Name... One Of The Greatest Posts, And One Of The Greatest Posters, You've Ever Seen/Met Here !!!

[kickysnana]

78. The Breaking news and analysis here was phenomenal.

During Katrina a post was started to document all information on the forced evacuation of NOLA and that post was used to to help Missing Persons, (that organization folded after Katrina), and that helped reunite hundreds scattered by the idiocy that was FEMA under Bush. An attempt was made to get a copy of the postal records for NOLA on the day of Katrina since records were disappearing daily during all disasters under Bush. That effort was written up in Discover Magazine a couple months later to document the power of the internet and networking by computer.

We had world wide sources within minutes. We were often ahead of the mainstream media by days, weeks and sometimes months.

Weeks before 911 we were told of the middle eastern pilots in American flight schools, that the FBI was aware of them, that there was a battle going on for the soul of American intelligence. The good guys lost as shown when longtime Mideast experts were let go for people who had not been in the Middle East for 15 or more years. One of the experts was managing security at the WTC at the time of 911. Maybe he thought they wouldn't try it if he were there.

There were boots on the ground at almost every breaking story. A lot broader cross section of people. You have to have pretty tough skin to post here now.

I was thinking of all this when the interview with President Carter and his opinion that Gore won the 2000 election. That is quite a statement for him to make and I am so grateful he did.

What I miss is that we managed to run the trolls off, do breaking research and were able post the truth even if it was not the party line. Nonsense was challenged or debunked without reverting to Jr High fighting. Not that it was perfect, we were trying to elect Democrats to save America not elect anyone who had a D beside his name even if what they wanted was outrageous (Rahm I am talking about you here.)