How else do you define this:
Osama's death pics
What are they trying to do? Establish a conspiracy theory? Done. Don't know what is going on with this-but it is certainly stupid. Why? What is the need for all of this nonsense? C'mon.
Damn those Eastasians!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
I have a Buick to sell you.
I've been stunned by the reported events surrounding the supposed re-demise of Osama bin Laden. What the H$#%?
Are we even supposed to take this seriously? We are asked to believe, and to praise, our glorious leader when it is reported that he took care to ensure that proof of "Geronimo"'s death was obtained. Yet then the body is literally deep-sixed?
I would not buy an '01 Buick from a salesman that said "trust me" and offered no other proof. I do sales. It's my gig. I never expect people to just "trust me". In fact, I assume and expect the opposite, since my clientele has yet to consist of doofuses I'm happy to say.
I'll let you in on something, salespeople have an incentive to be honest, it brings more customers and builds a reputation. Long term salespeople did not get that way by lying, they just didn't. Short term....that's another mass o' fish.
Politicians, though, do have an incentive to lie. They build coalitions, and where voting is allowed only ever need a majority of those who actually vote. Most don't. And of those that do, there are always many who find a handsome individual interest in collective destruction. So all that is needed for a politician to prosper is plausibility, and goodies. The plausibility is becoming optional.
I was hopeful in a way when Obama was put forth. I hated the Bushian erosion of already waterlogged liberty, and the mindless nationalism that accompanied it. I naively hoped for at least a slight return to the rule of law.
How foolish was I.
It does not really matter your politics. The government in D.C. is claiming that they buried Osama bin Laden at sea because of religious respect. They are saying "trust me" with a toothy smile.
Do you want to buy that Buick?
Are we even supposed to take this seriously? We are asked to believe, and to praise, our glorious leader when it is reported that he took care to ensure that proof of "Geronimo"'s death was obtained. Yet then the body is literally deep-sixed?
I would not buy an '01 Buick from a salesman that said "trust me" and offered no other proof. I do sales. It's my gig. I never expect people to just "trust me". In fact, I assume and expect the opposite, since my clientele has yet to consist of doofuses I'm happy to say.
I'll let you in on something, salespeople have an incentive to be honest, it brings more customers and builds a reputation. Long term salespeople did not get that way by lying, they just didn't. Short term....that's another mass o' fish.
Politicians, though, do have an incentive to lie. They build coalitions, and where voting is allowed only ever need a majority of those who actually vote. Most don't. And of those that do, there are always many who find a handsome individual interest in collective destruction. So all that is needed for a politician to prosper is plausibility, and goodies. The plausibility is becoming optional.
I was hopeful in a way when Obama was put forth. I hated the Bushian erosion of already waterlogged liberty, and the mindless nationalism that accompanied it. I naively hoped for at least a slight return to the rule of law.
How foolish was I.
It does not really matter your politics. The government in D.C. is claiming that they buried Osama bin Laden at sea because of religious respect. They are saying "trust me" with a toothy smile.
Do you want to buy that Buick?
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