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I am totally digging the Patriotic Pinup Girls over at retroCRUSH and the wallpaper at This Nation. Thanks for sharing the links, Robyn!

Like everyone else, I keep hearing talk of how we should bomb the heck out of Afghanistan. Wouldn’t that just reduce us to the same level as the terrorist that attacked us last week? Killing innocent people … and at that, people who have no say about their government? It just makes me sick. The do not live in a free land, where they can go as they choose if they don’t like the government. Most of them don’t even have enough food to survive. Then there is the insane rule of the Taliban. Analyzing Life has an article posted about the state of women under Taliban rule. Read it. Educate yourself before you start screaming for war.

I was sent an article about a company in Florida that made their employees take the flags they had on display off of their desk. I went to the website that had run the article originally and was happy to find out that since then “Fla. Company Relents, Passes Flags Out”. …a public relations recording says that after learning of Gov. Jeb Bush’s request to lift the ban on flag display, “Any interested parties can display a flag on their desk. Flags will be provided for any employee who wishes.” Here is the original article that I received (late this afternoon I must note, long after they offered to pass out flags … the down side of passing things on through e-mail) Florida Company Bans Old Glory From Offices

Another flag article: Anti-Flag Zealots Back Off

Happy Birthday, U.S. Constitution. Who would have thought that 217 years later we would hear talk of being stripped of our civil liberties through things like systems to read our e-mails or tap our phones “to protect ourselves” from terrorism. The exact thing, I think, that our founding fathers would have been opposed to. Isn’t that part of what that whole fight for freedom, the American Revolution, was all about? Hmm. Not quite sure what to think about that. I don’t think I like it. What civil liberties are you willing to surrender for the price of peace?

I am so happy to read that Hilary’s husband, Jack, is not being deployed. Yet. I am still wondering where my ex-husband is. I am nervous for all of the military families out there. I remember all too vividly how Desert Storm was, and I am scared that we will lose even more American lives in a war.

By the way, Jason has a good index of a *lot* of blogs with 9-11 stories … the online weblog reaction.

From Fucked Company: “Just trying to help (and for this they get a “luck”), Clear Channel, owner of over 1,170 radio stations, has banned these songs from their airwaves. Included are songs about war, the word “Tuesday”, and even “Walk Like an Egyptian”.” I can see why they are banning some of these songs, but come on… “Walk Like an Egyptian”? There are several others that make me think to myself, “ok, I can see the logic behind that, but isn’t that a bit much?” Because I don’t think they need to be banned. Not all of them. Frank Sinatra singing “New York, New York”? Nina “99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons”? Martha & the Vandellas “Nowhere to Run”, Shelly Fabares “Johnny Angel” or Peter and Gordon “I Go To Pieces”? Simon And Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”? Even my James Taylor song, “Fire and Rain” is listed. I knew it would be. Along with Don McLean “American Pie” and Buddy Holly and the Crickets “That’ll Be the Day”. Hmmm. I don’t think they should all be banned. Will banning them change the events of the past week? NO. That’s like saying if we stick our head in a hole in the ground then things will just stop happening around us.