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Comments on: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics¹ https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:30:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-29401 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:30:04 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/#comment-29401 Being a wealthy Saudi, I would assume that Osama has four wives, as is the norm, especially for a Wahabbi Muslim, so the 24 figure is probably closer to the truth, and I think I read somewhere that one or more of his wives is not Saudi. The older children are all over the world.

]]> By: whig https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-29397 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:03:28 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/#comment-29397 How many children does Osama bin Laden have?

Wikipedia says:

“Bin Laden has fathered anywhere from 12 to 24 children.[24] His wife, Najwa, reportedly had 11 children by bin Laden, including Abdallah (born c. 1976), Omar, Saad and Muhammad. Muhammad bin Laden (born c. 1983) married the daughter of the late alleged al-Qaeda military chief Mohammed Atef in January 2001, at Kandahar, Afghanistan.”

Virtually, being the operative word, then?

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-29386 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:46:53 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/#comment-29386 Samuel Clemons created Mark Twain, so I assume he “embellished” Twain’s life. The quote sounds like Disraeli – erudite and pointed. We once had politicians capable of doing that.

If Sam had written the script, he would have added some dialect to the dialog and made it amusing. The Hedgemony needs better writers.

The problem is when people refuse to follow the script. It wasn’t a problem in the House, but Senators won’t play that game.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-29383 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:02:09 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/#comment-29383 I think I just got filtered out in my previous comment. Must have been the V-word.

(Our sites are both moving really slowly today. Mine has occasionally failed to serve.)

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-29382 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:00:32 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/09/12/lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/#comment-29382 Osama, virtually impotent? I’m betting he finds some virtual Viagra…

Petraeus is doing what he has to, from his perspective. All of us who have ever stepped on a stage and performed a show of any sort understand all about that. His script… and I’m pretty well convinced he has one… is no more a version of the truth than the stage plays and musicals I’ve occasionally accompanied. The show must go on, and it does.

1 Of course, Twain was frequently known to make stuff up, including (reportedly) large portions of his autobiography.

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