- While America’s useless young people were busy chanting brain-dead Neanderthal slogans in front of the White House on Sunday, angry mobs of uncivilized Africans attacked many of the Western embassies in Tripoli! Why would they do something so loathsome and disgusting? (Ha-ha, which “they” are we talking about, again?) Here is your “no fly zone,” neoliberal freaks: “NATO bombed Gaddafi’s family compound in an attack officials said killed the leader’s second youngest son and three grandchildren, ages six months to two years.” Wow, we showed those infants? In a different but equally “winning” maneuver, NATO decimated the Libyan Down’s Syndrome Society, which “prepares children with Down’s Syndrome up to the age of 6 to go to normal schools, giving them speech therapy, handicrafts and sports sessions and teaching them to read and write.” And the Internet is outraged! In fact, Papa John’s just announced on Twitter that they’ve “taken steps to make sure [their] advertising doesn’t appear on NATO’s website in the future.” It’s nice to know that people really care. [The Guardian/Reuters]
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad apparently had some sort of domestic dispute with Ayatollah Khamenei, and then boycotted his “official duties” for an entire week. Thankfully (?) the boycott ended yesterday. [The Independent]
- Good Lord: “Flames shot up and a loud boom was heard on Monday as the U.S. government blew a hole in a Mississippi River flood levee in a bid to save several towns in Illinois and Kentucky from being inundated.” [Reuters]
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Gay make up sex in a country where they hang homosexuals has got to be risky.
That's what makes it so irresistible.
(No personal experience, of course, I'm just quoting a friend, ya, that's my story, a friend said it.)
Kinda like doing lines with a narc's wife, or so I'm led to believe.
I'm amazed the Corps actually blew up that levee. It's the sort of action that's always in management plans, particularly the ones written by engineers and not people who own farmland. No snark, here's hoping the flooded farmland keeps Cairo and other towns and cities in the area safe.
When you build towns or farm in flood plains you’re asking for a soaking. Building levies just pushes the water to some other place. I’m beginning to think that insurance should be cut off from people who deliberately build or farm in stupid locations. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
You put farms on flood plains because those areas are highly fertile due to the annual (or nearly annual) deposition of sediment, freshwater, and nutrients from the river's flooding. Towns need to be up the hill, however.
Check out the big brain on Terry, you write with a snark free impressive knowledge on this subject
I lived in a rivertown, where they had a levee, to prevent flooding of the town.
The farmland, located farther away from the city center, was allowed to flood naturally, as a result, was very fertile.
In fact, I remember, people who had summer shacks in the flood plain would keep a boat tied up right next to their shack…
history: in the great flood of 1927 New Orleans leadership promised full compensation to all residents harmed by blowing up the levees to save NO. Of course when it was over and the bill came in they said sorry about that we have changed our minds. It went to the Supremes who said you can't sue the government unless the govenment agrees to be sued.
And that is how Huey Long came to power, in a populist rebellion against New Orleans leaders.
(And Herbert Hoover was elected president since he did such a good job of running the relief effort during the flood, with Rockefeller funding and screwing the blacks every step of the way.)
screwing the blacks every step of the way
Doesn't that part go without saying?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Same shit, different decade. Etc. etc.
It really is depressing when you realize history is pretty much going nowhere.
Sucks about Ghadaffi's grandchildren. It really does. But let's not forget: a couple of weeks ago this guy was ordering the Libyan Air Force to mount air strikes against crowds of peaceful demonstrators. Qualms are not Ghaddafi's strong suit.
…and there are a lot of people's grandkids in Benghazi who Ghadaffi would have killed without a second thought.
I'm sorry about the grandkids. Ghadaffi needs to hop a plane to any country that will take him and do it now.
For years the cliche joke about absent technology has been "where's my flying car?" I think now we should all be asking "where's my Jason Borne? 'Cause all this collateral damage sucks."
Not to be all cheerleader-y or gung-hoey or anything, but I think we got taste of the Bourne action on Sunday, when the prez decided to send in the SEALs instead of a Tomahawk launched from an SSN in the North Arabian Sea or a 2,000-pound Mk 84 dropped from a B-2 out of Whiteman AFB.
I have been wondering about this for years. I'm sure we have guys ready, willing and more than able to do these jobs without killing innocents… hell I know some of 'em.
It is kind of hard while these dick-taters hide behind women and children… plus, could be that half of the city , country for that matter, are probably that ego maniac's grand-kids.
Or at least he will allege that they are, in the event that they get blown up.
Everybody is someone's grandchild. Um … except Adam and Eve. Also, Cain & Abel. And Seth.
So now we've killed 2 of his kids and 3 grandkids. Why does he hate America? It's like we want to kill everyone he loves before we kill him. USA! USA! USA!
I am pretty sure he does not love anybody as he is a grandiose psychopath. Which makes those poor children the only victims here.
Was he using them as a human shield when this occurred?
Of course not When you're targeted by a NATO bombing campaign, that's the BEST time to hold a family reunion (rather than, I dunno, keeping the kids out of harm's way…in, like, say, Europe). Besides, they had already rented the hall and there was no way they were gonna get their deposit back, cancelling that soon…
Yeah. Funny, that.
Heck, knowing the guy, the two-year-old was probably already a commissioned officer.
This kind of fucking shit sucks and you have to be something other than talented to snark about it.
But we are still number one, aren’t we?
As long as China keeps sending us those big foam fingers, I have to say "yes".
Is "NATO" another way of saying "USAF" or "USN"? This kinda shit does fit right in with our usual modus operandi.
Did you see that the French are dropping concrete bombs?
From a military perspective, those are far more effective than abstract bombs.
Yeah but an F-bomb can do a lot of hurtin'… have the tried those?
Draft Trump!
Yes, but the important thing is those kids were not aborted as embryos. That would be a sin.
I have a feeling it's a script. I doubt an actual guy is sitting out there modding down posts on Wonkette at 8:30 AM.
But who knows, I've been wrong before.
It's a script.
On a teleprompter???????
And it now appears as if it can make multiple passes.
I 'm not sure if it's a script or not but I am sure it fucking hates BaldarTFlagass. You seem to get bombed more than others.
Well, you can't hardly blame it, can ya?
I hope you're right, because if there is an actual human that does this downfisting day in, day out, that makes me sad (even if it is a rightwing idiot), in a way that sets "Eleanor Rigby" to playing in my head.
The fact that someone would write a script makes me sad. This is your contribution? Downfisting comment ratings on a satire site? Uh, fight the power…
So… I wrote a script that counteracts it and upfists comments. I believe this makes me pathetic and cool at the same time. PathetiCool.
What else does he have to do sitting there all day in Mom's basement?
Cheetos? The bags and bags of Cheetos.
Which explains the orange tallywhacker.
He's smart enough to get a script running in IE4 on his bitchin' Windows 98 (2nd edition!) machine? (You know, one of those cream-colored ones that has progressively gotten a darker shade over the years from age and coffee and nicotine stains…)
I'm pretty sure that's *way* worse than making fun of Trig.
Well, no. For one thing, these are enemy brown downs kids we're talking about. Plus, wingers' concerns for precious little special-needs angels really boil down to just the one that Saint Sarah uses as a stage prop.
OT: I was just over at Breibart suggesting that the US should not give the Pakis three billion a year (while the righties want to defund NPR).
Anyone wanna help me???
I am in rethorical mode this morning.
While I support trolling the Breitbartites, I'm really not down with the "Paki" term. I know you're using it for effect, but its one of the terms that I can't chuckle over.
Sorry. I don't get it. Is that term a slur or incorrect? I did use it as an abbrev for Pakistani
Slur, more so in British or former British areas than here.
Perhaps more commonly known as a slur in, say, Britain? Recently I watched an episode of "Cracker" from circa 1996, with Robert Carlyle's guest-role as a man going on a killing spree [sort of à la "Falling Down"] — his life takes its homicidal turn upon confronting a Pakistani convenience-store clerk wherein he needles him with "Paki, Paki, Paki!" If it was a slur back then it obviously still is, yet I don't often see it referenced except in isolated incidents like this.
I too am hopeful at some point to figure the most self-gratifying tactic for endeavoring some dialogue w/ the dark side. Their biases against "liberal media" like NPR however would be too entrenched even for comparing to the cost of military engagement overseas, they'd see it as apples and oranges. The day I can figure how to actually insult them without their realizing they've been stung will be the day I have achieved a sort of 7-dimensional-chess version of counter-trolling. But it involves a knack for double-speak, getting inside that mind and rooting around in order to hand their ill-conceived mind-blunders back to them repackaged as fodder for thought, even at their level.
I find an effective tactic, at least on some subjects, is to sprinkle any response with Bible quotes. Trying to use that other document they wave around while shouting instead of reading for comprehension tends to simply rile them up, though.
Definitely found the fact that someone named "ConsLibertarian" is cheerleading the illegal and unconstitutional use of torture by promoting the lie that torture got us Bin Ladin's info (here's a hint: none of the dates match up, even in the general terms offered, with the time period America was torturing KSM), while accusing liberals of cognitive dissonance, to be worthy of a chuckle.
These are the same dipshits who hyperventalate about the existance of the Fed (explicitly constitutional) and a federal income tax (there's a whole Amendment that clarifies its constitutionality), but torture? In direct contravention not only of the fifth, sixth, and eighth amendments, but also international law?! Wat u Mean???
"But it involves a knack for double-speak, getting inside that mind and rooting around in order to hand their ill-conceived mind-blunders back to them repackaged as fodder for thought, even at their level."
That is not a movie I would pay to see, even if the Nolans, Wachowskis and Cohens all collaborated on it.
I'd love to defund Pakistan, except they have a bad habit of doing stupid shit like making war with India when they feel a tad scared.
Considering the last Kashmir crisis nearly ended up going nuclear, I don't think that's a risk I'm willing to take.
I can imagine it is not a possibility but just seems we spend so much money on others that could be spent at home. I am in the woe is me mood today. Grin.
I read your last word there as "Grim." Which would be equally appropriate.
Hard to properly "rejoice" in the death of Bin Laden when **everything else** is still insanely fucked up. (Grim.)
i love your comments and i love your avatar and i love your spirit but i do not have the fire in the belly to breibart.
i am a coward.
“Flames shot up and a loud boom was heard on Monday as the U.S. government blew a hole in a Mississippi River flood levee"
My god! Now we're bombing our own country! I guess it does get easier with practice.
Well, the anti-aircraft fire is pretty sparse, and our downed pilots are usually treated pretty well by the natives.
We like downed pilots. Crash enough planes and you can eventually get a major party's nomination.
Apparently, the Italian Prime Minister did not elect to phone and warn him this time around like happened in '86. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Libya_(19...
What we don't know is that the levee bombing was contracted by al-Qaida under the Air Force's new "Highest Bidder" austerity program.
Somewhere, Milo Minderbinder is smiling.
Remember, we all have a share.
Where is my chocolate-covered cotton?
Here. Put these crabapples in your cheeks.
It's a tragedy about Ghaddafi's grandchildren. Really. But how is it more of a tragedy than the men, women, and children his forces have killed? Or even the other people that NATO airstrikes have undoubtedly killed?
What is this? Blow Shit Up Good Week?
We're commemorating the 30th anniversary of the release of Metallica's debut album, "Kill 'Em All," working title "Metal Up Your Ass." Except two years early.
Isn't that every week for America? We just like to blow shit up! I really think we need some counseling or something.
The Army Corps has a whole list of levee segments south of Cairo it's dreaming of blowing up as the crest of the flood heads downstream. They're stepping up to the continental scale.
When the fuck did Wonkette turn into DailyKos? I want to talk about ham biscuits and buttsecks.
I think Ken brainwashed Riley and Jack at his Desert Compound. "I will only look at things in the most depressing light… I will only look at things in the most depressing light…" It's somehow part of his master plan for world domination. When the Wonkbot armies come to take us, we'll all be too weepy and/or drunk to fight back.
Isn't Riley here in the DC area? How about we all take him out, get him drunk, and introduce him to some rich hussies from Late Night Shots?
Well, poor Riley also has to deal with all those Breitbart molestation flashbacks.
"introduce him to some rich hussies from Late Night Shots"
It's not enough that he slaves away at Wonkette and gets molested Breitbart, now you want him to get some STDs as well?
Leave Riley alone!
Look at it this way. Either the STD's will be passed along to Breitbart, or Riley's already infected from Breitbart contact.
Is my bottle of Pessimus Maximus tequila half full or half empty?
"Hah. Look at that. My tequila just made me clinically depressed. What can your tequila do?"
Yay! I found the Lindsey Graham/Bin Laden article mashup! I just love reading this out loud with his delicate cadence. God knows why this was written.
"Tell me we got the bastard," the South Carolina Republican responded.
"Yeah, we got him," Biden said.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110503/NE...
Graham and Biden might just be polar opposites in terms of masculinity.
Graham: reclines on a tastefully upholstered divan on the veranda, cool drink in hand, watching the gardeners tend the camillias.
Biden: washes his car out in the driveway in a pair of grotty old shorts, can of domestic beer sitting by the bucket of soapy water, ball game playing on the radio.
Haha. Also, this: Graham, who had been at a Washington Capitals hockey game, said Biden had tried to reach him several times that night to tell him al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden had been killed. He said he was "overcome with emotion" to learn the news, calling it "something most Americans have been hoping for for a very long time.
So Lindsey puts on the butch by going to a hockey game (!) but, on hearing the news that OBL has snuffed it, can't reach for the smelling salts fast enough.
Real men don't get "overcome with emotion".
You silently say "Yesss!!" in your head, while not giving away your emotions to those around you. You then make up a lie about having to go home from the game to fuck your wife, just to stop her bitching. Then you drive to work in your Aston Martin in silence, glaring like Daniel Craig.
So this story doesn't leak for 9 months, Biden calls his ex-senate butt buddies and Wolf Blitzer is stepping on BO's big announcement. Fucking children. He should have told Granpa Cornpants the tweet would have taken a couple of days to decipher.
I got your ham biscuits right here:
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2011/05/02/gop-...
Lindsey Graham tossing a little gasoline on the "Bin Ladin isn't dead, he's in a cave with Elvis" conspiracy flames?
Speaking of ham biscuits, he's apparently one of the WORST political prognosticators, which presumably explains why he and Lieberman go on Meet the Press so often, for their opinions and predictions.
Other SHOCKING DEVELOPMENTS include the fact that Tom Friedman is officially "Bad", being a conservative or a lawyer makes you significantly more wrong, statistically, and Paul Krugman is #1 and gloating about it.
"Perhaps most importantly, being a good prognosticator seems to be a product of choices, not birth. Anyone can be good; all they need to do is avoid law school and buy into liberalism as an overarching philosophy."
Oh god, that is the sound of like 80% of all OP-ED writers being told to fuck right off.
I think it's more that he's trying to eke a little bit of "Obama bending over backwards for the ISLAMS by burying OBL at sea per Sharia Law" out of what is otherwise a political disaster for the Republicans.
Kids, they can't help it, the libtard leaning is strong in the young. The instinctive righteous indignation has not yet been beaten down by the realization that the desire for a just and fair world is the desire for a fantasy that has never and never will exist.
That 6 month old secretary of war racked upped some impressive victories in her short life span, or something like that – human shields, "collateral damage?" USA, USA, US…ah, fuck it.
I declare today "World Party Day," and strongly encourage all to go listen to the song "Is It Like Today?" and ponder their place in the cosmos.
and I know I'm not alone… and I know I'm not alone… and I know I'm not a-lone….
"How could it've come to this?
You're really killing Me, y'know…"
You're talking about a personally important band (/guy) who came to my awareness at a very impressionable time. Mixing up even the soberest of messages w/ the inebriated sounds of carnivale, much as with wonkette at its best.
Ayn Rand blows things up. So saving the homes of a bunch of poor people over land owned by ConAgra must be the Ronal Reagan Right Thinking at its best.
So what you're saying is that this levee was probably destroyed by the Army Corps of Engineers because the purity of their Creators' Vision had been perverted?
I'm not sure I agree with the point of the Qaddafi piece, but it's important that someone say it.
Right, looks like a double shot of Maker's Mark and back to bed for me. Fuck it all.
Wonkette really needs to start advertising alcohol, because they're practically begging us to drink already, for free. Why shouldn't they make some money off our misery? BAD businessman, Ken! Bad!
Ken is just a shill for DrinkLine.com
Don't worry, I'm pretty sure the levee was also home to a Downs Syndrome Society or school for orphans, or something, as well.
The tweets of hate from Palin for NATO refudiating Downs Syndrome kids in 3, 2, 1…
Tweets of Hate will be the name of my next band.
Listen, World, we're going to keep blowing up your toddlers until you all love us. (Like you mean it…and that means give us your oil, also.)
USA! USA! USA!
~
Good God yawl. Can't we go back to hateful conservatives taking away our Medicare and tax breaks for the Koch sucking wealthy? At least there's jokes in thar somewhere.
All I know about levees is that they are great places to go to drink whiskey and rye.
And if it breaks, you'll have no place to stay.
So . . . this'll be the day that I and/or some other pathetic bunch of chumps die?
They work for taxes too…
Some songs for your flood enjoyment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbJQT2eDseA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKVjV7XZrUU (this is one of my favorite bands, btw)
Saw the MTs open for Roger Clyne at HOB in Vegas a couple years back, they do indeed put on a good show.
And of course http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGs2iLoDUYE
What makes this more horrific than the usual killings is that the people are given identities — if you want to kill people without remorse, you have to be careful that they remain anonymous.
Also too, "100,000 children were killed in Iraq," doesn't sound quite as bad as "100,000 grandchildren were killed in Iraq." though, of course, they all were grandchildren. (fyi, I made up the number; it's probably higher.)
But 0 fetuses, so that makes it better.
As Stalin said, one dead man is a tragedy, but one million is a statistic.
Hey, intensedebate ate my comment!
And in other news, it's Tuesday.
Ya know those "useless young people" who "were busy chanting brain-dead Neanderthal slogans in front of the White House on Sunday" were government PLANTS, right? The CIA paid them to go participate in that "spontaneous" demonstration. And, apparently, clog Facebook with bullshit posts about it.
Sadly, I'm not making this up, but have seen this "theory" advanced in multiple idiot internet locations, as further evidence of the elaborate Osama-killin' coverup, usually insisting that either he's been dead for years and they just now announced it, or that he wasn't actually killed and it's all fake, or somehow, both.
Oh, I see that I am an idiot myself and Wonkette already has a post up about this. Nevermind.
My only question about this is–why now? The timing couldn't be less propitious. The enthusiasm will wear off long before the 2012 elections.
"A witness said water began to pour out of the hole after the explosion and is expected to eventually flood some 130,000 acres of farmland in Missouri in order to spare the towns."
What's a farm? Do they grow High Fructose Corn Syrup there?
MORE SUBSIDIES… hoo ray!
FUCK YEAH!! KILL !! BOMB!! DIE FUCKERS!!
Today we're all conservatards.
You forgot, "…heh heh heh…"
You know, all Bushy.
"Today we're all Deciders, heh heh heh . "
Oh, it's not to late to mention that Canada really fucked it up last night: Kitten-eater S. Harper lucked into a majority government. Given party discipline up there, don't expect much democracy in the Great White North, and get ready for climate change legislation NEVER to happen in the Land of Ten Thousand Tar Pits. Fucking hell. At least Layton took Quebec back from the separatists with that badass mustache.
Fucking great. There goes our retirement healthcare back-up plan. They still have poutine though, right?
I think eating poutine pretty much guarantees you will never need retirement healthcare.
Quebec has poutine. Alberta has ketchup-flavored Pringles. And Newfoundland will gladly shoot you in the ass for a bucketful of fish.
Little Egypt is saved!
I apologize for getting all high-horsey there, too.
Especially the whole "Britishy" part…
(jus_kiddin'- we're mostly all on the same side… except the trolls)
Might I suggest "Back-Stabbing-Fuck-Istanis"? For the Bin Laden-hiding military-security assholes only, of course?
I'm willing to bet that our dollars fund that military institute up the block from Osama's enclave. You know the one, where they just didn't happen to notice who was living in the neighborhood.
neigh neigh…worry not. You have a right to your opinions.
Only thing I know about levee's is in the song "Waitin' for the Robert E. Lee". Apparently, a lot of shufflin' along takes place there.
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Way down on the levee in old Alabamy,
there's Daddy and Mammy, there's Ephraim and Sammy.
On a moonlight night you can find them all.
While they are waitin', the banjos are syncopatin'
Oh, what's that they're sayin'?
Oh, what's that they're sayin'?
While they keep playin', and hummin' and swayin',
it's the good ship Robert E. Lee that's here to carry the cotton away.
Ah-ha-ha, watch them shufflin' along, see them shufflin' along!
Go take your best gal, your real pal, go down on the levee,
I said to the levee, and we'll (CHORUS joins) join that shufflin' throng.
Hear that music and song.
It's simply great, mate,
waitin' on the levee,
waitin' for the Robert E. Lee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MHebFCh0vQ&NR...
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Needz moar watermelon references.
That is friggin' Shufflesville Alabama…
price of meth skyrockets as Missouri labs flooded ….
Is there no ass-fucking going on anywhere in DC? It was the ass-fucking that made Wonkette famous, the ass-fucking that brought me here along with so many others, where has all the ass-fucking gone?
Ah the queen of Ass Fucking Ana Marie brought me here and I am sure there is ass fucking in DC as there are republicans there.
All the ass fuckers have gone to Time Magazine, every one
Now it's all eye-fucking with a bullet.
Planes fly up, bombs come down. You can't explain it.
From looking at the propaganda vids released by Qhadaffy I am pretty sure that the average living room does not have the amount of steel reinforcement rods and massive concrete walls that were present. So, a command and control center = legit target.
I seem to recall that there is a Wonketteer that is a building inspector – hope he/she can back me up on this.
Remember, we bombed Qadaffi's compound back in the mid-80s, so who knows what they did to rebuild it. Every building there might have steel reinforcement rods and concrete walls. Of course, bombs have gotten stronger too.
Engineers love to blow stuff up–also shoot stuff from catapults–and hardly ever get the chance to do it. For the Corps of Engineers dynamiting the levee was as big a deal as killing OBL.
In Corps of Engineers office politics, the explosives team always seem to win out over the trebuchet guys.
This post grows tiresome. C'mon, Stuef, it's almost fucking Afternoon in America!
Another angle is NATO member France's president Nicolas Sarkozy is looking to ignore the stated 'no-fly' goals in order to target Qhadaffy, who has publicly bragged that he financed Sarkozy's election campaign.
Also, too: French oil giant Elf holds most of the contracts for the 'Texas tea' in Libya, and is not really interested in a protracted civil war with resultant damge/destruction of wells and refineries…
I know. Needs moar buttsechs. Sorry my snark is weak today.
Whatever happens to Gaddafi's family is blood on his own hands. He certainly could afford to send the ones who aren't complicit in his regime elsewhere, and I am sure he has no qualms about playing the human shield card. Why should I give a shit about his kids if he doesn't?
Contrary to the conservative stereotype, the French are mean-ass motherfuckers who fight dirty when they fight. I can easily believe that the US has nothing to do with this targeting of Gaddafi and his family, this is exactly the sort of thing that the French would do.
Fight with their feet, fuck with their face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savate
They are champion hair-pullers, eye-gougers, and ear-biters, as well as kickers and spitters.
So they have no "guys" in their services? Just 8 year old girls huh?
Sissies!
Thank you for our daily update on all items concerning things being blown up.
You know when kids killed there is nothing to say that is snarky. I can only hug my grandkids a little tighter, and keep working for the day when they won't have to worry about the wars of their parents.
Gaddafi was just acting in his own enlightened, rational self-interest when he used his children as human shields. And it worked; he's still alive! Objectivism wins again!
Who Is John Gaddafi?
I just read that Ahmadinejad's election was fixed… huh… wha?
That can't happen can it?
The French have long had a special relationship with the Maghreb to the east of Egypt–special meaning "we fucking own this place no matter what your towel-headed leaders say".
"Paki-bashing" — it's what Brit yobs do instead of gay-bashing. "Paki" definitely a put-down over there.
Killing infants by mistake and missing the real target completely is just following the lead of Lord Ronnie back in '86. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Libya_(19...
No shit. Well, what doesn't kill me only makes me stronger.
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