Showing posts tagged: Osama bin Laden
On getting busted by Skytrain officers today.
And no, I did not try to sneak through without a ticket. I missed the ticketing machines and the poor signage. Next thing I knew the cops were at the top of the escalator (where I thought the ticketing machines were). Surprise!
(via Star Wars-Osama Bin Laden-New York Times parody/mashup - Boing Boing)
#thingsthatareawesome
Wouldn’t it be an amazing irony if in 2,000 years people looked back on Osama bin Laden as the messiah. We could be living in the year 54 AD, my friends.
Obama, Osama. Same thing.
That’s not who we are. We don’t trot out this stuff as trophies.
President Barack Obama, explaining the decision not to release gruesome kill-photos of Osama Bin Laden’s corpse. (via squashed)
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Osama’s dead, baby. Osama’s dead. (by mAtG727)
As Americans, I believe a little more humility would speak worlds to our character. Then I saw this guy.
*facepalm*
The face of the Arab world in America’s eyes for too long has been bin Laden and now it is not. Now the face is only the young people in Egypt and Tunisia and all the Middle Eastern countries around the world where freedom rises up. Al Qaeda’s opportunity is gone.
Jon Stewart
What’s fascinating is the speed of it. Someone made up a quote, attributed it to MLK jr, and disseminated it widely, all within 24 hours. Why? What do you get out of saying something pithy, and getting no credit for it?
Out of Osama’s Death, A Fake Quotation is Born, Megan McArdle, The Atlantic
I’m just going to leave this right here.
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Osama bin Laden is dead. 2011/05/02. (EXIF)
Bin Laden dead, teacher shaves nearly 10-year-old beard (via Komo News)
