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Originally Posted by Bingo
4000 people ... 10 flights, assuming they are larger planes and at capacity that's not a bad number. Either way it's not my number it's a number I've seen many times in the past two weeks though.
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Yes, it is a bad number. If they were all 747's, filled to absolute capacity, and EVERYONE on board died, it would barely eclipse 4000 people. That is a bad number.
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So any person that pays attention to some of what O'Reilly says is deemed not good enough to grab your ear?
The guy has the number one rated cable news show on the air, you might be eliminating a lot of future conversation!
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Yes. I really shouldn't have to argue against the merits of bill o'reilly. He's a racist, liar, and plagiarist. His cable 'news' show engages in about as much journalism as I do when I'm asleep. If you listen to 60 percent of what he says, you aren't nearly as centrist as you make yourself out to be. This is apparent within 10 minutes of watching his show. You don't have to be right or left to understand his show is bluster, not informed opinion. A monkey might have the 'highest rated cable news show in america', and I still wouldn't watch it for anything other than comic relief.
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Not sure how an earth quake has anything to do with this discussion, though I'm sure you'd blame that on Bush too if it happened, bottom line a plot was uncovered, arrests were made, and information gleemed before any one got hurt.
In my non politically jaded world that's good news. I guess we all judge "good" differently.
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You mean a racist, all-encompassing, harassing drag net was deployed, and some information was pre-maturely leaked in what could best be described as a 'dubious' timeline.
You're right, information was 'gleemed'. They made a bunch of arrests of the thousands of british muslims currently under warrantless surveilance and got a 'trace' of a 'suspected' bomb plot. A plot so imminent, dangerous and well-planned that they were going to rely on last minute plane ticket purchases for the busiest air route in the world to conduct a 10 plane simultaneous terror plot. That isn't far fetched in the least.
The earthquake is about as likely to kill 4000 people tomorrow as that 'terrorist plot' was.