Osama bin Laden: Dead

[Rob]

One of my friend is ex-marine, a few others are very patriotic. We aren't hippies or ultra-militaristic, we're just students who think some Americans take things a little too far when celebrating.

Since I already said that I think that generation will not use the old categories, telling me that you're not in the old categories by means of a rejoinder misses my point by several parsecs. That's OK; it's what makes new generations exciting.

Let's talk again in ten years, when new categories have been established. Then you might understand where my guesses come from.

A parsec is a measure of time, not distance.

[klr]

One of my friend is ex-marine, a few others are very patriotic. We aren't hippies or ultra-militaristic, we're just students who think some Americans take things a little too far when celebrating.

Since I already said that I think that generation will not use the old categories, telling me that you're not in the old categories by means of a rejoinder misses my point by several parsecs. That's OK; it's what makes new generations exciting.

Let's talk again in ten years, when new categories have been established. Then you might understand where my guesses come from.

A parsec is a measure of time, not distance.

... except in Star Wars.

[Coito ergo sum]

One of my friend is ex-marine, a few others are very patriotic. We aren't hippies or ultra-militaristic, we're just students who think some Americans take things a little too far when celebrating.

Since I already said that I think that generation will not use the old categories, telling me that you're not in the old categories by means of a rejoinder misses my point by several parsecs. That's OK; it's what makes new generations exciting.

Let's talk again in ten years, when new categories have been established. Then you might understand where my guesses come from.

A parsec is a measure of time, not distance.

It's a measure of distance, actually.

[klr]

One of my friend is ex-marine, a few others are very patriotic. We aren't hippies or ultra-militaristic, we're just students who think some Americans take things a little too far when celebrating.

Since I already said that I think that generation will not use the old categories, telling me that you're not in the old categories by means of a rejoinder misses my point by several parsecs. That's OK; it's what makes new generations exciting.

Let's talk again in ten years, when new categories have been established. Then you might understand where my guesses come from.

A parsec is a measure of time, not distance.

It's a measure of distance, actually.

That's what I get for assuming a response was correct instead of in error.

Maybe someone learned their astronomy from Han Solo ....

[Svartalf]

How does their age group factor into them being idiots?

You tend to be more of an idiot when you take a blow to the head at a young age than if you receive it when your skull is all bone from ear to ear

[Gawdzilla Sama]

One of my friend is ex-marine, a few others are very patriotic. We aren't hippies or ultra-militaristic, we're just students who think some Americans take things a little too far when celebrating.

Since I already said that I think that generation will not use the old categories, telling me that you're not in the old categories by means of a rejoinder misses my point by several parsecs. That's OK; it's what makes new generations exciting.

Let's talk again in ten years, when new categories have been established. Then you might understand where my guesses come from.

A parsec is a measure of time, not distance.

The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used in astronomy. It is about 3.26 light-years, or just under 31 trillion (3.1×1013) kilometres (about 19 trillion miles).

The name parsec is an abbreviated form of a distance corresponding to a parallax of one arcsecond'[1] and was coined in 1913 at the suggestion of British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner. A parsec is the distance from the Sun to an astronomical object which has a parallax angle of one arcsecond.

[Coito ergo sum]

The age of the people who gathered around the White House last night mostly has to do with what different kinds of people are prepared to do after 11pm on a Sunday night. Of course they were mostly college students. They're young, stay up late anyway, and there are several large colleges within a ten-minute Metro ride from the White House (Georgetown, GW, etc.). Most everyone else who wasn't already asleep was, like me, watching the news and heading to bed because we had to work the next day. And/or living in the suburbs miles away.

I noticed the college-age demographic too. It's just an excuse to party and get drunk.

For a few moments at around midnight last night as I was contemplating shutting off the t.v. and drifting off to sleep, I scorned them for their classless behavior and idiocy. Then I thought back to when I was 18 to 21. I'd likely have headed out to join the festivities too.

[Atheist-Lite]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ma ... -bin-laden

Sea burial of Osama bin Laden breaks sharia law, say Muslim scholars

Osama bin Laden's burial at sea was quickly criticised by Muslim scholars who claimed it had breached sharia law and warned that it may provoke calls for revenge attacks against US targets.

Others used the sea burial question to doubt whether he was, in fact, dead at all, with doubts fuelled by the absence of authentic photographs of his corpse.

Burying the al-Qaida leader on land could have led to his grave becoming a focus of contention and pilgrimage as well as posing tough questions about where he should be laid to rest.

"Finding a country willing to accept the remains of the world's most wanted terrorist would have been difficult," a US official said. "So the US decided to bury him at sea." The burial reportedly took place from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the North Arabian sea.

Senior US officials told news agencies that his body would be disposed of in accordance with Islamic tradition, which involves ritual washing, shrouding and burial within 24 hours.

The 24-hour rule has not always been applied in the past. For example, there was controversy when the bodies of Uday and Qusay Hussein - sons of the Iraqi dictator Saddam - were embalmed and held for 11 days after they were killed by US forces. Their bodies were later shown to media.

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[aprilmae]

My thoughts on Osama's death:
1. 10 years, 2 wars, 919,967 deaths, & $1,188,263,000,000 later, we managed to kill one person. I hope it was worth it.
2. How many more Osama's have been created in last 10 years?
3. I don't see much worth celebrating at all in this whole mess and likely these celebrations just encourage further hatred, intolerance, and one-upmanship.
4. Can the troops be brought home now?

[sandinista]

you people really believe this?

[kiki5711]

Islamic tradition, which involves ritual washing, shrouding

I hope they spit and pissed on him.

[Svartalf]

What part do you disbelieve Sandy?

[sandinista]

What part do you disbelieve Sandy?

The whole story.

[Atheist-Lite]

What part do you disbelieve Sandy?

The whole story.

[Feck]

The question of proof aside who cares about his body, put the fuckers head on a spike ! It doesn't matter that most of the world hates him ,quite sensibly , this is not about insulting islam (although why not ? ).