Enough with 9/11 already

I know, I know. I’ve been obsessing on 9/11 over the past few weeks. I’m going to make a concerted effort to move on to other matters after this post, but I want to leave the subject with a question. I’m sure this has been asked many times by many people, but here it is again.

We often talk about what happened on 9/11 as a singular event, when it was actually a series of events that took place around the same time on that fateful morning. In Manhattan, planes flew into two buildings, and a third building was hit by debris, which, according to the official story, resulted in fires in various areas.

My question is this: What are the odds that three separate buildings, one of which was not hit by a plane, would all fail and collapse in the exact same manner, into their own footprints? This sort of collapse hasn’t happened before in the history of high-rise buildings (except for controlled demolitions), yet it happened three times in one day on 9/11. I would guess that the odds of this convergence of similarities are astronomical.

There you have it. Done. That's all, folks.

A few 9/11-anniversary questions

Why do a number of prominent progressives, some of whom have made careers out of questioning the U.S. government’s motives and methods, continue to vigorously defend the government’s findings around the events of 9/11?

World Trade Center building 7 was not hit by an airplane, yet it collapsed into it’s own footprint. I’ve read various attempts to explain this, but none of them make sense, not because they are too technical, but because they simply defy logic.

I’m certainly not an engineer, but I can understand the concept of the heat from the plane’s burning fuel weakening the metal supports in the Towers enough to cause a collapse. What I don’t understand is how hot liquid pouring through a building would weaken the metal beams at the same points around the circumference of the building in order to cause the buildings to fall straight down. Logic tells me that the intensity of the heat from the fuel would affect the metal beams at different areas up and down the building, which would cause the upper section of a tower to fall to one side or another, not straight down.

Why did Bush sit on his ass in a Florida classroom for seven minutes after being informed that America was under attack?