Bin Laden Dead?

of course

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Military-dog-Navy-SEAL-Team-6/208342825865273

Telegraph cover not loading for me, lemme check

A correction on one of the troubling facets(to me) of the initial report(s) on the military dogs, that of the removal of the dog's teeth for titanium replacements. Turns out its one of the many initial media reports of a world event that gets thing wrong:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/no-navy-seal-dogs-dont-have-titanium-teeth/

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/05/4861156546_623df7770d_z.jpg

No, Navy SEAL Dogs Don’t Have Titanium Teeth

By Spencer Ackerman Email Author
May 5, 2011 |
5:51 pm |
Categories: Terrorists, Guerillas, Pirates

Military dogs are awe-inspiring creatures, especially when attached to elite troops like the Navy SEALs. All day, the media have been in a frenzy over the fact that a military dog accompanied SEAL Team 6 on its mission to wax Osama bin Laden.

But let’s kill a misleading meme before it spreads further: Navy SEAL dogs don’t have titanium teeth.

A piece in The Daily took a good, detailed sniff around the German shepherds and Belgian Malinois that accompany special operations forces on patrol. But overshadowing all the cool radios and cameras strapped to the dogs is the claim that their “razor-sharp teeth are made of titanium,” at a cost of $2,000 per chomper. Getting bit by them “is like being stabbed four times at once with a bone crusher,” one dog trainer told The Daily. To quote enhanced-grille expert Pall Wall, that got the internet going nuts.

There’s one problem. If the dogs do have Kanye teeth, it’s a sign something’s wrong with them.

“It would not be possible for them to use titanium teeth to make them even more aggressive,” says Jeff Franklin, owner of Cobra Canine in Virginia Beach. “They’re not as stable as a regular tooth would be, and they’re much more likely to come out” during a biting.

The only reason to have titanium teeth? Medical reasons, he says, like “if a dog breaks a tooth … it’s the same as a crown for a human.”

Franklin should know. Cobra Canine got a $550,000 contract in April from the U.S. Special Operations Command to train military working dogs for Naval Special Warfare Group 2. (He says it’s been “three years” since he’s worked with the very secretive “DevGru,” or Team 6.) That’s a re-up from the past two years, when he’s had contracts for dog training with the command that paid out $470,000 each.

Indeed, the command’s requirements for dog teeth don’t seem to account for the circumstances that would lead to grille enhancements. “All four canine teeth must be present and must not be weakened by notching, enamel hyperplasia or abnormal, excessive wear,” it reads.

In other words, if for some reason you see a SEAL dog with light glistening from its titanium teeth, your proper reaction is pity for the creature. “It’s a detriment, not a help,” Franklin says. On the other hand, if you’re coming into close contact with the jaws of a SEAL’s dog, you’re in for a lot of trouble from his very deadly master.

(Despite the many thousands of ethical issues in this mission, the dog thing is what sticks in my head. I care about animals; humans can fuck right off.)

To quote enhanced-grille expert Pall Wall, that got the internet going nuts.

lolll

watching bin laden watching himself on al jazeera

chomsky's take:

http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/noam_chomsky_my_reaction_to_os/

party pooper

My reaction to Chomsky: that is such shit.

It’s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes “Jew” and “Gypsy.”

gypsyschmitt does have a certain ring to it.

Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden

I mean, you could just blockquote the whole thing.

certainly he sweems unaware half the country wd be celebrating a hit on W

Wait, he's positing an Iraqi hit on W? Doesn't he mean AQ lashing out at, I dunno, Laos?

gawd

http://www.igp-web.com/laois/lmap-Laois.jpg

who let captainlorax write for guernica

Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s

Unchallopsly

yeah the "uncontroversally" is kinda...disingenuous to say the least

bush pretty much is worse than bin laden tho

http://www.gamebanana.com/maps/156014

aaaaaand the CS mods are out

not a mod, a map.

fy maps suck.

though cs or de hardly applicable here i guess. although both sides being armed also not accurate. whatevs.

map then.

still, took longer for that to hit than i'd expected

yeah, true. on september 11th i remember a dude on with the name "osama bin lagging".

I remember hearing about the CS mods/maps like either that day or the next

the last decade summarized:

It's a pity the towers weren't filled with the Clinton & Bush families, but 3000 dead ten years ago isn't too bad of a bloody nose for an empire that unstintingly supports Zionists maniacs.

TA DA!

this guy

Is Chomsky right about the lack of evidence implicating bin Laden?

let ye who call thyselves challopsists acknowledge thy master

Morbs Partiers' perennial "Draft Chomsky 20xx"/"Chomsky, that Puppet?!" infighting would be so tedious..

plz I know no one less homicidal than Bam Pimp will ever be prez, y do u think ive given up?

An admitted fan of the herb, Osama may have been stoned as part of his pain management program since there was a marijuana patch outside in the allotment and, like any world star in retirement, Osama liked to smoke a lot of weed and made DVDs of important speeches which stacked up forlornly on the bookshelf next to the bottles of pills and the Koran, hoping to get picked up by Al Jazeera or HBO. How his lieutenants must have yearned for his summary martyrdom as they received his importunate bulletins that they derail a train during Obama’s State of the Union and other madcap schemes.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05062011.html

oroborbius: a snake that summarizes its own tail

thread needs a mumia link now

omg lol xp

i know all this white house backsliding re: the "resistance", the "human shield", the "serious faces watching tv" is lol and Troubling but honestly i mean it is pretty cool to live in a country where everyone knows this stuff two days after the lie's told and leon panetta has to grumble sheepishly about it on tv instead of just executing anyone who mentions it

how's that for apologism

plz I know no one less homicidal than Bam Pimp will ever be prez, y do u think ive given up?

― resistance does not require a firearm (Dr Morbius), Saturday, May 7, 2011 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

racist

Ol' Noam's been quite careful not say AQ didn't do 9/11, but he's dancing all along that line xps. No doubt whoever takes him on by joining those final two dots will be target of some simply *withering* rhetoric in his next epistle.

At least there were no women in the room to distract the men from their important jobs.

http://i52.tinypic.com/o7655f.jpg

(vv radical hasidic newspapers don't print pictures of women. via )

A REMOTE !!!

http://i.imgur.com/efFWr.jpg

Thought he was playing Wii Sports.

Stan: I feel sorry for the other lady who was also shopped out but no one bothered to note :/

Indeed - she is less public than Hilary (nobody seemed to know about her at all before this picture, even), but even so, this warrants a Blog Ignores Other Woman In Picture blog post imho.

lol so my dad apparently wrote an article in chinese about how bin laden isn't actually dead

what if bin laden never existed

makes ya think

my guess is after that, you'll probably never hear from him again etc

re charedi newspaper not showing hilary clinton -- i've worked at a couple "ultra-orthodox" newspapers and i've never even heard of that particular one. it probably has a readership in the dozens. aka being upset about this is not so different from being upset about some dude in a basement writing conspiracy dispatches. (and a lot of these are published in residential basements -- and have more problems than photoshopping pix, sometimes they just recycle full news stories without giving byline attribution, or totally invent stories!)

Yeah, I was starting to doubt the whole story too, as googling the name of the newspaper primarily seems to result in links to this particular story on this particular orthodox-critical blog. Apologies I thought it could be plausible.

I'm sure it's "true." It's just also "who cares?"

http://i.imgur.com/qosZl.jpg