Just a day or two and the 11th anniversary of 9/11 will be upon us. It doesn't seem possible that it's been over a decade since that attack. Looking back, I remember getting a call from my daughter to turn on the TV....and there it was...an unbelievable picture of destruction and the loss of 3000 lives! I watched a great deal of TV that day and the days/weeks that followed, caught up in the drama of that spectacle, somehow not wanting to believe that it had actually happen.
At the time, I wasn't fully aware of the effect that 9/11 had on me personally. On October 3, 2001...less than 4 weeks after 9/11...I was admitted to Urgent Care at UCSD/Thorton Hospital for Atrial Flutter. My heart rate was 145 and they initially couldn't bring it down. In the weeks that followed, I underwent a Cardioversion procedure, and later a Radio Frequency Ablation procedure to correct the Atrial Flutter. Since that time and up to the present I've not experienced any heart problems. (Thank you God!)
I'm sure that the 9/11 incident has affected us all in various ways. Whether medically, psychologically, or personally, it has left its mark on our people. Before 9/11, how many times did we think of the words terror, terrorism or terrorist? How often did you look at someone of a Middle Eastern race and wonder if they were terrorist? Did you ever go up into a skyscraper and feel at risk? How many times have you not felt personally secure in your surroundings? Do you have dreams about 9/11? Do you carefully consider the people who are on your plane flight?
But as President Obama said in his Saturday radio address: "Instead of pulling back from the world, we strengthened our alliances while improving our security here at home"..."instead of turning on each other, we've resisted the temptation to give in to mistrust and suspicion.".."instead of changing who we are, the attacks have brought out the best in the American people."
So...read the article below, and decide for yourself....is the United States stronger now after 9/11?
Obama: The U.S. is stronger, 11 years after 9/11
Well...my "News Service" is off to a rather shaky start. I'm having difficulty trying to place more than one Link into a Post. But we'll figure it out as we go along.
The subject line...From the Left...will give you a hint (especially if you are on the Right), that the article below comes from a Liberal website...Common Dreams...and is going to set forth the view for "Cleaning Up the Economy"by Paul Krugman, a very liberal economist. I'll do some research and try to find articles from the Right on doing the same thing, and link them into this same post or a future one.
As you might expect, I agree with most of what Mr. Krugman says in this article. Unless the economy goes in the tank, he says "the next four years will be much better than the past four years (economically)". I would add the caveat that his statement is based on the premise that President Obama will still be in office. (I believe the Romney/Ryan economic plan would be a disaster for the middle class and those of us in the 99% group!)
Krugman acknowledges that the recovery from the "Great Recession" has remained sluggish, but sees signs of improvement in the housing market and business investments since late 2009. I hope he is right. All prior recessions have been lead by a recovering housing market.
So...please read the article by clicking on the link below, and send me all of your comments.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/07-0
Today, I'm launching a new "service" for those of you that just don't have the time to keep up on the News. As with all of my "Ramblings", my comments which will accompany the various news articles, will be subjective (most of the time), biased (with a Liberal slant), provocative (what fun), and of course, Rambling (because that is what I do!).
As always, if you don't care for my comments, you can make your own right on my blog. My...not so very well hidden motivation...is to stir things up a bit, and get some dialogue or dialog going. You know, discussion, talk, exchange of viewpoints, direct discourse, etc. We all need to communicate with each other. We don't need to agree all the time.
I will sometimes "share" these Ramblings and your comments with selected social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and the like. It will tend to spare my Wall friends on Facebook from exposing them to every political article I read and share; they can go to this blog to read my views..or not!
Today's article should get the political juices running whether you are of the Right or Left. So...just click on the story below and enjoy..or not!
Labor Day Without Jobs: Exposing the "Job Creator" Fraud | Common Dreams
Just a day or two and the 11th anniversary of 9/11 will be upon us. It doesn't seem possible that it's been over a decade since that attack. Looking back, I remember getting a call from my daughter to turn on the TV....and there it was...an unbelievable picture of destruction and the loss of 3000 lives! I watched a great deal of TV that day and the days/weeks that followed, caught up in the drama of that spectacle, somehow not wanting to believe that it had actually happen.
