Did you know that we shouldn’t be all jubilant about getting Bin Laden because he wasn’t relevant anymore and lots of people (i.e., some bloggers) had given him up for dead ages ago? And did you know furthermore that just because we got Bin Laden doesn’t mean the war against Muslim terrorists is over?
WELL KNOCK ME OVER WITH A FUCKING FEATHER. I DID NOT KNOW THAT. THANKS SO MUCH, POLITICAL BLOGOSPHERE, FOR SCHOOLING ME.
Seriously, how does “This is a great moment for our side” mean “We’ve won! Let’s all go home!” I mean — I mean — seriously you guys. Ask your preteen sons — they probably can tell you the difference between “winning a battle” and “winning a war.” You’ve obviously forgotten.
Been thinking the same thing all day. Rolling my eyes a lot. The usual. You said it, thanks.
I had to say something to stop my eyes from rolling until they fell right out.
You’ll wanna steer clear of FreeRepublic then. Most of them are convinced Osama’s bin Dead since Tora Bora, and this is all a put-up job by Bammy to deflect attention from Trump’s Quest for the Holy Birth Certificate. *headdesk*
I rarely visit Free Republic unless someone links to a funny post there. That may be once a year.
There’s something fundamentally unserious about these gits carrying on as if we should be in mourning over the death of OBL.
These are the same dhimmis-in-waiting that’ve been preaching ‘accommodation’ (read ‘surrender’) to the ‘concerns’ of the ‘splodeydopes for most of the past decade.
It’s all a SWPL status game with those types. I don’t even think that anyone else is “real” to them outside of their little self-satisfied circle. If they were really serious, they’d have a stash of gold and a closetfull of spare burkhas. You know, so they could fit in and survive under their new Muslim overlords.
Sorry for the off-topic but LOVE the new theme! I hope you keep it a long while. I recognized Amy’s wavy redhead right away. Sweet.
Unfortunately it looks really crappy (the theme, not the header) on other computers than my laptop, so I’m going to have to change back to the one I was using.
OK, theme back to what it was before. I guess the new one isn’t set up for all browsers — not cool.
And we gave the bastard a proper Muslim burial at sea. Some multi-culti dick head (or diverse commission of them) apparently decided that the chivalrous and brave Mohammedan warrior deserved a show of respect for the benefit of the Islamist fanatics. Or, maybe it’s that “Arab street” that will be impressed. I suppose that buys us a death by a sharp sword rather than dull one.
It wasn’t long ago that we were told the people who caused “man caused disasters” should have NYC jury trials, Miranda rights on the battlefield and Halal cheeseburgers at Gitmo-which we were assured was an illegal house of horrors. Now, O and his band of Candy Land assholes are slobbering all over themselves for getting Bin Laden precisely because they didn’t adhere to their own screeching and moralizing. It’s not Bush’s fault this time?
Those high-fallutin ideals came pretty cheap. They got tossed in favor of the new and improved “Hope and Change” i.e., the need to win another election.
I’m hearing that the “respectful” burial at sea wasn’t exactly… ceremonial. More like a perfunctory toss off the high side of a military ship. I envision everyone turning away once the bundle was airborne, no one bothering to even listen for the splash. I wonder how close to the propellers this occurred… Mmm, chum.
I’m sure each of the Seal Six team have some preeeeeeety interesting videos, that won’t be seen on pain of death..Don’t imagine seal members are too politically correct… Just sayin.
I’m sure they read the appropriate words from the appropriate section of the chaplain’s manual before feeding the crabs and sharks. (Line from a comment section: “Usually it’s a man feeding fishes to the seals …”)
I am assured it is not true that the shroud was made of bacon. Makes sense. What red-blooded American sailor would defile and discard perfectly good bacon like that? But if the Purser’s inventory on the USS Carl Vinson comes up short a gallon or two of hog’s lard, we can make a pretty good guess as to how the corpse was annointed before the disposal ceremony.
bin Laden, he dead. So long, chum.
[re Birtherism and UBL, ganked from another comment section: " I won't believe it until I see the long-form death certificate."]
The best I heard was “You Americans are so uncouth. Everyone knows you don’t take the bin out on May day.”
Thanks to the SEALS who took out the worlds garbage.
O/T I know, but an intriguing thing happened a couple of days back. I usually reside at Tim Blairs site, and he mentions an Andrea Harris who had a sharp tongue and an even sharper Zulu spear. She helped moderate his site until he went to The Daily Telegraph. Now I see a new entry on the old site for May, 2011, saying that part of the site will be up and running. There have been other portents of resurrection lately – the good Professor Bunyip has re-entered the picture.
Am I about to meet the old crowd for the first time?
Hmmm?
/Winston dons his Deerstalker hat in anticipation…
Yeah that’s me. Anyway, I’m glad the Bunyip is back! As for Tim’s old site, the last message there is from January. I had finally managed to get it back up and running after some server updates refused to recognize the install of Expression Engine I was using, and then there was a complete server meltdown, but everything is fine now. Tim still sends readers back to his old sites to recall previous entries so it was a real problem when he couldn’t get to any of his stuff from 2004-2008. He hasn’t contacted me about reviving the old blog for new use though.