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Regarding the biography of Hil-liar-y Clinton the NY Times writes: 

Dallek slams: “Gerth and Van Natta seem to detect no angels in Clinton’s nature whatsoever, much less better ones, and the result is a one-sided figure who never quite springs to life or feels truly authentic.”

Thus they criticize the authors.  Their deduction is that because Hilliary exist the book must be at fault for not springing her to life off the pages of the book.  Have they considered that the authors may not be medically qualified to perform a personality transplant???

The explaination they have completely overlooked is that maybe, just maybe, Hilliary Clinton IS one sided and inauthentic! duh.  Do I have to repeat that in a fake corn pone southern fried accent for you to understand me? 

Frankensteins bride was beautiful. ( Elsa Lanchester ) 

Unfortunately none of Hilliary’s personality surgeons have Frankensteins touch with a scalpel.  In fairness to them the only thing they can do is spray WD-40 to keep the bolts in Hilliary’s neck from rusting.  My suggestion is to merely tell everyone  that she likes to wear monster bolts for humorous relief.

Bin Laden is a meglomaniac.  This guy is somewhat intelligent on a functional level.  Combined with being a rich kid he is self convinced that his importance is very great.  Thus his exhortations to followers to commit suicide-homicides does not include a commitment by him to do the same.  Of course the greatest indicator of his extreme over estimation of his value is his thinking that his importance warrants terrorist attacks against what are essentially non-aligned personel. ( read average non-governmental types - aka citizens )  Indeed it appears that for most of this guys careers he would do anything to garner more notoriety and power.  As with any other public figure no news is bad news.  All publicity is good.

Thus by dint of the above argument I calculate that this Paris Hilton of Terrorism is dead.  I calculate that this cat in Schrodingers box is dead. 

Our government may likely know but is wisely not tipping its hand.  Its hard for most people to understand but information has value and one never knows what that value is. Thus as a rule you deprive your enemies of this information no matter what it is.

On the other hand he may just be incognito wearing a glory-burka.  I’ll remind him that if 19 shots of tequila won’t get the taste out of your mouth, 20 shots won’t either.

I learned today from a cell phone industry engineer that optical fibers yellow as they age due to the light run through them.  This means that fiber optics actually wear out!  In order to run more data through a fiber optic such as when you want to run on demand video you have to run more power.  More power means that your fiber optic cable wears out faster.  I just searched but could not find anything on this topic.