# On The Carpet, tomndebb.

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**Created:** [February 21, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-carpet-tomndebb/529822 "2010-02-21T00:33:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-carpet-tomndebb/529822/1 "2010-02-21T00:33:48Z")

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This was my first response into 6 pages of the thread, So if Mossad used UK passports whats the correct response?

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> Not exactly responsive to the OP but a fascinating half hour of spliced surveillance tapes starting 19 hrs before the murder.  
> [http://video.gulfnews.com/services/p...id=66672644001](http://video.gulfnews.com/services/p...id=66672644001)

I went on to say

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> Thank the NYT [for this URL]online this AM.
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> A pride of Judah Lions stalking and bringing down a trophy Palestinian. You don’t tug on Superman’s cape and you don’t mess with Mossad.
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> HTF did the Dubai police put this together w/o some help from Mossad? Pure Israeli propaganda, courtesy of of the Times. Times, they are a changin’? Nope.

**tomndebb** closed the thread for

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> insulting comments and implications of dishonesty

although I see none of that on page 6. Anything further to say, **tom**?

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**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-carpet-tomndebb/529822/2 "2010-02-21T00:56:53Z")

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Is this really about the thread closing, or are you just proud of your post and want to get a comment or two on it?

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-carpet-tomndebb/529822/3 "2010-02-21T01:08:19Z")

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> [@MOIDALIZE](#):
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> Is this really about the thread closing, or are you just proud of your post and want to get a comment or two on it?

For starters, why was the thread closed? Which is to ask, which snarky post dropped the second shoe?

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-carpet-tomndebb/529822/4 "2010-02-21T01:28:27Z")

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> [@adhay](#):
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> I see none of that on page 6.

Did you miss all of these?

> [@So if Mossad used UK passports whats the correct response?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-mossad-used-uk-passports-whats-the-correct-response/529459/253):
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> If only dodging was an Olympic sport… […] You can “point out” whatever you like, but as long as you avoid the very simple facts, you’re not refuting anything, only avoiding.

> [@So if Mossad used UK passports whats the correct response?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-mossad-used-uk-passports-whats-the-correct-response/529459/240):
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> I can only conclude that you operate from a position of moral absolutism, where everything you think is right is right, and what you think is wrong is wrong, and you will brook no disagreement.

> [@So if Mossad used UK passports whats the correct response?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-mossad-used-uk-passports-whats-the-correct-response/529459/241):
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> Or any of several other questions that he has dodged in his “high dudgeon” nonsense. […]
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> An example is his vitriolic refusal that a country’s and people’s reputations are harmed by such international incidents. You’d expect a supporter of Israel to consider such issues more carefully, instead of arguing in bad faith.

> [@So if Mossad used UK passports whats the correct response?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-mossad-used-uk-passports-whats-the-correct-response/529459/254):
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> You really have nothing here, except for volume and an unflinching confidence in your own beliefs.

> [@So if Mossad used UK passports whats the correct response?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-if-mossad-used-uk-passports-whats-the-correct-response/529459/256):
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> Got anything? Or just more “U R WRONG!!!”

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**Author:** ![adhay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@adhay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhay)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-the-carpet-tomndebb/529822/5 "2010-02-21T01:57:20Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> Did you miss all of these?

Yep, I’m just insensitive I guess.

Thanks for your responses. You may draw the curtain here:)