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5000 books: half done

The Merritt  Public library is half way through their book sale, 50 cents for paperbacks 1 dollar for  hard cover. There are books such as the 2011 Writers Market, 2012 Martins Criminal Code, Strong’s concordance and a Copy of Emily post written by her daughter Elizabeth L..  As well popular pocket books are arranged in the multi purpose room on six tables, titles include Clear and Present Danger  by Tom Clancy, The Shadow Isle, Katherine Kerr, My Sister’s Keeper,Jodi Picoult and Judas Kiss , J.T. Ellison. A full table of children’s hard cover books are also available.

Magazines are 10 cents.

The book sale goes till the 23th of March, it started on the 12th with 10,000 books withdrawn from 13 district libraries.

Imelda Marcos goes on trial in the Philippines for bribery, embezzlement and racketeering

Today in history: March 20, 1987

911, mondays post…….

The radiation warning symbol (trefoil).

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Opinion:

The tenth anniversary of the terror attack on the U S involved thousands of people who were affected by it . The backlash also killed hundreds of thousands in the middle east and changed the world.

Some comfort comes out of the knowing that the world is somewhat neutered since. And the fact that   hatred is near exhausted and  its resolve never was strong enough to enable  use of weapons of mass destruction.This is a credit to those in the security job that was before and after. Though the ability to use the airliners as delivery vehicles is a threat, a secure cockpit and a fail-safe policy to never opening a cockpit to anyone in flight or before would be a reasonable diligence to keep going forward. A sense of civil liberty to the general public would be a desirable thing going forward also. And  a healing that includes understanding  to all that lost without justifying  why.This may  help the survivors. Common ground  is for those of us that have a civil life. To those that have to protect that right a different world view is a daily job and career which may never be fully put down.

Today in history, Sept 12th 2007

Philippines President Estrada convicted of  the crime of plundering.

editors note:  Democracy  depends on an informed citizenry especially at election time, critical thinking skills and awareness is a duty of all of us to keep each other safe and keep up our freedom. On the other end of the scale reliance on rulers for security can result in the great game and ordinary people left out till something like this happens. You decide were your personal duty lies and were to draw the line…..