Osama bin Laden: Dead

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ozymandias

by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[Atheist-Lite]

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair...

WTF?

Ozymandias.

Shelley...

Overweening pride can occur via religious mania, as well as secular power...

I used to teach a senior poetry class. They were always a little weirded out that a physics teacher liked poetry...

All the great poets are dead. They left some footprints in the sand but no one is following those.

[Feck]

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair...

WTF?

Ozymandias.

Shelley...

Overweening pride can occur via religious mania, as well as secular power...

I used to teach a senior poetry class. They were always a little weirded out that a physics teacher liked poetry...

All the great poets are dead. They left some footprints in the sand but no one is following those.

well you wouldn't want to follow the moral values of the great romantics ... Which one left his sick wife and kids and then wrote her a letter telling her she was a bitch for standing in his way ?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Which one left his sick wife and kids and then wrote her a letter telling her she was a bitch for standing in his way ?

Alan Ginsburg?

[Feck]

Which one left his sick wife and kids and then wrote her a letter telling her she was a bitch for standing in his way ?

Alan Ginsburg?

[JimC]

Which one left his sick wife and kids and then wrote her a letter telling her she was a bitch for standing in his way ?

Alan Ginsburg?

He batted for the other team...

[Magicziggy]

Buried him at sea...isn't that a tad suspicious? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and I think we'll ponder this one a good while now?

I thought the same thing! Is that something that's often done by muslims? I mean tossing the dead at sea?

But even if they showed OBL's face in a coffin, it wouldn't matter, he looks like a thousand other rag heads . It has been a question to me for a long time, what is taking so long to catch him anyway.

On the other hand, his death just represents a bigger picture, he's not in power nor was he ever in power alone.

I find your tone to be racist. The term rag-head has racial connotations.

But then you would be white and in the right.
A retraction is fine. I don't hold grudges.

rag-head
n. Racial slur for Middle-Eastern person which includes Arab, Irano-Afgan, and Asian Indian peoples. It referres to the turban (towel on the head) commonly worn throughout the Middle-East, among both Muslims and Hindus.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rag-head

[Svartalf]

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair...

WTF?

Ozymandias.

Shelley...

Overweening pride can occur via religious mania, as well as secular power...

I used to teach a senior poetry class. They were always a little weirded out that a physics teacher liked poetry...

Read it in college... I've never been a fan of romantic poetry, fortunately the tests were about Shakespeare and Dickens.

[Feck]

Buried him at sea...isn't that a tad suspicious? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and I think we'll ponder this one a good while now?

I thought the same thing! Is that something that's often done by muslims? I mean tossing the dead at sea?

But even if they showed OBL's face in a coffin, it wouldn't matter, he looks like a thousand other rag heads . It has been a question to me for a long time, what is taking so long to catch him anyway.

On the other hand, his death just represents a bigger picture, he's not in power nor was he ever in power alone.

I find your tone to be racist. The term rag-head has racial connotations.

But then you would be white and in the right.
A retraction is fine. I don't hold grudges.

rag-head
n. Racial slur for Middle-Eastern person which includes Arab, Irano-Afgan, and Asian Indian peoples. It referres to the turban (towel on the head) commonly worn throughout the Middle-East, among both Muslims and Hindus.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rag-head

Could be a lot worse I mean it's not like she called him a Sand Nigger is it ?

[JimC]

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair...

WTF?

Ozymandias.

Shelley...

Overweening pride can occur via religious mania, as well as secular power...

I used to teach a senior poetry class. They were always a little weirded out that a physics teacher liked poetry...

Read it in college... I've never been a fan of romantic poetry, fortunately the tests were about Shakespeare and Dickens.

Actually, Yeates and Elliot were more my cup of tea...

WTF are we doing rabbiting on about poetry when a bearded arsehole has shuffled off this mortal coil?

Of course, this is Ratz...

[Feck]

derail look the sand dance , that's racist too

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Which one left his sick wife and kids and then wrote her a letter telling her she was a bitch for standing in his way ?

Alan Ginsburg?

He batted for the other team...

Gee, I didn't know that.

[Mousy]

In Islam burial at sea is only permitted if the death occured at sea as it is impossible to verify if the body rests on the sea bed with their toes pointed toward Mecca. Did he die at sea?

I read somewhere today that burial at sea is considered an acceptable Islamic burial if there is fear that an enemy may dig up the body to mutilate it? I imagine that there would have been a massive potential for that to happen to Bin Laden!

[Coito ergo sum]

Nice job Obama!

I am curious about something, though. In Obama's speech, he said he gave the order "today" (5/1) to carry out the mission which killed bin Laden. However, the reports say he was nailed a week ago or so and then they took time to do a DNA test. Anyone know which is supposed to be the correct version?

The burial at sea thing I think is a mistake, at least until they brought in some leading Islamic folks to view the corpse. Islamic law only requires a burial within 24 hours "if possible," and it also says to wrap him in certain cloths and bury him facing Mecca "if possible." Where there are extenuating circumstances, it doesn't have to be done. Here, there are extenuating circumstances, and frankly the burial rites should take a back seat to proving to the world that he's gone. But, what's done is done. Good riddance, and kudos to the Obama Administration for finally getting him.

[Svartalf]

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair...

Ozymandias.

Shelley...

Overweening pride can occur via religious mania, as well as secular power...

I used to teach a senior poetry class. They were always a little weirded out that a physics teacher liked poetry...

Read it in college... I've never been a fan of romantic poetry, fortunately the tests were about Shakespeare and Dickens.

Actually, Yeates and Elliot were more my cup of tea...

WTF are we doing rabbiting on about poetry when a bearded arsehole has shuffled off this mortal coil?

Of course, this is Ratz...

Well, there was that extraneous element I was trying to turn into a full on derail
ben laden ain't no interesting matter to discuss