To Be Announced...

--UPDATED BELOW--

It's amazing to me that someone like Rosie O'Donnell has such a high-paying gig hosting a national television program when she is clearly a moron...


Just as they did to the other 9/11 conspiracy idiots, Popular Mechanics has responded to her charges that clearly demonstrate she's a moron.

To say, "it is the first time in history that fire melted steel" is complete lunacy. How is steel made? Hmmm....

Besides, it wasn't "melted"...it was weakened.

Very simply put, as I did with the whole 9/11 conspiracy...

The fact there are no leaks, no missing persons, no "whistleblowers"...for 5-years leads me to believe that it's no conspiracy. When we can't even keep phone taps of international terrorists out of the newspaper, how in the world do you explain the lack of leaks on a conspiracy to blow up the World Trade Centers?

UPDATE:

While my response to the lunatics who believe 9/11 was an inside job was based on facts and logic, perhaps Stephen Spruiell did me one better in responding to some of the nuts by writing the following:

It seems I'm not telling you anything you don't already know when I say
that my editors and I — indeed, the entire Right — are afraid of the
truth about 9/11 for one simple reason: We helped Bush and Cheney plan
the attacks. A full, non-partisan study, as opposed to the sham 9/11
Commission report, would implicate me and a long list of other
conservative pundits (Goldberg, Will, even little Ben Shapiro) in the
controlled demolition that brought down the twin towers and the
Oscar-Meyer Weinermobile filled with explosives (that's right — look
closer) that we paid some homeless guy to ram into the side of the
Pentagon.

Why did we do it? Oil. Cheney promised us a cut of Halliburton's profits
from its no-bid contracts in Iraq, so we all worked together on 9/11 to
give Bush an excuse to start the war he was planning all along.
Naturally, the American sheeple took the bait, and now I can afford the
things I've always wanted, like a Hummer made of solid gold and trips to
outer space with N'Sync's Lance Bass.

Why am I telling you all this? Simple. By sending me this e-mail, I'm
afraid you signed your own ticket to Guantanamo Bay. Thanks to the
Patriot Act, a secret 9/11 Cover-Up Team deep within the bowels of the
FBI automatically receives a high-priority alert anytime someone sends
an e-mail containing the words "AFRAID", "NON-PARTISAN" and "LIED" in
all caps; it's a clear sign that the sender has learned the truth about
9/11.

So you see, I can tell you all about my involvement in 9/11 because by
the time you get this e-mail, the 9/11 Cover-Up Team (911-CUT) will
already be knocking on your door.

Pity. I thought someone as clever as you would have figured out the
FBI's keyword algorithm a long time ago.

Stephen

P.S. If God is all-knowing and all-powerful, and if you have the utmost
faith that He is opposed to Bush and Cheney and their path of deceit and
destruction, then why didn't He prevent them from gaining power in the
first place?

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What the...JFK, the Moon landing, Reagan and the hostages, 9/11...and now this?

Autopsy of 'Big Bopper' to Address Rumors About 1959 Plane Crash

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The son of "the Big Bopper" has hired a forensic anthropologist to try to answer questions about how his father died in the 1959 plane crash that also took the lives of famous rock-and-rollers Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens.

Jay Richardson, who performs tribute shows as "the Big Bopper Jr.," hopes an examination of his father's remains will settle rumors that a gun was fired aboard the plane, and tell whether the Big Bopper might have survived the crash impact and died trying to go for help.

Call me a cynic, but it sounds like a way to generate publicity for his act. But I could be wrong.

It reminds me of the time they had the chance to dig up something at Giants Stadium and failed to find Jimmy Hoffa buried there. This is weird, but beliefs in conspiracies like this seem to go on and on. Some people will never be satisfied by the actual evidence anyway...as the recent hooey over "no planes hit the Pentagon" crackpots are still trying to promote. See Popular Mechanics: Debunking The 9/11 Myths - Mar. 2005 Cover Story

Or read my earlier post about the goofballs in Cedar Rapids who believe that conspiracy crap.

Nevertheless, here are the "clues" they will try and figure out:

• Following the concert in Clear Lake, Iowa, Waylon Jennings, then a member of Holly's band, gave up his seat on the plane to Richardson, who was feeling ill and seeking a shorter trip to the next stop.
• In its accident report, the Civil Aeronautics Board said pilot error was the cause of the crash.
• The report didn't mention a gun belonging to Holly that was found by a farmer two months after the crash.
• The owner of the flying service insisted his pilot was not at fault, saying the pilot must have been "incapacitated."
• Richardson's body was discovered nearly 40 feet from the wreckage, while the others were found in or near the plane.
  

Timed perfectly to coincide with the annual Winter Dance Party celebration they have in Clear Lake every year.

This year, it's February 1-3...

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GOOD GOD, SOMEONE PLEASE SHOW SOME DISCRETION

It seems they’re really hurting for Letters to the Editor at the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The Bush-bashing ones are kinda funny, so I don’t mind those so much…but are there any controls at all on what gets published? The rules plainly state:

All material is subject to editing and cannot be returned to you.

That doesn’t explain this one that slipped by the smell tester…and it’s bothered me for quite a while. I’ve done some research on it and my response is below.

From a Thursday, September 14th Letter to the Editor in the CR Gazette...

September 11th, 2001 was a day that was engrained in every person’s mind – or was it? Here are some facts many have forgotten and have not seen or heard
since:
**Live on-scene reports documented that tremendous explosions occurred at the World Trade Center before and after the plane impacts and before and during collapse.
**Eyewitness testimony of explosions at the World Trade Center was withheld by the city of New York until forcibly released by the New York Supreme Court. Also documented were explosions occurring within the World Trade Center.
**Seismic evidence shows that 2.1 and 2.3 scale earthquakes occurred seconds before (not after) the collapses of the Twin Towers began.
**No steel-frame high-rise had ever collapsed from fire before or after 9/11. (Greg note: None have ever been hit by a 767 at 400mph before either...duh.)
**New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani was warned in World Trade Center 7 beforehand that World Trade Center 2 was going to collapse. (Greg note: I would hope so)
**World Trade Center Towers and World Trade Center 7 collapsed at free-fall speed (their supporting structures gave no resistance). (Greg note: That kinda happens when 90 floors collapse on each other)
**World Trade Center 7 was never hit by a plane and had minimal fires.
**Larry Silverstein received nearly $3 billion after leasing the Twin Towers in July 2001, knowing that they had an asbestos cleanup estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
**World Trade Center debris was hauled with trucks using global positioning systems to track their position, and cleanup occurred prior to crime scene evaluation. Drivers were fired who strayed from their required route or were delayed during
their trips.
**No photographic evidence of a 757 hitting the Pentagon has ever been released despite FBI confiscations of three videotapes from Virginia Department of Transportation, a gas station and hotel. (Greg note: see below...besides, it's kinda hard to get a full motion video from security cameras when a plane is traveling 500 mph)
**No wreckage from Flight 93 has ever been seen at the crash site, but confetti debris was spread over eight square miles.
Qui bono?

Russ and Bonnie Gerst, Cedar
Rapids

Just three days after the 5th “anniversary” (still the only word I can think of) of September 11th. It’s upsetting to me, because I’ve been there…at Ground Zero, I mean. I was there on September 11th 2002. I was on the air when it happened. And when goofballs like Russ and Bonnie (who are of my generation according to the information I found) spout off freely without an accompanying response, it can be dangerous.

Most of this delusional thinking comes from the publication and distribution of a video tape that has been hawked to virtually every email address (including mine). It’s called, Loose Change.

The film is a rapid-fire collection of video clips set to techno music, attempting to prove that no plane hit the Pentagon - it was a cruise missile; the hijacked planes didn't bring down the World Trade Center, the buildings were wired with explosives ahead of time; and Flight 93 didn't crash in Pennsylvania and in fact landed safely elsewhere. The passengers were in on the conspiracy.

They've sold more than 100,000 copies of this thing on DVD. It's been downloaded millions of times.

Created by a teenager by the name of Dylan Avery, it was originally a fictional screenplay submitted as a movie proposal. But, nutty as he was, he couldn’t get a director gig or a studio to buy the idea. So, he did the next best thing…he tried to make it himself.

Since he had no money to film his own movie, he started cutting together video and photos off the internet, creatively editing them to make them scary and ominous, cutting the visuals to fit the story, making a fake documentary. Like Spinal Tap, only about mass murder.

So, for instance, in his screenplay, the Pentagon was hit with a missile and then was covered up for the public as a plane crash. Avery sifted through photo after photo of the Pentagon attack, all showing hunks of airplane scattered everywhere...

Actually showing 757 debri in the background with American Airlines logo...

All these pictures blink across Dylan Avery's monitor until FINALLY he finds a shot that doesn't show any wreckage. He saves it, puts it in the video, and writes voiceover that says NO PLANE HIT THE PENTAGON and NO PHOTOS SHOW ANY EVIDENCE OF A PLANE.

Now obviously, hundreds of people were in the Pentagon that day, dozens of witnesses saw a plane crash, hundreds of people cleaned up airplane parts and charred bodies, air traffic controllers saw the plane fly in on radar, pairs of light poles more than 20 feet apart were knocked over when the massive wings of the airliner mowed them down like grass. But that's okay. He's just making a fictional movie, it's all in fun.

Along comes Phillip Jayhan, who offers the teen some money to complete his project…only not as fiction, but as the evidence of a government conspiracy that he hopes will prove to the world that the US government was in on it…like they were with JFK, Area 51, Waco, and a whole mess of black-helicopter big brother type lunacy. Phillip Jayhan is part of a group that operates The American Free Press, a neo-Nazi supremacy organization.

The possible attention, allure, fame, and money is too much for Dylan Avery to resist, so he begins selling it as a “documentary” and starts hawking the theory – er, proof – to people like Time, Salon, CNN, and others. He’s been interviewed dozens of times and works with a PR firm (along with a couple of other dudes who are in on it) and happily provides the DVD…and people buy it…and begin believing it.

So…to Russ and Bonnie Gerst…and anyone else who believes this bullshit…I have only a few TRUE facts to suggest:

1. The time and effort (apparently un-noticed by anyone who worked at the World Trade Center) required to wire it to collapse as it did would take months – with thousands of workers. None of them talked? No leaks of the secret wiring of buildings in the financial section of the biggest city in the US? Geez, we can’t even conduct wiretapping of phones from overseas terrorists without the NY Times squawking about it and I’m supposed to believe they did this without a peep?

2. Where are the passengers that did in fact get on those planes that day? If Flight 93 doesn’t exist, where’s Todd Beamer? How come he doesn’t call home to his wife? Paid off? Enough to never want to talk to his newborn?

For more detailed debunking of the moronic theories, read Popular Mechanics from March of 2005. But there’s a simpler way to debunk these boneheads…

Dylan Avery and Phillip Jayhan are alive...

The government had apparently no qualms about ending the lives of 3,000 people in a spectacular display of genius, planning, and secrecy played out LIVE on every television network in the world…but when they heard that someone was going to expose “the truth” of the plot complete with video tape, DVD, and public speeches…they couldn’t whack a teenager and a white supremist and confiscate the video tape?

Now, THAT’s hard to believe.

Not that I want to cause ole Russ and Bonnie Gerst any pain, but someone should write to them and CC a copy to the Gazette. I’m not in on any conspiracy…I just know how to do a ZabaSearch. Here’s their address and phone number:

211 Revere Ct NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

319-447-6000

I bet they'll think I'm part of the conspiracy, though.

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