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September 2, 2011 · 9:37 pm

End of the Week Random Thoughts

First of all, TGIF never rang truer.  Kids got back to school this week and Sam to football, this year he had to move up an age group.  So far, he says, it’s no problem.  We had a lot of phone calls back and forth about a course that’s probably not going to happen.  I did quite a bit of writing, but

Jealous diplomats not invited to Bunga Bunga parties criticize Berlusconi

it pales in comparison to the writing I didn’t do.  A few translations.  A few computer problems.

So, in most ways it was a pretty ordinary week but it sure seems like Monday was just yesterday.

Why isn’t Dick Cheney in jail?  Didn’t he just basically confess to multiple crimes, in print, with the publication of his book?  Seriously, what does it take?  What does it fucking take?

O.K., I understand a newspaper running somewhat of a teaser headline and, I must admit, it’s partially my own fault for being interested in celebrity gossip in the 1st place, but this was just downright deceptive.  On the Halfington Pustule there was a headline something along the lines of “Look and see what Hollywood superstars got trashed out of their minds last night.”  So, I flip through to the story and they talk about how Kirsten Dunst (who I idolize) and some other actress (who I’d never heard of) were out staggering around the streets from bar to bar and then at the end of the article it was like “Ha-ha! They were just shooting a film.”

There ought to be some kind of an internet law against wasting my time.

Julian Assange has released like about 200,000 more secret government cables.  Some people (like me) are still calling him a hero, and some people are demanding his head.  A couple of the main headers i glanced at revealed no huge surprises.

Hillary Clinton wanted to get biographical info on North Korean diplomats sounds sinister, but if you want to send somebody a birthday card you need a certain amount of biographical data.  Everybody thinks Sarkozy is a little wannabe Napoleon, Berlusconi parties too hard and Angela Merkl is kind of boring.  Wow.

But they’ve exposed some big stuff recently.  I had no idea that U.N. relief workers would coerce hungry people to give sex for food.

A lot of people are saying that Assange is reckless for not having redacted names, and they may have a point but there’s one thing I’m pretty sure of.  Wikileaks has changed the diplomacy game moving forward.  There are two ways it could go – even more secretive, coded, encrypted messages (the aspens turn all at once) or just plain openness.

I have no guarantee that openness in government affairs will lead to a golden era of peace and prosperity for all mankind, but it’s the one thing we’ve never tried, so let’s give it a shot and see if it works.

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August 11, 2011 · 9:04 pm

No, I am not Looking for a God Damned Security Blanket

I hate to sound like a one trick pony, a one note trumpet, a single issue politician,  but I also don’t like being called crazy.

Over on the Huffington Puffball there is a particularly condescending article about

Building owner Larry Silverstein got $10 billion in the insurance settlement

9/11 conspiracy theories.  First, the title of the article is: From JFK to 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Thrive.

Admittedly, I think that both of these events were inside jobs, involving highly placed people in the U.S. government (LBJ, for example), but they are very different events and deserve to be treated separately.

Then, they have this little gem: Conspiracies can be a “security blanket” for explaining away the horrific, asserts Patrick Leman, a University of London professor who researches 9/11 theories. “It stops us from having to confront the unpredictability of life.”  First, if you just replace the word “conspiracies” with “official explanations” you have a true statement.  Secondly, he’s saying we are delusional.  We are not delusional.

Their arguments are evolving, albeit slowly and not in a constructive direction.  At first, when we talked about the impossibility of steel framed buildings collapsing straight down at near freefall speed, they just shouted “You’re nuts!”  and called us heartless and un-American.  When we talked about building 7 they said “I bet you believe in Bigfoot, too, har, har.  When we pointed out that the head of security for the World Trade Center was Marvin Bush, they said “You’re paranoid” and “I just can’t believe our government would do something like that,” totally ignoring the fact that our government has done similar things in the past (Gulf of Tonkin, attack on the USS Liberty, using the accidental sinking of the battleship Maine to start the Spanish-American war).  When we pointed out that in the founding statement of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), signed by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other prominent neo-cons, it was written “a Pearl Harbor style event would be required to fully  implement our agenda” they said it would be impossible to have a conspiracy  that size.  (No, it wouldn’t)

So now, they still say  that we’re nuts, but they say it in a politer way.  There is one other argument they are using more and more, I found a few of them in the comments section below the article, and it is a very disturbing argument indeed.  “It doesn’t matter any more.  We can never prove anything so just let it go.  Move on.”

In other words, forget 9/11.

It’s not going to happen.  I think that a conspiracy of highly placed people which included Vice President Cheney, presidential brother Marvin Bush (and maybe Jeb but definitely not George because why tell the dumb guy), and building owner Larry  Silverstein, as well as possibly Rumsfeld and Rove, arranged for explosives to be planted in WTC 1, WTC 2 and WTC 7.  The airplanes were just for show.

I’m not crazy and I’m not going to shut up.

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July 29, 2011 · 5:05 pm

Why I Think 9/11 Was an Inside Job

The 10th anniversary of 9/11 is about a month and a half away.  I am not looking forward to it.  Every news outlet will focus on that for a day, just like Mother’s Day or the 4th of July.  Lots of people will write articles about how shocked/surprised/horrified they were.  The number of

Damn, I hate school

people who will talk about witnessing the event firsthand will far exceed the population of New York City.  And  the footage of the planes hitting the towers, and towers 1 and 2 falling to the ground, will be played over and over and over again.  I predict that the number of times that is shown will outnumber the times footage of building 7 will be shown by about 1,000 to 1.  Just like on the day.

Most people have never even heard of building 7.  The powers that be would like it to stay that way.  (Building 7, by the way, is the building which fell down, without being hit by any airplane, several hours after the collapse of the twin towers.  It did not have the same design or structure as the twin towers, yet it fell straight down just the same)

I’m sure I will be writing a lot more about 9/11 in the coming month and a half because the whole thing really pisses me off.  For instance, today over at the Puff Piece Post, there’s an article about an interview with Voldemort  George W. Bush about what he was thinking when he was sitting there with that blank, stupid look on his face in the classroom.  He said he was trying to “project an air of calm.”

Rubbish. He sat there with a blank face because he didn’t have a clue what he was supposed to do. Also, it was a school.  He was probably waiting for orders from the teacher.

I don’t actually believe he knew about the attack in advance -why tell the stupid guy?  I’m guessing the conversation went something like this:

ring ring, ring ring
“Hello, Governor Bush speaking”

“Hi, Jeb, it’s Dick”

“Well, hello, Mr. Cheney.  What can I do for you?”

“We need a nice little photo-op for your brother next Tuesday, about a quarter to nine in the morning.”

“C’mon, Dick, have you ever tried to get George up that early?”

“It’s important.”

“That’s the big day, huh?”

“Cool it, not on the phone”

“Yeah, sure.  O.K., I can set it up for him to visit an elementary school, how’s that?”

“That’ll be great.  Thanks a million.”

“My pleasure.”

Think about it.  During the biggest terrorist attack ever,  Captain McCodpiece was not on the golf course, biking, choking on a pretzel, on his ranch clearing brush or any of those other activities which occupied the vast majority of his presidency.  He was reading to a bunch of kids.
That’s the part that makes me think the whole thing was premeditat­ed and carried out by elements of the U.S. government­. Seriously, what are the odds?

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