In a tragedy this week nine firemen were killed when a warehouse collapsed in a fire. Apparently the steel girders lost strength due to heating and the roof of the building collapsed. I have no knowledge of the design of the building, but in similar warehouse buildings I have seen there is no insulation on the steel beams. The World Trade Center did have insulation, so it took longer for it to collapse. The now-banned asbestos insulation is the best. I wonder if anyone has told Rosie O'Donnell about this latest steel buliding collapse. Since she believes that there has never been an instance where steel has lost strength due to higher temperature, Rosie may have to tell us that Bush used explosive charges to bring down this latest bulding.
posted by James Williams | 9:24 PM
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Rosie's "intelligence" comes, as far as I can tell, from an Internet documentary called "Loose Change" which is all about the conspiracy theory that 9/11 was an inside job. If you have an hour or so to waste some time, and you want a good laugh at how twisted the plot has to be to support the premise, you might google it and have a look. I figured you needed about 10,000 people to be in on the plan in order to carry it off and to keep it a closely guarded secret for six years. At the end, the narrator (who sounds about 23)
intones, rhetorically, "what makes more sense, that the attacks were carried out by the U.S.government or by 19 Muslim hijackers?" Well, duh, I'll go with the Muslim hijackers.
ONe well known problem with conspiracy theories is that as facts are presented, there is an ever widening circle of people who have to have been aprt of the conspiracy. This was one problem with a lot of the JFK assassination conspiracy theories. They usually wound up with the Secret Service, the FBI, the CIA, and the Dallas Police Department all involved: and not one of those thousands of people ever talked.
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