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Wednesday, April 30. 2008

So I'm opening my yahoo mail and we get these little headline blurbs. I normally don't look too closely, but a couple caught my eye just now:

White House admits fault on 'Mission Accomplished' banner

And yet, if you read the article, they really don't admit anything, except that it's been a PR disaster for them. And they don't mention that the Navy disavowed their claim that the carrier crew asked for the banner. Whatever. Give it up, Shrub. We're not biting.

And this one just made me kinda sad. Don't know why:

DNA confirms IDs of czar's children, ending mystery

I guess I'll never find out I'm descended from royalty now.

Posted by lalcorn in Stuff on the Web at 18:15 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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I don't see in the article any suggestion of how many bone shards were discovered - evidence of death, or evidence of loss of limbs? There's a difference.

It also doesn't state that there is evidence of when the heirs died. It seems that it is being assumed that since the shards were found in the same forest where their parents' remains were found, they were killed at the same time. Is this assumption valid?

If I don't normally wear a tinfoil hat, and can come up with these two objections, I'm sure those who have a stronger desire can come up with even more. The myth will live on.

#1 John (Homepage) on 2008-04-30 19:18 (Reply)

Excellent points. I'm sure the conspiracy theory will live on - they'll just have a harder time getting historians to play along.

#1.1 Louise (Homepage) on 2008-05-01 13:25 (Reply)

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