You May Hate Me For This...

But you won't be the first ones. I love it and thrive on it. It only makes me stronger. Karl Rove was right.

One of my friends back home was lamenting the bombastic blather going on in New York City on the need for psychoanalysis for school children across The City to counter the stress of the 9/11 tragedy as simply employment insurance for therapists, and this was right after the tragedy. Shamelessly marketing their product. Here's an example. And here. And here. And here.

As we pass the one year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans are reflecting on the toll this event has taken on our collective consciousness. Due in large part to the power of the media to magnify this spectacle to epic proportions, it is arguably the most traumatizing event in post-modern times. As mental health professionals, we can witness the reverberations of 9/11 from a unique vantage point. Although clients in my private practice have rarely cited the terrorist attacks as a presenting problem,

its a boondoggle for making money and getting all kinds of bulls**t funding!

What Rove said with the next Democratic nominee's prepared reaction here [scroll down to the box].

Dig down deep in your hearts. And you will know if what is being said is really true or not. Rove didn't call anyone Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot or Stalin. He didn't say that liberals didn't care or didn't react, he just said that the approach is different, that conservatives approach these types of situations with war running through our veins and liberals don't do that. When I saw the 2nd plane hit the tower on TV from the trading floor in my office in West Africa, my next utterance was, "This is war." So is it true that liberals wanted to strike out like we did? He didn't say Democrats, he said liberals. It seems as if there is an argument as to whether they wanted to or not.

New York is liberal town -full stop- and Rove hit on the core of what they think. For ages it was a town full of apologists for others. They didn't have an education...they came from a poor background....they need therapy and help....they aren't responsible for their actions...blah, blah, blah. The same as the twinkie defense. I lived there for around 15 years, this is ever so true.