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  • http://www.redstate.com/etcartman Kenny Solomon

    Video report from The Associated Press:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToAx3OIXQX4

    Yeah, I know…… “Free”.

    My guess is that your tax dollars are at work here…… and it’s quite probably ‘stimulus’ money.

  • oblio

    used to promote every other liberal give away. Just another way to burn up OUR money.

  • america1st

    Fuller’s famous homily:
    “Fools’ names, like fools’ faces, are often seen in public places.”

    How little the human genome has evolved . . . .

    But then, how else to explain the enduring primitivism of the barbaric cult of islam?

  • pamela1631

    Troll burns in sunlight
    Gets chased by a pack of dogs
    Neighborhood kids tell their parents some really weird dude was looking at them funny.

    The 9/11 was an inside job statement. Hmm. Has anyone gone back to see how many sets of the various tower building plans were obtained how far prior to 9/11 and by whom?
    Especially the structural, mechanical, and foundation plans.
    Plus the construction materials list.
    Track the paper flow and all the fake beards.

    9/11 being an inside job if aiding and abetting foreign nationals in the commission of a crime or a terrorist attack were included.

  • RedBeard

    How many, and by whom?

  • swami7774

    I was told this is the correct forum to proffer new topics.
    Jeff Perry is running for MA-10(currently mis-represented by Bill Delahunt). He’s got a great chance of picking off this seat in November but has to get by next month’s primary first.
    Give him a look(and maybe a shekel or two).
    http://jeffperryforcongress.com/

  • kchand

    The ‘Good and Welfare’ clause http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0VYOa2BRbg

  • RedBeard

    John Conyers, another erudite constitutional scholar.

  • renny

    If the facia, what you saw as those looming grids from after shots at the site, had been attached every two feet instead of every three feet, the buildings might have stood another 45 min.-hr. The facings were not more concentrated because architects and builders were always very conscious of the towers’ weight.

    All the elevators and stairwells were centered in the towers, so that when the planes struck and fires started, the tower centers were open enough to act as chimney flues?more realistically, blast furnaces–accelerating the fires and temperatures and stopping evacuations. Only one tower, I think North, had an isolated stairway along an outside wall, but few people knew of it or used it.

    The NYFD, carrying up to 80 pounds of equipment, charged as high as the 79th floor in the South Tower before being given evacuation orders, which most never heard because communications didn’t work well inside the buildings.

    The structures were designed to implode so that their 1/4-mile height did not fall over and take out blocks of downtown NYC. No one knew if the plan would really work, but it did.

    9/11 bears the marks of amateurish planning, which was here a good thing. For maximum damage, the towers should have been struck around 11 am and close to their bases. The two structures usually had up to 50,000 people in each at full capacity. 1000s were saved who were late to work or were not scheduled to start until 10 am or after.

    Of those who had been in the buildings in 1993, most evacuated immediately and successfully survived. People who had not experienced the earlier attack or listened to an anomalous announcement after the South Tower was hit that all was well and they should ignore any disruption did not survive as well and those on floors above the plane struck were virtually walled off by fire and destruction.

    The worst of gov?t involvement is that the planes out of Boston were missing for nearly an hour on anyone?s radar, and altho? jets were scrambled out of CT, they were always far behind the commercial carriers. The question of whether or not they would shoot down civilian airlines out of the air over the Hudson remains moot.

    Most of the above comes from a huge cover article in the NYT in 2002, one of the now slimey news rags best.

  • pamela1631

    Don’t know and was curious if that was ever researched by the investigators.

  • gekster

    Because of envirmentalists, asbestose as a steel coating wasn’t used after the first 40 floors.

    from:
    http://www.asbestos.com/world-trade-center/asbestos.php

    “There was also some controversy that the lack of asbestos used in the World Trade Center contributed to the fast collapse of the buildings. It was stated, in a New York Times article, that non-asbestos fireproofing used to construct the World Trade Center would have been less effective than products that contained asbestos, which ultimately shortened the time that the people had to escape.”

    Enviroes hard at work protecting you.

  • Tbone

    is hell bent on destroying this Nation.

  • bobojake
  • throwback59

    you’re half-right

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • Flagstaff

    was under 4,000. I was guessing 40,000 would be the final total.

  • SteveLA

    There’s a big story going on out here in Bell CA. over the salary payed to the City manager of Bell. LA Times is all over it, but the long and short is that the Democrats running Bell have been paying the City Manager $1.5 Million dollars a year in wages and fringe benefits to one individual. There is more news coming out that others in Bell were also making big buck salaries for running various departments and such in this city of ~60,000. Bell is one of those cities in the LA basin that is mostly Hispanic and is absolutely 100 percent Democrat run, you won’t know that Democrats are in charge in Bell from LA Times coverage.

    The good, if you use the word good in this story, is the noise now being made by State level politicians about making data about what all cities are paying city managers and others available on line, or at least making cities making the data more accessible.

    The cautionary tale part come in when you consider how little attention the voters in Bell were paying attention to what their city council was up to. There’s probably a lesson there, if you don’t pay attention to what the local level government is up to, you’re likely to get robbed big time of your tax dollars.

  • ocleverone

    Mac, I thought about you yesterday. We miss seeing you around.

    Godspeed to you and your troop.

    You are in our prayers.

  • swami7774

    Might I request more frequent open threads, or perhaps a permanent open thread section?

  • rabidf16

    I love the RedState iPhone App. I use it multiple times daily.
    I find it missing one thing that I think would be a relatively easy fix… display the author of each post somewhere. Is there a reason it doesn’t? It shows the title, the date. Seems like it would be easy to add a field that displayed the author’s user name in the same way.
    Unless everyone would follow Moe’s template and sign their posts. :-)
    Erik? What the latest on the iPhone App?

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Morning Briefings are open threads.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    I guess it’s only for comments.

  • rabidf16

    It does do it for the commenters, but not the author. The only way you can tell who wrote the original post is if they sign it (Moe) or someone mentions the name of the poster in a comment (as happens often with Erik) or, if you’re a long time reader like me, you just know some of the regular’s style.

  • acat

    Chicago, for instance, has a very long tradition of the politicians’ wives working for various “interested parties.

    Look for the various “housewives of Bell” to get jobs as needed…

    Mew

  • rdelbov

    The folks at Redmassgroup like him

  • renny

    before they were full and higher than maximum deaths would require. They were, after, not real pilots or engineers, Thank heavens for those small favors.

  • JSobieski

    unless there is a specific reason for doing so. Thus, far more legal secretaries and administrative assistants died than did lawyers or bankers.

  • SteveLA

    CA and LA in particular is pretty funny about tearing apart the sort of Chicago RICO stuff. MSM types out here are like dogs, they are equal opportunity urination on leg types if there is a story, too much competition not too.

    Besides, Bell is very much a lower working class town and the stink is on them now. If there is anything that will save the rats in Bell it’s the minority racial card with the town being something like 90 percent Hispanic, and lots and lots of illegals.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Guess I’ll put it in the queue to add that. Fortunately that’s something we can change without actually deploying a new app version, but just a change on our side.

  • fpete13527

    Tomorrow is the beginning of the early primary vote in Tampa Florida. Since I am in the Republican Executive Committee, my vote will count. Great job RedState in promoting the importance of this involvement and participation.

    I have a feeling Florida will go in the right direction and that Charlie and his supporters are going to go by the wayside. The Obama/Crist/RINO/progressive disease in Florida started to turn pandemic. However, powerful anti-biotics and anti-virals have been injected into Florida and they are beginning to wipe out the infections.

    My sense is that Florida will go the right way, even though it has been choked hard by Charlie and his cronies? sewage. I am a stand that Florida will be the red state that it needs to be and not an Obama socialist/welfare/RINO state.

    Yesterday I got a really great dose of my favorite movie star….John Wayne. After two or three of those movies, especially McCilntock, I have been rejuvenated with energy. Starting with the primary vote tomorrow, We the People…. are Coming…..2010 and (to quote from Erick?s/Tombstone?s speech) ?hell is coming with me.?

    Great job RedState.

  • fpete13527

    Excellent video from iowntheworld.

    http://bit.ly/aHJGF5

  • swami7774

    He certainly could use some buzz from this site.

  • acat
  • trutexan

    if not, any chance of getting one? If so, where can I get it? I’m iPhone phobic.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • trutexan