How are you celebrating Osama's death?

Some fine folks in Portland celebrated by defacing a mosque

I'm just irked his death is taking airtime away from the post-royal wedding coverage.

I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPAAACE!!!

Stupid people do stupid stuff. It happens.

Also this > royal wedding.

Don't give a shit.

Goddamnit, now I'm going to have to figure out how to embed images so I can put up a dozen facepalm macros. Thanks a lot.

I mean, if there was one fucking news story that was getting even more attention beyond what it deserves, it would be the wedding.

edited 3rd May '11 5:57:40 PM by deathjavu

Look, you can't make me speak in a logical, coherent, intelligent bananna.

That's Your Mileage May Vary.

I rather they cover the aftermath of Michael Jackson's death. But you can't please everyone. :p

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Regarding defacing the Mosque. It's to be expected. Just not too long ago a group of white supremicists drew graffiti all over a park. People just shrugged and hired someone to clean them off.

The best course of action is to just let the fire cool down and erase those graffiti. They'll get tired of it in a few months.

edited 3rd May '11 6:00:09 PM by Signed

"Every opinion that isn't mine is subjected to Your Mileage May Vary."

^^You embed things by just pasting the URL, but they have to be hosted here. And the OP was sarcastic, I am guessing.

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American's are jingoistic, patriotic nutjobs. Yaaay.

Some are.

Not all.

That's pretty fucked up.

Banned entirely for telling FE that he was being rude and not contributing to the discussion. I shall watch down from the goon heavens.

Well I am disappointed in how much the Osama stories are crowding out all other news, though the wedding was even worse.

But Libya's still going on, and we've got the debt ceiling to worry about still.

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Is this your first time watching the news? The media LOVES grabbing onto popular stories and milking it until the next big one.

Why do you think the media never even talks about Iraq or Afghanistan anymore? People (or I should say the news) Simply doesn't care.

edited 3rd May '11 6:28:58 PM by Thorn14

^^^I'm aware. But I live in the midwest, so a lot of the locals here ARE.

Just today i overheard my favorite batshit crazy right wing professor guy make a joke about how he should waterboard his students to make them get better grades, after all, it worked at Gitmo.

edited 3rd May '11 6:28:52 PM by Midgetsnowman

Aw hell. Wasn't his death supposed to stop this kind of thing from happening? I know bigotry will never go away, but this happening two days after?

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How in the world could anyone think THAT was going to ever happen.

Generally, I I'm surprised it hadnt happened already. Theres an unfortunately decent sized amount of my fellow Americans who are convinced acting like immature college freshmen towards any people they dislike for ridiculously uninformed reasons is appropriate.

Thorn: Honestly, it is really optimistic, considering humans.

edited 3rd May '11 6:35:13 PM by Zersk

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I think we should celebrate his death, but not by destroying mosques.

I mean, after all, Osama was teh head of a world-wide terrorist organization responsible for numerous attacks and thousands and thousands of deaths around the world. The public wasn't really aware of them until their 'greatest' day on 9/11/01, and then more than just the CIA and a few savvy (that is knowledgeable) people knew of their existence.

I think that the death of this guy is more important than a symbolic wedding. This is a real strike against a group that kills people. Osama had power, royalty nowdays is just a symbol, just celebrities, not people with political and military power, which Osama had.

as of the 2nd of Nov. has 6 weeks for a broken collar bone to heal and types 1 handed and slowly

I don't really feel like celebrating.

Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.

we had a pit party, burned a couple pictures of him, drank, partied, how else do you celebrate the end of something like this?

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While I see bin Laden's death as most likely a net good (though of course not anything so great as an end to terrorism), I can't really bring myself to celebrate. Cheering and partying over the death of a human being, even a totally vile and harmful one, just seems distasteful to me.

An Englishman of my acquaintance thinks the exact opposite, for what it's worth.

That almost made me cry to look at. I feel like shit now.

As for celebrating his death...I will not be celebrating his death no. Certainly not in such a horrible fashion.

edited 3rd May '11 7:51:39 PM by Aondeug

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Yes, I find the concept of celebrating someone's death... kind of grotesque. No matter how horrible a human being they were.

Not that people should be sad or anything - just, I don't know, a sort of a quiet dignified "Well, now he can't hurt anyone anymore" would be better.

Be not afraid...

A great evil has been removed from the earth, if that isn't worth celebrating I don't know what is.

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Went out drinking with the buddies. Played darts with photocopies of his head.

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The birth of a great teacher, his teachings, and the fact that we will all one day die.

I just feel odd about celebrating death in such a way. It sickens me. Yes Osama was a bad person and did absolutely horrible things, but he was a living being. Now celebrating death in a fashion akin to Dia de los Muertos? That I like.

edited 3rd May '11 9:54:45 PM by Aondeug

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

If the only reason to not celebrate his demise is being a human being, please excuse me if I don't remove my party hat.

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