No. No. No. See, without the rest of you, this thread ceases to exist. Sticking a header up is nothing. Great researchers and wonderful people post here...and read here.
Look at this thread! I only restarted it. By no means could I do this by myself. Not to mention all the guys who put up threads all over this board that we link to from here. Not to mention all the freepmails I get from so many people.
I want everyone to understand this. This is FR History here. TM has been running continuously since 2003. Most of that, I had nothing to do with, but it is precisely Threat Matrix threads that brought me here. It was the reason I signed up on FR in the first place.
Before I put up the graphics on the last thread, I only posted rarely. But I read it all the time. So when I was asked to redesign the graphics, I was honored to do it. I still am. But this is NOT my thread and it never was. It belongs to the people who have stayed here and posted year after year.
I don’t know why some of the original posters left, but I sure wish they would come back because it’s worth it. It really is.
Ditto that Mesta. I have nothing but respect for everyone responsible for TM throughout the years and I miss some of the "oldies" tremendously as well. I realize some have dial-up issues with the graphics, but most of the thread is NOT graphics, it is articles and links. My FReeper FRiends (through the years to current) are always in my prayers.
Hookah cafe owners - ban will ruin us
It's after midnight inside a Dearborn café as Abu Tarek takes a puff off his hookah and exhales, curls of fruit-scented smoke wafting into the air.
"This is our culture," Tarek, 54, of Dearborn said. He elaborated on a recent night inside the newly opened Prestige Café & Grill: "We have to do this. If we drink coffee, we have to smoke it. If we eat, we have to smoke it. If we relax, we have to smoke it."
But that Arab tradition, in about 120 cafés across metro Detroit, could end now that Michigan's smoking ban has taken effect. The law bans establishments that offer hookah smoking from selling any food or beverages -- a move that owners say would effectively drive out hookah cafés.
Timeline - attacks on US targets
Obama bow to Saudi king led to Times Square plot
Snip: "He accepted the courtesy and even hugged Hosni Mubarak who is one of the most brutal dictators in the Muslim world," Scheuer continued.
"He bowed to the Saudi King when he was out there in Saudi Arabia -- showing his subservience," he concluded.