I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

A very, happy happy birthday Lassie....Have a wonderful day spent with people you love.

9-11 --- as usual Dh and I were watching the news when the broadcast broke away and started showing those pictures of the first plane hitting the Tower.   Of course, we too thought it was an accident and were immediately terrified about wounded and causalities.  Then.....seemed ( though I don't think it was really quite that short )  such a short time before the second building was hit.....and then the Pentagon building.  I think we were all in a daze ( had overnight company )  and just struggling to have some sort of normal feeling about anything that day. 

Jackie

edited to add.....omg --- I had forgotten about the wonderful Canadian hospitality. 

Jackie

Jackie

I had taken the day off work to go to the Western Washington Fair with my hubby.  I was in our study and hubby flicked on the TV.  I heard him in a very strange voice say "Yvonne, you need to come in here."  We spent the rest of the morning watching the events unfold over and over.  In the afternoon we took a long drive to decompress.  What I remember the most after that is seeing no airplanes in the sky for many days, as we used to lie in bed and watch their twinkling lights high above us heading for Sea-Tac.  Such a terribly sad day.

I just got an email, as we seem to be "not allowed" to use other people's screen names on this website, I thought

all who regularly post on this thread would want to know that a certain BELOVED LION is unable to sign on and has been sent an email that she is BANNED FOR LIFE?????

COULD THIS REALLY BE TRUE?  Have the terrorists really struck again, on page 911 of a Friendship thread?

You know, this is just soooo wrong - I am sooooo tired of certain people getting on here and "baiting" our regulars - BRING OUR LIONESS BACK!!!! As for being "banned by the community" - what community?  ENOUGH ALREADY!

Oh for crying outside.

I suppose we gave the one who dwells under a bridge what she wants by reacting.

Agree, HL, now what can we do about stopping it.  ABC News used to call it BULLYING.  Isn't it BULLYING to keep trying to get a thread that celebrates FRIENDSHIP, community for breast cancer survivors deleted by picking off women who are a vital part of that community???

If this were happening on a thread of friendhsip that focused on religion, lesbianism, catholicism, and those who did NOT support the themes of those threads be allowed to have posts they didn't like deleted?

THis is a FRIENDSHIP thread on a breast cancer SUPPORT board.  The BCO seems SO PROUD of the friendships that when members of THIS THREAD meet, they are given a HUGE BCO BANNER to stand behind as a symbol of how we all met.  

WHAT IS HAPPENING???? WHERE IS ATHENA???? AND WHO were the people who had her post removed?

We can't stop it, Sun. Only the Mods can. They have been much better at stopping it in recent years, after they hired more Mods. And they reminded the deleters a few pages back that they needed to STOP READING HERE if they didn't like the content. But apparently the deleters are unable to stay away. They want so very desperately to suppress this discussion (especially the liberal political part) that they will take every opportunity to do so. Like voter suppression, which seems to be something they might also support.



Only the Mods can fix this, unban Athena and punish the deleters. We are at their mercy. They cannot prevent the Elvira Gulches from riding their bicycles or brooms here to make trouble.



For our part, we ALL need to put them on ignore so that we don't respond to them at all. They thrive on the attention. I know there are people who don't want to put anyone on ignore, but it really is better that way. We will not bring light to their heads or their hearts. They do not hear what we have to say. They only hear the clanging of cymbals in their own heads. It is useless to engage them -- we know there are people like that, but we don't run out to a TeaParty rally to socialize with them or try to explain reality them. It's the same thing.



So, we wait to see what the Mods do.



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Sun, they have to eat dinner and tend to children and go to sleep, too. They aren't on 24/7, although it seems like it. I am sure they are aware (they get notified when a post is deleted by the "community") and will take the action they deem appropriate. I know it's terribly upsetting, Sun, but we have to wait for the Mods to fix it. We can't -- we can only express our unhappiness with this situation to the Mods.

OK -EXPRESSING UNHAPPINESS TO MODS!!!!   BRING BACK OUR LIONESS!!  

Oh, for crying out loud! This is beyond stupid - bring back Athrena and ban the deleters instead! No one is forcing them to come here and read in a thread that is NOT on the active list and that they obviously don't like. How can you allow them to come here and terrorize and bully fellow BC survivors? It is obscene, IMO, that this keeps happening.

It is BEYOND ironic that this attack on our freedoms happened on 9/11. 

Changed my avatar until Athena is back!!

I've written to the mods as well asking for Athena to be reinstated and for them to investigate the people who misuse the report button to bully and harass this thread.

I just note - that today, 9-11,  in the midst of our group of friends sharing our remembrances of where we were on 9-11, one of us is attacked by someone who doesn't like our political point of view and comes here, deliberately, knowing who we are and what we believe, but wanting to provoke us in a place where we thought we were safe.  Is it just me or is there something deeply ironic here? 

Ironic ... and worse.  Unfortunately some people are not self aware enough to see it.

Glenna ... 'the community' is other board members hitting the 'report this post' button because they don't like a post. 

I decided to make another contribution to Obama's campaign in honor of our favorite lioness.  Was the only thing constructive I could think of to do while we wait for the Mods.