Posted on 12/15/2004 1:25:44 PM PST by QQQQQ
You certainly have a point with which I will not argue; but I don't believe that Yushchenko is nuts. Again, this is just my opinion.
Again, I respect what you are saying; but for me, I can’t go along with it. If it would work (for sympathy), Kerry and Gore may have tried something like that blaming it on Bush.
I'm sorry, but I thought you were serious. I had a friend that worked in a mental institution; and from what was related to me about some of these patients, I'm gullible for anything in this area.
Here in the US, any poisoning of a Democrat presidential candidate would be investigated by the Secret Service, and they would quickly determine that it was self-inflicted.
I wouldn't put it past the 2008 Dem nominee to consider the idea, but it would be rejected by anyone with an IQ of two digits.
Which means that we might see it attempted in 2008.
Thank you for the wonderful laugh!!! It wouldn’t be surprising, as you brought it up, if this stunt is tried by the opposition in 2008. It would be quite annoying if someone came up room temperature because it would take months to explain away.
Except that nobody's actually died from dioxin exposure. They don't have any idea what the lethal dose actually is!
The trick to understanding this is that there isn't a known lethal dose for dioxin. They don't have an LD50 figure; 140,000 ppg is still an LD-zero dose.
You are correct. For some reason, I am not concentrating on the fact that the lethal dose is not known. But...We may learn that during the 2008 campaign.
No, the liberal who will ingest it will stick to no more than 100,000 ppg. "Hey, it got all kinds of sympathy for Yushchenko!"
That is true because they now have a benchmark in dosage, a dosage that won’t kill them. It will only make them look not so good.
My best regards.
Thought I'd ping you and remind you that you nailed this one last week. My congratulations.
"He would have died within a few days and nobody would ever, ever have thought of dioxins."
"Except that nobody's actually died from dioxin exposure. They don't have any idea what the lethal dose actually is!"
Actually, there is no way to say for a fact that nobody's actually died from dioxin exposure. Not every human that has died has been tested for dioxin exposure. All that can be said is what data that has been compiled at this point in time.
"Actually, there is no way to say for a fact that nobody's actually died from dioxin exposure."
True......but nobody dies from HIV, either.
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"True......but nobody dies from HIV, either.
(think before you reply)"
Apples and oranges, 'HIV' and dioxin, maybe you should practice what you demand.
Either the KGB has really gone downhill, or (my favorite hypothesis) Yushchenko did this to himself, a la Kerri Dunn and the fake hate crime that she just got a year in the slammer for.
You obviously have never heard of the Ukrainian Josyp Teryla.
The KGB tried to kill him, but he had a mystic instance of being saved.
His book Witness tells of his ordeal and how they attempted to kill him, but failed. However, this is Christian reading, and that is where the mystic part comes in.
In the Bible, Jesus said that His followers would drink poisons, but live.
It is the 2000 year tradition of the Christian Church that 11 of the 12 Apostles [Paul replacing Judas Iscariot] died as Martyrs of the faith. The 12th was boiled in oil, but did not die [John the Evangelist].
All this science stuff is pretty flaky. Harvard still can't spell a 300 year dictionary made by a French priest that they published in 1833.
And they talk about the Minnesota electoral vote for Ewards...
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