9/11 Conspiracy Theories Debunked

Despicable and delusional are spot on right. Wicked and nutso work.

Indeed, FOxfier, you are very smart. The cosmpiracy fits their worldview. Someone is holding us back, they say. We should experience utopia. But Republicans or some bad people keep getting in the way–they won’t let us fix things. They keep screwing things up instead. That’s why life is still hell for us in Ameirca, and throughout the world. The world needs us to get out of the way. We need to listen better to them because they’re more in tune with reality. Especially France. Yes, that’s the worldview that says Americans planned 9/11.

My question about the vile idiots: In a Venn diagram of “truthers” and Obama-voting imbeciles, does the “truther” circle (90% inside the imbecile circle) comprised 99% or 100% the whole?

Hank?

Would Obamacare be less respectable if the penalty for declining to buy health insurance were being jailed or water-boarded?

I need to travel from NYC to DC later today. I would fly, except from LaGuardia . . . I think I’ll drive. I flew back into NYC on 11 Sep the second or third year after . . . That plane flew past the two light beams.

It’s 10 years since that day. I typed the following early 14 Sep 2001.

I need to confess that this thing has me nearly unmanned. Late last night,
the TV news had a segment wherein the wives and children made emotional
appeals for info on their husbands and fathers who are missing. I lost it,
then. I have tears in my eyes as I “hunt and peck” this. That is not me.

Have been praying ever since the attack. Tried to
give blood yesterday. They said come back, had too many donors to handle.
We need to come together and work to keep the economy going and spark the
recovery. This is no time for “gloom and doom.” There is a lot of work
needing to be done, and we have to pull together and get at it.

I went to work, as usual on Tuesday, 9/11. Took the LIRR to Penn Sta. Rode
the #2 IRT Train to Wall and William, arriving there 9:10AM. They wouldn’t
let us out by the usual exit, Wall/William. Went out the next one back. A
construction worker came into the subway, and said, turn around and go home.
I should have listened.

When I hit the street, there was already paper, debris and smoke everywhere –
even though we were about ¼ mile away from the WTC. I went into my office in
20 Exchange Place and heard about the first airliner strike. Shortly
after we heard the second. Most had CNN on-line live TV on in the offices.
An hour or so later, it became as dark as night as the smoke and debris from
the collapses surrounded us. Heard a rumble and saw a flash.

About Noon, they told us the FDNY (God bless those magnificent heroes and
have mercy on those gallant men who gave their lives: greater love hath no
man than to give his life for his fellows.) had ordered the evacuation of the
building. I stayed until 2PM, because I wanted to let the smoke clear, and
our offices’ air quality was good. Luckily, my wife’s brother-in-law works
at 120 Wall, and he had a car. Wet my handkerchief for a makeshift gas mask
and walked over there. We were able to walk uptown along Water Street and get
it out of the parking lot and drive out. We gave a couple of other “lost
souls” a ride to Grand Central Station. Took about two hours to get home by
local streets. Thank God, we were home in eastern Queens by 4PM.

We don’t know when they will let us back into lower Manhattan to get to the
office. I had an appointment at a bank in Yonkers, today, that I made a
point in making. The other agency guys cancelled. I just felt I needed to
show the colors. Stayed a while to talk to the people there and told a
little of what I saw. Traveled to and from pretty good except, I’m an idiot,
I got lost. Am home now and my boss said he’d call if he needed me. I doubt
we will be back in the office before next Monday, if then. Amazingly, we had
electric and good phone throughout.