Tim Sumner

Stoned again, Willie Nelson joins the 9/11 “truthers”

“Don’t let your cowboys grow up to be babies.” That was Willie Nelson singing during the Super Bowl’s pre-game show. Stoned again, Mr. Nelson also went on the radio recently with the leading 9/11 “truther” and grave robber, Alex Jones.

Before listening to that audio, here are the learned opinions of the folks at Protec Documentation Services, Inc, “the world’s most knowledgeable independent authorities on explosive demolition, having performed engineering studies, structural analysis, vibration/air overpressure monitoring and photographic services on well over 1,000 structure blasting events in more than 30 countries.” On August 8, 2006, their Director of Field Operations, Brent Blanchard, and a Protec team produced a scientific study of the collapses. Concerning WTC Tower 7, they said, in part:

“Seismographs at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, recorded the collapses on WTC 1, 2 and 7. This data was later released to the public and currently appears on their website. Additionally, on 9/11 Protec field technicians were utilizing portable field seismographs to continuously record ground vibrations on several construction sites in Manhattan and Brooklyn for liability purposes.

“In all cases where seismographs detected the collapses, waveform readings indicate a single, gradually ascending and descending level of ground vibrations during the event. At no point during 9/11 were sudden or independent vibration “spikes” documented by any seismograph, and we are unaware of any entity possessing such data.

“This evidence makes a compelling argument against explosive demolition. The laws of physics dictate that any detonation powerful enough to defeat steel columns would have transferred excess energy through those columns into the ground, and would have certainly been detected by at least one of the monitors that were sensitive enough to record the structural collapses. However, a detailed analysis of all available data reveals no presence of any unusual or abnormal events.”

You can read their complete report here. Perhaps Willie Nelson will someday set down his marijuana joint and sober up long enough to read it as well. HotAir.com has the audio of Willie Nelson running down his country on the radio.

Please, don’t let your babies grow up to be drug addicts.

Advice to McCain: With a Little More Straight Talk…

In the National Review Online this morning, editor Kathryn Jean Lopez gave Completely unsolicited advice for John McCain from a Tuesday Romney voter. She started out by reminding him of his own words:

“I urge my friends who complain about the influence of the religious Right, get out there and get busy. That’s what they do!”

That, of course, is a quote from one John McCain. I recycle it because primary season is not over yet, and the “religious Right” in 24 states has a voice Tuesday — feel free to get busy. But I also recycle it now by way of a caution to the McCain campaign.

Last week on Bill Bennett’s radio program, right after he won the Florida primary, John McCain said that it was “foolishness” to question an answer he gave Tim Russert on immigration on Meet the Press earlier that week. The senator had said he’d sign the McCain-Kennedy amnesty plan of last year if it wound up on his Oval Office desk. That was not a great start toward mending fences.

Mitt Romney is fighting today and tomorrow for the three legs of the stool — keeping the Republican party conservative on foreign policy, economics, and social issues. I hope he succeeds. With close races in some Super Tuesday states and with what we’ve seen so far (few would have put their money on McCain being anything close to a front-runner a few months ago), it’s possible. But if he doesn’t succeed and steps aside, John McCain would be wise not to pretend to be the guy that Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney supporters have been dreaming would be their nominee. He’s not the man of conservatives’ dreams, nor does he want to be. So, play it straight, Senator. Take some advice from someone who wants you defeated tomorrow (me), but who also wants the good guys to win in November.

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