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2008-02-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Mike 2008-02-09 09:30|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Like debunking their paranoid fantasy will stop them from believing it.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-02-09 09:57|| 2008-02-09 09:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Thanks, Mike. Who is Kevin Barrett? One of his UW colleagues calls him a fruitcake:
Barrett, a Muslim convert, was recently cleared by the college to teach a course this fall titled, "Islam: Religion and Culture." Like many Muslims, he contends the 9-11 attacks were an "inside job" carried out by Bush administration officials and not Islamic terrorists. Specifically, Barrett argues Bush officials rigged the World Trade Center with incendiary devices to bring it down and start a war against Islam.

"He's a fruitcake," says Marshall F. Onellion, a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin. "He has no education in any engineering or science area pertinent to how, or whether, buildings fall down when hit by airplanes. Since he can't evaluate the evidence presented, he shouldn't have an opinion" that will influence students. ( Maybe Barrett got his engineering and architectural degrees from the Rosie O'Donnell Institute of Technology.)
For more fun Google: Kevin Barrett and add Muslim or Islam or Lone Rock.

Posted by GK 2008-02-09 10:27|| 2008-02-09 10:27|| Front Page Top

#3 I love the tangle the moonbats get into trying to explain why Bin Laden has taken credit for the attacks on more than one occasion.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-02-09 10:39|| 2008-02-09 10:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Mr. Barrett was cleared by the college to teach? On what grounds was he considered capable?
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checked GK's link
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Oh. The provost wrote to Mr. Barrett to ask him if he was able to contain his enthusiasm while teaching. Presumably promised to do so. Taqqiyah.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-02-09 12:49|| 2008-02-09 12:49|| Front Page Top

#5 I encountered two of these demented people demostrating at the Capital in Sacramento this last summer. I really think they need to start some meds because they are completly unhinged. I didn't want to verbally spare with them but I got them to tell me their story. Basically, they had NOTHING in their life except hatred for Bush prior to 9/11. Springle in some confusion after the attack and viola' we're on wacko express to BDS town. next time ask them if they have seen "Screw Loose Change" and watch them have a full-blown fit.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2008-02-09 16:01|| 2008-02-09 16:01|| Front Page Top

#6 "For the first time in history, fire melted steel".

Everybody knows steel columns and beams are harvested, growing in standard W and H shapes, but the hardest to grow are the tubes- square, rectangular and cylindrical, only a master farmer can grow those.

The people who espouse this nonsense should be publically ridiculed, heads shaved, painted loud colors and forced into the wilderness

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-02-09 16:57|| 2008-02-09 16:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Personally, I think truthers should be punished by being eviscerated with a chainsaw. Each truther will be given a lighter to melt the chainsaw chain before it's used on him. If his lighter melts the steel chain, he's free to go. If not, crank it up and let it rip!

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2008-02-09 23:40|| 2008-02-09 23:40|| Front Page Top

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