Entries tagged with "september 11"
An American (soon to be) in Europe
posted by srah on September 12, 2002 12:12 AM
Tags: assistantship, france, george w bush, september 11, travel, united states, war
My two-word reaction to this article: ho hum. My three-word reaction: back to normal. When I am in France, I will not expect to be treated specially because I'm an American. I didn't expect it in 2000-01 and I won't expect it this year. Just because your country exports low-quality hamburgers and an annoying squeaky cartoon mouse, that doesn't mean that you deserve special treatment. Just because your country was attacked over a year ago, that doesn't mean that you deserve special treatment. More likely than being treated specially, I will be expecting some abuse for my citizenship. Americans will...
September 11
posted by srah on September 11, 2002 11:54 PM
Tags: september 11
I haven't really had a good chunk of time today to sit down at a computer and do my obligatory blog-post on the one year anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001. I still don't have a chunk of time, so I won't do the where I was and how I felt tonight. Maybe I won't at all. All I will say is that I don't feel this is my day for mourning. When it happened, I watched it and it was very tragic and I cried. When I watched the special on it on TV, I cried. But...
Something bothers me? Fancy that
posted by srah on September 6, 2002 9:50 AM
Tags: september 11
You know what bothers me? When people call September 11th "nine-one-one". I don't like "nine-eleven" much better, but the "nine-one-one" just gets under my skin and it MAKES me comPLETEly inSANE. Ding ding ding ding ding! It's not even a year later, so it's hard to tell, but I wonder if that date will be forever poisoned in our minds. I heard something on the radio about a contest that ended on September 11th. My immediate thought was "Oooh, what bad taste". How ridiculous. Life can't just stop functioning just because of one date....
Les Français, sont-ils peu sensibles?
posted by srah on August 30, 2002 10:55 AM
Tags: france, september 11, united states
Bob works for Carr Futures, who had an office in the World Trade Center in New York. Now family members of victims are upset with the French-owned company because they won't be getting health insurance. The article says: In most states, the law only requires that companies whose workers are killed on the job pay life insurance and state-mandated worker's compensation. A Carr spokesperson said what the company may be lacking in health insurance, it is making up for in life-insurance and accidental-death benefits that will range from $125,000 to $800,000 per employee. Cantor, by comparison, is maxing out at...
Disaster's in the air
posted by srah on August 28, 2002 8:35 AM
Tags: george w bush, politics, september 11, united states
It keeps coming and coming. We should attack Iraq. We should do it now. We shouldn't wait for support. Who cares if no one else agrees. We're America. We'll whup 'em like Daddy did and be out by Christmas. Etcetera etcetera etcetera. I think we're setting ourselves up for even bigger trouble. Instead of learning from September 11, we're making the same mistakes and worse ones on top of them. I'm glad I'll be out of the country, but I wish I could take the rest of you with me. Be safe while I'm gone, you guys....
Close Encounters was
posted by srah on October 29, 2001 1:21 AM
Tags: close encounters of the third kind, movies, september 11
Close Encounters was a supergood post-September-11th movie. It opened with mysterious airplane problems, mentioned anthrax, and had a general theme of mistrust of the US Army and government....
