WTC Collapse -- An Accordion Theory

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Sunday August 20, 2006 · 2:34 PM PDT

2006/08/20 · 14:34

After many comments back and forth yesterday on a diary I initiated, and for which I took considerable heat for being a conspiracy theorist, I now have a better understanding of how 9/11 might have occurred in a manner consistent with the official version, thanks to a number of engineering types who patiently explained their ideas.

What they have said has caused me to visualise the collapses as being quite similar to the collapse of an accordion, though no one used this term or even suggested it. Prior to today I have always tended to visualize the towers as being more like a long and skinny natural block of solid wood rather than a man-made hollow bodied object like an accordion. Today I see it differently.

If the WTC collapses were in fact collapses consistent with the way an accordion collapses, then many of the skeptics' legitimate questions could be sufficiently answered.

The accordion theory of collapse could explain a number of the major questions of the skeptics.

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Debunking the 9/11 Demolition Conspiracy Theorists w/poll

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Saturday August 19, 2006 · 12:54 PM PDT

2006/08/19 · 12:54

Those 9/11 conspiracy theorists just keep coming and coming. Well I am going to show you how to debunk them using three of the darlings of the 9/11 conspiracy movement.

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Is Israel After the Litani River?

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Saturday July 22, 2006 · 6:37 PM PDT

2006/07/22 · 18:37

I really am not up to doing a diary. But I see that elsewhere the question has been raised whether the Israel/Lebanon conflict is a water rights conflict.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/...

I have heard reports that the Israeli's have warned everyone south of the Litani River to leave.

Here is an interesting article from nine years ago (back when Israel was still occupying Lebanon) about the Litani River and the water rights conflicts between Lebanon and Israel over it's use:

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A "Statute of Frauds" for Voting

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Saturday July 01, 2006 · 8:38 AM PDT

2006/07/01 · 08:38

A pdf of My Reply Brief is now up.

http://dragonflihost.net/...

Thanks again to dragonfli for being such a helpful and gracious host. And as promised, the Reply Brief is based entirely on my statute of frauds argument.

For framing purposes, for those of you who know lawyers, always tell lawyers we need a Statute of Frauds for Voting. Don't say paper record or paper ballot; it will not compute. Tell them we need a Statute of Frauds for Voting, just like we have for commercial transactions, and the light bulb should (finally) come on.

Snippets from the brief:

After many months of looking at the election process, it has dawned on the Appellant [that's me] that the election process must be viewed in reverse.... We need to look at the election contest lawsuit first and then work backwards to the actual casting of the ballot.

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Plamegate -- Not with a bang, but with a whimper

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Wednesday June 21, 2006 · 9:38 AM PDT

2006/06/21 · 09:38

I thought I would never see the day that I agreed with GWB on anything. But I think that day is here. He has said the Plamegate investigation is over, and sadly, I am coming to the conclusion he is right.

I bet the CIA is just sick at the present state of affairs. Certainly, when the CIA made its complaints about the outing of Plame, it was not its desire to have an adminstration scapegoat indicted for perjury, of all things. One would think the CIA wanted prosecutions under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act or under the Espionage Act. The CIA probably could have cared less about prosecutions for perjury.

Now that Rove appears not to face charges for perjury and Fitz's modus operandi is not to charge anyone with the outing of an agent (heaven forbid!), there really is nowhere to go.

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Leopold / Luskin -- Could they both be right? -- Episode II

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Saturday June 17, 2006 · 10:36 AM PDT

2006/06/17 · 10:36

On Thursday I began a diary about this same topic:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

There were many responses, many flames, but all in all, it turned out to be a productive exercise.

I think I have now found at least four different possible scenarios where Leopold could have been right about Rove being indicted and where Luskin could have been right about Fitzgerald not "seeking any criminal charges" at least not in the imminent future. There may be more possibilities.

And since Fitzgerald remains silent on the subject, his silence certainly arouses suspicion about the matter.

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Leopold / Luskin -- Could they both be right?

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Thursday June 15, 2006 · 5:31 PM PDT

2006/06/15 · 17:31

Time Reported:

Luskin had just received a fax from Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the case, saying that he was formally notifying Luskin that absent any unexpected developments, he does not anticipate seeking any criminal charges against Rove.

http://www.time.com/...

It is the word "seeking" that is bothering me. There is a big difference between the burden of "probable cause" (necessary for an indictment) and beyond a reasonable doubt (necessary for a conviction). Criminal law is not my field, but I am sure that there must be a way for a prosecutor who obtains an indictment from the grand jury to refuse to file or hesitate to file the case because he does not think he yet has proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Or maybe a prosecutor could refuse to file or delay filing formal charges just to use the indictment as a hammer for turning state's evidence.

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Voting Unconstitutionally / With Poll

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Saturday June 03, 2006 · 12:00 PM PDT

2006/06/03 · 12:00

In 1677 the British enacted a law called the Statute of Frauds and Perjuries.

The Statute of Frauds and Perjuries was based upon the premise that without paper evidence of the essential terms of a business transaction, the transaction was ripe for fraud and the case became little more than a contest of who was the best perjurer.

The statute of frauds became the law of the colonies, and later, of each and every state, because the courts recognized the value of paper as a deterrent to fraud.

Likewise for most of the USA's history, it was recognized that a paper ballot was the best electoral fraud prevention device known to man.

After all, voting is a transaction between the government and the people.

But in the early twentieth century our legislatures lost sight of the principle of the statute of frauds and began to eradicate paper-based voting systems. That was a huge mistake.

We need to again recognize the principle that paper is the greatest deterrent to fraud ever invented.

We need a national statute of frauds for voting. Not just for some but for all of us.

There's more of course.
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Hemp for Oil -- Jerome are you listening?

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Sunday May 28, 2006 · 12:45 PM PDT

2006/05/28 · 12:45

Each acre of hemp yields 10 tons of biomass (1,000 gallons of methanol) in 4 months.

"Make the most of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere." - George Washington, 1794

In a recent diary by OrangeClouds, she happened to mention that she had bought some hemp pants. I was curious about hemp, because frankly, I am tired of paying to launder and starch cotton dress shirts. I wondered if hemp shirts might be an alternative so I began to check out hemp. My quest to find out about hemp clothing led me to some very unexpected information about hemp. What I found out about hemp as a clean burning fuel made me more than angry.

The next time you hear a Republican tell you that Democrats don't believe in energy independence, because Democrats won't allow drilling in ANWAR, here is your comeback. When was the last time any Republican told you we could have complete energy independence by growing the crop Republicans love to ban? Yes my friends, its hemp, a/k/a cannabis, a/k/a marijuana.

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revolutionary Solar Panels May Get Us Off the Grid

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Monday February 27, 2006 · 5:30 AM PST

2006/02/27 · 05:30

I lost a rather lengthy post and I am not about to type the whole damn thing again.

So here's the article:

http://www.int.iol.co.za/...

What is exciting and what makes this seem like the real deal is that these South African engineers are licensing it to a company in Germany that is going to start immediate production 24/7.

Not too terribly surprising is the fact that no US companies have yet to get involved.

The Blunderbush / with Poll

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Sunday February 19, 2006 · 6:08 AM PST

2006/02/19 · 06:08

While reading a diary yesterday about Presidential blunders, for some odd reason ( I have no clue why ) the words blunder and Bush simultaneusoly came to mind. I thought it just might be useful to combine the two and add a new word to our lexicon: Blunderbush. After all, the word gerrymander came from a politician's name. To make certain the term made sense, I went to wikipedia to look up blunderbuss, just to be sure.

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Is it time to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, Senators? Poll

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Monday January 30, 2006 · 4:38 PM PST

2006/01/30 · 16:38

The seventeenth amendment is the one that allowed citizens to vote directly for senators. Our founding fathers must have figured this was not a good idea or it would have been in the original constitution. What did they know that early twentieth century Americans didn't? More after the flip. Read More

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