Bin Laden Dead?

there might be a small difference between head of global terrorist organization responsible for worst attack on american soil and random dude on subway platform, yeah

i think thirdalternative is "taking the piss"

pretty sure he's "being himself" iirc

Anyone else slightly disturbed that the US once again murdered an unarmed man of color?

― thirdalternative, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 3:20 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

are you for real? xposts.

Sorry, I was just trying to rouse Max, my bad, carry on.

maybe Mugabe too

Am I a dick for thinking he really deserves it more than OBL?

cool pop culture reference, cutty. are you called cutty because you're so cutting edge?

― thirdalternative, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 3:27 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Anyone else slightly disturbed that the US once again murdered an unarmed man of color?

― thirdalternative, Wednesday, May 4, 2011 11:20 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm assuming this is humor.

Hipster girls wish they were lesbians.

― thirdalternative, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 4:25 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sorry, xxxxposts

I always forget Joseph Kony exists, which is probably good for my sanity but not much else

Am I a dick for thinking he really deserves it more than OBL?

― Concatenated without abruption (Michael White), Wednesday, May 4, 2011 10:33 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

this is how i feel about kony. dude actually ~terrorizes~ way more people than OBL ever has

he is the worst person in the world

In May 2010, U.S. President Obama signed into law the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act,[14] legislation aimed at stopping Joseph Kony and the LRA. The bill passed unanimously in the Senate on March 11, 2010 with 65 Senators as cosponsors, then passed unanimously in the House of Representatives on May 13, 2010 with 202 Representatives as cosponsors. On November 24, President Obama delivered the strategy to disarm Joseph Kony and the LRA.[15]

huh I did not know about this

whoa neither did i

"Am I a dick for thinking he really deserves it more than OBL?"

Hard to make a ranking here. Same goes for Kony.

I sometimes think the United Nations should have a military force at its disposal made up of soldiers from the member countries whose sole mission is to do things like go after OBL, Kony and Mugabe, but then I think about the dystopian nightmare that would follow after they assinated Kim Jong-Il and I realize why real life is real life and movies are movies.

65 cosponsors in the Sen!

who could the 35 have been...

it's occurring to me you could probably mint up a bunch of LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY bumper stickers and do brisk business at the next CPAC

that would be some p lolzy trolling

http://www.theresolve.org/lra-disarmament-and-northern-uganda-recovery-act-of-2009

btw goole that is fucking brilliant

haha. LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY - FOR OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE, maybe.

^^It would work, totally.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN would be more ambiguous IMO

So Dan, would your proposal ideally resemble UNIT, GI Joe, or the guys from "Predator"?

I'm think I'm down with this, only if Bill Duke gets to call the shots this time.

(my rationale being that it is much easier to read "FOR OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE" as something LRA is unambiguously in favor of, whereas you can more easily go either way with "THINK OF THE CHILDREN")

xp: not gonna lie, I was imagining GI Joe

i watched Salt last night and they should get her to take all these guys out. she can jump really far.

hahaha OTM

GI Joe never killed anybody! Guys from Predator were a rescue team, not assassins!

well, UNIT never killed anyone either, but that was because everything they tried to shoot was immune to bullets

except the Silurians; I guess they killed them

Bill Magill should be in on one of these teams, he wants to pull the trigger on somebody.

...anyway

re: killing unarmed bin laden

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04raid.html

Several experts on the rules of engagement in combat said that in a raid on a target as dangerous as Bin Laden, the Navy Seals team would be justified to open fire at the slightest commotion when they burst into a room.

“If he were surrendering, or knocked out and unconscious on the ground, that would raise serious questions," said John B. Bellinger III, legal counsel at the National Security Council and State Department in the Bush administration.

“But this is a guy who’s extremely dangerous,” he said. “If he’s nodding at someone in the hall, or rushing to the bookcase or you think he’s wearing a suicide vest, you’re on solid ground to kill him.”

At the United Nations, questions arose about the killing. The organization’s senior human rights official, Navi Pillay, called for more details.

While noting that Bin Laden was a dangerous man, she said any operation against him should have been done legally.

I like you max, you make me feel young again, with your fervor the newly radicalized so fresh and intact.

And I'm dead on about hipster girls, you know it. They cop so much style from lesbians, kind of like Madonna and the gays.

So much for the Bond villain ending. When finally faced with Cobra Commander, these guys went in itchy.

Not to necessarily make light of the situ, but pop cultural refs are the main way I process things. I'm not proud of one of my first thoughts upon hearing of the datagrab was that, "oh yeah, so these guys actually _DO_ go in looking for the briefcase aside from the bad guy. It's not just a video game thing."

Also, Bill Duke needs to be in more things.

so, next controversy: release the photos, or not? leon panetta has said they will (i think)

seems pretty grody to me, for no real benefit.

"At the United Nations, questions arose about the killing. The organization’s senior human rights official, Navi Pillay, called for more details. While noting that Bin Laden was a dangerous man, she said any operation against him should have been done legally".

The unsolvable dilemma of laws of war and international justice, in a nutshell.

Westphalia, so much to answer for

I appreciate the cautious definition of Bin Laden as a "dangerous man".

i think panetta said the photos will come out eventually, which seems right, whether or not the white house officially releases them. this is one of those things i think--how can something that so many people know exists, and is wanted to be seen by so many people, stay hidden?

max there are a lot of famous vaginas out there too

or you think he’s wearing a suicide vest

It just occurred to me that, were I bin Laden, I would have booby-trapped the house.

The Day the Clown Cried

ha I was about to say "you make it sound like Kim Kardashian's sex tape"

ok lol

Yeah, we've had camera phones for the better part of a decade, something will leak.

how can something that so many people know exists, and is wanted to be seen by so many people, stay hidden?

it has a mansion built with 7-foot privacy walls and burns all its trash