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Sugarcoated

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7. They don't get a fucking pass

Reply to scheming daemons (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 02:19 PM

Sep 2012

You're right, it was their incompetence, at the very least, that ALLOWED that attack to happen!

Not to mention many, many other man made disasters . . . smirky was a walking human disaster.

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9/11/01 happened on their watch, 5/01/11 happened on ours [View all] scheming daemons Sep 2012 OP

Negligent? Maybe. I suppose parsimony demands no more than that... HereSince1628 Sep 2012 #1

Here's the big reason why I think LIHOP was possible jeff47 Sep 2012 #3

B-25s aren't really comparable to modern airliners. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #4

Neither are modern buildings comparable to the Empire State Building jeff47 Sep 2012 #6

If by "something" you mean "junior high level knowledge," maybe. It ain't complex. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #8

I don't think they teach architecture and structural engineering in junior high. jeff47 Sep 2012 #12

Two or three times the velocity and fifteen times the mass isn't relevant? Oy. (nt) Posteritatis Sep 2012 #13

Not with a building about 1/10th the mass and completely different construction techniques. (nt) jeff47 Sep 2012 #15

this is creepy treestar Sep 2012 #9

yes. It seems that everything was in place for the NeoCons to get what they wanted HereSince1628 Sep 2012 #14

5/01/11... lame54 Sep 2012 #2

no. OBL was killed in 2011 scheming daemons Sep 2012 #5

duh... lame54 Sep 2012 #10

They don't get a fucking pass Sugarcoated Sep 2012 #7

YEP, That's REALITY..and all Cha Sep 2012 #11