Are you suggesting that I might be a sham poster, here on behalf of the Feds? LOL!
During the varied phases of my life, I've been employed by a state, in the role of a Commissioner regulating a health agency; I've indeed worked for a federal service, although I wore their badge for a relatively short time, and the only time it was seen was when a federal official from another service inadvertently spotted it, which caused a bit of a minor confrontation. (Is there more to this story -- or less, than you'd suspect? LOL! "Further affiant sayeth not!") I've also... aw, nevermind. The point is, I'm Private Citizen "Don Joe" today, very unhappy at a lot of the crap I see being promulgated -- and particularly unhappy at being paged BACK to a thread I announded I was through with. Typically trollish behavior, Mr. Anonymous Expert. VERY trollish behavior on your part. Gotta keep stirring the pot, doncha. Can't leave the chance that someone might look at the evidence and form their OWN conclusions, can you. Gotta keep hammering away, to make sure they ONLY form the "right" opinions.
Nice work if you can get it. I suppose.
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This part so completely beggars belief--on so many levels--that the rest of his story is called into question.
Look who's talking, LOL!
Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. Frankly, I don't care. You, conversely, seem to care a very great deal, and get very defensive when the similarity of your behavior to what you accuse me of is noticed.
The point is, I'm Private Citizen "Don Joe" today, very unhappy at a lot of the crap I see being promulgated -- and particularly unhappy at being paged BACK to a thread I announded I was through with. Typically trollish behavior, Mr. Anonymous Expert. VERY trollish behavior on your part.
Interesting.
You were the first to post to me, and were the first to page me back to a thread I thought I was done with. You were the first to launch insults; you were the first to accuse me of nefarious motives; and, for the finale, you accuse me of trolling--after behaving as a textbook example of a troll.
Gotta keep stirring the pot, doncha. Can't leave the chance that someone might look at the evidence and form their OWN conclusions, can you. Gotta keep hammering away, to make sure they ONLY form the "right" opinions.
Actually, with your naked hostility to anything (indeed, to any person) that disagrees with your opinion, your constant barrage of accusations against those who disagree with you, you seem to be the one intent on making sure that others form ONLY the opinions you deem to be "right."
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Translation: "Don Joe has absolutely no substantive counterargument to the points made about Red Mercury as described by Don Joe's authoritative source, Sam Cohen, and stipulates those arguments as fact."
As for the discussion of an alleged Russian nuclear weapon being shipped via FedEx to Los Alamos for testing...
If that actually did happen as described, the U.S. national security community is so FUBAR'd that there's nothing that can be done to fix it, anyway.
I still believe that the primary worry is theft or other acquisition of a tactical nuclear weapon, or pieces thereof, from a storage or maintenance depot, because it seems to me that governments around the world are relying more on the appearance of tight security than on the fact.
I guess we simply disagree, and that's that.