What are you doing this evening?
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What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?
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Terrible Anniversary
Dwain Northey (Gen X)
September 11, 2001, was a day that changed everything. Americans never knew a world of terror that other nations live with but on that day, terror was brought to our shores, and we could not ignore it anymore. 9/11 became more than the number that you would call in an emergency, it became a place in time that a generation would remember exactly where that where on that fateful day, much like 11/22/1963 or 12/7/1941, 9/11/2001 would become another reminder if tragedy.
This day everything changed, Airports became more secure, before 9/11 TSA wasn’t a thing. Long lines at Airports became the new normal, line that a generation have always know. 9/11 plunged the U.S. into a 20-year war, a war against people and countries that had no part in the atrocities of 9/11. Our war was against an idea, not a nation, terror had come to our shores and in reactionary retaliation we took terror to Iraq and Afghanistan. Our military might toppled Sadam Hussan and the infrastructure of Iraq and eventually killed the master mind behind the 9/11 attacks Osama Bin laden while ravaging a country that has seen war for hundreds of years Afghanistan.
The terror of 9/11 still lives with us with home grown terrorist and lacks gun laws, we fool ourselves that we can stop terror at the boarder or that it has a brown face… we can’t and it doesn’t.
Remember the tragedy…don’t replay it.
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We to often put professional athletes on a pedestal because they can catch or throw a ball, these individuals make millions of dollars for playing a game, something most of us would love to do. Often these idolized athletes are in reality really shitty people, some make efforts to give back but not enough of them for the opportunities and fortunes they have been given.
A few in the past have used their notoriety to advance a cause and those are the ones I respect.
Billie Jean King had spent the 1960s and early 1970s campaigning tirelessly for parity for women in sports, and in 1972, she turned her focus toward helping to pass Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in all federally funded school programs, including sports.
Muhammad Ali the heavyweight champion lost his title when he refused induction into the military during the Vietnam War. On April 28, 1967, reigning heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. military. “I claim to be exempt as a minister of the religion of Islam,” he said.
Many called Ali a coward but he stood up against an unjust war and was stripped of his title because of it but he didn’t back down.
I respect these to for the stand they took and using their gifts for the common good.
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Really don’t know how to relax… I just try to not take life so seriously.
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If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?
I would love to give up the F word but due to the pandemic of stupid in the world it is one of the only words that adequately portrays the feeling of frustration I have.
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Are you holding a grudge? About?
Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void 
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