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QUOTE (Chet Kincaid @ May 2, 2011 -> 04:33 PM) I STILL say this year the White Sox will eclipse that 88 win total from last year. I have faith. Fortunately we don't drug test members of this site.

Here is another piece in which I subjectively found interesting. This time I will quote the article instead of just linking it.

This is so awesome. ABC Television's 20/20 Report On Hip-Hop From 1981

Greenwald with a good piece today.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 2, 2011 -> 03:46 PM) Haha, that was a great one. I honestly laughed pretty hard. Your iPhone joke yesterday was classic, too. And do you think the guy who did it had a cool or hilarious line? I could only think of cheesy action movie one liners so I won't even bother.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 2, 2011 -> 03:44 PM) I know this is grim and I'm sure it'll have more than a few of you shaking your heads or wagging your finger, but how cool would it be to be the guy who gave him the double tap? Someone tweeted that he might be the first guy to die from too many blowjobs.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ May 2, 2011 -> 03:43 PM) I actually couldn't stop laughing at that movie. I never saw the skits on SNL and thought it'd suck, but it was hilarious. Agreed. A pleasant surprise.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ May 2, 2011 -> 03:35 PM) The Secret Team That Killed bin Laden So you're telling me it was this guy?

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 2, 2011 -> 03:13 PM) They should at least have some sort of panel observe the body. Like officials from all over the world or an independent expert. What are you even talking about? A panel? A panel of what? They had a DNA specialist confirm the identity. Did you think Joe Biden conducted the DNA testing?

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 2, 2011 -> 03:10 PM) True, we can't just take the government's word for it. Checks and balances are needed. How many political scandals in Illinois alone have we seen? I'm confident he's dead but cmon. World deserves proof. GMAFB. There is no proof that will silence nut job conspiracy theorists. Just look at the Obama birth certificate story as the perfect example. There are people out there saying it was photoshopped and it's a fake. They'd say the same about a photo of Bin Laden.

via David Sirota for Salon

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Perhaps now that the Osama monkey is off their backs, the team will play more loosely and start winning.

Teacher who vowed not to shave until bin Laden was caught or killed finally shaves

Here's a photo of me (tall guy in the middle) on my first work trip with Sears. This was 9/13/01, two days after the attacks. We were stuck on Long Island during the attacks, about 30 or 40 miles from ground zero. Airports and ferrys off the island were shut down so we were stuck there for a few days. Finally on the 13th they opened up the ferry and we left for a long drive back to Chicago. We caught a glimpse of the smoke bellowing from ground zero from the ferry. I remember seeing the twin towers as were were descending to land on the night of 9/09. We had planned to go do some sightseeing on the 12th and possibly check out the towers.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ May 2, 2011 -> 02:28 PM) No one will disagree with that. But being the one to rid the world of a man responsible for 10,000 human lives is another reason why America is great. If Obama or Bush were killed there would be a lot of people in other countries celebrating in the streets since we killed thousands of innocent civilians in the last decade.

Can we put up the real MISSION ACCOMPLISHED sign now?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 2, 2011 -> 02:08 PM) So are we going with Deathers on this one? http://www.facebook.com/cindyssoapbox/posts/128596820550958 Oh man.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 2, 2011 -> 02:07 PM) Where did I say they were the same? I said Im not sure its "okay". Or are you saying who cares about collateral damage as long as its ordered. IE We shouldnt care about all the innocents the A-Bomb killed because we didnt really mean to kill all those civilians, it just happened. Like I said, anyone can do what they want, just remember when you are dancing on the streets about some one's death, they will be dancing about yours. As long as you are fine with that, dance the night away. I personally am not fine with that. As for Christian or not, who cares. In full agreement. Maybe that's why I liked Barry Sanders so much. And dude, use the quote button!

@baratunde:

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 2, 2011 -> 01:41 PM) You're back onto the "Giving them effective superpowers" bit here. 5 years, undiscovered as a sleeper cell, with no contact with the outside, no one noticing that they took a trip to Pakistan in 2002, and no urge to start off an attack until UBL is killed? If they could put a 5 year sleeper cell in place, why wait? I don't have an answer. I never would have thought a handful of boxcutter carrying douches could pull off what they did either.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 2, 2011 -> 01:38 PM) We're talking about one of the most evil individuals in the history of the world. I never thought I'd have to defend myself and others for celebrating his death. But now that many question it, I'll have to ask the opinion of my pastor on this one. I mean Bin Laden .. Hitler ... how can you not celebrate they day they were thrust into hell even if you are a Christian? I never said you should or shouldn't celebrate. I just think it's odd that people who follow the bible are happy when someone is murdered, no matter who it is. It's actually one of 10 things God told people to never, ever do. Personally I'm fine with him being assassinated but it's just strange to see groups of people celebrating death. We do it here when "one of them" get killed and our enemies celebrate when our people get killed. I mean lets face it...we've killed countless numbers of civilians abroad and we've had many killed here as well. Religions on both sides claiming they are peace loving people. The human race is quite bizarre to me.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 2, 2011 -> 01:37 PM) Actually, if they started off a plot because of this, it'd probably be less likely to succeed because the U.S. is at heightened alert and anything done immediately in response to this is likely to be rushed, and potentially somewhat sloppy. Not necessarily. Lets say, 5 years ago, that they gave a command to a group of X guys in the US "If/when OBL is captured or killed, perform a suicide bombing X days later at X". How would we uncover that?

QUOTE (bmags @ May 2, 2011 -> 01:37 PM) My guess is all of them have real lasting memories of that day. If it wasn't for him, maybe this last decade wouldn't have featured 2 wars and these people who were "8-12 with no lasting memories" would not have had their friends go off and fight and some die instead of staying home and going to school and creating families. One of those wars had nothing to do with him so I wouldn't fault him for that one.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ May 2, 2011 -> 01:35 PM) If they could do this why haven't they already? Same with the nuke scenario. I don't know. Doesn't mean they can't or won't.