This is the start of what I hope to be a nice long series of small thoughts. Hopefully some of the ideas expressed in this new category "Thought of the Day" will be further expanded upon in later entries.

Remember September 11th:
On September 11th, 1973, Augusto Pinochet, with the backing of the CIA, led a coup in Chile -- overthrowing the democratically elected Salvador Allende. The US feared Allende because he was Socialist--even though Allende agreed with the Chilean Congress to uphold its constitution.