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    December 10

    Senior DBA/Programming Engineer

    Monster resume #: nzum267459zfutqa
     
    Experienced Oracle database administrator and senior programming engineer seeking challenging position utilizing both development skills and administration experience.
    July 05

    Yeah, I'm psychic

    This is creepy!
    Think of a letter between
    A and W.
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Repeat it
    out loud (you can whisper if
    you want) and concentrate
    on the letter
    as you scroll down.
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Keep going ..............................
    Don't stop ....
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Now,
    Think of an
    animal
    that begins
    with that letter.
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Repeat it
    out loud
    as you
    scroll down.
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Okay, now think of
    either a man's/woman's
    name
    that
    begins
    with the
    last letter
    in the
    animals name
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Almost
    there........
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Now
    count out
    the letters
    in that name
    by tapping on
    the desk with the
    hand you are not
    using to
    scroll down.
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Take the
    hand you
    counted with
    and hold it out
    in front of you
    at face level
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Look at your
    palm
    very closely
    and
    notice
    the
    lines
    in
    your
    hand
    .
    .
    .
    .
    Do the lines
    take the
    form of the
    first letter
    in the
    persons name?
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    .
    . Of course they f***ing don’t.......
    .
    .
    .
    .Now smack
    yourself in the head, get a life,
    and
    quit playing
    stupid games!
    May 11

    The Golden Tee LIVE Regional Championships are Back!

    Incredible Technologies Proudly Announces the

    Golden Tee LIVE Regional Championships 2007 

    The Ultimate Golden Tee Experience Returns This Summer!
     
    Only on Golden Tee LIVE 2007!

    Throughout the summer and fall months of 2006 Incredible Technologies held the largest, most ambitious and most exciting Golden Tee tournament ever - the Golden Tee LIVE Regional Championships! Thousands of bars participated and hundreds of players competed in four Regional Finals. The Regionals made history as the largest Golden Tee tournament ever held and the deepest prize pool ever paid out.
     
    The ultimate Golden Tee experience returns in 2007 with an improved tournament format that's open to even more players, with bigger prizes at stake. Records will be shattered once again and this time it's YOUR chance to be a part of Golden Tee history!

    Every Player. Every Game. Every Location.
    Players will qualify by simply playing Golden Tee LIVE 2007 at their favorite bar! Every bar with a Golden Tee LIVE 2007 is included! A Final will take place in each region where over $25,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded to the top 200 players!

    Simple to Qualify and Easy to Win!
    Play 50 games of Golden Tee LIVE in six weeks during your region's qualifying period and you’re in! Whether your scoring average is –20 or –2, EVERYONE can play in the Golden Tee LIVE Regional Championships and over 600 players will win!

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    Qualify for Team USA 2008!
    Qualify for the new Golden Tee Team USA Shootout! The top 50 online qualifiers in each region, with the best 50-game scoring average overall, will compete in the Team USA Shootout at the Regional Finals. The top three shooters in each region receive spots on Team USA 2008!

    VISIT
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    The Golden Tee LIVE Regional Championships
     
    Every Player.  Every Game.  Every Location.
     
    May 09

    Kudos to the Rational Responders Squad

    In their debate against Cameron and Comfort
     
    May 02

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    09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

    With apologese to Yeats

    Spinning and blurring in the widening gyre
    The Twoofer cannot hear the truth in ear;
    Pseudo-facts fall apart; theory cannot hold;
    Hypotheses are loosed upon the world,
    The lie-soaked tied is loosed, and everywhere
    Scientific methodology is drowned;
    The best backed by science facts, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.
     
    Surely some revelation is at hand;
    Surely the Twoofer will understand.
    When a vile image out of LC 2nd Ed
    Troubles my sight; some backwater internet site
    A post with lying body and subject of drek,
    Logic blank and lacking as the facts,
    Is blogged 'cross the web sphere, while all about it
    Reel shadows of indignant twoofer words.
    The bull**** drops again; but now I know
    That twenty Youtube films of bad soundtracks
    Were vexed to nightmare by a kook on crack,
    And when to rest, its hour come 'round at last,
    Will these Twoofer theories be here no more?
    April 19

    Target Toss Pro: Bags website opens for business

    Incredible Technologies, makers of Golden Tee Golf and Silver Strike Bowling, have opened the their website www.targettosspro.com showing players the background of the game (known as cornhole in some areas of the US) and how to play!
    April 13

    '9/11 Mysteries' Viewer's Guide now online

    The Doc, from the JREF forums, has completed his guide/critique/review of the 9/11 conspiracy theory film, "9/11 Mysteries".  You can check it out here:
    http://www.911mysteriesguide.com/
    April 05

    Oldie but goodie crossed my desk today

    An oldie, but a goody

     

    I Like Monkeys!

     

    The pet store was selling them for five cents a piece.

     

    I thought this was odd since they were normally a couple thousand. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth so I bought 200 of them. I like monkeys.

     

    I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one of them drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in the genitals. I laughed. They punched me in the genitals. I stopped laughing.

     

    I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech and hurl themselves off the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into it's third hour. Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive; they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sort of dropped dead. Kinda like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. God damn cheap monkeys.

     

    I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room; on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs. I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and one hundred ninety-nine dead, dry monkeys.

     

    I tried to pretend that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad. I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in my toilet and I didn't want to call a plumber. I was embarrassed. I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two at a time, so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't go bad.

     

    I tried to burn them, but little did I know that my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire. Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and one hundred ninety-seven dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed.

     

    The odor wasn't improving. I became agitated at my inability to dispose of the dead monkeys and I really had to use the bathroom. So I went and severely beat one of the monkeys. I felt better.

     

    I tried throwing them away but the garbage man said the city was not allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him I had a wet one. He couldn't take it either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.

     

    I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't quite know what to say. They pretended to like them, but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.

     

    I like monkeys.[/

    April 03

    Golden Tee 2007 World Championship Videos on Youtube.com…check it out!

    Golden Tee 2007 World Championship Videos on Youtube.com…check it out!

    http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=GoldenTeeGolf

    March 29

    Explosives, explosions, and loud noises: A Rant

    Executive Summary
    The use of "explosive" and "explosion" interchangeably in discussion is erroneous; and the use of "explosions" as evidence of "explosives" is fundamentally flawed.

    Loud Noises (aka bangs, booms, cracks, explosions (heard but not seen) etc)
    Q. What are loud noises?
    A. Within the context of this post I will be defining loud noises as "Sound or a sound that is loud, unpleasant, unexpected, or undesired." http://www.thefreedictionary.com/noise (def. #1)

    Explosions
    Q. What are explosions?
    A. Wikipedia defines ExplosionsWP as "a sudden increase in volume and release of energy in a violent manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. An explosion causes pressure waves in the local medium in which it occurs. Explosions are categorized as deflagrations if these waves are subsonic and detonations if they are supersonic (shock waves)."

    Q. What are causes of explosions?
    A. The Wikipedia article on ExplosionsWP lists a number of causes of explosions:
    • Chemical explosions
    • Nuclear explosions
    • Steam boiler explosions
    • Electrical explosions
    • Volcanic explosions
    • Astronomical event explosions and
    • Exploding animals
    Explosives
    Q. What are explosives?
    A. Wikipedia defines ExplosivesWP as "a material that either is chemically or otherwise energetically unstable or produces a sudden expansion of the material usually accompanied by the production of heat and large changes in pressure (and typically also a flash and/or loud noise) upon initiation; this is called the explosion."

    The Logic
    Argument 1
    P1: If an explosive is detonated then there will be an explosion;
    P2: An explosive is detonated;
    C: Therefore, there was an explosion.

    This is a logically sound argument. P1 is true by definition of what an explosive does and is included in the definition of things that can cause explosions.
    This is known as affirming the antecedent and is expressed as:
    P1: If A then B;
    P2: A;
    C: Therefore, B.

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    Argument 2
    P1: If there is an explosion, then you will hear a loud noise;
    P2: There was an explosion;
    C: Therefore, it was heard as a loud noise.

    This is a logically sound argument. P1 is true as, by definition, explosions create shock-waves. The shock-waves are heard and meet the criteria of being a loud noise.
    This is known as affirming the antecedent and is expressed as:
    P1: If A then B;
    P2: A;
    C: Therefore, B.

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    Argument 3
    P1: If there is an explosion then you will hear a loud noise;
    P2: There was a loud noise;
    C: Therefore, there was an explosion.

    This is not a logically sound argument as there are, by definition of what a loud noise is, causes of loud noises that are not explosions (ex. steel bar snapping, book slamming on the floor, etc).
    This is known as affirming the consequent and is a logical fallacy. It is expressed as:
    P1: If A then B;
    P2: B;
    C: Therefore, A.

    The generalized expression of why it is fallacious is:
    P1: If A then B;
    P2: If C then B;
    P3: B;
    C: Therefore, A.

    Expressed as such, it is clear why it is not a sound logical argument.

    It can be made in to a sound logical argument with the addition of another premise (which must be shown to be true), such that:
    P1: If A then B;
    P2: Only A can cause B;
    P3: B;
    C: Therefore, A.

    Therefore, we would have to be able to say:
    P1: If there is an explosion then you will hear a loud noise;
    P2: Only explosions can cause loud noises;
    P3: There was a loud noise;
    C: Therefore, there was an explosion.

    This is clearly an untenable argument.

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    Argument 4
    P1: If an explosive is detonated then there will be an explosion;
    P2: There was an explosion;
    C: Therefore, there was an explosive was detonated.

    This is not a logically sound argument as there are, by definition of what a loud noise is, causes of loud noises that are not explosions (ex. steel bar snapping, book slamming on the floor, etc).
    This is known as affirming the consequent and is a logical fallacy. It is expressed as:
    P1: If A then B;
    P2: B;
    C: Therefore, A.

    The generalized expression of why it is fallacious is:
    P1: If A then B;
    P2: If C then B;
    P3: B;
    C: Therefore, A.

    Expressed as such, it is clear why it is not a sound logical argument.

    It can be made in to a sound logical argument with the addition of another premise (which must be shown to be true), such that:
    P1: If A then B;
    P2: Only A can cause B;
    P3: B;
    C: Therefore, A.

    This requirement means that for proponent of CD in the WTC to claim that witness reports of explosions are evidence of the use of explosives the following must be true:
    P1: If an explosive is detonated then there will be an explosion;
    P2: Only explosives can cause explosions;
    P3: There was an explosion;
    C: Therefore, there was an explosive was detonated.

    This clearly runs counter to the definition of what an explosion is, and is shown to not be true by the examples cited for causes of explosions that do not fall in to the category of explosives. Therefore, this is also an untenable argument.

    What does this mean for discussion?
    It means that...
    • ... if a witness reported hearing a loud noise and called it an explosion we can not conclude it was caused by an explosion
    • ... if a witness reported seeing an explosion we can not conclude it was caused by an explosive
    • ... the term "explosion" and "explosive" can not be used interchangeably
    March 08

    On vacation

    Bye!
    February 27

    Andy Mckee Amazing Guitar Player

     
     

    A Guide for the Undecided. Brief Analysis of Common Theories Part 4: The Hijackers

    The fourth, and final, part of ref's (from JREF) writeup:
    Here comes the last part. after this I will be making some kind of a compilation. This part focuses on the hijackers. Not all claims are addressed, but some of the most common ones.

    Once again, an "In Brief" section is provided with each claim. This gives a quick glimpse of the explanation behind any particular theory. Further readings are also linked with every claim.

    Here goes part 4: The Hijackers.




    The Hijackers

    • Claim: The passport of Satam al-Suqami couldn’t have survived the inferno and collapse. It was found in a grid search and it was in too good condition.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/staff_...rrTrav_Ch2.pdf
    http://www.sacred-texts.com/ame/911/911tr/012604.htm
    http://edition.cnn.com/2001/US/09/17...ism/index.html
    http://www.911myths.com/html/passport_recovered.html

    In Brief:
    Some reports have falsely claimed this was Atta’s passport. The passport never went through the inferno and collapse. A passerby in a suit picked it up and gave it to a NYPD detective Yuk H. Chin shortly before the World Trade Center towers collapsed. WTC 2 collapsed only shortly thereafter. Mr. Chin gave the passport further to the FBI on 9/11.


    Lots of things from the planes ended up on the streets below before the collapses. Amongst them was a hijacker’s passport.
    http://www.pbase.com/peteburke73/september_11&page=1

    On September 18th a CNN report stated the following:

    “Police and the FBI completed a grid search of area streets near the site of the World Trade Center looking for clues, said Barry Mawn, director of New York's FBI office. The searchers found several clues, he said, but would not elaborate. Last week, a passport belonging to one of the hijackers was found in the vicinity of Vesey Street, near the World Trade Center.”

    The report first talked about a grid search, then in the next sentence it mentioned that the passport was found last week. This has lead to a false conclusion, that a grid search produced the passport finding.

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    • Claim: Several of the hijackers are reported to be alive.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.911myths.com/html/still_alive.html
    http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics...itle=Hijackers
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/1559151.stm
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditor..._theory_1.html

    In Brief: The story was first reported by the BBC and several other news agencies in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. BBC updated their story in 2006. The update clearly states:
    “The story, written in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, was about confusion at the time surrounding the names and identities of some of the hijackers. We later reported on the list of hijackers, thereby superseding the earlier report. The confusion over names and identities we reported back in 2001 may have arisen because these were common Arabic and Islamic names.”

    The FBI and the 9/11 commission have confirmed, that the hijackers responsible for the attacks have been positively identified. There has been no issue of doubt raised by further reviews to the hijackers identities.

    If the alive theories were true, it would be easy to just go and interview them. This has not been done, but the issue has been avoided giving many excuses. This claim is still alive, the hijackers are not.


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    • Claim: The hijackers outwitted the most highly sophisticated military defence in the world. It could not have been possible without help, NORAD stand down order and distracting war games.
    Discussed here:
    http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=70300
    http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f...08/norad200608
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
    http://www.911myths.com/html/stand_down.html

    In Brief:
    North America is surrounded by an area called the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is responsible for the intercept of aircraft inside the ADIZ. All preparations were made only concerning aircraft entering the USA from outside its borders.

    Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and Transport Canada handle the ADIZ clearances, so a request for intercept from one of these agencies precedes any action by NORAD against civilian aircraft. NORAD do not directly monitor air traffic inside the ADIZ themselves.

    None of the aircraft hijacked on September 11 entered the ADIZ zone surrounding North America. The hijackings took place inside continental USA. Prior to September 11, there was no formal system in place for military intercepts of civilian aircraft outside the ADIZ. From 1991 to 2001 only one military intercept occurred over continental USA airspace, the Payne Stewart flight. The intercept took 81 minutes and the aircraft transponder remained on at all times.

    All four aircraft hijacked on September 11 had their transponders turned off. In order to identify the hijacked aircraft, Air Traffic Controllers had to first cross-reference all of the aircraft appearing on the secondary radar screen with their correlating reading on the primary screen. This is an enormous task.

    Failure by NORAD to intercept the hijacked planes on 9/11 was not caused by any orders. It was a result of enormous workload, lack of preparation against attacks from inside continental USA, complicated operating procedures and lack of time.

    The exercises occurring on September 11 that involved NORAD were “Vigilant Guardian” and “Global Guardian”.

    These were command post exercises. This means that all the battle positions that are normally not filled were filled. It was a rapid transition from an exercise into a real world situation. When the first reports of a hijacking were given, a rapid clarification was made with the words “is this real-world or exercise?” Once this clarification had been made, the exercises posed no further hindrance to NORAD’s response. The exercises actually enhanced the response, since all staff positions were already filled.

    Special thanks to Andrew Burfield for his extensive NORAD analysis.

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    • Claim: The names of the hijackers do not appear on the passenger manifests.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.911myths.com/html/no_hija...manifests.html
    http://www.911myths.com/html/officia...st_images.html
    http://graphics.boston.com/news/pack...1_manifest.gif
    http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/notable...n/OG00010.html

    In Brief:
    The hijackers do not appear on the victim lists put together by CNN. Those were not the official passenger manifests. CNN specifically states that the hijackers are not included.


    But Boston Globe obtained passenger manifests of the flights that departed from Boston only a few days after the attacks. The hijackers are included there. The official and complete passenger manifests of all flights were released as part of the Moussaoui trial. They do include every hijacker and their seat positions.
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    • Claim: The hijackers couldn’t have flown the planes into their targets.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm

    http://www.911myths.com/html/flight_..._dropouts.html
    http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/...skthepilot186/

    In Brief: The manoeuvres required of the hijackers were within their capabilities, they were performed without any degree of finesse and resulted in damage to the targets only after desperate overmanoeuvring of the planes.

    They were not expert pilots, but they had some extensive training with simulators and smaller planes. Landing a plane is difficult. Flying it into something is much easier. They had the skills to do that.
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    • Claim: The hijackers were from a cave. They couldn’t have pulled this through.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...042801315.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Participants_in_the_September_11%2C_2001_ attacks

    In Brief: Mohamed Atta, the pilot of flight 11, came from a middle-class household in Egypt. In Hamburg, Germany, he earned his master's degree in architecture.

    Marwan al-Shehhi, the pilot of flight 175, was from the United Arab Emirates and had joined the UAE army. Later when in Germany, he enrolled in a university with a military scholarship.

    Hani Hanjour, the pilot of the Pentagon plane, was a son of a businessman in Saudi Arabia. He first arrived to USA already in 1991.

    Ziad Jarrah, the pilot of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, was a son of an industrious, wealthy family in Beirut. Jarrah moved to Germany and studied aerospace engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg.

    15 other hijackers joined the pilots aboard the four airplanes. All but one were from Saudi Arabia, most were from families headed by tradesmen and civil servants, well-off, but not wealthy.

    As for the planners, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed completed a degree in mechanical engineering in 1986. Osama Bin Laden earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979.

    Caves do not describe these people.
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    • Claim: There were no hijackers involved.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
    http://www.dcmilitary.com/dcmilitary.../12279-1.shtml
    http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-09-11-sept11-remains_x.htm
    http://www.911myths.com/html/officia...st_images.html
    http://www.post-gazette.com/headline...ht931027p5.asp

    In Brief:
    The hijackers and their identities have not been in any doubt since late 2001. The known identities have survived many reviews. And these people were really on board the planes.


    In New York City, medical examiners used DNA that FBI had collected from tiny traces of skin on the steering wheels of vehicles hired by the hijackers and from hair samples recovered from their hotel rooms to match body parts with three of the 10 hijackers who crashed there. The enormous destruction of the towers has made further identifications impossible, only 58% of all WTC victims have been identified.

    In the Pentagon and Pennsylvania cases, nine genetic profiles that matched no known victims were presumed to be hijacker remains. All the people on board the planes are known, all the people at the crash sites are known. There is no question that the 9 remaining people are the hijackers.

    We have official manifests that include the hijackers. We have multiple telephone calls that confirm the existence of the hijackers. We have security camera images that show the hijackers. We have DNA identification of several of them. We have 9 extra people besides identified victims at two crash sites.

    There were hijackers involved.

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    • Claim: The hijackers were not even devoted followers of Islam. They enjoyed drinking and lap dances.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.911myths.com/html/strip_clubs.html
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...042801315.html
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/st...906442,00.html
    http://www.tbsjournal.com/Archives/Fall02/Fouda.html

    In Brief:
    At first, it must be said that the reliability of these behaviour statements is in question. In some reports the identification of the actual hijackers is questionable, while in other reports the description of the very same event varies from source to source.


    Nonetheless, while this kind of behaviour seems rather suspicious, a deeper look reveals that terrorists do not always act like one would expect.

    Different sources report the following:

    “Ziad Jarrah came from a secular Muslim family that was easygoing -- the men drank whiskey and the women wore short skirts about town and bikinis at the beach.”

    “Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was a frequent visitor to Manila's red light district, including its karaoke bars and mirrored go-go clubs, where he introduced himself to women as a wealthy businessman from Qatar.”

    “They must have assumed that the purifying nature of their approaching martyrdom gave them some sort of cosmic dispensation.”

    "Their sense of dispensation was derived directly from the idea that they were engaged in jihad (holy struggle). Now you know, in jihad there are certain liberties allowed. I believe they took the liberty of making their own interpretation of these dispensations or liberties granted to the one making jihad."

    It would seem, that so-called errant western behaviour does not exclusively mean that you cannot be a terrorist at the same time. Their suicide mission might be interpreted as a purifying event, making their earlier behaviour less damaging. And you have to keep in mind, that Islamic Law condemns the killing of innocent civilians. They were not following the strict rules of their religion there either.

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    Recommended reading for the interested:

    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/index.htm
    http://www.911myths.com/
    http://www.debunk911myths.org/
    http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=64


    See also:
    Part 1: WTC
    Part 2: The Pentagon
    Part 3: Flight 93

    A Guide for the Undecided. Brief Analysis of Common Theories Part 3: Flight 93

    ref, from JREF, brings us part three of his write-up.  This time addressing Flight 93:
    The saga continues.

    This is an analysis of theories surrounding Flight 93 in 9/11. This analysis is not taking into account every single small theory. This is a collection of most common theories and their explanations.

    I have again included an "In Brief" section to each theory.

    Here goes part 3: Flight 93



    Flight 93

    • Claim: Flight 93 landed in Cleveland
    Discussed here:
    http://www.911myths.com/html/93_land...cleveland.html
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf
    http://www.freetimes.com/story/681
    In Brief: Liz Foreman, whose name was attached to this story, tried to clear it up in February 2006: “The story in question, an Associated Press bulletin, was posted on WCPO.com during the morning of September 11, 2001. The story stated that Flight 93 landed in Cleveland. This was not true.
    Once the AP issued a retraction a few minutes later, we removed the link. I only removed the link TO the story. We did not remove the story itself. This was my error probably due to the busy nature of the day.”

    One plane landed in Cleveland, Delta Flight 1989, which was first misidentified as Flight 93. The other mystery plane, a KC-135, only returned to the hangar.

    Vernon "Bill" Wessel, the director of safety and mission assurance at NASA Glenn reports the following:
    “A KC-135 had to come back to the hangar," says Wessel, as if realizing for the first time that this aircraft may have caused some undue confusion. A team of scientists from the Johnson Space Center in Houston had flown to Cleveland on this KC-135 to conduct micro-gravity experiments. The visiting scientists could not return to Houston as scheduled on 9/11 once the FAA ordered all planes to land. "After the facility closed, we had to take those scientists to a hotel." The scientists, dressed as civilians, were boarded onto shuttle buses.
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    • Claim: Seismology reports indicated a crash time 10:06, 3 minutes later than the official time.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.911myths.com/html/flight_93_seismology.html
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf
    In Brief: The initial seismic report claiming the time 10:06 was from 2002. The Commission had this to say:

    “The seismic data on which they based this estimate are far too weak in signal-to-noise ratio and far too speculative in terms of signal source to be used as a means of contradicting the impact time established by the very accurate combination of FDR, CVR, ATC, radar, and impact site data sets. These data sets constrain United 93's impact time to within 1 second, are airplane- and crash-site specific, and are based on time codes automatically recorded in the ATC audiotapes for the FAA centers and correlated with each data set in a process internationally accepted within the aviation accident investigation community. Furthermore, one of the study's principal authors now concedes that "seismic data is not definitive for the impact of UA 93.”

    There are no reports of the authors of the original seismic report having disputed this conclusion.
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    • Claim: Flight 93 was shot down. Debris was found miles from the crash site.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.911myths.com/html/missing_engine.html
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...42.html?page=7
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...42.html?page=8
    http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence.../producer.html
    http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics...le=Indian_Lake
    In Brief: There was a white jet in the vicinity of Flight 93--a Dassault Falcon 20 business jet owned by the VF Corp. of Greensboro, N.C. The FAA asked them to investigate and they did. They got down within 1500 ft. of the ground when they circled. They saw a hole in the ground with smoke coming out of it. They pinpointed the location and then continued on. The only military plane in the vicinity of the crash site was an unarmed C-130 cargo plane. The cargo plane was returning to Minnesota before Flight 93 crashed and was flying at 24,000 feet about 17 miles from the crash site.

    A fan from one of the engines was recovered in a catchment basin, just over 300 yards south of the crash site, which means the fan landed in the direction the jet was travelling. "It's not unusual for an engine to move or tumble across the ground" says Michael K. Hynes, an airline accident expert.

    Human remains were confined to a 70-acre area directly surrounding the crash site. Paper and tiny scraps of sheet metal landed in Indian lake. Indian Lake is less than 1.5 miles southeast of the impact crater, easily within range of debris blasted skyward by the heat of the explosion from the crash.

    If a missile had hit Flight 93, there would have been more evidence of it and a much larger heavy debris area.
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    • Claim: The phone calls from Flight 93 were fake, cell phones could not have worked.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf
    http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics..._-_Phone_calls
    http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics...le=Cell_phones
    http://www.911myths.com/html/the_9_1...en_t_real.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93
    In Brief: Ten passengers and two crew members were able to make calls that went through. All but two of them were airphone calls. Only two phone calls, one by Edward Felt and one by flight attendant CeeCee Lyles, came from cell phones — both at 9:58 a.m, shortly before the plane crashed. At this point, the aircraft was ~5,000 feet above sea level. They worked.
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    • Claim: There were no bodies.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...42.html?page=8
    http://www.freetimes.com/story/681
    http://www.post-gazette.com/headline...ht931027p5.asp
    http://www.dcmilitary.com/dcmilitary.../12279-1.shtml
    In Brief: 102 DNA analysts took over the difficult chore of generating a DNA profile of the victims. Their work included not only the Pentagon crash victims, but the victims of the Somerset County crash as well.

    Wallace Miller, Somerset County coroner, says human remains were confined to a 70-acre area directly surrounding the crash site.

    He also states:
    “There were pieces of people. Trust me. I cleaned it up. The plane hit the ground doing 575 miles per hour. The rest of the remains were vaporized on impact. But we did ID everyone onboard.
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    • Claim: The impact hole was way too small for an aircraft.
    Discussed here:
    http://www.flight93crash.com/flight93_eyewitness.html
    http://www.911myths.com/html/flight_93_photos.html
    http://www.freetimes.com/story/681
    In Brief: Multiple eyewitnesses saw an airplane. Everyone onboard was identified by DNA. Lots of plane debris and both black boxes were found. Is there any question anymore?

    Again, as in the case of Pentagon, the speed of the plane was very high. One shouldn’t expect to see an almost intact fuselage. Everything breaks into small pieces with huge impact forces.
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    • Claim: The Val McClatchey smoke plume photo is fake.
    Discussed here:
    http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=61633
    In Brief: That whole claim and analysis is made by one single person, who lives a conspiracy life and has no actual photo analysing skills or training. The claim has zero substance.
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    • Claim: Mark Bingham called his mom and used his full name. That must be fake.
    Discussed here:
    http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com...k-bingham.html
    http://www.911myths.com/html/mom__th...k_bingham.html
    In Brief: Mark’s mom says the following in a Discovery Channel “The Flight That Fought Back” documentary:
    “Once in a while he would say that. He would call up, and he was, he was a young businessman, and used to, used to introduce himself on phone as Mark Bingham, and he was trying to be, uh, strong, and level-headed, and, and strictly business.”
    http://www.911myths.com/Hoglan.avi
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    Recommended reading for the interested:
    http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf
    http://www.911myths.com/
    http://www.debunk911myths.org/topics...ines_Flight_93
    http://forums.randi.org/forumdisplay.php?f=64
    http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech.../1227842.html?


    See also:
    A Guide for the Undecided. Brief Analysis of Common Theories Part 1: WTC
    A Guide for the Undecided. Brief Analysis of Common Theories Part 2: The Pentagon
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