[Robert Teesdale]

Do you have another question? Welcome to FreeRepublic.

Here on FR, it's considered bad form to post a vanity topic (i.e. your own question) in Breaking News. Had you posted this in Chat or Bloggers/Personal, you'd have gotten less flak from people. It's also considered proper to include (Vanity) in the title of your thread, if it is a personal question or rant.

[ThinkWithJohn]

Thank you for the education. Sorry everyone for by-passing the rules. I am new here and didn't mean any offense. I am not part of a democrat underground, I am an independent though and I believe in loyalty to the truth over loyalty to any politcal party so if I am welcome to participate with that up front, I would like to stay. I seriously just wanted to hear what people thought about the question I raised because it's the one thing about 9/11 that I haven't been able to reconcile. Thanks. Peace. John.

[chesley]

Well, I'm IATZ, but I'd like to reply to your comment. A newbie is unlikely to have absorbed all the rules. I know that when I was new here, I posted a vanity in Breaking News, that at least one person thought was ZOTable. I asked if DU was actually good for FR, and I made the case that it was.

This seems to have struck some people's antennas. However, if they had read the post. They would have realized that the post was not at all complimentary to DU. The Mods moved it to the appropriate forum, and here I still am.

Of course, it wasn't my very first post on my very first day, either. My point is sometimes you learn the rules by breaking them first. What do they say, "Experience is a hard school, but fools will learn in no other". I learned.