I'll be here! I love these threads. And, yes, we do have differing opionions, but that's what makes us great. As for contentious, I don't know if you were on some of the hurricane threads last year, but it was war a couple of times! :-) We haven't gotten to that, and hope we don't.
Yes...I was on the Katrina threads..
This thread has been the best LIVE long term thread I have been on...IF a disagreement comes up...it usually just as quickly disappears.
This is a MATURE thread...and all of us have one "goal" -- for Israel and by extension America to survive the terrorism war.