My personal top news stories:

1) Refurbished bedroom in my house, including new draperies

2) - 10) : [nothing else, my life is dull]

My coworker was listening to Rush yesterday....his top 10 were: 1-10 The Economy, and it's Obama's fault.

The headphones went on after that.

Unless his name was Osama bin Laden Kardashian, he's not the top story.

Contrabulous Flabtraption: Still surprised Obama okay'd the killing of another muslim.

2/10

Needs more derp.

For me, the top news story should be:

Press still a bunch of pussies, selling any shred of objectivity down the river for fear of ever being called 'biased'.

Top Stories:

Justice finds Osama bin Laden, and Anwar al Awlaki
Justice finds Col. Qaddafi in Libya
Mubarak is ousted from power in Egypt
Ben Ali is ousted from Tunisia
Muslim Brotherhood looks poised to win elections in Egypt (Obvious, but still an important development)
Islamist Ennahda Party wins in Tunisia (Also expected, but very important)
Africa has a rising Middle Class, fueled by Chinese investment in the continent, which may allow many countries to sustain their economic growth without having to rely solely on the export of raw materials
The Tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan
The death of Kim Jong Il

Almet: My coworker was listening to Rush yesterday....his top 10 were: 1-10 The Economy, and it's Obama's fault.

The headphones went on after that.

I thought 'Fly By Night' was their best. The others, I'd where headphones also.

Osama was the military-industrial-security complex's Santa Claus.

Now what will they use to make the kids behave?

I suppose Obummer is taking credit for Kim Jong Il's heart attack.

Osama, he won.

/Big time.

Shadow writer: Top Stories:

The Tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan


Hard to beat that one

It's easy to get away when the village idiot elected to be your countries president-twice! decides that OBL is no longer important, and that revenge for Daddy was far more important. So, off to Iraq we went.
5,000 US kids died for GW and his crew in Iraq. And OBL laughed. The world laughed. Then a new President was elected. One with with a 3-digit IQ, no "revenging" on his agenda. Only the hunting and killing of OBL. Lessons learned? Some retards should NOT be elected. Keep them at home, clearing brush.

He "didn't keep getting away". He was never a real target for the Bush administration. They needed a boogeyman to point at to maintain their stance on how terrifying and imminent that next 9/11 was going to be. George Bush was Bin Ladin's best security, and Bin Ladin was Bush's best hole card.

Without 9/11, Bush would never have seen a second term. 9/11 was the best thing to ever happen to the Bush administration and the GOP.

Well once we had a president who actually wanted to get him instead of one who was buddies with his family, it got a lot easier.

Shadow writer: Top Stories:

Justice finds Osama bin Laden, and Anwar al Awlaki
Justice finds Col. Qaddafi in Libya
Mubarak is ousted from power in Egypt
Ben Ali is ousted from Tunisia
Muslim Brotherhood looks poised to win elections in Egypt (Obvious, but still an important development)
Islamist Ennahda Party wins in Tunisia (Also expected, but very important)
Africa has a rising Middle Class, fueled by Chinese investment in the continent, which may allow many countries to sustain their economic growth without having to rely solely on the export of raw materials
The Tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan
The death of Kim Jong Il

Wait, what about the Bieber baby?

Best Hide n' Seek game EVAR!!!!!

Serial: Contrabulous Flabtraption: Still surprised Obama okay'd the killing of another muslim.

2/10

Needs more derp.

Needs a new schtick.

Almet: My coworker was listening to Rush yesterday....his top 10 were: 1-10 The Economy, and it's Obama's fault.

The headphones went on after that.

My coworker has been listening to nothing but Christmas music for the last two weeks. I've moved from headphones to elaborate murder fantasies.

Thank god Obama ordered the extra judicial murder of an unarmed man in front of his family while invading the sovereign territory of a country that did not attack us using intelligence gathered by torture.

Injuneer: Some retards should NOT be elected. Keep them at home, clearing brush.

Agreed, but some are determined to vote GOP, not matter what the consequences.

I think they got some of the details of that bin Laden story wrong. Obama, as Iron Man, flew over to Pakistan and took him out himself.

beta_plus: Thank god Obama ordered the extra judicial murder of an unarmed man in front of his family while invading the sovereign territory of a country that did not attack us using intelligence gathered by torture.

Yes.

Oozing sarcasm looses it's putrid smell when it was what needed to be done.

medius: tortilla burger: I think they got some of the details of that bin Laden story wrong. Obama, as Iron Man, flew over to Pakistan and took him out himself.

You're a farking idiot.

Obama went in as War Machine.

I'm tired of your bullshiat lies, he was a green lantern. Everyone knows that.

In other news, the top story from 2001 to 2010 was that he kept getting away

Smartest thing to do, when you are up against a much more technologically superior foe, is to completely eschew modern communications. ObL was smart enough to do that. It levels the playing field somewhat. NSA can't find you if you aren't using electronics to communicate.

medius: HotIgneous Intruder: Osama, he won.

/Big time.

you talkin' 'bout "Bin Laden's plan to make America go broke fighting the phantom of terrorism with our enormous, bloated, military apparatus instead of traditional clandestine anti-terror methods" ?

Yeah... that... pretty much that.

Kurmudgeon: Agreed, but some are determined to vote GOP, not matter what the consequences.

Derps of a feather....

macadamnut: Osama was the military-industrial-security complex's Santa Claus.

Now what will they use to make the kids behave?

"Now boys and girls, if Iran gets a nuclear weapon they will USE IT TO NUKE ISRAEL 10 SECONDS AFTER IT'S COMPLETED!!!!1!"

beta_plus: Thank god Obama ordered the extra judicial murder of an unarmed man in front of his family while invading the sovereign territory of a country that did not attack us using intelligence gathered by torture.

5/10 trolling. Forgot to use the correct name Barack osama, aka skret mooslim

I would've thought the Japan earthquake was #1, at least from coverage here anyway.

I'd think the Arab revolutions would be the most significant event to occur this year.

Jlop985: I'd think the Arab revolutions would be the most significant event to occur this year.


The problem is, the GOP blames Obama for that, and they don't support them in the slightest.

Deathfrogg: Jlop985: I'd think the Arab revolutions would be the most significant event to occur this year.


The problem is, the GOP blames Obama for that, and they don't support them in the slightest.

It's a little more complicated than that. If a new government in the middle east fully supports U.S. interests, then it's proof that the Bush Doctrine worked to bring democracy to the middle east. If a new government is even slightly out of step with U.S. interests, it's Obama's fault for letting Islamic radicals seize power (and it doesn't matter if the new rulers are Islamic radicals or not).

seniorgato: I remember seeing that he was killed, shrugging and walking off.
I refused to get all excited about the death of some guy. Same with Saddam. It makes us look bad to be all happy about killing someone. Even if they deserved it.

Then don't expect us to save you a piece of the cake.

dittybopper: In other news, the top story from 2001 to 2010 was that he kept getting away

Smartest thing to do, when you are up against a much more technologically superior foe, is to completely eschew modern communications. ObL was smart enough to do that. It levels the playing field somewhat. NSA can't find you if you aren't using electronics to communicate.

Yes, AND...

Didn't Klintoon capture him and then let him farkING go?

Y'know... I'm a little suprised, but #6 "PENN STATE SEX ABUSE SCANDAL", is a story I actually know ABSOLUTELY nothing about. I presume it involves sex and scandal, and happened in Penn State.

Don't see how it's a bigger deal than Ghadaffi in Libya, OWS, or that AAA rating decline that was lamented for weeks in advance and then after.

Then again, perhaps I should be surprised that lady who got hit by a plane propeller didn't even get an honorable mention - since she was all you could seemingly see on NBC morning news.

Indubitably: dittybopper: In other news, the top story from 2001 to 2010 was that he kept getting away

Smartest thing to do, when you are up against a much more technologically superior foe, is to completely eschew modern communications. ObL was smart enough to do that. It levels the playing field somewhat. NSA can't find you if you aren't using electronics to communicate.

Yes, AND...

And don't keep the same courier(s) for 10 years. As soon as he knew that his courier(s) might have been compromised by the capture of people who knew their names, he should have either killed them or paid them off to disappear and cut all ties with the organization, and then gotten new ones from a pool of people that he knew were reliable Al Qaeda members, but not ones that were necessarily known to those who were captured.

Periodically, say every few years, you'd get a new courier whether you think you need one or not, just to stay a step ahead of the game.

In any case, you absolutely don't use any modern communications. No emails. No phones (cell, satellite, or landline). I suppose using a computer to generate communications is OK, so long as it is never, *EVER* connected to an outside network, and it doesn't have a wireless card in it. You'd have to transfer the documents, pictures, and videos by physical media such as a thumb drive, via courier.

If you are truly paranoid, you encrypt using a one time pad system. You can generate cryptologically secure numeric pads by rolling 10-sided and typing the results. It takes a while, but if you put someone to work doing that for 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, you can generate a *LOT* of pads pretty quickly.

As an experiment, I just timed myself generating the following 'pad' using 5 10-sided dice on a manual typewriter:

35700 82572 97894 02815 51716
86293 01627 87984 48867 16070
62249 35321 27436 71129 16311
06121 12798 02054 63366 83353
51381 34485 62650 36372 51359


It took me 4 minutes, 23 seconds, and that was struggling with a cantankerous typewriter (carriage doesn't always lock). I'm sure that with practice, I could do it well under 4 minutes, but since it would also have to include cutting them out and preparing them, let's keep it at 4 minutes.

In 8 hours, you could do 120 of them. Over a 6 day week you could generate 960 pad pages that size. Each page has 125 numbers, enough to encrypt a message in English of roughly 100 letters. For a weeks worth of keys, you could send 96,000 letters, or roughly 19,200 words. To put it in modern context, that's about 685 full-length tweets.