Replies to post #76756 on Simply Politics and News (GOV)

[SamIam]

I have no idea where, probably where Osama Bin Laden is.

How funny, someone told me without god, we'd all be killing each other. I said, "hmmm, REALLY now?" I'm so glad we have a god then!

Oh, I bet if George called up his royal Saudi partners, they might could help find Osama.

Do you know why we don't put any responsibility on the the Saudi's - that country of Islamics who teach their children Islam?

I bet you don't have a clue!

[SamIam]

The British are something else aren't they? We out do them here in the U.S. of course as far as b ing hypocrits, bigots and bastards.

It puzzles me why the Brits want to sell nuclear materials to Iran. Does it puzzle you?

In the least, doesn't it bother you Saudi Arabia, home of the so many islamic, who want to kill the infidel, are barely mentioned in the press?



http://www.business-standard.com/lifeleisure/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu4&subLeft=6&autono=288...
Sir Salman`s Satanic Legacy
SPEAKING VOLUMES
Nilanjana S Roy / New Delhi June 19, 2007
As Sir Salman Rushdie prepares to celebrate his new knighthood along with cricketer Ian Botham, journalist Christine Amanpour and the few others honoured on the Queen’s birthday, the only party poopers are the Iranian government. Teheran protested the honour bestowed on Sir Salman, calling it an example of “Islamophobia” on the part of the British government.


It’s been 18 years since Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, not one of the world’s greatest defenders of freedom of speech, reacted to the publication of Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses by calling for a fatwa and demanding Rushdie’s death. One commentator described this as an act of “extreme literary criticism”. The fatwa forced Rushdie into hiding for the next decade and triggered a slew of protests across the world.

The Satanic Verses begins with two actors, Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, falling out of an airplane, conversing on their way down. Thanks to the efforts of magical realism rather than gravity, they land safely, but discover that Gibreel is transforming into the Archangel Gabriel while Saladdin Chamcha is becoming the Devil. In a controversial section, Rushdie’s fictional prophet Mahound writes and then repudiates what are known as the “Satanic Verses”—verses where he apparently agrees to the worship of three desert goddesses.

Rushdie was aware of some of the risks of what he was doing, if not the full implications: the Satanic Verses also includes a character called Salman, employed as a scribe to the prophet, who takes the liberty of changing some of the prophet’s words. For his blasphemy, he is told that the punishment will be death—but in the book, the prophet Mahound eventually relents.

[Ecostate]

DD for you brother....After the 1993 car bomb explosion destroyed columns in the North Tower, John Skilling, the head structural engineer for the Twin Towers, was asked about an airplane strike. He explained that the Twin Towers were originally designed to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 (similar in size to the Boeing 767). He went on to say that there would be a horrendous fire from the jet fuel, but “the building structure would still be there
http://www.vermontguardian.com/commentary/032007/TwinTowers.shtml
.”Why the towers fell: Two theories
By William Rice

Posted March 1, 2007

Having worked on structural steel buildings as a civil engineer in the era when the Twin Towers were designed and constructed, I found some disturbing discrepancies and omissions concerning their collapse on 9/11.

I was particularly interested in the two PBS documentaries that explained the prevailing theories as determined by two government agencies, FEMA and NIST (National Institute of Science and Technology). The first (2002) PBS documentary, Why the Towers Fell, discussed how the floor truss connectors failed and caused a “progressive pancake collapse.”

The subsequent 2006 repackaged documentary Building on Ground Zero explained that the connectors held, but that the columns failed, which is also unlikely. Without mentioning the word “concrete,” the latter documentary compared the three-second collapse of the concrete Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building with that of the Twin Towers that were of structural steel. The collapse of a concrete-framed building cannot be compared with that of a structural steel-framed building.

Since neither documentary addressed many of the pertinent facts, I took the time to review available material, combine it with scientific and historic facts, and submit the following two theories for consideration.

[Ecostate]

Alex-Please do construction 101 before you make anymore little iddy biddy tiny posts attempting to deflate the issue......... Your post are very uneducated in this area..... to the point where your rebuttle to all the experts classifying nine one one as an inside job is vey uneducated in the structural arena.

You are on the loosing hand my brother........... And still side with BUsh and the commission........... one lie after another leading to this war for oil..............and you parade this lie against all others that seem to hate bush with just as much passion.

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blessings