Thursday, September 8, 2011
FLASH FRIED… When residents hungry for a new restaurant organize to bring it to town, their efforts usually take the form of City Hall testimony or a polite petition. Squid likes Marina Mayor Bruce Delgado’s style better, and Squid’s not just talking about that little blue electric car he uses to zip down Reservation Road. Delgado has announced plans for a “flash mob” of Marina’s best and brightest to don red-and-yellow garb, take over the Target parking lot at The Dunes, and form a human In-N-Out sign.
This is no mere double-double-driven free-for-all. No, this goofy gambit has a goal: to send an aerial photo of the hamburger helpers to the powers that be at In-N-Out, imploring them to put a franchise in the big-box shopping center (perhaps in rebound from Seaside’s recent snubbing of the cult burger chain). Squid’s hoping Delgado will deliver on Sept. 17. Animal-style cheeseburgers on the Peninsula? Now that’s quality Squid can taste.
THE COLOR OF MONEY… There’s more than one shade of green. Don’t take it from a color-changing squid; the city of Salinas also thought so when it fronted a half million bucks for Green Vehicles, the EV company that couldn’t. After the car maker went belly-up in July, Salinas officials, including Mayor Dennis Donohue and Economic Development Director Jeff Weir, took some blame for failing to read the fine print. The city sued CEO Mike Ryan and former CEO Ehab Youssef. Days later, the company filed for bankruptcy. Squid’s no Pythagoras, but since there wasn’t any cash to start with, there’s even less now. Maybe Ryan can raise funds through Facebook. If there’s one thing he’s good at, it’s passive-aggressive social media. “I would bite off chewable pieces,” Ryan wrote in his farewell Facebook post. As long as it’s not calamari, Squid agrees that would’ve been a good idea.
MELTING POINT… If there’s one time of year Squid’s inner conspiracy theorist comes out, it’s when considering the unanswered 9/11 question: the temperature gap. Never in the history of architecture and engineering has a steel-reinforced structure been brought down by fire. Steel softens at 2,777 degrees Fahrenheit, while the hottest known substance burning in the World Trade Center, jet fuel, burns at a maximum temperature of 1,517 degrees.
Squid’s tickled by groups like the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth; even after a decade, they insist on a thorough review of the WTC collapse. Given that we spent $40 million to investigate Monica Lewinsky’s involvement with Bill Clinton and only $4 million to figure out what happened on 9/11, Squid thinks that might not be a bad idea.
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Comments
wheels says...
Well I can answer those questions; Send me a check for 40 million please.
1. Never in the history of architecture and engineering
has a steel-reinforced structure been brought down by fire.
Did you see the planes? Big ones flew into the buildings.
It was in all the news. Knocked off fire retardant, severed
many outer coulombs. Spread Jet fuel which kicked off the
largest office building fires in history. Fires which by the way
were not fought.
Posted 8 September 2011, 6:19 p.m. Suggest removal
wheels says...
2. Steel softens at 2,777 degrees Fahrenheit,
while the hottest known substance burning
in the World Trade Center, jet fuel, burns at
a maximum temperature of 1,517 degrees.
No Steel "Melts" at 2,777F, which is irrelevant, as the
failures were caused by weakened steel which weakens
at much lower temperatures. Like the ones created by the
largest office fires in history. Steel beams under load lose
half their strength at 250c or 482F.
Posted 8 September 2011, 6:43 p.m. Suggest removal
JohnMount says...
wow...of all the crazy that's come out of this paper in the years I've been reading it, this is the worst. This is so sad and disappointing. What idiocy. You know, you can almost always be certain that when someone brings up "the unanswered questions" the truth is the questions have been answered completely, exhaustively, and repeatedly, but conspiracy theorists are deaf to anything that dosen't already confirm what they've chosen to believe. As wheels posts above, your questions have been answered already, you just chose not to listen.
Here's a very good article that answers a lot of questions, if you have the courage to read it.
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/11-09...
After this though, I don't know if I will ever bother to read the Weekly again. What a waste.
Posted 8 September 2011, 7:02 p.m. Suggest removal
PDog says...
10th Anniversary TV Ad - Remember Building 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r6xZy...
9/11 - The Toronto Hearings Sept. 11th 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7hkIA...
BuildingWhat? on Geraldo Nov 13 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFPobK...
9/11: Explosive Evidence, Trailer; AE911Truth.org, 9/11/11 Anniversary DVD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIOC1J...
Firefighters For 9/11 Truth Press Conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TULmLt...
FOX TV Fresno KMPH Great Day with Richard Gage AIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f_hPt...
WTC 7 The Smoking Gun of 9/11
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
Patriots Question 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9BjHq...
Beyond the Left-Right Paradigm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI4NxD...
9/11 Truth: Hollywood Speaks Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rw397...
9/11 Press For Truth
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
9/11 Mysteries
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQLCYR...
Loose Change Final Cut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28QukK...
Zero An Investigation Into 9/11
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
9/11 Truth Rising
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-yscp...
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (9/11 Foreknowledge)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
Terrorstorm (London 7/7)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrXgLh...
Police State 4 (The Underwear Bomber)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klqv9t...
Zeitgeist pt. II & III
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
Wake Up Call
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT1Gav...
9/11 Blueprint For Truth
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
9/11 Truth: The Challenge to the Peace Movement – Parts 4 of 4
http://www.infowars.com/911-truth-the...
9/11 Revisited Scientific & Ethical Questions
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
Zogby Poll Finds Over 70 Million Voting Age Americans Support New 9/11 Investigation
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?s...
CNN Online Poll: 89% Believe There's Been a 9/11 Cover-up
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?s...
Third of Americans suspect 9-11 government conspiracy
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?s...
Scientific Poll: 84% Reject Official 9/11 Story
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/...
Establishment Prepares 9/11 Official Story Onslaught
http://www.infowars.com/establishment...
You Only Believe the Official 9/11 Story Because You Don’t Know the Official 9/11 Story
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.ph...
10 Years After 9/11, Is America A Better Place?
http://endoftheamericandream.com/arch...
Posted 8 September 2011, 11:44 p.m. Suggest removal
JohnMount says...
^ and thanks for attracting the truly crazy. say hello to nut job linksalot
Posted 8 September 2011, 11:57 p.m. Suggest removal
JayAre1 says...
Scary to think that these conspiracy nuts (at least in some
cases) vote. No wonder we have such obstructionist
politicians in D.C. and running many of the states!
See Rome burn! Burn, Rome, burn!
Posted 9 September 2011, 8:52 a.m. Suggest removal
wheels says...
Now now just because PDog and his Ilk know how to link
do not assume they have the brains to find a polling place.
PDog,What is so difficult about believing that a group of
religious fanatics, who have a history of committing atrocious
terrorist acts, committed an atrocious terrorist act?
Sorry if I am snarcky, but all these questions were resolved
in 2006-2008.
Posted 9 September 2011, 11:30 a.m. Suggest removal
PDog says...
I could ask you the same type of question: What is so
difficult about believing our government was at least partly
to blame for 9/11? Well, we know they lied about Iraq links
to 9/11, WMD's, we know that there is historical 100% proof
of Governments fabricating or lying about events to get us
into a war (Gulf of Tonkin) or even planning to stage
terror attacks against America (Operation Northwoods).
But I guess I'm the one that's crazy, huh? Check my links
my friend, the questions were not resolved according to
many INCLUDING 9/11 victims family members and many
firefighters. These are the people we should be listening to.
To answer your question directly, I actually DID believe the
official story for about the first 4 years after 9/11 until I
came across evidence to the contrary. I am not someone
who just doubted the Government automatically. But now
I am.
Posted 9 September 2011, 4:49 p.m. Suggest removal
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