One of the biggest lie perpetrated by the 9/11 conspiracy theorist kooks is that Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta testified to a supposed stand down order by Dick Cheney.
BUT…. This from the Washington Post’s paints a very different picture. This was referring to flight 93. Mineta did not know this and assumed it was flight 77 which had already hit the Pentagon.
In the White House bunker, a military aide approached the vice president.
“There is a plane 80 miles out,” he said. “There is a fighter in the area. Should we engage?”
“Yes,” Cheney replied without hesitation.
Around the vice president, Rice, deputy White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Cheney’s chief of staff, tensed as the military aide repeated the question, this time with even more urgency. The plane was now 60 miles out. “Should we engage?” Cheney was asked.
“Yes,” he replied again.
As the plane came closer, the aide repeated the question. Does the order still stand?
“Of course it does,” Cheney snapped.
So the order was NOT to stand down, but to ENGAGE.
And this video clearly shows there was no order to stand down.
According to Detroit band Insane Clown Posse and their latest music video, Ignorance IS Bliss.
Not knowing your grade school science and the concept that the refraction of light on water droplets form rainbows makes those rainbows “A Miracle”. “blow your brain,” from “the Milky Way and fucking shooting stars” to “long-necked giraffes” to “fucking rainbows.” The biggest punch line in the video is when one of these Bozos exclaims “Fucking magnets, how do they work?” WOW! Imaging being proud of the fact you don’t know this, and so proud of it to but it in a video for all to see.
Sad to say but NOT knowing shit has become very popular with a certain segment of society. You see it in hillbilly types who will shun “Book learn’en” and their polar opposites Rappers. The deeply religious are finding their precious bible stories of creation and Adam and Eve being relegated to quaint bed time stories by the science of evolution and cosmology. So it becomes a situation of not knowing these cold enlightened studies and accepting the warm folktales.
Writing stuff off as a miracle is a form of intellectual laziness. If something shooting stars is too hard for you to understand and would require reading a book or forgoing the entertainment of a latest music video to find out they’re chunks of rock heated to blazing temperatures by the friction of the atmosphere as they’re pulled towards the Earth, why take the trouble? Write it off as a great mystery.
Well luckily Cracked.com has created a dumbed down science book for ICP Juggalos. Lots of pictures for the cognitive challenged.
Data Recorder from car indicated there was no application of the brakes, and the throttle was fully open.
No big mystery here. Of all the hundreds of thousands of vehicle accidents each year the vast majority are caused by driver error. And a smaller present weather related. The weakest link in the car is the nut that attaches the steering wheel to the drivers seat.
Yet you are supposed to believe the current hype and buy the very unlikely situation where these cars are suffering full throttle acceleration BUT also complete failure of the brakes. AND all this without trace of this double system failure in the cars involved. Nobody has seen this happen to these cars under controlled observable conditions, often using the same cars that drivers have said suffered the event. And these test are not just being performed by the government and the manufacturers but also by organizations who would just love to prove the cars are at fault and yet even they can’t reproduce the claimed events.
Blaming the government and corporations seems to be very popular with a certain segment of the population, unfortunately popular opinion does not make the reality of the situation what they want it to be. And it only tends to make it harder to hold corporations feet to the fire when they really do something wrong.
From Wired Magazine February 22, 2010. Plus this ‘Conspiracy Generator’ for those too lazy to make up their own.
Are you kidding me? [ event ]was a total sham! Think about it! Everyone knows that [ appeal to precedent ]. And have you noticed that [ ruling elite ]has started to act very strangely? They obviously don’t want this story getting out. I mean, what would happen if people began asking [ disturbing question ]? Well, they may be able to fool the sheeple, but the members of [ dedicated group of truth-seekers ]aren’t swallowing their story. Look, don’t take it from me; [ expert endorsement ] is convinced as well. But we have to act fast, because [ suggestion of imminent threat ]. I just wanted you to be aware of this, in case I disappear.
So Robertson wants you believe in this “god” thing, and his reasoning is you should do so because this god fellow saw fit to kill tens of thousands of innocent men, woman and even children to punish them for something that they as individuals had no responsibility for. A real or imagined pact with the devil. Now maybe it’s me being an atheist and all but that there sure doesn’t sound like a very good selling point to me. Sounds more like extortion.
So Pat, does that mean I can kill your family members because their old man is such a useless piece of shit? Maybe we should nuke Germany because of the Holocaust thing, hell we may even get a few Nazis who were alive during WWII. Why stop there? Fire bomb the Vatican for their part in the Crusades. Why make this god fellow do all the work?
Maybe I just have a higher moral conception than Robertson’s god, I know if I could prevent the suffering in Haiti I would do it in a heartbeat. I also know if a buffoon like Pat Robertson had tried to pin 9/11 and the Haiti earthquake on me he would have burst into flames right there on TV and would have to been put out by beating with a rake and being pissed on.
Posted: January 6, 2010 at 8:46 am | Tags: Homeopathic
Couple took daughter to various health professionals, but abandoned each conventional medication she was prescribed within a short time of starting it, they solidly pursued homeopathic remedies.
“All hell is going to break lose,” Barry said while speaking to reporters. “We may have a civil war. The black community is just adamant against this.”
The specter of black men and woman protesting the legalizing of gay marriage strikes me as obscene. Maybe they don’t remember that as late as 1967 some of our southern states had laws forbidding interracial marriage.
These bans were supported by many clergy of that time, and they could quote you biblical verse seeming to condemn mixing of the races. The Supreme Court saw fit to drag these backwoods bumpkins into the 20th century.
Here, Let me fix that for you.
What is even weirder is their moral spokesman is Marion Barry who had a short but popular reality TV show, “Toking with Barry” where he smokes crack with his “Girlfriend” and the undercover FBI men. Marion Barry’s administration was plagued by scandals and rumors. His womanizing and partying prowess was legendary. Not exactly a good example of family values.
Said Barry:
“What you’ve got to understand is 98 percent of my constituents are black and we don’t have but a handful of openly gay residents,” Barry said. “Secondly, at least 70 percent of those who express themselves to me about this are opposed to anything dealing with this issue. The ministers think it is a sin, and I have to be sensitive to that.”
Well gee Marion, your race only makes up 10% or so of the American population. If we handed out rights based on popular vote you would still be picking cotton instead of pimping your political standing to a bunch of loud mouth bible bigots.
Republican lawmakers and prominent conservative media figures slammed President Obama today, accusing him of carrying the swine flu virus back from his recent trip to Mexico and using the ensuing potential health pandemic as a political tool to scare the American public into supporting his health care plan.
Of course we all know this is the work of the Jews. Think about it, Jews don’t eat pork, Pigs are pork. It’s a Zionist plot I tell you! Wake up Sheeple!!!!
This is one of those little facts you will never hear from conspiracy theorist who promote the idea of a JFK assassination plot. As a young reporter Jim Lehrer was at Love Field that morning, and had asked a secret service agent if the bubble top was going to be removed from the Presidents car. It had been raining, but was now clearing. The agent radioed to find if it was clear downtown as well, so he told others to “Take the bubble top off”.
To me this is far more interesting then any Oliver Stone fairy tail.
UFO Myths: A Special Investigation into Stephenville and Other Major Sightings
What were the speed-shifting, color-morphing UFOs that mystified hundreds of eyewitnesses around Stephenville, Texas, last January? Optical Illusions? Secret Military Operations? Alien Spaceships? PM spent months investigating UFO conspiracy theories, looking for straightforward explanations. A special report.
One of the silliest arguments truthers make for 9/11 being this BIG conspiracy is that at no time in history has an large office building collapsed due to fire.
Of course this is mind numbingly duncical in myriad ways. For one, the idea that something could not have happened the way it did simply because it never happened before is down right childish and defies any rational logic. I guess in the truther world NOTHING can happen, everything must have a first time.
In the truther world the passenger jet that had to ditch in the Hudson river could not have happened! At no time in the past had a jet like that landed in water without breaking apart. So I guess the Hudson river emergency landing must have been an Inside Job or a holographic hoax, and all those people who saw it with their own two eyes? just government shills. The Moon landing? Yeah never happened before ergo a giant government hoax. Same with the Titanic, the break-up of the space shuttle and countless other never before events.
What is amazing is these people will repeat this ludicrous observation never once sitting down to think exactly how stupid it is. To your average brain dead conspiracy loon type this is powerful incite. To the rest of us it’s sad statement on our education system.
Posted: January 29, 2009 at 4:29 pm | Tags: aliens, ufos
I had a small discussion with a fellow who was convinced that UFOs were vehicles from another planet and were controlled by INTELEGENT forces. He had all the classic arguments, lights, people being taken aboard a UFO, all the other stories as sold to him in countless “Unexplained Mysteries” TV programs. He even said he saw a light he could not explain, but had to admit he was not sure of what it was.
My question to him was “If these UFOs are controlled by an intelligence… Why don’t they act in an intelligent manner?” Intelligence would denote the things have a purpose outside of just spooking the locals. I asked the fellow if he thought these UFOs wanted to be seen, or did they NOT want to be seen. He came up with some story about how they just may be here to observe us or they fear we can’t handle the idea of advanced intelligent life, so they don’t want us to see them.
Well being a smart-ass skeptic type I ask him “Why then if these so called intelligent being do not want to be seen do they fly around with the light on?” After all even us lowly Earthlings know if you are in the dark, “Job One” in the not being seen business is to NOT flash bright lights at people!!!!! He made up some lame excuse like “maybe their propulsion device makes the lights” But that doesn’t wash, after all we humans can fly around at night and not be heard or seen even on radar, but apparently these interstellar travelers CAN’T mimic what we do? Being seen is even easier for obvious reasons.
No, there is one conclusion you can make about your typical UFO. It is NOT controlled by an intelligence, it’s an unintelligent event that we human attach intelligence to. We do it because it is more fun to claim to have seem an alien spacecraft than to have seen a light you could not explain.
You got to love the diverse nature of the crackpots who inhabit the 911 Truth movement.
In 2004 Jerome R. Corsi’s wrote “Unfit for Command,” which inspired the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in their attack of presidential hopeful Senator John Kerry. His new book “Obama Nation.” is a similar hit piece on Barack Obama. Corsi is by his nature racist, anti-Semitic and believe 911 Was an Inside Job.
