[rugerman]

I have a friend in Derry with whom I'll be staying next month. He is worried about what I'll face there, so he wrote me to warn me of the current anti-American attitude that's getting to be common. He was the one who told me of the dancing in the streets when the shuttle went down. He wrote a letter to his local newspaper condemning the celebration. The fact that you didn't see it in no way changes the fact that it happened. As to what I said about the news reporting of the Palestinian situation and the "Free Yassir Arafat" demonstration, that's what I saw personally (two of my friends took part in it). Sorry if you have a problem with reality, unHappy, but your refusal to accept reality doesn't alter reality.

[MadIvan]

I have a friend in Derry with whom I'll be staying next month. He is worried about what I'll face there, so he wrote me to warn me of the current anti-American attitude that's getting to be common. He was the one who told me of the dancing in the streets when the shuttle went down. He wrote a letter to his local newspaper condemning the celebration. The fact that you didn't see it in no way changes the fact that it happened. As to what I said about the news reporting of the Palestinian situation and the "Free Yassir Arafat" demonstration, that's what I saw personally (two of my friends took part in it). Sorry if you have a problem with reality, unHappy, but your refusal to accept reality doesn't alter reality.

So your friends are loons. This is not representative of the Irish public as a whole.

Ivan