Um, it's "Ramsey".

Yeah, but the question is still who planted the explosives.

My scratch is on the Tri-Lats, or the Greys.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Wasn't it that old joke about not coming right out with bad news? The guy tells another guy his cat's dead, he tells him to soften the blow, he tells him his mother was playing on the roof, yad yada yada.

I've seen it a few times, but it's been a while.

Yeah, he says "You're cat's dead," and the friend says that's not how you tell someone their cat has died, you tell him it was playing on the roof, and the firefighters were brought in, and it fell, and the tried to save it, etc. etc etc., but it died anyway.

And then he says, "How's my mom?"

And the answer is, "She's on the roof."

In the movie he adds "Yeah, she's on the roof. Ha ha ha, she's on the roof," as the agents come to kill him.

Nice memory.

Go to lewrockwell.com for more of his interesting stuff.

Mom's on the roof and she can't get down.

Having worked closely with public servants for over a decade, the problem I have with conspiracies is that they are danged difficult to pull off. Lots of coordination, silent but effective communication...

nah.

An indepth investigation into the collapse of the WTC from an unbiased source: Indymedia

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/06/319151.shtml

There was no mention of Karl Rove, which just goes to show how slick he really is.

I find my latest tin foil hat info from:

http://www.total411.info/

The additional links are to die for .. LOL

I remembered that joke in large part because I have found that the plot of "Capricorn I", or should I say the non-plot, has an ending where we are left to believe that all the bad guys will be brought to justice. This plotline is classic for it's non-reality.
The worst the crooks at Enron will get pails when compared to the guy who sticks up a 7-11.

The real question is how an f'ing loon like this guy can become the chief economist for the Dept. of Labor.

Yeah, but the question is still who planted the explosives.
My scratch is on the Tri-Lats, or the Greys.

My money is on the Illuminati with some help from Skull and Crossbones.

Hmm, wait a second, never mind the S and C, nothing to see here, move along.

DBS

Oh, come now. Everyone knows it was them sneaky Jooooooooos what did it!

Isn't that right, brother Cedarford?

An economist claiming "erroneous engineering analysis "? Any relation to wassisname at the NYTimes?

Since we're wasting time talking about this silly person and his silly allegations, I have a silly question or two I'd like to put to him. For starters: Why didn't all the people working around-the-clock in One, Two and Seven World Trade Center notice all the guys carrying tons of C-4, TNT, and Primacord into the buildings and ripping out walls every ten floors or so they could attach explosive charges to the support girders? I mean, a proper demo job would have taken weeks to set up. Don't you think somebody would have noticed? Wouldn't somebody have called the police? For that matter, the building was crawling with cops; one of the Twin Towers was home to the HQ of the NYC Port Authority Police.

And, silly question number two: If this was some sort of "controlled" demonstration for maximum impact, then why didn't this vast army of unnamed co-conspirators simply topple the towers into lower Manhattan (maximizing the damage to New York City) instead of having them telescope, more or less neatly, into the streets below?

...Oh, never mind; they were probably afraid they would end up squashing some of the numerous Jews that were allegedly told to stay home that day. Never mind...

I'm used to dealing with moonbats. This one strikes a blow, though. As I'm currently working at Texas A&M, I didn't believe that those people existed here. People who don't like Bush? Sure. People who blame America for everything? This is the first time...

. . .

Eh.

Stories like this are rather like the face of the Virgin in a piece of toast--if you're already among the devout believers, you see it--but if you're not, then. . .dude. . .it's just a frickin' PIECE OF TOAST.

I was discussing this this weekend with some friends. Not about this guy, but people we have known or who we heard about. For all purposes they seemed well adjusted then out of the blue, developed world class conspiracy theories. I mean big time -- press conferences, running around the country, dedicating their lives to it, etc. I can only chalk it up to a form of mental illness.

I guess he forgot we actually have video footage of the planes hitting the buildings. And apparently has no clue what's going on in the real world.

Oh yeah, the Government did it. I wonder how hard it was to come up with hundreds of volunteers to board those planes in order to sacrifice their lives to help President Bush out with his wicked plan to eradicate the WTC's. And to think idiots like this are responsible for educating young people in our country. SHEESH!

Well, all the brokers at Cantor I spoke to 30 or so times day did mention the Men In Black carting around heavy cases marked Danger! Explosives! and stacking them around their desks.

Wait a second. No, they didn't.

Conspiracy-theorists seem to be of a similar psychological type, same as serial killers are.

ACE - What do you know about these types? Perhaps they are smarter than their peers and coworkers, and perhaps they are unrecognized as such, and perhaps they've been socially marginalized, and perhaps they're planning a big event at work that involves three pistols, an SKS, a shotgun, and a 7mm Magnum deer rifle with 1,000 rounds of ammo, because they all deserve it. What the hell do you know about it?

Yes...The planes were giant holograms.

It is worth noting that Osama bin Laden said that he was surprised when both towers collapsed. He said they had expected only that the top floors might collapse and took it as a sign from Allah when both buildings collapsed.

However, these allegations really do need to be looked at objectively, studied and solidly refuted by the experts so as to leave no doubt as to what happened.

I don't know 72. Conspiracy theorists (the really wacky ones, like THIS guy - who I heard interviewed today), are so far bent that facts and figgers really don't persuade them. If they can't argue with the fact, they dismiss it as "a lie, or part of the conspiracy".

It was funny though, the interviewer (WBAP 820 AM - Dallas/Ft. Worth) actually got exasperated with the guy. It can be tough to play a straight guy up against a barking looney.

Highly intelligent and educated does not equal sane and credible. Think Ted Kasynski.

I hear Dan Rather has a genuine 1972 memo that explains how the whole 9/11 thing was a ploy to get Bush out of Guard duty.

And if I might followup Wes S.'s questions with one of my own: how is it that this administration of "evil geniuses" could sneak all those explosives into two heavily-trafficked buildings and place them without any questions asked, but couldn't smuggle a single suitcase nuke into Iraq to support the WMD scenario?

http://www.tamu.edu/00/start/DrGates-statement.html

The President of Texas A&M has put a million miles between this loon and the University.

The Texas A&M rebuttal statement is one of the clearest statements I've heard yet.

Winston:

"Yes...The planes were giant holograms."

But that wouldn't explain the hundreds of people who suddenly "died" that day. Either they were volunteers on the planes, or they were rushed into the Witness Protection Program to further the conspiracy of President Bush.

After all, there is really no other reasonable explanation is there?

how is it that we have to work for a living,
while this moonbat and ward churchill are paid well to spin dark lies in their ivory towers.

i tell you it's a conspiracy!

When ever I hear about some stupid consipiracy theory like this or others, I remember how one of the smartest, most ruthless and powerful Presidents in modern times, couldn't even cover up a simple botched burglary.

This article about the world record demolition of a building not 20% of the WTC should suffice as to the impossibility of setting up a controlled demolition of the WTC without a single person noticing.

http://www.controlled-demolition.com/default.asp?reqLocId=7&reqItemId=20030225133807