Andulamb: So in other words, our enemies are totally going along with the fake assassination of OBL. I wonder how the conspiracy nuts explain that.

I think that this is proof positive that AQ is a bunch of incompetent jerks.

If they had any savvy at all, they would have totally played up the hoax idea to try and keep his myth alive. Mind you, it would have been pretty hard to sustain it without the ability to put together a new Bin Laden video (but, man, they could have at least tried to fake one).

Mind you, this won't stop our own conspiracy nuts. You could deliver OBL's corpse to their doorsteps and they still wouldn't believe.

href="http://www.fark.com/comments/6162601/68786255#c68786255">Weaver95: Limbaugh is really pissed off today.

Of course he is, constant failure on the part of the GOP is sure to piss off those who make their fortunes carrying their water.

I can't wait to see how they spin this.

Well, on NPR I heard Bush's security guy trying to claim credit for it, but then I remembered this:

1. Bush disbanded the CIA team looking for Bin Laden in 2006.
Link (new window)
2. Bin Laden was not a top priority for Bush:
a target="_blank" href="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/14/barnes-osama/">Link (new window)

So, sorry whackadoodles, Bush totally and knowingly failed to capture Bin Laden, and that seemed to be his goal.

I don't want to make this about Dems vs. Repubs, but you know the spin is already hitting the airwaves.

Bush used Bin Laden to whip up fear and mistrust in this country, he was more valuable alive to Bush and the neocons than he was dead, end of story.

Whack-a-mole.

Frank N Stein: Weaver95: Limbaugh is really pissed off today.

And this as f*ck all to do with what, exactly?

Sorry for the rudeness, but you guys spend way too much time worrying about what someone said somewhere.

Yes, Rush Limbaugh is paid 300 million dollars because he is not significant to the current political landscape.

What Rush says in the next 3 days will be the tactic in play for the GOP on this issue.

This event hurts the GOP and is on of a string of failures for them. Sorry, you don't get to turn it around.

If the GOP had decided not to got full on batcrap crazy for the last 3 years, then maybe people wouldn't want them to fail so spectacularly.

You guys made your own bed.

Killer Cars: Frank N Stein: Sorry for the rudeness, but you guys spend way too much time worrying about what someone said somewhere.

I don't mind the random Rush updates. I have family members who listen to the guy, so it prepares for me the chance occurrence I'm subjected to the derp.

Valid point, however I would say it's more appropriate to take it somewhere else. I'm probably in the minority on that opinion though.

iaazathot: You guys made your own bed.

Who made their bed?

Ok so didnt we kill a bunch of the Number "2" folks already? Wouldnt this guy actually be like number "623"?

lordargent: kingoomieiii: The pay bump pushed him into a new tax bracket



TAX BRACKETS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!

They do in Afghanistan.

ILikeRealPencils: Actually you are not alone. The non-stop derp from both sides of the aisle on Fark gets tiresome to say the least. But, it seems this is just how they roll so we just have to be hatin'. ;-)

My favorite is when people post something that other people said on other websites in an attempt to rile farkers up. The sheer ridiculousness of getting worked up over what someone said on the internet, on a site you don't even go to, is just hilarious.
It's like these people have a weird need to be outraged by something, even if it's just a statement from someone that has absolutely no consequence.

I can imagine him sitting at his computer, choosing his handle with which he would wage holy war on the West.

And Assad al-Jihad was taken. LOL

CygnusDarius: iaazathot: What Rush says in the next 3 days will be the tactic in play for the GOP on this issue.

This event hurts the GOP and is on of a string of failures for them. Sorry, you don't get to turn it around.

If the GOP had decided not to got full on batcrap crazy for the last 3 years, then maybe people wouldn't want them to fail so spectacularly.

You guys made your own bed.

I dunno, the last election the GOP seemed to sweep. Not that I support the right wing in general, but, it seems their smear tactics are effective... For the moment. And that's the scary part.

It was, however, a midterm election during a long, brutal recession, both of which are factors that always hurt the incumbent policy. A major GOP victory was inevitable. What was interesting, however, is how many of the more extreme GOP candidates like O'Donnell and Angle were not able to ride that wave to victory, and it cost them the Senate. This proves that there definitely seems to be a limit of on how well those tactics work. They also seem to work well for House races, where the voting population is much more homogenized, but the tactics fall apart when you try to use them in a Senate or Presidential race where there is a much more diverse population that isn't going to be as easily manipulated.

It is a little too soon to tell, but Obama may have a first-term that frontloaded with a lot of difficulty, only to find this a turning point. The killing of Osama is a huge win for him and his national security policy, and if the economy manages to stage even a moderate recovery all through next year, and unemployment continues to steadily drop, he'll become very hard to beat in 2012, especially with the shallow bench the GOP has right now. When Trump is able to make headlines as a likely contender for your party's nomination, it is time to worry.

adragontattoo: Ok so didnt we kill a bunch of the Number "2" folks already? Wouldnt this guy actually be like number "623"?

No, we've killed a bunch of No. 3s, but OBL and Ayman al-Zawahiri have been No. 1 & 2 in Al Qaeda for decades. Mullah Omar is the top Taliban guy, and probably has more to do with the bad stuff in Afghanistan.

Of course, of course, he's pissed. We'd all be pissed if we found ourselves surrounded by freshly made number twos.

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Judging from the number of number twos the US Government has eliminated over the last few years, there must be a lot of them, and without Osama bin Laden, they may well be hoping for another promotion in the near future.

Being a number two is never an easy job.

blockhouse: Why are the URLs of these forums never published? I'd like to see what 4chan trolls would do with these turds.

Most of them require membership, and they're in Arabic. Not too many 4channers speak Arabic.