BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
Dear Marty:
It was painful to watch the video; but its implication that there was a conspiracy involving Americans is laughable.
How many people would have been needed to install all the explosives that the voice tells us must have been used on the 103 floors of the WTC. They would have had to have been technical explosive experts.
How many people must have been needed to make sure that the airplanes were only partially filled? These would have had to have been a group of Continental employees and a second unrelated group of American Airline employees. Or, perhaps a group of hackers.
How many people must have been involved in "knowing ahead of time" that the attack was imminent? They would have been high administration officials.
How many people would have held back NORAD fighters? These would have been Dept of Defense or Air force staffers.
All these groups of people would be unrelated. What would their common goal have been? Who would have brought them together and convinced them (hundreds of them) to go along with this project.
Wouldn't there have even been one single doubter among the hundreds or thousands that would have had to have been contacted?
How could any investigation of the WTC center cost only $600,000? Some murder investigations by the NYC cost more.
Isn't obvious that no conspiracy of this size could not have remained secret for all these years--or even more obvious that no conspiracy of this size could have been kept secret before its detonation.
It's silly to pass this kind of stuff around. And, from the number of dead soldiers (1000+) this thing is pretty old.
I consider myself to be pretty far to the left--but this is only someone's idea for a novel or movie. It has zero believability.
Please pass this back to the sadly credulous people who sent this to you.
Thanks
Mike
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Friday, January 20, 2006
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
The fight against pornography is a diversion, and is going to be used to retain the Republican base and divert the rest of the American people's attention from Iraq, the collapsing dollar, the national debt, and universal medical care. And look at the box that the Democrats will be forced into: Any Democrat defense of freedom of speech and ideas will easily be twisted into a position of pro-pornography.
mek
The fight against pornography is a diversion, and is going to be used to retain the Republican base and divert the rest of the American people's attention from Iraq, the collapsing dollar, the national debt, and universal medical care. And look at the box that the Democrats will be forced into: Any Democrat defense of freedom of speech and ideas will easily be twisted into a position of pro-pornography.
According to AOL news, today, MSN has already delivered the information although its spokesman won't say yes or no; Yahoo has said that it has submitted to all government subpoenas.
mek
mek
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
I have obtained the Peter Watson book from the library. The Modern Mind
It is a weighty volume which I have looked through and it seems to me (at this point) that it is almost a quick, light,very long, bring-me-up-to-date-Charlie-about-what-happened-while-I- was-asleep-during-the-twentieth-century gossip column. Most of what I have skipped through was stuff that I already knew from general conversation and magazine articles.
Noting what I thought was another coincidence, I skipped over to the paragraphs on TH Lawrence, mistaking it, at first, for DH Lawrence who, as you probably remember, was the current subject of Dubin, the adulterous-lost-soul-biographer.
Of course, I excuse my mistake as it was three-thirty in the morning and I had woken myself from a disturbing dream involving Katz Drug Store, a fire, and an aged geriatric doctor whom I knew in Brooklyn when it was me that was a lost soul, among other things.
But then that wasn't really the Watson book that I was reading; rather, it was another heavy tome, by William T. Vollmann, called RISING UP and RISING DOWN, which I recommend to you, even though it is lengthy, although abridged from a seven volume essay on violence.
Even more than Vollmanns' essays I recommend his fiction some of which I previously recommened to you and which you may have read, namely, The Rifles.
Volllman: 730 pp (abridged from 3500 pp)
Watson: 850 pp.
Malamud 361 pp
............. 1941 pp
I will finish the Malamud, but I have little hope for the Vollmann and Watson.
I have obtained the Peter Watson book from the library. The Modern Mind
It is a weighty volume which I have looked through and it seems to me (at this point) that it is almost a quick, light,very long, bring-me-up-to-date-Charlie-about-what-happened-while-I- was-asleep-during-the-twentieth-century gossip column. Most of what I have skipped through was stuff that I already knew from general conversation and magazine articles.
Noting what I thought was another coincidence, I skipped over to the paragraphs on TH Lawrence, mistaking it, at first, for DH Lawrence who, as you probably remember, was the current subject of Dubin, the adulterous-lost-soul-biographer.
Of course, I excuse my mistake as it was three-thirty in the morning and I had woken myself from a disturbing dream involving Katz Drug Store, a fire, and an aged geriatric doctor whom I knew in Brooklyn when it was me that was a lost soul, among other things.
But then that wasn't really the Watson book that I was reading; rather, it was another heavy tome, by William T. Vollmann, called RISING UP and RISING DOWN, which I recommend to you, even though it is lengthy, although abridged from a seven volume essay on violence.
Even more than Vollmanns' essays I recommend his fiction some of which I previously recommened to you and which you may have read, namely, The Rifles.
Volllman: 730 pp (abridged from 3500 pp)
Watson: 850 pp.
Malamud 361 pp
............. 1941 pp
I will finish the Malamud, but I have little hope for the Vollmann and Watson.
Monday, January 09, 2006
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
Dear Gross:
You know the story I like to tell about the time that your mother explained to me that in Russia her father's side of the family was called Katznelson, but that when they came to America they dropped the Katz, and became “Nelson.” And I responded that OUR name in Russia was also Katznelson, but that when we arrived in America we dropped the nelson and became “Katz.”
My joke may have gone over your head, but your mother got it.
Well, today I heard a story that may have topped that one.
I was speaking to the son of a friend of my father's whose name was Shapiro.
My father's friend was nicknamed "Shep" which, apparently was the nickname given to Shapiros in those days.
Shep had two sons; Larry and Peter and both went to Horace Mann about six years before we did. They also went to Raquette Lake.
Both boys went to Wesleyan (Connecticut.)
Peter Shapiro thought that changing his name from "Shapiro" to "Sheppe" might help his chances of getting into Harvard Law School. He changed his name, was admitted to Harvard and received his degree. He became GC of Time-Life.
Peter died early in life and Larry wanted to memorialize him by putting his name on a room at Wesleyan. He sent a check to a Robert Kelly, a person in charge of such donations, with the request that his brother's name, "Peter Sheppe" be placed on a plaque over a room in the gym. (By the way, If you do it for me, a room in the Osaka Shiatsu Club would be fine.)
Larry's letter requesting that his brother's name, “Peter Sheppe” be placed on the plaque confused Mr. Kelly, who called Larry for clarification.
"Mr. Shapiro,” Kelly said, “your letter says that you wish to memorialize your brother; but the name you gave us for the plaque is ‘Peter Sheppe’."
"Well," Larry explained, "the name was changed."
"Oh," Kelly replied, "I understand. By the way, which one of you changed his name?"
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Dear Gross:
You know the story I like to tell about the time that your mother explained to me that in Russia her father's side of the family was called Katznelson, but that when they came to America they dropped the Katz, and became “Nelson.” And I responded that OUR name in Russia was also Katznelson, but that when we arrived in America we dropped the nelson and became “Katz.”
My joke may have gone over your head, but your mother got it.
Well, today I heard a story that may have topped that one.
I was speaking to the son of a friend of my father's whose name was Shapiro.
My father's friend was nicknamed "Shep" which, apparently was the nickname given to Shapiros in those days.
Shep had two sons; Larry and Peter and both went to Horace Mann about six years before we did. They also went to Raquette Lake.
Both boys went to Wesleyan (Connecticut.)
Peter Shapiro thought that changing his name from "Shapiro" to "Sheppe" might help his chances of getting into Harvard Law School. He changed his name, was admitted to Harvard and received his degree. He became GC of Time-Life.
Peter died early in life and Larry wanted to memorialize him by putting his name on a room at Wesleyan. He sent a check to a Robert Kelly, a person in charge of such donations, with the request that his brother's name, "Peter Sheppe" be placed on a plaque over a room in the gym. (By the way, If you do it for me, a room in the Osaka Shiatsu Club would be fine.)
Larry's letter requesting that his brother's name, “Peter Sheppe” be placed on the plaque confused Mr. Kelly, who called Larry for clarification.
"Mr. Shapiro,” Kelly said, “your letter says that you wish to memorialize your brother; but the name you gave us for the plaque is ‘Peter Sheppe’."
"Well," Larry explained, "the name was changed."
"Oh," Kelly replied, "I understand. By the way, which one of you changed his name?"
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Sunday, January 08, 2006
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
From Bernard Malamud, Dubin's Lives:
" 'Tell me about D. H. Lawrence, ' Kitty sometimes said as they sat alone in the room, and Dubin would make the effort to tell episodes from the man's life.
'You tell it so interestingly. Why is it so hard to write?'
'It resists the pen. The second thought hides from the first.' "
From Bernard Malamud, Dubin's Lives:
" 'Tell me about D. H. Lawrence, ' Kitty sometimes said as they sat alone in the room, and Dubin would make the effort to tell episodes from the man's life.
'You tell it so interestingly. Why is it so hard to write?'
'It resists the pen. The second thought hides from the first.' "
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