Remembering September 11, 2001

We will never forget....

College Football Kicks Off Tonight!

Ahhhh...  The start of another college football season is finally here!  After a long off-season of coaching moves, conference realignments, and cheating programs finally getting caught and punished (goodbye USC!), we're looking forward to the various games this weekend starting tonight with No. 2 Ohio State hosting Marshall at The Shoe and going all the way to Monday night's clash between Boise State and Va. Tech at FedEx field in D.C.

Alabama and Florida remain the elite programs in the SEC and country while Ohio State, Iowa, and Wisconsin will battle it out for the Big Ten title.  Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas look like the cream of the crop in the Big 12, while the Pittsburgh Panthers, led by Sophomore sensation Deon Lewis, will take the Big East.  If Boise State can knock off the Hokies on Monday night, the Blue Turf Boys could run the table and end up playing for the national title.  Although most experts are looking at Ohio State QB Terrell Pryor as the pre-season favorite to win the Heisman, the RC Blog is putting its money on Wisconsin big brusing running back John Clay.  Enjoy the season!!

Robert Gibbs -- Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

Yesterday was another comical and absurd day for the Obama Administration.  The day began with the White House Press Hack Robert Gibbs lying on Fox and Friends.  In the evening, President Obama addressed the nation thanking himself for the withdrawal of troops in Iraq and highlighting the successes in promoting freedom and liberty in that country under his watch. 

Of course, anyone with any kind of short-term memory knows that the success in Iraq was due to the leadership of (1) President Bush and (2) General Petraeus.  The actual timeframe nearly hits Bush's original estimate for withdrawing troops from Iraq!  This Oval Office address last night only took place because the President and his party are getting crushed in the polls.  Hopefully, most Americans will see through this political tactic. 

Our thoughts and prayers go out today to all of our country's military and their families, especially the Gold Star families who lost their loved ones in the Iraqi theater over the past several years.  Thanks to the courageous efforts of their children and spouses, success in Iraq became a reality.  Their efforts will never be forgotten...

On a lighter note, here are the videos of Gibbs lying and Obama's comments on the surge in 2007. Does the Left ever think that maybe somebody has recorded all of their public comments and will catch them in their lies?  

Restoring Honor Rally, 8/28

What a day yesterday in Washington!  If the attendance yesterday on the Mall was any indication of the political sediment of Americans, the Left is in big trouble in early November.  From everything you read in or saw on the Mainstream Media, this rally was to be sparsely attended.  Gee, what a surprise!  The media grossly underestimated the attendance.  This photo looks like a few more than "5,000 radical racists and religious kooks" as predicted by the Left.  I'm sure we'll read and hear this week that Beck and Palin doctored the photo in Photoshop....

Empire State Bldg Not Lit For Mother Teresa Birthday

The Empire State Building was lit in red, white and blue on Thursday night for women's suffrage as more than 100 people protested a refusal by the iconic skyscraper's owner to mark Mother Teresa's 100th birthday.

Yet the colors that the Catholic League had requested in her honor were the most luminous against the darkened skyline: The building's 203-foot pinnacle blazed a brilliant blue, while the stories just below glowed a frosty white. A fading red was just visible underneath.

The colors chosen were intended to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to vote.

Nevertheless, more than 100 people led by the Catholic League protested the building owner's decision to deny the organization's request to change the colors of its lights to blue and white in honor of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun.

Illuminating the 102-story Manhattan skyscraper in different colors is a tradition. The building has been lit up for the release of Mariah Carey's album in 2008, for the 25th anniversary of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 2009, for religious holidays such as the end of Ramadan and Easter and for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

But the building's owner, Anthony Malkin, declined the Catholic League's request to honor the ethnic Albanian nun, citing a policy of not illuminating the edifice for religious figures. Malkin did not respond to a phone message on Thursday requesting comment.

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan said Mother Teresa, who was born Aug. 26, 1910, may not have approved of the brouhaha over the lighting of the skyscraper.

Dolan, speaking at St. Patrick's Cathedral with members of Mother Teresa's order in the pews dressed in the blue-and-white saris she favored, said she "might be a little unhappy."

"She was humility personified," he said. "She didn't like a lot of attention."

Mother Teresa died Sept. 5, 1997, at age 87. In 2003, she was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church — a step toward possible sainthood.

In her honor, billboards in Times Square were illuminated.