It's Been 4 Years Since 9/11...

[12th Doctor]

Very well said, Mark.  I have a professor who is originally from Brooklyn.  He lost a lot of friends that day.  We were giving out rememberance bottons yesterday and he came by the table.  He picked up a botton and started to cry.  I don't know anyone, personally, who died that day, but something like that really brings it home for me, again.

[12th Doctor]

P.S.  I would like to know the real story, BTW.

[12th Doctor]

What a worthless thread.

I strongly disagree; I'm not a contemporary of MarkDel, on the board, but his post was excellent.

I agree. My favorite parts were where he said we should forget partisan politics and put that behind us today, and then went on to describe "whacko liberals." Hypocrites can be so funny.

Jesus,

I believe John Ford adequately described your inept reading comprehension skills. However, in the sake of bi-partisan agreement, I'll apologize for my reference to "wacko leftists" if you apologize to the forum for being a relentless troll, who has posted on several hundred (thousand?) occasions without ever saying anything that's even remotely probative or intellectually stimulating. And to the Democrat from Minnesota in this thread (who I can only assume is Better Red Than Dead in his latest incarnation) I will say go re-read my original post as John Ford suggested.

Although I would estimate that far less than half of my posts are trollishness and my reading skills are quite fine, I am sorry if I misread your post. But surely you can understand how "And so I urge you all to put aside your political ideology for at least the short term and focus on the fact that you are an American, with a responsibility to help your fellow citizens in time of need, and to do everything in your power to aid ALL government entities, local, state and federal by donating your time, money and energy to help the victims of this disaster. And a small part of that is to shut the  up about politics for at least a few months until everyone is safe, and the dead have been dealt with in a respectful manner as possible" might make comments later in your post seem strange.

Don't take him too personally.  Del is a smart guy but he has a lot of anger in him.  He makes good points but he also has an ego and, because of it, he makes inflammatory or ridiculous statements like "leave politics out of it ... the Democrats are to blame" or "trust me ... I'm a random guy on the internet who claims to have secret connections in government so you should take even my most outrageous statements as gospel".

Mark is the real deal, I suggest that you try to learn from his wisdom.  The particular instance when he did inform me on something that was going on that was nto reported in the media, everything he said would happen did, or, at least, I could see that it had, since the media did not reprt what he had disclosed to me in full.

[12th Doctor]

Wakie,

I can back up what MarkDel said. What he told me over the phone was rather credible.

Ditto