Of course, most steel-frame buildings don’t have thousands of gallons of diesel fuel stored in them either, to run emergency generators for a command center. Another brilliant move by Rudy.

OH. MY. GOD. Diesel fuel? I knew it was stupid to put the command center in an area that had already been attacked once, but it completely slipped my mind that they’d have to have generators for emergencies.

jayt @ 60

Check the Aug 25 Science News. They’ve been studying what happened to that building. Apparently it burned for several hours, and the firefighters couldn’t get in to fight it (and didn’t expect it to drop, either: a first for them, too). The studies are difficult – one researcher said it took two months on a supercomputer to model the thing – but they’re pretty sure at this point that it was the fire that was most of the cause of it collapsing. Warped steel beams – there’s a very impressive picture of one with a hairpin-type bend in it.

Of course, most steel-frame buildings don’t have thousands of gallons of diesel fuel stored in them either, to run emergency generators for a command center. Another brilliant move by Rudy.

Is there any more of a reason to get “Blogger Rage” Shays outta here and support Jim Himes? Check his performance out on PBS’s the News Hour. You go Jan! We’ve done really good so far. Jane Hamsher, who is hanging in the C&L Bat Cave today—says:

Yesterday’s $5 fundraiser for Jim Himes has netted 80 new donors to our Blue America page, and by way of comparison Shays only had 107 donors during the last quarter. So it would be great if we could find 29 more donors, which would mean Jim had more contributors in just over 24 hours from Blue America alone than Shays had during the entire second quarter. If you’ve got $5 to spare, think of it as a way to combat the useful idiocy of Brian Baird.

Contribute to Jim Himes via Blue America here.

By the way, Baird now is attacking the GAO report and get this:

Meantime, Baird has so many requests for interviews that he already has offered a two-hour media availability Monday, after Petraeus and the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, testify before the House. Democrats opposed to the war held their tongues about Baird last week. But on Thursday, Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., told Congressional Quarterly: “I’ll give Brian a gun and let him go to Iraq and shoot whoever he wants.”

When asked about Stark’s comment, Baird said, “What was that all about?”

lies through his teeth with a big ol’ smile.

gotta think that ‘mitt’ (I love all 84 of my aryan children) will screwdriver him into the ground.

somewhere down the line tony soprano is bound to be involved.