25 Years On...

 (reprinted from a post originally written here on September 11th,2005.   11 years later, I can't think of any way to say it better.  Sometimes I cringe at my prose - which I believe, at least, has improved with time - but to change it would be to sully it.  So here it is, a picture and a thousand words... }

This photo, for me, is the most haunting visual from September 11th. This man went to work that beautiful Tuesday morning, perhaps kissed his wife and children goodbye, and soon was faced with a choice presented to him by Islamic terrorists: To die by fire, or to die by falling.

What went through his mind as he pondered his options? Was there ever the hope he could survive the 100-odd story fall? Or was this the American version of the ancient Israelites' Masada, where they fell on their swords rather than be taken by the Roman enemy? Did he chose to take his own life in a defiant plunge rather than burn in his enemy's fire?

We'll never know, and it doesn't really matter anyway. What matters is that in his death, Falling Man did something meaningful, something great. He shows us, in the starkest terms, the choices being offered to us by the Islamic enemy. Peace and friendship are not present in this photograph, nor is the possibility of future existence. The only choice being offered by the Muslim Terrorist is the method by which our lives are to be ended to serve their dream of an Islamist globe.

I look at this photo and wonder how many Americans will be faced with this man's choice in the future. After 9/11, we said Never Again and Never Forget, but with the help of the liberals and their lackeys in the media the horror of that day is being sanitized, equivalized, and minimized. Will it soon be taught that Falling Man's death was, in actuality, his own fault?

We must fight. Now. In the Middle East and wherever the terrorist calls his turf, lest he return to our soil to perpetrate his hatred again. We must ignore the sweet siren call of the Left, calling for acquiescence and appeasement with those whom want our blood. Let us turn away from the weakness of "understanding" our enemies; for I do not want the poisonous ideology of those whom caused my friend to jump to ever enter my soul.

There is right and wrong. There is good and evil. Those whom refuse to define it do not know the difference, and their morality (or lack of it) will eventually kill them.

I will define it; I will call a thing what it is, political correctness be damned. I was there; an eyewitness; I watched the buildings fall and heard the people scream; I saw more funerals at a young age then I ever imagined possible. The cry of the bagpipes echos in my head, and forever chills my heart.

Falling Man, again. He made a moral choice that turned into a symbol for September 11th. In the face of our enemy, we are all faced with a similar choice. Fight with whatever we have, or be consumed in his flames. Not happy choices, but neither were his. We cannot chose the times we are given to live in, we can only chose what we do with that time.

Let us chose wisely, then. On a day that we mourn the slaughter of thousands of innocent Americans, it is incumbent upon us to Never Forget, and to do all in our power to make sure this never happens again. Lest our generation be cursed by those that follow.

May God bless and keep the souls of those whom perished on this fateful day.  And may our actions never bring shame to their memory...

“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine..."

 

SAY THEIR NAMES

 

The innocent children, slaughtered on October 7th by Hamas.

May their memories live on as a blessing.

Aryeh Alexander Sandler, the late 5-year-old

The late Gabriel Issachar Sandler, 3 years old

The late Daniel Aryeh Wiplich, 16 years old The late Elad Fogel, 4 years old The late Hadas Vogel is three months old The late Yoav Fogel, 10 years old The late Yonatan Palmer, one year old The late Shlomo Nativ, 13 years old The late Segev Paniel Avihil, 15 years old Yonatan Yitzhak Elder, 16 years old Yondav Chaim Hirshfeld, 18 years old The late Naria Cohen, 15 years old The late Yohai Lifshitz, 18 years old The late Avraham David Mozes, 16 years old The late Roy Aharon Roth, 18 years old The late Eliyahu Pinchas Ashari, 18 years old The late Mazel Zaribi, 15 years old The late Daniel Waltz, 16 years old The late Amir Naim, 17 years old Shaked Lasker, the late 16-year-old The late Omer Menashe Pisakhov, 8 years old Ella Aboxis, the late 17-year-old The late Rachel Hali ben Abu, 16 years old The late Oz Israel ben Meir, 14 years old The late Nofer Horvitz, 16 years old The late Avihai Levi, 16 years old The late Aviad Yehuda Mansour, 15 years old The late Yuval Abba, 4 years old The late Afik Ohion Zahavi, 3 years old The late Lior Azoulai, 18 years old The late Aviel Yitzhak Atch, 3 years old Two-year-old Dorit from the late Binsan movie The late Roni Sarah Hatuel, 6 years old The late Merav Rachel Hatuel is two years old The late Hila Esther Hatuel, 10 years old The late Hadar Simcha Hatuel, 9 years old Son Jonathan Zuckerman, 18 years old The late Lior Liorinka Niv, 3 years old The late Gilad Giladi Niv, 11 years old The late Avraham Shaked is one year old The late Tomer Almog, 9 years old The late Habib Dadon, 16 years old The late Benjamin Bergman, 15 years old The late Avraham Bar-Or, 12 years old The late Shmuel Zargari, one year old Noya Zar, the late Aviv, one year old Liran Zer Aviv, the late 4-year-old The late Erez Gizro Hershkowitz, 18 years old The late Tom Hershko, 15 years old The late Daniel Harosh, 16 years old The late Shmuel Taubenfeld, one year old The late Moran Menachem, 17 years old The late Yuval Mandelwitz, 13 years old The late Abigail Lytle, 14 years old The late Noam Leibovitz, 7 years old The late Tehila Natanzan, 3 years old The late Elisheva Meshulami, 16 years old The late Elizabeth Liz Katzman, 19 years old Asaf Blondi Tzur Zollinger, the late 17-year-old The late Smeder Firstetter, 16 years old The late Asaf Steyer, 10 years old The late Issachar Dov Reinitz, 9 years old The late Tal Kerman, 17 years old The late Shani Avitzedek Abutzadeka, 16 years old The late Asnat Abramov, 16 years old Matan Ohion, the late 5-year-old The late Noam Levi Ohion, 4 years old The late Yael Ohana, 11 years old

The late Orly Ophir, 15 years old The late Noa Orbach, 18 years old The late Dvir Anter, 14 years old Yaakov Avraham Eliyahu, the late one year old The late Lidor Ilan, 11 years old The late Oriya Ilan is one year old The late Gal Eisenman, 5 years old Gilila Bugla, 11 years old The late Hodia Hudish Asraf, 13 years old The late Noy Enter, 12 years old The late Shubal Zion Dickstein, 9 years old The late Elmer Dzbrailov, 16 years old The late Adi Dahan, 17 years old Jonathan Gamaliel, 16 years old The late Hadar Hershkovitz, 14 years old The late Rachel Gila Teller, 16 years old The late Gabriel Hoter, 17 years old The late Shmuel Ephraim Yerushalmi, 17 years old Atara Livna, 15 years old The late Racheli Hali Levy, 17 years old The late Shiraz Nimhad, 6 years old The late Shaul Nimhad, 15 years old The late Liran Nimhad is 3 years old The late Avraham Eliyahu Nicham, 16 years old Baruch Asher Zvi Markus, 18 years old Her father, the late Malka, is one year old The late Nehmi'a Amar, 15 years old The late Linoi Serousi, 14 years old Avraham Yosef Haim Seton, the late 17-year-old The late Gaston Parfi Parfinial, 15 years old The late Ilan Perlman, 8 years old Aharon Mordechai Eric Krugliak, 18 years old

The Biggest Truth Bomb To Come Out of The FTX Collapse...

 

...is this snarky utterance from Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX, and Democratic donor to the tune of $50M+, during a Twitter interview with Vox:

All "SBF" is doing is lifting the veil here, saying something we all already knew: Spouting left-wing bullshit and contributing to Democratic candidates is simply a payment of indulgences, in order to protect one's wealth from being targeted by the rabid, ravenous progressive elite.

Will an embarrassed media now do more scrutiny before lionizing those who mouth all the right bromides and invest in all the right causes?  Have they learned anything, as they watch the man/boy they once compared to Warren Buffet, devolve into the next Bernie Madoff?  Have they become more insightful, seeing Theranos CEO ("OMG -  a female tech entrepreneur !!")  Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to over a decade in the stony lonesome?

Nah.

Maybe - if they were any actual journalists left in the industry - you'd see some mea culpas.

But propogandists are gonna propagandize.  So they will give a moment's pause, and move on to more of the same...

So one can say that's two truth bombs that came out here.

Although I should append the title with the addendum "So Far..."

Canadian Truckers Protest, and Leftists...

 ...turn into Fascists, as they do every time.

The only good protest is a government-sanctioned protest - assuming the government is in the hands of the Left, of course.

Otherwise you wind up on the receiving end of their anger and hatred, as seen in the WaPost:

Punchline:

Analysis: #Truth:

Merry Christmas !

...may you find your stocking..."stuffed"... with whatever your heart desires...

As for me...I got work that night...

 

While We Await the Rittenhouse Verdict....

...the memes just kinda write themselves, don't they?

Shadow-ban to begin in 5...4...3...