Obama, McCain to Pull Attack Ads on Sept. 11th Anniversary

ABC News’ Jennifer Parker reports: A 9/11 victims’ advocacy group is urging 2008 presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to observe a “campaign moratorium” on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

MyGoodDeed.org, a nonprofit group trying to establish Sept. 11 as a national day of voluntary service, wrote to both campaigns Tuesday asking them to halt partisan campaign activities, including negative ads.

The Obama campaign told ABCNews.com they will not be running any negative ads attacking McCain on Sept. 11. The McCain campaign said they will pull all of their campaign ads altogether.

“We won’t be running ads on 9/11,” McCain spokesman Brian Rogers told ABCNews.com. “It’s a day for remembrance and unity, not political campaigning.”

Both candidates have been invited to speak at Service Nation Summit in New York on Sept. 11, where political and business leaders will meet to discuss how to boost volunteerism in the US.

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Halleluhaj in Southwest Airlines ad offends listener

Q: An ad of Southwest Airlines on a local radio station plays an excerpt from the Hallelujah chorus of Handel’s Messiah. It is a universal fact that the Hallelujah chorus exalts Jesus Christ as the King of Kings. Therefore, as a Christian, I find its use in an ad to be extremely offensive … Can you please give me the address of Southwest Airlines to which I can write to express my protest. – Beth

A: The address is Southwest Airlines, Box 36647-1CR, Dallas TX 75235-1647. Or you can call 1-800-435-9792 or (214) 792-4223.

Here’s a little background info on Southwest: The airline started more than 37 years ago. It has more than 500 aircrafts and is one of the youngest fleets in the nation. Today, Southwest Airlines flies more than 104 million passengers a year to 64 cities all across the country more than 3,400 times a day.

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Bag of Randomness

  • I’ve had three minor accomplishments this week:
  • First, I found that annoying rattle in my car.
  • Second, I was able to get my energy efficient bulps to work in my garage door opener.  How?   After a quick search on the Google I found all you need to do is unplug the thing and get some needle nose pliars to pull the metal thingy out a bit to make better contact.  The energy efficient bulps are a little bit shorter than regular bulbs.
  • Thrid . . . after two years, I finally was able to get my permalinks to display correctly.  In other words, the the web address of an individual post usually displayed something like this, “www.bagofnothing.com/?p=123.”  Now an individual post will have the month, day, year, and the actual title in the post which makes BON easier to be picked up by search engines.  Why did it take two years?  Because I didn’t want to ask for help and wanted to accomplish this on my own.
  • For the last two nights Lester Holt has been in my dreams, and I don’t even watch the Today Show.
  • Lots of rain in DFW lately, that just doesn’t happen in August.
  • Glad I didn’t go to that Cowboys open practice with all that rain.
  • Funny they would plan that open practice from 7-9 when Hard Knocks starts right at nine.
  • I haven’t really been all that impressed with Hard Knocks.
  • I think we are thin at receiver and I don’t like our new tight end.  I say trade him for a receiver and take our chances at TE with Witten and Tony Curtis.
  • I got a bit emotional when Misty May-Treanor spread her mother’s ashes.  I remember doing the same, just not at a beach volleyball court.
  • I’m working on finding some video of something I saw on the Olympics that made me shed a tear.  It involved a weightlifter and his late wife.
  • With my new job, I just haven’t got into a blogging routine.  I’m not blogging at work, I just have a hard time getting into blogging when I get home.
  • Speaking of blogging, today is going to be short and sweet.  I’ll try to make up for it on Friday, and I’m not sure if there are going to be afternoon posts today.
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