BEWARE…..INCOMING RANT!

ANNOYED WITH!

 People on generational welfare who vote.   Those living off the efforts of others need not have a say in the direction of my country until they are on their own again.   If you are part of the WELFARE CLASS then we are ALL taking care of you…do me a favor and stay home on election days..

 People who think that taking money from someone else who EARNED it and giving it to someone who DID NOT EARN IT is the proper role of government.

People who continually denigrate the RICH (now classified as those making over 250K).  There is another name for THE RICH….that name is EMPLOYERS. They provide the investments, the capital, and the brains for the formation of new businesses. Businesses hire people and provide PAYCHECKS!

People who do not understand that Free Speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech needs no protection.

People who talk about the rights of GROUPS instead of INDIVIDUAL rights.

 People who hype Diversity! (a buzz word I am bombarded with daily as a teacher)
Those that think the real value of any group - ( a social group, gender, racial, an employee group, a management group, whatever minority status du jour) is in the diverse makeup of the group….instead of on an individual's abilities or character.

 People who talk about rights that do not exist: the right to a job, a place to live, a living wage, health care, higher education. The ONLY rights we have are the OPPORTUNITIES for these things. We have a right to live free. We have a right to whatever wealth we are able to produce with our labor. We have NO right to any portion of the life or labor of another.

The "right" to a job does not exist. People do NOT have a right to force their services on another person, and then turn around and demand that this person compensate them with money.

People who refer to the homeless, destitute, dirty, drunk, spaced out on drugs, and unemployable, as "less fortunate".    There is nothing less fortunate or unexpected about misery from choosing drugs, alcohol, and the street instead of education and personal responsibility.


The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices are leading you to either success or failure. Whether or not to stay in school, get pregnant, drink, overextend a credit card, buy a house that cannot be afforded….. CHOICES!

 If you have found my observations at all troubling I refer you to the MAY Blog Entry:…I Am THINKING ABOUT SCORPIOS…..it explains everything!

READ THIS!....102 Minutes:The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn

On 9/11 we were attacked by religious extremists who used our own modern technology against us. They used our open society to murder our citizens.

9/11 is called the “Battle of New York.” by Al Quaeda. It was a battle we lost that day but in the midst of it, there was great heroism.


This is what 102 Minutes is about. The title refers to the time between when the first plane hit the first tower, and the second tower collapsed. Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn have written a powerful, non-fiction story, about people fighting for their lives under unimaginable conditions. This is a riveting masterpiece of reporting.

 The book describes situations where the difference between life and death could have been one step, a decision not to get on elevator, or a word of communication.

102 Minutes is rich in detail. The authors interviewed over 300 eyewitnesses and escapees and perused countless photographs and recordings. Everything in 102 minutes is heavily documented. There are 35 pages of footnotes at the end of the book. Much of this documentation comes from the dead. It is from the dying phone conversations and e-mail messages of those who were ultimately killed in the collapse.

In the time of 102 minutes there is complete despair and great nobility. There is the horror of those seeking any relief from the inferno by leaping out of windows high in the north tower to the bravery of four Port Authority employees who stayed behind to free more than 70 persons who were trapped.

 The authors also intersperse the historical background of the building of the Twin Towers at critical points in their narrative.


In my opinion, the major untold story of 102 Minutes is how the construction regulations and poor coordination between rescue agencies killed more than the attack itself.

As one example, no one escaped the upper floors of Tower One because all three of the stairwells in that building had been severed, doors leading to the rooftop were locked, and there was absolutely no planning or coordination for any type of rooftop rescue. The combination of these factors killed around 1000 people who might otherwise have had a chance. Because the Port Authority was allowed to erect skyscrapers with insufficient stairways or fireproofing many victims were forced to leap to their deaths.

Groups of people in Tower Two who had already come down to the lobby were told it was safe to go back to their offices. Most returned. Those that did died when the second plane hit. Tower Two had a functioning stairwell, but few knew about it, and many who died were simply waiting in their offices for help to arrive.

When Tower Two collapsed no one was able to communicate to the hundreds of firefighters still in Tower One to give them an evacuation order. This is directly attributable to inter-agency fighting over radio frequencies and communication methods. Radios capable of this kind of communication were sitting in boxes on shelves and were not used when they could’ve saved hundreds of lives.

 "The people fighting the two worst building fires in the nation's history had no video monitors. No radio communications with other agencies. No way to get reports from police helicopters and only a limited ability to communicate among themselves."

Of the 2,749 people thought to have been killed in the attack, the authors estimate that at least 1,500, "and possibly many more," survived the initial plane crashes but died because they could not get out of the towers before they collapsed.

 Greed played a huge part in this. The floor plan of the towers was created to provide more rentable space than other designs. The financiers needed to make this happen, and they found engineers who would go against their own better judgment — agreeing to the use of the flimsy floor trusses without fireproofing. These decisions ultimately brought down the buildings.

 By implication, 102 Minutes also raises a series of vital questions about today's state of preparedness. Sept. 11 demonstrates, above all, that the first responders in any future terrorist attack will probably be ordinary citizens.


So why is there no nationwide effort, like the one the United States conducted during the Cold War, to train citizens in the rudiments of emergency response?

Why has the private sector, which controls some 85 percent of the nation's critical infrastructure, been allowed to drift with little or no oversight of its preparedness for another catastrophic event?


Why was the issue of emergency communications gear that would have let police and firefighters talk to one another -- a central failing of the Sept. 2001 responses in both New York and Washington -- dropped from the reform package passed based on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations?

 And why didn't that package insist on focusing spending for homeland security on the targets that al Qaeda is most likely to hit, rather than using it on pork projects elsewhere?


102 MINUTES: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers is a gripping and informative read. You will finish the book inspired by the heroism, amazed at the serendipity of instances of survival, and, more than anything, angered at what contributed to the collapse of these buildings and the deaths of so many.

MEMORIA CADO

How did it get so late so soon?

It's night before it's afternoon.

December is here before it's June.

My goodness, how the time has flewn.

How did it get so late so soon?

~Dr. Seuss

Daniel Suhr had many nicknames. Captain America was one. Whenever he went out with friends, he would point to exit doors and tell them where to meet him if anything happened. "He kept everyone safe," said his wife, Nancy.

On September 11, 2001, Danny, a member of FDNY Engine Co. 216, would have driven the firetruck to the scene of the fire, but September 11 was no ordinary day. Driving with the truck meant staying with the truck, and as he watched smoke and flames pour out of the World Trade Center towers, Danny Suhr made a fateful decision…. he was going in with the crew.

Danny left the truck with a probie (a newbie firefighter), and headed towards the Towers.

As Daniel hurried with his comrades, he was struck and killed by a jumper from the 31st floor of the North Tower.

Seven firefighters, including four from Engine Co. 216, rushed to him and stayed by his side, refusing to leave him. They pulled Danny under the scaffolding of a nearby building and attempted to revive him, even though it had become obvious that he'd sustained catastrophic injuries.

Father Mychal Judge administered last rites to Danny before he himself went with other firefighters to his own death in the collapse of the first tower.

Father Mychal

Regardless of whether Danny had made it into the tower that day or not, his life was somehow destined to end. That tower collapsed moments later, and Danny would have most likely been lost.

But, because he died when and where he did, and because his seven friends refused to leave his side, they were saved.

 Firefighter Daniel Suhr was the first fireman killed on 9/11.


 Those seven firefighters were saved not only by the death of Daniel Suhr, but also by the fateful decision of one indiviual.  Someone, a man or a woman,  arose that morning…a morning no different than any other. Someone showered, brushed teeth, ate breakfast, read the newspaper, maybe kissed a spouse and children good bye.

That someone left for work on the 31st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center….. This person rode the elevator up up up.. over 1000 feet…. got coffee, said hello to colleagues and began the work day….

......and within a couple of hours found that this was to be the last morning of life. That instead of choosing where to go for lunch…it was to be a choice of which way to die.

 With that choice seven men below were saved. The choice to jump a moment sooner or a moment later…or not at all would have changed everything.


Who this individual was will never be known. But this SOMEONE was among the estimated 200 people who made the same choice that day. Nearly all were from the North tower, which was hit first and collapsed last. Fewer than a dozen were from the South tower.


 There was no time to recover or identify those who were forced to jump prior to the collapse of the towers. Officially, all deaths in the attacks except those of the hijackers were ruled to be homicides (as opposed to suicides). The New York City medical examiner's office stated that it does not classify the people who fell to their deaths on September 11 as "jumpers": "A 'jumper' is somebody who goes to the office in the morning knowing that they will commit suicide... These people were blown out or forced out by the smoke and flames."

In the South tower just the sight of people jumping also saved lives.  Many had a close-up view of people plunging to their deaths from a building that was a mirror image of their own.

"I looked at a couple of people jumping, and that was it. I'd seen enough. We've got to get the hell out of here,' " says Jaede Barg, who worked for Aon, on the south tower's 100th floor.

Many South tower survivors say the sight of people jumping created an urgency that caused them to leave immediately and ignore announcements that it was safe to return to their desks.  About 1,400 people evacuated the upper floors before the second jet hit.


Eric Thompson, who worked on the 77th floor of the South tower, went to a conference room window after the first jet hit. He was shocked when a man came to a North tower window and leaped from a few floors above the fire. Thompson looked the man in the face. He saw his tie flapping in the wind. He watched the man's body strike the pavement below. "There was no human resemblance whatsoever," Thompson says.

The story of the victims who jumped to their deaths is an interesting and sensitive aspect of the Sept. 11 tragedy. Most newspapers and magazines ran only one or two photos and then published no more.


The media was wrong to self-censor photos and video of the jumpers. It was an important part of the day, a terribly heartbreaking and dramatic component to the story — and one the rest of the world saw, but Americans, for the most part, didn’t.

Until I started researching for this blog entry I had no idea the jumpers numbered in the hundreds. I had thought there were far fewer.


Our magazines and newspapers increasingly run photographs of bodies and corpses from battlefields all over the world. It was irresponsible journalism to leave the full story of what happened on September 11 incomplete, simply because, in this case, the disturbing images happened to be those of Americans. We should have been horrified, not protected.... and we should remain horrified to this day.

The jumping started shortly after the first jet hit at 8:46 a.m. People jumped continuously during the 102 minutes that the North tower stood. Witnesses stated that two people jumped as the North tower began to fall at 10:28 a.m.

For those who jumped, the fall lasted 10 seconds. Count them…ten seconds is actually a long time.  They struck the ground at just under 150 miles per hour — not fast enough to cause unconsciousness while falling, but fast enough to ensure instant death on impact. People jumped from all four sides of the North tower. They jumped alone, in pairs and in groups.


Most came from the North tower's 101st to 105th floors, where the Cantor Fitzgerald bond firm had offices, and the 106th and 107th floors, where a conference was underway at the Windows on the World restaurant. Others leaped from the 93rd through 100th floor offices of Marsh & McLennan insurance company.


They kept jumping until the tower fell. They jumped through windows already broken and then, later, through windows they broke themselves. They jumped to escape the smoke and the fire; they jumped when the ceilings fell and the floors collapsed; they jumped just to breathe once more before they died.
They were all very much alive on their way down.


Americans responded to the worst terrorist attack in our history with acts of heroism, sacrifice, generosity, and martyrdom. But for some, out of horrific necessity, their last response was to be one prolonged and agonizing leap of faith.

THE FALLEN by LBC (Seeker)

Facing an opening into sky and smoke beyond all night.

Behind you an inferno.
Clutching the edge of the building.

Trying within your bones to stand.

This day God wrote the letters upon your hands… see them…

inside your hands "Memento Mori" - remember you die.

The future promised to no one.

A moment held…. a tiny sliver of one hour. See it drip away.

The world waiting…watching

for who will win and who will lose.

The value of moments.

Later never exists.

The word "now" ticking like a bomb behind you.

Still for awhile …and at last let go.

Nothing to do but fall.

Nowhere to go but down.

Your heart… melting in flame and the pall of smoke.
Your soul flying.
All of this falling slowly,

surely down in

measured death.

And the silence…

Only rushing wind.
No seeing.
No hearing.
Mouth open

to silence….

Caught in one last desperate moment, of one last desperate day…

Leaving ….

Hands awake. Pulling upwards.
Out of pain.

Out of fear. Out of grief.

Pulled to one who stood below….

Upon his open hand is also written

 “Memento Mori.”

Fallen and felled,

Melded one to the other.

Both surrounded by seven.

Upon whose hands God had written….

Memento Vivere…Remember you live.

RAINY DAY WOMEN in THE STONE AGE

Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re trying to be so good.


Stoning might be the world's oldest form of execution. It is as old as written literature, and the most common death penalty described in the Bible (prompting Jesus' famous statement in John 8.7: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"). Although it has never been a legal form of execution in the United States, it is practiced elsewhere in the world, primarily in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.

They’ll stone ya just a-like they said they would.




In early Biblical history stoning was the God-commanded Israelite method of executing those found guilty of the most serious offenses against His Law.

They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to go home.




The Bible does not describe in specifics which form of restraint was used while the process of stoning was done, however some manner of keeping the condemned individual from escaping was used ranging from being thrown before the stoning from an elevation of some sort that caused incapacitating injury, to being tied to a post (or simply tied hand and foot), to being buried with just the head and shoulders left above ground, to just being surrounded by a large crowd of stone throwers in an enclosed area.


Then they’ll stone ya when you’re there all alone.






But I would not feel so all alone.

Unlike most other forms of capital punishment, stoning had no specific executioner, "all the congregation shall stone". Everyone is the murderer and therefore, no one is the murderer. The group both absorbs and atones for any possible guilt or hesitation that even one individual might have felt. Entire families and villagers become conspirators in killing. The leaders cannot be held accountable for their actions either — everyone did it.

Everybody must get stoned.


God commanded stoning for violations of the TEN COMMANDMENTS.... any of them:


Well, they’ll stone ya when you’re walkin’ ’long the street.


By the time of the New Testament, stoning for blasphemy was still a part of Israelite thought.  Many of those man-made laws and traditions were viewed nearly on the same level as God's actual Law.   It was for this that Jesus rebuked them for worshiping God according to their own traditions.


They’ll stone ya when you’re tryin’ to keep your seat.

Today stoning is practiced in contemporary Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, and Nigeria, and the United Arab Emirates. Over time it has become a uniquely FEMALE form of execution carried out by MALES.

They’ll stone ya when you’re walkin’ on the floor.


Stoning is typically a punishment for adultery, although it can also be use for cases of incest and other sexual or “moral” crimes. It is a particular punishment meted out to women. Adultery might include: a married woman who is raped by a stranger, or a woman promised in marriage to one man but who chooses another. This is precisely what happened in the recent case in Afghanistan.

They’ll stone ya when you’re walkin’ to the door.




A man and a woman who allegedly had an adulterous affair have been stoned and killed in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz.

The woman was 23 years old and the man was 28.


The punishment happened in a crowded bazaar on Sunday in the Taliban-controlled village of Mullah Quli.


Well don’t ya feel so all alone,

Everybody must get stoned.




"We were also asked to throw stones, the woman was dead but the man was still alive. Some Taliban shot him three times ”


Mohammad Ayub, the governor of Imam Sahib district in Kunduz, told the BBC on Monday: "The Taliban brought them to the local bazaar.


"They stoned them because they were accused of adultery. There was a big crowd of people who watched.''


Do not feel so all alone.




Two witnesses from Mullah Quli told the BBC that the Taliban asked the villagers to attend the stoning through an announcement on loudspeakers in the mosque.


"There was a big crowd of people," one witness said. "The Taliban made the women wear black clothes and the men were made to stand. The Taliban started throwing stones.

Everybody must get stoned.


"Some Taliban then came and shot him three times. The Taliban warned villagers if anyone does anything un-Islamic, this will be their fate.''



This month the Taliban also reportedly flogged and killed a pregnant widow in western Baghdis province.




In 2006, a poll conducted in “moderate” Indonesia found that at least 50% of Muslims supported stoning in cases of adultery, however it is defined.

But I would not feel so all alone.


Typically, a stoning victim is first wrapped in cloth and buried up to the waist for men, or up to the chest for females. Then the crowd is to throw stones at the victim. However, it is very important that, “… no stone should be thrown that should kill with the first or second blow, or so small as a pebble to do no injury to the condemned.” The average execution by stoning is extremely painful, lasting at least 10 to 20 minutes.

Everybody must get stoned.




Khomeini brought stoning back to Iran. Uneducated mullahs in the provinces rather liked it. They also liked drugs, drug trafficking, forcing girls into prostitution and then jailing or hanging them for it.

They’ll stone ya when you are young and able.


Temporary “marriages”, and forced veiling, etc. also invited chances for extreme punishment. Although stoning is now under legal review in Iran, to date, eight men and three women await stoning execution.




They’ll stone ya when you’re at the breakfast table.




Stoning is primarily enforced by Islamic fundamentalist sharia law, often for bizarre reasons. In 2004, 13-year-old Zhila Izadyar was sentenced to death by stoning in Iran for the "crime" of being raped by her older brother. Although the sentence was later overturned due to international outcry, equally horrific stoning sentences are quietly carried out throughout the developing world on a regular basis.


They’ll stone ya for tryin’ to make a buck


They’ll stone ya and then they’ll say, “good luck”

But do not feel so all alone,


Everybody must get stoned.


In Kismayu, Somalia, on Monday, October 27th of 2008 a 13-year-old child was stoned to death in a stadium. She had been raped by three men. She had attempted to report the rape to the al-Shabab militia who control Kismayu. It was this act that resulted in her being accused of adultery and detained. None of the men she accused of rape were arrested.


Everybody must get stoned.

Well they’ll stone ya and say that it’s the end.


That was her sole “crime” and the reason for her torture-execution. She was forced into a hole and buried nearly up to her neck. She took a long time to die and kept crying out for her life. In addition to the 50 active stoners, 1000 more men cheered them on. Her name was Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow.


Then they’ll stone you and then come back again.

Well, they’ll stone you when you are all alone.


• A truckload of stones was brought into the stadium to be used in the stoning.




They’ll stone you when you are walking home.


• At one point during the stoning, Amnesty International has been told by numerous eyewitnesses that nurses were instructed to check whether Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow was still alive when buried in the ground. They removed her from the ground, declared that she was, and she was replaced in the hole where she had been buried for the stoning to continue.


But do not feel so all alone,

Everybody must get stoned.


• An individual calling himself Sheik Hayakalah, was quoted on Radio Shabelle saying:``The evidence came from her side and she officially confirmed her guilt, while she told us that she is happy with the punishment under Islamic law.'' In contradiction to this claim, a number of eye witnesses have told Amnesty International she struggled with her captors and had to be forcibly carried into the stadium.


They’ll stone you and then say you are brave.


• Inside the stadium, militia members opened fire when some of the witnesses to the killing attempted to save her life, and shot dead a boy who was a bystander. An al-Shabab spokeperson was later reported to have apologized for the death of the child, and said the milita member would be punished.

They’ll stone you when you ‘re set down in your grave.




Today, stoning is only practiced in Islamic culture in order to maintain the submission of its women and those in the lower cast. Only those impoverished or socially unimportant are stoned.

But I would not feel so all alone.


Other Islamic countries denounce the practice as inhumane and indicate that the Qur’an provides no grounds for such a vicious practice. Those who practice stoning claim that it is demanded by Islam and have gone so far as incorporating it into their countries penal codes.


Everybody must get stoned…..


From these deep rooted laws regarding stoning, there have been a few recent cases of global interest where stoning has been received as a punishment.


In December 2004 a woman in Iran was scheduled to be stoned to death after spending five years in prison for committing adultery. She was one of over 100 waiting to be stoned to death in Iran last year alone.


Well, they'll stone you when you're trying to be so good.


They'll stone you just like they said they would.


In Nigeria, a woman was sentenced to stoning after giving birth to a baby more than nine months after divorcing. To her good fortune, this sentence was overturned.

 Iran: Azar Bagheri, 19, was arrested when she was 15 after her husband accused her of seeing another man. She has been subjected to mock stonings along with partial burial in the ground.



They'll stone you when you're there all alone.
They'll when you are walking home.

Iran: Ashraf Kalhori, 40, also sentenced to death by stoning, was forced to confess to a relationship with her husband's murderer, and has been in Tehran's Evin prison for seven years, according to her lawyer.


Iran: Shammameh Ghorbani, who is awaiting stoning, begged not to be freed from prison because she feared being killed by her family.


But I would not feel so all alone.

Everybody must get stoned....


Iran: She was only 14 when she was forced into marriage with an older man.


Yet within a year of her wedding, Azar Bagheri was charged with adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death.


Well, they'll stone you when you're walking on the street.


They'll stone you when you're trying to keep your seat.


The sentence could not be carried out until she was 18. So for the past four years, Ms Bagheri has been languishing on death row while the courts waited for her to reach maturity so she could be put to death.


According to Iranian human rights activist Mina Ahadi, Ms Bagheri was denounced by her husband, who accused her of committing adultery with two men.

They'll stone you when you're walking on the floor.


They'll stone you when you're walking through the door.


Iran: In one especially gruesome case, Maryam Ayubi, another alleged adulteress, fainted while being ritually washed before her execution in 2001 and was stoned to death while strapped to a stretcher. Outrage over that led to the marking of 11 July as the Annual International Day Against Stoning – which saw demonstrations at the Iran embassy in London.

But I would not feel so all alone,


Everybody must get stoned....


With international efforts to stop stoning, the rulings are being overturned with more frequency, hopefully giving less credibility to Sharia law.


They'll stone you when you're at the breakfast table

They'll stone you when you are young and able.


They'll stone you when you're trying to make a buck.


They'll stone you and then they'll say good luck.


Hey, but I would not feel so all alone,


Everybody must get stoned.

We already see a disintegration of the practice of stoning in Islamic culture. Only those under Sharia rule still practice it. In this culture, there is no distinction between religious and governmental law. Religion IS governmental law.

Well, they'll stone you and say that it's the end.


Then they'll stone you and then they'll come back again.


They'll stone you when you're riding in your car.


They'll stone you when you're playing your guitar.

Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,


Everybody must get stoned.......


The Guillotine, whipping, pouring acid on someone or gouging their eyes out with iron have all been gleefully practiced over the ages by governments and religious zealots. Regardless of how brutal, none of these punishments have stood the test of time. Even those founded in the name of religion have died out because they are cruel and inhumane.


Well, they'll stone you when you are all alone.


They'll stone you when you are walking home.


They'll stone you and then say they are brave.


They'll stone you when you're set down in your grave.

But I would not feel so alone,


Everybody must get stoned......


Publicity helps. "The only reason the Iranian government has not carried out stoning sentences on all these people is that it is afraid of Iranian public reaction and international attention," said lawyer, Shadi Sadr.


July 11 was International Day Against Stoning – It is the time and the season to cast away stones….

So they do not feel so all alone………




( With thanks to Bob Dylan for RAINY DAY WOMEN )….I bet you always thought this song was about POT……