911 Truthiness

Well when you are hated by conservatives, the religious and the loony left, you have to be doing something right. Comedian Bill Maher again takes a stab at truther loons.

Speaking on the subject of the ‘darkness of ignorance” and the “stubbornly ill informed”
Bill had this to say on the conservatives portraying Barack Obama as a Secret Muslim.
“Is Obama a Muslim”
“NO HE ISN’T”
“Was Sadam behind 9/11?”
“NO HE WASN’T”
“and while we are at it,”
“NEITHER WAS BUSH”
“How do we know Bush wasn’t behind 9/11?” “Because it WORKED, AND it involved PLANNING.”

Progressive George Monbiot has this to say about truthers.

“Why do I bother with these morons? Because they are destroying the movements which some of us have spent a long time trying to build. Those of us who believe that the crucial global issues - climate change, the Iraq war, nuclear proliferation, inequality - are insufficiently debated in parliament or congress; that corporate power stands too heavily on democracy; that war criminals, cheats and liars are not being held to account, have invested our efforts in movements outside the mainstream political process. These, we are now discovering, are peculiarly susceptible to this epidemic of gibberish.

The obvious corollorary to the belief that the Bush administration is all-powerful is that the rest of us are completely powerless. In fact it seems to me that the purpose of the “9/11 truth movement” is to be powerless. The omnipotence of the Bush regime is the coward’s fantasy, an excuse for inaction used by those who don’t have the stomach to engage in real political fights.”

Bayoneting A Scarecrow
Posted February 20, 2007
The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward’s cult.
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 20th February 2007

How are Truthers like their conservative counterpart, The Creationist?

Neither of them have the benefit of real science to back up their screwball claims so they rely on the “just asking questions” tactic, Why go through the bother of having to create and defend an conception when it is far simpler to thy and find hole in the other sides concepts and then force you nonexistent “god” into those holes. “God of the Gaps” its called.

Like creationist who also have no real scientist to back up their claims they create their own experts. Suddenly theologians become biologist in the same way theologians become structural engineers and controlled demolition experts with 9/11 denial movement. It fools no one because at the end of the day these guy are only experts on faith NOT the real physical world. Just look at patriotsquestion911.com and note how many are such things as Professors of religious studies and theology.

David Ray Griffin, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Rosemary Radford Ruether, PhD – Professor Emerita of Feminist Theology
Kevin Barrett, PhD – Lecturer on Islamic Studies,
Blair Gadsby, MA – Adjunct Faculty, Religious Studies
John B. Cobb, Jr., PhD – Professor Emeritus of Theology
James Goulding, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion
Carter Heyward, PhD – Howard Chandler Robbins Professor Emerita of Theology
James Goulding, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion
Douglas Sturm, PhD – Professor Emeritus of Religion and Political Science
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, PhD – Professor Emerita of Theology
Graeme MacQueen, PhD – Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Sean Kelly, PhD – Professor of Philosophy and Religion
John Milbank, PhD – Professor in Religion, Politics, and Ethics
James K. Powell II, PhD – Visiting Assistant Professor, Buddhist Studies
Richard A. Horsley, PhD – Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Former Chair of the Department of the Study of Religion
Clark A. Kucheman, PhD – Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Christian Ethics, Claremont McKenna College
Rev. David P. Polk, PhD – Former Vice President of Christian Board
Richard Foltz , PhD – Associate Professor of Religion,

Just like George Bush and his fellow anti-science anti-intellectual conservatives movement, these so called seekers of truth are pushing a fact-less belief system.

“911 TRUTH IS A FAITH BASED INITIATIVE”

As a progressive I feel like I am stuck between the Torquemada’s of the conservative right and the Luddites of the agenda driven left.

Controlled demolitions is loony enough, but some of the crazies of the 9/11 truth movement are not satisfied with mere run of the mill stupidity, some like to take it to the max. One of the uber loons in the 9/11 conspiracy theorist camp is Judy Wood. She has managed to jump the shark and gone right in to the ultra-wacky Star Wars Directed-Energy Weapon destruction of the WTC. Her site at http://www.drjudywood.com/ is a humorous mix of loopy pseudoscience and conspiracy theorist bunk.

At some point after 9/11 damaged cars were towed to a location along FDR drive, of course this dingbat had to wonder how these cars were randomly toasted so far from ground zero! “These cars are at least 1/2 mile away from the WTC. Note the waviness of the tire tracks. What happened?” DUH! Ever hear of tow trucks Judy? At another time she shows a picture of a burned out car wheel “Wheels appear to have steel-belts from the tires still on them” AH… Yeah, maybe that is because the steel belts are made of STEEL and the rest of the tire RUBBER, rubber burns away leaving steel belts. And this woman claims to be a scientist?

On a forum one of the conspiracy theorist goofball posted a picture from Wood’s site showing a burned out FDNY fire truck. He kept asking me “explain to me where did the engine go. Did it melt?”

Well, yeah, the engine seems to be gone from the front of the truck and I am sure he thought he has made this great point, but myself being a skeptic and not being so inclined to believe a rather loopy idea that the engine was melted by a death ray from space, I asked myself the next logical question. If the engine was not in the front of the truck and the concept of it melting away by some errant energy beam clearly impossible, then the only valid explanation is the engine never was in the front. and as it turns out Mid-engine and Rear-engine configurations of this sort of fire truck are very common. It only took me 10 minutes to find these two trucks one a 1990 E-One Cyclone “Rear Engine” 1500 GPM, the other from the same manufacturer with a ladder exactly like the burned out truck.

The only reason I bring this up is it is so typical of the 9/11 conspiracy theorist inability to reason and research. They jump from one “smoking gun” to the next, and at each spot their ideas get debunked, “free fall” gets knocked down, “pull it” gets shown to be bullshit, “controlled demolition” is fast becoming passé. You would think a cause that get so much wrong would just give up, but crackpots are a special breed who never say uncle. Now it’s energy weapons and Mini nukes, And Judy Wood’s site of preposterous theories will in time join the screwball junk pile.

Willie Nelson questions Sept. 11 on local talk radio show
10:28 PM CST on Monday, February 4, 2008
Willie Nelson went on a nationally syndicated radio show Monday, and questioned the official story of what happened on Sept. 11.
Nelson said the collapse of the World Trade Center towers reminded him of a hotel implosion in Las Vegas.
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/020408kvuenelson-bkm.8e5c8740.html

Too many years of booze and pot will do that to you.

It comes as no surprise that “Trutherism” draws the bottom rung of intellectual thought in this world. You have the typical moron class of young DUDES influenced by slick YouTube videos, guys living in their parents basement picturing themselves as revolutionaries while mom washes their underwear and feed them grill cheese sandwiches. Celebrity supporters are people like Willie, Rosie O’Donnle, David Lynch, the dude from Blink 182 and Charlie Sheen. Their so called “scientist” are failed nobodies like Stephen Jones.

It’s not the politically correct thing to say but it is true, you can judge a organization by the people it draws. The KKK will draw knuckle dragging bigots, Neo Nazis are infected with angry mental stunted skin heads. 9/11 conspiracy theorist have the people so dumb they can’t even come up with a workable theory, only the “we only have questions” cop out.