A-1,

You probably know that I mean a collective 'us' not an individual us. There is little that can erase the images of 9/11 from each person's mind. And collectively, we tend to forget fairly quickly about the past.

BTW 9/2, yesterday, was the anaversery of V-J Day, or the victory in the Pacific ...

Someone said "We Shall Not Forget September 11th"

Thing is, we will. Do any of you really rember exactly WHY we remember 11/11- Veterans Day? What about September 2nd? We don't mark Presedent Lincoln's assassination day, or the bombing of Hiroshima, the begining and ending of WWI, WWII, Korea ...

Erik,

Sorry to hear that you are unwell. Take care of yourself and keep coming back.

Erik,

I know how you feel. But, I will add that I long ago got use to being ignored. I have been a writer for twelve years. I rarely get praise for what I write. At first, this worried me, even angered me. But then, I also realized that I wrote not for them, but for me. If I can share what I write ...

And such a nice word it is too....

Now, does anyone remember G.W. Bush saying in the campaign 'there shall be no dictators in America unless I am that dictator."?

FINNALLY!!!!

Well, anyb0dy, TIPS is undergoing a lot of modifications lately. Though, this whole Patriot Act reminds me of some of the legislation enacted after the burning of the Riechschtag in 1930.

I have come to the conclusion that the only way to truely combat Terrorism is through tolerance ...

Andrew,

yes, it should be a major concern for people. In fact, it should be a major concern for more than just eunuchs and women. I know a few too many men who have osteoporosis of some form or another. One of my good friends (and my sister's ex-fiancee) has very advanced osteoporosis. With men ...

OK, firstly, if we are going to continue this debate, I'm moving this to the Celler.

Secondly, just to clarify. My information has been gathered from the information provided by the governments of America, Britian, France and Israel, by the BBC, Times (London), Florida Times Union (Jacksonville ...

Losethem,

I'm a history major, with a heavy education in Politics, Literature, Archaeology, Anthropology, and a lot of other things.

Ask the Israelis (which is where I got my information), Hizballah IS Lebanese. I have to stand by my information because I have verified all of it. They, and just ...

Back durring the Roman Empire, buisnessmen would put buckets and sometimes cisterns on the wall for people to use as they were walking by. Something like a penny a pee. They then sold the urine to the tanners. Urine was an essencial component in the tanning buisness.

Speaking of the uses for pee ...