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

i still think they should've hacked Sallie Mae's computer with fake info that Osama was delinquent on a student loan balance -- they'd have found him ages ago.

hi, tad.

Unless it drives the price of gas down, this will count for less than nothing in November.

don't think this is true

Maybe the White House meant 10:30 central time.

malkin commenters v. upset that they haven't heard from the prez yet

I could see it affecting the tenor of the campaign, but not how people vote. Anyway, I'm sure it will set into motion lots of unknowns between now and then.

aero stop reading malkin's commenters ffs

can't help myself

malkin commenters v. upset that they haven't heard from the prez yet

dude, that's some serious masochism to go checking in on that crowd

lol xpost

Jon King just said this is the kind of event that brings both sides together. And you think I live in a dream world.

and remember there are only TWO SIDES, EVER

https://twitter.com/#!/patkiernan/status/64892716546396160

what wisdom does dennis perrin have to share w/ us?

Mordy, it won't be anywhere as dumb as "Obama just got re-elected," I'm sure

whitehouse.gov live feed just switched on

signs of life at presser

dude, that's some serious masochism to go checking in on that crowd

it's the first thing I do any time there's good news for the Democrats - right now the Malkin commenters are all THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH. it's kinda incredible

lol "he's in the trunk of my car right now" re: obama react at correspondents dinner

the kinda of lol in which im not lolling tbc

aero c'mon man

http://plixi.com/p/97941808

maintaining an equilibrium is difficult enough without seeking out bullshit

MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE

today's achievement is a testament to the greatness of our nation. i gotta let that one marinate

go barry

mookie I gotta really focus pretty hard on how bad the opposition like daily is to be able to do my duty when it's time to go to the polls ok

lotta powerful reverse speech stuff goin on in that address just now btw - pretty sure I just got the command to go buy a bunch of vintage horror stuff off Alibris

hey guys hi

fyi

we killed that bin laden motherfucker

fyi

that is, in its way, some shit

deal with it

peace

worst haiku I ever read

Rough justice. Karmic retribution. Pick your label. Live by the sword and die by the sword. I will refrain from unseemly ululations, but I am glad he is dead.

i mean its like i said i could write a paper no one would read abt how ''we'' killed ''bin laden'' today and how ''positive '' that it is and whatever but fuck all that shit like yo

this is a dude

that killed a fuckin bunch of people because they weren't religious enough for him

fuck that

i'm pleased he's up out

and imo you should be too

and the fact that it happened under an obama admin is a nice bonus

gotta say that is a weird take comin from u hoos

I take it hoos' Facebook post posted automatically.

like I too am stoked if there is less death in the world now but still --

He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill.
Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.
--Sutta Nipata II,14

lol

this is many posts up bcuz some major news event occurred in the interim but

and re that Nate Silver thing placing O on the 'liberal' scale, how did he account for a generic mainstream liberal in 1975 being a Trotskyite loon in 2011? (Answer not necessary. I rue the day Silver left Baseball Prospectus for this trivia.)

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Monday, May 2, 2011 1:24 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because the context shifted to the right, which was the entire point of his post, fyi

naw man I'm just talkin about Hoos I look to that dude for the Buddha consciousness

this is what greenwald means when he talks about being poisoned by the beltway

Yeah its great that a bad man is gone from the world but there's something unnerving about the thought of millions of people going to sleep happier tonight because they read that someone was killed.

Can't wait for the HRO post, tbh

and the fact that it happened under an obama admin is a nice bonus

cuz Bam is now Terrorist #1, amirite

linked it on the other thread but he posted this on twitter:

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg610/scaled.php?tn=0&server=610&filename=x92ua.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

xpost

Read those Corner commenters for real fun.

i will do no such thing

yes u will cause some of us are gonna copy and paste that shit for weeks lol

lol ^___^

when i heard, i was drinking a beer and reading an ILX thread. i guess i will always remember this as the day BIG HOOS broke the news.

it's weird. i'm not happy he's dead. i'm not bummed. the fact that lots of people are celebrating neither cheers nor repulses me. i guess i feel a sort of "closure," as they say, and the response of my countrymen pretty much squares with my expectations.

i figure bin laden got no less than what was coming to him, but only in a value-neutral, basically mechanical sense. tbh, i'm more concerned about immediates like rent money and why my cat always wants to be under the couch during daylight hours.

^This is pretty much how I feel. I mulled it over in my head, and for a moment decided I would have rather seen him captured alive and brought to trial and have every book in the book thrown at him. Then I realized that a capture would have likely been impossible without putting our forces in further danger and faced with a choice of deaths between OBL and US soldiers, I sure as hell know which I prefer.

there's no way that he was ever going to let himself get captured

alive, obv