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Boomer with Attitude / News Bill James 'celebrates' Osama bin Laden's end by throwing up bile
Posted By John Grooms on Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:04 PM
Call me weird or whatever you want, but one of the things I love is watching right-wingers freak out over nothing. The right’s ongoing public nervous breakdowns — over terrorism, illegal immigrants, “socialism,” gays and lesbians, gun control advocates, and dark people of all sorts being nervy enough to inhabit the same world as white Americans — can make for fairly regular entertainment. If you’re like me and consider these folks hilarious in a weird way, and believe laughter is the best medicine, then here’s your dose for the day.
Osama bin Laden was killed yesterday, as you know, which is something to celebrate, right? Something to make you glad that justice was finally done. It’s a great big hairy deal, and any sensible person who was outraged by 9/11 is gonna spend at least one day thinking in terms of congratulations, celebration, relief, victory, and a dozen other positive things. Right? We-e-l-l-l-l, not if you’re County Commissioner Bill James. James, whose responsibilities, we needn’t remind anyone, have absolutely zero to do with national security, sent out a mass e-mail this morning, condemning Pres. Obama for “allowing” bin Laden to be buried according to Islamic practice and tradition. Rather than see the U.S. decision to not enrage millions of Muslims by, say, putting bin Laden’s body on display, as a sensible, reasonable step to make things safer for Americans abroad, James calls it “political correctness” and “caving in to placate the jihadists.”
Admittedly, James’ first sentence is “I am glad they got the scumbag,” but the rest of the message is devoted to slamming the U.S. decision to bury bin Laden at sea within 24 hours. James suggests that, instead, the terrorist leader’s body ... wait for it ... should have been put on public display. And then Americans could pee and crap on it, and then the body could've been eaten by pigs. Yes, this is really what James' e-mail advocates. Sounds like Bill’s id was working overtime this morning.
It’s a sad display, but also funny as hell in an odd way. Face it: If you’re so tightly bound by your own political rage that your reaction to a big day in U.S. history is to nitpick a successful mission over one detail, then you’re screwed up enough to be considered comical. If you can’t even take time to congratulate the people who made it an historic day, including the president, then, yes, that makes you a sadly comical figure. And the fact that you don’t even realize you’re comical? Now that’s comical. No, James’ missive today goes beyond the usual upchucking of political bile; it’s kind of, well, really nuts. For fellow fans of right-wing lunacy, let’s end by paraphrasing Reagan: There they go again. Meanwhile, here is the text of James’ little love note:
Osama is dead - No Islamic burial
Even in death, US seems to have caved in to placate the jihadists
I am glad they got the scumbag. News reports say that Obama allowed Osama to get an 'Islamic burial'. If true that is a big mistake.
Osama should not have been allowed to have a burial that followed 'Islamic practice and tradition' so he can get his '40 virgins'. The body should have been put on public display - disrespected - defecated on - urinated on (all on video) and then thrown into a pig pen for consumption by 'unclean' animals.?Then they could dump his sorry carcass into the sea................ unwashed, unclean heading to the Hell he justly deserves. In short, if Osama wanted an Islamic burial we should have given him the opposite and in public denying him his devout last wishes.??As it is - media reports say we gave him an 'Islamic' burial so he can collect his 40 virgins in paradise. Now these nut jobs know that even if they die and are caught the US will still give them the proper Islamic burial they want.??This is the kind of politically correct dogma designed to placate a group of crazies whose ultimate goal is paradise in the next life. ??If a certain religious burial is what Osama wants when dead - that is exactly what we should not have given him. Of course, the reports could be wrong but that is what is being mentioned.
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