Wednesday, April 26, 2006

TNT Tom Foolery

The NBA Playoffs have kicked off, and the Spurs are off to a descent start. However, I am in a situation where I can’t justify spending money for satellite or cable television for a couple of reasons; one my TV is 13” and second I don’t watch all that much TV. This leaves me not having access to TNT and their NBA telecasts, until my friend BullMoose hooked my up with his SlingBox feed.

Now that I have the ability to see the Spurs go on to defend their title, and with a little luck repeat I have the unfortunate pleasure of seeing TNT’s barrage of repeat commercials. In 2003 it was commercials for the Hulk movie, 2005 it was for TNT’s series “The Closer”, “Into the West” and Coors Light “love train commercial. Seems like they are about to out do even themselves with the number of times they are running the Vince Carter (Vinjury) T-Mobile commercial. I really don’t need to hear him say that his dog is bulimic again.

The other commercial is the three year old McDonalds commercial, where two schmucks are getting a platter of double quarter pounders with cheese ready to serve to their guests as h’ordurves (spelling?). I don’t need them to tell me to “pound one” any more ~ STOP RUNNING IT!

Then I saw this, and isn’t it the truth?



Go Spurs Go!!!

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Conspiracy Theory 9/11

There is a film available on the internet entitled Loose Change which presents several alternative theories as to what happened on that dreadful day back in 2001. Just with anything is history, there are always individuals who raise bizarre scenarios to tragic events which occurred, but can we really trust what was simply fed to us through today’s media? The truth will probably never really be known, but the film raises some interesting points.

Loose Change presents several theories as to why it could not have been a 757 striking the side of the Pentagon, and continues to talk about what could have caused such destruction. Such theories have been made as to make people think it could have been a missile, a smaller passenger plane, or even an A-3 Skywarrior.. If it was a plane that slammed into the Pentagon, where was the debris from the plane after the crash? Where are the markings on the ground of where it would have skidded its way to the Pentagon?

The film then moves on to the events which happened at the twin towers. Loose Change does not go so far as to lead you to believe that the planes were shot by a missile prior to impacting the buildings. What the film does state is that the planes alone could not have caused the towers to fall down. Prior to this moment, no commercial grade buildings of this type in history had collapsed due to fires alone. If it was true, then all three would have occurred on the same day, starting with the two towers, followed by building 7. On February 12, 2005 the Windsor Tower in Madrid burned for almost 24 hours, with the top ten floors collapsed, but the building did not collapse completely. So what did cause the towers to fall?

All through the morning of these events eye witnesses, police officers, fire men, and reporters all mentioned hearing and feeling secondary explosions. The lower windows on the towers had been blown out; marble panels in the lobby area had come off the walls, all allegedly due to an explosion almost 1300 feet up. Loose Change goes on to explain how secondary explosions caused the collapse, and not simply just the planes. After reading a few other articles, this portion of the film is not as quickly rejected.

The film saves its most wild tale for last. There is some controversy concerning the attacks on the Pentagon, fewer people seem to argue that it may have been secondary explosions which caused the towers to collapse, but the events which occurred with flight 93 just seems too far fetched. It goes into an elaborate plan where the flight 93 actually landed in Cleveland and its passengers exited the plane. It continues to suggest that the phone calls made were in fact faked, and discusses the probability of being able to connect a call made from a cellular telephone.

So after watching Loose Change I wonder what the motive behind its making was. Was it to provoke thought into the minds of people who simple accepted what was reported to them in conventional news media? Could it have been motivated by their loathing of President Bush? Or is it a masked plea to try and prevent the government from delivering the truth to its people? If it is the truth, why is it people here have constantly felt the need to question the legitimacy of the information being spoon fed to them?

Loose Change Movie
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