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Tim Riley
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Hi All,
  
 Sorry I've been so quiet lately. I have been swamped at work and it is spilling over into nights. In fact, I am supposed to be finalizing a Beta release application help package at this minute, but I'm driven to distraction and must blow off steam.
 My evenings and early mornings are filled with baby care, three year old playtime fun, and educational opportunities.  I don't get tired of the question "Why?"  or "What is that?"   I usually just go on and on until my wife rolls her eyes at me and my three year old interrupts me with the same question, but only louder.  I oblige him with another version of the same story and then he asks again, so I make up something really unbelievably silly to see if he is listening. His eyes are so focused and lively, and his toothy grin breaks out in a laugh or a shout, "Noooooooo! That's silly!"  His bullshit detector will be finely tuned by age five.  My little daughter is still easily fooled.  At four months old she still thinks I'm interesting and funny enough to humor me with smiles.  She'll be cynical too soon.  The unfortunate ways of the world require too much critical cynicism, caution, and well-placed mistrust.
 So, here's a good one for you all...I'll leave the bullshit determination to you. Did you know that government insiders were responsible for perpetrating the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9-11-2001?  It is sadly true. And yes, it is really hard to stomach, so take a minute and question whether you have been fed damnable bullshit. Consider these tidbits: http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20041221155307646
 The fact that started me questioning the official story was the obvious demolition of WTC Building 7 on the afternoon of September 11, 2001. http://wtc7.net/index.html  Most people don't even realize that a third WTC building was destroyed by the attacks of 9-11, because the media allowed the horrifying twin tower demolitions to take our breath away numbing us into fear, anger, and vengefulness. Our leaders and the media pointed the finger at dark skinned Muslim fanatics and with pitchforks and torches in hand we went to war. The terror alerts and anthrax threats forced our legislators into submitting to destruction of our rights and liberties (Patriot Act 1 and 2), and in the ensuing chaos of wars, a modest federal treasury surplus was transferred to friends of Cheney and Bush and our current fiscal hole was repeatedly financed by seductively low interest rates. WTC building 7 (47 floors tall) really did get demolished on the afternoon of 9-11-2001 and the physical evidence is videotaped, archived, and recorded for posterity by the BBC and CNN stupidly reporting on the event "LIVE" in real time, a full 20 minutes before it actually happened!  http://wtc7.net/foreknowledge.html It was not widely noticed that day by a nation sickened by grief and loss and hours of non-stop coverage on every station, but that awful personal loss motivated many people to investigate the murders of loved ones lost that day. 
 Jet fuel fires can not physically burn hot enough ( to melt steel or even significantly weaken steel trusses). "Steel-framed skyscrapers have never collapsed from fire, since they're built from steel that doesn't melt below 2750 degrees Fahrenheit. No fuel, not even jet fuel, which is really just refined kerosene, will burn hotter than 1500 degrees Fahrenheit." Ref: http://www.garlicandgrass.org/issue6/Dave_Heller.cfm  More than one thousand degrees colder than the melting point of steel is the reason welders use acetylene torches and not diesel torches to cut steel. That is why jet engines can burn their own fuel for thousands of flight hours without melting or weakening.  That is why diesel truck engines don't melt and even fuel injected internal combustion works without melting or weakening even an aluminum engine block.
 The pancake theory of the WTC towers 1 and 2 collapse is that the weight of the upper portion collapsed and caused a succession of failures under the accumulating weight of the collapse.  Yet physics teachers, professors, and scientists (not on the payroll) around the nation will attest to the impossible nature of the building collapses if the pancake theory is to be believed.  Go ahead and ask a friend, whether it is possible to drop two bowling balls from a tall building like WTC 1 and 2 and have them hit the ground at the same time, with one ball falling in a vacuum (without the resistance of air) and the other ball falling through one sheet of glass for each floor of the building.  Now imagine the resistance that each concrete and steel floor of the World Trade Center would have offered to a large falling mass.  Could the towers collapse at free-fall speeds if each floor offered some resistance to the oncoming mass?  But video and seismic evidence shows all three WTC towers collapsing at free fall speeds.  Dust and objects ejected laterally from the towers fell at the same free-fall speed as the tower mass supposedly "pancaking" the building down.  So how did the buildings fall?  A lot of evidence points to planned demolition. 
 I must leave it to your own personal curiosity to find the answers if you want them.  Who has been lying to us?  Was the omission of relevant information purposeful?  Were we manipulated to justify never-ending war, usurpation of war powers, and obscene billion dollar profiteering?  I believe the terrorist acts of 9-11 were a contemptible traitorous treasonous inside job, but your own heart won't want to accept the sinking feeling associated with being deceived and betrayed so deeply.  So don't believe me.  Believe your own eyes!  I think that our entire nation is just waking up from this nightmare, but then again  I am an optimistic dreamer, lucid, and wide awake.

 I am compelled and forced to spill my guts on the page in the hopes that my conscience will let me return to something like normalcy so I can focus on the work that pays the bills. 
  
 Hey did you see Dennis Kucinich standing up on your behalf?   That little mouse guy with the big ears may not be photogenic, but he does have backbone and brass balls, oh my!  The neo-cons fear that little dragon slayer, because the Truth is already out and impeachment is back on the table. Oh yeah!
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* * * * * Tim Riley is a father, husband, technical writer, and internet news hound avidly interested in progressive politics, environmentalism, social justice, and playing with his two children.
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