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my second timelapse movie -- (link) - marcel May 2, 14:28 [youtube]
FYI: Today's FB spam wants you to click on graphic pictures of Bin Laden. -- nm - loosilu May 2, 14:26
I'm still here! Still standing, bitches!! -- nm - Ghadafi May 2, 14:22 7
- i know, the news that his son was killed yesterday (and a wife? maybe?) seems to be lost today. -- nm - Andie May 2, 14:26 5
  - Next Sunday, on The Obama Show... -- nm - Reagen May 2, 14:28
  - son and some grandkids -- nm - Remlik May 2, 14:27 2
    - Not sure how to feel about that .. mostly sad, I think -- nm - Beryllium May 2, 14:29 1
      - it is sad, but it's his fault? - b. May 2, 14:33
  - sorry, son and grandchildren: -- (link) - Andie May 2, 14:27
- What? Speak up! -- nm - Reagen May 2, 14:24
considering how far inland the OBL op was, why wouldn't they have used Rangers or Green Berets? Seems a bit of a slap in the face to the army. -- nm - zork May 2, 14:17 7
- to confuse the enemy of course - zeitgeist May 2, 14:29
- just reading the wiki article. It was a joint effort, adn the Army provided the Black Hawks. -- nm - loosilu May 2, 14:23 5
  - any Delta Force involved? -- nm - zork May 2, 14:24 4
    - You're building a miniature reenactment with army men, aren't you? ;) -- nm - con_carne May 2, 14:29
    - they were on vacation ... on the shores of tripoli ... we'll hear back soon -- nm - Beryllium May 2, 14:28
    - Of course, they didn't want to hurt the feeling of any branch of the army - Guigue May 2, 14:27
    - not mentioned. -- nm - loosilu May 2, 14:25
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- Please to not make fun of my prospect injury, sir. (nm) - musubi May 2, 14:20
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OT thing learned from ER CT scan: I may have inherited a genetic lower back fuzing disorder, or something like that. - ty97 May 2, 14:14 3
- you were born that way -- nm - Lady Gaga May 2, 14:30
- good thing you lost all that weight -- nm - zork May 2, 14:17
- I hear they're doing great things with adamantium these days -- nm - con_carne May 2, 14:16
Salon.com and Muslim scholars seem like some party animals. Definitely inviting them to my next shindig. -- nm - con_carne May 2, 14:14 1
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Adam Schefter has an interesting thought about the 2012 draft. - David May 2, 14:11 29
- not playing for 5 years sounds like a dream come true! -- nm - Andrew Luck May 2, 14:19 5
  - You will be their pass rusher! -- nm - Spawn May 2, 14:41
  - *looks at Suh and Fairley across the line, pees his pants* -- nm - Christian Ponder May 2, 14:20 3
    - Ya know, after they did that, could we have gotten a few linemen? - Aaron Rodgers May 2, 14:21 2
      - Their first round pick was an OT. They should be spend their first round pick next year on Osama's bunker. -- nm - David May 2, 14:23 1
        
        If I'm a LB free agent, I'm looking there....with those 2 monsters on the line.... -- nm - Will Hunting May 2, 14:25
- is Luck *that* good, that we're speculating this now? -- nm - TFox May 2, 14:15 17
  - He's probably the best prospect since Peyton - Will Hunting May 2, 14:18 5
    - And he can tackle. -- (link) - David May 2, 14:21 [youtube] 4
      - that's a Goldberg level spear right there -- nm - Remlik May 2, 14:27
      - *fines him for leading with his helmet* ... just kidding, it's a QB. -- nm - Roger Goodell May 2, 14:26
      - I will not click on that link, but I know what it is. (nm) - musubi May 2, 14:25 1
        
        In the immortal words of Guile, SONIC BOOM! -- nm - David May 2, 14:26
  - Stanford just went 12-1. Stanford. - David May 2, 14:17 6
    - true, and he had a good rb 2 years ago to help him that year. -- nm - tRuMAN May 2, 14:21
    - Stanford's records in prior years to him: 5-7, 4-8, 1-11. -- nm - David May 2, 14:19 4
      - from what I understand it was all coaching -- nm - stewie May 2, 14:21 1
        
        Little from Column A, little from Column B..... -- nm - Will Hunting May 2, 14:24
      - so, in terms I understand, it's as if Vandy finished 9-3 in 3 consecutive years. - TFox May 2, 14:20 1
        
        It's a Jay Cutler++ scenario. Some of that is obviously Harbaugh, but Luck is a special talent. -- nm - David May 2, 14:22
  - every coach i've heard is of the opinion that he's the best QB they've seen in years -- nm - moles May 2, 14:17
  - Consensus #1 if he came out this year right? (Or am I going off of newly faulty information from a month ago?) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 2, 14:16 1
    - carolina pretty much said if he announced, they were taking him; he then said, Wait, college doesn't suck. -- nm - Will Hunting May 2, 14:17
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- I paid zero attention to the draft this year due to lockout tune out and election. Once again, Big Bill traded down and down some more? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 2, 14:13 3
  - Yes, he wound up with another 1st and 2nd round pick next year from the Saints and the Raiders. -- nm - David May 2, 14:16
  - by 2020, the Pats will have every first round pick locked up -- nm - moles May 2, 14:14 1
    - Sorry bout your luck, D-Linemen. - Will Hunting May 2, 14:14
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- as many as 7 of them were not automated tweetbots -- nm - stewie May 2, 14:23
- CNN at around 3am said the peak didn't break the record held by January 1st. -- nm - Max May 2, 14:09
- Suck it, Will and Kate. -- nm - con_carne May 2, 14:05
What's the $5 footlong for May? -- nm - Mop (209 lbs) May 2, 14:04 11
- "That's what *she* asked!" -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! May 2, 14:09
- IIRC, chicken "orchard" salad -- nm - con_carne May 2, 14:06 4
  - yep. orchard chicken, and it's very tasty. (last year's version was anyway.) -- nm - b. May 2, 14:09 3
    - I commented that it looked gross and wrong, but my brother said it's quite good. -- nm - ty97 May 2, 14:12 1
      - I've had versions of it at other restaurants and work cafe., but usually they're not-so-lowfat. - b. May 2, 14:17
    - Agreed. -- nm - con_carne May 2, 14:11
- directions to Jersey Mikes -- nm - Epiphany May 2, 14:05 4
  - I found out we have some of those here. -- nm - con_carne May 2, 14:09 2
    - They is the greatest. -- nm - TFox May 2, 14:10
    - chicken philly. yum. -- nm - ty97 May 2, 14:10
  - heh -- nm - ty97 May 2, 14:06
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- I expect after this is all done, for them to have a figurehead (Zwahiri?)...but as an entity, they're already splintered. -- nm - Will Hunting May 2, 14:11
- can't be a strong new leader unless there is another successful attack -- nm - stewie May 2, 14:05
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- I think AQ was already losing ground, due the Arab Spring as much as anything else. But some splinters/individuals will persist -- nm - ty97 May 2, 14:03
- my impression was they splintered a long time ago, after the initial Afghanistan invasion -- nm - moles May 2, 14:02
- well, they're already in smaller cells. I would expect a new leader to rise. -- nm - loosilu May 2, 14:02
Peter Jackson taps Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls) for The Elf King in Hobbit -- (link) - moles May 2, 14:01 2
- Seems about right. Gonna have a hard time not thinking that the Elf King isn't a Pie Man though. (nm) - musubi May 2, 14:07
- Awesome. -- nm - David May 2, 14:01
Sea burial of Osama bin Laden breaks sharia law, say Muslim scholars -- (link) - ty97 May 2, 14:01 22
- because destroying people with bombs where there is no body to bury is such a holy way to die? -- nm - tRuMAN May 2, 14:23 1
  - there's no equating because we're better than that. - b. May 2, 14:30
- That's great news. nm - Dignan May 2, 14:10 1
  - this cracked me up. -- nm - TFox May 2, 14:10
- offs -- nm - znufrii May 2, 14:08
- we'll do better on the next Al-Qaeda leader, promise. -- nm - Max May 2, 14:07 1
  - Thread winner. (nm) - musubi May 2, 14:08
- You know what breaks American law? Flying a plane into a building. -- nm - David May 2, 14:04 7
  - i don't disagree with not caring, but i do appreciate that care was taken to respect religious beliefs. - Andie May 2, 14:19 5
    - Care was practiced though, and that's why it's so farcical. (nm) - musubi May 2, 14:28 1
      - i know, that's why i worded my subject that way. :) -- nm - Andie May 2, 14:29
    - I hope that the good people who are Muslim would not be insistant that OBL's body needed to be handled with such respect. -- nm - zork May 2, 14:26 1
      - i wouldn't presume to know enough about their religion to know how they 'should' feel. -- nm - Andie May 2, 14:28
    - I concur with your IM - ty97 May 2, 14:23
  - *ding* - Epiphany May 2, 14:05
- "You know what? Don't worry about it. I mean, it's not like we aren't going to retailiate anyway." -- nm - con_carne May 2, 14:03 1
  - Yeah, the folks who would attack us over this were already going to attack us for killing him. -- nm - ty97 May 2, 14:12
- How adept was OBL at following Sharia law, o great scholars? -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 2, 14:03
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  - (spoils) - TFox May 2, 14:04
- well, shit, I hope they attached a tracking beacon -- nm - Beryllium May 2, 14:02 1
  - They have him tied to fishing line with a bobber. -- nm - JaxSean May 2, 14:18
now ...hopefully obama never has to do a 10:30PM conference again. Because the next one probably won't be as nice. -- nm - Beryllium May 2, 14:00
Joey, there is a 2 Kinect games for $60 at Amazon and Best Buy right now. - David May 2, 13:59 6
- (And I could stand to drop 5-10 myself.) -- nm - Kim Pine May 2, 14:16
- good for you sir. I hope it works out for you. Sounds like you need it (as do I!) -- nm - Remlik May 2, 14:02
- Hrmmm, I should look into a Kinect. - Will Hunting May 2, 13:59 3
  - I've had good luck with Wii Fit, but it's a bit too low impact for someone my size. - David May 2, 14:01 2
    - but....just throwing this out there. you may actually need a personal trainer -- nm - Remlik May 2, 14:11 1
      - My niece works at the closest gym, so that's the primary reason I haven't considered it. - David May 2, 14:26
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- we probably won't have much of an idea until about 10 eastern. -- nm - Reagen May 2, 13:58 2
  - Majority or minority might not get settled until midnight eastern. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 2, 14:15 1
    - Yeah, that sounds right. But it won't take long to find out if a couple of things are for real. -- nm - Reagen May 2, 14:19
- approximately before midnight pacific time today -- nm - Beryllium May 2, 13:57 1
  - (National coverage goes live when polls close, 7PM Pacific) -- nm - Beryllium May 2, 13:58
Holograms do make news better. -- nm - ty97 May 2, 13:55 2
- That's one of those decisions I cannot believe made sense during a staff meeting. - David May 2, 14:00
- "Help us will.i.am, you're our only hope." -- nm - Reagen May 2, 13:56
Heh. One of our members wrote me to complain about the newsletter. Her email signature is "I check email every two or three days" and then her name. - Dr.Vermin May 2, 13:55 3
- I can't imagine checking e-mail, what, 3 times a week? wow. -- nm - ty97 May 2, 13:56 2
  - unless i was exchanging emails on an immediate basis, i could go that long confidently -- nm - moles May 2, 13:58 1
    - yep. I regularly do for personal e-mail accounts. -- nm - b. May 2, 14:08
Same reason why baseball teams pop champagne when they clinch the wild card, or students rush the court when they beat the #13 team in the country. - TFox May 2, 13:55 2
- sometimes, Foxy, you're right. -- nm - loosilu May 2, 13:57 1
  - I see what you did there. -- nm - con_carne May 2, 13:59
Salon is the Debbie Downer of online news magazines. -- nm - Reagen May 2, 13:55 5
- but in this case, not entirely wrong. supposedly the basis for american exceptionalism over the sharia jihad muslims is that "we're better than that" - moles May 2, 13:57 2
  - They dance in the streets over the death of innocents. We dance in the streets over the deaths of mass-murderers. -- nm - Dr.Vermin, better May 2, 14:02 1
    - it's just what good Christians do -- nm - moles May 2, 14:03
- Today's weather, bright and sunny. Click on: Why Do My Eyes Hurt for more details. -- nm - Qale May 2, 13:56 1
  - this is funny. -- nm - loosilu May 2, 13:57
~ the bombs bursting in air... ~ -- nm - Dr.Vermin May 2, 13:54
"Dear Dwayne The Rock Johnson, we are presently cooking the enemies of america. Can you smell it? Smells like ... justice." -- nm - way to break OpSec, guys! May 2, 13:53 17
- Now I'm cracking up at the idea that somehow this went, Panetta ==) Rummy's CoS ==) The Rock ==) John Boehner ==) Harry Reid. -- nm - Will Hunting May 2, 13:55 16
  - I must have missed this storyline, what happened with The Rock now? (nm) - musubi May 2, 14:06 2
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    - Board 2, bottom of the page, I asked the same. -- nm - Will Hunting May 2, 14:12
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    - What time did he post? Because people were speculating the same here before it was official. - TFox May 2, 14:01 2
      - Rock posted at 10:25 -- nm - Remlik May 2, 14:19
      - one of Bush's former security advisors was the first to tweet about the chatter, so it was in the air somewhere -- nm - moles May 2, 14:06
  - (we can use angled brackets now) -- nm - Beryllium May 2, 13:58
  - That or one of the Operations guys sent The Rock a tweet. -- nm - Remlik May 2, 13:57 7
    - you know what it could have been someone in the media as well, cause he posted that at 10:25pm and The Pres was supposed to be on at 10:30 -- nm - Remlik May 2, 13:58 6
      - nobody in the media knew at that point, afaik -- nm - moles May 2, 14:00 5
        
        selected news reporters at that point did know, but A. Either had no confirmation or B. was embargoed..... - Remlik May 2, 14:04 4
        
        wait, Andre Ethier knew too?! -- nm - TFox should slow down reading May 2, 14:05 1
        
        Once you hit 25 games, you get Top Secret clearance. It's in the fine print of the anti-trust exemption. -- nm - Reagen May 2, 14:07
        
        But even if...WTF are you calling The Rock? -- nm - Will Hunting May 2, 14:05 1
        
        oh I totally think someone in the media told him -- nm - Remlik May 2, 14:11

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