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September 6, 2008

Qais Ghanem

Green Party "truther" for Ottawa South;

Hijackers were Saudis with box cutters, NONE were Afghans or Iraqis.
2001-Sept-12: (ONE day later) Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz declared that Iraq should be attacked!

Here is a list of questions that need answers:
Why was the FBI investigation of hijackers shut down?
Why were military response stand down orders issued?
Why were distracting war games set up on 9/11 of all days?
Why did building 7, not attacked at all, collapse like controlled demolition


Previous - John Shavluk, ex-Green Party candidate for Newton North Delta.

Posted by Kate at September 6, 2008 12:08 PM
Comments

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE OPENING CREDIT SPEECH OF LOOSE CHANGE. RECOGNIZE THE VOICE? YOU BETTCHA, THAT'S GONZO AT HIS ALL TIME FINEST. IF SOMEONE WANTS CREDIBILITY, CERTAINLY THE LATE GREAT HUNTER S. THOMPSON SHOULD BE STRIKEN FROM THE LIST OF THOSE WHO SHOULD SPEAK FIRST ON BEHALF OF THE LEFTWITS. HUNTER WAS GOOD FOR LAUGHS(AT HIM, NOT WITH HIM) NOT FACTS. WHAT HE SAID IN THE OPENING I CONSIDER HIGH TREASON, NOTHING LESS. GREEN PARTY AND NDP DIVIDE LIBERAL VOTES ANYHOW.

Posted by: azphiks at September 6, 2008 12:12 PM

There is more to this story.
From a Globe article (link given in Readers' tips also)
Green candidate accused of Israel-bashing gets May's support
BILL CURRY

From Saturday's Globe and Mail

September 5, 2008 at 8:49 PM EDT

OTTAWA — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is affirming her support for an Ottawa-area Green Party candidate accused of “Israel bashing,” just one day after citing anti-Semitism as grounds for rejecting one of her B.C. candidates.

Qais Ghanem, a Yemeni-born physician with a strong interest in the Middle East, has stirred debate among his fellow Greens on the party's online discussion forum. The Greens' Ottawa-South candidate has aligned himself with three other Green candidates to form what they call the “Ottawa Group of Four.” They are pushing the party to approve a resolution called “Palestine” that “calls upon Israel to end its forty-year occupation of all Arab lands without preconditions.”
more at:-
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080905.welxngreens06/BNStory/politics/home

Posted by: Rich at September 6, 2008 12:26 PM

Lose the whole caps lock thing. Nobody likes to read it.

While we are on the subject of Greens though, you should follow the delightful adventure of a merry band of leftards, who decided to kayack to the North Pole this year based on the reports from the "reality based community" that it would be ice free this year. By the way, in their short trip, they saw 88 polar bears. Or it could have been just one stalking them, figuring an easy meal was soon in the offing, I don't know.

http://motls.blogspot.com/2008/09/lewis-pugh-et-al-give-up.html

Posted by: Tim in Vermont at September 6, 2008 12:29 PM

Hey, we should not be surprised by this. You have to be able to believe in 12 impossible things before breakfast if you want to be a -real- greenie. These people are genuine wackadoo. We need to get them talking, bigtime. Once people start hearing the crazy poo they say, its a Conservative steamroller.

Come on Lefties, what's a normal dude going to vote for? Jack Bin Layton's Red Shaft tax hike, wackadoodle Greenies/Trufers nutcase tax hike, the Dionsky Green Shaft tax on everything tax hike, or a CPC tax -cut-?

Harper tax cut NOW NOW NOW. Official CPC lurkers, take note. You've been told. Get it done.

Posted by: The Phantom at September 6, 2008 12:31 PM

asspick...you don't know where the caps lock key is? As Tim said...lose it, nerd.

Posted by: Justthinkin at September 6, 2008 12:33 PM

Sad thing is, thousands of people drink this Kool Aid, and guide their world view by it. Typical left wing loon who thinks POWs should be afforded all the protections of the Canadian Charter of Rights.

Posted by: CJ at September 6, 2008 12:42 PM

"Big Event"
"Past President of the Arab Canadian University Graduates Association (1992-2002)

Real green.


Posted by: richfisher at September 6, 2008 12:45 PM

The green movement is a haven for people whose ideas are far more than just simple ecological philosphy. In this case, we see a guy who has a big hatred for the West advocating "green" changes which would weaken the economy and the country. Gee, wonder why?

Posted by: wyatt salt at September 6, 2008 12:51 PM

Elizabeth May simply hasn't got her ducks in a row, has no chance of doing so. Her talent is verbosity, quantity over substance.

She does need to be in the debates for further exposure.

If she allows this dude to represent her fledgling party, she's on the road to nowhere.

Posted by: Liz J at September 6, 2008 12:54 PM

Referring to 9/11 as "The Big Event" seems pretty glib

Posted by: dick at September 6, 2008 1:05 PM

What's really interesting is how Dion and the liberals support Elizabeth May and her "green" agenda - which is essentially communism.

These people are all nuts, totally out there wacko. Let May participate in the leaders debate - that would be really good for a laugh.

Posted by: Brad at September 6, 2008 1:09 PM

They are pushing the party to approve a resolution called “Palestine” that “calls upon Israel to end its forty-year occupation of all Arab lands without preconditions.”

"Arab" lands? Hookay, Israel should hand 'em over to Christian arabs, stand back, and watch the fun.

Why is Yemeni Muslim so absorbed by Israel-"arab" Palestine, especially since ET contends it's not about Islamofacism? :~)

Posted by: Mississauga Matt at September 6, 2008 1:29 PM

Speaking of Green Agendas, the Enviro Minister for Northern Ireland has "The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a "hysterical psuedo-religion" that to say regarding the Greens.More on that at Drudge.
For a hysterical take on "Community Organizers", Iowahawk is about the funniest I have seen in sometime.
Between the two, this should have the Greens, leftards and the rest of the environuts foaming at the mouth.

Posted by: Jim in Calgary at September 6, 2008 1:31 PM

Bwaahaahaa
I think we can count the greens out in Ottawa LOL.

Posted by: Durward at September 6, 2008 1:33 PM

Dion wants May in the debates because she can argue the green shaft agenda in ENGLISH. Dion's broken english hurts him no matter what he's saying. I intend to watch every Green and NDP event, and recommend them to everyone that asks. Every Green or NDP vote is one less Lieberal vote.The term "Up the Middle" has never been more relevant.

Posted by: Bart at September 6, 2008 1:37 PM

Next we'll find out they have a candidate who hangs out at the downtown Toronto Sheraton looking for El Al pilots to nab.

Posted by: Mississauga Matt at September 6, 2008 1:46 PM

MM

""""Why is Yemeni Muslim so absorbed by Israel-"arab" Palestine, especially since ET contends it's not about Islamofacism? :~)"""""

it's the common NME thing!!!!:-))))

Posted by: GYM at September 6, 2008 1:59 PM

Remember, a vote for the Greens as a protest vote, will give them 1.75/vote to continue their stupidity.
Is the Green Party of Canada affiliated in any way with the european greens or the american greens. I once read that it is one party, with affiliates in many countries, but policy is set by the board in europe. Wasn't there a former green leader or spokesman who bragged he had been elected to this board.

Posted by: MaryT at September 6, 2008 2:04 PM

That's all Folks.
Get yer comments in before next Wednesday, aka Doomsday. & don't worry about the FILTER.
...-

"Large Hadron Collider will not turn world to goo, promise scientists

Cancel your plans for next Wednesday, it could be your last day on Earth. Or could it?

If you believe a vocal lobby of doomsayers, at the flick of a switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) next week the world will be consumed from the inside out and turned to a pile of grey goo."
(not via googoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6hxtax

Posted by: maz2 at September 6, 2008 2:06 PM

This may not be an entirely bad thing; McSquinty's brother currently holds the seat, and if enough of the loony Islamic vote is siphoned off by this wingnut (Ottawa South has a large Islamic Somali population), then that could leave us sitting pretty. ;-)

Posted by: SDC at September 6, 2008 2:10 PM

Actually, I like to see the Greens be stupid enough to still attract a certain number of left votes, but not too stupid as to scare many back to Wacky Jack or Dion. Let them spilt their votes and end up with fewer members elected.

Posted by: VanIslander at September 6, 2008 2:15 PM

If the US supported Saddam Hussein, and supported the Taliban, it certainly seems proper that they should correct their mistakes. American support for undesirables is used by Americans as an excuse for noninvolvement in the Middle East and Afghanistan, when in fact it is quite the opposite. IF they created a mess, it's up to them to clean it up, at whatever cost in blood and treasure.

I doubt very much, however, that the problems of the Middle East are very much of American doing - Salafism has developed slowly over the past two centuries; the aggressions of the "Barbary Pirates" go back to the 17th century at least; it is not a fight which we as Canadians can avoid, whatever the Americans have done or are doing.

Posted by: John Lewis at September 6, 2008 2:15 PM

If there is one thing I fault the Harper government for it is not continually reinforcing why we are in Afghanistan.
It always gets stated as a fluffy Canadians need to pull their weight...generally that reason doesnt cut it with most, especially when the weight is dead soldiers.

We are there because the attack on 9/11 was launched from there, the government of Afghanistan, which was Taliban, was quite properly overthrown and the process of rebuilding and reinforcing the democratically elected government of afghanistan requires our presence.

As a reminder our presence is there becasue as a Nato ally the US invoked its rights under Nato. If we think Nato should be disbanded then that is a seperate discussion, which it would be nice to see the other side clearly state.

Harper could explain the mission in better and clearer terms, he didnt start the mission, the Liberals did, and it is worth reminding everyone of why we are there. There is no shame and nothing to hide.

Posted by: Stephen at September 6, 2008 2:28 PM

Stephan, every time I get really p.o.'d at Canadians, and living right on the border, I do once in a while (not all of you are as polite as Fatso Moore seems to think), I remember what Canada is doing in Afghanistan against a country that attacked us, killed more than a couple of Canadians, and whose sovereign leader, Mullah Omar cried "Let the rain of airplanes continue!" when he somehow thought he could make that happen.

Posted by: Tim in Vermont at September 6, 2008 2:37 PM

We need more truthers to come forward on the big lie of global warming.

Posted by: Soccermom at September 6, 2008 2:39 PM

"Large Hadron Collider will not turn world to goo, promise scientists

Cancel your plans for next Wednesday, it could be your last day on Earth. Or could it?

If you believe a vocal lobby of doomsayers, at the flick of a switch on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) next week the world will be consumed from the inside out and turned to a pile of grey goo."

Nevertheless I'll be making up a bunch of handloads...just in case. No telling what horrors will come pouring out of any inter-dimensional portals it may create.

Posted by: Edward Teach at September 6, 2008 2:40 PM

I'm still waiting for answers from the Truther's about where the passengers are from the 4 Planes that were alleged to be swapped with NORAD drones loaded with bombs.

Maybe their all held at Area-51 with the Roswell Aliens , Elvis , JFK , Hitler , and the real Ronald Reagan who was cloned so the fake Reagan could do all the Photo-Ops .

Wake-up folks , it's a Federal offence to with hold evidence is any Murder case so if these Yahoo's keep asserting that THEY know the real truth about 9/11 which Bush/Chretien/Clinton and Paul Martin were linked to as co-conspirators , they should speak-up or shut-up .

Besides , I actually researched the facts about building construction and the Boeing Planes
used for the attacks.
My evidence shows that stress on weakened beams aided in the collapse of many previous building , and i discovered that the 2 planes that hit the twin Towers could not have been flying at 500 m.p.h. near sea-level as asserted on Islamic website .
Boeing's own Engine-Specs warn of over-heating and turbine melting if the plane is near sea-level and above 250 mph or at full-throttle, the thick/damp air would be like trying to fly through water and the wings would rip off from the stress before the engines could heat up and melt.
Pay close attention to the FireFighter video and hear the Dopler drone followed by the delay in the explosion from the canyon effect , the engines barely show stress and if you time the echo from the distance to the Tower with sound moving at 740 feet per second you only need to use a N.Y. map for the distance to the Firemen
which will give the speed of the plane from the dopler sound and the echo time .

The problem is that the Truther's only want their version of the truth which backs their absurd claims , much like me assering I work for the CIA because if you phone them they deny I'm on the employee list.

Posted by: Roger at September 6, 2008 2:51 PM

if ya can't handle reality, being a Greenie Truther is a popular parking space for people of limited intellectual ability.

It is their warm comfy fur. Liberal's comfy fur is they want to be the ruling class gaining salvation by doling out indulgences to the poor and afflicted so they will be loved in return.

Conservatives are realists.

Posted by: Fred at September 6, 2008 3:02 PM

I'm still waiting for answers from the Truther's about where the passengers are from the 4 Planes that were alleged to be swapped with NORAD drones loaded with bombs.

Maybe their all held at Area-51 with the Roswell Aliens , Elvis , JFK , Hitler , and the real Ronald Reagan who was cloned so the fake Reagan could do all the Photo-Ops .

Wake-up folks , it's a Federal offence to with hold evidence is any Murder case so if these Yahoo's keep asserting that THEY know the real truth about 9/11 which Bush/Chretien/Clinton and Paul Martin were linked to as co-conspirators , they should speak-up or shut-up .

Besides , I actually researched the facts about building construction and the Boeing Planes
used for the attacks.
My evidence shows that stress on weakened beams aided in the collapse of many previous building , and i discovered that the 2 planes that hit the twin Towers could not have been flying at 500 m.p.h. near sea-level as asserted on Islamic website .
Boeing's own Engine-Specs warn of over-heating and turbine melting if the plane is near sea-level and above 250 mph or at full-throttle, the thick/damp air would be like trying to fly through water and the wings would rip off from the stress before the engines could heat up and melt.
Pay close attention to the FireFighter video and hear the Dopler drone followed by the delay in the explosion from the canyon effect , the engines barely show stress and if you time the echo from the distance to the Tower with sound moving at 740 feet per second you only need to use a N.Y. map for the distance to the Firemen
which will give the speed of the plane from the dopler sound and the echo time .

The problem is that the Truther's only want their version of the truth which backs their absurd claims , much like me assering I work for the CIA because if you phone them they deny I'm on the employee list.

Posted by: Roger at September 6, 2008 3:09 PM

Well, I happen to have done a related post this AM myself. And I pull no punches, for neither will the Greenies, any more than the Librano$ or the Dippers or the Blockheads this election campaign... they've already declared war, and we cannot let them win with their dirty fighting. So they're getting a taste of their own medicine, at least from me.

Is The Green Party Anti-Semitic, Pro-Islamo-Supremacism?

http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/2008/09/is-green-party-anti-semitic-pro-islamo.html

Posted by: Canadian Sentinel at September 6, 2008 3:37 PM

"Why was the FBI investigation of hijackers shut down?" actually is a legitimate question, because that there was interference with investigations is a matter of public record. There was also that guy who chased Bin Laden et al for years only to have his efforts thwarted so that he eventually quit in disgust and took a job as head of security for the WTC. What was his name? John Something...?

Posted by: Edward Teach at September 6, 2008 3:47 PM

The speed of sound is about 1100 feet per second.

What does that do to your calculations?

Posted by: BAR in Kemptville at September 6, 2008 3:52 PM

"My evidence shows that stress on weakened beams aided in the collapse of many previous building"

I don't know much about metallurgy - not even sure how to spell it! - but I did spend two years in a steel mill after high school. I learned, by leaning on my broom and passing the time in careful observation, that it takes a surprisingly small amount of heat and pressure to turn steel into just about any shape you want. No need to melt it; just heat it and roll it.
I think that's why I never doubted the official explanation, because it was d@mned obvious - thousands of tons pressing down on heated steel pillars = metal macaroni. Also because I are not a moonbat.

Posted by: wyatt salt at September 6, 2008 3:56 PM

I know we are an immigrant country...but what is it that compels these visitors (oops...immigrants)who have left their pitiful,small and backward countries to run for office with a world view that is the antithisis of our superior western culture? It is the reason they come here. Not to make it richer but for them to become richer! I'm sick of these people coming here and telling me what to do, how to vote and to reject our tradiational alleganceis and allies and accept enemies as our friends. If you arabs/ishmaelites and other visitors want change...go home and stay there!

Posted by: 'Biff at September 6, 2008 4:16 PM

BAR:

Where did you get the 1100 feet per second at sea level because I don't use the internet for Scientific claims , I go to the actual written evidence for the speed of sound and sound barrier .
Again , check the Boeing website for engine specs that prove that the planes would not handle speeds above 250 mph since the impact point was around the 800 foot level above the ocean .
If all it takes for you to believe in a Inside-Job conspiracy by Bush,Clinton,Chretien, and Martin merely by some yahoo posting fabrications on a website, then you have some serious issues because Santa isn't real and Tom Hanks didn't really shake hand with Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon, or meet John Lennon and Elvis during the filming of Forrest Gump .

Posted by: Roger at September 6, 2008 4:24 PM

biff...and you wonder why they didn't put that much energy into trying to change 'where they came from' instead of 'changing' Canada.

Freedom and democracy are nice,guess they just really miss 'home'.

Posted by: bluetech at September 6, 2008 4:29 PM

The idea that the Greens are going to bleed votes from the Liberals and NDP is a nice dream, but not likely to happen. They always run 5-10% in polls between elections and then 2% or less in actual election votes. With candidates like this, that's not going to change.

Posted by: The Real CJ at September 6, 2008 5:24 PM

Leave this clown right where he is, discrediting the Green party. The voters will send him a message, I think.

Sure, many Ottawa voters don't like Dubya/USA, but the most shrill of them actually believe 9/11 was inside job.

Posted by: Shamrock at September 6, 2008 6:16 PM

Roger,

Re the speed of sound, I had 33 years in the Royal Canadian Artillery including a tour as the Chief Instructor at the School of Artillery. We timed the 'flash to bang' to determine how far away a round or an explosion was, and we used three seconds per kilometer as the speed of sound is about 333 metres per second at sea level at 59 degrees F. That is darn close to 1100 feet per second. (The artillery has been doing this for a very long time; Kipling included it in one of his poems about the Boer War.)You can do the same thing in a thunderstorm to see how far away the lightning is.

I know that the towers collapsed because aircraft were flown into them, and I do not subscribe to any of the moonbat theories.

Posted by: BAR in Kemptville at September 6, 2008 6:25 PM

Shavluk was just a white guy, therefor undeserving of protection. This guy is an actual visible minority, and therefor electoral gold. Does not matter if this guy is openly and happily racist, and Shavluk just carelessly so.

Posted by: Kevin at September 6, 2008 6:43 PM

Now I know why people such as Pierre Lemieux, MP for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell, are doing so well. Pierre picked up the riding for the CPC for the first time (including other incarnations of Conservative parties) in 124 years back in '06. If you're so inclined, check out his resume online at conservative.ca, he's just as impressive to talk to in person. As well as his three or four degrees, he retired, after 20 years in the Canadian Forces, as a Lieutenant-Colonel.
Maybe, just maybe, Ottawans are sick of morons like Qais Ghanem who forget the most basic things like when George Bush said he would make no distinction between the terrorists and those countries which harbour them.

That should answer at least the question of what we're doing in Afghanistan and why Iraq should've been attacked.

I'm not gonna even get started on the "green" thing today. Far too nice outside and I'm having a great weekend. You do the same.

Posted by: Gen. Lee Wright at September 6, 2008 6:55 PM

May said: "“The Israeli point of view is voiced non-stop by the North American media which is controlled by a small oligarchy.”"*

This is conclusive: May is an anti-semite.

Her words, "small oligarchy", is code for the "International Jewish Conspiracy" (IJC).

May keeps a copy of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in her Red-Green bag, sources saa.
This is not over yet.

Scratch a socialist-Red-Green, find an anti-semite. (h/T SDA)
*http://tinyurl.com/5vrfgw (g-m)


Posted by: maz2 at September 6, 2008 7:00 PM

we have to let these Green Party people participate in the debates....

the lunatic element has tremendous entertainment potential

Posted by: Brad at September 6, 2008 7:11 PM

I am with Brad, let her in the debate. I just know May will say something so whacked out that it will give us all something to laugh at.

Posted by: Honey Pot at September 6, 2008 7:56 PM

You can't take anything any of these alleged leaders say seriously anyway. The all lie. Some just do it better.

Lizzy is a loon so we might as well hear about her fantasies too. Like the man just said. The entertainment value is the best your gonna get from any of these lying jerks.

I use to think Harper was different. He isn't.

It was stupid to make fixed election dates since with any minority government which seems to be the trend now, the government will fall when it fall despite the fixed date. It's just a bunch of crap.

If we had a two party system like in the USA it would make sense. We are on our way to being like Italy ... more parties than voters.

My advice to Canadians. Keep a low profile, keep you mouth shut and subvert where ever and how ever you can. In other words live you life the way you want to and don't blame the government for you problems nor should you expect them fix it for you. That would be your fantasy

Posted by: John V at September 6, 2008 8:04 PM

This is a nut & traitor. So frightened of the real truth of the Islamist rage to own the World, he has to make up a daydream to ally his own deep fears. Besides to the mentally unbalanced leftist fascists, blaming America or Americas government is second nature.

Think of all the underground parking under the twin towers, as well the other buildings. Ask yourself when these two buildings collapsed, where did the rubble go? These parking levels are interconnected. A hint. The towers burned for months. Why? Could it be other buildings underground levels also fell in?

The FBI shut down a case millions watched live & after the monsters admitted boastfully to the Planet this crime in the name of their god, while the crowds danced in Gaza & the rest of the Muslim world as men & Women died jumping to their deaths.

You cannot keep a military on high alert without significant degradation in response time. As soon as the threat was deemed over & all planes diverted, no major alert was need. No nuclear power was involved.

War games go on all the time, yup even in Canada.

What asininely to vote for a jack ass like this. He should be in an institution, not taken seriously. Frankly they can say as they please it just makes them more of a nut bar. This is the reason we need free speech , to vet wacko’s like this. One we will remember this lotus eater come election I hope.
That I had to comment on this at all shows the degeneration of intelligence in the so called Elite. To clarify;

The Elite to are not just rich people, politicians, or the top 10 % of earners in this Nation. Nor its scientific communities or physicians. This is a mindset of certain individuals who believe their above all others, race, creed, or gender, makes no matter. That they are inordinately in civil service of a one kind
or another is because this is incubated in schools, colleges , plus Universities all across Canada. Just shows how dispersed hysterical Utopianism can become entrenched in society run by leftist fascists for 40 years. Logic or sanity becomes lost in political delusions in a dogma of utter Duplicity.

Posted by: Revnant Dream at September 6, 2008 8:30 PM

Yemeni culture widely accepts pedophilia as normal.

See http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-childbride11-2008jun11,0,5271790.story

Just like the Pervert Mohammad did. http://www.faithfreedom.org/challenge/pedophile.htm

Posted by: Don Uthole at September 6, 2008 9:35 PM

Folks, my posting here is Number 46.

Which is 46 more postings than the Green Party deserves.

Ignore 'em.

Posted by: JJM at September 6, 2008 11:38 PM

Facts is facts.

Jackie Chan was supposed to be filming a movie at the top of the WTC that morning.

Not only was Jackie Chan not there, but none of the film crew or other crew members were doing setup either.

Inside info to JC from the ChiComs?

We report, you decide.
8.D

"Why was the FBI investigation of hijackers shut down?"
Says WHO? Was another agency investigating the failure of the FBI to perform their duties?

"Why were military response stand down orders issued?"
Which military group where and what were their response orders for a revised understanding of an unimagined attack?

"Why were distracting war games set up on 9/11 of all days?"
Distracting to who?
Did the attackers know of these preplanned wargames?

Posted by: Oz at September 6, 2008 11:47 PM

Facts is facts.

Jackie Chan was supposed to be filming a movie at the top of the WTC that morning.

Not only was Jackie Chan not there, but none of the film crew or other crew members were doing setup either.

Inside info to JC from the ChiComs?

We report, you decide.
8.D

"Why was the FBI investigation of hijackers shut down?"
Says WHO? Was another agency investigating the failure of the FBI to perform their duties?

"Why were military response stand down orders issued?"
Which military group where and what were their response orders for a revised understanding of an unimagined attack?

"Why were distracting war games set up on 9/11 of all days?"
Distracting to who?
Did the attackers know of these preplanned wargames?

Posted by: Oz at September 6, 2008 11:48 PM

Edward Teach: "'Why was the FBI investigation of hijackers shut down?' actually is a legitimate question, because that there was interference with investigations is a matter of public record. There was also that guy who chased Bin Laden et al for years only to have his efforts thwarted so that he eventually quit in disgust and took a job as head of security for the WTC. What was his name? John Something...?"

John Patrick O'Neill.

(Michael Scheuer also came to mind, but I think you mean O'Neill).

Posted by: nv53 at September 7, 2008 1:28 AM

"Boeing's own Engine-Specs warn of over-heating and turbine melting if the plane is near sea-level and above 250 mph or at full-throttle, the thick/damp air would be like trying to fly through water and the wings would rip off from the stress before the engines could heat up and melt."

Well, gee, Roger, then I guess I didn't personally handle a Northwest Airlines 747-cargo diverting to Winnipeg with smoke in the cockpit, and I guess those scared pilots weren't actually doing 330 knots a scant 2000 feet above the ground.

Here's the thing: Descent makes you go faster without even trying. As an air traffic controller, I've learned one very key rule. Planes can go really fast, and they can go really slow as well, at any altitude. Usually, they do the opposite of what you need.

Posted by: Yukon Gold at September 7, 2008 9:48 AM

BAR: In the days before metric, as Boy Scouts, we were taught to estimate the distance of lightning by seeing the flash, and counting until we heard the bang, and dividing by 5 to get miles away. Since a mile is 5,280 feet, dividing by 5 gives a rough speed of just over 1,000 fps, near enough to your estimate as damn is to swearing. So I agree with you, I don't know what Roger is talking about.

But as I said in another thread, lay off the Greens! It's clear no one who would support the Tories could ever vote for these moonbats, but they will siphon Liberal/Dip/Bloc votes. Let a million leftard parties bloom; they're working for us.

Posted by: KevinB at September 7, 2008 11:18 AM

I was going to write some scathing remarks about Green Logic. You see it all the time in Global Warming articles. You know, yes the earth has cooled over 10 years, and man's CO2 contribution has increased, but that doesn't mean CO2 isn't responsible for driving temperatures up! We must act now!!!

However, I can't get over the absolute absurdity of the following question.

"Why were distracting war games set up on 9/11 of all days?"

It only makes sense to those who "know" that the US slaughtered its own citizens on 9-11. Otherwise its stupidity is on a scale near impossible to imagine in a civilized, educated, society.

And this guy wants to help run our country? Worse still, Canadians will vote vile POS.

Morons, or ignorant fools at best, each and every one.

Posted by: Marko at September 7, 2008 11:50 AM

Sadly, it's not just the Green Party:

http://www.libertarian.ca/english/candidate-alan-mercer.html

http://canadianliberty.com/blog/?p=314

Posted by: anti-truther at September 7, 2008 12:44 PM

I guess I missed your posts on Tom Lukiwski and Mad Max beyond Julie's Home.

Posted by: Hugger at September 7, 2008 1:11 PM

Hmm. Interesting debate. I especially like the wee little tiny hole in the pentagon where that humongous plane apparently crashed into it.

Posted by: Sean McAllister at September 7, 2008 4:07 PM

sean mcallister
I would have to assume that you have been there , at the pentagon, at the hole ,as I have been ,to make such a statement. If you have not been there personally and objectively , then withdraw you comments.

Posted by: cal2 at September 7, 2008 10:44 PM

Do people polarize political debates because it takes too much effort to see in more shades than black and white, or because that's really how they see the world?

And do people believe conspiracy theories because they really believe there's some giant international cover-up out to get them, or because they seem to have a problem with their brain being missing? The United States Government couldn't even organize a break-in and burglary at a hotel without anyone finding out.

Posted by: Ell Jay at September 8, 2008 5:51 PM

Most "truthers" have lost interest in the crazy Pentagon theories, but we seem to still have one who hasn't. This has been debunked a zillion time, so what's once more?

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html?page=6
When American Airlines Flight 77 hit the Pentagon's exterior wall, Ring E, it created a hole approximately 75 ft. wide, according to the ASCE Pentagon Building Performance Report. The exterior facade collapsed about 20 minutes after impact, but ASCE based its measurements of the original hole on the number of first-floor support columns that were destroyed or damaged. Computer simulations confirmed the findings.

Why wasn't the hole as wide as a 757's 124-ft.-10-in. wingspan? A crashing jet doesn't punch a cartoon-like outline of itself into a reinforced concrete building, says ASCE team member Mete Sozen, a professor of structural engineering at Purdue University. In this case, one wing hit the ground; the other was sheared off by the force of the impact with the Pentagon's load-bearing columns, explains Sozen, who specializes in the behavior of concrete buildings. What was left of the plane flowed into the structure in a state closer to a liquid than a solid mass. "If you expected the entire wing to cut into the building," Sozen tells PM, "it didn't happen."

More here:
http://www.911myths.com/html/pentagon_rings_and_the_exit_ho.html

Posted by: anti-truther at September 8, 2008 6:40 PM

Is the green agenda for the party just a cover to promote ultra left wing idiologies and anti semtism (which some how always inter related)?

Posted by: Alex Zhirov at September 8, 2008 7:50 PM
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