How Smitty Killed Osama bin Laden
By now, you’ve seen the headlines at Memeorandum: Osama bin Laden Killed by U.S. Strike Bin Laden Is Dead, Obama Says Sources: Al-Qaida head bin Laden dead BREAKING: BIN LADEN DEAD Osama Bin Ladin Loses Popularity and 30cc of Brain and Skull But Mostly 30cc of Brain and Skull Everyone was suspicious last year when […]
Obligatory Osama Post
by Smitty Expressed in image form, I’m weighing in somewhere around here: One suspects that this is The Real Deal. The political cost of Type II error, which would come in the form of a valid “Neener, neener, neener” tape from bin Laden, would be in the catastrophic range. This is good news, obviously. Let […]
BREAKING: Libya Spokesman Says NATO Strike Killed 3 of Qaddafi’s Grandsons UPDATE: Attack Also Reportedly Kills Qaddafi’s Youngest Son, Saif al-Arab, 29
An urgent dispatch from Reuters but no details yet. UPDATE: Al-Jazeera confirms and adds detail: Saif al-Arab, the youngest son of the Libyan leader, has been killed in a NATO air strike, a Libyan government spokesman said. The spokesman said Muammar Gaddafi was unharmed but three of his grandsons were also killed in the attack […]
How About Those Hats, Huh?
Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice — the daughters of Prince Andrew and Fergie — upstaged their cousin William at the royal wedding when they appeared in truly spectacular hats. Eugenie’s hat looked like a spotted owl feasting on plums, or perhaps a squirrel stuck in a rose bush, while Bea’s hat inspired comparisons to the Flying Spaghetti […]
Uganda: Inflation Sparks Riots
A 3.8% inflation rate is enough to make Americans complain about rising prices. Now imagine 14% inflation in Uganda — a much poorer country — and you have a formula for political disaster: KAMPALA, Uganda — This capital city was brought to a virtual standstill Friday as angry protesters set up roadblocks, setting them ablaze […]
Germany Thwarts Terror Plot
Eric Dondero at Libertarian Republican reports: Early Friday morning Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)in Dusseldorf and Bochum arrested three young men who had allegedly planned an attack with homemade bombs. They are attributed to the terrorist organization al-Qaida. An attack had been imminent… CNN has more. Speaking of Germany and the Religion of Peace™, you […]
Obligatory Video: Donald F–ing Trump
Honestly, I ought to ignore this, but it’s already everywhere else so I might as well do it: “Listen you mother f***ers we’re going to tax you 25 percent“ Y’know, there’s good populism — defending the honest interests of ordinary people against corrupt machinations of the elite — and then there’s bad populism: Bully-boy nonsense […]
‘They Really Enjoyed My Pain’
“What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.” — Lara Logan, CBS News, recounting her Feb. 11 sexual assault by a mob of hundreds of Egyptian men in Cairo
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