Bottom feeders Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck exploit 9-11 for their own personal gain.

The Republicans have been trying to somehow take ownership of 9-11 since the day it happened. They want us to believe that only THEY feel the pain that occurred on that terrible day. Or only THEY understand the importance of that day. Or only THEY should receive the credit for how America came together after 9-11.

I'll tell you what. I will give the Republicans what they want.

I will give them the credit for 9-11.

After all it DID happen while a Republican president was in the White House.

It did happen while that same President sat for 7 minutes reading "My Pet Goat" to a room full of children whose lives may have been in danger just for the fact that he was sitting among them.

It DID happen after Rudy Guiliani moved the emergency-command center to the WTC where it was incapacitated by the attack.

In May 2001, by Presidential Order, Richard Cheney was put in direct command and control of all war game and field exercise training and scheduling exercises. Especially FEMA. This also extended to all of the conflicting and overlapping NORAD exercises. Standard scramble and shoot down orders for hijacked aircraft were specifically removed from NORAD generals and placed in the exclusive control of Cheney. So Vice President Cheney(a Republican) is directly responsible for the fact that the jets were not shot down.

Republicans want to "own" 9-11? Do you really want to be responsible for the biggest terrorist attack in the history of the world? Fine you can have it. Because it certainly took place on your watch.

But what you cannot do is pretend that your pain was more intense then mine. Or that you were more shocked then I was. Or that you were able to turn off the television and stop watching the towers crashing to the ground over and over any faster then I was able to.

Three days I sat and watched that footage. Tears streaming down my face. My brain trying to make sense of it to no avail. Appointments missed. Children fending for themselves, as I sat immobilized by what I was seeing.

No my Republican friends, even way up here in Alaska I felt the debilitating impact of 9-11, 2001. Which is why I would NEVER use it to further my political agenda, or receive donations, or create a media show to increase my ratings.

Unlike the despicable Glenn Beck and the opportunistic Sarah Palin.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology says that WTC 7 collapsed due to "thermal expansion" which is a previously unheard of phenomenon.

According to a federal agency report released Thursday, a "new phenomenon" known as thermal expansion was directly responsible for the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center 7 on Sept. 11, 2001.

This study, posed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology -- a federal scientific agency which promotes technical industrial standards -- marks the first 'official' government theory on the collapse.

The building's demise occurred some seven hours after the twin towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001, and has been the source of numerous conspiracy theories key to the "9/11 Truth" movement, most of which argue that the symmetrical, seven-second collapse was brought about by a controlled demolition.

Dr. Shyam Sunder, director of Institute's building and fire research laboratory, oversaw the government's three-year research efforts. The report aims to disprove the controlled demolition argument.

So this institute is going to put to rest all of the conspiracy theorists by using a previously unknown phenomenon to explain the collapse of tower 7? Oh yeah that should totally put this controversy to rest!

However, Richard Gage, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and a member of the American Institute of Architects, doesn't believe a word of the theory.

"Tons of [molten metal] was found 21 days after the attack," said Gage in an interview with a Vancouver, Canada television station. "Steel doesn't begin to melt until 2,700 degrees, which is much hotter than what these fires could have caused."

"There are holes in this story that you can drive a truck through," Gage added during the press conference. His group asserts that thermite, a steel cutting agent, was used to bring the building down.

Dr. Sunder disagreed.

"We conducted the study without bias, without interference from anyone," said Dr. Sunder. "We have only one single-minded goal in this effort."

While the Institute said it considered the possibility of a controlled demolition taking place at WTC 7, the notion was dismissed due to the absence of any recordings of an explosion sound.
(By the way if you want to hear the exposive sound that Dr. Sunder says did not occur then simply click here.)

Thermite, however, does not make an explosion sound. And while this was raised to Dr. Sunder in the media's Q&A session, he dismissed it as impossible.

"FEMA found it," said Gage. "Dr. Steven Jones found it, in the dust that landed in the entire area of lower Manhattan. And he finds it in the chunks of previously molten metal [from the towers]."

Specifically, in Appendix C of its World Trade Center Building Performance Study, FEMA claimed:

Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure. A liquid eutectic mixture containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed during this hot corrosion attack on the steel... The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.

Yet, no study of the mysterious sulfur or melted steel was included in the NIST report.

If the institute cannot answer the question of the molten metal found in the basement of all three towers then this so called "explanation" explains absolutely nothing. In my opinion this is still an ongoing mystery that will never be solved with the Bush administration actively engaged in a cover up.