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Title: Are 911 Truth Deniers Dumber Than A 5th Grader?
Source: Rense
URL Source: http://www.rense.com/general76/truther.htm
Published: Apr 13, 2007
Author: Douglas Herman
Post Date: 2007-04-14 21:15:20 by robin
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Are 911 Truth Deniers Dumber
Than A 5th Grader?
By Douglas Herman
Exclusive to Rense.com
4-13-7

The most subversive show on television is on the Fox TV network. Maybe you've seen it. Hosted by a guy named Jeff Foxworthy, the show is called "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?"

Hopefully, the show is broadcast to every nation of the world, including China, the Middle East and the English-speaking nations of the former British empire. Why? To show the rest of the world what they already suspect: that most Americans are a bunch of greedy nitwits, numbskulls and knuckleheads.

Truly, most Americans are Not smarter than a fifth grader. Indeed, judging from the shows I've seen, quite a few American adults are dumber than a FIRST grader. The adults--and I use that word loosely--who participate on the show are college graduates with good jobs. Some of them graduated with honors--whatever that means in collegiate circles. Uniformly, they perform badly. If ignorance is bliss then most of the adults on the show are positively delirious. They win a few thousand dollars, sometimes a quarter million, but for the most part, look like greedy imbeciles.

They ALL remind me of 911 truth deniers.

First question: What is jet fuel? Don't know? Yes, you are dumber than a fifth grader. Could a kerosene fire (basically jet fuel) melt steel beams? No, but sometimes it does if the government says it can and the Twin Towers are involved. Sorry, wrong answer. You are dumber than any first grader possessing a basic understanding of a barbecue grill.

I'm forever delighted by the faces of the wise children everywhere. They remind me of "Truthers," those citizens concerned with nothing so much as unraveling a great crime against America, convinced we can persuade even the dumbest Americans--and God knows there are millions of them---that steel building do not just fall down at the speed of gravity, no matter how many morons at MIT say they can.

Okay: How many sides to a trapezoid? Every Truther, and fifth grader on the show that I happened to watch, knew the answer to that. Four, as in the shape of the WTC-7 foundation.

Most 911 debunkers love to quote the number of top US scientists, engineers and architects who deny 911 was an inside job. Luckily, we Truthers can demonstrate that many of these top experts are just plain dumb. How? We need only point to a show like "Smarter Than A 5th Grader," a show that readily indicates how dumb so-called educated American people can be. Even ones with advanced degrees and Cum Laude after their names.

Indeed, one of the World's Most Famous Smart Persons, a professor at MIT named Chomsky, said the perplexing anomalies of 911 didn't really matter to him. Huh? That would be like asking a group of fifth graders how did the Titanic sink? And then remarking to them to ignore the iceberg altogether and focus instead on the weight and volume of the water that filled the ship. All while manipulating computer models to show that a few open portholes caused the Titanic to sink.

Because that was EXACTLY what the Kean Commission did to WTC-7. They ignored the collapse of a 600 foot World Trade Center building altogether. And that was EXACTLY what NIST has done also, for the past five years. They have ignored the obvious, ignoring the iceberg, focusing on the floodwater.

Are Americans dumber than 5th graders? Yes, especially most of the top scientists working for the US government. For example, a videotape was shown---but not identified---to a top Dutch demolition expert. The videotape was of a 47 story government building collapsing in 6.5 seconds. The Dutch expert---unlike many of the top US experts---said unequivocally that the building had been blown down. A controlled demolition. Indeed, you could show that same videotape to those 5th graders and get the same answer.

The chief difference? Neither the Dutch expert nor the 5th graders depend on the US government to pay their salaries, or fund their think tanks or universities. Thus they can answer honestly and without fear of retribution.

Magna Cum Laude in Cowardice? Simply look around.

Next Question: Who met with the (alleged but never proven) head hijacker's bagman, met him for breakfast on 9-11? If you answered a top Al Qaeda member, you would be WRONG. But if you answered several top US intelligence figures met with the man who provided Mohammed Atta with $100,000 you would be right.

Another question. Why couldn't NORAD get even one plane aloft to encounter even one hijacked jet? Was it because our highly trained air force pilots are incompetent and dumber than a 5th grader? How do you feel about that? That the rest of the world thinks we are dumber than a newborn babe for believing that the top air defense in the world--NORAD--couldn't even get ONE fighter jet aloft in ninety minutes, 90 MINUTES?

We really are a dumb race of people if we believe 9-11 was a case of incompetence. Dumber still if we accept the excuses from our government officials and haven't demanded the indictment of even ONE person that allowed close to 3,000 citizens be murdered.

Debunkers would have you believe the official lie. And it is a masterful lie. They want to keep you dumb; that is their whole purpose. To keep you dumb. To keep you from asking too many questions. But mostly to keep you from demanding answers, and then demanding indictments and convictions.

But debunkers are relatively few, and mostly shrewd, manipulative liars.

911 truth deniers, on the other hand---the millions of ordinary folks who adhere to the official story--would have us simply give the US government the benefit of the doubt. When you ask them why, when you point to the string of lies before and after 911, when you point to the murderous government policies post- 911, they stare dumbly, like contestants on that TV game show.

On that TV show, however, the 5th graders can sometimes help those dumb adults. But only IF the adults want to be helped. Five years after 911, we Truthers are the fresh-faced students, trying to awaken our compatriots to the correct answers. And in this case, they have a whole lot more to win or lose than a few thousand dollars.

Footnote: I would like once again to thank my compatriots at 911blogger.com who provided the illustration. As you can see, it doesn't take a rocket scientists to understand 911. Indeed, most American rocket scientists are probably too dumb.

Simply put: Can an object fall through mass 5 times greater than itself, falling nearly as fast as it would fall through empty air, when the only force available is gravity? Sure it can, as long as the object is falling through a heavily-insured white elephant housing sensitive government offices.

USAF veteran Douglas Herman writes for Rense regularly and clearly understood the scam of the NORAD standdown within a few months after 911. He wrote the recent Rense feature, Why No Norad On 911?

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#12. To: robin, RickyJ, ALL (#0)

Could a kerosene fire (basically jet fuel) melt steel beams? No, but sometimes it does if the government says it can and the Twin Towers are involved.

Except that is not what the government says. What this article is doing is putting forth a strawman. A logical fallacy. All the jet fuel did is start a very large fire that then burned very hot due to the type of material available to burn. Melting steel is not what caused the collapse of the towers. But strength reductions of the steel and sagging of the steel due to high temperatures is the cause.

-that steel building do not just fall down at the speed of gravity, no matter how many morons at MIT say they can.

This is another strawman. The WTC towers did NOT fall at the speed of gravity. The speed of gravity would imply a collapse time of about 9-10 seconds. But videos and still photos taken on 9/11 show quite clearly that the towers took about 15 to collapse. They show the first exterior panels ejected from the tower took about 9-10 seconds to reach the ground. And the photos show those panels were way ahead of the collapsing level of the towers. And I've pointed this out to you over and over. Are the members of the *Truth* movement incapable of learning? Are logical fallacies all they have to offer?

Because that was EXACTLY what the Kean Commission did to WTC-7. They ignored the collapse of a 600 foot World Trade Center building altogether. And that was EXACTLY what NIST has done also, for the past five years.

And this is just downright false. WTC7 has not been ignored.

For example, a videotape was shown---but not identified---to a top Dutch demolition expert. The videotape was of a 47 story government building collapsing in 6.5 seconds. The Dutch expert---unlike many of the top US experts---said unequivocally that the building had been blown down. A controlled demolition.

Now tell readers the rest of the story. That Dutch expert (Jowenko) was not told the structure had been hit by debris from the collapsing towers. He was not told that the structure had been burning for almost 7 hours without much in the way of fire suppression. He was not told that firemen on the scene observed the building starting to lean long before the collapse. He was not told that fireman at the scene believed the building was going to collapse long before the collapse. He was not shown all the videos and photos available showing damage to the building and the extent of the fires. And one more thing, this same expert also said that the collapse of the two towers were definitely NOT controlled demolitions.

Next Question: Who met with the (alleged but never proven) head hijacker's bagman, met him for breakfast on 9-11? If you answered a top Al Qaeda member, you would be WRONG. But if you answered several top US intelligence figures met with the man who provided Mohammed Atta with $100,000 you would be right.

This is also downright false. The Indian paper which initially made that claim retracted the story and ended up saying an entirely different person actually provided the money. The problem with CT'ers is that they latch onto the first incriminating thing they hear and then never listen to another fact regarding that event or claim.

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-04-15   13:51:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Destro, Paul Revere, ALL (#11)

Do you concede that this Rense article is incorrect in this fact and that the govt did not say the jet fuel melted the steel?

You are never going to get him to listen to facts and admit that. He's made his mind up and apparently doesn't realize that with such inaccurate claims the *Truth* movement is only destroying any hope of finding out the truth of 9/11.

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-04-15   13:55:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Destro (#11) (Edited)

I'm referring to the poll taken by the New York Times and CBS in October of 2006, which revealed that only 16% of Americans believe the official 9-11 story, and 57% believe Bush had actual, prior knowledge of the attacks.

You can take up YOUR points with someone on the thread who cares about whatever obtuse point you think you're making.

I'm commenting on the fact that you're in the small minority who hover over every word of every government statement, as if it were Moses bringing down the tablets.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-15   13:58:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: robin (#9)

EX-cel-lent!

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-15   14:00:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: BeAChooser (#13)

I know the government's position better than you two ever will.

I don't feel it's necessary to respond to those who want to require me to consume time in some pointless dialogue where you think you're going to prove something.

The government's fairy tale about the collapse of the towers is well known, and it requires something that is impossible: steel and concrete vaporizing in a gravity collapse. If you can't SEE that the buildings were exploded, all the discussions in the world won't get your head unstuck from where you have it lodged.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-15   14:05:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: SKYDRIFTER (#10)

What most people miss is that the FAA was the facilitating agency of 9-11. They blocked airport security, controlled the fighters and covered up the reality of 9-11, via non-availability of the radar data and ATC tapes.

The fighters were under FAA control & kept from visual and electronic contact with the 9-11 events.

It wasn't the FAA which kept the fighters from scrambling and engaging. It was Cheney, who was in personal control of NORAD that morning during war games, drills to simulate airplanes being used as missiles to hit the Pentagon and other locations.

The FAA made several communications with NORAD, and after the first crash, NORAD was automatically in the loop and heard everything the FAA did, in real time.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-15   14:09:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Paul Revere, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Robin, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, Kamala, All (#17)

It wasn't the FAA which kept the fighters from scrambling and engaging. It was Cheney, who was in personal control of NORAD that morning during war games, drills to simulate airplanes being used as missiles to hit the Pentagon and other locations.

The NORAD aircraft which launched were under the control of the FAA - not NORAD!

Yeah! There's the rub.

Sure, Cheney was in it up to his ears.


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-04-15   14:26:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: beachooser, nolu_chan, Robin, Minerva, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, Kamala, All (#13)

Except that is not what the government says. What this article is doing is putting forth a strawman. A logical fallacy. All the jet fuel did is start a very large fire that then burned very hot due to the type of material available to burn. Melting steel is not what caused the collapse of the towers. But strength reductions of the steel and sagging of the steel due to high temperatures is the cause.

So, why did the 47 steel columns in both towers collapse simultaneously?

C'Mon BAC, you treasonous queer; 'splain that one!

How many seconds did it take the buildings to fall? Give us a figure that you'll stand by.

Well ....?


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-04-15   14:34:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: SKYDRIFTER (#18)

And don't forget that FEMA arrived the night before, to be ready for their DRILL in Manhattan on the morning of 9-11, that turned into the WTC attack response effort.

The coincidences that day just keep on keepin on.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-15   14:35:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: SKYDRIFTER (#19)

Don't you know?! The planes hit the towers and the collision knocked all the fire proofing off the hundreds of steel beams on the exterior and inside the support grid near the elevators. Then the jet fuel burned, and although it never got hot enough to melt steel, it got hot enough to cause the welded support pins for the trusses to fail under the weight, and begin a pancake collapse that pulverized and turned into dust most of the steel, concrete, and contents of the towers. At gravity speed, instead of at pancaking speeds.

What a load of malarkey!

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-15   14:40:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Robin, Brian S, Christine, Honway, Aristeides, Diana, All (#0)

See -

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8172271955308136871

I'm assuming this is the same as the DVD that I just watched. It's limited to the 9-11 WTC issues, but it's damned good.

If you want a WTC encapsulation, this is a great one.

{This commercial is NOT approved by BAC!}


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-04-15   14:46:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Paul Revere, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Robin, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, Kamala, All (#20)

And don't forget that FEMA arrived the night before, to be ready for their DRILL in Manhattan on the morning of 9-11, that turned into the WTC attack response effort.

Tom Kenney's team did, but FEMA was already in place on Pier 92, as "Operation Tripod II." Rudy 'fessed-up.

Kenney's team did NOT go to the hotel to sleep on 9-11, as BAC would have everyone believe!


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-04-15   14:49:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: SKYDRIFTER (#22)

That is a great video. There are many very good videos. Google video and youtube both have many.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-15   14:52:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: beachooser, nolu_chan, Robin, Minerva, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, Kamala, All (#12)

But videos and still photos taken on 9/11 show quite clearly that the towers took about 15 to collapse.

Let's use this figure BAC. No, not at the open-air falling speed, but so radically far from a "collapse" speed that "controlled demolition" is the only possible explanation. Add the molten steel in the three Silverstein buildings.

You're way busted BAC! You're a wannabe deceiver - doing a lousy job.


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-04-15   14:56:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: SKYDRIFTER, BeAChooser, TREASONOUS QUEER! (#18)

that BAC is dumber than a 5'th grader. and he does it on purpose - only way he could think what he thinks. He thinks that jet fuel burns hot enough to produce molten steel. We've told him 100 times it just doesn't burn hot enough and he says 'yeah but if it was a big fire ... ' nonsense. if it don't burn hot enough it don't burn hot enough and doesn't make any difference what quantity of jet fuel. If you add in paper or wood or office furnishings and that only makes it burn less hot. yet BAC still insists on the fantasy that jet fuel melted steel to liquid form. He accepts that the steel was liquid because honway showed him pictures, but he insists it became liquid because of burning jet fuel. dumber than a 5'th grader and a TREASONOUS QUEER!

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-04-15   19:52:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: BeAChooser, chrsitine, Zipporah (#12)

Aren't you lucky. You get to receive one of the 10 posts I'm allowed each day.

Sorry to hear this. Is this temporary or permanent?

God is always good!
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]

RickyJ  posted on  2007-04-15   21:28:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: BeAChooser (#12)

He was not told that firemen on the scene observed the building starting to lean long before the collapse.

That's a new one. I haven't heard of that one before. Ah well, we have video evidence and no leaning is observed. But even if it was leaning, that only means in a collapse it wouldn't have come straight down. I guess that new line won't work chooser, back to the drawing board.

God is always good!
"It was an interesting day." - President Bush, recalling 9/11 [White House, 1/5/02]

RickyJ  posted on  2007-04-15   21:33:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Red Jones, ALL (#26)

If you add in paper or wood or office furnishings and that only makes it burn less hot.

Once again, Red Jones just demonstrates that he doesn't know what he is talking about.

http://911myths.com/html/wtc_molten_steel.html

yet BAC still insists on the fantasy that jet fuel melted steel to liquid form. He accepts that the steel was liquid because honway showed him pictures, but he insists it became liquid because of burning jet fuel.

Which is why he must resort to strawman arguments. In other words, claiming I've said things that I have never said. Pathetic, Red. Really pathetic.

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-04-15   22:19:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: beachooser, nolu_chan, Robin, Minerva, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, Kamala, All (#29)

BAC,

You're an asshole, by any standard. Truth means nothing to you, except a challenge to distort it - to the benefit of the Jewish State of Israel.

Your queerness knows no bounds.


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-04-15   23:45:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: BeAChooser (#29)

TREASONOUS QUEER! you used to agree that the molten steel really happened. and now you link me to a site that says molten steel didn't exist because for it to exist there must've been something besides jet fuel & the ordinary debris from the office & furnishings in order to produce the molten steel.

Well the molten steel is reality. it was reported right in mass media about the hot spots, so for you to sit there and say that the hot spots didn't exist because it would've required something more than jet fuel to produce them is just plain more TREASONOUS QUEER! garbage. NASA flew a plane over the site in the day or two after the event and measured the hot spots. it was reported right in mass media. and you sit there and deny it because you are a TREASONOUS QUEER!

You used to agree with us that the molten steel did happen. We've talked to individuals on the internet who live 2 blocks from there and they told us that in personal conversations with firemen they heard stories of the molten steel & the hot spots.

and now you change your story. TREASONOUS QUEER!

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-04-16   6:46:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Red Jones (#31) (Edited)

Didn't BAC say he was only "experimenting" for a few years? ;)

Or was it he was only investigating, like Reverent Haggard?

Oh well, as Bob Seger said "turn the page."

(Or was that Mark Foley?)

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-16   6:51:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: BeAChooser, robin, RickyJ (#12)

All the jet fuel did is start a very large fire that then burned very hot due to the type of material available to burn. Melting steel is not what caused the collapse of the towers.

Whether molten steel caused the collapse or not, what caused molten steel?

http://www.911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/moltensteel.html

Molten Metal

Workers Reported Molten Metal in Ground Zero Rubble

Reports of molten metal in the foundations of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers are frequently noted in literature of proponents of theories that the buildings were destroyed through controlled demolition. The most widely publicized report is one by American Free Press reporter Christopher Bollyn citing principals of two of the companies contracted to clean up Ground Zero. The president of Tully Construction of Flushing, NY, said he saw pools of "literally molten steel" at Ground Zero. Bollyn also cites Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, MD, as having seen molten steel in the bottoms of elevator shafts "three, four, and five weeks" after the attack.

Although reports of molten steel are consistent with the persistent heat at Ground Zero in the months following the attack, we find the American Free Press report suspect for two reasons. First, Tully Construction was one of four companies awarded contracts by New York City's Department of Design and Construction to dispose of the rubble at Ground Zero, and CDI was subcontracted by Tully and was instrumental in devising a plan to recycle the steel. The involvement of Steve Tully and Mark Loizeaux in the destruction of the evidence of the unprecedented collapses would seem to disqualify them as objective reporters of evidence. Interestingly, CDI was also hired to bury the rubble of the Murrah Building in the wake of the Oklahoma City Bombing. That Loizeaux stood trial on charges of illegal campaign contributions casts further doubt on his credibility. [1]

A second reason to doubt this molten steel report is the fact that it has been used by Bollyn and others to support the dubious theory that the collapses were caused by bombs in the Towers' basements.

Corroborating Reports

There are reports of molten steel beyond those cited by American Free Press. Most of these have come to light as a result of a research paper by Professor Steven E Jones, which has stimulated interest in the subject of molten steel at Ground Zero. *

A report by Waste Age describes New York Sanitation Department workers moving "everything from molten steel beams to human remains." [2]

A report on the Government Computer News website quotes Greg Fuchek, vice president of sales for LinksPoint Inc. as stating:

In the first few weeks, sometimes when a worker would pull a steel beam from the wreckage, the end of the beam would be dripping molten steel [3]

A Messenger-Inquirer report recounts the experiences of Bronx firefighter "Toolie" O'Toole, who stated that some of the beams lifted from deep within the catacombs of Ground Zero by cranes were "dripping from the molten steel." [4]

A transcription of an audio interview of Ground Zero chaplain Herb Trimpe contains the following passage:

When I was there, of course, the remnants of the towers were still standing. It looked like an enormous junkyard. A scrap metal yard, very similar to that. Except this was still burning. There was still fire. On the cold days, even in January, there was a noticeable difference between the temperature in the middle of the site than there was when you walked two blocks over on Broadway. You could actually feel the heat.

It took me a long time to realize it and I found myself actually one day wanting to get back. Why? Because I felt more comfortable. I realized it was actually warmer on site. The fires burned, up to 2,000 degrees, underground for quite a while before they actually got down to those areas and they cooled off.

I talked to many contractors and they said they actually saw molten metal trapped, beams had just totally had been melted because of the heat. So this was the kind of heat that was going on when those airplanes hit the upper floors. It was just demolishing heat. [5]

A report in the Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine about recovery work in late October quotes Alison Geyh, Ph.D., as stating:

Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel. [6]

A publication by the National Environmental Health Association quotes Ron Burger, a public health advisor at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who arrived at Ground Zero on the evening of September 12th. Burger stated:

Feeling the heat, seeing the molten steel, the layers upon layers of ash, like lava, it reminded me of Mt. St. Helen’s and the thousands who fled that disaster. [7]

An article in The Newsletter of the Structural Engineers Association of Utah describing an speaking appearance by Leslie Robertson (structural engineer responsible for the design of the World Trade Center) contains this passage:

As of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running. [8]

A member of the New York Air National Guard's 109th Air Wing was at Ground Zero from September 22 to October 6. He kept a journal on which an article containing the following passage is based.

Smoke constantly poured from the peaks. One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the towers' remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots. [9]

The book American Ground, which contains detailed descriptions of conditions at Ground Zero, contains this passage:

... or, in the early days, the streams of molten metal that leaked from the hot cores and flowed down broken walls inside the foundation hole. [10]

A review of of the documentary Collateral Damage in the New York Post describes firemen at Ground Zero recalling "heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten steel." [11]

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This construction photograph shows the foundation of South Tower in the foreground, with the foundation of the North Tower in the left background. The foundations were seven stories deep.

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* Most of the press reports compiled here were gathered by other researchers, including Matthew Everett, the author of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and 9/11: A Scandal Beyond What Has Been Seen Before; David Ray Griffin; and the author of posts such as this on georgewashington.blogspot.com.
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References

1. Fire Power: It Took Three Lawyers to Stop the Destruction of CDI Inc., The Daily Record, 10/7/00
2. D-Day: NY Sanitation Workers' Challenge of a Lifetime, WasteAge.com, 4/1/02 [cached]
3. Handheld app eased recovery tasks, GCN.com, 9/11/02 [cached]
4. Recovery worker reflects on months spent at Ground Zero, Messenger-Inquirer.com, 6/29/02 [cached]
5. The Chaplain's Tale, RecordOnline.com , [cached]
6. Mobilizing Public Health, Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine , [cached]
7. The scene at Ground Zero, NEHA.org , [cached]
8. WTC a Structural Success, SEAU News, , page 3
9. Ground Zero, 12/01 [cached]
10. American Ground, , page 32
11. Unflinching Look Among the Ruins, NYPost.com, 3/3/04

nolu_chan  posted on  2007-04-16   6:52:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Paul Revere (#14)

I'm referring to the poll taken by

Well Jesus H. Christ - I am talking about this article and it's first claim.

Stay on topic.

I guess you are not an empiricist - you don't care for the truth - whatever that truth may be - you just care about the fantasy scenario you have accept - every bit as fanciful as the govt thesis. That you don't want to discard evidence or claims proven false tells me you value the story over the facts.

"The desire to rule is the mother of heresies." -- St. John Chrysostom

Destro  posted on  2007-04-16   11:26:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Destro (#34)

Well Jesus H. Christ - I am talking about this article and it's first claim.

Stay on topic.

I guess you are not an empiricist - you don't care for the truth - whatever that truth may be - you just care about the fantasy scenario you have accept - every bit as fanciful as the govt thesis. That you don't want to discard evidence or claims proven false tells me you value the story over the facts.

Well aren't you in a snit?!

It's a poll. I referred to it. If you don't like it, tough titty.

Why don't you go look up the poll, read the source data, specifically found at page 30, question 78?

That's the TRUTH you're so afraid to admit.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-16   15:57:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: Paul Revere (#35)

Do you accept as false Rense's claim that the govt said the steel beams melted? Then we can go from there - this survey was never mentioned by me and your attempt to introduce is is an attempt top skirt the issue.

"The desire to rule is the mother of heresies." -- St. John Chrysostom

Destro  posted on  2007-04-16   16:03:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Destro (#36)

Do you accept as false Rense's claim that the govt said the steel beams melted? Then we can go from there - this survey was never mentioned by me and your attempt to introduce is is an attempt top skirt the issue.

I never said anything about Rense.

But I'm pretty sure you're supposed to do it twice.

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-16   16:09:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Paul Revere (#32)

Didn't BAC say he was only "experimenting" for a few years? ;)

BeAChooser says he is not gay. This causes him a lot of problems on Log Cabin. People wonder what he is doing there if he isn't gay. Here is an example from the other day....

#40. To: Romping Fairy (#34)

But I'm not gay. I'm married with children. I rarely I blow more than a couple of guys per month. And I sometimes do it with my wife when she starts to get nasty about it. Now is that gay in your book?

BeAChooser posted on 2007-04-13 10:41:23 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

It's not queer when Republicans do it.

Trace21231  posted on  2007-04-16   16:09:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Trace21231 (#38) (Edited)

The number of Republican activists who are gay is astonishingly high.

Gary Bauer? super gay!!

John Fund of Wall St Journal? Ga-ay!

Paul Revere  posted on  2007-04-16   16:12:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Trace21231, Paul Revere, BeAChooser (#38)

Thanks Trace for those insights. and thanks Paul Revere for your expert analysis above.

BAC in the past has accepted that molten steel was in the pile of rubble. and he said previously also that this molten steel was caused by jet fuel burning. It is impossible of course because jet fuel doesn't burn anywhere near hot enough to cause the steel to actually become molten. We know beyond shadow of any doubt because of the NASA plane that flew over and measured heat that there were hot spots which cannot be explained by burning jet fuel or office furnishings fire either because those hot spots were way too hot. So per this link BAC provided above he's apparently changed his view. He now says that because the jet fuel didn't burn hot enough to create the molten steel or the hot spots either, that therefore there was no molten steel. Despite witnesses. despite photographs. despite even the two owners of the demo companies used to remove the debris saying that the molten steel pools were real, despite all that he now says that the molten steel didn't exist. Because apparently the molten steel can only be explained by a chemical device like thermite and BAC therefore denies that the molten steel was there.

that's why he's a TREASONOUS QUEER!!!!

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-04-16   16:23:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Red Jones, ALL (#31)

Well the molten steel is reality.

Did any of those claiming they saw molten steel actually test it to be sure?

And I'm curious.

What continuing source of heat kept this supposed *steel* in a molten state for weeks and weeks after 9/11?

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-04-16   22:32:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: nolu_chan, Red Jones, ALL (#33)

Whether molten steel caused the collapse or not, what caused molten steel?

http://www.911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/moltensteel.html

Molten Metal

Workers Reported Molten Metal in Ground Zero Rubble

Was it steel? According to the above, the workers reported molten METAL. Were any actual tests done to determine what the molten material was? To confirm it was steel?

The most widely publicized report is one by American Free Press reporter Christopher Bollyn citing principals of two of the companies contracted to clean up Ground Zero. The president of Tully Construction of Flushing, NY, said he saw pools of "literally molten steel" at Ground Zero. Bollyn also cites Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, MD, as having seen molten steel in the bottoms of elevator shafts "three, four, and five weeks" after the attack.

ROTFLOL! Christopher Bollyn is a hack journalist who completely misrepresented the seismic data and seismologist statements in the same article where he made the above claim about molten steel. The link I provided proves that Loizeaux never said he saw molten steel. And how did Tully determine it was steel that was seen, ASSUMING that Bollyn is accurately quoting him to begin with (and I have doubts about that)? Notice that Bollyn didn't put the word "pools" in quotes. Did Tully actually say what Bollyn claims? Or is he exaggerating? No other witness of 9/11 has used the word "pools" to describe what was seen. Just how much of Bollyn's account can be believed?

Red Jones championed Bollyn's report at LP. And then added his own twist to the claim. He claimed there were "60+ POOLS" of molten steel in the basements of the towers. When asked to back that up, he couldn't. Why is that?

And here's another question. Loizeaux is on record saying that "molten steel was encountered primarily during excavation of debris around the South Tower when large hydraulic excavators were digging trenches 2 to 4 meters deep into the compacted/burning debris pile." How do you square this ... that the molten material was found primarily around one tower and relatively shallow in the debris with Bollyn claiming it was in the basements and with the notion of thermate being used to bring down BOTH towers?

But let's go ahead and assume it was molten steel for the moment. What kept it molten for 5 weeks after the collapse, if it was indeed created by whatever brought down the towers?

And, by the way, have you ever heard of Dr Greening and his theory about this?

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BeAChooser  posted on  2007-04-16   22:40:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: BeAChooser (#41)

Did any of those claiming they saw molten steel actually test it to be sure?

And I'm curious.

What continuing source of heat kept this supposed *steel* in a molten state for weeks and weeks after 9/11?

you just demonstrated why it is that you are a TREASONOUS QUEER!

did they have it tested? you are an idiot. You don't have to test such a thing. You just have to look at 2 things - the color and the state of plasticity or liquidity. If it is orange or red, then it is near molten and far hotter than any jet fuel can get it. and if it is liquid it is actually molten which is an amazing thing.

You yourself have posted pictures showing it to be both orange and liquid. and jet fuel as your own link said cannot get the steel that hot to be either orange or liquid.

the only way you can satisfy your pro-government theories is to lie and say that you yourself have lied. that is why you are a TREASONOUS QUEER! as well as the FACT! that Trace said you are a TREASONOUS QUEER! who hangs out at Log Cabin Republican forum.

go back and chew weenie with muscle butt and ralphie and whoever else you know over there.

You ask 'what continuing source of heat kept this steel in molten state for weeks'. I have been telling you for 4 years that the only possible thing that could've done that is thermite or thermate or some other chemical related bomb. and that this chemical bomb is also the only thing that could've caused the small earthquake measured by Syracuse Univ.

You are an idiot BAC. you are now denying realities that you previously accepted all so that you can conform your mind to the lies that government & big media have told.

TREASONOUS QUEER!

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-04-16   23:34:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: Red Jones, All (#43)

BAC is off the radar, negotiating a peace treaty with Goldi.

{:-))

They deserve each other.


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-04-16   23:38:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: beachooser, nolu_chan, Robin, Minerva, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, Kamala, All (#41)

What continuing source of heat kept this supposed *steel* in a molten state for weeks and weeks after 9/11?

Damned good question, BAC - it wasn't jet fuel or burning furniture!

Well ......?

(Aren't you glad you brough it up?)


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-04-16   23:40:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: beachooser, nolu_chan, Robin, Minerva, Christine, Brian S, Honway, Aristeides, Red Jones, Diana, Kamala, All (#42)

The details are unimportant, BAC, the fact that it was confirmed is quite enough.

Something is radically wrong in the 'official' story.

(Aren't you glad that you brought it up?)

Well, ....., your queerness? Got an answer?


SKYDRIFTER  posted on  2007-04-16   23:44:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: BeAChooser (#42)

Was it steel? According to the above, the workers reported molten METAL.

It's not an animal, it's a dog!!

If you are going to spin it, at least make an effort to hide the cheap crap.

Christ Almighty.

.

...  posted on  2007-04-16   23:52:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: BeAChooser (#42)

According to the above, the workers reported molten METAL. Were any actual tests done to determine what the molten material was? To confirm it was steel?

you are a complete idiot. Stephen Jones formerly of BYU did tests. and he found that the steel had thermite on it. I have been telling you for 4 years now that the only possible cause of this molten steel was thermite or some similar chemical. and I've been telling you that this is a smoking gun which means beyond a shadow of a doubt that the buildings were sabotaged by forces unrelated to the jet airplanes that crashed into them. And you are now saying that there was no molten steel because molten steel could not have been caused by jet fuel and jet fuel is the only solution to the problem you think. I've said 'NO!!!!!' - there was thermite also and it was put there by the saboteurs who were in league with the terrorists. It is the only logical solution to the problem we're presented with. While I solve the problem and you say that I'm a liar you are busy denying that the evidence is the evidence.

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-04-17   0:04:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: SKYDRIFTER, BeAChooser (#44)

They deserve each other.

I hope for BAC's sake that he is not going back to LP. Goldi is horrible. Stay away from her BAC!!! Even a TREASONOUS QUEER! deserves better than to associate with her.

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-04-17   0:06:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: Red Jones (#48)

If there was molten steel, then all of the other metals with lower melting points would probably have alloyed with it. Copper, tin, lead, bronze all melt at much lower temperatures than steel. A puddle of molten steel buried in construction debris would probably have other metals from conduits, nails, wirs and such melted in with it.

The point is chooser's allegation that it was "metal" and not 100% pure virgin steel is just a diversion from the real issue.

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...  posted on  2007-04-17   0:13:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: ... (#47)

It's not an animal, it's a dog!!

If you are going to spin it, at least make an effort to hide the cheap crap.

Christ Almighty.

LOL!

christine  posted on  2007-04-17   0:25:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: christine (#51)

This picture shows well that when a male has no heart, they say the Pledge of Allegiance with hand over stomach. ;-D

"G.W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography." --Kurt Vonnegut

Ferret Mike  posted on  2007-04-17   0:46:22 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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