February 12, 2006
Comments Are Back On
Comments are back on - for the moment. Argue with me all you like, but please be civilized.
Posted by Michael J. Totten at February 12, 2006 04:58 AMWelcome back from Iraq. Looking forward to your related posts!
Posted by: Shawn in Tokyo at February 12, 2006 06:13 AMI can't wait to read about your experience in Iraq.
I loved your post about Tunisia:)
Keep up the good work.
Welcome back from Iraq! Looking forward to reading about your experiences.
Posted by: Asher Abrams - Dreams Into Lightning at February 12, 2006 07:05 AMWelcome back, Michael!
It is always a pleasure to read you.
Posted by: Fabian at February 12, 2006 08:16 AMGood to hear your trip to Iraq went well. Looking foward to your posts. Have things quieted down any in Lebanon concerning the Danish cartoons? Or are the lunatics still on a rampage?
Posted by: markytom at February 12, 2006 09:04 AMWelcpme back man!
Posted by: Vox Populi at February 12, 2006 10:21 AMWelcome back Mike.
Posted by: Gab at February 12, 2006 10:45 AMWelcome back! Can't wait to hear your take on Iraq and a bunch of other things. Fire up the blog, yo ;)
Posted by: scotty at February 12, 2006 11:20 AMMichael-
Good to hear you are back safely.
On the subject of the comments, I hope you don't shut them down again if people get impolite.
That would be like refusing to show cartoons because a craven mob has threatened violence.
Posted by: Tommy at February 12, 2006 11:25 AMWelcome back and happy for your safe return. Looking forward to your reports.
Posted by: TmjUtah at February 12, 2006 11:41 AMCivilized comment: rabble rabble rabble...
Welcome back! Looking forward to reading about your visit to Iraq.
Posted by: BeckyJ at February 12, 2006 12:25 PMI'm really glad you're still safe; and I'm looking forward to more info about the Kurds. Especially their ideas of future independence vs. autonomy; and the re-occupation of Kirkuk.
Plus Lebanon, of course.
(I was hoping you would have some registration system to require real email addresses for your comments. I'm afraid some trolls will be finding you all too soon.)
Posted by: Tom Grey - Libertay Dad at February 12, 2006 12:57 PMMichael:
Have been following your postings, not commenting. That may change. Welcome back
So never made it down to Baghdad to see the newly liberated Iraqis, worried that they would be throwing flowers at you?
Posted by: sonic at February 12, 2006 03:42 PMGlad your back, Michael, safe and sound.
Eagerly awaiting your posts on Iraq!
And please ... don't bother wasting your time fretting over the comments. We are FREEEEE to move right along past the ones we may not like w/out launching jihad on anyone's arse.
Posted by: Natasha at February 12, 2006 06:51 PMWelcome back, Michael. With the light posting, I had a hunch you were in Iraq; glad to see my sixth sense is still going!
Any thoughts on the reconstruction efforts? here are some of mine:
http://ethanrepstein.com/blank.html
Posted by: Ethan R. Epstein at February 12, 2006 07:39 PMMichael,
Very non Middle East, but as a life long Oregonian, you must have heard about VanPort Oregon (Vancouver-Portland, get it?)(This is a Katrina related post)
In either 1946 or '47, before I was born, my parents and older brothers were living in a house on the Willamette River, off MacAdam Road in Portland. There was a flood that came up to their doorsteps, but destroyed a town called Vanport. This Vanport was located on the Oregon side NORTH of Jantzen Beach (talk about building on a flood plain!)on the banks of the Columbia. It apparently had a population of 25,00 people, and as late as the 1960's and '70, one could still see ghostly paved streets in neat little rectangles, but no houses or other buildings. Apparently, nobody ever tried to rebuild Vanport.
As a lifelong Oregonian, who therefore must have some Kevin Bacon, six degrees of separation connections to some Vanporlanders, what's your take on rebuilding the ninth Ward of New Orleans?
Warren
Posted by: Warren at February 12, 2006 10:28 PMMichael,
Very non Middle East, but as a life long Oregonian, you must have heard about VanPort Oregon (Vancouver-Portland, get it?)(This is a Katrina related post)
In either 1946 or '47, before I was born, my parents and older brothers were living in a house on the Willamette River, off MacAdam Road in Portland. There was a flood that came up to their doorsteps, but destroyed a town called Vanport. This Vanport was located on the Oregon side NORTH of Jantzen Beach (talk about building on a flood plain!)on the banks of the Columbia. It apparently had a population of 25,00 people, and as late as the 1960's and '70, one could still see ghostly paved streets in neat little rectangles, but no houses or other buildings. Apparently, nobody ever tried to rebuild Vanport.
As a lifelong Oregonian, who therefore must have some Kevin Bacon, six degrees of separation connections to some Vanporlanders, what's your take on rebuilding the ninth Ward of New Orleans?
Warren
Posted by: Warren at February 12, 2006 10:29 PMThis is very exciting! Good on you for making a trip very few of us would even contemplate.
Posted by: fish at February 13, 2006 01:24 AMMichael,
ATTENTION!!!!
Glad to hear you're back and all, but all things considered, announcing on your ruse on your blog is a spectacularly good way to degrade it's effectiveness in future. Think about the security, jefe.
Shoot me an e-mail, if you don't mind. Thanks!
Posted by: Bravo Romeo Delta at February 15, 2006 05:55 PMHoly smoke--real, honest-to-God, objective reportage.
You're no modern liberal, my friend; you're a Classical Liberal, a Jeffersonian Liberal even.
I hope that won't be construed as uncivilized.
It's intended as a compliment.
Posted by: Steven Brockerman at February 24, 2006 09:06 PM
