White House statement: Bin Laden DEAD

[ALBPM]

Now all wwe need to do is get rid of Obama Bin Golfin.....

[cjolley]

Obama did what your guy couldn't.
Face up to it.

[cjolley]

[The PIT]

[QUOTE=paulw;683019
Now I guess the loony towel heads will be planning a holy war on the west most likely starting in the UK as they seem to harbor the best home grown terrorists..[/QUOTE]

sssh you can't that that's racist. In the good old UK you can slag of the BNP EDL but you can't slag off friendly cuddly Islamic extremists. If you do the anti nazi league will have you.

Anyway I'm glad he's gone although I would have buried him in a more suitable place. Poor old fish have got to eat that trash now it ain't right on the poor blighters.

You can guess the place I'm thinking off big pink things run around with floppy ears and squeal a lot.

[paulw]

And now he's dead they'll suddenly stop hijacking planes ? They'll stop all their threats ?
Calling them 'loony towel heads' will make them feel better ?

Alive, he wasn't a Martyr. Dead, its like throwing petrol onto a fire.

Guess we could have asked France to take him as a prisoner..

[Brian Ellis]

From today's Cyprus Mail (permission to reproduce granted, with source acknowledgement)

Comic relief after bin Laden’s death
Published on May 4, 2011


OSAMA bin Laden's death not only dominated the news but also fuelled a wealth of comic relief, punch lines and unapologetic crowing from American TV's late-night hosts.

"You seem like you're in a good mood," said CBS's David Letterman, greeting his Late Show audience with a grin. "You folks enjoy the Osama bin Laden season finale?"

Over on NBC, Tonight Show host Jay Leno was all smiles as he declared: "It looks like President Obama has a new campaign slogan: 'Yes I Did'."

Jimmy Kimmel on ABC joked: "It was the first Twitter death rumour ever that turned out to be true."

Late Night host Jimmy Fallon on NBC said: "Bin Laden is dead! Just like the Republicans' chances in 2012."

Comedy Central host Jon Stewart said: "I suppose I should be expressing some ambivalence about the targeted killing of another human being. And yet – uhhhh, no!"

Instead, Stewart said, he wanted details. Like, what was the look on bin Laden's face when he realised "the helicopters overhead were not giving traffic and weather updates"?

Letterman's Top Ten, "fresh from the State Department", purported to list bin Laden's final words, which might have been "I need a house full of Navy Seals like I need a hole in the head".

The jokes were focused on a handful of basic themes, such as the Navy Seals who took bin Laden out.

According to one comic, "When he heard about it, former president Bush was furious and said 'Wait a minute – I could have used seals?'."

Letterman joked: "How about those Navy Seals? They jump out of a helicopter and they break into the compound, and they fire a warning shot into his head.

"Well, the good news is, bin Laden lived to see the royal wedding."

But what will happen to bin Laden in the next life?

Letterman disclosed that owing to a screw-up in the paperwork, there were 72 vegans awaiting bin Laden in the afterlife instead of the 72 virgins supposedly promised.

The comics took glee in lampooning Donald Trump, who, as an undeclared Republican candidate for the presidency, has noisily questioned both Barack Obama's citizenship and his college scholarship.

On NBC, first word of bin Laden's death pre-empted the final few minutes of Sunday's East Coast airing of the Trump-hosted Celebrity Apprentice.

Kimmel observed: "On the same night Obama was ordering the Navy to kill bin Laden, his potential opponent in 2012 Donald Trump was busy firing Playmate of the Month Hope Dworaczyk."

And on Late Night, Fallon impersonated Trump in a sketch, stating that Obama "is so scared of me and so desperate for attention that he felt the need to hunt down and kill bin Laden right in the middle of my show".

Online, much of the comedy reaction revolved around positioning Obama as an action hero.

Making the rounds was a photo showing a smiling Obama in sunglasses and suit with the caption: "Sorry it took so long to get you a copy of my birth certificate. I was too busy killing Osama bin Laden."

But one of the most widespread quotations was from a much older comic writer: "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." That one was courtesy of Mark Twain.

Some (not all) of this is funny albeit in bad taste.

[Evildead666]

Guess we could have asked France to take him as a prisoner..

No sweat off my back, I only live here. Sarko would have probably enjoyed the attention.

Its racist enough in the real world, you don't have to bring it here.

[ALBPM]

Obama did what your guy couldn't.
Face up to it.

Sorry but your guy was pulled off the Golf Course to veiw the live feed and Panetta called the shots.

http://socyberty.com/issues/white-ho...ama-bin-laden/

"President Obama was literally pulled from a golf outing and escorted back to the White House to be informed of the mission. Upon his arrival there was a briefing held which included Bill Daley, John Brennan, and a high ranking member of the military. When Obama emerged from the briefing, he was described as looking “very confused and uncertain.”

You forget this country has no leader right now...

[Dr Mordrid]

Not tommention that numerous sources, including the Washington Post & Washington Times, are reporting that the info that started this ball rolling was obtained from 2003 - 2005 at Gitmo & the CIA "black" prisons vis rendition and enhanced interrogagion under Bush, all of which Obama & AG Holder opposed.

[Umfriend]

Allthough the point about how the initial lead was sourced will undoubtedly lead to a relevant debate, some of you guys will believe about anything that puts Obama in a bad light I think.

Enjoy the victory.

[cjolley]

You forget this country has no leader right now...

LOL, squirm all you want.

[cjolley]

Also, notice from the pictures of the lost one that it seems to have been stealth helicopters.

@Doc, more info?

[KRSESQ]

Sorry but your guy was pulled off the Golf Course to veiw the live feed and Panetta called the shots...

You forget this country has no leader right now...

The butthurt is strong in this one.

[Dr Mordrid]

Also, notice from the pictures of the lost one that it seems to have been stealth helicopters.

@Doc, more info?

The thinking in aviation circles is that it's a variant of the supposedly cancelled MH-X Advanced Special Operations Helicopter used for deep insertions, and leaks say all the choppers used were this variant.

The bodywork vs. the UH-60 BlackHawk has been lightened, enlarged and redesigned to smooth its profile using the angular features derived from the F-117 NightHawk stealt fighter-bomber but with updated coatings. It also has low-noise & low-observable main and tail rotors, an airflow diverter over the tail rotor hub (the big disc in the photos - ups efficiency) and 5 tail blades vs. the normal 4. Low-noise is obtained by using more blades turning at reduced RPM's so their tips don't go supersonic. Low-observable by use of stealthy composites.

I haven't head for certain, but I'd bet it has cold-air mixing and intake/exhaust baffles to quiet the engines & reduce its thermal signature as well.

UH-60 BlackHawk


"StealthHawk"

[Evildead666]

Most subs (and computer fans) have uneven number of blades for silence, especially good for subs.
I always found it strange that any plane or rotor craft would have an even number of blades.

They were just showing on tv one of the US air bases in Japan, and a 4-prop craft had 6 blades on each prop (C-130 or something). I would have thought 5 or 7 blades would be quieter, but harder to balance maybe.