"oly" wrote in message
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On May 5, 11:21 am, "A. Nony Moose" wrote:
"Frank Galikanokus" wrote in message

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"A. Nony Moose" wrote:

"mazorj" wrote in message
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This is an extreme "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.
While
transparency always is the preferable course, you have to weigh the
costs
and
benefits. In this case very little would be gained by releasing the
photos
and videos - can there be any realistic doubt that Osama is dead?

Of course there is "realistic doubt" that OBL is dead, you ninny.
Why the cover-up?
Why didn't they let a civilian pathologist do an autopsy?
Why the rush to dispose of the body?
And if by chance they really did kill OBL, it was a monumental act of
stupidity.
Capturing him and interrogating him could have provided a wealth of
information.
The American public is expected to believe "We are the government,
trust us."
Well, I don't trust the government in general and I never believe
anything
Obama says.
YMMV

We are the government is what our representative democracy is all about.

You are a loony.

Sticks and stones...
You appear to be extremely naive or just plain stupid.
Sine you have never posted anything of value, into the killfile you go.-
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One shouldn't killfile Mr. Mazor. He is a fair proxy for what the
sheeple are "thinking", as well as a decent proxy for what "they" are
"thinking" in "The Beltway". If you disagree with Mr. Mazor, you have
to be (uncomfortably) closer to the truth than whatever he is.

oly

If by "sheeple" you mean anyone who articulates the carefully reasoned and
common sense responses to issues that the majority of reasonable citizens
would pose in response to the nonsense "thinking" of extremist
right-wingers, I plead guilty as charged.

Or are we to believe that geography determines the ability to learn, think,
and reason? Since you're given to such stereotypes: If that's the case,
oly's "thinking" is stuck at the level of those parochially minded Illinois
farmland rustics and yokels whose idea of "keeping informed" is shouting
"Mega-dittoes!" to Limbaugh, Fox, et al., forwarding scurrilous Obama-hating
e-mails, and "confirming" their narrow-minded "thoughts" by chattering with
like-minded pals over a tail-gate case of beer or doing shooters at the Dew
Drop Inn. Heaven forefend that any one of these ignorant paranoids should
refrain from shooting from the hip, and actually delve into all the facts of
an issue to get an intelligent comprehension of both sides of the coin
on-topic reference noted for the record.

Too bad for you, oly, but except for certain partisan politicians and
political appointees, for most of us who lived and worked a career "inside
the Beltway" our jobs absolutely required us to examine and be able to
articulate all the aspects of an issue before deciding or recommending a
course of action. Even if what we had to say was not always welcomed by the
powers that be, we were paid to inform them of *all* aspects and
consequences of a particular policy or action. They don't pay the good
money that I earned merely to be surrounded by Yes Men. Anyone at the staff
level who consistently relied on the lazy "What would a PC liberal say?" or
"What do they want to hear?" approach to analysis and response would soon
find him or herself on the street or shunted to a menial position for gross
incompetence.

Also note that daily exposure to all sides of issues leads to forming
personal opinions on certain issues that are distinctly not
"liberal-minded". (Contrast this with the "Nanner, nanner! I can't hear
you!" attitude of parochially minded paranoids, whose views are frozen at a
sophomoric level of ignorance and denial.) So because my views are the
product of exposure to additional facts and thinking, they are not uniformly
anti-conservative - on average I'm middle-of-the-road - and when they are,
it is solely for a good reason.

Read 'em and weep, oly. Your slurs on people who were trained to take the
neutral, intellectual approach to issues by you characterizing them as elite
egg-heads speaks more of envy than truth.

OTOH, you and Bobsey Boy wouldn't last a day in a demanding job like that.
Not because of your politics - I've worked with many competent people who
are genuine mainstream conservatives - but because you are profoundly
deficient in the willingness/ability to seek out and weigh all facts and
views and only then produce a fully formed analysis and recommendation for
your yourself or your superiors.

- mazorj, Middle Name: Call me "OTOH & OTOH"