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15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - News From You · 0 replies · +3 points

Charges dropped against men filmed on YouTube waving night sticks and shouting racial imprecations at the polls last November -- by order of "someone" at the US Department of Justice. Even black organizers who remember voting rights problems in the '60s say it was the most egregious voter intimidation they had ever seen. Read about it here:
<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/c..." target="_blank">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/c...
Looks like Lady Justice has already had her blindfold torn off her eyes - wonder who got more *empathy* - the guys with the clubs or the people who were being threatened with them? My Country, oh, my country.

15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - News From You · 1 reply · +1 points

You do realize that by doing this "continued in first comment thing" and then *not* saying in the continuation you were *quoting* something, it makes it appear that you are commenting *as* *the* *person* *this* *happened* *to*. So not only are you spreading an already debunked rumor, you are doing it in a way that is even more irresponsible. Sign up for Mozilla Firefox, and you won't have to split your comments. Go to Snopes.com to check out rumors and you won't end up spreading untruths. The link for this particular rumor debunking is:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/campbell.asp

15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - News From You · 0 replies · +1 points

This was a misunderstanding about firearms belonging to people to lived *on* the base, and those who didn't. It has since been rescinded. I really do suggest that all of us should take a moment to visit Snopes.com (urban legends website) before we start circulating things that are partial truths. Here's the link to the original memo, the background, and the statement that the memo has been retracted:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/campbell.asp

15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - News From You · 0 replies · +9 points

Hawaii tried to have the state pay for health insurance "just for the children who weren't insured". What happened? Parents cancelled their private insurance so the state would have to pay. The program lasted 7 months. Why isn't the "Hawaii Experiment" being reported as showing *exactly* what will happen if the Federal Government steps in to cover "only those who need it"? Here's the article link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,440561,00.htm...

15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Vent through May 13th · 0 replies · +2 points

I don't agree with what they say, but I will defend to the death their right to say it.

15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Vent through May 13th · 0 replies · +2 points

The extreme heat of the fires caused the steel girders to sag (not melt) and then the floors collapsed one after another. Thomas Eagar, an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains why: steel loses 50 percent of its strength at 1,200 degrees F; 90,000 liters of jet fuel ignited other combustible materials such as rugs, curtains, furniture and paper, which continued burning after the jet fuel was exhausted, raising temperatures above 1,400 degrees F and spreading the inferno throughout each building. Temperature differentials of hundreds of degrees across single steel horizontal trusses caused them to sag--straining and then breaking the angle clips that held the beams to the vertical columns. Once one truss failed, others followed. When one floor collapsed onto the next floor below, that floor subsequently gave way, creating a pancaking effect that triggered each 500,000-ton structure to crumble. Conspiricists argue that the buildings should have fallen over on their sides, but with 95 percent of each building consisting of air, they could only have collapsed straight down.
from: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=...

15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Vent through May 13th · 11 replies · +4 points

The steel was subjected to enough heat to cause it to sag, causing the buildings to collapse floor by floor.
Thomas Eagar, an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains why: steel loses 50 percent of its strength at 1,200 degrees F; 90,000 liters of jet fuel ignited other combustible materials such as rugs, curtains, furniture and paper, which continued burning after the jet fuel was exhausted, raising temperatures above 1,400 degrees F and spreading the inferno throughout each building. Temperature differentials of hundreds of degrees across single steel horizontal trusses caused them to sag--straining and then breaking the angle clips that held the beams to the vertical columns. Once one truss failed, others followed. When one floor collapsed onto the next floor below, that floor subsequently gave way, creating a pancaking effect that triggered each 500,000-ton structure to crumble. Conspiricists argue that the buildings should have fallen over on their sides, but with 95 percent of each building consisting of air, they could only have collapsed straight down.
from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=...

15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Vent through May 13th · 0 replies · +3 points

Ashton and his mom are well-known on the web for prank calls. Ashton called various schools and universities making bomb threats in exchange for money on PayPal. His mom was very aware of what he was doing. His arrest had nothing to do with the Patriot Act. Don't use your energy in defense of this lie.

15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Vent through May 13th · 0 replies · +2 points

I thought that's what the up/down thumb was for. Hit the 'down', don't post a reply of any kind, and the post will drift off to wherever aged, unanswered comments go. Problem solved. We each have a finite amount of energy to use for good or ill. Use your energy for constructive things, and don't waste it on stuff that bothers you that you have no control over, other than to pray about it. IOW, if somebody says or posts something that you don't like, take a deep breath and move to the next thing. Sometimes saying a prayer along the lines of "Father, forgive them, they don't know what they're doing. Don't hold it against them, instead send your Holy Spirit to inspire them to see the error of their ways." Don't *post* the prayer, just say it in your heart. I use that one when I get behind particularly offensive or anti-Christian bumper stickers, too. Nothing like following a car for several miles, praying as hard as possible for the driver's (and any passengers') redemption :-)

15 years ago @ Glenn Beck - The 912 P... - Vent through May 13th · 0 replies · +1 points

Maybe it was the spell-check nannites?

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