Tag Archives: 9/11

According to the New York Daily News, Dubya declined to join President Obama at Ground Zero today because he feels he didn’t get enough credit for taking down Osama Bin Laden. Bush’s visit to the rubble after the 9/11 attacks was the emotional high point of his presidency, but associates say the invitation to return with his successor was a …

One week after 9/11, I rescued the above unsigned painting from the front wall of the elementary school on my Chelsea street. It was one of hundreds affixed there in what doubtlessly was a group therapy project for the children. A violent rainstorm had just begun when I removed it and by morning the hundreds of other drawings lay ruined …

NYFD ladder trucks arrived in Times Square around 12:30am to the wild cheers of the ever-growing crowds. I tried to get down there myself to witness some history, but at this writing there’s about 200 people frantically waving for cabs along my block on the Upper East Side. NOTE: The above photos have been retweeted so many thousands of times …

In case you haven’t been following along, nutjob Pam Geller is the Atlas Shrugs blogger largely behind the battle to block NYC’s now infamous “Ground Zero mosque.”

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(This story makes its sixth annual appearance on JMG today. On this day last year, I noted that 2009 would be its final posting, as ‘I just want to run this once under a president other than Dubya.’ Many of you objected, saying this post should continue to run every year. As you wish.) Manhattan, September 11th, 2001 That day, …

Atlas Shrugged blogger Pamela Geller, also the founder of Stop The Islamization Of America, will be staging a massive rally tomorrow at Ground Zero. And the NYPD is gearing up for an ugly situation. “We want to keep everyone in their corners. You don’t want the opposing sides to clash,” an NYPD official told The Post. “All eyes are going …

JMG reader Rich tips us to this billboard near the crash site of Flight 93. Apparently Jeebus hates terrorism, abortion, spelling, and punctuation.

How many pastors does a 50-member church need anyway?

Copyranter goes off: “Learn to anticipate.” Courrier International, a Paris-based weekly (tagline: Anticipate Daily), solves 9/11 after the fact: the World Trade Center architects should have stopped at about 50 floors. Look! The hijacked planes missed the shorter targets. Yay! Viva la Photoshop! Viva la Idiocy! Remember the Maginot Line! Ad by Saatchi & Saatchi France. Extra points for the …

The so-called 9/11 Truthers, who believe that the U.S. government secretly plotted the attack on New York City, have launched a fundraising campaign to place the below ad on national television.

Ken Mehlman even tried to shift the blame for the invasion of Iraq.

Both sides rallied again yesterday in downtown Manhattan.

I want to gay-marry Alan Grayson.

Gainesville’s Dove World Outreach Ministries has been denied a permit to burn a pile of Korans on September 11th, but says it plans to proceed with the ceremony anyway. Gene Prince, the interim chief of Gainesville Fire Rescue, said Wednesday that under the city’s fire prevention ordinance, an open burning of books is not allowed. Dove World has made international …