Professor Steven Jones, far from being discredited, did credible research on the token amounts of WTC structural steel that weren't spirited off to China as scrap metal. Professor Jones also had access to the news videos and photographs taken of the WTC towers prior to and during their collapse.

Professor Jones concluded that the WTC buildings were brought down using Thermate, a common demolition incendiary that can cut through structural steel like butter. Not only were the chemical signatures of Thermate present in the WTC structural steel samples Professor Jones examined, there was significant photographic and witness evidence of the presence of high temperature molten steel during, and for weeks after, the collapse of the WTC towers.

In other words, the 9/11 Commission's Report was, like the Warren Report before it, a huge whitewash of matters of fact.

Of course the planting of such incendiary devices in the WTC would have to have been completed prior to 9/11/2001, suggesting both prior planning and prior access to secure areas of the WTC towers. As fortune would have it, Marvin Bush, the brother of the sitting President of the US, was director of security for the WTC in the weeks and months prior to 9/11/2001.

No liberal or left wing conspiracy -- cultural, political or otherwise -- caused the events of 9/11/2001 to unfold. The events were pre-planned and caused by powerful elements within American society who did not appreciate Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies and who were likewise extremely sympathetic to the policies and practices of Adolph Hitler and his Nazi regime.

The Bush Family and many of the families of the corporate elite's leadership class were recruited into the CIA on the urging of the OSS and the Nazi SS spies the United States rescued from justice at Nuremberg after WWII.

Far from being the result of left wing neglect or abuse, 9/11/2001 was caused, aided and abetted, by nearly every member of the American "right" since Joe McCarthy performed his dog and pony show in the 1950's. This McCarthy did to reframe Marine General Smedley Butler's House UnAmerican Activities committee as an attack on communists operating inside the US government, instead of the investigation of Nazi sympathizers operating inside the US government and in the corporate leadership ranks that General Butler and FDR had intended the committee's investigation to be.

Meanwhile, Prescott Bush -- the Bush Family patriarch --was found guilty of trading with the enemy and required to surrender his assets to the US government. He was then permitted to run for the US Senate for the State of Connecticut, and win, rather than rotting in a jail cell where he belonged.

If the reader doubts the veracity or validity of my facts, check them with novelist and scholar Phillip Roth, or any historical scholar familiar with the capitalist machinations that have taken place in the US since the formation of the Federal Reserve Banking system.

The ENTIRE corporate elite of the 1930's and 1940's, including Charles Lindbergh himself, thought Hitler was just a peachy chap.

They LAUNDERED MONEY for the Nazi war machine.

There is Jewish blood on American hands. And I, for one, am tired of being blackmailed by AIPAC over it.

Everytime McCain can make a stand against torture, against policies which does not personally believe in or which are illegal, McCain caves in and plays, "follow the incompetent leader."

It is entirely possible that McCain was programmed, via torture, to behave the way he behaves. I wouldn't be surprised if the US didn't orchestrate it, as backward as some of our black ops can be.

In any event, the man is untrustworthy. It doesn't matter if he served and was disabled by the experience. He is unfit to be a chief executive.

But that's never stopped the Republicans before, has it?

...but after I worked through my personal raft of issues and demons, I came to recognize my own self absorption and narcissism in Oprah's public behavior. The final break for me happened when I first saw her touting that sycophantic scold, Dr. Phil, on her show.

Imagine having to have your face on the cover of your own magazine every month and what might drive that kind of obsession.

Imagine being so driven to become proud of yourself that you overlook issues of cultural hegemony; issues regarding the tyranny of American values superimposed on the lives of a people who, quite arguably, have proven themselves to be far more decent and humane than we have ever been in the United States.

But this really isn't a shot across Oprah's bow or a jab to encourage her to grow up and get a real life that involves an actual exchange between two whole people. The author of _I'm OK,_You're OK_ committed suicide.

I guess he wasn't okay.

What I really think this story illustrates is the lop-sided manner that American capitalism -- arguably fascism from most historical perspectives -- favors those among us who are quite palpably insane.

Driven to disprove what would be plainly, painfully obvious to a child's eyes, we work 100 hour weeks for months at a time and still feel empty inside. We haul our economic largesse around in wheelbarrows full of cash, but it is all fuel for the fires of a personal hell we would gladly pay all of our life's work back to escape.

Talking about one's "stuff" once or twice is only the barest of beginnings. Most people stop there, become frustrated, and then seek for success in the "outside" world of pseudo joy.

What the wounded child inside requires is not overindulgence, in my experience, but a highly structured process that frees us to become whole, integrating all of our experiences -- good and unspeakably bad -- into a single human life.

But if we do succeed in checking in most of our baggage, Madison Avenue would have nothing left to sell us, and the justifications for war would follow behind very soon.

No one wants that much peace for themselves. Not yet, anyway.