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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #15 on: May 02, 2011, 06:34:25 pm »
Quote from: Nabubrush on May 02, 2011, 05:54:33 pm
What have you seen?

My only source is one of my right-wing friends on Facebook posted this...

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This just in: Osama's body has been buried at sea!
Can we say "Big fat HOAX" boys and girls?
Can we say "Election Ploy"?

Dear Mr. Obama: April Fool's Day was April 1st.
You're a month late!

which was followed by enthusiastic agreement by about a dozen of her dipshit friends.

It's like... Obama burned down the birther straw man and his detractors quickly erected a "deather" straw man to replace it.



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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #16 on: May 02, 2011, 08:23:05 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on May 02, 2011, 06:34:25 pm
My only source is one of my right-wing friends on Facebook posted this...

which was followed by enthusiastic agreement by about a dozen of her dipshit friends.

It's like... Obama burned down the birther straw man and his detractors quickly erected a "deather" straw man to replace it.





Can we say that's what happened with Hitler too, and is pretty established as what you do if you don't want more lunatic followers making a shrine?

Paul, your friend is an idiot. I'm sorry, but there it is.
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #17 on: May 02, 2011, 11:16:05 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on May 02, 2011, 05:21:22 pm
The wacko right wing is already calling bullshit on this.  It's kinda got me scratching my head as well.

So is Cindy Sheehan: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/05/02/osama-bin-trutherism-is-born.aspx
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2011, 12:41:27 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on May 02, 2011, 08:23:05 pm
Paul, your friend is an idiot. I'm sorry, but there it is.

Well yes, this I know, but she's also nice, a real sweetheart, which counts for a lot in my book.

When I see her at artcar events we don't talk politics.
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2011, 01:01:04 am »
Wise words:
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"I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
~Martin Luther King Jr
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #20 on: May 03, 2011, 01:13:05 am »
Thank you Side Show.
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2011, 01:18:54 am »
I'm seeing a Twain quote lately that goes along those lines.
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #22 on: May 03, 2011, 01:27:54 am »
In my own obtuse way, this is directed at those that are taking great pleasure at Bin Laden's death.
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #23 on: May 03, 2011, 01:31:14 am »
Quote from: Nabubrush on May 03, 2011, 01:18:54 am
I'm seeing a Twain quote lately that goes along those lines.

Ditto, though somebody on Twitter was complaining about that being a mis-attribution do I don't know if it was really Twain.
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #24 on: May 03, 2011, 02:46:11 am »
The source of the quote is the MLK book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? the publication is an expanded version of this speach.
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #25 on: May 03, 2011, 07:34:10 am »
Man, even had a couple of people in the practice today who said he should have been hung up like Mussolini. He was a complete bastard but he didn't even do anything to my country, I don't know if people think this kind of talk makes them seem tough or what.
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #26 on: May 03, 2011, 12:22:16 pm »
Apparently the version of that MLK quote going around is not quite right.
http://www.bartleby.com/73/1893.html
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #27 on: May 03, 2011, 03:31:55 pm »
Quote from MeFi, if you didn't see it:

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I took this moment to tell my six year old about Sept. 11. Didn't want to discuss it before.

I tried to sum it up for him by saying "we got the bad guy". He asked "are there still any more members of his gang?" I had to say "yes, a lot".
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #28 on: May 03, 2011, 03:34:28 pm »
At least some version of the earlier quote originated with Clarence Darrow, not Mark Twain. My apologies.
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Re: Bin Laden Dead.
« Reply #29 on: May 03, 2011, 03:39:54 pm »
Quote from: wombat on May 03, 2011, 12:22:16 pm
Apparently the version of that MLK quote going around is not quite right.
http://www.bartleby.com/73/1893.html


My new computer may be the cause, but for me that page opens with a horizontal scroll bar that's about six miles long. Weird.

Megan McArdle on the MLK jr quote, in the Atlantic. Looks like maybe they just stapled that first line on?

Sorry for multi-posting.
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