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I see by some comments your blog is thought of as overkill. I fear it is not... You are absolutely right: the terrorists are keeping us on edge and suspicious. I'm not speaking of Muslim suicide bombers. Our home-grown, right-wing moralistic, my way or the highway Christian fanatics are the scary ones. They are why some folks are stand-offish and suspicious of independent thinkers. I hope you'll be able to reclaim your left ballock on your return flight...:) pat
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Pat_B
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July 26, 2005
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Fairy...
...nuff - but I won't hold my breathe!
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
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July 18, 2005
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Hey, who knows?
A tornado may pick me up and deposit me in the Chicago area (it has happened before that people are picked up and dropped, unharmed, by a tornado).
If that happens, I shall say it was fate that brought two blogging buds together. 
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Dylan24
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July 17, 2005
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Dylan...
...thanks, mate!
I suspect I'll be stuck in Chicago, if the job does materialise at all. No chance of you getting over there, is there?
D
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DamonLeigh
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July 17, 2005
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By the way...
in case I did not make my point clear, I'm saying
yes, come to America! If you should happen by Baltimore, give me a ring and I'll show you what our great (and very liberal, anti-Bush, highly-taxed for the rich and well-serviced for the poor) state has to offer!
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Dylan24
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July 16, 2005
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Damon ,
just as we let the terrorists win by restricting our liberties, you would, I feel, let the Bush "regime" win by staying away from the country. You could say you let them win by submitting to their security measures, but I think you let them win more when you let it affect your travel plans. This is still a really great place. I don't sense the oppression you sense here, but maybe that's because this is all I know. Just last week, I read columns in The New York Times that, respectively, told Mr. Bush to "back off" on assisted suicide and accused the same of federal crime (in revealing the name of an undercover CIA officer). Their careers are not in jeopardy, much less their lives. Bloggers and chat-room participants routinely accuse Bush of planning the 9-11 attacks, being a war criminal, etc. and they are safe. I can understand why people might perceive that there is an atmosphere of repression here, and I'm reluctant to dismiss such concerns out of hand, so I keep a watch on it. But while the Patriot Act had some scary provisions (which many Republicans in Congress are now pushing to limit and let expire), the most egregious violations have been against Arab men evidently involved in Islamist militancy (although many of them have been innocent, and released -- a real "regime" would never have acknowledged their innocent and released them. Then again, it's also fair to say an optimal democracy would never have jailed them in the first place.) My point is, there have been no major abrogations of civil liberties, especially press and religious freedoms, since 9-11. While a Muslim cleric was sentenced to jail for urging jihad, and a journalist to jail for not revealing her confidential source, these cases remain exceptional. Our freedoms are too heavily entrenched for even this lamentably authoritarian-minded administration to make a big dent in them. Now, if they stay in power much longer, who knows?
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Dylan24
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July 16, 2005
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JanesOpinion...
...it may be different now, and it may vary from place to place. But my opinions are based on actual experiences in 2003 in the Mid west.
Thanks for reading.
D
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DamonLeigh
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July 16, 2005
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Ca88andra...
...thanks for this, lovely!
D x
posted by
DamonLeigh
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July 16, 2005
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I think your comments on the status of things here . . .
could be thrown into the "overkill" category, but to each his own opinion.
Either way, good luck.
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JanesOpinion
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July 14, 2005
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I could certainly tell you something about mismanaged meetings...lol! Yes I'm tired and grumpy and over meetings at the moment. As for your dilemma - go with your gut feeling. If you don't feel happy inside, it will nag at you forever.
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Ca88andra
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July 14, 2005
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