I use Bush-speak and Rummy speak to mock them. I haven't got around to
learning the Rummy hand signals, though I have been know to say "you go
to war with the army you got" while pretending to crank an egg beater.

I don't care what fire fighters say it sounds like. I need physical
evidence. While the feces is hitting the fan, you can imagine all sorts
of things. Some people see Jesus. [Now just exactly how they know they
are seeing Jesus and not just some guy with a beard is a good
question.]

NIST analyzed the WTC and issued a report:
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 First, fire played a critical and visible role in the collapse of the
WTC buildings and contributed to damage to the Pentagon buildings.
Current building design practice does not consider fire as a design
condition.  Instead, structural fire endurance ratings are prescribed
in building codes using standard tests on individual components.  The
current testing standards are based on work carried out at NIST in the
1920s.  They do not represent real fire hazards in modern buildings.
They also do not consider the fire performance of structural
connections or of the structural system as a whole, or the multiple
performance demands on fire proofing materials.  NIST now has the
capability to simulate building fires on the computer to explain
critical events and outcomes to an extent previously not possible.  The
proposed work would expand on this core competence in computational
methods, and adapt measurement techniques and test methods to support
the prediction of performance of building materials, products,
structural elements, and systems up to the point of the collapse of a
tall building due to fire.  In short, NIST would provide the technical
basis and guidance for fire safety design and retrofit of structures,
the predictive tools and test methods for fire resistance
determination, and the performance criteria for fireproofing materials.
 In addition, NIST proposes to develop guidance and retrofit
technologies to enhance building egress in emergencies, practical tools
and guidance to enhance the safety and effectiveness of fire and
emergency responders, and improved models of occupant behavior and
response to enhance evacuation and communication in emergencies.

    Second, progressive collapse - which refers to the spread of
failure by a chain reaction that is disproportionate to the triggering
event - was also responsible for the extraordinary number of deaths
in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.  Yet, the
United States has not developed standards, codes, and practices to
assess and reduce this vulnerability.  Adding to the problem for modern
structures is their smaller margin of safety - and the reserve
capacity to accommodate abnormal loads - due to increased efficiency
in the use of building materials and refinements in analysis
techniques.  The work carried out at NIST in the early 1970s continues
to provide the basis for the extremely limited guidance that is
available in current United States standards.  NIST would develop
cost-effective solutions to reduce building vulnerability to
progressive collapse using a multi-hazard approach that exploits
synergies in resisting extreme loads from blast, impact, earthquakes,
and fires.
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Note that the testing of jet fuel on steel WAS going to be studied at
the Tonopah Test Range, but environmentalists stopped the test. I guess
the tree huggers were in on the conspiracy.

Note that the "conspiracy" of doing a shitty job (Bush/Chenney/Rummy)
is quite easy to believe, mostly because they DID do a shitty job of
containing 911. You scrable jets, but don't authorize supersonic flight
to insure none arrive on time arrives late. Good job Cheney. The
president sits and reads "My Pet Goat" as the feces is hitting the fan.
Who knows what would have happened had he not "been afraid to scare the
children". It's not rocket science to see foot dragging by the POTUS,
VPOTUS, SecDef, etc. There is no leap of faith. But to prove the WTC
went down in a controlled demo is a conspiracy theory wth gaping holes.


Note that congress can study whatever the majority wants to study, and
a little known fact is the minority gets to spend a certain percentage
of the total investigation money. While the GOP was investigatng
presidential blow jobs, Henry Waxman did his tobacco studies. Perhaps
you read about it in the mainstream press. ;-)