Victims: Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33
I am gullible. Very. I betcha I am more gullible than you. And that tells you something, because you know how gullible you are. Or so you think. Still, as bad as I got it, something physically snapped in the back of my head this morning, I could hear it snap, when I saw this
Guardian headline:
Skripals Poisoned From Front Door Of Salisbury Home, Police Say
Detectives investigating the attempted murders of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal have said they believe the pair were poisoned with a nerve agent at the front door of his Salisbury home. Specialists investigating the poisoning of the the Skripals have found the highest concentration of the nerve agent on the front door at the address, police said. Counter-terrorism detectives will continue to focus their inquiries on the home address for the coming weeks, and possibly months...
See, because of my gullibility, I've decided that
if I'm to have any idea of what really goes on around me, I'm condemned to reading a lot. Obviously, like you, I've found that the vast majority of what passes for news is as fake as it gets. More so by the day. So we have to read between the lines all the time. It's what it is. But this...
If these two people have actually been poisoned, that's a really terrible thing.
But maybe lying about such things is much worse. And I doubt that anything at all we've been told about the Skripal case is true. Not because I don't want to believe it, but because the storytellers plant so many trees they're getting lost in their own forest.
Comment: How many grasped but empty straws does Mueller need to close an investigation without merit?