DISQUS

I watched this movie on Saturday. As per any American who remembered the events of 9/11, I wept openly. I was horrified and felt powerless. I watched with pride at the heroism of the passengers. I was digusted by the foul-ups of the beauracracy and with admiration at the folks on the ground, especially Sliney, doing their best in an unthinkable situation.

But throughout the emotions, there was one scene that resonated more than anything in my mind. Just before the passengers rushed the terrorists, they prayed, juxtaposed with the terrorists praying in Islam. And that's when it all became crystal clear.

I'm not a Christian. I have very little use for organized religions. But in this little scene, the core ideals of Americans and Islamofacism came to the forefront.

The Americans were praying for strength to save lives and the terrorists were praying for the strength to murder lives.

The methods we use to prosecute this war on terror maybe up for debate. The reasons are not. That reminder is the true legacy of "United 93."

Granted, it is a necessary first step. You know what though? I think getting anyone, Republican or Democrat to take ANY first step is really the hardest battle we face. That's my disheartened reaction to this. I've heard these and many other well-thought out reasoned plans on fixing this. Being well-thought out and reasoned, I think they may stand little chance of ever happening with our current crop of pandering yahoos in congress. Not to sound cynical or anything.

Not going to try to refute your ANWR arguement, because any new domestic sources make sense. But do you think this will in any way be more than a band-aid on our overall energy problem? Too often I see ANWR being shown as the solution when it is really just one prong of a multifaceted solution that needs to happen. We are at 8 year supply highs. So oil inventory is not the problem. Granted, having the inventory in beheading-intensive places does cause speculators to worry, but Katrina had nothing to do with crude problems, it was refininery problems. We have to shut down the refineries twice a year to "retool" for the varieties of reformulated gas for environmental reasons. The only environment these formulas actully affect is economic. The lack of being able to build refineries is an even more worrisome problem. We are over 95% capacity last I saw. One fire or accident at a refinery and we are screwed for months. Don't even get me started on the confiscatory gas taxes which are insane.

Don't get me wrong, ANWR is a necessary part of fixing the energy problem, but it is only ONE part, and not the biggest by a long shot, in my estimation.

God is much more thorough (re: Sodom renonvation plan). No, I think it's another example of a socialist leftist paradise that simply doesn't work. It's maddening really. Putting people on government entitlements is little more than a slave population, except the slaves aren't expected to actually produce anything. It's disgusting what they've done to fellow human beings and thanks to everything from public education to public official pandering, the people of New Orleans think of their government chains as security and happiness. Which is probably why they are so frustrated. Where's the damn happiness? Where's the paradise? Thanks to the education, they don't even know what questions to ask to fix it.

If I was the latest in a long generational line of this, I'd be on crack too.