9/11 Remembrance -- James Walsh -- Project 2996

Back when life was a lot more simple and my view of the world was a lot less clear, September 11th happened.

Then everything changed, for obvious reasons.

Eight years later I still don't have the words to describe what that day was like, how I felt then, or what it means now.

I do know I am not the same....

On the one year anniversary of that day, the university I then worked at asked employees to plant an American flag on the lawn of the Cathedral of Learning, one for each of the nearly 3,000 people who died that day.

I picked the flag bearing the name (taped upon the wooden dowel shaft) of James Walsh, from Scotch Plains, New Jersey, who died in the destruction of One World Trade Center. In the last 7 years, I've moved three times to two different states, hauling everything I own some 2,500 miles. James Walsh's flag has always gone with me; I see it every day on display in my home even now.

I picked James Walsh to honor today when I found out about Project 2996, which is dedicated to remembering the people who died that day.

Here is the touching tribute previously published in The Star-Ledger, found here.

When Kathleen Walsh Karlen adopted her son Connor from Korea -- a 2-year-old who found the transition from East to West sometimes unbearable -- it was his Uncle Jim who could calm Connor's emotional storms.

No one in the family was surprised. Jim Walsh was the fun uncle, the friend everyone wanted to hang with, the nice guy with the big heart who was never afraid to show it, said another sister, Carol Walsh Murphy.

"I'm sure everyone who was lost at the World Trade Center has somebody who says they are a great guy, but to call Jimmy great sells him short," Murphy said. "He was fun and funny, and at the same time, he taught us all how to be a little more loving."

James Walsh, 37, didn't make one last call to his family from the 104th floor of One World Trade Center, where he worked as a computer programmer for Cantor Fitzgerald, but his family said it didn't matter, "because he said 'I love you' every way possible, every day of the year."

He said it in the way he read books every night to his daughter, Caroline, who turned 2 the day the Twin Towers crashed to earth.

When news came that the Scotch Plains resident was missing, boys he knew in high school in Westfield and people who remembered him from King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., called to help.

Sean McDonough, from Montgomery, Pa., recalled him in an e-mail: ". . . His friends in Pennsylvania and around the country have been warmed by his presence and will miss him terribly . . . He loved being a dad and through his relationship with Caroline, he showed me a way to be a better parent with my kids.

"We are left with the void of the thousands of people like Jim Walsh who died last week," McDonough added, "but I will tell everyone who listens about my friend Jim and how much he meant to me and my life."

In addition to his daughter, Mr. Walsh is survived by his wife, Kate; his parents, Frank and Mary Lou of Spring Lake; two brothers, Thomas of Westfield and Peter of Spring Lake; and two sisters, Kathleen Walsh Karlen of Woodbridge, Va., and Carol Walsh Murphy of Tampa, Fla.

Profile by Judy Peet published in THE STAR-LEDGER.

Really, there is nothing more I can add to what Ms. Peet wrote, except that...I will always make sure, wherever I live, James Walsh's flag will have a place in my home.

Here is a memorial page set up to remember him. Please visit and leave a kind message.

Later today, I'll be posting a second remembrance about Andrew Alameno, who also died in the World Trade Center.

UPDATE: If you get a chance, please visit Exblogitate for an excellent compilation of Allahpundit's eyewitness remembrances of that terrible day.

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9/11 Remembrance -- James Walsh -- Project 2996

Poor, Whiny Zombiecrats

They can dish it, but they sure can't take it.

Need some diapers Rahmbo, Pinky (Harry Reid's childhood nickname), Joey, or Wicked Witch of Congress? I'll bet Al has some extras.

And for the little trolls...I know the image is Shopped; did you know this one was?

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Poor, Whiny Zombiecrats

"You Lie"

That's right, Joe Wilson, he is a liar.

UPDATE: Again, and again, and again.

After all, doesn't Obugger sound like a dad scolding a bunch of kids who just did as he does and not as he said to do? And did you catch Nancy Pelosi's look? It's almost as if she just heard a recording of herself calling the American people Nazis.

Bugger off, Obugger. You do lie....you broken record sinking into irrelevancy fake high-IQ whiny asshole with terrible poll numbers whose only claim to fame is getting passed a Porkulus bill that hasn't done jack while you lose the respect of more Americans by the Teleprompter sound byte.

You may be a resident of the White House, but you're no president of the United States, no more than, say, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is. Obviously, since you're not listening to hundreds of thousands of Americans and, on Saturday, upwards of a million, you think you're president only of you.

Believe me...whatever you say does not go...not by a long shot.

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"You Lie"

LEAKED! Tonight's BRAND SPANKIN' NEW, Never Before Been Uttered in 92 Previous Speeches, Health Care Message from Obama

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Make your own at I Can Has Cheezburger.

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LEAKED! Tonight's BRAND SPANKIN' NEW, Never Before Been Uttered in 92 Previous Speeches, Health Care Message from Obama

All Your Hand Washes Are Belong to Us

Image via JEFFHEAD.COM

"Kids, wash your hands." More great expert advice from the king of the moonbat zombies.

Should they also stop breathing, Dr. Evil? I'm betting that would be great for your spiraling deficit and your need to have national health care passed.

UPDATE: And will Democrats investigate the production of Obugger's speech to the kiddies... like they did when HW talked to kiddies in 1991?

Probably not; they're too busy fighting amongst themselves... exactly the place we need them to be. While they're at it, maybe they can do us all a favor and cough on each other and shake hands without washing.

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All Your Hand Washes Are Belong to Us

Cult of Dickheadery

I used to love this song. Back in the '80s I was a bit less political than today's 40-plus version of me.

Why should I be political? I was just out of high school; I was single; I was drinking premium German beer at the age of 19 in the streets of Frankfurt, friggin' legally; and I had a girlfriend who got a boob job at the expense of the government (yeah, that's right, national health care gave me a few pleasant nights).

What the Hell did I know?

Nothing....

Man, we were in a band. I was the singer. I was slim and virile and stupid as can be. I actually thought I was the cult of personality when this tune by Living Colour (an all-black rock band) came out.

We thought it was cool to play the tune, to associate with its sentiment.

What did we know. We had no idea it would lead to this:



h/t: Moonbattery

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Cult of Dickheadery

Obama Initiates Cash for Czars Program

WASHINGTON -- In a striking move aimed at both shoring up his failing agenda and hoping to stop his administration from hemorrhaging into the worst since Jimmy Peanut-brained Carter’s, pResident Barack Obama today unveiled a bold new Cash for Czars program.

“Van Jones was an environmentally-conscious Communist dedicated to outlandish statements, un-concealable past indiscretions, and irrepressible acts of irresponsibility,” Obama said during an impromptu news conference in the Rose Garden Sunday, attended by only a few remaining media friends, in particular Chris Matthews. “We admit to incredible breaches in our czar evaluation system. As a result, by the executive order I signed this morning, I’ve introduced a plan to weed out czars -- who report to no one but me -- with an incentive program.

“The Cash for Czars program will ask our currently estimated three dozen czars -- hell, I don’t even know how many toes I have at any given moment, so how can I be expected to know how many czars report to me,” Obama asked, looking away from his teleprompter to bask in a moment of infatuation with what’s left of his beloved press, in particular Keith Olbermann, “-- to answer three basic questions. One: 'What... is your name?' Two: 'What... is your quest?' Three: 'What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? '

“He who shall answer these questions three shall be allowed to cross the Bridge of Czars, but, yea, he who shall miss any of these questions three shall be given a lump sum severance package amounting to a half-million dollars or their expected salary over the next 3.4 years, whichever comes out higher.”

However, in tough questioning immediately after his remarks, ABC’s Jake Tapper put the pResident on the spot: “When you say ‘unladen swallow’; what do you mean: African or European?”

Obama slyly deferred to his behind-the-scenes mastermind, Valerie Jarrett, who had hand-picked Jones for Green Jobs czar and fortunately replied: “I…I…I don’t know that.”

And with that, Jarrett was unsuspectingly cast not into the Gorge of Eternal Severance but, amazingly, into the Gorge of Eternal Peril, and Obama subsequently announced an alternative three-point plan for restoring The Republic to its natural order:

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Obama Initiates Cash for Czars Program

I Guess Being Racism Czar Was Too Much for Him

Van Gogogogogos.

Dear Van...

I'm sorry that I published "lies" about you by linking to your actual statements and actions.

I have just one question: Will you later claim your resignation doesn't represent your views because you signed it without reading it?

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I Guess Being Racism Czar Was Too Much for Him

I Pledge...to Give Obugger the Middle Finger

Like this video does...

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I Pledge...to Give Obugger the Middle Finger

Van Jones Named Racism Czar

WASHINGTON -- Breaking new ground in race relations, President Barack Obama today gave controversial Green Jobs czar Van Jones another role at the White House: the nation’s first Racism czar.

“I unveiled only the tip of the iceberg when I said the Cambridge police acted stupidly and subsequently complained about the history of racial profiling in this country,” Obama said during a press conference in the Blue Room at the White House, Jones standing nearby wearing a Kanye Was Right t-shirt. “With Van Jones as the point man on race relations in the White House, we’ll have white people burning their own neighborhoods out of fear in no time.”

Jones, an avowed communist, whose role models include Marx, Lenin, and Mao, was named Green Jobs czar earlier this year. He now adds the official title of Black Instigation Zealot (BIZ) and will team up with another expert racist, Al “White Folks Was in Caves While We Was Building Empires” Sharpton, who was named vice BIZ czar in a later ceremony.

“White polluters and white environmentalists and Republican assholes, be afraid; be very afraid,” Jones said in remarks that followed the president’s. “We’re going to make the days of ‘Free Mumia’ look tame. Oh, and I got something special for members of the Bush administration for deliberately allowing 9/11 to happen.”

Jones said his department will emphasize the need for stripping away typical white cultural hang-ups across the nation, like cops beating up black people. As such, his first order of business will combine his two roles.

“We’re going to create green jobs by using FEMA detention camps as reeducation classrooms, where all white people will be taught how to act like plants,” he said. Members of ACORN and Organizing for America were dispatched immediately following the press conference to begin the process of hauling white people into reeducation camps already established in every state in the country.

Jones also plans to make a public appearance on Sesame Street, where, sources say, he will call Oscar the Grouch a “dumbass white guy in a puppet suit.” An HBO race education special with Dave Chappelle, called “The Race Pixies Go to Washington,” is also rumored to be in the works.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele called the appointment appalling, but no white people spoke out, perhaps in light of Obama’s “fear” comment.

Vice President Joe Biden, always one to offer an opinion, even when no one cares about it, said the appointment was equally as brilliant as spending more money than we have in order to bring down the deficit.

“It’s always good to have two articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking African-American men around,” Biden said.

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Van Jones Named Racism Czar

DANGEROUS Finger Biting Moonbat at Large!

Authorities are looking for a Democrat with beady eyes, flesh peeling from his body, an incredibly shrinking brain, and the victim's blood still encrusted on his lips.

He will walk in a herky-jerky manner indicative of someone with rigor mortis.

If you see or know this zombie dressed in black...

Click to enlarge

...please call the Ventura County police at the number in this link (really).

We wouldn't want the spread of the moonbat zombie virus to infect any more than the 62 million moonbats who already have it. (Let's hope Mr. Rice recovers at all.)

Wait...beware...there are more!



h/t: iOwnTheWorld

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DANGEROUS Finger Biting Moonbat at Large!

BREAKING! Secret Death Panel Orders Democrats to Take the Blue Pill

WASHINGTON -- Rather than continuing to fund expensive health care for foundering politicians, particularly when the president brags he’s “got a doctor who follows me everywhere,” a secret panel of bureaucrats has ordered Democrats to take the blue pill.

The decision comes as President Barack Obama’s agenda continues to crumble, evidenced by a cap and tax bill going nowhere in the Senate and a contentious health care plan that no longer offers a public option and a plummeting approval rating hovering just barely above 40 percent only 8 months after his inauguration.

This means that Democrats will continue to live in bliss, ignorant of their fractious factions having no idea whatsoever how to be a real party and coalesce under a potential crushing majority and of their predictable ability to self destruct and of their lack of understanding of why millions of Americans are attending Tea Parties, Recess Rallies, and Town Hall meetings in anger, to protest federal insanity not seen since the 1960s.

It will also be as if Obama were never elected: he’ll never know that young people and senior citizens and members of his own base (to quote the enemy, even) think he’s a useless tool who can’t get anything done despite a mesmerizing message during the campaign that now translates into the reality of being “hopeless change."

Members of the “death” panel attributed their decision to the ground-breaking work of Obama’s chief health advisor, Ezekiel Emmanuel, brother of the president’s union thug enforcer, Rahm Emmanuel, according to a report obtained by Feed Your ADHD. The report says: “politicians without any concept of how to handle their duties, and the bureaucrats they appoint, should be sacrificed for the common good, immediately.”

Rather than take the blue pill, Dr. Emmanuel decided, instead, to take his own life, via autoerotic asphyxiation. Others were not so lucky…or, maybe they were.

“Hey…I take the little blue pill all the time, and I’m quite comfortable with the erection lasting longer than 4 hours,” said Vice President Joe Biden. “I just put it to good use out there at the Lincoln Memorial. I’ve found a girl who works out of the back of a PT Cruiser; she knows how to handle such things, and she’s helped me become quite fond of humping Lincoln’s stone leg.”

Reports indicate that Obama went off to Camp David today as a ruse to continue his summer vacation, but in actuality to take his blue pill in the relative torture of a place where Ronald Reagan spent much of his time as president, Obama hopelessly thinking he’d learn something about accomplishing anything at all from America’s last great president. Instead, sources say, Obama found the Ghost of the Gipper was only interested in telling Obama to “take the pill; take the pill. Do us all a favor, and take the pill.”

At the same time, Senate majority leader Harry Reid is said to have stood on the Hoover Dam wondering if he should jump and take his own life or pop his pill and continue his blissful ignorance; unfortunately he finally decided that someone might say his death was “going to help us,” and he took the blue pill.

Interestingly, it is possible that Henry Waxman may have given his blue pill to his illegitimate child, Bat Boy. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi, the Wicked Witch of Congress, may or may not have taken her pill, but she obviously took something because she was seen this morning flying up and down The Mall on her broom, shouting, “I’ll get you, my pretties. I’ll get you!”

DEVELOPING….

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BREAKING! Secret Death Panel Orders Democrats to Take the Blue Pill

Ted Kennedy Announces Candidacy for President of Hell

With gracious thanks to BigFurHat over at iowntheworld.com for creating a fantastic image to go with this piece.

Hell, Circle 8.5 -- Just a week after his death, the greatest grafter of all time, former Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, announced today that he was running for president of the netherworld.

“This place is a disgrace,” Kennedy said, while bathing in boiling resin and drinking a fifth of Bushmills and getting a massage from a demon named Lilith. “It looks like it’s been run by Republicans. The pagans and unbaptized babies are out of work. The lustful have lost their libido. The gluttons are starving. The hoarders are giving their possessions away. The wrathful can’t stop apologizing. The heretics have found religion. The violent have become docile. The pimps have stopped wearing fedoras and purple suits. The flatterers have gone silent. The simonists have stopped selling pardons. The soothsayers have stopped making fortune cookies. The politicians have started giving back people’s money. The hypocrites have stopped living lies. Thieves are stealing only from themselves. Deceivers are being honest. Sowers of discord have become pacifists. Falsifiers have discovered truth. And the treacherous have become huggable teddy bears.

“It’s like Martha’s Vineyard down here. It must stop, and stop now. It’s embarrassing. What would they think above ground if anyone found out?”

Kennedy said he promises a typical liberal reform platform: “We’ll restore the redistribution of wealth, spread misery equally among all classes, harvest the brains of anyone who's not yet a zombie, and curtail all freedoms and enjoyments. Why, you can’t come to hell for a suntan!”

His running mate will be Yuri Andropov, once the Soviet premier and Kennedy’s old pen pal.

The former U.S. Senator, most known for his rotund physique and vicious political attacks and inability to drive over water, said he’s just the man to come in and clean up a realm beset by years of increasingly lackluster observance of the rules of inflicting excruciating torture and eternal pain on Hell’s dwellers.

“This place has so much sloth and lascivious behavior and enjoyment going on, you'd think it was the U.S. Senate chambers at midnight during a vote on economic stimulus,” Kennedy said.

His first order of business, Kennedy added, would be organizing all demons, an often fractious group of heathens who would just as soon chew each other’s scales off as collaborate, into a well-oiled political machine that can strong-arm the supporters of any opponent into throwing their evil charms behind him. He also said he’d release all of the whores from their shackles and put them to work, secretly, to entrap the current hierarchy of power in Hell in compromising positions, such as being kind and benevolent to strangers.

Kennedy has his work cut out for him. Back in the 1950s, after Joseph Stalin died and moved here, Adolf Hitler recruited him in an attempt to overthrow Satan and form a Communist-Fascist dictatorship, but Satan fought back, having his best Gorgons unleash parasitic worms to infect the brains of both mass murderers. They’ve been hanging from either side of a Tree of Death ever since, forced to face and curse one another for all eternity.

But that was back when Hell was a bad place to be, and even those closest to Baal say he just isn’t the same cruel devil he used to be.

“I think it’s the age thing,” said one of Satan’s confidants, a three-armed, four-legged demon with 47 eyes and four humans pierced through his tongue. “He’s been waiting to take over the earth for so long, he appears to be going soft. Plus, with guys like Kim Jong-Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. President Barack Obama around, Hell is kinda starting to look like valuable real estate.”

Beelzebub himself seemed flattered by the challenge, according to his spokesman, Richard “Ahhh” Gibbs (twin brother of the chief flak for Obama).

“Satan was very pleased when he found out Senator Kennedy would be coming here,” Gibbs said. “That’s why he offered him a position of prestige among the grafters. The President himself enjoys a turn in boiling resign now and then, and was even gracious enough to give Lilith, one of his concubines, to the good Senator as a welcome gift.

“But really, we don’t think it’s anything to worry about. I’m sure Satan and the senator can work things out this weekend when they plan to have a picnic near the Circle of Cocytus (“wailing river”), in Lower Hell.

“In fact, Mr. Kennedy is so kind he’s even offered to drive.”

DEVELOPING…..

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Ted Kennedy Announces Candidacy for President of Hell