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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
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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are you suggesting flights going down, likely on fire in the middle of the atlantic wouldn't result in EVERYONE ON BOARD DEAD?
That would be something.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
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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I still think you fail to see my point.
I know the guy's a blowhard, and he can grate on me as well. He's on side in my mind some of the time and without a paddle the rest (hence my 60% figuere, though once again that's a number as a guess, I haven't researched it - I think you challenged my 20% number in a different topic).
But a number like that is likely true of a lot of stuff I watch and read from many sources with O'Reilly only offered up because Lanny likes to toss it out at me once a month around the calendar.
Either way have you ever noticed that no where in the massive Chomsky debate did I ever question anyone's intelligence or sanity for reading Chomsky, just that he shouldn't be used as THE source or only source.
If someone suggested to me that I shouldn't use O'Reilly as my only source for news they'd be right on.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
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.
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It's a tight line to walk I admit, but until Irish Grandmothers go on a massive terrorism spree there is going to have to be some race focused screening. It sucks but it's true.
If I think I lost my car keys in our mud room I don't see the logic in searching all the bed rooms first just to be fair to all the rooms and avoid hard feelings.
Doesn't make it any more fair for the huge majority of people that are completely innocent though, I agree.
Funny to see ...
last minute plane ticket purchases for the busiest air route in the world
in the very same string you pound down a 4000 killed number because of a less than capacity argument but then go on to suggest it's air born rush hour!