Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:23:17 GMT, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy
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>mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:08:12 -0800, David Friedman
>> <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>In article <cr3hr3l91ol10potv5ci66t9jlgeo5i3fe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> David Johnston <david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Friendly fire incidents have happened many times.  
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>>>Sure. But they don't generally take the form described.
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>> The Tillman incident seems to have.
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>> And the military tried diligently to cover it up.
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>> Wonder how many have sucessfully been covered up?
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>Absence of evidence isn't evidence. Belief that it is proves 
>idiocy.

Knowledge without evidence to "prove" it is something else.

Not that i was claiming that lack of evicence is evidence, merely
wondering if there might have been more cases that *had* been
successfully covered up.  COnsistent with the military mind, based on
Close Personal Experience with it.

The classic case of belief that lack of evidence is evidence would be
the Kenedy conspiracy theorists, though more recently Limbaugh and his
ilk wer eclaiming that the very fact that there was no evidence that
Clkinton did anything illegal was proof of how successfully it had
been hushed up...