US POLITICS SPRING 2011: Let's just call off this country.

(I start off by saying "Well..." a lot. I guess I did learn something from Reagan.)

No ballgame, but 52 11-year-olds who are waiting for science projects to be returned. Tomorrow, my country goes to the polls. Tune into your national newscasts about 21 minutes into the broadcast on Tuesday, and they should have a 15-second summary of what happened.

I think the longstanding effects of the "when it's compromise or stand your ground and get nothing, some compromise is always best" have been amply demonstrated over the past eleven years: they are catastrophic.

this is not what you're talking about, but there *are* situations where unpalatable and unfair choices may be best. the example i'm thinking of is tarp, which let incompetent assholes off the hook, but at least prevented graver damage to the larger economy.

it is very unfortunate that steps have not been taken to prevent a recurrence, but that doesn't make the choice wrong.

with u on the pp stuff though!

You have not alienated me, Alfred, I prefer watching the doomed Mets to discussing our doomed country.

but the mets are winning!

maybe our country can win too

so any theories on what this Obama statement at 10:30 is going to be

resigning to succeed Leno

maybe he's gonna say our nukes accidentally got set off

a stern talking-to for the white sox bullpen

speculation is that osama bin laden's been killed. will link.

significant enough for me to come off of ILX hiatus.

dafnalinzer Dafna Linzer/by DavidCornDC. From Rumsfeld's spox RT @keithurbahn: So I'm told by a reputable person they have killed Osama Bin Laden. Hot damn.

(sorry, that sounded absurd. just dropping by to pass along some possibly good news.

stronger evidence:

daveweigel daveweigel/by DavidCornDC
RT @jacksonjk: House Intelligence committee aide confirms that Osama Bin Laden is dead. U.S. has the body.

yoooo

Zombie Bin Laden still on the loose!

At the risk of sounding gauche, it's not like anyone in the Republican Party, or American generally, much cares about bin Laden. For the former, he was a means to an end. For the latter, they think Hussein did it while bin Laden went down the memory hole.

*America

Morgan Spurlock will finally get some relief if it's true.

yea i mean, kinda like when Saddam was captured, it really doesn't mean a lot as it's ten years too late. still a good thing, obv, but I'm hardly as excited as I woulda been if we captured him in like, say, 2003...if this is even what they're reporting

this Mets game is actually way awesome imo, how can you not like a pitcher named "Bastardo"

msnbc just going for it.

BREAKING NEWS10:40 PM ET
Osama bin Laden Is Dead, White House Says

haha yeah whoever was on before was all pressing his earpiece in going "can i say it involves an event overseas? oh well i just said that, an event overseas"

Wolf Blitzer has said "I don't want to speculate" 49 times in the last five minutes. I'll speculate that he's dying to speculate.

I'm already feeling safer

I won't believe it's Osama til I see his birth certificate. Hey-o!

hahaha

Al jazeera now reporting on US networks reporting that..... you get the picture

lil jon is now reporting that bin laden is dead, and we have his body

http://twitter.com/LilJon/status/64882826591481857

http://www.papermag.com/blogs/71764202.jpg

BUT U KNOW WHO IS?

funny that Obama does this in the middle of Celebrity Apprentice

not sure which is more exciting - bin laden dead or ryan howard tied the game!

Cleveland Indians are 19-8, I give 1 trillion more shits about that than I do bin Laden.

nah, fuck that guy bin laden. he sucked. this is a win for the world.

I bet Michelle starts crowning at this moment in nine months

lol

hahahaha

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/original/000/113/729/look-at-all-the-fucks-i-dont-give-theyre-just-falling-from-the-sky.jpg?1302721149

so what's the point of Obama speaking

wow CNN on this is the fucking worst news reporting I've ever fuckin seen

maybe that's what's taking so long xxxp

is it just so Obama can show up on camera makign the announcement while Who Let the Dogs Out plays over the loudspeaker

haha dude on msnbc (not realizing the irony) goes "we've had 47000 killed or wounded fighting terror since 9/11, so this is definitely good news that we got him"

Please shut up, Wolf.

WmC 100000otm but John King is just as bad right now

However, it is notable that it's exactly 8 years since President Flightsuit landed in front of his "Mission Accomplished" banner. In a just world, we'd have gotten a two-fer today.

anyone being all "i don't even care" about this is fronting so hard. if you cannot get any kind of catharsis from finding out that bin laden is dead than idk

eh they're filibustering waiting for the freakin speech to start, what do u want

michelle joek was lulz don't get me wrong

yeah i mean fuck bin laden

otoh i still have finals next week. life goes on