewhere asshat.

[LaughingGas]

You love that feeling Dan. You feed on the fear. You get high thinking about that day in September.

You loved 2001 attack. It made you feel alive.

That's why you keep trying to recreate it. Dead birds - must be terrorists. Bad Smell - must be Koran waving freaks.

What will it be tomorrow?

[yyy]

I agree, Dan and his true believers actually can't wait for another terrorist attack, because that, they think, will prove them right.

They can say, 'see, we told you the islamofacists were a global threat'

That is why they breathlessly blog about everything related to muslims and law enforcement...arab college kids with cell phones, must be terrorists, imans praying loudly, must be terrorists, Iraqi guy driving a truck, pregnant Pakistani woman with water bottle.

The truly sick thing is that in most of these cases, once they've been debunked, they STILL will not admit these people were innocent...

They fall back to Plan B: musta been a dry run, they musta been guilty of something.

In other words, all Arabs are untrustworthy, terrorist sympathizers and if we can't find evidence of their terrorist links it just means they outsmarted us...never, never, never does lack of evidence mean innocence.

[Dan Riehl]

"Dan and his true believers actually can't wait for another terrorist attack, because that, they think, will prove them right."

That you freaking idiots require another attack to even consider the threat is the got-damned problem with America. It isn't only about America, fool. Look around - from Somalia, to Pakistan, to Indonesia.

And these idiots wonder why I call them dangerous.

[basils]

Phoenix: Residents of Austin, Texas, went about their business when assured that some stench fogging the city was nothing to worry about.

My dear, Austinites are in their pipes, and cafe o-lay. They could give a shit about dead birds as long as Las manitas doesn't close for lunch.

[yyy]

The point isn't whether or not there is a threat.

The point is what kind of threat is it and how it it best attacked.

Your worldview would hold that all Arabs/Muslims are prima facie guilty. Even when the government says they are innocent, you don't believe it, it was a dry run.

I have never said there is no terrorist threat. Of course there is.

I have said and absolutely believe that the threat has been grossly exaggerated to enable the right wing to do all the things they always wanted to: trash due process and privacy and put in place a guilty until proven innocent dynamic.

I have also said and will continue to say that the way we are 'fighting' the war on terror is the absolute wrong way and is virtually guaranteed to give us the result way say we don't want: more terrorist attacks.

On the other hand, of a prime goal of the war on terror was simply the ability to further erode the historical rights of Americans, then an increase in terrorist attacks is exactly what the doctor ordered.

[basils]

Does anybody know where Rosie or Trump were at that time of day, in NYC that is?

[basils]

I have also said and will continue to say that the way we are 'fighting' the war on terror is the absolute wrong way and is virtually guaranteed to give us the result way say we don't want: more terrorist attacks.

I couldn't agree more. I'd rather we spend money watching our water and food sources more carefully.

[Phoenix]

Basils,

I know. The Austinianists only cared that some damn dead bird didn't do its swan dive into their drink. But I liked the writing songs part. ha ha ha. :) They's prolly a bunch o' drunks on stages right now singin'..."Muh baaby lef me in strange, beguilin' funk'....

I have messed myself up with a bad earworm. I can't read a WhyWhyWhy post now without that Del Shannon song, 'Runaway' screaming through my mind. I think that's the song. In the refrain he squeaks real high, 'Why Why Why' did you ruuuuun away, run run run run awaay...'

I like WhyWhyWhy's take on one of the goals of the war on terror to take away our rights. ack... the singing has started...... need to click out fast before I find myself on a stage asking for a Del Shannon karaoke back-up. "Who's Del Shannon, you perty liddle thaing?"