When I looked at the list of popular subjects, today being the fourth anniversary of the war didn’t even make the cut. Second Life did. Sometimes I feel as if I have been living a version of Second Life over the past 28 months. I read about Second Life being a therapeutic tool. I would buy into that, if I didn’t know how many obsessives use the Internet as a substitute for doing. It really makes you feel as if you’re accomplishing something. Sometimes it’s necessary. Sometimes, it’s the opposite. It’s very hard to tell when you’re actually online.
I would say that it’s a lot better than Texas Hold em, but many people play Second Life for real money. Spring is sprunging and there’s nothing better than real life for practicing techniques for real life.
I will be at a candle lit rally tonight against the war. Four years. We have to get out. We have to get this country’s priorities straight.
Here’s a Times select article for all of you who think if only Reagan were president
When Courting’s redesigned I will have a space for newspaper articles and will copy the select ones. I will also emphasis my fiction as I think it’s my biggest strength
A link to my latest fiction post. It’s steamy and good. Want to highlight the fiction in my new blog.
These are clickable
This is a firehouse in my hood. Count the plaques. In the hood, another lost eleven and still another thirteen.
I will never forget.
I wanted war so badly for awhile. When expats would come home, they would yell at us for falling for Bush & Companies agenda. I never liked Bush, but this is my city.
When talk of a war began, many months before it was declared, I no longer wanted war. We didn’t seem to be going after Bin Laden. It felt as if we were picking a war with a Muslim country. One that had civil strife and is now a civil war
It didn’t feel as if New York was part of America. It had for a few months when 9/11 was fresh and it was “be nice to New York” time. I’m not talking about the people I know in real life, and so many bloggers.
Most people at least try to understand how our lives changed drastically yet we didn’t want war.
Most people do understand now.
Bush & Company still don’t. They pushed this war for their own agenda. It had nothing to do with 9/11.
I will never forget that almost 3,000 people died that day. I will never forget that more than 3,000 Americans have died fighting another country’s war.
I will never forget Karl Rove coming into my city and saying that liberals want therapy for terrorists. We wanted them hung by the cojones.
Leahy bring back honor to the Democratic party and bring Rove down. I know testifying is a long way from anything but a girl can dream.
It’s not to late for an Impeachment hearing. Maybe then we can learn the truth about everything. Have never linked to Rosie O’Donnell before.
I live in a country I love madly that seems to have lost its way.
I will never forget.
It hurts to no longer hurt over 9/11. Then I pass a firehouse.
Sometimes I still cry.
I will never forget that this needless war is in the name of something unique in its horror and ability to chill a nation into silence and sadness. We were one of the few nations to have peace within its borders for so long.
We were so innocent. No New Yorker who was here that day can ever claim innocence again.
We will never forget.
Out of Iraq ASAP, American lives depend on it.
Out of Iraq. I agree.
The dark pink color of the firehouse is nice.
I don’t mean to sound smart-alecky but did New Yorker’s claim innocence before?
What’s Second Life?
And finally, good for you for going to the rally. I absent-mindedly had my tv on CNN this weekend and I heard someone say his understanding of American Democracy is when you feel something you have to say it loudly.
Doug Doug Doug, you’re forcing me to moderate comments
Second Life is a huge game that virtually imitates real life. Almost anything that you can find in real life you can find in Second Life. The basic problem is that it’s not real life and can’t ever account for all the variables, even when humans bring themselves into it
Compared to people who lived through wars in their homeland, New Yorker’s were very innocent.
A French Jewish refuge said to me shortly after 9/11 “now you will begin to understand. Just begin to…”
She was right as I don’t know what it’s like to live in a country where I could be legally killed for belonging to the wrong religious group, etc.
The only thing I know that Americans who weren’t here that day is what it’s like to live five miles due west from the attack, see many people with ash on them, watch the fire, and have smoke come into my apartment.
Two years ago I would have said many other things–that I didn’t know if I would survive the day, what it was like to lose phone contact with people in a building that’s supposed to be the “second biggest target,” run to their daughter’s school to pick her up just in case and more….
But I began to blog and learned how many people who weren’t here had the same feelings and fears, if not the identical experience
I chose to honor the firemen today because this war is very much in their name.
The families who line with Michelle Malkin support it. Many of the rest don’t.
80% of the people in NYC voted for Kerry
That in itself is a powerful statement.
I hate the war. I support the troops and I hate having to say that. It should be understood.
This weekend and even tonight, there have been war protest all over the very Republican West Michigan–it’s time we get out of where we should have never been to start with, yet it will be hard to withdrawl because we made a mess and created a huge power vaccum in the region
Talking as somebody from the other side of the world, the differences between europeans and americans will always fascinate me.
I was just talking to somebody about it last night (and american), and we decided at our little summit that it could be because there is no concept of socialism in America. It’s capitalism all the way – everybody trying to better themselves.
I’m not saying it’s right or wrong, but it seems to be the big difference, and it has of course driven the war, because (as Donald Southerland put it in JFK), War is the business of government, and the US does very well selling arms to countries they have helped destroy.
You make an excellent point about the expats. It’s eye-opening how people outside America, even Americans, view us now. Because of Bush & Co.
I don’t see how anyone can still support the war. We were lied to. Do they not care? Guess not. They re-elected him.
Still, there’s no place on Earth I’d rather be. America is still filled with wonderful, amazing peace-loving people. And someday soon, we will prevail and begin repairing all the damage Bush & Co. have done.
dear rosie i totally agree with you ,dont listen to those who are against u only because they are stupid enough not to realize the facts .it is not patriotism ,it is just having a very narrow and ,shallow and hollow ways of thinking .i appreciate your courage your clear thinking god bless you