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Christof Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:43 PM
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Is this a joke???
September 11th is now known as "Patriot Day"????

:wtf:

Isn't the Fourth of July "Patriot Day"? Or am I smoking something weird...???

Geez! Now, like Lewis Black said tonight on The Daily Show, businesses and the government will be exploiting 9/11 by selling cards, flowers, chocolates, stuffed animals, and even that commemorative coin made from the silver that was recovered under Ground Zero!

Does this make anyone else as irate as I am???? :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:
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troublemaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:44 PM
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1. Not a joke. Sad but true...
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carpetbagger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:46 PM
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2. Traditionally, the 19th of April was Patriot Day.
Of course, the people who stopped the British at Concord Bridge were nothing more than Massachusetts liberals.
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:49 PM
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5. Isn't it TAX achusetts ?
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jdj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:31 PM
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15. NO, it's Taxus.
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:47 PM
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3. maybe I can find stuffed Twin Towers to give
or have a Hallmark card and a big Twin Towers cookie ?
They cant be allowed to do this. 9/11 is not the defining moment of my life.
I am past it.

This plays into the hands of the NEOCON Fascists who are looking to legitimize thier stranglehold on power. Pure and simple. I won't let them do it.
Screw them.
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:48 PM
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4. Coming so close on the heels of Labor Day,
I wonder if it's designed to steal the thunder from that grand end-of-summer celebration of working people. "Patriot Day" smacks of corporate BS.
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Christof Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:50 PM
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7. It does.
I will celebrate "Patiot Day" by refusing to buy anything exploiting 9/11.

This just makes me sick. :puke:
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:54 PM
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10. I'm with you on that !
If enough of us refuse to play this sick game, maybe it will go away.
It's not "official" yet is it? Please say it's not?
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Christof Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:05 PM
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11. Sadly, it is true.
From Hallmark.com: "Patriot Day became a day of national observance on Dec. 18, 2001, when President George W. Bush signed a presidential proclamation.

The Patriot Day resolution designates a day to honor those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States."

http://pressroom.hallmark.com/patriot_day.html

Here is that proclamation by Dubya: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020904-10.html

This is just sickening. :puke:
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:10 PM
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12. Damn,damn,damn
They just can't help themselves when it comes to cashing in on the misery of others. It's like a religious experience for the pricks.
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WLKjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:49 PM
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6. That's okay
cuz November 2nd, 2004, will be known as the day an un-elected president was defeated in a landslide, and the darkest 4 years in American history were put to an end.
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Christof Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:50 PM
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8. I hope so!
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4morewars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 10:51 PM
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9. Then the fuckos...
can go back to selling weapons to our enemies. Or anyone with the $$$$
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Nordic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:25 PM
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13. It is time once again ..... (drum roll) .... for FLAG-O-RAMA!




Shop now! here:

http://www.totalobscurity.com/mind/flagstore/
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Kazak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:29 PM
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14. The other day, in my town, I saw...
a fire hydrant draped with the image of an American flag. Just thinking of all the stray dogs running around the neighborhood was enough to send me over the top.
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jdj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-04 11:35 PM
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16. The only person offended by the flag, is
George W. Bush, and only when they are draped over the coffins of dead soldiers. He finds that so offensive he won't be around them, and he won't allow them shown on tv.
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