This weekend on John Stossel’s show, he talked with Gary Sinise about all the philanthropic work he’s done with the troops, as well as the patriotic themes often seen on his hit show “CSY: NY.” Gary Sinise is one fantastic American, and I never knew just how many groups he was involved with until I saw this special with Stossel.
Honestly, when does this man sleep? Either way, I salute Gary Sinise and thank God for giving us such a special human being to look up to. If each of us could only give a 10th of what Gary Sinise gives to our fellow man, the whole world would be a brighter place.
On the Saturday special show of Huckabee, he had on a very special guest who was also a hero during the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks at ground zero: search and rescue K9 Kaiser and his handler Tony Zintsmaster from Indiana.
Kaiser spent 10 days on the pile, and is only one of a dozen or so search and rescue K9s who are still around today. Kaiser was injured during a building search of WTC Building 7, but came out with an eager attitude to keep going, even though he was bleeding from that wound he received inside the building.
Kaiser is just one of many of the unsung heroes that day that helped find the remains of the dead, although he would have preferred to have found the ones who were still alive yet needing rescue. Although the human heroes will always be in our thoughts and prayers, we must never forget the K9 companions who helped their handlers do their job, often at great risk of their own well-being.
This weekend, Mike Huckabee sat down with David Silverman of the American Atheist group about the iconic symbol that is the cross that was formed form steel beams in the rubble of the World Trade Center. Seems this atheist group is outraged….outraged, I tell you, that this alleged violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments is being displayed in the Ground Zero Memorial Museum.
What is it the atheists want? They want equal representation because obviously (sarc) the steel beams are a Christian icon which violates the separation of church and state. Never mind the fact that nobody complained about this cross during the entire rescue and recovery operation in the days that followed the attack.
The symbol the atheists want? A pair of hands shaking. Um… okay. The cross is just “rubble” to you, Mr. Silverman, and the attacks prove God doesn’t exist, but you want some goofy hand-shaking statue to represent atheists equally at the museum? Why don’t you take some time-traveling way-back machine, go back into the towers and endure the attacks yourself. Then during the search and rescue (should you survive) mission that follows, please dig deep down into the rubble and see if you can find some semblance of two hands shaking that has somehow miraculously formed by the twisted steel. THEN you can bring your “symbol” to the surface, see if you can find like-minded atheists in the pile who want to include your stupid statue in the museum in the future.
By the way… I doubt you would have found many atheists in “the pile” during that time anyway, so it would have been rough going for you. But hey, at least you can dream, right? In the mean time, STFU.
Okay, I didn’t want to post a huge segment of last week’s CSI: NY episode, so I just grabbed the sweetest and best part of it. Former female lead, Melina Kanakaredes, was an Obama zombie so I wasn’t sad to see her go. This season in her place is the lovely Sela Ward. I’ve read somewhere that Ms. Ward is a conservative Republican, and I know that Gary Sinise is at least a very patriotic American. Sela’s new role this season is a demure yet very intelligent psychologist, I believe, and she has a very sweet southern accent.
So, some background for this episode: One of the lab techs was sneaking peaks at a webchat site similar to Chat Roulette (I think they called it “LookinAtChu”), when he starts watching a pretty girl play music and dance around the room. Suddenly someone enters the room and strangles her. That’s the background of the video so you’ll understand it.
At the end of the episode, Sela’s character is about to close up shop for the night, but she still has her “Chat Roulette” site up from having used it before during the investigation. The following scene then takes place, and I gotta tell you, I’ve watched it more than once. This was so outstanding I just had to grab it to share with others. Watch and enjoy.
I post this also partially because of my displeasure of the original CSI, which is based in Las Vegas. I have been a fan of all CSI incarnations, but the first episode of the original CSI this season turned my stomach. They mocked the Tea Party as a bunch of gun-totin’, crazy loons, so I will never watch that show again. Gary Sinise has some creative input to CSI: NY, although I don’t know if it’s in the director, writer, or producer area, but it doesn’t matter. I’ve never seen CSI: NY one time disparage either troops or any patriotic citizens movement. Needless to say, I’ve set my DVR for a series recording of CSI: NY already. Looking forward to more.
EDITOR’S NOTE 9/12/10: This was originally posted in 2006, after I saw the newly-released “United 93” movie. I thought there would be no better day than today to re-post this item upon reflection of the events of this past Saturday and all the memorials. I feel like perhaps we may be waking up again, but I’m not sure. I just hope we can all find it in ourselves to say once again…”Let’s roll.”
ORIGINAL POST:
I’ve been sitting here for the past hour and a half wondering what to write, if I could write, or if I should write. I know that the topic du jour is illegal immigration, and in some ways, what I feel right now makes that issue even more important and relevant.
I went tonight to the 7PM showing of “United 93” at a local theater. I wanted my friend and I to beat the evening after-dinner crowd, because I knew I would need a while to decompress afterwards, even before I saw the film.
On the way up the steps to our seats in the back of the theater, my stupid sandals caught on one of the steps, and I fell. My left elbow broke my fall, popcorn & Diet Coke everywhere, but luckily there were only 3 other couples in the theater that early. All asked if I was okay, and I said “yes, except my pride.” Little did I know how stupid that would later sound to me.
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