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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 06/07/2005 : 21:10:36
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I'm reading this article, which I thought was from a legit news source, about an assessment of terror risk done by some scientists, which was supposed to be published by the National Academy of Science, but the Bush admin requested the paper be held for security reasons. All fine and dandy, right?
I have to tell you.... it reads like something fromhttp://www.theonion.com.
I'm halfway through and I'm chuckling, had to do a doubletake and recheck the website I was reading. I thought I had been re-directed to some humor or parady site. For real.
Funniest thing in the news for days.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Boron10
Religion Moderator
USA
1266 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2005 : 22:52:04 [Permalink]
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| I am not in the least surprised about this. What surprises me in the first place is that this doesn't occur as often as it could. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2005 : 23:29:41 [Permalink]
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I have no objections to allowing the gov to have first access to info like this.
The topic is what had me going.... it is almost unbelievable that anyone would assess the terrorist risk in ...(I won't spoil it ).
It honestly thought it was a parody of something more serious.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
4574 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2005 : 23:58:58 [Permalink]
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You really think it's that ludicrous? I mean, after all, it is one of the three dietary staples, right after bread and vodka.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie |
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