BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)

Subject: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: number 6
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 12:59 AM

This subject came up tonite with some friends ... actually was a political science prof that raised this issue .... is Arafat really dead? Apparently Yasser's wife said he didn't. A visiting Cuban who was amongst us in the discussion doubts that he is dead also.

Anyway ... just something of interest that I'd toss down here in the Madcat BS. Actually I couldn't care less if he is as he now out of the picture but the whole thing is rather intriguing.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 01:25 AM

In what way is Arafat's death a mystery? Even though the actual ailment was not disclosed, his illness was thoroughly covered.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: pdq
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 11:42 AM

Hard to tell.

He always smelled that way.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: number 6
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 11:49 AM

Well ..... the whole mid-east scenario is a mess of mysteries ... the biggest fact is that it never made big hooopla in the main stream media, especially concerning his position as a world player , befitting a person of his importance, also the fact of the cause of death, and his wife has never has acknowledged his death ... this subject was arrived at while discussing the monthly headlines concerning the killing of the number 2 Al Qaeda chief (hey, didn't we get the number 2 guy last month?).

It was interesting hearing the perspective from the visiting Cuban (who also is a prof at a university in that country) ... i.e. controlled news in Cuba vs the controlled news in the western world.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 12:00 PM

Does anyone car if Arafat is dead since he is no longer relevant politically?

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 12:24 PM

If Arafat were alive, it's hard to believe he'd willingly step completely out of the picture. If he's not dead, he's been held captive for the last eight years.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 01:46 PM

Yasser Arafat is either dead or alive. If he's dead, thus ends our story. If he's alive, he has no influence over things anyway.

His wife wouldn't sign for him to be biopsied, thus giving fuel to the proposition that he is alive. Hell, maybe he is, but as one poster said, so what? He has his cash and dead or alive, he's doing ok.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 03:48 PM

He's obviously hangin' out with Elvis. Why anybody would give a shit is a whole other question.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 04:50 PM

I hope my wife doesn't approve of my autopsy until I am dead.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 05:27 PM

What?! Wasn't it Mount Arafat that the ark grounded on?

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: GUEST,Teribus
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 05:57 PM

Alive at a secret location in the company of Lord Lucan and Shergar, Arafat is training as a jockey - not doing too shoddy a job of it - apparently they say he's lost a lot of weight.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: frogprince
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 10:40 PM

"And, in continuing news from Spain, General Franco is still dead".
Remember the conclusion of that routine?

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Jun 12 - 11:03 PM

...they say he's lost a lot of weight.

Missing 8,334 meals will do that to you.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 22 Jun 12 - 12:53 AM

Myra Hindley the Moors Murderer is there too, along with Lord Lucan & Shergar & all of those. There are no end of these folktales of 'people not really being dead, it's all a con'. In Hindley's case, the tale was that she hadn't really died in prison, but they feared a public outcry if she was officially released so they buried an empty coffin & let her out secretly!

And I'm actually Elvis Presley as it happens ~ didn't you know?

~Michael-the Pelvis~

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Jun 12 - 07:54 AM

MtheGM, I'm so glad to hear that, and I will be anxiously awaiting a family reunion.
    Your long-lost brother
       ENIS

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: GUEST,roderick warner
Date: 22 Jun 12 - 08:49 AM

Yasser's in the cold, ground. (Wonder where all the money went?)

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: GUEST,roderick warner
Date: 22 Jun 12 - 08:49 AM

Bah - should read: 'Yasser's in the cold, cold ground.'

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Sawzaw
Date: 22 Jun 12 - 09:20 AM

One thing that Arafat and Obama have in common, the Nobel peace prize

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 22 Jun 12 - 12:47 PM

Obama's prize wasn't so much about how good he is but about how bad his predecessor was.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Sawzaw
Date: 25 Jun 12 - 10:17 PM

That's a novel approach. By that logic, how did Arafat get his peace prize?

Did he replace someone worse than him?

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 26 Jun 12 - 01:21 AM

Obama promised to undo the Bush insanity, which for the most part he has. "If ter not fer us yer agin us he he he."; "I'm not concerned with him" (referring to Bin Ladin); Sending Bolton to the UN. etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Sawzaw
Date: 26 Jun 12 - 08:53 AM

That was my favorite example of a logical fallacy, the false dichotomy.

And it was wrong. However Obama has not undone anything GWB did.

Did not close Gitmo. Exited Iraq exactly as planned by GWB, surged in Afghanistan and has not ended that war. supported TARP, Patriot act, spying, drones, No open administration, the whole enchilada.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Sawzaw
Date: 26 Jun 12 - 08:57 AM

Nader:

"Why don't we say what's on the minds of many legal experts; that the Obama administration is committing war crimes and if Bush should have been impeached, Obama should be impeached," Nader said in an interview with the anti-war Democracy Now! organization.

Nader's comments came before the U.S. on Saturday launched military strikes into Libya, but they are among the toughest criticisms Obama has endured from the left.

The consumer advocate participated in an anti-war demonstration outside the White House this weekend, during which more than 100 protesters were arrested.

The U.S. sought the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution and commitments from European and Arab nations before taking action in Libya to thwart the country's leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, from killing civilians amidst a rebellion against his regime.

Nader's comments, however, were mainly directed at Obama's prosecution of the Afghanistan war. Some liberal activists have objected to Obama's decision to escalate the war and are unhappy with government's treatment of Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of leaking classified documents to the organization WikiLeaks.

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: bobad
Date: 04 Jul 12 - 07:11 AM

Nah, he ain't dead....he was just brushing his teeth with polonium 210.

Scientists: Radioactive polonium-210 found on Yasser Arafat's toothbrush, clothes

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 Jul 12 - 01:41 AM

If he is not dead the exhumation team is gonna FREAK!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: bill\sables
Date: 05 Jul 12 - 04:07 AM

His wife is probably still claiming his Old Age Pension

Subject: RE: BS: Yasser Arafat (is he really dead)
From: number 6
Date: 05 Jul 12 - 08:12 AM

then may I ask .... who put the polonium 210 in the Cow Brand baking soda ??

biLL ... ;)