Happy New Year's Eve, truthluva. Some of our family just left for their homes after a laugh-filled evening. The only one headed to a party is 23-year-old grandson. I had to remind him to be careful. We all get concerned about drunk drivers on the road on this night.
While taking a few minutes to browse through previous posts of 2005, I want to thank you and others who recognized my honest intentions.
To put it briefly, there is plenty of evidence that the ALE would have liked to see the Natalee "incident" just fade away.
They soon learned that Natalee's family had a totally different viewpoint. They deserve our admiration...they have mine. What they have had to tolerate is shared by many of us to some degree. We can only put ourselves in their place.
I do remember TexKat...she put a lot of energy into Free Republic. Is she posting on some of the threads now?
As to trolls, I've certainly picked up that they are attracted to some threads, more than others, I guess. I certainly have been suspected and even accused of that. I finally decided to look up the word "troll" in Wikipedia, where I learned where suspicions originate, and also the attitudes of SOME long-time posters to a thread.
I understand initial wariness when someone pops in to disagree with accepted opinion of those who think alike, mostly, on a particular subject, such as the Natalee tragedy, or Terri Schiavo's murder, or others. While I have "learned" that I should not suggest what others should do, I'll stick my neck out here and say, "Ignore those posts". If they get no attention, they'll go away. But they DO get attention. They are given a reason to hang in and agitate.
While I may occasionally stop by to comment on someone's post (believe me, I am with you all on getting the SOB's involved with Natalee's disappearance), I don't need the nastiness and accusations I've received from a few posters on this thread, in one case, very recently.
She may figure she's won...she got rid of me. She just may think she did all of you a favor. That's on her.
I wish all of you a very Happy, Peaceful New Year. May your troubles be small ones and may you have lots of laughter!
happy new year's, IIntense, and everyone else, i'm moving into silence mode
and, freedumb, how do you define "last"? but the start "some chick goes out to get laid and gets dead" is a deliberate sucker punch to the regulars here, and are the kind of words people get cracked over the head with a cue stick over (even though we all admit in the new year that violence is wrong...very, very wrong) and i regret this is all electronic, my friend, because we really should speak face to face so i can clearly hear your tone as you say that again...natalee dead and jerks like you breathing air; its a funny world
Happy New Year to you as well. Sorry this is late. I have been off the computer for a few days.
Seems most all of us have the same goal...justice for Natalee. I find myself thinking about this all the time. I have a 23 year old daughter and a soon to be 20 year old son. I cannot imagine the horror Natalee's family is having to endure. I applaud their tenacity and pray they will get the answers they need.
But in communicating our ideas and opinions we often run upon those who either disagree or misunderstand. I can take the disagreements..up to a point. When it becomes personal I can give as good as I get. But in the long run I ususally chalk it up in the unimportant column and move on. I do like reading the different opinions I find here. It gives me a reason to look outside of my own little world a little bit more. I don't always find other opinions to have any more credence than mine own...but it does keep me thinking. hehe
I have not seen TexKat on the thread. She did have a post around Thanksgiving on a military thread...but nothing here. I miss her and wish she was able to return, but apparently her job has become a little more demanding.
I hope you will be sticking around. Even more I hope we will all be discussing the final chapter on this very soon. The family needs answers..and apparently so do we.
