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Date Posted: Saturday, September 10, 05:31:17am
Author: Lij
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Subject: 9/11












And a bit of beauty.

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[> Everything changed, I just wish I could say it was for the better. -- AurraSing, Saturday, September 10, 12:08:14pm (d173-180-105-8.bchsia.telus.net/173.180.105.8)

Was talking about this with the manager of the coffee shop we visit every Saturday morning. He was a commercial pilot at the time at a small airport near the Ontario border, said the day was full of fear, misapprehension and shock.

Post 9/11, I still recall the first planes we saw flying over the Elk Valley were what looked like B-52's, possibly heading up to Cold Lake or Alaska. It had been eery to have such empty skies and then see those massive planes at such high altitudes, flying with such deadly looking intent to the north.

An article we we reading today was talking about how America could have really pulled together after this attack and yet ten years on and it's still the same old story of right vs left, rich vs poor, etc. Billions spent on attacks that never materialised and once the Afghanistan terror camps were leveled post 9/11, then the war in Iraq and more dead Americans.

:-(


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[> [> The great center that was America seems to be unheard..... -- Lij, Sunday, September 11, 12:34:51am (adsl-99-50-228-22.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net/99.50.228.22)

If you're not far right or far left you're considered not kosher in either of those groups' views. What is worse is that many on the right think anyone with a 'lesser' viewpoint than there own is unAmerican.


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[> [> [> We generally lack that extremism here. Which might have something to do with our outlook on politics...... -- AS, Sunday, September 11, 03:50:10pm (d173-180-105-8.bchsia.telus.net/173.180.105.8)

Outside of a couple of staunch NDP union firebreathers, I don't really know anyone who is so ultra-party as to be blind to what the other parties have to offer. We also tend to view the vast majority of politicians as somewhat shifty and not to be trusted....one of the reasons why our top three political parties are really not as far apart as they would like to make us believe, because we're Canadian and not prone to ridiculous shifts in policy. At least that's my take on it, from a sorta secular humanist kinda pointa view.


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