“Muslims encouraged to run for public office.”
Ain’t anything anyone can add to that, is there.

No Gideon Bibles? Doesn’t he know Gideon International is a private organization? Probably not.

And that’s just the first 100 hours! Who says we didn’t have a plan for governing?

“You found me beautiful once.”

“Honey… you got real ugly.”

All of that sounds great! Forward, brothers and sisters!

I think this is the best part of the Good Swank column:

When it comes to the immoral Democrats, they are bankrupt from get-go. They are all evil windbags. While Republicans can’t find their wind, Democrats let go with wind in flourishing gusts that mean nothing but a foul fog in the night.

Obviously the good Swank is a linguistic aesthetic. Really paints a picture, doesn’t he?

Where does he get the bangs. STOP GO BACK AND LOOK AT HIS BANGS. Totally gay, why are all republicans gay?

Since 2004, nothing really happened since the Red States’ dream of happenings

Is this like the dreamfields? Only more, you know, redundant?

Pastor Swank, color me convinced. Recreational sex encouraged in public? Biblical believer cleansings? Muslim special time-frames? These are all frightening prospects, to be sure. But Korans on end tables? At long last, Dems, have you no decency? Everybody knows the Q’uran belongs on a rahla, not an end table. Jeez.

“Muslims encouraged to run for public office.�

But it’s even worse than you think, pastor, for not only did a Muslim run for Congress, but he won.

Since 2004, nothing really happened since the Red States’ dream of happenings

The world does not need a right-wing version of Fluxus. For a start, it would involve wingnuts in tie-dyed tee-shirts.

Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words?
Swank: Yeah, basically.
Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words?
Swank: Look, maybe I didn’t say every tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah.

Hmm… that explains a lot about our friend Swank. He can’t even get English right, how is he supposed to cope with klaatu verata niktu? Also sheds some light on how he manages to post so many columns in a single day. There’s more than one of him.

“Evangelicals judicially categorized as social nuisances”

From your lips to God’s ears, Canadian Bible Guy!

(Did he mean to give me a half-chub with that? And if so, does he want to take any of this meth of my hands?)

preview button? What if we say please?

I tried.

that fix it?

But it doesn’t… I can’t… There isn’t…

Okay, I’ll ask Seb about the preview button. I don’t know where it went, but there must be some reasonable solution here.

The wife and I put a blood fountain in the backyaed, but it keeps coagulating.

Christmas symbols stored in underground caves in favor of “Season’s greetings� stamps on every envelope.

“Stored in underground caves”? Why, so the Mole People can have them? Hell no, we’ll just burn ’em. Ya gotta be practical about these things.

Evangelicals judicially categorized as social nuisances…

See, this is what Wank’s really worried about. We’ve got your number, God boy!

I just checked and there’s no condom machine underneath any lamp post in my neighborhood – what a ripoff. What did I vote for?

Some asshole down my street has been aborting fetuses according to sharia law and marrying homo terrorists since last Wednesday. The prick didn’t even wait until all the votes were counted.

He’s in top form, ready for another Xtreme Wingnut Preach-Off….and just in time, ’cause there’s a legitimate contender from the Great White North:

http://www.outsidethetent.com/wp/archives/burn-now-or-burn-later/

I’ve been strutting my ugly stuff since the election. I haven’t quite managed to go coast to coast with it yet, though.

“that’s the definition of the Dem agenda from a biblical study”

For some reason – perhaps my migraine medicine had something to do with it – I’ve become fixated on the concept of a “biblical study viewpoint”. My mind insists on picturing Swank all dolled up in a velvet smoking jacket, in a study lined with books, but when you look real close, they are all Gideons.

Teh Rapture can’t come soon enough for me. If it means all these freakawhackadoodles will be departing, that’s a very good thing.

You guys are seriously crackin me up. I read this thing and was just speechless. Some of these people act like the Democratic party isn’t just a political party, it’s a completely different species.

I mean, c’mon. If we’re such outta control hedonists with our sex and our condoms and our abortions, why would we hate christianity but embrace islam? I mean, he says we’re anti-religious. Is it to much to ask for a modicum of logical consistancy, even while butchering the language?

Okay, I’ll ask Seb about the preview button. I don’t know where it went, but there must be some reasonable solution here.

Gavin, I’m sure I can take up a collection and send you some busted electronic devices, old magazines and some hemp made from hemp fibers out of everlasting gratitude.

mikey

Hey, steve_e, I didn’t know you lived in my neighborhood. By midnight Tuesday the Dem precinct captains in town were going door to door with their spray bottles of Formula 666, cleansing god from all the households, re-engineering schoolhouses to comply with EuroClone blueprints, and vacuuming the local Christian-access channel right out of my cable box. What gives? These bastards just don’t know when to stop.

Gav and/or Seb; you’d might consider the Live Comment Preview-plugin. Sorta nifty, when it works.

I’d hate to be the one stuck with “absenting” the Gideon Bibles from the Vegas Strip hotels. There’s like 5-6,000 rooms in each of those fuckers.

And besides, it’s not like anyone’s gonna notice they’re gone….

Well, like I said, they didn’t visit my place until Wednesday night. I missed half of Lost. But it’s ok, the episode wasn’t that great anyway.

We’ve secretly replaced this man’s regular God with new Allah brand diety, let’s see if he notices the difference!

all of this was said as the good Pastor Swank was running to his car for “personal safety”. He plans to hide out there until 2008 when the
Santorum/Allen ticket once again restores the rightful balance of ignorance and hatred to the national ticket.

What the heck is a “political hymn”. Does he mean, like, “America the Beautiful”?

“Homosexual couple child-adoptions encouraged in every state.”

Most of his statements are just too crazy to be anything but hilarious, but this one really pisses me off. All these kids in foster care, needing parents… And people like Swank are the very same people who don’t want to pay taxes so these poor kids can get a decent shot at life. Makes me hope there really is an afterlife, because I’ve got a feeling Swank and his ilk might be in for a bit of a surprise when they find out “heaven” has experienced considerable global warming climate change, to the point where it’s actually on fire….

tigrismus, i spit out coffee while reading your comment, and I haven’t had any coffee since early this morning!

“Since 2004, nothing really happened since the Red States’ dream of happenings.”

The Red States had a dream of happenings but nothing happened! We must make for the good now, Uncle Grandfather!

tigrismus, i spit out coffee while reading your comment, and I haven’t had any coffee since early this morning!

The coffee was absented from my nose also.

I can’t tell the difference between this monotheistic, solar-phallic religion and a dead crab.

The wife and I put a blood fountain in the backyaed, but it keeps coagulating.

Ya gotta use a thinner like heparin or even aspirin! Sheesh! Every Democrat knows that!!

And someone should tell the good “Rev.” Swank that the Bible specifically prohibits fortune-telling. Oopsie!

Now that our side has a majority in both houses they should actually USE the subpeona power and launch a REAL independent investigation into 9/11.

One thing that struck me as odd in the days after 9/11 was Bush saying “We will not tolerate conspiracy theories [regarding 9/11]”. Sure enough there have been some wacky conspiracy theories surrounding the events of that day. The most far-fetched and patently ridiculous one that I’ve ever heard goes like this: Nineteen hijackers who claimed to be devout Muslims but yet were so un-Muslim as to be getting drunk all the time, doing cocaine and frequenting strip clubs decided to hijack four airliners and fly them into buildings in the northeastern U.S., the area of the country that is the most thick with fighter bases. After leaving a Koran on a barstool at a strip bar after getting shitfaced drunk on the night before, then writing a suicide note/inspirational letter that sounded like it was written by someone with next to no knowledge of Islam, they went to bed and got up the next morning hung over and carried out their devious plan. Nevermind the fact that of the four “pilots” among them there was not a one that could handle a Cessna or a Piper Cub let alone fly a jumbo jet, and the one assigned the most difficult task of all, Hani Hanjour, was so laughably incompetent that he was the worst fake “pilot” of the bunch. Nevermind the fact that they received very rudimentary flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, making them more likely to have been C.I.A. assets than Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. So on to the airports. These “hijackers” somehow managed to board all four airliners with their tickets, yet not even ONE got his name on any of the flight manifests. So they hijack all four airliners and at this time passengers on United 93 start making a bunch of cell phone calls from 35,000 feet in the air to tell people what was going on. Nevermind the fact that cell phones wouldn’t work very well above 4,000 feet, and wouldn’t work at ALL above 8,000 feet. But the conspiracy theorists won’t let that fact get in the way of a good fantasy. That is one of the little things you “aren’t supposed to think about”. Nevermind that one of the callers called his mom and said his first and last name, more like he was reading from a list than calling his own mom. Anyway, when these airliners each deviated from their flight plan and didn’t respond to ground control, NORAD would any other time have followed standard operating procedure (and did NOT have to be told by F.A.A. that there were hijackings because they were watching the same events unfold on their own radar) which means fighter jets would be scrambled from the nearest base where they were available on standby within a few minutes, just like every other time when airliners stray off course. But of course on 9/11 this didn’t happen, not even close. Somehow these “hijackers” must have used magical powers to cause NORAD to stand down, as ridiculous as this sounds because total inaction from the most high-tech and professional Air Force in the world would be necessary to carry out their tasks. So on the most important day in its history the Air Force was totally worthless. Then they had to make one of the airliners look like a smaller plane, because unknown to them the Naudet brothers had a videocamera to capture the only known footage of the North Tower crash, and this footage shows something that is not at all like a jumbo jet, but didn’t have to bother with the South Tower jet disguising itself because that was the one we were “supposed to see”. Anyway, as for the Pentagon they had to have Hani Hanjour fly his airliner like it was a fighter plane, making a high G-force corkscrew turn that no real airliner can do, in making its descent to strike the Pentagon. But these “hijackers” wanted to make sure Rumsfeld survived so they went out of their way to hit the farthest point in the building from where Rumsfeld and the top brass are located. And this worked out rather well for the military personnel in the Pentagon, since the side that was hit was the part that was under renovation at the time with few military personnel present compared to construction workers. Still more fortuitous for the Pentagon, the side that was hit had just before 9/11 been structurally reinforced to prevent a large fire there from spreading elsewhere in the building. Awful nice of them to pick that part to hit, huh? Then the airliner vaporized itself into nothing but tiny unidentifiable pieces no bigger than a fist, unlike the crash of a real airliner when you will be able to see at least some identifiable parts, like crumpled wings, broken tail section etc. Why, Hani Hanjour the terrible pilot flew that airliner so good that even though he hit the Pentagon on the ground floor the engines didn’t even drag the ground!! Imagine that!! Though the airliner vaporized itself on impact it only made a tiny 16 foot hole in the building. Amazing. Meanwhile, though the planes hitting the Twin Towers caused fires small enough for the firefighters to be heard on their radios saying “We just need 2 hoses and we can knock this fire down” attesting to the small size of it, somehow they must have used magical powers from beyond the grave to make this morph into a raging inferno capable of making the steel on all forty-seven main support columns (not to mention the over 100 smaller support columns) soften and buckle, then all fail at once. Hmmm. Then still more magic was used to make the building totally defy physics as well as common sense in having the uppermost floors pass through the remainder of the building as quickly, meaning as effortlessly, as falling through air, a feat that without magic could only be done with explosives. Then exactly 30 minutes later the North Tower collapses in precisely the same freefall physics-defying manner. Incredible. Not to mention the fact that both collapsed at a uniform rate too, not slowing down, which also defies physics because as the uppermost floors crash into and through each successive floor beneath them they would shed more and more energy each time, thus slowing itself down. Common sense tells you this is not possible without either the hijackers’ magical powers or explosives. To emphasize their telekinetic prowess, later in the day they made a third building, WTC # 7, collapse also at freefall rate though no plane or any major debris hit it. Amazing guys these magical hijackers. But we know it had to be “Muslim hijackers” the conspiracy theorist will tell you because (now don’t laugh) one of their passports was “found” a couple days later near Ground Zero, miraculously “surviving” the fire that we were told incinerated planes, passengers and black boxes, and also “survived” the collapse of the building it was in. When common sense tells you if that were true then they should start making buildings and airliners out of heavy paper and plastic so as to be “indestructable” like that magic passport. The hijackers even used their magical powers to bring at least seven of their number back to life, to appear at american embassies outraged at being blamed for 9/11!! BBC reported on that and it is still online. Nevertheless, they also used magical powers to make the american government look like it was covering something up in the aftermath of this, what with the hasty removal of the steel debris and having it driven to ports in trucks with GPS locators on them, to be shipped overseas to China and India to be melted down. When common sense again tells you that this is paradoxical in that if the steel was so unimportant that they didn’t bother saving some for analysis but so important as to require GPS locators on the trucks with one driver losing his job because he stopped to get lunch. Hmmmm. Further making themselves look guilty, the Bush administration steadfastly refused for over a year to allow a commission to investigate 9/11 to even be formed, only agreeing to it on the conditions that they get to dictate its scope, meaning it was based on the false pretense of the “official story” being true with no other alternatives allowed to be considered, handpicked all its members making sure the ones picked had vested interests in the truth remaining buried, and with Bush and Cheney only “testifying” together, only for an hour, behind closed doors, with their attorneys present and with their “testimonies” not being recorded by tape or even written down in notes. Yes, this whole story smacks of the utmost idiocy and fantastic far-fetched lying, but it is amazingly enough what some people believe. Even now, five years later, the provably false fairy tale of the “nineteen hijackers” is heard repeated again and again, and is accepted without question by so many Americans. Which is itself a testament to the innate psychological cowardice of the American sheeple, i mean people, and their abject willingness to believe something, ANYTHING, no matter how ridiculous in order to avoid facing a scary uncomfortable truth. Time to wake up America.

Debunking Popular Mechanics lies:
http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=6880
someone else debunking Popular Mechanics crap:
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/pop_mech/reply_to_popular_mechanics.htm
still more debunking Poopular Mechanics:
http://letsroll911.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=5505
and still more debunking of Popular Mechanics:
http://www.reopen911.org/ericreubt.htm

Poopular Mechanics staff replaced just before laughable “debunking� article written:
http://www.reopen911.org/hiddenhand.htm
another neo-con 9/11 hit piece explodes, is retracted:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/180806hitpiece.htm
Professor Steven Jones debunks the N.I.S.T. “reportâ€? as well as the F.E.M.A. one and the 9/11 commission “report”:
http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/wtc_buildings_collapse_steven_jones.htm
N.I.S.T. scientist interviewed:
http://www.teamliberty.net/id235.html
F.B.I. says no hard evidence linking Osama bin Laden to 9/11 which is why his wanted poster says nothing about 9/11:
http://forum.afghansite.com/index.php?showtopic=9349
Fire Engineering magazine says important questions about the Twin Tower “collapses� still need to be addressed:http://fe.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=OnlineArticles&SubSection=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=25&ARTICLE_ID

Twin Towers’ construction certifiers say they should have easily withstood it:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2004/121104easilywithstood.htm
USA Today interview with the last man out of the South Tower, pursued by a fireball:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/12/19/usat-escape.htm
Janitor who heard explosions and escaped has testimony ignored by 9/11 whitewash commission:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/ignoring_9-11.html
Janitor starts speaking out about it and his apartment is burglarized, laptop stolen:
http://kurtnimmo.blogspot.com/2005/08/apartment-of-nine-eleven-hero-william_28.html
Firefighters tell of multiple explosions:
http://www.wnbc.com/news/1315651/detail.html
Eyewitnesses tell of explosions:
http://research.amnh.org/users/tyson/essays/TheHorrorTheHorror.html
Interview with another firefighter telling of explosions:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/Banaciski_Richard.txt
Firefighter saw “sparkles� (strobe lights on detonators?) before “collapse�:
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/Fitzpatrick_Tom.txt
Other eyewitnesses talk of seeing/hearing explosions:
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/11/more-proof-911-inside-job-witnesses-to.html
Surviving eyewitnesses talk of multiple explosions there:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/veliz-bombs.htm
Cutter charge explosions clearly visible:
http://www.rense.com/general63/cutt.htm
The pyroclastic wave (that dust cloud that a second before was concrete) and how it wouldn’t be possible without explosives:
http://st12.startlogic.com/~xenonpup/physics/
Detailed description of the demolition of the Twin Towers:
http://gordonssite.tripod.com/id2.html
Freefall rate of “collapses� math:
http://www.911blimp.net/prf_FreeFallPhysics.shtml
More about their freefall rate “collapses�:
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/second_wave.htm
Video footage of the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers:
http://www.plaguepuppy.net/public_html/video%20archive/
Video footage of the controlled demolition of WTC # 7 building:
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/videos.html
More
http://www.wtc7.net/
Photos of the Pentagon’s lawn (look at these and see if you can tell me with a straight face that a jumbo jet crashed there):
http://www.911blimp.net/cached/HuntTheBoeing!.htm
More photos of this amazing lawn at the Pentagon:
http://cryptogon.com/docs/Introducing%20the%20amazing%20Penta-Lawn%202000!%20(9-11).htm
Very unconvincing fake “Osama� “confession� tape:
http://welfarestate.com/wtc/faketape/
More about the fake “Osama� tape:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape2.html
Fake “Mohammed Atta� “suicide� letter:
http://www.welfarestate.com/wtc/fake-letters.txt
Commercial pilots disagree with “official� 9/11 myth:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/september_11_us_government_accused.htm
More commercial jet pilots say “official� myth is impossible:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/2001/10/31/commercial_jet_pilots_analysis_of_the_twin_tower_attack.htm
Impossibility of cell phone calls from United 93:
http://www.physics911.net/cellphoneflight93.htm
More about the impossible cell phone calls:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO408B.html
Experiment proves cell phone calls were NOT possible from anywhere near the altitude the “official� myth has them at:
http://physics911.ca/org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=9
Fake Barbara Olson phone call:
http://www.vialls.com/lies911/lies.htm
Where the hell was the Air Force?
http://www.welfarestate.com/wtc/af-scramble.txt
More about the Air Force impotence question:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0331-11.htm
Sept. 10th 2001, Pentagon announces it is “missing� $2.3 trillion (now why do you think they picked THAT day to announce it? So it could be buried the next day by 9/11 news):
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml
Unocal pipeline-through-Afghanistan plan:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0513/p05s01-wosc.html
Unocal pipeline-through-Afghanistan plan mentioned:
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/05/19/OutOfAfghanistan
More on Unocal Afghan pipeline:
http://www.newscentralasia.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1031
The attack on Afghanistan was planned in the summer of 2001, months before 9/11:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1550366.stm
Pentagon deliberately misled 9/11 Commission:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=EGG20060802&articleId=2887
9/11 whitewash Commission and NORAD day:
http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/071204_final_fraud.shtml
The incredible fish tales of the 9/11 Commission examined:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=%20GR20051213&articleId=1478
Jeb Bush declares state of emergency 4 days before 9/11 for Florida, saying it will help respond to terrorism:
http://www.eionews.addr.com/psyops/news/jebknew.htm
Steel debris removal from Ground Zero, destruction of evidence:
http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/groundzero/cleanup.html
Over two hundred incriminating bits of 9/11 evidence shown in the mainstream media:
http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/911smokingguns.html
Tracking the “hijackers�:
http://www.welfarestate.com/911/
“Hijacker� patsies:
http://911review.org/Wiki/HijackersPatsies.shtml
“Hijackers� receiving flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0208/S00085.htm
No Arabs on Flight 77:
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/07/02/article_tro.htm
Flight manifests (tell me if you find any Arabs):
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA77.victims.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua93.victims.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua175.victims.html
Thirty experts say “official� 9/11 myth impossible:
http://911fraud.blogspot.com/2005/06/us-governments-offical-911-story-is.html
“Al Qaeda� website tracks back to Maryland:
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/alqmaryland.html
Al Qaeda videos uploaded from U.S. government website:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2004/140704governmentwebsite.htm
Operation: Northwoods, a plan for a false-flag “terror� attack to be blamed on Castro to use it as a pretext for America to invade Cuba, thankfully not approved by Kennedy back in 1962 but was approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and sent to his desk:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/us_terror_plan_cuba_invasion_pretext.html

Now that our side has a majority in both houses they should actually USE the subpeona power and launch a REAL independent investigation into 9/11.

One thing that struck me as odd in the days after 9/11 was Bush saying “We will not tolerate conspiracy theories [regarding 9/11]”. Sure enough there have been some wacky conspiracy theories surrounding the events of that day. The most far-fetched and patently ridiculous one that I’ve ever heard goes like this: Nineteen hijackers who claimed to be devout Muslims but yet were so un-Muslim as to be getting drunk all the time, doing cocaine and frequenting strip clubs decided to hijack four airliners and fly them into buildings in the northeastern U.S., the area of the country that is the most thick with fighter bases. After leaving a Koran on a barstool at a strip bar after getting shitfaced drunk on the night before, then writing a suicide note/inspirational letter that sounded like it was written by someone with next to no knowledge of Islam, they went to bed and got up the next morning hung over and carried out their devious plan. Nevermind the fact that of the four “pilots” among them there was not a one that could handle a Cessna or a Piper Cub let alone fly a jumbo jet, and the one assigned the most difficult task of all, Hani Hanjour, was so laughably incompetent that he was the worst fake “pilot” of the bunch. Nevermind the fact that they received very rudimentary flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station, making them more likely to have been C.I.A. assets than Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. So on to the airports. These “hijackers” somehow managed to board all four airliners with their tickets, yet not even ONE got his name on any of the flight manifests. So they hijack all four airliners and at this time passengers on United 93 start making a bunch of cell phone calls from 35,000 feet in the air to tell people what was going on. Nevermind the fact that cell phones wouldn’t work very well above 4,000 feet, and wouldn’t work at ALL above 8,000 feet. But the conspiracy theorists won’t let that fact get in the way of a good fantasy. That is one of the little things you “aren’t supposed to think about”. Nevermind that one of the callers called his mom and said his first and last name, more like he was reading from a list than calling his own mom. Anyway, when these airliners each deviated from their flight plan and didn’t respond to ground control, NORAD would any other time have followed standard operating procedure (and did NOT have to be told by F.A.A. that there were hijackings because they were watching the same events unfold on their own radar) which means fighter jets would be scrambled from the nearest base where they were available on standby within a few minutes, just like every other time when airliners stray off course. But of course on 9/11 this didn’t happen, not even close. Somehow these “hijackers” must have used magical powers to cause NORAD to stand down, as ridiculous as this sounds because total inaction from the most high-tech and professional Air Force in the world would be necessary to carry out their tasks. So on the most important day in its history the Air Force was totally worthless. Then they had to make one of the airliners look like a smaller plane, because unknown to them the Naudet brothers had a videocamera to capture the only known footage of the North Tower crash, and this footage shows something that is not at all like a jumbo jet, but didn’t have to bother with the South Tower jet disguising itself because that was the one we were “supposed to see”. Anyway, as for the Pentagon they had to have Hani Hanjour fly his airliner like it was a fighter plane, making a high G-force corkscrew turn that no real airliner can do, in making its descent to strike the Pentagon. But these “hijackers” wanted to make sure Rumsfeld survived so they went out of their way to hit the farthest point in the building from where Rumsfeld and the top brass are located. And this worked out rather well for the military personnel in the Pentagon, since the side that was hit was the part that was under renovation at the time with few military personnel present compared to construction workers. Still more fortuitous for the Pentagon, the side that was hit had just before 9/11 been structurally reinforced to prevent a large fire there from spreading elsewhere in the building. Awful nice of them to pick that part to hit, huh? Then the airliner vaporized itself into nothing but tiny unidentifiable pieces most no bigger than a fist, unlike the crash of a real airliner when you will be able to see at least some identifiable parts, like crumpled wings, broken tail section etc. Why, Hani Hanjour the terrible pilot flew that airliner so good that even though he hit the Pentagon on the ground floor the engines didn’t even drag the ground!! Imagine that!! Though the airliner vaporized itself on impact it only made a tiny 16 foot hole in the building. Amazing. Meanwhile, though the planes hitting the Twin Towers caused fires small enough for the firefighters to be heard on their radios saying “We just need 2 hoses and we can knock this fire down” attesting to the small size of it, somehow they must have used magical powers from beyond the grave to make this morph into a raging inferno capable of making the steel on all forty-seven main support columns (not to mention the over 100 smaller support columns) soften and buckle, then all fail at once. Hmmm. Then still more magic was used to make the building totally defy physics as well as common sense in having the uppermost floors pass through the remainder of the building as quickly, meaning as effortlessly, as falling through air, a feat that without magic could only be done with explosives. Then exactly 30 minutes later the North Tower collapses in precisely the same freefall physics-defying manner. Incredible. Not to mention the fact that both collapsed at a uniform rate too, not slowing down, which also defies physics because as the uppermost floors crash into and through each successive floor beneath them they would shed more and more energy each time, thus slowing itself down. Common sense tells you this is not possible without either the hijackers’ magical powers or explosives. To emphasize their telekinetic prowess, later in the day they made a third building, WTC # 7, collapse also at freefall rate though no plane or any major debris hit it. Amazing guys these magical hijackers. But we know it had to be “Muslim hijackers” the conspiracy theorist will tell you because (now don’t laugh) one of their passports was “found” a couple days later near Ground Zero, miraculously “surviving” the fire that we were told incinerated planes, passengers and black boxes, and also “survived” the collapse of the building it was in. When common sense tells you if that were true then they should start making buildings and airliners out of heavy paper and plastic so as to be “indestructable” like that magic passport. The hijackers even used their magical powers to bring at least seven of their number back to life, to appear at american embassies outraged at being blamed for 9/11!! BBC reported on that and it is still online. Nevertheless, they also used magical powers to make the american government look like it was covering something up in the aftermath of this, what with the hasty removal of the steel debris and having it driven to ports in trucks with GPS locators on them, to be shipped overseas to China and India to be melted down. When common sense again tells you that this is paradoxical in that if the steel was so unimportant that they didn’t bother saving some for analysis but so important as to require GPS locators on the trucks with one driver losing his job because he stopped to get lunch. Hmmmm. Further making themselves look guilty, the Bush administration steadfastly refused for over a year to allow a commission to investigate 9/11 to even be formed, only agreeing to it on the conditions that they get to dictate its scope, meaning it was based on the false pretense of the “official story” being true with no other alternatives allowed to be considered, handpicked all its members making sure the ones picked had vested interests in the truth remaining buried, and with Bush and Cheney only “testifying” together, only for an hour, behind closed doors, with their attorneys present and with their “testimonies” not being recorded by tape or even written down in notes. Yes, this whole story smacks of the utmost idiocy and fantastic far-fetched lying, but it is amazingly enough what some people believe. Even now, five years later, the provably false fairy tale of the “nineteen hijackers” is heard repeated again and again, and is accepted without question by so many Americans. Which is itself a testament to the innate psychological cowardice of the American sheeple, i mean people, and their abject willingness to believe something, ANYTHING, no matter how ridiculous in order to avoid facing a scary uncomfortable truth. Time to wake up America.

Enlightenment,

Keep watching the skies! Tell everyone, keep watching the skies! (And don’t forget to measure!)

Thank you and good night.

what no response from the ever present Pina Colada Gary Rupert???

Gary’s busy watching Glengarry Glen Ross and dreaming of being a real estate tycoon…

Good heavens, Muslims allowed to buy property and run for office! Where will it end! Shintoists might even be allowed to vote!

And there will be Gideon Bibles in every hotel room for as long as the Gideons feel it’s a better way to spend money than on the poor. Neither the Gideons nor hotels are state run, and I can’t for the life of me imagine why he thinks secularism in government has dick to do with either.

Fuckwit.

I swept up Gary’s glittering dreams the other night.

They tasted like chicken.

All Christian broadcasts / telecasts deleted.

“deleted”? From what, YouTube?

I guess that makes sense though, ’cause we need the server space for more 80s videos…

They are, in short, basically demonic. Not all of them, of course,

Just the ones here in my fevered head.

The most compelling “evidence” in favor of the 9/11 conspiracy theories is the collapse of WTC #7. Video appears to show a minimally damaged building collapse in the same manner as a controlled demolition. The only problem is that the only video I’ve seen shows the upper floors of the building. It’s both plausible and probable that the base of the building was a real mess. None of the rest of the claims hold up under close scrutiny, especially the stuff about motive. I can’t believe that anyone seriously thinks that Captain Incompetent and the Gang that Can’t Shoot Straight pulled off the most wildly complicated conspiracy of all time. Needlessly complicated, too, I might add. All it took to get us into Iraq was 9 months of scary talk about what Saddam might do.

The chief reason why Bush and co. dragged their heals on a 9/11 investigation is that they were worried – with very good reason – that an investigation would change the public’s focus from “Let’s get those bastards!” to “Who is responsible for the death of 3000 Americans.” It was politically expedient and quite successful. I can’t help but think that a Republican Congress would have impeached a President Gore had the same events occurred on his watch. New investigations at this time aren’t going to change many minds about the Bush legacy. I’m happy to hear that the Dems are chiefly concerned with enacting positive legislation at home and setting things right abroad.

“I’m bad Swank. And you’re good Swank. You’re a goody little two-shoes!�

That

is awesome.

“It’s going to be horrific if Dems get control of government.”

“It really doesn’t matter about the results from Tuesday’s voting.”

Uh….OK. Which Swank is on his meds?

“Christmas symbols stored in underground caves in favor of “Season’s greetingsâ€? stamps on every envelope.”

The Christian symbols are in favor of “Season’s greetings” stamps? Or are the caves in favor of it? Such a puzzle.

Ummm, excuse me, conspiracy boys, but I’ve got a question. There’s a huge number of professional structural engineers in this country, the people who know everything there is to know about how to put up a building and how to keep it from falling down. Most of them are private sector guys who don’t work for the government, or for a university that depends on gov’t grants, and therefore cannot be pressured by the government. Many of them are liberals and/or Democrats who despise Bush and all his works. My understanding is that not one of them has been willing to put his professional reputation on the line by saying, in a peer reviewed journal, that the scenario you describe even could have happened. Before we even get to the question of whether it actually did.

Am I mistaken? Are there any qualified engineers supporting your theory?

Anyone?

Bueller?

— just askin —

Wow. OK, I should never post until after I’ve clicked on the link and read the whole thing.

Swank is just too much. I really DO think he must be on some kind of maintenance meds and forgets to take them sometimes.

What else can you make of this sentance?

“Yes, the Republicans have had their share of corrupt one-personage-or-an other, but the Dem corruption is to right and left, baptized as legitimate and considered the secularization of the USA proper for a come-of-age generation.”

Wow. Just wow.

Good, bad; I’m the guy with Majority rule.

“Mosques given free reign for property acquisition and construction.”
Any religious organization gets that, what’s his beef?

“Muslims encouraged to run for public office.”
Uhhh.. yeah.. that’s.. .kinda the idea, buddy.
No?
Okay, try this: “Protestants encouraged to run for public office.”
Feeling anti-american yet?
“Jews encouraged to run for public office.”
Better, but let’s just keep up the ad hominim..
“Coons encouraged to run for public office,”
Point made.

“Under God” was ADDED in 1953. 1953!! Nyah!

Remember that show, Garfield and Friends? Remember that duck who wore a inner tube 24/7 was was scared of anything and everything?
Yeah. I’m not sure what made me think of him….

I’m so confused… am I supposed to be for the mandatory abortions & forced gay marriage or for letting the muslims establish a theocracy. They are a very powerful 0.5% of the population.

Steve T. ~ You’re right ~ I’m a registered civil engineer; my field of practise is structural engineering. I’ve never heard any fellow engineer buy into any of the 9/11 conspiracies. The original structural engineer of WTC, Leslie Robertson, had included a jet impact in the analysis of the structure. However, the team did not include the affect of burning fuel. In addition, the fire protective coating on the beams had either come off since construction or was blown off by impact. However, the fires burned so hot & so long that even if the fire coating was in pristine shape, the buildings still would have failed as the coating is merely meant to slow the growth of fire, not stop it. The towers were doomed as soon as the first plane hit ~ the only issue was the amount of time.

One item of disagreement though ~ structural engineers tend not to be liberal! Many are conservative, but there are few raging liberals.

Seanly is right- fire rated assemblies are generally classified by a time rating- one rating is to burn-through, but the typical rating used is until failure, based on tested assemblies.

High rise buildings will have three or four hour ratings on structural elements, and the building will generally be designed to withstand failure of a coupld of structural elements, based on the idea that most fires will be contained and of limited size.

The hourly rating will prove moot if the workmanship on the original assembly is lacking, if it does not conform to the tested assembly, or if it has deteriorated over time – or if the conditions exceed the tested conditions i.e. the fire is burning at a higher temperature, which would be the case with aviation fuel, as I understand it.

Why are we still talking about this? Has the Garybot been reprogrammed as a Conspiracybot?

“Schools engineered for European secularism cloning.”

Help a brother out. What the hell is the good Pastor on about?

These tinfoil hat conspiracy theories crack me up. No matter how you wanna present your “evidence”, your theory still requires that many people in the goverrnment keep all the secrets forever, in spite of a panoply of motivations to go to the press, write a book, start a website or any of the other things you could do with your information. Considering the quality of performance we’ve seen in the government, I’m a little skeptical that they could pull it off successfully, let alone keep the secrets…

mikey

Eurpean = Not America, Ginger. And, as well all know, American is the only land in the world that is religius and good. Therefore, everthing that is not in America MUST be evil and devil-fueled.

However, “european scularism cloning” makes the same sense as “wimb-babies global.” I’m not even sure how you engineer a school for something like that, but it SOUNDS vague and threatoning to his lemmings of readers, so in it goes!

Psssst, MIkey….. that’s just what they want you to think…. 🙂

I’m not prepared to believe the grand scale of that type of conspiracy, for sure. What I am prepared to believe is that it’s possible they didn’t just sit on the information about the likelihood of an attack because they are morons, but that they thought an “incident” might be a very good thing for them, which, of course, it was. I doubt they had any idea of the possible scope of the particular incident.

I’m probably giving the neocons more credit than they deserve, even with that. What’s certain is, they knew something could happen, and did nothing. We will probably never know if it was stupidity or culpability. (I suspect the true reason they did nothing with the warnings was that they refused to accept anything whatsoever from the Clinton administration.) The very fact that I think they would have considered such a thing tells you exactly the kind of wary contempt in which I hold the 1600 crew It’s the wariness one accords a stupid but vicious cur. The beast’s not smart enough to outthink you, but if you turn your back, it’s smart enough to recognize the window of opportunity.

Schools engineered for European secularism cloning.
Kids these days… We never had European secularism cloning on the curriculum when I was at school! We were lucky if the school was engineered to keep the roof up.

“Schools engineered for European secularism cloning.”

It’s like American secularism cloning, but the clones all wear black, smoke, and even though they eat a lot of fat and drink a lot of wine, they’re amazingly thin.

Shield and Standard
The Aryan Nations Shield
Its Very Meaning Is What the Jews Hate!

1. THE CROWN: The symbol of our Father’s complete and Immutable sovereignty over all things, the one and only God. whose name is YAHWEH.

2. THE THREE JEWELS: Of the Crown symbolize the Divine and complete perfection of the Triune absolute of our Father the Everliving God. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.

3. THE SHIELD: A symbol of our Christian Faith and trust in His perfect Law and Covenants He made to them that keep the faith.

4. THE TWO-EDGED SWORD: A symbol of truth and proceeds forth solely from Him and shall by His Divine sovereign will, be the instrument of His vengeance upon all that hate Him.

5. THE REVOLVING RESURRECTION CROSS: Centered on the Sword of Truth, symbolizing the returning to righteousness of our Race, who yet one day will be placed on the right hand of Christ in faith of the sure promise of resurrection.

6. THE CROSS of JACOB: Symbolizing the blessings to Israel centers on the Sword of Truth and Resurrection Cross. The Three bars on each of the four corners symbolize the Twelve Tribes of His Racial Nations; inheritance in His Kingdom.

7. THE SQUARE: Outline symbolizes the Divinely appointed four-square formation and order commanded by YAHWEH of Hosts for the armies of the tribes of Israel in the beginning as His Nation and the symbol of the four-square city of His new Jerusalem with twelve gates for the tribes of Israel, the Adamic Aryan Race of God.

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Shield and Standard
The Aryan Nations Shield
Its Very Meaning Is What the Jews Hate!

1. THE CROWN: The symbol of our Father’s complete and Immutable sovereignty over all things, the one and only God. whose name is YAHWEH.

2. THE THREE JEWELS: Of the Crown symbolize the Divine and complete perfection of the Triune absolute of our Father the Everliving God. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.

3. THE SHIELD: A symbol of our Christian Faith and trust in His perfect Law and Covenants He made to them that keep the faith.

4. THE TWO-EDGED SWORD: A symbol of truth and proceeds forth solely from Him and shall by His Divine sovereign will, be the instrument of His vengeance upon all that hate Him.

5. THE REVOLVING RESURRECTION CROSS: Centered on the Sword of Truth, symbolizing the returning to righteousness of our Race, who yet one day will be placed on the right hand of Christ in faith of the sure promise of resurrection.

6. THE CROSS of JACOB: Symbolizing the blessings to Israel centers on the Sword of Truth and Resurrection Cross. The Three bars on each of the four corners symbolize the Twelve Tribes of His Racial Nations; inheritance in His Kingdom.

7. THE SQUARE: Outline symbolizes the Divinely appointed four-square formation and order commanded by YAHWEH of Hosts for the armies of the tribes of Israel in the beginning as His Nation and the symbol of the four-square city of His new Jerusalem with twelve gates for the tribes of Israel, the Adamic Aryan Race of God.

Man, that Enlightenment wacko has shown up in like two or three other blogs I read with the same exact post.

At a sufficiently fine scale of distance, the normal laws of physics and linguistics break down. The distinctions between nouns, verbs and adjectives no longer apply. This scale is … wait for it … the Swank Distance.

See also Swank’s Constant.

OK but is Swank’s Constant one of the underlying principles of the current Enlightenment? ‘Cause that would make sense, in a . . . y’know . . . totally nonsensical way.

Enlightenment? You mean endarkenment, surely. Swank’s Constant is an integral part of Chirality-preserving Gauge-invariant Quantum-Dreamfield theory, I know that much. And many of Swank’s weirder metaphors can be explained by quantum tunneling between hitherto-unconnected domains of cognition. OK, I’ll stop drinking now.

Bad Swank sounds EXACTLY like my Seventh Day Advenstist in-laws in Texas…

Paranoid, paranoid, paranoid…only he left out “any ‘true christians’ who has Saturday as their Sabbath will be executed.”

FUN!

Sorry, “have”…

Beelzebub for Speaker of the House! Malefactor for Senate Majority Leader! Woo hoo!

I’d hate to be the one stuck with “absenting� the Gideon Bibles from the Vegas Strip hotels. There’s like 5-6,000 rooms in each of those fuckers.

And besides, it’s not like anyone’s gonna notice they’re gone….

But what will HST’s heirs use for emergency rolling papers?

“But what will HST’s heirs use for emergency rolling papers? ”

I was just missing Doc today, and wishing he was around to comment on all the new developments. Another giant gone.

I got into a bit of trouble in class making a “lighthearted” bible joke. I teach in a state university, and some organization went around campus giving little green copies of the New Testament to as many students as would take them. One of the class complained because he felt reluctant to refuse the book in front of everybody else, and I said, “Look on the bright side, now you’ve got plenty of bookmarks.” I got a few good laughs, a lot more “Oooohs!”, and lots of open-mouthed expressions of shock. Good times!