<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post113516667261101370..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>37</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113566038630286383</id><published>2005-12-27T00:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-27T00:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>it seems obviously to comefrom the Ottoman SultanM...</title><summary type='text'>it seems obviously to come&lt;BR/&gt;from the Ottoman Sultan&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Mehmed or el-Fatih, &lt;BR/&gt;&quot;the Conqueror&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;it was quite common in those &lt;BR/&gt;times to be taken (or given) &lt;BR/&gt;as a slave by the Ottoman army.&lt;BR/&gt;notthatthat&#39;s how the name&lt;BR/&gt;came to be, but there&#39;s a hybridity there a seemingly&lt;BR/&gt;classic turkic-slavic name...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here we are and there we go!  Seems I&#39;m not the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113566038630286383'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113566038630286383'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135660380000#c113566038630286383' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 27, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113565955299329653</id><published>2005-12-26T23:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T23:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reader&#39;s Digest?  What in the heck!You know you ha...</title><summary type='text'>Reader&#39;s Digest?  What in the heck!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You know you have a fine mentor when you can read the look in his eyes at one of his seminars...the longest seminars...god they are long.  Most don&#39;t understand them but the RD is too long for this place...way too long and there is one better one for this purpose:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Irish Muslim Mo&#39;lasses from the Passes&lt;BR/&gt;(for Ogden Nash)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113565955299329653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113565955299329653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135659540000#c113565955299329653' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113565884349790460</id><published>2005-12-26T23:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-26T23:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ah...how nice.  What a nice thing to talk about.  ...</title><summary type='text'>Ah...how nice.  What a nice thing to talk about.   Us and the Jews.&lt;BR/&gt;Alexandria?  Why?  Hmm......&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What is missed by the average reader of the American variety is this:  Alexander the Great and his importance to muslims (even I cannot go into too much detail on the actual fine points).  What I can tell you is that next to the Islamic Empire, Alexander&#39;s empire is probably the most </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113565884349790460'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113565884349790460'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135658820000#c113565884349790460' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 26, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113545090744810087</id><published>2005-12-24T14:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-24T14:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>There&#39;s more than the, to me excessively brutal, c...</title><summary type='text'>There&#39;s more than the, to me excessively brutal, christian way of looking at justice. That&#39;s the sociological reason I like the crime novels of Tony Hillerman. There are, of course, many more literary reasons for that. But the wiew of law &amp; justice in them strikes me as profoundly human&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Peace to y&#39;all</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113545090744810087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113545090744810087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135450860000#c113545090744810087' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1490930370"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113544327290586892</id><published>2005-12-24T11:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-24T11:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, and Merry Xmas, and HH.  I have to turn off th...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, and Merry Xmas, and HH.  I have to turn off the internet for a couple of days.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m all for vegetarianism and for peace, but I want an army and a justice system (laws) to back it up.  It&#39;s not something that a person can get just by chilling.  It has to be a political arrangement and I think the Scandinavians have been the best at putting it together.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Peace to you in Taipei</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113544327290586892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113544327290586892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135443240000#c113544327290586892' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113544297354085780</id><published>2005-12-24T11:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-24T11:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Steve,I like the Buddhists.  I think their notion ...</title><summary type='text'>Steve,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like the Buddhists.  I think their notion of peace without an army doesn&#39;t work unfortunately.  It&#39;s left the Dalai Lama without a country and reduced the Buddhists in Vietnam to igniting themselves.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There is a strange corollary to this in Japan in that the warrior class did take up Zen.  I haven&#39;t studied this seriously.  I tried to read Iris Chang&#39;s book The Rape of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113544297354085780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113544297354085780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135442940000#c113544297354085780' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113543026384825441</id><published>2005-12-24T08:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-24T08:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t now the exact figure, but I would hazard a...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t now the exact figure, but I would hazard a guess that there are maybe 200 000 practicing jews in sweden. That would seem reasonable out of a population of 9 million. Most of them live in the bigger towns. I know some, hence my concept of only human. &amp;, once in my youth I was a practicing lutheran but, for the last twenty or so years I have felt closest to the zen buddhists.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113543026384825441'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113543026384825441'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135430220000#c113543026384825441' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1490930370"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 24, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113538888080334106</id><published>2005-12-23T20:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T20:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,This is all rubbish. [i say this with a smil...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is all rubbish. [i say this with a smile:) Where does Budhism fir in here? The most aethically beatiful religion. [no temple] has black, only bright colors. the true Budhist is a vegetarian.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;they do not practice genital mutialtion on either boys [circumcision] or girls.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;they do not believe in an end or a beginning [of the world]&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;steve frattali in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113538888080334106'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113538888080334106'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135388880000#c113538888080334106' title=''/><author><name>steveintaipei</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113537674285346676</id><published>2005-12-23T17:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T17:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The 10 Commandments.God gave it to Moses, a Jew.Th...</title><summary type='text'>The 10 Commandments.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;God gave it to Moses, a Jew.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s only the second greatest gift.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The greatest is His son -- Jesus.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He&#39;s the wry Jewish leaven in the world&#39;s lumpenproletariat.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I see all the world&#39;s better countries as coming out of the law that is inscribed in the ten commandments and as leavened by Jesus.  The reason the first world is the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113537674285346676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113537674285346676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135376700000#c113537674285346676' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113537522899398562</id><published>2005-12-23T17:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T17:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I can&#39;t for the life of me see why jews are any be...</title><summary type='text'>I can&#39;t for the life of me see why jews are any better or worse than people of any other faith. Yes, they have been treated worse than most, up until 1948. As for Israel, that&#39;s an entirely different thing. Israel &amp; the U.S. are school-book examples of what the U.S. government said that a terrorist organisation is, in a list published shortly after september 2001. I will look for the link. It </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113537522899398562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113537522899398562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135375200000#c113537522899398562' title=''/><author><name>Lars Palm</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18014279624033048950</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1490930370"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113537407001767457</id><published>2005-12-23T16:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T16:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I&#39;ve always been on the side of Israel eve...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I&#39;ve always been on the side of Israel even as a boy.  That&#39;s the reason I&#39;m for Bush -- he&#39;s going to defend Israel.  The Democrats aside from Lieberman will not do it they will look the other way.  Almost all the really brilliant neo-cons are Jewish -- Podhoretz, Horowitz, etc.  The reason is Israel to a great degree.  That&#39;s the reason Lieberman supports Bush, too.  And it&#39;s the heavy </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113537407001767457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113537407001767457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135374060000#c113537407001767457' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113536864798824149</id><published>2005-12-23T15:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T15:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, you terrify ME!  But I can identify with th...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, you terrify ME!  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I can identify with the sense of nationalism upon resuming home base.  I had that same feeling when I came back from Japan in 1986.  A weird feeling for the schmaltzy cultural archetypes--Copland&#39;s bugle cadenzas, O&#39;Hara&#39;s New York epiphanies (&quot;my heart is in my pocked&quot;), the Grand Canyon on a clear day, the whole Grant Wood cliche--astonished myself that I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113536864798824149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113536864798824149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135368600000#c113536864798824149' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113533792559433889</id><published>2005-12-23T06:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-23T06:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with Michale Peverett...love Sebald by the...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with Michale Peverett...love Sebald by the way..check him out [if your bored at first, as I was, give it time...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;steve in taipei</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113533792559433889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113533792559433889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135337880000#c113533792559433889' title=''/><author><name>steveintaipei</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113528506874416363</id><published>2005-12-22T15:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T15:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hahahaha.  You win.May someone very like Chookie M...</title><summary type='text'>Hahahaha.  You win.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;May someone very like Chookie McCall come into your life.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113528506874416363'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113528506874416363'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135285020000#c113528506874416363' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113528368702150745</id><published>2005-12-22T15:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T15:34:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Joe, I will tell you that the only time I even not...</title><summary type='text'>Joe, I will tell you that the only time I even noticed that I was in the disco era was a SoCal dude who showed up at Evergreen State with a twirling ball and tried to introduce it to the hippies.  He put on a huge party between the dorms -- this might have been 1978 or so -- and got all these people (perhaps two dozen) in granny dresses and bluejeans to line up.  I watched it in amazement from my</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113528368702150745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113528368702150745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135283640000#c113528368702150745' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113528326546350282</id><published>2005-12-22T15:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T15:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m glad to see he can write comic as well as Sara...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m glad to see he can write comic as well as Sarajevo Blues. Thanks for highlighting him. I enjoyed the excerpts.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;One way to distinguish your mother tongue is to figure out which tongue you count coinage in most naturally.&quot;  - Gorgeous turn of phrase, Kirby.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And Curtis, I read to hope. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sometimes I hope to silence myself with awe and understanding with a piece of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113528326546350282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113528326546350282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135283220000#c113528326546350282' title=''/><author><name>Pearl</name><uri>http://www.pagehalffull.com/humanyms/</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113527460079988961</id><published>2005-12-22T13:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T13:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby, you heard about Dime Box, Texas from me.  O...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby, you heard about Dime Box, Texas from me.  Old Dime Box and New Dime Box.  No-one reads Reader&#39;s Digest in either of these towns.  I see you want to get in touch with the people though so maybe you need to get on the road.  Hitchhiking still possible -- at my advanced age I hitched just last year down Highway 61 then west to Californio.  Get on Route 30 (you can find it if you go south from</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113527460079988961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113527460079988961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135274580000#c113527460079988961' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113527081180695535</id><published>2005-12-22T12:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T12:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Rosmarie Waldrop is German and lived in Germany un...</title><summary type='text'>Rosmarie Waldrop is German and lived in Germany until she was ten so I guess you could say that she has very consciously chosen to work with a second language and is driven by that. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The classical writer who ought to be named here is Conrad - it still seems unbelievable that his English was learnt. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Mehmedinovi?&#39;s method of relocating but writing poetry in his mother tongue </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113527081180695535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113527081180695535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135270800000#c113527081180695535' title=''/><author><name>Michael Peverett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17090710369630916194</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-566691718"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113526920457966132</id><published>2005-12-22T11:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T11:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reader&#39;s Digest is a very widely read journal -- a...</title><summary type='text'>Reader&#39;s Digest is a very widely read journal -- and I think it&#39;s wrong to not want to know what everyone is thinking about in the country -- there are articles on Hispanic gangs in Alexandria, an interview with Dolly Parton, the voacabulary builder (I was able to clarify what &quot;orotund&quot; meant, at last), fifty ideas for cutting weight, and then of course Life in these United States, and Humor in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113526920457966132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113526920457966132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135269180000#c113526920457966132' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113526916264587035</id><published>2005-12-22T11:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T11:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Kirby:  Thank you very much for characterizin...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Kirby:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thank you very much for characterizing me as an ethnic cleanser.  Ajax--which used to delight me during the 1950&#39;s, in the heyday of Madison Avenue--the &quot;foaming cleanser&quot; (&quot;bo-bo bo-bo-bo bo&quot; &quot;down the drain&quot;)-- promised to whisk away all the undesirable scum and slime from the world.  I suspect all the bad and dirty people of the world, who do not believe in your god and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113526916264587035'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113526916264587035'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135269120000#c113526916264587035' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113526340504372074</id><published>2005-12-22T09:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T09:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>But, Kirby, I believe your time has passed -- hopi...</title><summary type='text'>But, Kirby, I believe your time has passed -- hoping for that &quot;conservative&quot; revolution.  Your new King has, well, overreached and he&#39;s going down.  His minions with him.  They were simply too ignorant, cruel, and stupid to do what they wanted and make it last.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113526340504372074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113526340504372074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135263360000#c113526340504372074' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113526303166597622</id><published>2005-12-22T09:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T09:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Damn -- Allen Ginsberg obscure in 50 years. Englis...</title><summary type='text'>Damn -- Allen Ginsberg obscure in 50 years. English departments gone wild.  Art reconciled to late capitalism.  Dana Goia triumphant and Adorno scorned.  And even the Bard a bit diminished.  Oh, brave new world!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113526303166597622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113526303166597622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135263000000#c113526303166597622' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113524545033303248</id><published>2005-12-22T04:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-22T04:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>interestin post mr s.but for some reasonit was the...</title><summary type='text'>interestin post mr s.&lt;BR/&gt;but for some reason&lt;BR/&gt;it was the poet&#39;s last name&lt;BR/&gt;that was the most fascinating&lt;BR/&gt;detail in the whole bit 4 me..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;it seems obviously to come&lt;BR/&gt;from the Ottoman Sultan&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Mehmed or el-Fatih, &lt;BR/&gt;&quot;the Conqueror&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;it was quite common in those &lt;BR/&gt;times to be taken (or given) &lt;BR/&gt;as a slave by the Ottoman army.&lt;BR/&gt;notthatthat&#39;s how the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113524545033303248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113524545033303248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135245420000#c113524545033303248' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 22, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113521431847317052</id><published>2005-12-21T20:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-21T20:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,I&#39;m afraid, perhaps, that maybe it really is...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m afraid, perhaps, that maybe it really is about time for some serious mainstreaming (I hope that I&#39;ve escaped the pejorative sense here) of alternatives to an &quot;English Department&quot; as such.  Rhetoric and Composition have become more substantial forces in the academy for good reason--they present themselves as practical.  I&#39;m a firm believer in the practicality and necessity of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113521431847317052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113521431847317052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135214280000#c113521431847317052' title=''/><author><name>rnsl</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08023865396496186739</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-512107352"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 21, 2005"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113521427565880524</id><published>2005-12-21T20:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-21T20:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I thought the day might never come when someone wo...</title><summary type='text'>I thought the day might never come when someone would finally make a reference to the venerable Mr. Rod McKuen on Silliman&#39;s Blog.  Indeed, what a fine day to imbibe!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113521427565880524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/113516667261101370/comments/default/113521427565880524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html?showComment=1135214220000#c113521427565880524' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2005/12/eight-days-after-september-11-2001.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-113516667261101370' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/113516667261101370' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-846577922"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 21, 2005"/></entry></feed>