Dear Stubborn,
It happened again on August 8, 2023, in Lahaina on Maui:  2,000 children unaccounted for in school district of over 3,000 students, plus untold homeless, tourists, shoppers yet to be identified.

See CI post:  "Proof Maui Fire Caused by MASER=Directed Energy Weapon", 9/4/23.

Attached is what Maui locals have been saying which contradicts that.

As for 9/11 happening today: knowing US foreign policy in 2023, we probably just bomb Afghanistan and create even MORE instability in that region. Somehow. Afghanistan has always about as stable as your friendly neighborhood unemployable alcoholic. It can't get much worse.

Disagreed. Biden has shown every willingness to sacrifice American interests. Afghanistan itself is actually the ultimate example of that, and is one of the largest weapon transfers in US military history, even greater than what was seen in Vietnam and other abandoned US allies. An attack like 9/11 on US soil would be the perfect opportunity for Russia, China and other anti-American forces to make a stronger case for their alternatives and the failure of American deterrence as a guarantee of the Postwar peace.

Regarding that screenshot Minnesota posted --

It strikes me as bizarre to keep using the Hawaiian word for "children" as if there's some untranslatable nuance in the Hawaiian word "Keiki" or something. Why not just say "children" being as 99.2% of that post is in English already?

I've never seen that before, where a foreign speaker just insists on using a certain noun of his native tongue, despite writing paragraphs of English, and there being nothing special (untranslatable) about the particular noun he can't part himself from.

Regarding that screenshot Minnesota posted --

It strikes me as bizarre to keep using the Hawaiian word for "children" as if there's some untranslatable nuance in the Hawaiian word "Keiki" or something. Why not just say "children" being as 99.2% of that post is in English already?

I've never seen that before, where a foreign speaker just insists on using a certain noun of his native tongue, despite writing paragraphs of English, and there being nothing special (untranslatable) about the particular noun he can't part himself from.

It is weird. Probably a Hawaiian quirk that us mainlanders do not get.

Texana: I agree.

Regarding that screenshot Minnesota posted --

It strikes me as bizarre to keep using the Hawaiian word for "children" as if there's some untranslatable nuance in the Hawaiian word "Keiki" or something. Why not just say "children" being as 99.2% of that post is in English already?

I've never seen that before, where a foreign speaker just insists on using a certain noun of his native tongue, despite writing paragraphs of English, and there being nothing special (untranslatable) about the particular noun he can't part himself from.

¿Can you say, "May-he-ko"?

Even if it is only one word that the writer knows how to use, there is nothing at all bizarre about a token effort to keep a living language alive (although that may not be his reasoning.)  After all, Hawaii was taken in a coup d'etat by the U.S., was it not? Viva la difference!

Now just imagine what the Japanese would have done if they had taken the island. Worse still, try to imagine what the Chinese would be willing to do. Some of the smarter Africans are learning to love the white man, but it's far too late. Hawaii is an important strategic position and requires imports to maintain modern living standards, so it was never going to be independent.