Sounds like Dineesh doesn't have internet access. That's where the information is these days. The mainstream media has virtually been absorbed by the government.

9/11 was contrived, and is being covered up by the people in power - with press compliance. This information of a false flag attack is easy to examine. It simply must be answered by any serious investigator.

Furthermore, Al-Qaida is an invention of the CIA, and does not exist as a worldwide terrorist organization. They are essentially cave men w/ cell phones. This information is also well documented.

Dineesh wrote a book that should be dismissed without further comment. He's obviously incompetent on the subject of the 9/11 false-flag attack.

That was in June of 1998, right after my 30 year high school reunion. I paid for a tutor and set aside regular practice time, bought OK equipment. I began with guitar, also studying music theory at the same time.

I added keyboards to my music studies on in 2000. In 2005, I added drumming and began seriously trying to sing better. Now - in 2007, I'm a drummer in a good sounding almost-sixty blues, rock band.

And I have recordings to prove it if you care to challenge me. Full disclosure - my lead and bass guitars have 65 years of music playing between them - so our sound and song catalog is because of them, not me.

I understand that only 4% of us are musicians. Most of us won't ever become musicians. Remember, if it wuz easy, everyone would do it.

My unbiased 7-step advice to an adult musical newbie follows.

A. If you can get through the first 18 months - the learning curve is steep - you are likely to make it.

B. Don't wait. Begin before you're ready. Since most folks won't want to play with you at first, be ready for that. It's as appealing as riding with new drivers.

C. Hire music tutors to keep you practicing until you can play well enough to join another musician you do not pay for practice time. This it the beginning of your band days.

D. Start hanging out with artists types (musicians) before you're good. That's how you get good. Tell them you're a musician-wannabe. No shame in that.

E. Be diligent. You can learn most of the chords in a year or so. It takes about four years to get the hang of the rhythyms (so many) and the intervals - the spacing between the musical notes. Not many intervals but they are important to understand.

F. Shorten this long learning period by a matter of months if you spend a long period in a monastary or prison, where all you do is practice music.

G. Once you're "into it", you become part of the local scene and nothing stops you - except maybe death. If you write good songs death won't get you either.

Bob Owen

Love the reggae riddims!

This guy is a dumbass when it comes to drugs. He's an "expert" because he was stoned all the time. No!

And you can raise kids to be what you want them to be anyway. Else, Mazis would raise Bazis, bigots would raise bigots, and men would be better boyfriends.

If you (Farhad) believe that steel was melted by burning aviation fuel, you're hardly qualified to write about technology. You've substituted belief for physics and facts.

I am a man of shallow belief. New evidence and better facts always sway me. That said, I still believed that malarkey (official story) for 5 years. I would not allow myself to believe that the administration could kill innocent Americans to affect a policy change. So much for the high road.

I now realize that the offical account cannot be true. Start your investigation with the physics - these laws cannot be broken.

Further, I predict you will be embarrassed (as I was) when you finally investigate.

Super Drivel! You were trying to come up with 500 words and got carried away? Don't waste time on crap like this, take the day off next time.

In a year you will vomit as you read the essay and the posted comments that appear to encourage such nuttiness.

Seinfeld was irrelevant and meaninglessness too, but he found ways to be entertaining and interesting.

My problem with sending money away is NOT the many good causes that need support. It's because good results are so few that cynicism is usually the only safe course.

In my own case, I support several where I know the folks in charge. My problem with donating to new and wonderful causes lies with the integrity of whomever I might send money to. Anyone will take my donation but, what then?

Money gathered for a good cause can soon become the point for a do-gooder's existence. The cause they organized for becomes valued mainly for its value as propaganda. Sadly and soon, resolving the "problem" they organized to oppose becomes worse for them than to keep a complaint to raise money with.

It'd be great if solutions, and "races for the cures" were so important that some actually got done. And once resolved, we supporters got a big thank you and a plaque. But we keep getting bugged for ever more money, then our names get spread to like-minded money gatherers who ask for other donations.

Best for most of us to hold back. Unless a moneyed investor can checkout the recipient and perhaps retain some clout; the most reasonable thing for us less-rich, high-minded types is to hang onto our money and watch the news. In most cases, we'll be happier for our circumspection than for having inadvertently donated to some ineffectual (or worse) agency.

Anti-slavery organizations must have evaporated after the Civil War. I wonder if they saw that coming.