Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Tribute
Life is a gift that was given to me before it was given to him, and I was left to enjoy it long after it was taken from him. Beyond that, I know very little about Joe Holland. You see it all below…
I don’t know if the man donated to charity or not. I don’t know how he voted. I don’t care. Nobody deserves to go that way. He was butchered in order to make a political statement, for those who love death more than life, but are too cowardly to show their love of death by embracing it and leaving everybody else alone. In that sense, Joe Holland represents not only the other 2,995 who shared his fate on that day, but all of us. The men who killed him, will kill us all if they can. Those of us who are on time for work, those who are late, those who don’t work at all, men who sing to their pregnant wives’ tummies, men who can’t stand their pregnant wives, the pregnant wives themselves, mothers, fathers, children, stepbrothers, grandma’s, the sky’s the limit. They have a statement to make, and the statement doesn’t have anything to do with family status…not too much to do with religion, either. It has to do with power and threats. And so, they will kill whenever the agenda says to go forward, and the opportunity has presented itself. No exceptions…save for, perhaps, when there’s a strategy that says the point can somehow be made more incandescently if the killing is done at a later time. Other than that, no exceptions.
Now, on Friday I got an e-mail, with some of the other 2,996 bloggers pledged, from The 2,996 Project itself. The request reads as follows…
This is just a thought… I have been sending releases to some of the major media to get this picked up. It’s such an amazing project and I really hope the message gets out there to the families that we haven’t forgot and their loved ones are still remembered. I think there would be more bang if each and every one of us (if you feel comfortable doing so) sending an email to their local major news media explaining what the 2996 project is. I hope this will get the exposure this deserves. Average people honoring those lost. It will take 5 minutes to do….
No big deal, right? Well, a little bit of Googlin’ raised the issue that perhaps this was more important than it would at first appear; searching for local stories on the 2,996 project, I came up with Zip. Zero. Butkus.
So on Saturday night, I sent off the following to the “Blog Lady” at the Sacramento Bee. Keep in mind, that was last night.
I’m looking for mention in the Sacramento Bee on the 2,996 Bloggers project, which is a non-partisan tribute to the victims whose lives were lost in the September 11 attacks five years ago. One blog(ger) has been matched up to each of the deceased whose life was ended in the WTC, the Pentagon, the airplanes that collided with those structures, and Flight 93, as well as the emergency responders who gave their lives in the aftermath so that others might live.
Monday is the critical turning-point of the project, of course. I could find no mention of this in the paper or on any other local news resource, but I don’t mean that as a slight toward the Bee or anybody else; it could say more about my searching efforts & facilities, than anything. At any rate, it’s high time I took the effort to direct your attention to this if it has not already been so directed, because the project is well worth your perusal and I think many Sacramento Bee readers would like to know about it. You can find out more about the 2,996 Bloggers tribute here:
http://www.dcroe.com/2996/?page_id=34
Thanks so much for your time and consideration.
Morgan K. Freeberg
House of Eratosthenes
http://mkfreeberg.blogspot.com
And so you can imagine, it was a little bit of an eyebrow-raiser to crack open the Sunday paper, I’m guessing maybe twelve hours after hitting the “Send” button, and see the write-up shown on the right. Do things work this fast? It doesn’t seem possible; this is probably an example of great minds thinking alike.
The “Surfin’ USA” column in the morning paper, seems to do much to publicize my blog, which nobody actually reads anyway — and very little to throw much-deserved traffic to the 2,996 Bloggers tribute project, which was more the focus of my intent, and which I think people would show more interest in seeing. Honestly, I don’t know why The Bee did things the way they did them. But I’m glad there was some mention made anyway, they didn’t have to do that.
That’s what I know about Joseph Francis Holland III.
Rest in peace, pal. I hope wherever you are, you know you’re not forgotten. Kathy and crew, tomorrow, we will be with you in spirit if we can’t physically be by your side. Joseph IV, I’m sure in the years ahead it may become tedious for you to hear it, but you’re an important part of our nation’s history and it’s critically important that people don’t forget who you are and what you represent. You sprang forward, after all, at a crossroads between life and death. I hope, in your lifetime, the whole battle we’re fighting now, collapses into the trash bin of history, along with the machinery and organizations of the evil men who murdered your dad.
It would be indecent of me to try to address you without your Mom saying it’s okay, and so I shall not. Should these words somehow find their way to you, I hope you consider them a message not to you, but to your generation. Your entire generation has been born into something special, the way you were born into something special. It is targeted for well-intentioned peace-people who will try to sell you on the idea that your father died of something resembling…an accident. A natural disaster. Some kind of “whoopsie!” Now, tomorrow is a sacred day for your family and I wish to keep it cleansed of any undercurrents that have to do with “politics” to the best I can…but this piece is vitally important. An accident is an accident, murder is murder. Those two are different. Forgiving your fellow man of his transgressions is one thing, and getting sold a pack of lies is another. And so I hope it is remembered, by you, that your father and people like him didn’t die in an accident. There is this huge, expansive, yawning gap between what your father deserved, and what he got. And the difference between those two is man-made.
I expect the peace-people will be hitting you pretty hard in the years ahead, that to simply keep the above in mind is “hatred.” It isn’t hatred. It’s a decent respect to the truth and the facts, and it matters. A whole lot. Hate — that would give far too much attention to the men who did this evil thing. I hope the men who killed the 2,996 in cold blood, are brought to justice, without the bringers lowering themselves into the depths of hate. But bring the justice about, by whatever means necessary. If people of my generation fail at doing this for whatever reason, may your generation succeed.
Some people need to be asked, so go ahead and ask: Have You Forgotten?
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