OK truthers. Here’s the offer. I would have preferred to post it in one of your groups but you guys have banned me for having the bad taste to prove your silliness wrong. Prove controlled demolition to me and I’ll give you $5,000 (I’ve lowered it from $100,000 because I might be able to actually afford $5,000). If you accept the offer and think you’ve proven your case, then if I don’t pay, you can take me to court for breach of contract and a court can decide if you actually have proven your case. What do you say? Put up or shut up.
To prevent me from having to deal with possibly defending myself in multiple cases at a time (on the off chance that a truther actually had the balls to try to make his case in court), this offer is to the person who first accepts it here only. If they fail, I can renew the offer to a second person.
And I won’t even try to get the case dismissed for other reasons. I’d love to see you try to make your case in court.
To contact Ron about his offer, follow this link to the FB page and message him through there.
It,s dosn,t take much to see the similarities between creationist and 9/11 Truthers. Both are pimping an idea that has absolutely no validity with the scientific community but they pretend they have scientific facts to back up their claims.
In real science there is a thing called consensus of opinion. In biological science evolution has overwhelming consensus that it is true, living organisms do evolve even to the point of creating new species. The consensus of opinion in the structural engineering community is that fires in the World Trand Centers combined with structural damage from being struck by large aircraft going 450MPH caused the towers to collapse. And this idea had held water for over 10 years.
The biggest logical falicy used by both is the old “I don’t know what happened”, the old arguing from ignorance. It’s one of the laziest of tactics and also very cowardly, it requires not taking a defined stand, when proven wrong the holder can simple brush it off by saying ” I didn’t say that I was just questioning”.
The quality of the expert is important, a biological scientist with a proven history of reasearch in the study of evolution is going to take precedence over a professor of theology. The opinion of a structural engineer like Leslie Robertson is going to have great weight over an architect like Richard Gage who as far as anyone can tell has never designed a building over one story. While Robertson actually designed the structural elements of the WTC among other large buildings, the proof of his expertise is in what he has acually done not what he said he did.
It make you wonder, what kind of idiot thinks a man who because of severe brain damage due to an accident is a guy you would list as an asset to your cause? A man with a history of bazaar behaviors and ideas because of that injury. We are talking here of “Gary Fucking Busey”, everything that come out of his mouth has been a joke for years. An unfortunate train wreck of a man after falling off his Harley and hitting his head. The only bright spot is he became a poster boy for the advantages of wearing a helmet. Most people laugh off his views on life and politics but 9/11 truthers are so desperate for any warm body to buy their little swindle they will take anyone even Busey.
You will note when you look at the other celebrity truthers you don’t exactly see a lot of bright people, The last one being Charlie Sheen, what ever happened to him? Is he still ‘Winning”? You have some Dude who played with Metallica, well, there is a ringing endorsement. Remember Rosie O’Donnell Rant That Fire Doesn’t Melt Steel in spite of the fact foundries and blacksmiths have been doing just that for centuries.
We live in a nation that believes in the cult of personality, that the view of an actor or rap artist on 9/11 is of the same value as real experts, actual structural engineers what have actually designed skyscraper.
So here Gary rambles on about how “They” are taking god out of America. At the end you see Jim Marrs, a nut who thinks aliens are visiting earth and JFK was not shot by Oswald.
“Bananas: The Atheist’s Worst Nightmare” is a particular variant of an ”Argument from design” which describes how the banana’s features reveal its true cosmic origins. The argument traces back to Ray Comfort and former Growing Pains actor Kirk Cameron. It’s a very funny bit, Comfort lovingly stroking his god banana while Cameron smiles away with the clueless delight of an idiot. I am sure they didn’t intend it to be used by rationalist as an example of failure of critical thinking.
Just like the creationist loonies the 9/11 truth crackpots have their own brand of unintentionally humor, in this bit Richard Gage seems to think that he can compare the WTC towers to boxes made of cardboard. He has used the cardboard box comparison in his lectures since the summer of 2008. He drops a smaller box of cardboard on top of a taller box of cardboard. Unsurprisingly, the taller cardboard box taking the hit does not give in to the dropping box. In his other hand he holds another small cardboard box and drops it straight to the ground. He does all this to make the point, that the WTC towers should have resisted or stopped the collapse. Of course if you are smarter than the average truther (and who isn’t), you know the towers didn’t fall at free fall or without resistance. But this is exactly the kind of stuff that appeal to the brain dead morons who make up the truther community. Unfortunately for them it is also the type of thing that people who do understand physics snicker at. You are more likely to see this demonstration from “Box Boy Gage” being show on debunking sites because it proves the mans ignorance of physics.
How utterly devoid of any form of thinking ability do you need to be to buy the often sighted 9/11 conspiracy theorist idea that some or all of the 19 9/11 hijackers are still alive?
This so called proof of US involvement got it’s start in a simple erroneous report by the BBC. The BBC reported the names of what they believed to be some of the hijackers.Some people with the same names were later discovered to be alive, a fact that was seized upon by 9/11 conspiracy theorists as proof that the hijackings were faked. These were very common Arabic and Islamic names and the BBC acknowledged these were simple cases of mistaken identity. According to John Bradley, the former managing editor of Arab News in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the only public information about the hijackers was a list of names issued by the FBI on September 14, 2001. When the FBI released photographs four days after the cited reports on September 27, the mistaken identities were quickly resolved. But because truthers have so little real proof of US involvement in the attacks you still hear them pimping this nonsense even today.
But my point in the entire affair is one of pure logic and the application of critical thinking. Even if you didn’t know of the mistaken BBC report why would you believe what the conspiracy theorist tell you? Think about it… if the hijackers are alive why would you NOT see some news organization unfriendly to the USA displaying these men for all the world to see? Iranian TV would be more than happy to prove USAs involvement in 9/11 if they could, but you have to believe they do not for some unknown reason. Well maybe they can’t because the hijackers are all dead. This alone would tell you what the truther are selling you is bullshit.
The other issue again come from purely critical thinking perspective. GET THIS! the conspiracy theorist want you to buy the idea that in planing this big false flag operation the US government created the terrorist they would ultimately blame for the attacks on the identities of real people living in the middle east! People who would be alive after 9/11. As if …. the US could not simply manufacture fake terrorist with passports, drivers licenses, pictures and all other documentation needed. The US could have their own people play the terrorist and check into flight schools and show an ability to fly large passenger jets. These fake terrorist could leave all kinds of clues linking the government of Iran to the attack. And unlike the real hijackers they would not be Saudi citizens but Iranians or Afghanis, I mean, isn’t that the whole ideas of the operation the truthers want you to buy, the US did 9/11 to justify war with Iran and Afghanistan? So why not make your fake terrorist fit the people you want to attack?
One would have to have a room temperature IQ to believe these conspiracy “proofs”. Their conspiracy theorist ideas don’t pass the sniff test for bullshit. And that is something you learn quickly when dealing with conspiracy theorist, these people are not very bright, they’re people who are easily conned, easily fooled and very much influenced by hype. They can’t or won’t apply critical questions to their beliefs because if they did they would realize how wrong they are. “There’s a sucker born every minute”
It does not take much to see the similarities between creationist and 9/11 Truthers. Both are pimping an idea that has absolutely no validity with the scientific community but they pretend they have scientific facts to back up their claims.
In real science there is a thing called “Consensus of Opinion”. In the science of biology evolution has an overwhelming consensus that it is true, living organisms do evolve even to the point of creating new species. The consensus of opinion in structural engineering is that fires in the World Trand Centers combined with structural damage from being struck by large aircraft going 450MPH caused the towers to collapse. Continue Reading
So in keep with the enormous “Brain Trust” (note the sarcasm) of 9/11 Truth famous like Charlie Sheen, Rosie O’Donnell, Heidi. Spencer, Janeane Garofalo, Woody Harrelson, Mos Def, Willie Nelson, (pot thing) and Jesse Ventura we have this guy who I am told was in Spider Man. Who the hell is Hal Sparks, and why is he such a pin head? AND his first observation on 9/11 is, get this…. Some of the hijackers are still alive.
So… what YOU want me to believe here Hal, is that some of these hijackers are sitting alive and well somewhere for nine years, and all they or anyone else unfriendly to the US government has to do to expose the big USA false flag operation of 9/11 is to pull them out in front of a camera for all the world to see? It sure would take the blame off Muslims. BUT….. They do NOT????? Hey Hal….. Maybe you don’t see that happening is because THEY ARE DEAD! It’s a thing called “LOGIC”, you should try it sometime. As with all truthers I have met I realize you are probably not very well informed or very bright, but we are talking pure logic here. How do you tell something you are being told is bullshit or real? In other words, How do you NOT become a sucker? Ask yourself what about this observation doesn’t wash. If someone tells you Elvis is alive or they have a fire breathing dragon in their garage, your next question should, “Well, Lets see him or it?”
Cindy Sheehan is still proving herself a huge embarrassment to the anti war cause. In this recent podcast she says….
“I think a new investigation is something that many many people agree with, if people don’t start saying, ‘It’s an inside job.’ Because that turns a lot of people off, even though I think it (9-11) was an inside job, I just don’t know how far inside it went. But as soon as you say it’s an inside job, people start saying, oh, you’re accusing Dick Cheney of planning the whole thing, blah blah blah. Well, of course, some people are (laughs) but then people say, we don’t know, we need to find out. Was it CIA? Was it whoever? Whoever, um, it had to be an inside job. There’s like no way they could have done that, just like the one on December 25th. There’s no way that guy could have done it without some kind of help, and we know he got help. Who was (crosstalk) that nice-dressed man that got him through that these people witnessed, got him through security?”
Really?… Please will someone tell her the “Inside Job” thing is dead. All that is left is a small band of science illiterate conspiracy theorist kooks still stuck in a 2005 mind set. And are we now to believe the Underwear Bomber was an inside job? Listen Cindy, I know you are not a genius by any stretch of the word but try thinking a little here, if the Christmas eve event was a CIA black ops job the bombing would have been more of a terror inducing incident rather than a joke, “Ha Ha, silly terrorist couldn’t even blow his own balls off”, what’s to be afraid of?
If it were a false flag operation designed to instill fear in people the aircraft would have gone down or the terrorist would have blown himself up and taken several people with him. And he would have direct links to Al Qieda rather than being a sad mixed up rich kid.
Starting to hear rumbling of Fort Hood being and “Inside Job”. The reality of this event is just not good enough for the conspiracy theorist loonies, they have to concoct a giant plot fitting their particular political or religious ideology. Like JFK or 9/11, They often blames the government, New World Order and of course “The Jews”, every one but the people who in reality, did it. The reality is, it happened inside and the guy who did it was an insider.
The first to jump on the kook express are of course the 9/11 Inside Job crackpots. The comments over at 911blogger have the same lame “Only asking questions” tactic, Gee! as if the early reports coming out of a hectic event such as this would NOT contain some inaccuracies and confusion. Fort Hood Shooting ‘Oddities’
Submitted by Orangutan. on Sat, 11/07/2009 One can only assume “Orangutan” is an observation on the posters evolutionary rank.
I saw a comment over on BradBlog that said this was a traditional case of mutiny on the base. After they got things settled, they didn’t want that fact to come out because it might encourage others who are feeling the same way to act out the same way, so they framed this psychiatrist who may have just been injured in the incident. Of course this is all speculation, but with the initial reports it kind of makes sense. We’ll see what comes of it if anything.
So apparently the conspiracy is that soldiers are in an armed revolt and being shot by other soldiers and the entire episode is being covered up and an innocent Muslim Army Major being made the scapegoat.
My question becomes, “How do I cash in on the scam?” Conspiracy theorist being the gullible suckers they are prime candidates for a little fleecing, If I were a scum bag I would write a book, maybe a DVD to sell to the rubes.
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A very interesting controlled demolition technique in common use in France. It involves going into a prepared structure and using hydraulic jacks or other mechanical means to knock out key supports. The upper block of the building then demolishes the rest of the structure using nothing but gravity. a feat 9/11 truthers say is impossible!
You will note the upper block of mass is not slowed down much by the rest of the building. The collapse occurs quite quickly. The debris is largely confined. Though some appears propelled out the sides. The collapse of the entire structure is achieved by highly localized one or two floors failures.
So are we to now believe the French did 9/11? Yeah we all know how friendly the French are towards the US. Gee, to bad the truthers got so invested in the thermite deal, or Super Nano Thermite or whatever imagined material these kooks pull from their asses. They could have used the “French CD Technique” as the smoking gun clue. At least it LOOKS like what happened to the towers. And the American population tend to hate those Frogs, so truthers would have had a more receptive audience.
In 1998 I saw this implosion in person, and ever though I was a good mile and a half away the sound was deafening and had the characteristic even spacing you hear in REAL controlled demolitions. Nothing at all like the events of 9-11-01.
As much as I think the Patriot Act is a oxymoronicaly named corrosion of our freedoms, the hysteria over the story of the North Carolina teen supposedly held under the act without legal counsel is proving to be untrue.
FBI agents investigating a February 15 bomb hoax that evacuated the mechanical engineering building at Purdue University traced the phone call to the juvenile’s Oxford, North Carolina home. They served his mother with a search warrant and arrested the teen. He does have an attorney and will get his day in court.
The claim that the boy is a victim of USA PATRIOT, though, appears to have been cut from whole cloth. While there’s plenty to criticize in that post-9/11 law, it doesn’t contain any provision that abrogates a defendant’s right to a trial. It’s also not responsible for making it illegal to phone in a bomb threat. That’s been a federal crime since 1939.
Blogs and talk radio on the left and right have been howling over the original rumor, but strangely quiet now that the story is proving to be over hyped fear mongering. These so called news sources play to the popular conspiratorial viewpoint, people eat up claims of big bad evil men taking away your rights but suddenly become deaf to the real story.
This is one of those stories that when I first heard it set off my bullshit detector. It didn’t sound right, and sure enough the truth is far less ominous than the ballyhoo.
OK, So having Mos Def on the same panel with Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie is like sending a one legged man to an ass kicking contest. Borat has made more sense.
I love the part where he say he doesn’t know what Bin Laden says in his videos because he doesn’t speak Arabic. OK, not like there is no shortage people who can translate it for you. And the part where he makes a big point of saying he doesn’t mind holding the unpopular idea, DUH MOS! You are sitting next to Salman Rushdie and two unabashed atheist. From what I can see Mos doesn’t mind holding a stupid idea.
I have always told people that the conspiracy theorist types will never go away. Under George Bush the conspiracies were coming more from the left, GWB was the New World Order devil for them. Claims that he rigged the elections and that he and Dick Cheney personally pulled off the 9/11 attacks were part and parcel of every old hippy and young hipster fevered imagination. To believe them the 2008 elections were to be stopped by another false flag terror attack and Bush would become de facto King George. Wow, what ever happened to that one?
In the middle you have the evergreen kooks, the Ruby Ridge, Waco, supporters of Ron Paul types. Summer, Spring, Winter or Fall these guys are always in full bloom wackyness. They spend a lot of time listening to Alex Jones and stockpiling C-rations in underground bunkers preparing for the end times. You had to feel sorry for them when nothing happened on Y2K.
Well here it is 2009 and a black man is in office, GWB is regarded as the worst president since Nixon and the conspiracy theorist are fast trying to adapt their natural born propensity to see boogie men under the bed for the new era. The “Bill Clinton had the Vince Foster murdered” conservatives tin foil hat types are poised to make a comeback ready to jump on any seemingly suspicious act by Barack Obama. The first salvo for this a new class of conspiratist are called “Birthers” who claim Obama isn’t eligible to be president of the United States because of question as to his birth. Never mind the fact the validity of Obama’s eligibility have no grounding in evidence. Courts across the country have summarily rejected the movement’s theory.
Discredited theories is a constant in a country with a history of partisan division, a country in which, surveys have shown 50% of the public believe in UFOs and 72% percent believes astrology works. If you want to promote this sort of stuff, you certainly have a large receptive audience. So I suspect there will be no shortage of loons to poke fun at.
So in keep with the enormous “Brain Trust” (note the sarcasm) of 9/11 Truth famous like Charlie Sheen, Rosie O’Donnell, Heidi. Spencer, Janeane Garofalo, Woody Harrelson, Mos Def, Willie Nelson, (pot thing) and Jesse Ventura we have this guy who I am told was in Spider Man. Who the hell is Hal Sparks, and why is he such a pin head? AND his first observation on 9/11 is, get this…. Some of the hijackers are still alive.