And this one, sums it all up for me...
"I don't want to hear that losing a ballgame is tragic. I don't want to hear the volume reach 10 over who's going to play quarterback. I don't want to hear that a slugger is a villain because he won't talk to the press and doesn't sign as many autographs as he perhaps should. It's fantasy. It's fun and games, a sign of how prosperous a culture we've become, how blasé and presumptuous we've gotten in recent years when it comes to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

And as the airflight manifests are starting to become public, we've found out here that former NHL'er ( and Cap ) Garnet "Ace" Bailey was on that second plane that we all saw auger-in.

Not to cheapen the moment, but I agree with ol' Mike that what we need right now, is to resume our pastimes---with a very heavy heart, but not surrender as that would play right into the traps laid by the simplest of minds this world has to offer. I believe that when ( if? ;-} ) I check-out, I would like to be remembered. But not to the extent that everyone shuts-down and locks-up for long periods of time. IMO, to move on is not a sign of dis-respect, but a part of healing.

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"Two of the men were brothers whose passports were traced to the United Arab Emirates, the unidentified source told the Herald. One of the men was a trained pilot, the paper reported on its Web site on Wednesday."

Anyhow, I came across a post that just seemed absolutely crazy the more I thought about it. The heart of the post was this:

Flight 11: Todays date
Flight 93: 9+3 = 12 - Wednesday
Flight 175: 1+7+5 = 13 - Thursday
Flight 77: 7+7 = 14 - Friday

There are a lot of "coincidences" from yesterday that bear looking at. At what point do "coincidences" turn into something else? I don't know, but up until yesterday I don't think any of us were worried about airplanes flying into the 2 WTC buildings and bringing them down. At this point, my mind is open to anything and I think some of the "coincidences" being pointed out in many places bear some consideration and not just a passing "It's all a coincidence."

How many coincidences add up to equal a plan?

I'm personally getting fed up with all the talk about how the President supposedly "wimped" out by not coming directly back to DC. There is no, absolutely NO, reason to put our President in harms way. At the time he left FLA, all planes flying over US airspace were not accounted for. Flying back to DC amid that cloud of suspicion would have been premature and highly ignorant. Further, the White House has reported that they had real and legitimate information that said AF-1 was a target even after landing in Louisiana. I've heard the reporters asking, "But weren't all the planes grounded at that time?" and I'm thinking that questions like that are what helped to get us here in the first place. How ignorant and blind are these people to think that the first method of attack is the only method of attack? Just because a plane was used for 3, and almost 4, attacks does NOT mean that one was intended for AF-1 and that there wasn't some other sort of legitimate attack planned out. Seriously, do these reporters think it's that easy to crash a plane into another plane when these guys seemed to have at least minor difficulties hitting unmoving targets? But all that is beside the point. There is no reason that I can ever think of that warrants putting our President in harms way. If there is even the remotest possibility that he is in harm's way, then something needs to be done to put him in a safer place. He is the icon of leadership, strength, and power for our country. You think we're mourning the loss of life and the loss of the WTC and Pentagon, just imagine if we lost our President also. I think too many of these congressmen have too much damn time on their hands right now and are spending too much time bickering over stupid crap rather than shutting up and offering their thoughts, prayers, and condolences to those who perished yesterday. I heard one yesterday, YESTERDAY!, not even 12 hours after the attacks saying that we needed to return to normalcy! I knew at that point that even a monkey could be a congressman because it obviously doesn't take any amount of a heart or brain to be one. Then again, that's not giving much credit to the monkey! I would love to hear the heroic stories of these congressmen and what they were doing during all of this. Then again, I doubt you'll get many of them to tell you that they were hiding away in their secret subway and underground bunkers wetting their pants, sucking their thumbs, and crying for "the big bad meanie to just go away." But 12 hours later, when the coast really is clear, it's soooooooo easy for them to stand in front of the camera and pretend to act like men and ask where the President is. Yeah, now that's what I call leadership! What morons!