I don’t know about you all, but I’m quite tired of the Osama porn (though I may go ahead and buy a pair of ‘Obama Got Osama’ thongs to wear to my next soirée; doesn’t take long to roll out the merch these days). Actually, I was tired of it yesterday morning by about 4:30 AM, but it’s proven harder to avoid than Royal Wedding porn or even American Idol porn.
The president can be confident, however, as he appears to have the support of such mental giants as Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, and Guidi Ruliani. For about two days, I’d expect, when they’ll all go back to calling him a lily-livered commie pinko uncover Manchurian Mooslam. Or something. Hard to believe one can be both an ineffectual coward and a secret spy bent on the destruction of truth, justice and the American Way, but there you have it. I think the big question on all our minds is “will gas prices go down now or what?”
Fortunately, ABC – network of the celebrity bad boys – is going back to reporting on the important stuff, and will have an “exclusive” with Jesse James on both GMA and Nightline. Goodness knows I’ll be tuning in to that. I hope they ask him how he felt when he heard about Osama. And why haven’t we heard what Lindsey Lohan thinks (assuming that’s not a contradiction in terms)? Is there some kind of cover-up going on, or what?
If only the Weekly World News hadn’t been silenced by the Illuminati.
Is it really only Tuesday? Yesterday seemed to last a whole week.
It’s getting so the 24/7 media can’t completely beat a good story to death. No sooner that the birth certificate is produced than there were the tornados and the wedding and the cabinet shakeup and the WH correspondents’ dinner and now Usama down. If O’Bama was so clever, you’d think he would have given himself a little more time for the Trump smack down victory lap. Couldn’t that UBL thing have waited a week so he could blow Celebrity Apprentice off next Sunday? This just looks like piling on at this point.
Leaders in the so-called “birther” movement argued their case over President Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship before a federal appeals court Monday in Southern California, claiming the full birth certificate he released last week had been doctored.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/obama-birth-certificate-c_0_n_856645.html
It seems that I’ll not get a chance to miss Oily Taints.
NYC redtail hawks are multiplying as are their watchers. Palemale and his new mate, Lima, laid eggs late and as of today they are still sitting on them. Palemale’s daughter part of the Westside hawks, lost her mate to a poisoned rat and somehow managed to finished incubating the eggs and is now feeding them. Bobby and Violate, a new hawk pair nesting on an NYU window ledge, have been incubating their eggs too long and hope for a hatching is fading though you can watch them on a cam if you’d like.
Following the lives of these birds is a bit like watching a soap opera except that the hawks do what they’re supposed to do.
NYC redtail hawks.””
that they’re alive centers me.
my trees are in bloom
:bee: :bee: :bee: !
close to a hundred nests this year.
wish i could protect them from the fall out.
No comment today. News Cyclings making me cramped in brain.
Pope John 23 was at least as saintly as JP2. Why did it take him so long to reach Blessed.
OK. I shall stop with this routine. Who really fucking cares? :jesus: :omg: :omg: :nixon: :jesus:
Circulate those old Morning Sedition shows! :nixon: :rabbi: :pup:
(We need a Mark Riley emoticon.) :rabbi: :rabbi: :rofl2: :jesus:
Venerable Pope Pius Xll did indeed save thousands of Jews from Hitler. Why is he villified in some circles? References are are abundant.
Sorry. Sorry. I will stop with this. (I do like Ratzinger, BTW. Serious business.)
We need Riley Emoticon. IMO. :rabbi: :pope: :pirate: :blues: :fire: :fire: :sdavid: :sheep: :rabbi: :jesus:
Let there be :bee: :bee: :bee:
:parrot: :parrot: :parrot:
Just found what I was looking for in the archives. Will keep you posted, if that is necessary. :jesus: :bow: :fire: :pirate: :priest: :rofl2: :bow: :bow: :bow:
(Riley Emo!) :rabbi:
:yippee: :peace: :sheep: :sheep: :sdavid:
OK. Sonra gelecegm!
Sevmek cok.
:blues:
B-Movie Actress Yvette Vickers’ Body Discovered in L.A. Home After Several Months
🙁 :gate:
Could Osama bin Laden have been found faster if the CIA had followed the advice of ecosystem geographers from the University of California, Los Angeles? Probably not, but the predictions of UCLA geographer Thomas Gillespie, who, along with colleague John Agnew and a class of undergraduates, authored a 2009 paper predicting the terrorist’s whereabouts, were none too shabby. According to a probabilistic model they created, there was an 80.9% chance that bin Laden was hiding out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed last night. And they correctly predicted that he would be in a large town, not a cave.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/03/972501/-Geographers-predict-Osamas-location?detail=hide
Dick Cheney said today that “it wouldn’t be surprising†the intel came from Bush’s torture program. However, there is currently no evidence to suggest that the detainees that provided the information that led to bin Laden were subject to torture. And Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who presumably has some knowledge about what went on at Gitmo, today threw some cold water on this theory:
“The United States Department of Defense did not do waterboarding for interrogation purposes to anyone. It is true that some information that came from normal interrogation approaches at Guantanamo did lead to information that was beneficial in this instance. But it was not harsh treatment and it was not waterboarding.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/03/972665/-Rumsfeld-confirms:-Waterboarding-did-not-net-intelligence-that-led-to-binLaden?detail=hide
One thing I recall about capturing Osama–a police action rather than a military one–was that Afghanistan was willing to turn over Osama for trial. The US had to file charges, or something of that sort. US ignored, as the US frequently prefers use of force to legal and diplomatic channels. I believe Randi Rhodes would sometimes screech about that. I’m sure mpst of the commentators we like here have pronounced such on the “War vs. Legal/diplomatic channels”. Chris Hedges? What, for instance, did he say on the matter.
:bow: :peace:
Sorry, I cant help the face of this great and timeless video. It was unintentional.
Oh, didn’t realize it, but today is Pete Seeger’s birthday. He’s 92.
Idiot Wind and Pete Seeger’s “What did you learn…? What a great close for the OBL saga.
My emoticon function is not working, so I will “POOF!”
Missed the memo?
I was a little surprised by John Stewart going on a little too long with the osama movie titles- but Colbert was over the top with the blood lust.
Maybe it’s NYC thing that I just wouldn’t understand.
I also don’t understand why the feeding obl to the sharks. Why not an anonymous burial in the ground on video so we don’t piss off even more mooslims?
Lots that I don’t understand.
Glad he’s dead- move on
I think I get it. If he was planted in an unmarked grave any number of ‘shrines’ could break out. The sea burial makes that impossible. Meanwhile, we know O’Bama secretly palmed the body and it will be entombed in a new pyramid shrine somewhere after he gets re-elected and begins to move on his real agenda.
I think you’ve got Obama’s number, Vern.
OMEGA! E#mos don’t work for me.
:nixon: :rofl2: :dancers: :jesus: :jesus: :jesus: :sdavid: :sdavid: :sdavid: :menorah: :menorah:
Now they work.
I’m remembering one year around this time I was in NOLa at JazzFest and seeing Pete with his banjo hanging from his back walking to play somewhere. He never stops.
:cake: :fist: :pup:
It’s 1:30 in the morning and I am awake because some movie is shooting around the corner and they decided our car was in their way even though their permit does not allow them use of our block. Undaunted they tried to move the car and set off the alarm, waking hubby who after some indelicate language moved the car. But, now I’m up and there is little chance I’ll get back to sleep soon. :fu: