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I’m sitting here with that old saying “Talking ‘til you’re blue in the face” rolling through my head. I don’t know whether to be disgusted, or just laugh hysterically. Every time I think the current political opposition has gone as far as they can go, the push it just a little bit further. It’s getting to be redundant, talking about how crazy these people are, and they are slowly but surely digging their own grave just a little bit deeper with every passing day.

What am I talking about today? I’m talking about the new “9/11 memorial” that was just unveiled in Arizona. I don’t know if any of you have seen photos of this thing yet, but it’s pretty repulsive. Instead of it being a fitting tribute to those who died unawares on that horrific day, it is etched with anti-American sentiment. Literally. It would appear that some of today’s uber-left wing blogger whackjobs got their ganja stained hands on a laser-engraver and just went to town. The monument is engraved with such gems as:

- “You don’t win battles of terrorism with more battles.”
- “Must bomb back”
- “Feeling of invincibility lost”
- “Fear of foreigners”
- “Foreign born Americans afraid
- “Scottsdale students form Cultural Understanding Organization”
- “Balbir Singh Sodih, A Sikh murdered in Mesa”
- “Erroneous US airstrike kills 46 Uruzgan civilians”

Tempe resident Donna Bird, whose husband Gary was killed in the attack, was among the 30-member Arizona 9/11 Memorial Commission created by former Gov. Jane Hull in 2002.

She said all the inscriptions were found factual by an Arizona State University history professor. She added that she wouldn’t have helped design the memorial, which names her husband, if it were political.

Really? Factual? Let’s see what we have here. It looks to me like we have five statements of opinion, an advertisement for a “think tank”, a reference to an unfortunate hate crime, and another reference, this time, to a tactical error. I guess since all of these assertions were “found factual” by a university professor, it makes them completely infallible. This is maddening, because as I said, the first five quotes are nothing more than conjecture, and while the last two may be true in and of themselves, they have no business on a memorial that was intended for the 3,000-plus Americans who died. Not to diminish the murder of Sodih, but how can the hate influenced murder of a single gas station owner gets more attention than the murder of those good citizens in the WTC who were just going about their day?

How come nobody sees *that* as a hate crime? Personally, I think the phrase “hate crime” is overused, but there’s no other way to describe something that intentionally kills that many civilians. This memorial was to be for them, and nothing or no one else. Unfortunately, it is nothing more than a leftist graffiti wall, and aside from that, it has a rather “crescent-like” appearance to it, which I find to be very disturbing.

I’ve recently been told that it’s just that designers like curves. That may be true, I can’t say, because I’ve just *started* watching HGTV. So, leave me alone.

“We’re certainly not as innocent as we used to be. The attacks gave America a sense of what the rest of the world is feeling, sometimes on a daily basis,” architect Eddie Jones says.

I’m not even sure what he means. Innocence is not an absolute, and call me crazy, but I’m doubting that an architect is an expert on foreign policy. It certainly looks as if to me that he used this as an opportunity to put himself on a soapbox. When you think about it, why is there a 9/11 memorial in Arizona? I realize that it was a national tragedy, but it makes about as much sense as a Katrina memorial in New York. On a side note, I wonder if John McCain will try to use this debacle as a tool in an attempt to seduce the Republican base? I wouldn’t put it past him. Everybody knows he has all of the media outlets on speed dial, and his own full time TV makeup artist.

Either way, I feel badly for the families of 9/11. The memories are painful enough. I find it amazing how we can’t seem to get organized enough to rebuild the towers, but we seem to have all kinds of people out there who have the time to actually *construct buildings* which are an insult to the victims.

Twisted.

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