Got home safe, myself. I got a 5:09 train to Trenton, and was in NYC by 7:45. It's a very easy trip to take!
I had a great time this Thanksgiving - sorry I was in a bad mood on Saturday morning...
It was fun planting the trees and hiking Gettysburg - Hannah's Swamp Tours will become a phenomenon, I predict!
That abandoned trolley grade near Devil's Den was cool, too.
We can definitely put wish lists up on Amazon - we might have to show Dad how it works...
It was good talking politics etc. with you H, on the car trip back. Here is the link to the article about Bush winning 97 of the 100 fastest-growing counties in the U.S.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-fast22nov22,0,6617098,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines
(The 3 he didn't win are: Clark County, NV (i.e., Vegas), Chatham, N.C. (Kerry was leading by 5 votes) and Nantucket.)
Dad: the Fallujah story I was referring to wasn't in the CSM, but in the Times of London, a link here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1359782_1,00.html (title: "Mujahidin terrorised Fallujah, residents say")
Here's one quote:
"Such is the fear that the heavily armed militants held over Fallujah that many of the residents who emerged from the ruins welcomed the US marines, despite the massive destruction their firepower had inflicted on their city."
Later in the article:
"The same story of arbitrary executions was told by another resident, found by US troops cowering in his home with his brother and his family."

[Update 12:45 - Here's an interesting analysis in The Australian: "WMDs camouflage real reasons behind Iraq invasion". Link here: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,11498606,00.html ]

Interesting things ignored by much of the media...

Anyway, not to bring politics back into it...
I had a great time, guys!

C

- posted by Christoph Roggenkamp @ 11/29/2004 11:49:00 AM