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Posted on 12/31/2009 10:06:46 AM PST by Velveeta
Ian Oh Ian! I’m so sorry about your mother Ian. I stopped celebrating NYE because my mom passed 20 minutes before midnite. 12 years later I still can’t cope. I go under the covers before 11pm
PLEASE post your article link here honey. We are so proud of you. We watched you grow up here and accomplish SO MUCH!
This is ALWAYS your home Ian! We all disappear for various reasons. No one is mad when we come back just glad!
You still with Brookings? In DC?
My goodness, thank you for posting that, I had NO idea. You see, in so many articles I've read there is some neighborhood in Minneapolis or the Twin Cities that is where the FBI is investigating about 20 youths, actually factually young youths who vanished and went to Somalia.
I knew there were lots of Somalis in Maine, but had NO idea that it is considered the real 'hot' spot.
YIKES.
Thank you so much for the link to this website.
As I see it, it’s a very healthy obsession!
Is the Girls Scout motto *Be Prepared*...or is that the Boy Scouts’? Whatever, it still applies!
My pleasure Hennie...and happy New Year to you too!
Soon we will have these communities all over our country, and we will have to take them back AFTER we get rid of Obama.
Thanks for the kind words. It happened at the very beginning of the year... I was sort of in a fog after that till a few months ago. She was much to young, only 56.
I do wish she was still around, I know she would be happy with how things have progressed.
I got my first “official” quote in the media a few weeks ago — it was pretty exciting!
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2009/1215/Pakistan-suicide-attacks-spike-but-overall-attacks-are-down
Again, I do feel really bad for disappearing. I wanted to stop in during the Zazi saga but was worried people would be angry that I left without notice. I guess I should have known that TM folks are kind and forgiving in addition to so much else.
The piece will be in the op-ed section, it covers all three wars and the progress — or lack thereof in each.
My main projects are indices of each country... I just transitioned into the job during the last month or so but have been wrapped up in it since October.
It is interesting getting paid to go to work and read things I am fascinated by and also sobering to have the daily reminders of how much has been given to try to create a safer world.
http://www.brookings.edu/foreign-policy/afghanistan-index.aspx
http://www.brookings.edu/foreign-policy/pakistan-index.aspx
http://www.brookings.edu/saban/iraq-index.aspx
Thanks. :)
It is troubling to see the increase in both domestic and foreign terrorists trying to attack us recently. It’s probably only a matter of time before one gets through.
Sorry to hear about your loss, it seems 2009 was not the best year for many people.
Regarding the NYT.. my dad said the same thing! Our research is pretty unbiased I think, we mostly just look for the facts and report what they mean.
Hi JP! It is rough, the 1 yr anniversary has me thinking about it a lot again. I guess I try to take solace in the fact that it has happened to many people, and I try to focus on the good times and what she taught me.
I am still in DC and still with Brookings. As noted, I recently became a Senior Research Assistant, working for our top defense analyst.
I will be sure to stay in touch as much as possible.
My Mom was 84. Not quite the same. You Mom was way too young. I know you miss her terribly, but comfort yourself with her memories. She raised a really fine son.
Welcome home.
LOL
Your mom was way too young today; however, do remember that we are all headed to precisely the same destination, but that some people have clocks which are ticking faster than the rest of us --- indeed, I often believe in that old adage that the GOOD, they die young; it seems to happen too often that way. I lost my two longest term friends last year, it is a SHOCK to the system, even when one knows beforehand, when it is not a sudden out of the blue death.
PLEASE be sure to take care of YOU, and I hope that you'll have time to stop by occasionally --- I really miss reading your contributions on the WEATHER threads, you got me interested in meteorology in my old age,LOLOL
Well I didn’t miss you a bit having just come on board this week...so Hello! Cw here...and what a great place to be kept abreast of things as they develope.
There will also be times I will not be as active on this site as I am now...hopefully people here understand that life gets in the way of our best intentions...Freepers above all else understand this I think.
So Hello again, looking forward to seeing your posts as you jump in and out! Life can make one feel like a ping-pong ball..so we bounce do we not?
The whole thing sounds like a test run (well, im sure he hoped it would work) to me. They did the same thing before the foiled Bojinka plot. The good news is these guys are mostly inept it seems.
Makes me stop and think hard, your Mom was my age. Last Dec 29th, my lifelong friend and her hubby, friend since our hippy-dippy days in CA (30 years) (I got stories lol) both were killed in a car wreck on their way to their local DAV, as both were very active. He a VET from ‘Nam and her a chaplin. I don’t like the period of 12-29 to 2-1 very much at all. Two of my brother’s died the beginning of Feb., as did my Dad. I’d like to say it gets easier, it doesn’t BUT the emotions get more manageable. She is lucky you loved her so. My son doesn’t even miss me since I left Chicago
My mom was 83 and it sucks being an orphan, even at our ages
This is too coincidental!!!
So far...
Pssst... ICU
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