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07-14-2008 #281Originally Posted by trish
From what I've seen, there isn't a shred of evidence that the conspiracy of 9/11 extended outside the 19 guys who managed to capture 4 airliners with nothing but a couple of plastic knives & a bunch of chutzpah. I'm not even convinced that binLaden had anything to do with it. His name was leaked to the press between the second plane & the collapse of the first tower, & it's been assumed ever since that he was the "mastermind" behind the attack. Based on what? If there's a US government conspiracy involved with 9/11, it's the propaganda campaign that got us into Afghanistan & is still in full swing from all sides of the political spectrum.
Occam's razor is also a meme.
As for how the towers fell: You see this style of collapse in earthquakes. But that's caused by intense vibration at ground level that creates a sudden settling & collapses the floors from beneath. That starts the chain reaction that brings the top down to squash the whole structure. Syncronized explosions work the same way. The WTC collapse had the same characteristics. That's what leads me to believe that it was vibration more than heat that caused the collapse. Heat dissapates, but vibration would transfer all the way down from the point of impact & even increase in intensity on the way. If there were flaws in the foundation, a violent shaking from the top would exploit them. There was just too much steel to melt with burning kerosene to convince me that it was the fire that brought down the buildings. The elevator shaft was concrete, a natural insulator. The outside was an exoskeleton. The buildings were wrapped in vertical structural steel posts.
Anyway, phew. This can go on & on, can't it? There's always going to be those who see conspiracies everywhere. I can't buy into it because I can't give that much credit to people I know aren't any smarter than I am. Some of the speculations are so outlandish that you'd need alien technology to pull them off. Of course if you mention that to the theorist, they just stare blankly & say "Uh huh... Yeah?" That's when you want to go looking for a butterfly net. Here's one that has deep tunnels running under the Grand Canyon. Geezle!
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Bases.html
So back to the original topic?
Nah! Guns have been talked to death. It's gonna be a while before we see if this latest pontification from the SCOTUS has any impact whatsoever. Wake me up if some bozo blows Scalia away with his/her newly legal gun.
So... How about those trilateralist illuminatis in the CFR?
"You can pick your friends & you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off on your saddle."
~ Kinky Friedman ~
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07-14-2008 #282
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Originally Posted by hippifried
Oh shit, so am I!
Alright Then.
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07-14-2008 #283
Wow all the way from gun ownership to the twin towers.
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07-14-2008 #284
House Keeping
Originally Posted by sexyshana
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07-14-2008 #285
House Keeping
Originally Posted by sexyshana
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07-14-2008 #286
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Any thoughts?
"...I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."_Alice Munro, Chaddeleys and Flemings.
"...the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way". _Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy's, BLOOD MERIDIAN.
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07-14-2008 #287
House Keeping
Originally Posted by sexyshana
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07-14-2008 #288
House Keeping
Originally Posted by sexyshana
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07-14-2008 #289
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Originally Posted by Oli
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Poe
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07-17-2008 #290
What does the house keeping post mean?
Sean
Just one more nice guy finishing last...