I only have one sibling to convert, the other brother is a die-hard Bush supporter with whom I don't speak but once a year, and the sister probably knows better. The Bushist definitely has the ear of the brother I am trying to enlighten, and the mention of "Wartown" below refers to San Diego...

I like your angle on how to help people deal with the trauma, as I was sorta winging it on that score when talking to him on the phone. I did ask him to read the articles that I said I was going to send, and I pared a couple from the list above.

His response and my reply follows~~
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G wrote:

In the attached article The Low post; Read lines 7 and 8 of the large third paragraph. That is you! your own materials refer to your belief in exploding the towers as clinically insane, so YOU have a nice day.

George in WARTOWN
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Dude...Taibbi is not acknowledging that stance, but mocking it!!
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Sorry the writing is not the clearest, but did you read the whole thing? And, we never even got onto the subject of what brought the towers down, so again, you seem to be jumping ahead of yourself. How 'bout the numerous statements about the facts that it was not a plane that hit the Pentagon, and that no plane parts were recovered from Shanksville?? What did you think of the 180 expert opinions on the range of bullshit that was spread about 9-11??

Look at the sentence again...

"We made many careers out of assigning blame for the attacks, with the right blaming Bill Clinton, Michael Moore blaming George Bush and the clinically insane blaming those mysterious demolition experts who allegedly wired the bottoms of the towers with the explosives that "really" caused the tragedy."

...and notice the sarcasm behind the whole statement. Instead, you have extracted a phrase and manipulated its meaning to use it against me...sorry you are content to find what you want to find in an article of this sort and try to use it to defend your denial. Brother, that is classic Fox News/GOP/Far Right idiocy!!

Dude, you missed some brilliant writing with your myopic focus, too...

"Bush and his buddies grew up in the Cold War, an era where two countries dominated the world and even the scraggliest warlord in the central African jungle was usually a client of one or the other. It was a fun time for the overgrown Risk-playing nerds inhabiting America's think tanks, who spent half a century describing all human life as an ongoing chess match between life-affirming American capitalism on the one hand and, on the other, the bloodsucking communist religion cruelly foisted upon the world by a conspiratorial bund of grubby German Jews (Hitler was eighty years too late!) and French homosexuals. That was what it came down to: World politics for half a century was a pissing match between two warring factions in the sociology department of the international University of Well-Fed White People."

Keep reading, please. If your eyes are giving you trouble, see a doc, and fix them so you can keep reading, before you really go blind, in more ways than one.

Love,
Styve

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest." - Benjamin Franklin