one of our clients is a subsidiary of ny stock ex and am stock exchange. i guess the financial community is just a whirl over this. my contact emailed earlier today just aghast, horrified. blah blah.
opportunistic posts about how we ought to spin this from a lefty position are as pointless as jacked up numbers of deaths and attempts to spin this to blame palestinians or dick swinging and flag waving about how great the US is on whiteringer radio. it's gratuitous bulldadda. people are damned bummed out, no matter how enlightened they are and i don't think it's going to help if we sit around patting ourselves on the back about anti-racism or how we deserved to get knocked off our throne. sure, take a defensive, ready to rock position in case there are attacks against palestinians in the US and abroad. be ready to calmly discuss the issues with others as they come up. but leave the self-righteous holier-than-thou dooda out of it.
At 06:27 PM 9/11/01 -0700, Brad DeLong wrote:
>>[from Doug Henwood]
>>
>>Expert: Terrorists Chose West Coast Flights for Fuel Load
>>by Hugh Sprunt
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>>Oh thank god, Disneyland is safe!
>>
>>Let me assure the world that indeed Berkeley has not been taken over
>>by right wing militia seeking a pro-active defense posture. Saner heads
>>than Brad DeLong have prevailed here. Brad has been taken home under
>>heavy sedation, mumbling about casualties in the millions. We will
>>bring you all updates as they come to us.
>
>Look: 50000 people worked in those buildings. If half were trapped, we
>have 25000 dead. If 1/3 were trapped, we have 17000 dead.
>
>It takes time to evacuate: those people didn't have much time.
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>Brad DeLong