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martes, septiembre 18, 2001
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linkydink "Hello,I don't know that I've ever received a stranger email.
lunes, septiembre 17, 2001
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linkydink Okay, Jones, you've provoked me into blogging once again. Here's the deal, as I see it. The Bush administration has already committed itself to having American life go on as usual. In his addresses Sunday he said both: "Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized. We're a nation that can't be cowed by evil-doers. We need to go back to work tomorrow and we will, but we need to be alert to the fact that these evil-doers still exist." "Our hope, of course, is that they make no sacrifice whatsoever. War has been declared on us so, therefore, people may not be able to board flights as quickly." So, I mean, the government doesn't want to chain us all to the walls. They are actually just taking measures to ensure safety while they figure out what's going on. We're not going to be drafted because the sort of strikes being contemplated wouldn't be benefitted by it. We probably won't even end up in anything resembling a war. There will be strikes to punish the terrorist networks. Already, officials have eased off their "collateral damage" rhetoric, not even a week later. Thousands of people in New York popped up for candlelight vigils touting that "NYC wants justice, not vengence." This will not, I honestly believe, be ignored. Things will not be hunky dory. There is still a strong likelihood that there will be more, and perhaps more devastating, terrorist attacks, although we have made decent efforts to counteract this already. Most importantly, the US will have to very strongly consider its relationship to Israel, potentially causing some serious rifts between the US Gov't. and our Jewish population. We can't pull out of the Middle East right away, because there will be dire consequences for Israel and its local allies. But we also can't continue to support Israel (particularly Sharon's) warmongering and ignoring of certain West Bank Settlement laws from the Geneva Convention. The real changes to result from this situation will sprout up in the Israel-Palestine corridor, mark my words.
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linkydink "Tod's Point - Greenwich CT-. When you are jogging in this 147-acre park there is a spot you pass at the half way mark when you come around a bend and on a clear day - like today - you can see the whole gleaming skyline of Manhattan. Except this morning there was something that seemed wrong."
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linkydink too bad, bc, cause i wanna know: what do you think will change in this country as a result of these attacks? and is it really for the worse? i know at least one guy who thinks things are gonna stay just hunky-dory. i, personally, am confused about it all. ideas, anyone?
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linkydink Thankfully, no one I know has been directly affected by last week's attacks, so I have relatively little to deal with other than assimilating the events into what passes for my Reality, rather than the fantasy that it so often seems to be. These events touch on so many facets of our lives that I simply cannot list all of the things I fear will change for the worse, and not change for the better, but life does go on.
sábado, septiembre 15, 2001
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linkydink It has just come to my attention that infamous turncoat and partial-thumb-amputee Nintendo Julian (who, in a recent fit of drunken adulation, claimed that he reloads cmoore blog "at least twice every five minutes") runs a funky offshore chum refinery called Delivery Head.
viernes, septiembre 14, 2001
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linkydink Nobody I personally know was hurt in this, and I don't know of anyone I know who knows anyone who was hurt, so I guess I'm lucky. So far. I've found myself alternating between feeling very disconnected and blase about the whole thing (and sometimes feeling guilty about not feeling worse about it) and then feeling really messed up and spacey and confused. It's been more disorienting than anything else. My main way of dealing has been to try to be as supportive as I can of those who are taking it worse than me. Tonight I'm going to an open Shabbat service "on the theme of peace" at the Bayit.
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linkydink truly i'm losing all faith in anyone remotely related to politics. not that i really had any faith in them anyway... i haven't really been able to think or talk coherently about how i feel about all of this for the past few days... all of my family members and close friends are alive, although there were some close calls (namely my aunt, who had a 9am appointment in one of the towers). i don't really know how to deal with all of this... i can't really talk about it (what is there to say?), nor do i want to write about it, but i still feel shitty and frightened in some inexplicable way. what's everyone else doing to deal with this?
jueves, septiembre 13, 2001
miércoles, septiembre 12, 2001
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linkydink everything's so eerie tonight. driving home there was virtually no one on i 95... in either direction. i drove home practically alone- except for the police cars which are lurking in every single alley and parking lot. and for once, i'm sort of glad to see them.
martes, septiembre 11, 2001
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linkydink I guess I don't even need to go over what happened today here in New York because it's most likely on every channel. I don't even have much to say about it, except that it will probably take me several days to fully accept that what happened, did in fact happen, even having seen it with my own eyes, standing in the street. I saw it after the second plane had crashed into the South Tower, and didn't really know what to do with myself, so I continued to class. During the few minutes of class, dedicated to discussing what to do with commuter students who were unable to get home, the South Tower fell. The North Tower fell on my way back to my dorm. All classes thereafter were cancelled and I've camped out in my room till further notice. NYU dorms beneath Canal Street have been evacuated and it's not known when they are going to be re-opened. My good friend Carleigh, who is currently staying at my place on 14th Street, lives in the South Street Seaport dorm that is all of six blocks away from the Twin Towers. Gladly, I've heard no reports of anyone getting hurt of having any trouble getting away from the havoc that occurred today. The view out of my window is of the pillar of smoke rising from the wreckage that used to be the Twin Towers, and it doesn't promise to leave soon. There were reporters on a roof very near to my building, and I had the unique experience of hearing sirens outside of my window echoed through CNN. Everything was shut down and everyone was stranded when public transportation and the streets were shut down to make it easier for emergency vehicles to get downtown. Union square was just teeming with people with nowhere to go who had all witnessed at least part what had happened. I went back outside and the streets have emptied around where I live except for people seeking out food, but the sirens are still blaring, running victims back and forth to Bellevue and other area hospitals. I don't know what else to say, but that's basically what happened.
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linkydink if there's on anybody earth who hasn't turned on the news go do it now. this is so insane, words can't even expres it.
lunes, septiembre 10, 2001
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