What a day to remember! We went to the special “barber shop that’s open on Monday” and that ESPN sports-center program was on like always, we guess, and then the sportscasters just cold started talking about Osama bin Laden. And then they showed video from 50 or 60 colleges, one after another, of people partying and jumping in pools and just being drunk like college kids are, always, with no sign that this was in any way related to the late Sunday night news about Osama bin Laden or 9/11, which happened when these college kids were what, two years old? Nine years old? How old are people when they do the various things, school or whatever? Who knows. And then the sportcasters played some canned Pat Tillman documentary footage and we were all, “Wait a minute, Pat Tillman was an anti-war Chomsky reader who was repeatedly shot through the skull by his own men, right?”
But this is not a day for shouting things at people who have ESPN turned up so loud that they obviously don’t want to hear any talking, ever. This is a day for a very special kind of American celebration: a celebration of violence, death, revenge, and a complete avoidance of any talk of “the rule of law.”
Whoa, who is that sexy lady? Why, it’s Osama bin Laden’s sexy relative. His niece or something? Very glamorous! (The Bin Ladens are a big rich family with many ties to London finance and the Texas-Saudi oil industry. There was a movie about it, we can’t remember any details. Some thing with Michael Musto?)
We don’t know who this is, either. Why does this come up when we do a Wonkette image search for “Osama bin Laden,” anyway? Is this Osama’s mom? Must be a hard day for her. No matter what shit your kid pulls, you’re still all, “Wellllll, I didn’t give him enough vitamins or Baby Einstein” or whatever.
And it was so hard to find Osama because he kept changing his appearance, apparently.
When we used to make these blingees, we sort of never fully appreciated to what extent Barack Obama would become an actual killer. How many people, including innocent goat farmers and children, has Obama killed with bullets and bombs since 2009? A whole fucking lot, probably!
All right, everybody, there you go! Enjoy your freedom fries.
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Jesus, good thing that Ginger's photo wasn't any lower. You could practically see his carrot top there.
Seriously – some of just finished eating dinner here!
Side o' carrots?
Mmmm, carrot floss!
With all of those 'roids bulking him up, I'm thinkin' it's a baby carrot and the danger of seeing it was minimal.
The only part of him that should be puffy and veiny is the only part that isn't, thanks to 'roids.
Bet that carrot's roasted.
Honestly, that picture of Carrot Top was really uncalled for.
I'm thinking "shaved", actually. And yeah, a baby carrot.
If we petition Obama with cigarettes, will he add Carrot Top to the Navy SEALS Team 6 "list o' thingys to take care of?"
Yeah, can't be too careful. He could still be Osama. Take him down, just to be sure. But don't waste the bullets on head shots.
Could we maybe time it so the hit squad gets Gallagher, too? Or would that expose Obama's pro-melon agenda?
Not only did we knock out public enemy #1, we couldn't have done it without the strategic imperative of enhanced interrogation techniques that BushCheney institutionalized and Bammer glossed over. WooHoo. Give credit where credit is due.
Michael Isikoff (sp?) explained how this wasn't true. I can't remember it all now, just that he said Liz Cheney was full of shit. That was enough for me.
C'mon DBB, you don't know me well enough to see I was kidding? This is Wonkette, right?
See me comment below.
Touchy, touchy.
I got you back up to -6, for the sarcasm.
Just clearing my own conscience. I'm giving you thumbs up for everything you say. Just so you know, no offense taken.
Thanks, DBB, no offense back at you. I suppose we all are a little gun shy right now.
I was out all day and maybe I missed something here. I've got to read like 500 comments to catch up on the tone. The Radio is detuned and buzzing.
Do we really need someone explaining why to know that Liz Cheney is full of shit? If she says it, writes it, or thinks it, it's bullshit.
There was some cretin from Big Failure over here trying to spew that exact same line of crap if you were wondering why some folks did not find it that amusing.
I was ass-awl-ted at
fistfirst. Phew, con voce Butthead "did I score?" I guess I should read the comments before I try sarcasm, and I usually do. And mostly I do that so as not to be redundant.I have no real doubt that we could have gotten the same information — or better! — without torture or its threat. Probably have gotten it sooner, by demonstrating our lack of evil. I picture some al Queda guy back in 2002 saying "Thanks for the cheese fries! Bin Laden's crib is in Abbottabad — big house, red mailbox, you can't miss it."
Did you know that Osama bin Laden was, like, 6'5"? I heard that on the NPR this morning. Frankly, this news kind of bummed me out. I was hoping that Cher could play him in Not Without My Mujahideen: A Lifetime Original Movie, but Google says she's only 5'8".
That lady waiting for the sexytime up above is also 6'5". No, not the one in the raincoat. Gilda was tiny.
The hand that rocks the cradles firebombs the world. With crazy.
Somali pirates, Gaddafi's son, now bin Laden – do NOT fuck with Obama, he's Gangsta!!
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Bill Maher
So that's what this "Chicago way" is all about. I see.
I bet Pam is practically in a tizzy……..how could a filthy muslin figurehead kill another. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE!!!!
That's a lot of crazy in that picture. I'm going to find it hard to sleep.
Ah, Bert the terrist …no wonder why wingtards want to defund PBS!
As Obama announced this at 11:35 PM, when did these people hit the streets and have the media so quickly in place to cover it?
And did you hear what was emphasized by the MSM?
One guy said the people who said Osama bin Ladin was trained by/worked for the CIA were "crazy!"
Nice first person reportage, huh?
As someone pointed out, the dorms for whichever university are just three blocks from the White House. Add to that that 60 minutes cut in with its coverage of OBL being killed a good couple of hours before President Badass did his slow-sunglasses-on thing then it's not that unexplainable.
GW is 3 blocks away and media are never far from the WH.
Oh, my. We gots us a troofer.
how come troofer,birfers and deafers think they are the true progressives- they KNOW the truth. Conspiracy followers are usually just nuts- esp those who bite on the crap right away and can't let go.
yeah college students are never up at midnight.
President Obama is dead! Breaking News on Fox!
I think Fox pays a bounty for every time one of their anchors or guests substitutes Obama for Osama and vice versa.
I thought Jesus Christ® had exclusive rights appearing on toast.
How do you explain this?
http://scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure/upload/2009...
Maybe OBL is a direct descendant?
That's correct. OBL is in big trouble over this.
Sports fans, sportscasters, and athletes are the sources I look to for opinions and insight into Islamist issues and anti-terrorism activities.
It's not a stretch to believe their "coverage" is of similar quality to that of the MSM, and most certainly provides far more intelligent analysis than Faux News.
She's kinda sultry, but waaaay too ano for my tastes. But the right to post that picture is what so many goat-herders have given their lives for!
It shows what can happen when you actually try to get the terrorist mastermind instead of just allowing him to escape and continue to be a bogeyman to keep the American public scared like some Presidents.
That's not fair to W! He was just distracted by other things like planning for war in Iraq, making up reasons for going to war in Iraq, and bullying the CIA for "evidence" to go to war in Iraq …
Not to mention cutting the shit out of taxes, then, when the economy was still moribund, giving some half-assed tax "rebate" just before the entire house of cards went to shit.
OK, I admit it, I'm reading Our Wonkette on the laptop that I bought with the stupid rebate. Somebody had to stimulate the economy, darn it!
The Rapture. He was counting on the Rapture to solve all his other problems.
As are we all my friend, as are we all.
Sorry to repeat myself, (from a prior thread), but could they all get raptured or go galt already?!? I want to be deprived of their productivity.
I'm hoping for some good cars when it happens- as a Jew who totally denies the Messiah- I will be hanging around for a long time
Just a couple of weeks off…
Kinda makes you wonder how many fewer people would be dead if a competent administration was in place on 9/11. Possibly, we wouldn't even have the expression '9/11'.
The White House declassified and released Saturday the daily intelligence briefing delivered to President Bush a month before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
The declassified intelligence report said the FBI had detected "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings."
link
Yeah, that's where I was going with that.
Well hey, we did elect a likely competent President in 2000; he just was prevented from taking office by a little thievery.
As W used to say, "there's that fuzzy math again."
We'll need a new boogy-man ASAP, though.
Gangsta' president? Or do the hipsters still use gangster? Here in rural OK, we don't get exposed to much of that kind of thing.
PS If anyone wants to know how the hipster ranchers talk, just ask. I know more about their lingo than I ever wanted.
Hipster Ranchers? I smell a sitcom! Or reality show. "Real Steers of Oklahoma?"
Believe me nobody wants to see that shit.
Carl Paladino and his email buddies might tune in.
("… nobody wants to see that shit," is what I say about 99% of what is on TV, and a very slightly lower percentage of what is in theaters. And I am almost always wrong.)
WTF? Why the fuck are you guys downfisting me? Is everyone so numbed their sarcasm sensors are off?
I was just pointing out a RWR talking point. I don't like torture, I don't want to be tortured, I don't want to watch torture, yet Limbo, innanity and Levin are driving home the propaganda that we couldn't have done this without fucking "enhanced interrogation" and BushCheney deserve a Medal of Honor or something!!1!
jeesh.
Don't take it personally, Radio. We all got fragged.
Well Liz Cheney must have sent a posse out against me because I'm like -8.
Fuck metrics, believe me, they've exploded in my face before.
Extem said it best last August or whenever "p" started, he would never downfist fellow Wonkeratti, even for the most silly, inane, offensive, bland, or dense comment.
That's what makes this site so great is that we aren't afraid to push the envelope in search of political humor and reasoning.
I'm still upfisting all you MF'ers. 'Til my wrists are sore.
Your last 2 lines remind me of a Mapplethorpe photo. Upfist away!
All this talk of fisting makes me want to go in search of some moar Carrot Top pr0n.
(Damnit why won't pr0n print with teh zero?)
Is this a cry for help?
the default font makes numerals look littler than letters. That's a zero all right, it's just uncannily similar in size to a lower-case "o."
o0o0o0o0o0o0o0
Speaking of faulty sarcasm sensors, did anyone else notice that a bunch of news outlets and blogs, (including Andrew Sullivan), reported that Limbaugh had 'praised' Obama in a show of National Unity.
Later in the show, he mocked them all for missing the blatantly obvious sarcasm. Republican patriotism in action.
It's like a little thicker version of "I'm not a racist, but…."
Andy Bightfart has a post over there saying "look I gave the president some credit last night, (Ooh look at me so enlightened), but…."
Except Rush wasn't giving Obama so much as a shred of credit. He was nasty and seething with hate the whole time.
I've got to admit Breitbart's 'I'm not a racist' schtick makes me gag. Google 'pray to Obama' if you want to see pure, unregenerate racism on the hoof.
That's the current theme: shred of credit, then…
They are straining mightedly to come up with some talking points.
I listen to RWR in the car in small doses– I know the formula. I just want to see what the propaganda line is. You should hear some of the subtle racist humor and jibes that Limbo spouts and even Media Matters can't describe. Sadly, he is not a stupid man; just a manipulative, lucky, arrogant, remorseless, pompous, nigger-hater.
of course, once you have to say you are not a racist- pretty sure you are ones.
Nice to see Jack's been working out.
Jesus! Pamela Geller looks like the picture in Michele Bachmann's attic.
Obama quits smoking, bin Laden is dead. Coincidence?
Moral weakness causes fatal cranial bleeding in other people?
And, now that we are coming down from the Euphoria, the question remains: Does Dick Cheney have any other contacts in Al Qaeda?
Conservative troll are very upset that bin Laden is dead, and don't want us to make fun of the one person that kept them going for the last 10 years.
You want gangster? I got your gangsta right here.
Is it time we acknowledge those Navy Seals? Whoever they are? The same guys who took out the pirates? Talk about scary motherfuckers. I have a lot of trouble with dumping, both trash and dogs, around here. Think I could petition those Seal guys to help me out with this?
Former governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura was a Seal.
That's right. A trained seal.
Hey, Jesse's smarter than the average pol. That's why he spends his days surfing instead of running for office.
He's got the crazy w/ all the conspiracies though. 2012, Denver Airport, who knows what else.
Watching the CBS news at the moment. There was a whole mockup of the compound out in the middle of nowhere where they trained for the assault, without even knowing who the target was going to be.
Scary, scary, badass motherfuckers. Amazing people.
Last night Gen. McCaffrey called them "the most dangerous people on the face of the earth". That is pretty badass.
Jesse Ventura was a SEAL, I believe.
That sounds like a good plot for a movie – down on his luck ex-Seal helps local with bullying dumpers.
Get the Rock or Vin Diesel and we might have a winner. We can play it straight if the dumpers turn out to be terrorists or we can play it for laughs.
Profit!
Michael Bay could make it an existentialist action flick: The Seventh SEAL
Quick! Thumbs up everyone. Serious troll, pissed that the calm, cool Democrat did what the swaggering cowboy could never accomplish.
Man, once we have Sharia there won't be anymore Carrot Top attacks like that, my Wonkette. Assa Llama, Lakers.
That Blingee is fucking awesome.
As usual, I should be doing some worthwhile shit but am sitting here, watching Rachel and using wonkette like a chat room. Time to get my butt our of this chair and get the frames into the beehive boxes.
I'm drinking early and doing the same thing. This is the best place I've found get intelligent commentary on all this newsiness.
Really, I should be firing up the grill and making Freedom Burgers but I can't be bothered right now.
It was pretty cool last night when 30,000 people or so came here first last night for the news. Drinking and upfisting the whole night through.
Yep, that was great fun. Gotta love Our Wonkette.
Beehives? That's great–I thought all the honeybees were dying of some horrible disease.
Dammit why couldnt Team 6 have "accidentally" flown to Wasilla instead of Abottobad?
Because the bitch was in Lemoore, CA to collect a check. Oh, sorry, give a screech, er, speech. She mouthed some bullshit about water and made everybody wet.
That woman in the beige trench coat looks like Pamela Geller, only less insane.
Edited to congratulate myself for figuring out it IS Pamela Geller. Thanks, fellow Wonketteers!
Have Malkin's minions informed us what kind of counter tops they had yet?
What the hell are they waiting for?
I'm just patiently waiting the return of "Butt Belly".
Tonight my husband and I took our two kids to a decent restaurant. The kids were well behaved and ate almost all of their food. Clearly the world has changed a great deal with bin Laden's death. I appreciate Obama taking him out before our next road trip.
My sixth-grade classes were especially well behaved today, although one young man did walk into the room whilst pumping his fist in the air and yelling "U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!"
I told him that we do not do that in Mr. WordSaladNation's classroom and that, as punishment, he had to go get me a coffee, cream with two packets of Splenda™.
Allahu Akbar! God is great!
Who will replace OBL as the official boogy-man?
He's obsolete. Obama's enough boogeyman for the folk who need one.
Someone posted a link on my fb wall to Breitbart leading the conspiracy posse. What dicks those people are.
I upfist all Wonketteers comments I see. Kind of an 'Anti-Troll Vaccine'.
Although I do enjoy picturing the angry, sad little trolls furiously downfisting with all their might.
Carrot Top?
He is terrifying, but more in a "Please, God, please don't let him sit next to me on the bus" way, rather than in the "burning smoking holes in the WTC and the Pentagon" way.
BHO is still occupying that spot.
I don't know about the Denver Airport; Satanic somehow?
I thought it was Reince Preibus. Did I misunderstand?
RP is probably the false prophet (profit?) of the next Rep false messiah.No, Americans need an Evil Empire or some kind of scapegoat at alltimes. Probably China will be the next Boogy-man. Somehow it will bemy students' fault that Americans never save, always borrow and buy,that US manufacturers close their factories and then can't sell theirgoodies to their former employees, now minimum wage workers. And soon.
Great now I have to go to bed with the guilt that I want to bang the daughter of History's Worst Monster. Fortunately there will be a happy ending.
Niece, so you're golden.
You fucked Lumberg??!!?
A lot of offensive posts on Breitbart this evening. And apparently the most offensive was mine when I projected the winning GOP ticket next year: Colonel Allen West and Andrew Breitbart. Bumperstickers will read:
"The Anus and Andy Show".
I guess you had to be there.
Don't know whether to upfist or downfist you, since your mighty negative p seems carefully cultivated. I wouldn't want to diminish it in any way.
I was on my way to check them out. I saw him on Bill Maher. Breitbart is scary crazy.
It seriously pissed me off the way Maher turned on Laura Flanders, who had called out this sorry bitch Breitbart for the lying sack he is.
He had to protect Anus Andy's poor, delicate fee fees. Because Breitbart is always so sensitive about the feelings of others. And their careers.
I've loved Laura Flanders and her accent since she was on Counterspin. She nailed Andy as a con-man and his weasel defense sealed the deal. And where did she get that magnificent leather jacket?
She was dead on. I've seen her a few times before, but this time she really impressed me. I think it is high time these inveterate liars started getting called liars to their face. Having a difference of opinion is different from lying, and faux civility shouldn't get in the way of calling liars on their lies.
I can't figure out Maher's weaselly response. Is it just a habitual 'guys against girls' thing, or does Breitbart supply him with better-than-average weed? Or is he that susceptible to flattery? Did you see how weird and loud AB's laughter was after every Maher joke? Mark McKinnon actually flinched away from him and muttered something like, "Settle down, dude."
Also – yeah, the jacket was magnificent.
So what happened to OBL's various wives? Killed? Sold to brothels?
Human shield?
I predict, before long, a whole butt-load of conspiracy theories saying it wasn't really him, that it was all a fake, and that's why the Navy buried him at sea!
"Before long" = 48 seconds
There was already a post here about that. How dare you question conspiracy theorists?I think he called me a dumb fuck for suggesting he was just nuts.
Brother Stair, most entertaining crazy preacher in the USA, says thatOBL never existed, just like the dinosaurs never existed! He was justinvented by the Powers That Be to excuse a couple new wars. Everyonekilled in those wars was a human sacrifice to Satan.
innocent goat farmers…
I'm sorry, but no goat farmer is truly innocent.
I sense an enemy of Crottin de Chavignol …
Especially Mickey Klaus.
Instead of Breitbart, I checked think progress to get their version. According them, Mr. Crazy says, "He said he is merely providing a forum for an "open debate" on whether or not Bin Laden is alive."
Typical chickenshit move. "I'm not saying it, just some people are and I'm letting them discuss it." The "I'm not saying it, etc." was what got Malkin kicked off MSNBC. (It was about Kerry's war record). Thank you, Chris Matthews.
And that's it for me. Have a nice post-OBL evening.
Welp, looks like it's time to write Papa John's to proactivate our outrage!
"Dear Papa,
Do you really want to sell your fine pizza* on a website that gives editorial voice to people who doubt the honesty and ability of our brave military forces? Last I checked, this wasn't Communist Russia. Supporting such a site would make you Comrade John. Just say "Nyet" to Big Traitor!
Signed,
The Wonketteers. All of 'em."
*I don't know if Papa John's is an official sponsor of Breitbart's Online Candyland, but I'm sure his readers have consumed enough shitty chain restaurant pizza to make PJ's at least an unofficial sponsor.
Or pointing out that they are taking the side of a bunch of anti-American traitors that hate our president so much for the color of his skin that they are seriously taking sides with Osama bin Laden just to try to score some kind of imaginary point against President Obama.
Pizza is what puts those fuckers into Hoverounds. That and lots of freedom fries with cheezsludge, and cheap beer.
Yeah, I can't stand the thought of giving Big Liar the traffic. I'll monitor the shit-flinging through think progress and media matters.
Have a lovely OK evening!
My thoughts are so confused by everything that has gone on with bin Laden and our kung-fu-secret-ninja-death-dealing-preznit that it is a blessing to see a photo gallery that so accurately puts it all together.
Thank you, Ken.
Edit: We have a troll or two so I upfisted everyone. Happy It May Not Change Anything But He Was a Fucker And Even If Things Are Still A Mess Let's Not Shed A Tear For the Murderer Day, everybody.
As for the "Where's Obama?" picture, the irony is that he was, in fact, in the Situation Room.
My humble contribution to the "Death-Stare" photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62428307@N07/5681693...
No happy faces there… They look like they just found out that a chopper went down.
it seems like a chopper always goes down. they should just send along one unmanned drone chopper (if such a thing exists) to crash and get that out of the way…..
Conspiracy theory with an additional layer: The orders to the SEAL team had them capturing Osama bin Laden and taking him to Gitmo. Then the Negro President and his Negro Attorney General would decide to have him tried for murder in the U.S. District Court, Foley Square.
But one of the brave SEALs decided to disobey his illegal orders and ventilated OBL.
Oh for god's sake…
So there are calls for the White House to release photos of Bin Laden's corpse to prove it was him, because we are all experts – especially if we are Republicans and Tea Idiots – at picking out Bin Laden.
Look, there's a simpler way:
IF YOUR NAME IS OSAMA BIN LADEN AND YOU ARE A TERRORIST RAISE YOUR HAND.
COME ON… OSAMA… COME ON… WE DON'T HAVE ALL FUCKING DAY
You know they'll just pick it apart as a 'shopped forgery, anyway…
So you entice us with the sultry picture of bin Laden’s sexy relative knowing us horny old gents want more.
Only to lure us into the Michele Bachmann slapping her foster kids around pic and some guy my 100 year old granny wouldn't fuck.
Oh the cruelty.
Wages of sin!
What I want to know is why Sexy Sexy Killer's Dutchie doesn't have a bend in it?
Another picture of bin Laden:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5190/5681939759_b2...
God only knows what conspiracy theory chain you just started.
Time on your hands, eh.
Osama is toast.
Can any of you Urban Dictionary experts tell me what Chip and Dale are doing in that Blingee?
That there? That's an "Abbottabad Reacharound," I think.
Looks like the lambada to me. Can't trust these damn chipmunks around the kids anymore.
Missed a good one:
http://whoosama.blogspot.com/2009/03/osama-and-ho...
“And then they showed video from 50 or 60 colleges, one after another, of people partying and jumping in pools and just being drunk like college kids are, always, with no sign that this was in any way related to the late Sunday night news about Osama bin Laden or 9/11.”
It was a bacchanal celebration.
Now everyone can kill Osama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yX7R4ZelR4&fe...
Those images are very disturbing. I wish you’d have chosen something else. I realize that it’s a shameful part of American history that we should never forget, but it’s too much.
oh yea…..
I had to scroll down to see if someone had felt the need to respond to the Carrot Top picture the same as I. Well played, Extemporanus.
"And then they showed video from 50 or 60 colleges, one after another, of people partying and jumping in pools and just being drunk like college kids are, always, with no sign that this was in any way related to the late Sunday night news about Osama bin Laden or 9/11"
It was a bacchanal celebration … duh.
It's spring and the end of the semester. Those clips could have been taken in the classrooms…
OT, but I'm hearing that the Conservatives not only have held their grown, but taken a majority for the first time in forever in Canada after having been polled to be heading towards defeat literally a few days ago. Fuck. Liberals can't get a break anywhere in the world, right now. Got to say, I'm shocked by the outcome. How could polling have been so ridiculously off?
Electronic voting machines?
As a Canadian, the truth is that a conservative in Ottawa is the equivalent of a clone of former Connecticut republican Lowell Weicker. The prime minister makes Mr. Obama look like Mitch Daniels after taking a particularly brutal crap.
What happened? Did the NDP and the Liberals split the vote?
I hear that all the time, and it's true up to a point and very, very generally, but they are still conservatives at the end of the day. Let's be clear, Rob Ford would never be elected mayor of a major city (save for maybe some big city in the South like Dallas or Houston) here in the United States. I guess my point is that relating local politics to those of the US in general is only the smallest solace. In the end, you guys still had other (and better) choices.
I'm trying to picture some scenario in which the fractured Canadian left ever wins back the government, and I can't see a likely one. If you all couldn't topple a hella-weak Harper in these last two elections, when will you ever?
Well, guess the powers back East can get back to forgetting about the West for a few years.
Shhh…don't say anything. We prefer it that way.
But check this babe out–she's hawt!
Boxxy has gone blonde?
Jeez, so I went down to my town bar. The one full of teabaggers.And there were two wasted teabaggers in there. So, UBL's capture being great news for a patriotic person such as myself, although I've been accused of being an America-hater countless times by the easily brainwashed, I was anxious to toast his elimination. I ordered a beer and offered a toast.
This is getting boring, let me skip to the end.
So, as I left I said to them, "I thought it was good news, and you guys might want to celebrate, but you guys sound disappointed. I'm really sorry."
It's not good news if Obama did it.
Dumb fuckers are fucking dumb.
You are well on your way to capturing the dumb-fuckedness of the governor of Michigan. Excellent likeness.
I'm glad the fucker is dead. I don't think he deserved due process unless he was willing to surrender. And what exactly about Bin Laden would lead anyone to think he would surrender?
taking him alive would have been hugely problematic in a political sense. send him to… gitmo? send him to… a secret cia prison? then barry can't go public with it and claim victory. civil trial or military trial? HUGE POLITICAL SHIT SHOW THERE. if there was a trial, the torture of ksm and al-libi would be a factor. better to kill him because we're a bloodthirsty country and we are terrified by nuance and anything that's not black v. white.
Yeah; there was pretty much no way this could've ended with anything resembling a democratic, law-based outcome. The makes-me-want-to-drink part is that the only ones to blame for that are us. At least the guy who decides who gets trials and who gets cold shot in the face is elected by the people…he is, right? Guys?
As much as I detest the feeling of being pleased at death, this is the best outcome. Had OBL been captured alive it would have become political football to the benefit of nobody.
No, he's dead, and fuck him. A very difficult political situation (military operation – actually assassination – in a sovereign country) and a ballsy decision to do same.
Don't like it, but it's still the best outcome for a sack of human shit like OBL.
George Bush Junior is weeping cold, bitter tears today that Barry, and not he, got to make the "OBL ist tot" announcement.
Cheney, for his part, is sitting in a refrigerated room like the doctor in Lovecraft's short story "Cool Air" with blood congealing in his pulseless heart, wondering if just one more cattle prod up the ass of a Ugyhur farmer detained at Gitmo would have revealed OBL's hideout. Now we can focus on important things, like the mystery scar on Obama's head…. amirite?
Thank you Ken. And could you please tell Jack to get a grip?
Rudy Giuliani on Nightline just now — "[Osama bin Laden] was a charismatic leader for all the wrong reasons." Remind you of anyone, dumbass?
Nightline is still on the air? Rudi Gui911ani is still alive? I learn so much things here.
I turned it on out of curiosity about whether they were going to pre-empt their usual in-depth story about how hard it is for rich people to sell their houses. Turned out bin Laden was still big almost 24 hours after.
Oh, oh, I know this one! It was Caligula, right? Everyone loves horse senators.
Ho Chi Minh?
The best part about what's his name getting whacked is that has shoved a big fat moose cock down what's her name's throat. The respite is precious.
She was in my state that day getting paid $125K for pandering to asswits for forty minutes by repeating the standard anti-environmental horseshit about a "four inch fish" (the delta smelt) stopping good, honest, hard-working farm types from doing their job because of water regulation.
It was phoned in, dogwhistle, cribbed bullshit for dullards. Hell, any poster here could have made that speech if they lacked a soul. Yet that fucking woman made $125K for doing it.
Meanwhile, President Awesome was watching OBL get taken down live in the situation room.
Another one of our tools – we loved him when he killed Ruskies – broke and we threw it away, joining Noriega, Saddam, Diem, Mosaddeq, etc in the rubbish bin of history. Why doesn't the world revel in our shining exceptionalism?!
You're watching all this, Karzai and al-Maliki?
I think EPA or maybe IRS
I'd like to talk to you about the amount on line 18 of the Uncaptured Section 1250 Gain Worksheet located in the instructions…
Well, I've met individuals who serviced remote sensing gadgets in theViet Nam war, first as enlisted men, later as DOD contract employees.
i read that they buried OBL in accordance with traditional islamic procedures. OMGGGZZZ shariah law has taken over the US Military!!!!
I stopped at my local pub for a bite last night and I learned the following:
1. Obama only killed bin Laden to get our attention away from what really matters — the deficit.
2. We got Osama so now we can get Obama. (Seriously).
3. W. is really the person who got Osama.
I'm sure there was more but after I heard all this I just went stone cold catatonic.
I think Morgan Spurlocks' "Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?" is now a bit redundant…
You hit it dead on – it's the weed.
My estimate: It's 75% weed, 25% flattery, and the bros against hos solidarity is so deeply, reflexively ingrained it's impossible to quantify.
He may not be stupid, but his intelligence doesn't begin to measure up to Obama's. All of these schmucks, no matter how dim, feel entitled to smear Obama's intelligence. They did it to Sotomayor, too. Brown people just can't be smarter than white people in their minds.
I don't agree with PBO on everything, not by a long shot, but only a stupid person could think that he's stupid.
The last time I listened to RL, he was losing it over Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama. As usual, he was spluttering away with rage, and REPEATEDLY referred to Powell as 'Genital Powell'. Later, he scrubbed the transcripts and even edited his video feed. You could see that when he said "General" it was out of sync, and a poor audio match. (I'm an editor, I notice these things.)
You don't have to convince me what a despicable piece of filth he is. Oh, I forgot – I heard him laughing about hungry children and telling them to go dumpster diving, too. Ick.
I saw the same dynamic the week before last when Michael Steele was on. You got the impression that, after the show, those were the two panel members who'd be having drinks into the wee hours.
His sycophants must feel "smarter" when they catch his smug, hateful, voce sotto remarks.
And, Raven the Editor, it can't be said better:
I don't agree with PBO on everything, not by a long shot, but only a stupid person could think that he's stupid.
Not to belabor this, but I think people have to start calling this shit out, relentlessly, every single time. Not just Rush and his ilk, but every family member or acquaintance or stranger who parrots this filth like it's acceptable.
I am so infuriated/sickened by this smarmy "How can you call me racist? Why, you must be the real racist," transparent little game they all play, with that disingenuous little smirk they learned from W.
Most of the folks still on the right, the one's who haven't jumped of the crazy train, are people with serious personality disorders. They are incapable of shame, but we can shun them, and make showing their face in public a humiliating comeuppance. As in one of the Koch brothers getting booed at some arts event recently.
(Sorry, yes, I did belabor this just a smidge. Oh, well.)
haha Dok, do you know you created one of those optikal illusions?
Behold:
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Belabor?? Alabor, belabor, C-labor…that is awesome stuff. Now that's what I' talking about.
The masses that have bought this right wing crap for the last 15-20 years are really sociopathic. They have pushed the whole of political discourse in this country to the hard right. They are incapable of shame or any reasonable discussion beyond the lame, trite talking points that filter through the septic field of RWR, Dimfart and Föx.
Nevermore.
You may have already seen this, but here's the Republican platform from 1956:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2...
It really demonstrates how far right we've gone.
And as for the laboring, I have to wrap it up for now. Need to acquire food & drink before my little burg within a giant urban sprawl rolls up the sidewalks.
It was great 'talking' with you. Sometimes snark fails, and seriousness is necessary. (Don't ban me, Wonkette!)
On a lighter note:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK7gI5lMB7M
Belatedly got 'The Raven' reference. I'm a little slow after a day and night with Wonkette. 'Night!
And one more for you mi amigo:
Mrs. Radio and I were listening to NPR tonite and heard a great program for those looking for an independent, diverse, reporter-driven content. http://www.dw-world.de/ Check it out.
Thanks, I'll check it out in the AM. Buenos Noches!
Good site. Lots of info. Interesting that the foreign press assumes their audience has an IQ roughly triple that of the target consumer for the US media.
Well, he did date Ann Coulter. That should tell you something.
He's into trannies?
I can see through time!
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