Charlie Sheen and 911
A couple people at work were talking about the actor Charlie Sheen, because this past week he did a radio interview where he basically states his stance on the 911 attacks. This stance being that there are too many unanswered questions. Buildings came down too fast perhaps.
One of the people who was in my training group said, (referring to Sheen) “I don’t even want to see that guy’s face ever again.”
It was funny that he was so disgusted that Sheen would imply that we weren’t given the whole truth about these incidents. I on the other hand am not trusting of the government. Nor should anyone be in my opinion. Thomas Jefferson wasn’t trusting of the government and that’s why our founding documents were written the way they were. Regarding 911 though, there are plenty of missing materials being witheld from the public. We have Pentagon security camera footage that hasn’t been fully released We have security cameras from a nearby Sheraton hotel that still hasn’t surfaced.
We also have WTC Building 7 which has an extremely suspicious air around it. One being the beneficiary of the insurance policy on WTC says on a PBS documentary referring to the collapse of building 7, said “We had such terrible loss of life and the chief said he was having trouble containing the fire that I made the decision to just ‘pull it.’” Early evening that building came down, after having suffered some fires from debris of the other towers.
I haven’t read the 911 Commission at this moment in time, though it’s on my list. I have heard that the topic of WTC7 was kind of glazed over. This might make sense to some because it didn’t get hit by airplanes, and was certainly a dwarfed by the other destruction. But the statement made by that gentleman who collected the insurance policy is a bit annoying to say the least. That building apparently contained government offices. These are offices that We the people own. A decision to pull, if referring to a demolition, is a huge crime, as it’s destroying government property. Our property, our records. Do you know what was housed in Building 7? What were those offices.
I’ve enjoyed watching a lot of the alternative movies on 911. It’s really fascinating to see points of view that weren’t really available at the time. It is an unarguable fact that there is a coverup of 911. We are missing these videos. We are missing cockpit record data. At that level, there is a cover-up. Uncover these materials, and then more citizens and families of victims can rest easier. Until they uncover it, these government agencies deserve all of the flack, all of the litigation, all of the cries of conspiracy, all of the suspicion they are getting.
Were these buildings demolished by airplanes alone? Built to withstand an airplane hitting them, and both having been built to withstand 2500 degree heat, these buildings came down 30 minutes apart, disintegrated, and at freefall speed. Darn the luck you might say right? These airplanes sure were the magic bullets. Now if some of the building engineers are lying and actually the building was not up to that standard, they are responsible for defects in the building.
As much as I love the adventure of conspiracy, I’m not going to remain unswayed here. I’m looking out for more evidence that proves the official story is correct. I want the official story to be correct for many reasons. Right now though, I think that those buildings came down too fast for logic, faster than melted metal and pancaking of floors should do. They came down so perfect, too impossibly perfect. Building 7 is shrouded in mystery. The pentagon is full of missing pieces.
If the government and the agencies were more transparent you wouldn’t have these questions, you wouldn’t have so many conspiracy theories. It’s the lack of transparency that is our downfall here in the United States. The War on Terror is not a reason to withold the things that we withold.
April 1, 2006 at 11:04 am | 911, conspiracy, media, politics, rants | No comment
The golden age of children’s television
I just have a few moments but I wanted to write a little bit about television. When I was growing up I feel like I experienced the golden age of children’s television. Back then, we had Sesame Street, Mister Rogers, Letter People Land, and a few more that I kind of remeber, one example is Electric Company which had some strange skits. Anyway I feel those shows were the product of the times before child pop psychology and the rise of political correctedness. My days we enjoyed folk songs, grainy animations, burlap and mop like puppets. It felt down to earth. In St. Louis, it’s channel 9 PBS that I grew up watching. These days you have shows made in 3D which appear to me to be overly cheesy. But then again I may be wrong.
I also remember whenever I’d go to my Aunt Judy’s house she would always have Bob Ross on television. Bob Ross was a painter with a soothing cool voice and a curly fro. The guy you’d want to have in your family. His show, The Joy of Painting, was one of the best learning demonstrations of painting. Some would argue that his treatments of landscapes that he always seemed to do weren’t really art. To that I’d respond with a bat to their foreheads.
His show was lighthearted, focused and original in the sense that I’m not sure if I’ve seen since any production house with that amount of coverage of a single topic, especially in the United States. In other countries you do see shows of that quality on language learning or piano practice. Hopefully the internet will change this in the next 3-7 years. Hopefully in the next 10 years we can call up a long video series of scratching on turntables or how to take care of reptiles.
Watching Bob Ross I always loved the sound of the palette knives scrapping against the palette and the paint canvas. All the sounds really meant something. It was all the more real. I don’t remember any sample sound bed or anything. Also just the creation of the landscape painting in front of you and watching the techniques.
Here’s to Bob Ross who passed away in 1995 of lymphoma. Thanks so much for the memories. Even though I never learned to paint, I definitely learned from you.
