I’m sure that by 9/20, the flag on your SUV was already getting tattered, Eric.

In New York, on the other hand, people who lived in the south end of the city were homeless and possessionless. Many of them were still stuck in New Jersey or the outer Bouroughs, unable to get back to their homes. The stock market didn’t re-open until 9/17. The theatre district was closed. Planes didn’t start flying to or from New York airports for a week. There was no cell phone service. The transit system was crippled by the collapse of the skyscrapers into one of the city’s main subway connection points. Manhattan was papered with heartbreaking posters, photos, fliers, of people looking for their loved ones, many of whom were dead. The lower part of the city was covered in thick ash for months. None of the businesses or homes for blocks and blocks around the WTC were accessible, much less open. One day, the first week people went back to work, bomb scares were called in to every skyscraper in Manhattan — every one was evacuated.

So, again, sorry about Jake’s $100. Some of us had a sense that there were more important things going on, on 9/20.

Pearatty, he’s talking about an event that was nine days later.

Y’all need to get over the 60’s, baby-boomers, all of you, left and right. It’s over, ok? Welcome to the twenty-first century.

Huh?”

You know the 60s, Pearatty. Buh-member? Back when all the kool kats were bombing various university campuses and tripping (NPI) over their plastic bongs to protest dis’ dat’ and the other thing.

Buh-member?

For all y’all in Minneapolis think you understand what it was like to be in a country that was attacked, you have no idea what it was like to actually be in NYC or DC the day it was attacked. The fact that you’re peeved about not seeing the speaker you had lined up shows that. If she was too scared to fly less than two weeks after the attack, then she was too scared to fly. Sorry about your $100. If that’s all you lost because of 9/11, be thankful.

“Obama represents the radical 60s.”

Huh?

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…I’m sorry, were we talking about the election?

Peggy does not understand Palin because she is from an older generation. Palin represents the New America. Obama represents the radical 60s. McCain the 70s.

Palin is the most popular politician in America by far and will remain so for many years. She consistently outdraws Obama by 30 to 40% when speaking at the same venues. If she were at the head of the ticket, Obama would be down by 15 points. If McCain wins it will be due entirely to Palin.

She will be America’s first woman President.