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"America has not yet felt the total impact of the blow we took on 9-11. The reverberation has yet to return. If we do not ready ourselves for the second shock, WE as America WILL FALL."

"America has not yet felt the total impact of the blow we took on 9-11. The reverberation has yet to return. If we do not ready ourselves for the second shock, WE as America WILL FALL."

Voluntary .xxx Domain "for Responsible Companies" 8/23/2005 1:12:00 PM Just how responsible can pornographers be? The latest proposal for new website domains is (dot) xxx, which would theoretically distinguish these websites from others as being pornographic. The Bush administration is objecting to the creation of a dot xxx domain, and Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary at the Commerce Department, has asked for a hold to be placed on the contract to run the new top-level domain until the .xxx suffix can receive further scrutiny. Gallagher stated, "The Department of Commerce has received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails from individuals expressing concern...

Factchecks timeline of events says about 5 hours after Katrina hits land; "Late Morning (exact time uncertain) - The vital 17th Street Canal levee gives way, sending the water from Lake Pontchartrain into the city in a second, slower wave of flooding. A full day will pass before state or federal officials fully realize what is happening. —John McQuaid, " Katrina trapped city in double disasters ," New Orleans Times-Picayune , 7 Sep 2005. Eventually, engineers will find five separate places where concrete floodwalls gave way. They will still be debating and studying the causes of the failures two weeks...