Brothers In Arms

106 Replies to “Brothers In Arms”

1. Horsie – Chronologically, I am 11 years old. My mom says I act “like a goddamned 8-year-old”. Draw your own conclusions.
   Anyway, my mom says Osama is Conservative all the way, even voted for Kim Campbell for a lack of anyone else remotely viable. So I’m like, “YEAH MUM, DUH…”, but secretly, I’m all “who is Kim Campbell”?

2. Whoever made the stuffed Osama doll and animated it must be having a hell of a laugh at the stupidity of the gullible fools who swallow such a farce.
   By the way “Crabgrass”, your a lying juvenile delinquent. If you’re on the Liberal payroll better cash your cheque pronto, they’ve sent Garth Turner West on a wing and a prayer, may have blown their wad.

3. Stephane Dion – call your office…
   “The capitalist system seeks to turn the entire world into a fiefdom of the major corporations under the label of ‘globalization’ in order to protect democracy.”
   Osama Bin Laden
   “Transnational corporations are essentially creating a seemless consumer conveyer belt to service a world in which any pretense of justice or equality has been abandoned. Or what one American calls a system of survival of the children of the fittest.”
   Maude Barlow, former Liberal Party nomination candidate, World Social Forum, Jan 28, 2001
   “The threat of…expanded corporate power at the expense of economic stability for working people — these are some of the reasons we oppose (the SPP)”
   Elizabeth May – http://www.greenparty.ca

4. Liz J., you’re famously silly.
   Still, I’m honoured that you would entertain for even a moment that I might be on the payroll.
   Bedtime… nightnight.

5. CONSIDER THE LOGIC
   ALRIGHT, I confess, I’m a scientist (but I have never given anyone syphilis to experiment on them, or anything). However, when it comes to Osama Bin Laden, I like to stick with Occam’s Razor (the Law of Parsimony). This is a rule about scientific hypotheses, which insists that if you have two hypotheses to choose from, and they both account for all the relevant observations and data, you must take the simplest one. Occam’s Razor cuts out unnecessary complexity.
   So here are the relevant observations and data: (1) Osama’s last verified location was in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, November 2001. (Laura Mansfield has a video of OBL, which appeared a few months ago, but in fact shows Osama in October 2001).
   Very old tape :
   http://www.lauramansfield.com/3.rm
   Newer tape, showing OBL from Oct 2001, about 1:37 into the tape.
   http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/default.asp
   DEATH of close associates of Osama at Tora Bora (Zawahiri’s wife & kids)… (2) The US and Pakistan seem to have given up looking for Osama… (3) Zawahiri has taken over as principal spokesman, despite obvious shortcomings in oratory and charisma… (4) Al Qaida has made repeated claims that Osama is alive (while admitting that few have seen him)… (5) If he was dead, I would NOT expect the US or Al Qaida to admit it (the US does not want Osama as a martyr, and Al Qaida needs a figurehead).
   (6) ONLY TWO videos of Osama since the one from October 2001 (which was just before Tora Bora). Notice in the October 2001 video, he is smoothly articulate, extremely emotional, and constantly making complex hand gestures with both hands… the only other two videos since then (2004 & Sept, 2007) shows a man who looks like Osama, shot at a distance, showing little emotion, no real hand gestures… (7) There have been audio recordings, but all of strangely bad quality, with lots of static, whereas other Al Qaida audio and video production values have become quite good… after Tora Bora, the first audio tape attributed to Osama was called a fake by a Swiss Research Institute… they and other voice simulation experts claimed that software has existed for years which can duplicate human speech patterns almost perfectly, including accents, pausing, intonation, etc… to make it impossible to differentiate from the real thing, add background static… (8) Suddenly the Swiss Research Institute in question stopped all public commentary about Osama’s audio tapes, as if someone had asked them to be silent… (9) Even Osama’s audio tapes have now stopped… (10) Silence is out of character for Osama, before Tora Bora, he was talking his head off… (11) Al Qaida now releases a new video claimed to be of OBL, but the speaker clearly does not look, act, or sound like the OBL prior to Tora Bora. Why a fake, unless Osama was dead?
   Hypotheses: (A) Osama is alive, but has abandoned public speaking, reason indeterminate… or (B) He’s dead.
   CONCLUSION: Hypothesis (A) does not seem to explain most of the observations and data noted in 1 to 11 above. On the other hand Hypothesis (B) explains them all. Ergo, he’s dead.

6. Oh, brilliant analysis, Kate. And you’re a nazi.
   My God, you’re a moron.