It's sad that Popular Mechanics has to waste any bandwidth and pixels responding to Rosie O'Donnell's incandescent idiocy, but that's the world we apparently live in. How much longer is ABC going to embarrass itself with this moron?

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The steel industry is running scared, now that Rosie is on to their scam, that has been going on for well over a century.

In a wayward effort to be green, incandescent bulbs are going to become contraband in country after country and state after state. It gives me a headache.

Sam, I don't think the article is about incandescent bulbs.

I believe it is about a fat, brain dead moron that thinks fire can't melt steel.

Okay, politics 101.

It may be bad physics, but it's great, if irrational, politics. Just like there were conspiracy theories about the OK bombing, JFK, Clinton's AK drug running, and black helecopters, fringe groups of all types thrive on this stuff. It keeps them energized, seething and therefore active. Isn't there anyone here who experienced the campus Vietnam era? Facts, rationality have nothing to do with it. It's political theater designed to multiply your numbers while magnifing your media power. Theater doesn't have to agree with reality, it just has to touch the emotions. Rosie isn't a moron, she's a savy political activist. Ignor that at your own risk.

Rosie isn't a moron, she's a savy political activist.

Have you ever read her blog? She may have figured out how to make it work for her, but believe me, she's a moron.

I'd rather stick my head in a bucket full of angry tarantulas than read, or watch Rosie. While I realize that the term "moron" as applied here means someone who's political outlook is primative and unsophisticated, my point is still that she is savy enough to remain firmly attached to the psyche of millions of American voters.

See "Marching Morons"

Gee Rosie...what about all those fire codes that require insulation (some of which is the very asbestos that now has to be replaced with something less toxic) on steel beams, that predate the WTC...?

Perhaps fewer conspiracy theorists, and more archetecs, firefighters, and visits to steel mills in her (and many others) life would be wise.

Uh, actually I _have_ seen the black helicopters. Several of them. Usually they land at Pinal Airpark near Tucson. Evergreen does more than modify Boeing jets.

Olive Drab Helos on a cloudy day sure do look black at a distance too.

Uh, actually I _have_ seen the black helicopters. Several of them. Usually they land at Pinal Airpark near Tucson. Evergreen does more than modify Boeing jets.

Posted by Aleta at March 31, 2007 11:43 AM

A really cool place actually.

And you are correct...Evergreen does more than modify Boeing jets...

Some great stories there

Robert

I disagree.

I think Rosie does know something about structural engineering.

She is clearly made of very dense material probably reinforced with steel. This would explain her investigation of the topic, given the high likelihood of her being hit by an airplane as she balloons in size.

The only thing larger than her final steady state size is probably Hillary Clinton's calves.

P.S.

No, Hillary does not have a farm.

I was referring to the pyramidal thing that is below her knees.

I offered Rosie little visual evidence of what fire can do to steel. I somehow doubt it will make a dent in her fantasy.

Clinton's AK drug running

I didn't know CLinton was ever alleged to have run drugs in Alaska.

(Sorry. I lived in Alaska during the Clinton years; people using the "AK" abbreviation to mean Arkansas still ticks me off after all this time.)

Yeah, Rosie's is an idiot, but this is what amazed me about the video. People in the audience applauded her as if they agreed. Now we know the average IQ of those who watch the View.

The Family Guy pictured 'the View' as a bunch of clucking hens. Boy, they sure called that one.

Not that I agree with Rosie, but she did bring in some expert physicists from Yale and Harvard to explain why the buildings could not have collapsed the way they did unless they were deliberately brought down with demo-charges. OK, I have to go puke now.

What experts did she bring in from Harvard and Yale? She never did any such thing. She made an empty threat to do so.

K said: Rosie isn't a moron, she's a savy political activist.

Right on the money, except I think the political aspect is dovetailed onto her drive for publicity. The political gains will be minimal, because even the left knows she's a nut. However, in gaining the publicity through these kinds of stunts, it doesn't matter how stupid she may be, she has an audience that doesn't question, just like Rush and Hannity. Albiet, not as large.

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"Extroadinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

One would do well to remember that quote. Sagan I believe it is from but he could have been quoting some one else.

I have yet to see anything even slightly beyond the level of simplistic evidence presented by the 911 deniers. They have totally staked their reputation on this myth and it must be sustained regardless of the cost. It is like the moon landing deniers with a political blood lust layered on top.

The 911 deniers have yet to address the huge logistical burden that would be have to be met to sustain their outlandish claims.

They gloss over as trivial the multiple near impossibilities that would have to be pulled off in rapid sucession to support their hypothesis.
Not to mention the continuing silence of literally thousands of co-conspirators.

Occams Razor is a valuable tool, it seperates the reasoned from superstitious.

One of the best responses to these 911 conspiracy fanatics came from a funny web-site written by a 'Pirate' who lives in Utah (http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=911_morons).

His point (and one to which I've never gotten a good response) is: If you accept that the "US Govt" (whoever that really is) really conspired to kill thousand of innocent citizens, why would 'they' allow web-designers to call 'them' on it? Certainly, any group that could pull off the greatest deception of all time would easily be able to track down a few other people and shut them up.

Tom,

I believe South Park elaborated on that angle.

Mac, you are bloody well right on that one.

Thanks TNT, every now and then I get lucky ;P