Saturday, May 26, 2012
AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Small Flags
AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Small Flags
Posted by TmjUtah at May 27, 2008 7:19 AM
About 9/11 and the towers collapse:
I watched the fires from the first strike from our living room, as my daughters sat speechless next to their almost- packed suitcases.
Their heads framed the screen as we listened to the pundits attempt to make sense of what we were seeing.
I told my wife that they had maybe an hour, if that, to get that fire out before the exterior beams failed from the heat and allowed the floor pans to shear; we were thinking... hoping... "accident". See, I'm not an engineer, but I've built big stuff and building big stuff requires you know something about materials. And anybody who tests materials knows that in steel temperature is a critical variable.
That's why they wrap it. Oops, would have wrapped it in the WTC but for the Greens.
When steel fails under traction or shear, it makes a "snap". A #4 rebar snapping inside a concrete wall can sound like a desk falling over. A main structure H or I -beam failure - components with dimensions measured in feet and tons- sounds like an auto accident impact. Or a bomb, if you will.
Then there's the sound an acre sized floor pancaking down on the one beneath it makes. A lot of floors in those buildings, and even if the Little Eichmanns softened the impacts, the noise and fury would be impossible to distinguish from explosions. This is especially true because the ejecta of corpses, ash, office equipment, glass, building face materials, ash, corpses, paper, concrete, more ash... that used to be corpses... would be intense as the air was slammed out from between the pans.
Anyway, shortly after I told the wife all that we were surprised to see the second aircraft strike and I knew then we were at war.
A lot of Democrats still don't get that, but I've ceased to be puzzled by that. Some folks you oppose, some you just have to beat.
Troofers. Proof that God likes a joke as much as the next guy.
God Bless our troops. Those that give now, and them that have given all. Thanks, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks.
Posted by TmjUtah at May 27, 2008 7:19 AM
About 9/11 and the towers collapse:
I watched the fires from the first strike from our living room, as my daughters sat speechless next to their almost- packed suitcases.
Their heads framed the screen as we listened to the pundits attempt to make sense of what we were seeing.
I told my wife that they had maybe an hour, if that, to get that fire out before the exterior beams failed from the heat and allowed the floor pans to shear; we were thinking... hoping... "accident". See, I'm not an engineer, but I've built big stuff and building big stuff requires you know something about materials. And anybody who tests materials knows that in steel temperature is a critical variable.
That's why they wrap it. Oops, would have wrapped it in the WTC but for the Greens.
When steel fails under traction or shear, it makes a "snap". A #4 rebar snapping inside a concrete wall can sound like a desk falling over. A main structure H or I -beam failure - components with dimensions measured in feet and tons- sounds like an auto accident impact. Or a bomb, if you will.
Then there's the sound an acre sized floor pancaking down on the one beneath it makes. A lot of floors in those buildings, and even if the Little Eichmanns softened the impacts, the noise and fury would be impossible to distinguish from explosions. This is especially true because the ejecta of corpses, ash, office equipment, glass, building face materials, ash, corpses, paper, concrete, more ash... that used to be corpses... would be intense as the air was slammed out from between the pans.
Anyway, shortly after I told the wife all that we were surprised to see the second aircraft strike and I knew then we were at war.
A lot of Democrats still don't get that, but I've ceased to be puzzled by that. Some folks you oppose, some you just have to beat.
Troofers. Proof that God likes a joke as much as the next guy.
God Bless our troops. Those that give now, and them that have given all. Thanks, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks.
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On Healing Wings
On Healing Wings: The greatest result of Sabbath resting is the opportunity to know the presence of God, no matter what our present circumstances might be. We do not need to rely on our own strength to deal with the tragic. Rather, spiritual rest gives us the freedom to accept the fact that human happiness is fleeting and to trust that there will be enough grace to carry us through all tragedy. We might be experiencing a time of sadness and mourning, but our faith assures us that God is with us in our sorrow to bring us the Joy of his presence.
—Marva J. Dawn, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
—Marva J. Dawn, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
On Healing Wings
On Healing Wings: The greatest result of Sabbath resting is the opportunity to know the presence of God, no matter what our present circumstances might be. We do not need to rely on our own strength to deal with the tragic. Rather, spiritual rest gives us the freedom to accept the fact that human happiness is fleeting and to trust that there will be enough grace to carry us through all tragedy. We might be experiencing a time of sadness and mourning, but our faith assures us that God is with us in our sorrow to bring us the Joy of his presence.
—Marva J. Dawn, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
—Marva J. Dawn, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly: Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting
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