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We are rapidly approaching the 6th anniversary of 9/11. Of course that’s all in the news and you all know about it. Osama is purported to be relasing a new video commemorating the event and the media is preparing to give him his next 15 minutes of fame. I wonder, though, if we ignored his diatribes, didn’t report on his new video and gave him no notice at all, if we would see one next year. From what I’ve learned of operant conditioning (this is the method I use to train the dogs and the birds), when you ignore unwanted behavior, it will spike and then go away. So, by that “rule”, if we ignored this video, we would probably see other attention-grabbing behavior, but if that was also ignored, they would just go away. The main obstacle to this is those in the media who believe they HAVE to report on such….:roll:

I also heard (I think) that someone wants to make a memorial out of the building in which the guy who went on the rampage at Virginia Tech killed the most of his victims. I think this is wrong. Yes, there should be a memorial to those students, however, it should NOT be that building. Reason being, by using that building, everyting associated with it is now reduced to that single tragic event. All the good things that happened to all the people before and after that event will be reduced to footnotes which is very wrong as there were and will be undoubtedly many MORE wonderful, good (and bad) things that happen in that building than the single event of 32 people being killed. Why give this event – as tragic as it was – such power over us?

Well, I guess I need to get off my soapbox and get back to work.

Ya’ll have a wonderful day!

Love to all,

Margaret