Spence, what happened to your ya5lk TAG????????
PIGS !! Look, everyone is catching on. LOL.
Incidentally, with all your GED_efforts, you're just proving my case for me.
Allow me to take this opportunity to thank your dumb fuck disgusting pig asses.
Did Spence Roberts the arsonist/murderer/Tampa Fireman get to salute?
At Tampa's Sept. 11 ceremonies, a call for unity and patriotism
By Nandini Jayakrishna, Times Staff Writer In Print: Sunday, September 12, 2010
Bob Brinley, center, wears stars and stripes as he salutes the flag along with firefighters, police, paramedics, veterans motorcycle clubs and others at the Tampa Convention Center on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
TAMPA
Anthony Corte went for his father, two uncles and 26 friends.
All of them responded to the burning World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001. None of them came back.
"Just don't forget," Corte said under a scorching Saturday sun at Tampa Fire Rescue's Station No. 15.
He was there to join in a ceremony commemorating the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. "Keep the spirit and the patriotism we had that day in our hearts," he said.
In what was one of several events around the region, Corte, 37, of Bloomingdale and nearly 60 other former and current law enforcement and military members paid homage to a flag hoisted atop a fire truck.
The flag had been flown over ground zero in New York City by an organization called the Post 911 Foundation.
They observed a moment of silence to remember the lives lost on Sept. 11. They called it Patriot Day.
Several motorcycle rides and events were held Saturday by groups such as AMVETS Post 44 in Brandon and the Post 911 Foundation.
In a noon ceremony, a foundation member presented the flag atop Fire Truck 15 to Mayor Pam Iorio at the Tampa Convention Center.
The presentation was part of the national Follow the Flag campaign meant to reignite the spirit of patriotism.
Accepting the flag on behalf of the city, Iorio said she was proud of all the first responders, not just the ones in New York on Sept. 11, but also those in Tampa. The latter, she said, would act just as bravely in times of crisis. THIS IS JUST FUCKING FUNNY!
"And that's why on 9/11 we should never forget," she said. "The title we cherish the most is that of American citizens."
At the Convention Center ceremony, Mark Kijas, 54, who works as a security consultant, said he had already attended three commemorative events that morning.
"I'll do it until I drop," he said.
Kijas, who was about 3 miles from the north tower when it was hit by a hijacked plane on Sept. 11, 2001, said he and many other civilians rushed to the scene to help.
"I never though I would run down there," said Kijas, who was a security director at Oxygen Media, a women's cable network, at the time. "I just did it. You get caught up in the moment and your emotion takes over. We just went down there to do what we could."
Kijas said he knew 42 people—police officers, firefighters, security personnel and civilians — who died as the towers tumbled.
Now is the time, he said, for the country to overcome political and religious barriers to unite as Americans.
"People are forgetting what's important," he said.
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Ace wrote:
Great to hear about these ceremonies & the thoughts and actions regarding 9-11-2001. I do think more coverage would have been appropriate, including info about the agenda beforehand. Just MHO.
Sep 12, 2010 6:25 AM
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KaPueo wrote:
I think the country is united on most issues. Unfortunately, our president is not part of that union.
Sep 12, 2010 7:29 AM
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monstersdoexist wrote:
Let me finish the sentence quoted from above story...."Now is the time, he said, for the country to overcome political and religious barriers to unite as Americans ...against those rottenbaztardz that did this to us and continue to flaunt their sick sharia laws in the worlds' face" !
Sep 12, 2010 7:50 AM
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ttuttle wrote:
Kind of reminiscent of the late days of the Weimar Republic if you ask me.
Sep 12, 2010 7:54 AM
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ttuttle wrote:
True patriots would have burned the USAPATRIOT Act yesterday.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, never was that more true than in America today.
Sep 12, 2010 8:30 AM
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Justalittledrunk wrote:
smells like cordite.
Sep 12, 2010 9:20 AM
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Gaius Baltar wrote:
@ttuttle: And during the last days of the Weimar Republic, the German right concocted lies about history and liberals, and scapegoated religious minorities to whip the pubic into a frenzy of fear.
Sound familiar? You betcha!
Sep 12, 2010 9:33 AM
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ttuttle wrote:
RE: Gaius Baltar
Since they already have their brownshirts in the neocon Republican co-opted (formerly anti-interventionist libertarian) tea party movement, their Goebbels in Herr Beck and the basis for their coming movement (internment of Muslims see Michelle Malkin) all that they are awating is their fuhrer or fuhress.
This is horrifying to watch, is the pledge of allegiance to 9/11 next?
TT
Sep 12, 2010 9:40 AM
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p_eunny wrote:
If you want the truth about 9/11 look to the last man standing..
As far as I am concerned...Bu-cheny has the blood on their hands
Last man standing hold a lot of truth...sic
Sep 12, 2010 10:47 AM
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palinsbackporch wrote:
What scumbags. How ironic I caught them FROM STATION 15 stalking my family twice yesterday. Shot them a big fat bird. Yep. That was me.
Sep 12, 2010 2:45 PM
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Thank you for your vote
palinsbackporch wrote:
Interesting that EACH of these flag-waving groups have profited from the horror of Sept. 11, 2001 by receiving HUGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY to buy crap with from the Dept. of Homeland Security. The firefighters used their cut to begin stalking citizens. Riding the coattails of DEATH of the heroic firefighters. YOU DISGUST ME. But I know that does not bother you.
Sep 12, 2010 2:52 PM
ttuttle wrote:
Yes, not that I am especially fond of the Washington Post but they had a series, Top Secret America about a month or so back that went into just how much these greedy pig corporations have been selling all of this fascist surveillance crap on our tax dollars to local agencies etc. It's a monstrous boondoggle yet all of these armchair patriots could give a rat's ●●●● about how the country is being bankrupted by the fearmongers and the useful idiots who wrap themselves in the flag and salute while their children are forced through naked body scanners in the airports, and soon to be coming to shopping malls, all at taxpayer expense.
These buffoons all claim to have problems with big government but when it's being used to spy on citizens, militarize the police and build a massive for profit prison gulag they are silent.
This country is a very disgusting place right now.
TT
Sunday, September 12, 2010
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