It's Been 11 Years Since the 9/11 Attacks: Is America Safer Now Than It Was Back Then?

Ah. I would think Germany could be fun to travel, if you could afford it.

Yeah. Gas is pretty expensive, but the bus is cheap & ride sharing is pretty popular... & loads of people still hitch. I tend to not have a lot of money, so instead of going on holidays/vacations, I just move to wherever. I've seen more of Germany than most Germans, but not a lot of the neighboring nations.

Good for you! Did you say you were a writer?

Well, I write.
I haven't been published, so I suppose calling myself "a writer" is not correct.

It's correct! Hemingway and Steinbeck asked why would you care what someone else thought?

Well, I consider a "musician" to be a person who is paid for making music. The person who makes music on his/her own (regardless how wonderful it might be) is just a person who makes music. I think the same about writing. It's my own perspective.

You are a commercial person. That's OK but shallow. I think more of you. Please think more of yourself than I do. Ha ha ha -:)

I honestly do not believe that not making money from something I enjoy brings me down at all.
There are certain things I thoroughly enjoy & am quite good at but refuse to be paid for.
The idea that I am not a writer or an artist does not bother me a bit.
But thanks.

-:)

Lack of due process (which makes us a dictatorship...literally).
Lack of right to privacy.
Lack of protection against illegal search & seizure.

Blame both "parties" & The People for not rising up against tyranny.

Well said!

Thank you.

Most Welcome, I can see you clearly get it!

"Blame both "parties" & The People for not rising up against tyranny."

You said a mouthful with that!

It's so frustrating to watch one's nation go down in flames while one's fellow countrymen/women support its destruction.

I second that emotion!

Now now, you "know" we are all "free from fear!" Isn't that freedom enough for you "libertarians"?

Nope, not enough for this one! ;)

LOL! I know that about you, young Lady. ;-)

You know me all too well :)

Just your run-of-the-mill "Amazing Wanna". lol

...He's got cat class and he's got cat style ;)

Lol! To think, I was suppose to be doing something right now, and look at me! Still on SH.

Tell me about it! I've managed some comp issues - but for some odd reason the damned drive isn't spitting out Obama bucks! Oh the humanity!

I'm down to using these;



They're just as good as FRN's and easier to Xerox. ;-)

Oh, how true!

I, for one, am afraid as hell of the Plutocrats who are in control of my nation as we speak.
Were we to have our constitutionally protected liberties back, I would at least feel like we had a full quiver to fight against them. But The People are too distracted by "party" propaganda & TV to pay attention & figure out who the hell we should actually be fighting.

Were a Libertarian to be elected in November, we might have some hope... but only if the majority of incumbents are ousted along with the current administration. Most people put way too much weight on the Presidency while they forget that Congress has to approve just about everything he does. If he acts illegally & gets away with it, who's fault is that?

It's ours.
...so is the loss of our nation to the Plutocrats.

You speak well, Grammar... very well. I look forward to reading more from you.

Apologies for not making my sarcasm in the above more obvious.

Thank you.
No apologies necessary.

The president has limited power, so true. But it would be nice to see a fat stack of EO's consigned to the dustbin of history.

...& many tried for crimes against America as well as breach of oath & dereliction of duty.

Yes indeed.

Okay everyone ignore this 4gotten Israelite guy. He commented to me a while back that all whites are raciest and blacks are not treated equally... Clearly a lost liberal soul who is going to take part in ruining America as we know it by voting for Obama in a few months.

Not all whites are racist. (Are you talking about me? I don't remember EVER saying that in my life.)

No i'm talking about the username: 4gotten Israelite.

Good.
Thanks for clarifying.

It is less free but no safer.

All you conservatives talk about less free, why are we less free? What can't you do today that you were able to do yesterday?

Like get a plane ticket and fly without being searched? I reckon you wouldn't recognize a conservative if they headbutted you. I'm a witch which puts me way outside the conservative corral.