{"id":6233,"date":"2016-09-11T05:20:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T05:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/11\/911-fifteen-years-after\/"},"modified":"2016-09-11T05:20:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T05:20:03","slug":"911-fifteen-years-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/11\/911-fifteen-years-after\/","title":{"rendered":"9\/11 Fifteen Years After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">And the nation&#39;s borders are still not secure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">The morning of 9\/11 was a beautiful, dry Arizona morning. &#0160;Back from a hard run, I flipped on the TV while doing some cool-down exercises only to see one of the planes crash into one of the towers. &#0160;I knew right away what was going on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">I said to my wife, &quot;Well, two good things will come of this: Gary Condit will be out of the news forever, and finally something will be done about our porous southern border.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">I was right about the first, but not about the second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Do you remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/attorneys-for-man-charged-with-killing-chandra-levy-say-gary-condit-has-history-of-aggressive-sex\/2016\/05\/19\/202a27c0-1dcd-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html\">Gary Condit<\/a>, the California congressmann? &#0160;Succumbing as so many do to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6RhWLEBCPWg\">the fire down below<\/a>, Condit initiated an extramarital affair with the federal intern, Chandra Levy. &#0160;When Levy was found murdered, Condit&#39;s link to Levy proved his undoing. &#0160;The cable shows were awash with the Condit-Levy affair that summer of 2001. &#0160;9\/11 put an end to the soap opera.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">But it didn&#39;t do &#0160;much for the security of the southern border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">We have one last chance,and his name is Donald Trump.<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; 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