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You don't seem to be following the issue with wind load. 'upper' floors is a meaningless term. If you look at those pictures you will see there is about 15 floors above where the plane hit in tower 1, and 28 floors in tower 2. That is where the weight comes from. This is a huge building, 110 stories tall and 208 feet square. The part of the building above the plane crashes is larger than most other buildings around. It would take 5 or more typical 30 story apartment buildings to fit into the same volume as the part above the plane crash.

No, actually we are paying. He is battling the Judicial committee, and of course the public is funding that battle. Unlike the general public that might get some weak public defender for the primary trial, this judge is given top legal defense including all appeals. The system is sure rigged.

Skyscrapers like the world trade center are very different than stone structures. They are relatively light for the volume they occupy, but overall because of their massive size the weight was about 500,000 tons in each tower. About 20% of that weight was steel. Unlike a shorter structure where gravity load might be the prime consideration, a tall structure like the world trade center deals with massive wind loads and that becomes the dominating factor in the engineering design. Note that the planes did not crash into the top floor, but between 15-25 floors down from the top depending on which tower was hit. That means that there was anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 tons of weight above where the fire weakened and buckled the structure.

There was plenty of aluminum in the world trade center, and aluminum melts at 660.3 °C. There was steam from the sprinkler system, molten aluminum has been known to react with the steam and create hydrogen gas which can explode; there have been many such industrial accidents. Molten aluminum also reacts with iron oxide (rust) to produce ... thermite. Of course basic chemistry is beyond the grasp of the WTC conspiracy theorists.

Certainly technology like that will help in finding smugglers, etc. but I don't think that refugee claimants are trying to sneak in. They want to be found so they can make their claim. I called them refugee claimants, you can see it right there where you quoted me. Americans call them asylum seekers. I am not saying they should be accepted as refugees, I am simply pointing out that they are making that claim. As I understand it just over half of refugee claimants are not accepted. There is a big difference between refugees and immigrants, and trying to compare them is meaningless. Yup, Siberian concentration camps. Not only do you want to segregate refugee claimants from society, you want to put them in the most inhospitable situation to teach them a lesson. How about we put them to work in these camps as well. What is the purpose of segregating refugee claimants, and refugees as I assume it won't take five years to determine their status. We currently use detention facilities when we cannot determine their identity, when they might pose a threat, or when we think they may not appear at a refugee hearing. Why do you want to detain them, should they be punished for being refugees? Could you provide an example?

How did you get any warning points? Despite being wrong much of the time, you are generally civil about it. b.t.w. I don't have any great insight into the hallowed halls of the moderators and their venerable system of warning points, suspensions, public chastisements, and silent post editing, hiding, and deleting.

Ever wonder why the real media doesn't report the made up fake stories that the Rebel does? Perhaps it has something to do with journalistic integrity, something Levant doesn't have any of.

As I asked, do you have any real data?

Do you have any real data? Are you saying that we enslave our refugees and not allow them any opportunities?

Your local pastor also writes his own sermons, so I guess we are the wild west of Christianity as well.

I wonder if imams follow different practices in countries like Canada compared to Turkey or Saudi Arabia. As I understand it, In Turkey there is a fairly centralized structure for things like the Friday sermons (Khutbah), where they are written by the Diyanet and then delivered in the local mosques by the imams. In Saudi Arabia there is a ministry of Islamic affairs that is somewhat similar. I don't believe in Canada there is such a central authority, and the local imams would prepare and deliver their own sermons. There is the Canadian Council of Imams that does act as a central resource group to provide some coordination, but it is far from an authority.

To put some real facts into the situation, instead of all those alternative facts floating around A refugee claimant is an individual who requests refugee protection upon or after arrival in Canada, American's call them asylum seekers. A refugee claimant receives Canada’s protection when he or she is found to be a Convention refugee as defined by the United Nations 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 protocol, or when found to be a person needing protection based on risk to life, risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment, or danger of torture as defined in the Convention Against Torture. Just over half of all refugee claims are denied, those that are accepted may apply for permanent residence. Social assistance benefits paid to refugee claimants have averaged $384 million/year (high of $462 million in 2002 and low of $284 million in 2007).

With no disclosed evidence - big, big difference.

It is going to take me a month to respond to all, but don't worry I will get to it. In the meantime, perhaps you should read the following on the safe third country agreement.

That's an interesting take, certainly not one most of the major religious institutions seem to follow.

You didn't read the entire article. He has been charged, not convicted. The 46 years is the time since the last charge under this code, not his sentence. If you go further down you will see: The maximum sentence for blasphemy is four months in prison but Mr Reckendorff said prosecutors were more likely to seek a fine. Personally I think he should be denounced and mocked.

That is a very limited view of history. You are aware that Synmgann Rhee, the brutal CIA sponsored dictator of south Korea, had plans to invade north Korea.

There is nothing to say that the 100`s of thousands killed is the reason there has not been another 9/11 style terror attack.

That is the problem. There are many ways to react, and dropping bombs is the most useless of all of them.

Round 2 Andrew - Only redeeming quality is calling out O'Leary Kevin - superficial used car salesman Michael - substance and good ideas Deepak - very smart, but needs to improve his speaking

The new format for the debate is a bit better, but it really showed what poor choices there were in the first round. I can't image having Leitch as PM, that shrill voice screaming at Canadians every day would drive us all to commit suicide. On to round 2.

Yes, that is one of the problems with immigration. Children born here are Canadian, but if their parents are subject to immigration proceedings and being held in detention then what do we do with the children. Canadian citizenship is one of the larger issues that needs to be discussed as well. Anyone born on Canadian soil is considered a Canadian by current law.

The fascism is being ratcheted by President Trump. Now he is denying CNN, the New York Times and others from the Whitehouse briefings.

I am looking for accountability from the recipients of the government largess - Bombardier, Imperial Oil, General Motors, etc.