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Evidently I'm a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/ Illuminati / Flying Teapot conspiracy for global domination because I don't accept Loose Change as the Gospel. I feel like the only atheist in a room full of bible bashers! It's actually quite depressing how many people here think they're informed left wing radicals (and therefore I am evidently extremely right wing! because they have seen a movie on the internet (or someone they know has seen it) that makes them feel good about thier prejudices. Anyway the article I'm after is about the psychology of the conspiracy theorists link Give me strength to deal with these morons

Good article. Yeah I know a professor here who holds touchingly naive views about 9-11 too. I am prepared to believe that the NSA/CIA whomever may have known in advance that it was gonna happen and alerted the important people just like they did with Panam flight 303 (there were hardly anyone in the towers that morning at 9am - americans are all in work at 8am) but that they orchestrated the whole thing and then managed to keep it a perfect secret even though hundreds of people would have been involved? Well that is about as egocentrically paranoid as its possible to imagine being.

I'm not saying that they couldn't have prevented it, the fact that the didn't just reinforces the point that they couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery. Or that they didn't take full advantage of it afterwards. If they were so clever to plot and get away with something as vast as 911 in order to give them the excuse to invade afghanistan and Iraq how come they were not smart enough to "find" WMD's in Iraq? That would be a piece of piss in comparison. As the "educated people believe it was a conspiracy" big fucking deal. Educated people believe a human came back from the dead.

I did a google search on the PC terminology for fat and came up with <I'm usually not one for being overly PC, but in cases like that I would feel uncomfortable using the term "fat." If I had to say something about it, I would use terms like "heavy" or "overweight." I don't know, it just seems to me that saying "fat" is less tactful. > What about "big boned"? or "Greedy fucking pig"?

I have a glandular disorder you insensitive clod!