Quote Originally Posted by Rusty Trichome
Nice rant. Perfect balance of inuendo and gossip, seriously lacking in truth, and quite off-topic. Your (in my opinion...childish) rant adds nothing to the conversation, is not sourced, and shows the Optical Rectitis you likely suffer from. At least you folks are running-up your post counts. Perhaps someone else is impressed. I, am not.

Like the nags on The View, parroting their own gossip in the hopes someone out there likes them.:jointsmile:
I understand your frustration Rusty and it is warranted. However, I do not believe Medicinal's intentions were to jump into this discussion and make up facts to impress others or piss you off, and diagniosing him with Optical Rectitus seems a bit harsh.
He has probably heard those numbers cited elsewhere, in the news or on another website and was likely repeating what he heard.
The bottom line is that the truth is out there somewhere as to the body count, but we will likely never know this truth. Almost every reporting agency, newspaper etc has some type of agenda, whether that be making America look worse or making Bush look foolish or to merely prevent public panic, bending facts to sell more papers, or leaving out facts because someone in Washington said it is a threat to national security.
Regarding the depleted uranium, the long term health effects are unknown. A lack of study does not make something safe. In fact, it is one of the reasons they use to keep cannabis illegal. Possible long term health effects. They also use this to allow certain artificial sweeteners that have been proven carcinogenic in animals. No people have yet volunteered to be injected with the shit, so they say "tests have not confirmed carcinogenic in humans" because the tests have not been done. Perhaps if they studied all these more they would find that cannabis and depleted uranium are both safe and Splenda is not. Or maybe depleted uranium would be found to have long term health effects as well.

Did anyone by chance see my post below? lol

peace