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Title: Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened During 9/11 “Hijack”
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Published: Dec 15, 2009
Author: Sheila Casey
Post Date: 2010-07-14 02:07:35 by FormerLurker
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Flight 77 Cockpit Door Never Opened During 9/11 “Hijack"
By Sheila Casey / Rock Creek Free Press
Pilots for 9/11 Truth has reported that the data stream from the flight data recorder (FDR) for American Airlines flight 77, which allegedly struck the Pentagon on 9/11, shows that the cockpit door never opened during the entire 90 minute flight. The data was provided by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which has refused to comment.
The FDR is one of two “black boxes” in every commercial airliner, which are used after accidents to help determine the cause of a crash. One black box records flight data, the other records voice data (everything said in the cockpit during the flight). With those two sets of data, NTSB investigators can usually piece together the events that led to a crash. The status of the door to the cockpit is checked every four seconds throughout a flight and relayed as a simple 0 or 1, where 0=closed and 1=open, with approximately 1,300 door status checks performed during AA77’s 90 minute flight. Every one of those door status checks shows as a 0, indicating that the door to the cockpit never opened during the entire flight.
Accident investigators monitor the cockpit door with the FDR because it may yield clues to pilot error in a crash. The FDR begins recording once the pilots are in their seats and readying for takeoff, and the plane cannot take off unless the FDR is working.
The official story about flight 77 is that five Muslim terrorists brandishing box cutters forced their way into the cockpit and herded two pilots, four flight attendants and all the passengers to the back of the plane. This story came into being via Ted Olson, US Solicitor General, who told CNN — that he received two phone calls from his wife Barbara Olson, a passenger on the doomed flight. Ted Olson’s story changed several times. Sometimes he claimed that the calls from his wife were made from seat back phones, other times that she used her cell phone.
According to American Airlines customer service, the American Airlines maintenance manual for that aircraft, and American Airlines Captain Ralph Kolstad, seatback phones on 757s had been deactivated prior to 9/11/01. (They were later removed entirely, as they never worked well.)
Barbara Olson couldn’t have used a cell phone either: numerous 9/11 researchers, most notably David Ray Griffin, have pointed out that cell phones did not work on airplanes on 9/11. The speed and altitude of a commercial airliner both present overwhelming obstacles to a cell phone’s need to lock onto a cell tower and then hand off to another tower in a new location.
It was the FBI that revealed the evidence that decisively disproves Ted Olson’s story. In the Zacarias Moussaoui trial in 2006, the FBI presented a report on the cell phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. Their report on AA77 shows that there was only one phone call from Barbara Olson, but that it was an unconnected call lasting zero seconds. So Ted Olson either lied about receiving calls from his wife or was deceived into believing he received calls from her.
According to the UK Telegraph, Barbara Olson delayed her flight on 9/11 so that she could have breakfast with her husband on his birthday. That delay put her on the doomed flight. Ted Olson remarried in 2006 to tax attorney Lady Booth, whom he reportedly met the year after Barbara died.
There are numerous oddities and contradictions about AA77’s black boxes.
The government claims that the voice data recorder was damaged during the crash and that no usable data was retrieved from it. If true, this would be the first time in aviation history that a solid-state data recorder was destroyed during a crash.
While it was widely reported in the media that the FDR for AA77 was found at 4 am on September 14, 2001, the file containing the FDR data was dated over four hours earlier. In other words, we are asked to believe that the data from the FDR was downloaded prior to the FDR being found.
Researcher Aidan Monagahan has established that the NTSB does not have either serial or part numbers for the FDRs from AA77. The NTSB’s own handbook indicates that the part number and serial number of the FDR are required for data readout of the FDR. The NTSB did not have this information, giving us another reason to question how the FDR data was created.
Structural engineer Allyn Kilsheimer claimed that he personally found AA77’s black box on 9/11. But in the Popular Mechanics book Debunking 9/11 Myths, Kilsheimer is quoted as saying, “I stood on a pile of debris that we later found contained the black box 70;”
Kilsheimer’s story changes again in August 2007 in a piece done by the History Channel, “The 9/11 Conspiracies,” where he claims “I tripped over something; it was the black box.”
In earlier work, Pilots for 9/11 Truth (P4T) has determined that the same data set provided by the NTSB shows the plane too high to hit the Pentagon, based on an altimeter that uses air pressure to calibrate altitude.
As reported in the April 2009 Rock Creek Free Press, Citizen Investigation Team, citizen journalists from southern California, has collected evidence from 14 eyewitnesses that shows that the plane seen that morning near the Pentagon did not hit the building, but flew over it at the moment explosives detonated in the Pentagon, leading observers to conclude that the plane had crashed into the Pentagon.
Questions about what happened at the Pentagon have intrigued 9/11 researchers for years, beginning with photos from the alleged crash scene which do not show the wreckage of a plane.
This new evidence, showing that the cockpit door never opened during flight, is another nail in the coffin of the official story about flight 77. Clearly, if the cockpit door never opened, then hijackers did not storm the cockpit and herd the pilots to the back of the plane. The data, which originated from the government, does not support the government’s story.
Why would the government release data which contradicts its own version of events? It is possible they were just sloppy, or that they never anticipated that anyone would parse the data as carefully as Pilots for 9/11 Truth have. They may have also felt secure, that regardless of what damning revelations were contained in the FDR data, no mainstream media outlet would give them ink or air time, keeping the official story intact for the vast majority of Americans who receive their news from mainstream sources.
Rob Balsamo, founder of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, stated: “We have not located any independently verified data which confirms the government’s story. The FBI and NTSB refuse to comment.” Founded in August 2006, Pilots For 9/11 Truth is an organization of aviation professionals from around the globe who are investigating the government’s claims about the attacks of 9/11.
Sheila Casey is a DC based journalist. Her work has appeared in The Denver Post, Reuters, Chicago Sun-Times, Dissident Voice and Common Dreams.
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Here's a link to the Pilots for 9/11 Truth articles on the matter. 9/11: PENTAGON AIRCRAFT HIJACK IMPOSSIBLE
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#411. To: AGAviator (#398)
Buildings are not trees, and trees are not buildings, wanna be. Eager is educated enough to know that, you are not. Are either you or Eager intelligent enough to know that the steel core was not air? It's impossible for the steel core to have pancaked, but apparently you're hoping people are unaware that there WAS a steel core.
Do you have pictures of the steel core damage prior to the collapse? Obviously not. The steel core columns were made of thick hardened steel, and would have sliced the airplane's thin aluminum body like a cheese cutter slices cheese. Idiot.
And that's why he could never have flown it from Ohio to Washington DC, much less descend down to ground level without crashing it into the highway or some residential neighborhood. Even if he had accomplished the impossible (considering his lack of abilities) and gotten down to say 100 feet off the ground flying level, he either would have overshot the Pentagon or crashed into the lawn attempting to dive from 100 feet up to 20 feet off the ground at 530 mph. His ONLY possible chance of success would have been a nose dive from several thousand feet up right into the roof of the Pentagon, instead he executed a precision high speed diving turn and accomplished the impossible, flying a 757 at tree top level for a mile at over 400 mph, then descending to 20 feet, leveling, and hitting the wall of the Pentagon straight on at 530 mph, where a 757 can't possibly behave that way.
It is designed to hold up its own weight when all its columns are intact and all upper sections are not subjected to additional forces other than those specified in the design. It is not designed to hold up weight when columns are severed, structural steel is stripped of fireproofing and gets unevenly heated to the point where some sections lose their design strength, torques and torsions are subsequently introduced, floors above start pancaking due to their own structural failures, and floor-by-floor pancaking collapses introduce momentum and kinetic energy transfers. Maybe in your preschool physics the only factor is design. That's not how real world physics operates. Real world physics uses knowledge you use to make patents from the likes of Eager, instead of empty words ignorant boneheads post on k00ksite forums, and then trash Eager who actually does something useful with what he knows. No, what's sad is there are people stupid enough to believe that an aircraft traveling over 400 mph hits a building causing fires and serious substantial damage, and within a couple hours the building collapses, but the aircraft crash is said to have played no role in the collapse. Beyond stupid.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So that's why a soft lead bullet traveling hundreds of miles per hour won't even slightly penetrate any piece of solid metal in its path, I take it, brainless?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The upper floors never pancaked. In fact there was (no) pancaking at all. Have you not seen the video? Have you not seen pictures of ground zero? The buildings were disintegrated. What do you think all that dust was about? There was no pile of 110 stories of "pancaked" floors to be seen after, now was there? Anyone who thinks airplanes could do that is just dumb. And even dumber for trying to convince those smarter than him otherwise.
So that's why a soft lead bullet traveling hundreds of miles per hour won't even slightly penetrate any piece of solid metal in its path, I take it, brainless? Dude. Are you serious?
Do you know the difference between an elastic and an inelastic collision? Being that the floors were pulverized, the collision was inelastic, meaning that some of the kinetic energy from the collision was lost in the transfer into other forms of energy, such as that required to pulverize the floor, and heat. Thus, the kinetic energy cannot be tracked as if there were no loss, and your insistance that it can is false. You shouldn't be speaking about things you have no clue about.
LOL I love movie references.
Name calling is juvenile.
You:So that's why a soft lead bullet traveling hundreds of miles per hour won't even slightly penetrate any piece of solid metal in its path, I take it, brainless? Are you that dumb that you equate a hollow aluminum body with a solid lead bullet? A car is a much better example of an airplane body, as it isn't solid lead. Look at some cars that have hit both wooden and metal telephone poles.. The steel cores of the WTC towers were MUCH harder and stronger than any telephone pole, metal or otherwise.
Get down. Come with me if you want to live. I'll be back. Like that? ;-)
Unfortunately, I think he is and truly believes that an aircraft is made of solid lead.
They're not? lol
Like that? Yeah like that.
Name calling is juvenile.
I'm sure some are.... ;-)
I'll give you some "movie references" sugar honey baby darlin. Let's pm.
LOL I wanted to come up with a witty one in reply but my mind went blank!
Name calling is juvenile.
What we have here is failure to communicate!
Name calling is juvenile.
LOL
Go ahead. Make my day.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Do you feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
Name calling is juvenile.
My favorite movie quote: Name calling is juvenile.
All ahead Warp Factor 9.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Make it so. oh that reminds me. i got to look something up real quick.
Name calling is juvenile.
Beam me up, Scotty
May the Force be with you.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Damn it Jim! I'm a Doctor not a miracle worker.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
I can't find it. I know I have it on my computer but was looking for a web version. It is a bunch of star trek clips strung together that makes it sound like kirk and spock are having sex. Funniest thing I have ever heard.
Name calling is juvenile.
It sounds funny, but not very logical.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
you talkin to me?
Name calling is juvenile.
This is another fine mess you've gotten us into.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Where to begin? Listen, after I attempt to educate you why you are wrong here, if you still don't get it, I won't consider my attempt a failure, cause I don't think you are here to "get it" anyway. This is for anyone that might be reading this thread on the Internet that doesn't quite understand this issue. When the top of the tower started to rotate away from the rest of the building, if no other force was around that could stop that rotation, then it would have continued that rotation despite gravity. As matter of fact, not only would gravity not have stopped the rotation and it falling over side ways like a tree, but it would have helped it to fall this way. You ask why? You say gravity only applies force straight down so how is this possible? I will tell you why and how. The gravity of the Earth does indeed only apply force in one direction, straight toward it. But, after the top of the building already started breaking off and rotating away from the rest of the building making the sides at a less than a 90 degree angle to the ground, gravity would pull the sides straight down as well, and would do nothing to stop the top part of the building's rotation away from the rest of the building, but would rather increase it. The Earth's gravity pulls objects toward it. It has no effect on horizontal force, only vertical( at a 90 degree angle to the ground) force. The top of the building already was experiencing some horizontal force as evidenced by its rotation. Gravity can not stop such force, it only applies force downward. And with the sides no longer at a 90 degree angle to ground, gravity would have only increased the rotation, not make it stop and fall straight down. And you keep bringing up some guy's name, as if that lends credibility to your argument. It doesn't. If you can't rationalize things for yourself and think for yourself, then I understand why you believe the official version of 911 form the government. After all, they only want to help you, right?
God is always good!
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villian.
Name calling is juvenile.
huh? anyone here capable of translating this to English? sorry I don't speak shill maybe bucky can help you he is a member of the liar movement.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
The towers were built to sway in strong winds by design, they did no break apart when even hurricane force winds made them sway more than they swayed when the planes crashed into them. Since they were built for such sway in winds, they also were built to not fall apart due to being rotated.
God is always good!
huh? anyone here capable of translating this to English? sorry I don't speak shill maybe bucky can help you he is a member of the liar movement. I speak a bit of shill from my time at LP. I think what AGItprop is saying here is that the conspiracies can't be true because the war is failing? Fuck I don't know.
Sorry meant to ping you.
huh? anyone here capable of translating this to English? sorry I don't speak shill maybe bucky can help you he is a member of the liar movement. I speak a bit of shill from my time at LP. I think what AGItprop is saying here is that the conspiracies can't be true because the war is failing? Fuck I don't know. All I want to know is who's on First!
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
LOL! Oh Good God, that is some funny shit.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestA heavy but 95% air by volume item will tend to break apart when rotated onto its side. A solid 100% cellulose through and through will fall like solid trees fall.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#412. To: AGAviator (#410)
Which vertical steel core had a major structural failure from an aircaft fuselage coming in over 400 mph and making a big hole in it, flockwit.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#413. To: buckeroo (#388)
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I understand your point. The issue *IS* Hanjour was not an experienced pilot with any training or capability of and about flying a 757... you know this, EVERYONE knows this.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#414. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo, turtle (#368)
The structure needs to hold up AT LEAST it's own weight, where you and your pal are trying to say any sort of added vertical force is going to crush the building as if it were made of egg shells.
It's sad that there are people stupid enough to believe that.
One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky
#415. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo, turtle (#412)
The steel core columns were made of thick hardened steel, and would have sliced the airplane's thin aluminum body like a cheese cutter slices cheese.
One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky
#416. To: AGAviator, FormerLurker, Original_Intent, *9-11* (#414)
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floors above start pancaking due to their own structural failures, and floor-by-floor pancaking collapses introduce momentum and kinetic energy transfers.
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#417. To: AGAviator, Original_Intent, FormerLurker (#415)
The steel core columns were made of thick hardened steel, and would have sliced the airplane's thin aluminum body like a cheese cutter slices cheese.
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#418. To: AGAviator (#414)
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Maybe in your preschool physics the only factor is design. That's not how real world physics operates.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#419. To: Original_Intent, buckeroo (#393)
And stop calling me Surely.
#420. To: AGAviator, buckeroo, turtle, wudidiz (#415)
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Me: The steel core columns were made of thick hardened steel, and would have sliced the airplane's thin aluminum body like a cheese cutter slices cheese.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#421. To: farmfriend (#419)
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I love movie references.
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#422. To: wudidiz (#417)
Are you serious?
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#423. To: FormerLurker (#422)
Unfortunately, I think he is and truly believes that an aircraft is made of solid lead.
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#424. To: wudidiz (#421)
Get down. Come with me if you want to live. I'll be back.
#425. To: FormerLurker (#422)
an aircraft is made of solid lead.
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#426. To: farmfriend (#424)
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#427. To: wudidiz (#426)
Let's pm.
#428. To: wudidiz (#426)
#429. To: farmfriend (#428)
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#430. To: farmfriend (#428)
#431. To: Original_Intent (#430)
Go ahead. Make my day.
#432. To: Original_Intent, wudidiz (#430)
Gentlemen, Congratulations. You're everything we've come to expect from years of government training.
#433. To: farmfriend (#431)
#434. To: Original_Intent (#433)
#435. To: farmfriend, Original_Intent (#434)
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#436. To: farmfriend (#434)
#437. To: All (#436)
#438. To: Original_Intent, wudidiz (#437)
#439. To: farmfriend (#438)
#440. To: Original_Intent (#439)
#441. To: farmfriend (#440)
#442. To: AGAviator (#398)
However when gravity took over the rotation angle stopped and the whole top section started falling straightdown from where the connection bertween top and bottom broke apart.
#443. To: Original_Intent (#441)
#444. To: RickyJ, buckaroo (#128)
even though the war the conspiracies are supposed to be done for, is lurching towards stagnation, failure, and possibly even world wide defeat.
computer counted ballots are ballots that have been counted in secret, and with all probability not the way one voted.
#445. To: farmfriend (#443)
#446. To: AGAviator (#398)
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A heavy but 95% air by volume item will tend to break apart when rotated onto its side
#447. To: IRTorqued, IRTorqued, buckeroo, AGAviator (#444)
even though the war the conspiracies are supposed to be done for, is lurching towards stagnation, failure, and possibly even world wide defeat.
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#448. To: RickyJ (#447)
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#449. To: wudidiz (#447)
even though the war the conspiracies are supposed to be done for, is lurching towards stagnation, failure, and possibly even world wide defeat.
#450. To: IRTorqued (#444)
he is a member of the liar movement
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
#451. To: Original_Intent (#449)
All I want to know is who's on First!
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.” ~ Rose F. Kennedy
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