I beg your pardon! It takes a FULL 100 years to make FULL century! Since the late 1700's we have been using the Gregorian Calendar which began with the year "1". 100 divided into a completed 1999 years only comes out to 19.99! We have to complete the year 2000 before a new century or a new millennium begin. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out; just a little common sense and a little math. Of course, we could all become like lemmings and do what everyone else does, even if it is incorrect. Count me out. I'll celebrate the millennium on December 31, 2000. Lois - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFHA] Apologies Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Misty...I, too, apologize for my message. It's just that it was not the new millinnium and I've reached the end of my line over this whole mess. Our various governments (that's you and me), big businesses (that's you and me with higher prices) and private citizens just spent BILLIONS of dollars celebrating something that technically didn't happen. We spent millions for police and national guard units to be out in force and left huge messes to be cleaned up at even more cost. Yet we are unable to feed the hungry and house the homeless. Does this make sense to you or anyone else? We may want to be through with a century that didn't set well, but why not end it with a good year of taking care of the schools that are falling apart and offering shelter for the homeless and food for the hungry? Upgrading our schools so that we no longer have children graduating from high school who can not read or write. We have a year to do some of these things. And, yes, I do some of them. I am a volunteer at the school and I collect for various causes. I've also worked in shelters. That's one of the reasons I cringe and get upset when folks claim the century is over and let's celebrate. What are we celebrating? That we can kill and neglect and subordinate everyone else? Lois - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- I wrote to Lois and told her that I agreed with her and that I was sending these copies out to my friends. She wrote me back to add this: When you send the messages, you might want to add that while we did indeed give everyone a "free" show last night, when it was over they still went back to sleep in their doorways with empty stomachs and could not read the "wonderful" news stories about the night because they were unable to read. I had a telephone call from a long-time friend in London early this morning (1:15 AM my time) and she said the very same things. So, it's not just in this country. She told me that London was absolutely filthy after the "celebration" and it made her sick when she realized how many people went hungry due to the cost of the evening's events. Let's do start a movement. I'm getting hyped just typing this. Thanks for the vote of confidence. I need it sometimes. Lois - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------ Friends, please let's get the word out and get some things changed so this time next year we will really have something to celebrate. I'm signing my name as in a petition to show I am willing to help to get things changed so that we may all have a better place to live. Will you sign up? Carol Lemons [email protected] ~ [email protected]