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  Memories of 9/11 Jimmy <nospam@trash.invalid> - 2011-09-11 20:36 +0000
    Re: Memories of 9/11 ec429 <ec429@cam.ac.uk> - 2011-09-11 22:43 +0100
      Re: Memories of 9/11 Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-12 10:09 -0400
        Re: Memories of 9/11 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-09-12 17:18 +0000
          Re: Memories of 9/11 lawrence.jones@siemens.com - 2011-09-13 09:33 -0400
            Re: Memories of 9/11 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-09-13 14:28 +0000
              Re: Memories of 9/11 Oliver Jackson <chexmofo@hotmail.com> - 2011-09-13 08:06 -0700
                Re: Memories of 9/11 China Blue Corn Chips <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2011-09-13 08:19 -0700
            Re: Memories of 9/11 Kenneth Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2011-09-13 16:13 -0400
          Re: Memories of 9/11 Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-09-13 16:24 +0100
      Re: Memories of 9/11 "Andrew T. Packer" <atp1@rightthing.invalid> - 2011-09-12 19:49 +0000
        Re: Memories of 9/11 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2011-09-12 19:57 +0000

#10141 — Memories of 9/11

Hello everyone,

Just a thread for anyone who wants to share memories of 9/11/2001.

I was working in lower Manhattan that day. After we heard the first bang 
we were all gathered round the TV. Everyone was paralyzed, struck dumb. 
When the second tower was hit, my boss said: "My wife was on the 75th 
floor". He started crying softly. It was incomprehension, not anger at 
that moment. No one could speak. When I made it home that day to my wife 
and boy in Somerville, NJ, we just hugged each other and cried. The cell 
phones had been down all day so they had no idea if I was alive or dead. 
I remember thinking: "Everything is changed now. For my boy growing up, 
the sense of security we took for granted won't exist any more".

Thinking about how Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove have screwed 
everything up since that day just makes the memory even more painful. 
There is no god, but still: God Bless America and God Bless President 
Obama.

Sincerely,
Jimmy

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#10145

On 11/09/11 21:36, Jimmy wrote:
> Just a thread for anyone who wants to share memories of 9/11/2001.
<snip>
> Thinking about how Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove have screwed
> everything up since that day just makes the memory even more painful.
> There is no god, but still: God Bless America and God Bless President
> Obama.
Perhaps I have an uncharitable mind, but it doesn't seem like you want 
to share memories so much as to use them as a political weapon.
I'm no more a supporter of Bush than I am of Obama (that is, none 
whatsoever), and I happen to agree with you on the epistemic status of 
deities, but nonetheless consider your hijacking of a strong emotion to 
support a political position (with only the most tenuous of logic to 
connect the two, although it would be no better if you were entirely 
accurate) simply vile.  (I note in passing that you choose to conceal 
your email address.)
Go and make trouble in talk.politics where you clearly belong.

We now return to your regularly scheduled "What's the return type of 
main, and should I cast the result of malloc()?".
-E
-- 
'sane', adj.: see 'unimaginative'
   on the web - http://jttlov.no-ip.org

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#10152

On 9/11/2011 5:43 PM, ec429 wrote:
> On 11/09/11 21:36, Jimmy wrote:
[...]
> Go and make trouble in talk.politics where you clearly belong.
>
> We now return to your regularly scheduled "What's the return type of main,
> and should I cast the result of malloc()?".

Politics?  In clc?

"Remember the main()!"

-- 
Kenneth Brody

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#10157

In article <2didnYIqYbc8j_PTnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@bestweb.net>,
Kenneth Brody  <kenbrody@spamcop.net> wrote:
>On 9/11/2011 5:43 PM, ec429 wrote:
>> On 11/09/11 21:36, Jimmy wrote:
>[...]
>> Go and make trouble in talk.politics where you clearly belong.
>>
>> We now return to your regularly scheduled "What's the return type of main,
>> and should I cast the result of malloc()?".
>
>Politics?  In clc?
>
>"Remember the main()!"
>
>-- 
>Kenneth Brody

The implication is that politics, while clearly "OT" here, is a good deal
more interesting than the usual endless discussions of prototyping main()
and why you don't cast the return value of malloc().

-- 
"The anti-regulation business ethos is based on the charmingly naive notion
that people will not do unspeakable things for money." - Dana Carpender

Quoted by Paul Ciszek (pciszek at panix dot com).  But what I want to know
is why is this diet/low-carb food author doing making pithy political/economic
statements?

Nevertheless, the above quote is dead-on, because, the thing is - business
in one breath tells us they don't need to be regulated (which is to say:
that they can morally self-regulate), then in the next breath tells us that
corporations are amoral entities which have no obligations to anyone except
their officers and shareholders, then in the next breath they tell us they
don't need to be regulated (that they can morally self-regulate) ...

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#10190

Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> 
> The implication is that politics, while clearly "OT" here, is a good deal
> more interesting than the usual endless discussions of prototyping main()
> and why you don't cast the return value of malloc().

So do you also advocate adding made up stuff to history books because
it's more interesting than the usual endless discussions of history?
-- 
Larry Jones

There's a connection here, I just know it. -- Calvin

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#10191

In article <jl24k8-6b7.ln1@jones.homeip.net>,
 <lawrence.jones@siemens.com> wrote:
>Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The implication is that politics, while clearly "OT" here, is a good deal
>> more interesting than the usual endless discussions of prototyping main()
>> and why you don't cast the return value of malloc().
>
>So do you also advocate adding made up stuff to history books because
>it's more interesting than the usual endless discussions of history?

Do you still beat your wife?

-- 
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
	by the wise as foolish,
	and by the rulers as useful.

(Seneca the Younger, 65 AD)

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#10192

On Sep 13, 7:28 am, gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
wrote:
> In article <jl24k8-6b7....@jones.homeip.net>,
>
>  <lawrence.jo...@siemens.com> wrote:
> >Kenny McCormack <gaze...@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>
> >> The implication is that politics, while clearly "OT" here, is a good deal
> >> more interesting than the usual endless discussions of prototyping main()
> >> and why you don't cast the return value of malloc().
>
> >So do you also advocate adding made up stuff to history books because
> >it's more interesting than the usual endless discussions of history?
>
> Do you still beat your wife?

Does your brother still wear a dress? Does your sister still make
booze in the bathtub?  Does your mom still chase you down the hallway
with her robe flying open?

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#10193

In article <7164fbb8-37a1-421e-8f86-e60d567c1a38@s15g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
 Oliver Jackson <chexmofo@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On Sep 13, 7:28 am, gaze...@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
> wrote:
> > In article <jl24k8-6b7....@jones.homeip.net>,
> >
> >  <lawrence.jo...@siemens.com> wrote:
> > >Kenny McCormack <gaze...@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> >
> > >> The implication is that politics, while clearly "OT" here, is a good deal
> > >> more interesting than the usual endless discussions of prototyping main()
> > >> and why you don't cast the return value of malloc().
> >
> > >So do you also advocate adding made up stuff to history books because
> > >it's more interesting than the usual endless discussions of history?
> >
> > Do you still beat your wife?
> 
> Does your brother still wear a dress? Does your sister still make
> booze in the bathtub?  Does your mom still chase you down the hallway
> with her robe flying open?

I have a exotic family. A happy family, but not easily understood by strangers.

It's the Cap'n Crunch footie pajamas and the kilt that she wears under her robe 
that the registerred guests find most disturbing.

-- 
I remember finding out about you,  |With the nutty taste of wild hickory nuts.
Everyday my mind is all around you,|            I'm whoever you want me to be.
Looking out from my lonely room    |       Annoying Usenet one post at a time.
Day after day.                     |         At least I can stay in character.
Celle est une langue. C'est francais et tres, tres sexuel.

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#10201

On 9/13/2011 9:33 AM, lawrence.jones@siemens.com wrote:
> Kenny McCormack<gazelle@shell.xmission.com>  wrote:
>>
>> The implication is that politics, while clearly "OT" here, is a good deal
>> more interesting than the usual endless discussions of prototyping main()
>> and why you don't cast the return value of malloc().
>
> So do you also advocate adding made up stuff to history books because
> it's more interesting than the usual endless discussions of history?

I thought they already do that?

-- 
Kenneth Brody

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#10194

Kenny McCormack wrote:

> The implication is that politics, while clearly "OT" here, is a good deal
> more interesting than the usual endless discussions of prototyping main()
> and why you don't cast the return value of malloc().

I'm sure there are plenty of newsgroups where US politics is on topic.  This 
isn't one of them.


Rui Maciel

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#10165

ec429 typed...

> On 11/09/11 21:36, Jimmy wrote:
>> Just a thread for anyone who wants to share memories of 9/11/2001.
> <snip>
>> Thinking about how Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove have screwed
>> everything up since that day just makes the memory even more painful.
>> There is no god, but still: God Bless America and God Bless President
>> Obama.
> Perhaps I have an uncharitable mind, but it doesn't seem like you want
> to share memories so much as to use them as a political weapon. I'm no
> more a supporter of Bush than I am of Obama (that is, none whatsoever),
> and I happen to agree with you on the epistemic status of deities, but
> nonetheless consider your hijacking of a strong emotion to support a
> political position (with only the most tenuous of logic to connect the
> two, although it would be no better if you were entirely accurate)
> simply vile.  (I note in passing that you choose to conceal your email
> address.)

I completely agree with this. You've got to remember that the liberals 
hate America, and it shows by the contempt they show for 9/11 victims.

President Bush stepped up to the plate when it counted, and he defended 
the homeland. If a Democrat had been in office, right now Saddam would be 
stockpiling WMD and supplying Al Quaeda to attack the US again. If we'd 
had an allegedly Moslem President on 9/11, possibly not even born in the 
USA, where would his sympathies have lain?

The world needs America's moral leadership, bringing freedom and democracy 
to hostile countries. In 2012 the people of our great nation will once 
again elect a President who espouses these great Christian values of our 
heritage.

-- ATP

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#10166

In article <pan.2011.09.12.19.49.09@rightthing.invalid>,
Andrew T. Packer <atp1@rightthing.invalid> babbled:
...
>President Bush stepped up to the plate when it counted, and he defended 
>the homeland...

Nice trolling!

An 8.8 on the troll-o-meter.

-- 
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
	by the wise as foolish,
	and by the rulers as useful.

(Seneca the Younger, 65 AD)

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