Thursday, May 05, 2011
The reluctant conspiracy theorist (an abridged reader)
Although to be sure there are inconsistencies. Now unless the unarmed Osama at 6'6" was a mystical Bruce Lee figure who could pull off some fancy Matrix moves there's nothing those Navy SEAL hunks in that room couldn't have handled with a little Krav Maga action? Did one of the SEALS lose his cool the way Magnum P.I. once shot that Nazi at the end of that classic episode? Worked a little late last night and on the drive home tuned into Mark Levin, wasn't gonna listen but it turned out to be a fascinating discussion. A former Navy SEAL called in and said are we to believe that AG Eric Holder would let them just walk in and kill a man in front of his whole family? The burial-at-sea, as one commentator wrote this was a mistake and gave the impression that Osama was a good and practicing Muslim being buried according to Muslim law and we might add why so quick to make him shark bait? Obama has told Steve Kroft of "60 Minutes" that they've made the official decision to not release any of the Osama death photos (ahem), cadaver images even though CIA head Leon Panetta said just the other day he wouldn't be surprised if a photo emerges. They're afraid of inflaming the Muslim world but here's the thing. Obama is exhibiting a pronounced anti-Muslim bias here, most are bad and can't handle the pics goes the thinking but somehow they can stream live videos of actual beheadings and we get those put on on right-wing websites like Savage. The Administration now has an image problem which begs the question HOW do you exactly fuck up a good thing?
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"They're afraid of inflaming the Muslim world..."
ReplyDeleteYeah...those drone strikes that kill their woman and children and shower their population with depleted uranium wouldn't have that effect.
These leaders are psychotic.
"HOW do you exactly fuck up a good thing?"
ReplyDeleteI dunno...maybe the same way you failed to blog that tonight is the 1st 2012 Republican presidential debate? ;-)
I'm ambivalent on drones. They're a remarkable piece of technology but scary too like something out of a futuristic sci-fi movie and I think, ok we know that collateral damage tends to be high with them. It's making War into a Nintendo game. Forgive my lack of excitement over your second point.
ReplyDeleteBB, as a reluctant conspiracy theorist you have to admit some of this stuff bothers. I don't think it was anything exotic though, just a simple kill mission authorized by Obama. Illegal but who's quibbling especially today with the laying of the wreath.
ReplyDelete'reluctant conspiracy theorist'..well Z-man, everyone needs a hobby. As far as '"They're afraid of inflaming the Muslim world..." ..I'm not real big on taunting, don't want to be included in the
ReplyDeletepuerile crap the NFL does every time they make a tackle or gain a yard..
ya know? Speaking of conspiracy, ya got film
of the SEALs high-fiving
yet?
It's not a conspiracy theory if what you think happened (or didn't happen as the case may be) ACTUALLY happened or didn't happen.
ReplyDeleteLike I've been saying.
ReplyDeleteIf you dropped Bin Laden on some people's doorsteps they wouldn't believe it then.
People will choose to believe what they want to believe. Like the Flat Earth People and the Hollow Earth People and all the Heaven's Gate People who committed suicide so they could ride off in the UFO.
If people can convince themselves Sarah Palin is any kind of competent to do more than a piss-poor reality show and quit jobs, they can convince themselves of anything.. including that Glenn Beck tells the truth, Obama wasn't born in the US, that he's a Muslim, that Roswell has aliens underground and that Osama isn't dead.
Whatever. Elvis and Jimmy Hoffa are sitting in a mosque in the bunkers of Roswell having peanut butter and banana sandwiches with ET. Glenn Beck said so.
Go on with your bad self.
Oh but because Obama says something is so then you just drink it down, yum!
ReplyDeleteYou have blind faith in Obama, that is your choice, Saty. It is a free country (at least for now) and if I am not mistaken, we are allowed to make our own decisions. I don't chastise you for thinking what you think, I just bring up some things to consider here.
I do not think everything Obama says is a lie, but you think everything Glenn Beck says is. Whatever. Pot-kettle-black (or, was that a RACIST comment I made?!?)
You're are starting to bore me.
I was speaking in terms of the lunatic-fringe section of the public, and not towards any particular, specific person. I'm very sorry you chose to take it as directed to you personally... I'm not sure why you would...
ReplyDeleteKind of interesting, Z-man-I see they said there was an AK-47 and a Makarov in the room. A few years back, Makarovs flooded the US market. The place I worked jumped at the chance and cornered the
ReplyDeletemarket for the peculiar 9 x 18 ammunition. I've heard pros & cons, but wondered what Soap might think of the weapon?
Meh...I'm sticking with 7.62x39 thanks.
ReplyDeleteMy conspiracy theory BB is I think Obama had Osama assassinated to boost his poll numbers and to seal his reelection. It's ILLEGAL but if you're ok with that...
ReplyDeleteBB: "I see they said there was an AK-47 and a Makarov in the room."
ReplyDeleteWhich version of the story is that? President Obama will have to address the nation over this and hold a press conference. Probably not tomorrow though or the next day as he has to get the story straight.
HJR 114 was a congressional resolution discussed over the course of 2 days. That is not a formal Constitutional Declaration of war under Article I Section 8. And in fact Ron Paul offered an amendment for a formal declaration and it gained no support.
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