Who selected the book, "My Pet Goat", that Bush read on 911?

[screembloodymurder]

On 911, our President sat reading a book, "My Pet Goat" in front of millions of viewers. What we tend to forget is that our enemies watch every move our President makes - and that includes TV appearances. So what was the message sent to our enemies on 911?..... Mr. Bush is my pet goat.

Without uttering a word the powers behind the throne delivered a message to the world. The President is on a leash. He is not in charge. He's our fall guy and if you expose 911, we'll still be in charge. 911 was a neo-con coup d’etat. Cheney and the military took the reins from Bush. Remember the look on Bush’s face – that deer in the headlights stare – Bush knew he’d been had.

[greyl]

1. That's not the name of the book. nt

[screembloodymurder]

2. The Pet Goat

OK, the name of the story. I still think it's ironic.

[Bolo Boffin]

3. Ironic.

You think that someone sat around and micromanaged this thing down to the choice of what story the kids would be reading in the classroom, and then you expect people to take your observations seriously.

[screembloodymurder]

4. Love your sign.

A little far fetched (guess I'm slightly paranoid about these mothers), but it's still ironic. I don't believe Bush knew what Cheney was doing.

[screembloodymurder]

7. Given the importance of the morning,

no detail was too small. 911 probably took years of planning. I think "they" had a time line and played out every second to insure nothing was overlooked.

[JackRiddler]

5. The "story" is an exercise in a reading book.

Reading Mastery II by Siegfried Engelmann, a collection of SRA drills, has "The Pet Goat" on p. 153.

If there is something significant in that, it's that it showcases the Bush education philosophy: drill'em. No Child Left Behind actually tells us a lot about the sort who would entertain a 9/11: those who think the people are stupid sheep for shearing, and should stay that way. I find it very appropriate that it was arranged for Bush to be pretending to love little black children on the day his regime launched a global war of aggression.

The lesson in the classroom, with its stupefying repetition and sing-song authoritarianism of the teacher, is almost as scary as Bush's guilty-as-hell reaction to the three-second message whispered into his ear from Andy Card -- supposedly, "A second plane has hit the Towers. America is under attack."

There is a reason why people once understood this as the smoking gun, before they started looking for phantom proofs. Play that video. See how long Card is at Bush's ear. Try saying those words in the alloted time. Try whispering them in an understandable fashion.

The content of this sentence happens to be the minimum Card could possibly deliver and still be informing Bush of what was happening. ("America is under attack" would not specify what had happened, and it would make Bush look even more ridiculous in retrospect, yet that was initially what Card claimed he had said. He later added "A second plane has hit the Towers.")

Yet Bush sits there, obediently waiting for further instructions, doing nothing and receiving no further word for 7 minutes -- and still in the classroom 13 minutes later, shaking hands. How is this plausible? "America is under attack" and he doesn't even ask for clarification? He just absorbs the "second plane" thing on the spot and looks "somber"? This is someone who was just learning what was happening at 9:05, after the second hit? This was someone who thought the first hit was an accident? Bullshit!

This was someone who was actually in charge of anything at any point in his administration? Double bullshit!

Even greater as a smoking gun is the entire period from first hit (8:46, when the motorcade was on its way to school) to leaving the school (9:34, 50 minutes). The plane hits the WTC, they learn about it while they are already on the road, and they go ahead with a photo op? By then it was known that the plane had been hijacked at 8:20, and this information was circulating to the military. As they arrived at the school, a reporter asked Bush, "do you know what's happening in New York?" and received an affirmative. According to Bush, he thought: "That's one lousy pilot." No one in his large entourage knew any different, or thought to inform the supposed chief executive?

And then the second hit, and they keep the photo op going, no secret service reaction, no White House military office reaction? America is under attack, but screw these children: We're staying put right here, so that everyone in the world knows where the president is right now. And then more planes are known to be hijacked, but Bush delivers a LIVE TELEVISED statement at 9:31? Six minutes before the Pentagon is going to be hit?

Again, it is impossible that Card whispered that many words to Bush clearly in the time it actually happened. There was time enough for something like: "The game is on." Or: "Sit tight."

[petgoat]

6. I'd submit that the "clueless" angle is for defense, if necessary.

"Sure, 9/11 was an inside job, but I was as surprised as you.
the Illuminati did it, not I."

I'd also submit that in that tape, Bush appears to be calculating.
I think he's been told to stall for 15 minutes, and he's wondering
if he's being set up to take the fall.

[JackRiddler]

8. kick

[greyl]

10. You kicked a post that contradicts your own "not enough time" speculation. nt

[Bolo Boffin]

12. Perhaps he was distracted by mismatched socks. n/t

[JackRiddler]

13. I don't kick posts

I kick threads. And asses.

[greyl]

16. No, you kicked the post. Kicking a thread entails replying to the OP. nt

[Bolo Boffin]

17. So you think that somebody in the conspiracy actually took a few minutes to plan this tiny detail?

n/t

[JackRiddler]

18. If you can find anyplace where I indicated that...

Let me know. If by conspiracy you mean the plot to drill the nation's schoolchildren into failure, sometimes known as No Child Left Breathing, that may be the case. (I suppose someone on Bush's staff may have discussed the choice of text with the teacher.)

As for kicks -- I'll consolidate replies to smart-assery into one post -- clearly one cannot kick a post, the position of which remains fixed in the tree, and changes only by the growth of higher subthreads. Kicks by definition affect the thread as a whole, sending it to the top of the forum. The effect is the same regardless of placement. Kicks need not imply a position on a given OP's thesis (or on a subthread).

If you have further questions on elementary workings of MB operation, check the site's FAQs and glossary pages.

[wildbilln864]

9. Indeed!

He sure didn't seem alarmed to me! Nor did he seem surprised! If he was wondering if he'd been set up, how'd he know he wouldn't still be a target? :shrug:

on edit: He didn't look scared to me either.

[JackRiddler]

19. je keek

[Bolo Boffin]

20. Now is this a kick of wildbill's post specifically or just the thread in general?

Because there's been some confusion in the past.

[JackRiddler]

21. You're awfully fast with this now, aren't you?

Obviously tres importante. Are you kicking my kick or just the thread? There's so much material on this important matter already in the thread, you can probably figure it out.

[Bolo Boffin]

23. Hey, man, I was just here when you posted.

I replied to your post. If I'd written "kick" or some derivative in that post, then I would be trying to bring that post to people's attention in order to affirm it. That is how things happen on message boards.

But you've been here long enough that you could probably have figured that out yourself.

[AZCat]

11. What does "SRA" stand for?

Just curious.

[JackRiddler]

14. I forget

In elementary school (at least in th 1970s) SRA was those batches of stories with questions in this kind of large index card format, prob means Standard Reading Achievement or some such.

[AZCat]

15. Hmmm - I was in elementary school then (or close to it).

I think I remember those things, but the mists of time can really screw with memories that far back. Heck - I have difficulty remembering what high school was like, and I'm not that old! :(

[Contrite]

22. The Shadow Knows (pub. 1941)

http://gutenberg.com/eBooks/BlackMask_Online/whitecolumn.htm


"I don't like the situation at all," the police chief declared. "The whole town is aroused. Citizens have lost confidence in the police. My detectives report that there are ugly whispers all over town. A secret vigilante organization is being formed. They call themselves the White Column. They're inviting loyal Americans of Oakmont to help them rid the town of Fifth Columnists. I'm afraid there will be bloodshed, if we don't solve this sabotage mystery swiftly and arrest The Shadow."

The members of the Defense Committee were there, too. Peter Kirk and Ralph Jackson sat side by side, their faces grim. The financial loss to them had been tremendous. Worse still, they had failed to safeguard a military secret entrusted to their care by the government. The sabotage raid had succeeded in every vicious detail.

Henry Norman looked as unhappy as his two associates on the Committee. So did Lee Morley, the oil refiner.

"Is it certain that The Shadow was guilty?" Morley asked the police chief.

"Absolutely! The Shadow was seen at a window of the plant shortly after the explosions occurred. He tried to hide in Mr. Kirk's garage, and attacked him with a chisel when Kirk tried to capture him."

A new voice spoke quietly in the conference room. Kent Allard was there. He had arrived late. He apologized for his delay. He asked the police chief to summarize the facts that had been discovered.

Kent Allard's position on the committee made such a request an order. As a personal representative of the President of the United States, he was charged with the duty of reporting directly to Washington. The police chief nodded respectfully.

"The factory was destroyed by thermite bombs," he declared. "They were detonated within the plant by a new method - a method set in action by a sound device outside the factory walls."

"I don't understand," Kent Allard said.

"The thermite bombs were hidden all over the plant near ventilator fans, air shafts and similar places, where the flames would spread quickly under forced draft. Chemical experts have examined one which failed to explode. Gentlemen, that bomb was equipped with a sound-receiving device. A deadly little thing like a tuning fork."

"But how was it set off?"

"The projectile that fell from the plane was a siren bomb. Its siren continued to shriek after the projectile landed. When the sound wave reached a certain pitch, they affected the tuning forks in those thermite bombs planted inside the factory!"

The police chief drew a deep breath.

"No commercial or private ship was in the air last night within miles of the factory. It's proof that the plane was a foreign one. Either it came from a secret field, or it flew from a foreign warship somewhere off the east coast of the United States."

"Could there have been a treacherous collusion inside the factory?" Kent Allard asked.

[LARED]

24. That is sort of appropriate

Fictional stories from the 1940's to support fictional stories from 2001.

[The Lone Groover]

25. Allegory to difficult a concept for you LARED? nt.

[LARED]

26. Not in the least difficult

Typically an allegory uses fictional events, character to relate to real events in order to gain a broader understanding of the real events.

An allegoric story would lack meaning if it is an appeal to fiction. I hope that is not too difficult to grasp.

[The Lone Groover]

28. You say tomato, I say tomato. nt.

[SidDithers]

27. It was my wife, Morgan Fairchild...

with whom I've slept.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Sid

[JackRiddler]

29. That's funny...

She told me rolling out of bed this morning that you could never get it up.

[Grateful for Hope]

30. ROFLOL! n/t

[SidDithers]

31. Well, then, she's a liar...

whereas I'm telling the truth...


Sid