This appears to be a "leak" without attribution -- "a U.S. national security official told Reuters".

You can be certain that military doctrine was being adhered to in the operation, and I have my doubts that it mandated anyone's death via extrajudicial killing.

There's just too little accurate information that has been released yet. In a few days, a week, we'll have much better answers.

--d!

Hence, /bin/laden

--d!

No matter what happens, some (that is, most) people now reflexively try to gain altitude by copping an attitude: "I'm morally above wanting to see OBL dead, I'm too cynical to be deceived, and everybody else is a 'sheeple' except me, since I have the inside track on the ways of this wicked, wicked world".

So of course the world is doomed "... but it's those dumb people who are dooming it, not me! The Idiocrats. The Sheeple. The Darwin Award winners. The Great Unwashed. The booboisie. But not me!

And there's a lot of "tsk, tsk, the world is such a nasty circus! I take solace in being above it all." It's like the lyric in One Night in Bangkok: But thank God I'm only watching the game, controlling it.

They (we) all know exactly what SHOULD have been done in any situation: Bomb a field outside of Hiroshima. File a new complaint with the SCOTUS. To hell with Congress, issue an order. Capture him, don't kill him.

This isn't particular to any particular part of the political spectrum. Most people have copped similar 'tudes, myself included. It's at work when a Jesus-is-a-Republican evangelist says "I'll pray for you". It has become ubiquitous among the intellectual classes, religionizers, and amateur and professional pundits from bloggers to "The Donald". A dominant defense mechanism used by ... the dominant. Because nobody who has access to a computer is one with the Wretched of the Earth. And, of course, it's universal among the rich.

Gloating, smugness, superiority, "I-told-you-so" -- I call it "Abstracted Superiority". It's used by those who want to avoid commitment to action, the risk involved with taking action, and culpability for making an incorrect decision. In other words, most of us.

I challenge us to change all that -- me, most of all.

--d!

And for years, I thought it was from the biological, physiological need of being an obligate omnivore.

--d!

"You better believe I am deadly serious that some people will fight for the devil, for the death principle, which is what radiation is."

"Learn" more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031823_Japan_ra...

Notice the pseudo-psychoanalytic diagnosis of people who have the unmitigated gall (and DOR) to disagree with him. But, after all, he's a Doctor. Wears a white shirt and everything!

The website of the author, Mark Sircus Ac., OMD: Sanctuary Cancer Clinic.

By the way, "Ac." means "Acupuncturist", and "OMD" means either Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, or in this case, Oriental Medical Doctor. (BTW, I think that's an honorary OMD -- LOL.) He also claims a "DMP", which I have been unable to find a reference on, though licensed podiatrists use the DPM style. "DMP" means Doctor of Medical Physics in many countries, but all the medical physicists I ever met in the USA and Canada were MDs or PhDs.

Not only does he have a cancer center, he's the director of the prestigious International Medical Veritas Association

And he also has product: Nuclear Toxicity Syndrome

Would it surprise you to learn that he's anti-vaccine? To get to the "vaccines-kill-children" section, scroll down below the "radiation will kill everybody" section.

--d!

Seth Godin, The triumph of coal marketing.

--d!

We're all about Science until someone questions our own tribal totems.

--d!

We can detect nearly ANY change in background radiation.

Of course, such a small portion of our population has any accurate information on how it's measured and what its effects are (scientifically-described, not the product of pop cynicism) that the mere WORD "radiation" can cause severe mental illness.

--d!

A Richter 9.0 with a large-area lateral movement of 18 feet.

PLUS a tsunami as high as 90 feet.

And here I thought it was a MAJOR DEADLY NUCLEAR DISASTER THAT WILL KILL US ALL!

That's what the news and 20000 hypercynical bloggers said, anyway.

Huffington Post and CNN even showed pictures of a ginormous fire and a headline of "Japanese Nuclear Disaster ... Meltdowns in 3 Reactors ... over 1000 dead."



--d!

Here is the article on Snopes with an earlier version of the speech.

It looks like it's been changing, too, like most ULs.

However, I like this one a hell of a lot more than The Bill Of No Rights.

--d!

I glanced at the Huffington Post headlines a few days ago and it said there was a Nuclear Catastrophe and over 5000 dead. Then a little later I heard on TV that there had also been a major earthquake and tsunami.

Maybe I'll crawl back into bed for another month or two ...

--d!

Some supermoon!

That's quite a cool picture, though.

--d!

But they do make the commission of violence much easier and more casual.

On the other hand, it is never a bad time to promote solutions to violence and hostility. The recent Presidential initiative against bullying, for example. Liberal RKBAers could unite behind conflict-reduction efforts and get only a minimum of flack.

--d!

This is a bad situation. It is far from "ok".

I'm what you condescendingly call a "nuker". (You can ask Bananas.)

So there you have it.

By the way, please don't use the word "nuker" anymore. It isn't just a minced call-out, it sounds a lot like the word racists call the black folks.

--d!

The information is available from Wikipedia, the NRC, the Department of Energy, and nearly every undergrad nuclear science course's website.

Easily available. Every word of it. And Reuters has a fairly rumor-free collection of what they know at this point.

If you read, you get to learn about this stuff.

"It's TWO FREAKIN' DAYS IN. The only FACT we know is that we don't know what the hell is going to happen."

Which I've said several times here myself. And guess what? OTHER sarcastic, hostile hotheads blew up at me. Here's one that I recently wrote that earned me the wrath of one non-reader:

"We don't know how much melting has taken place, and we won't know for sure until the cores are examined, but the containment is holding. Verified radiation releases have been fairly small, the result of venting excess volatile radioactive gasses like isotopic iodine. " (Source.)

Everything else was the standard information on nuclear core "events".

"Quit posing as if you do. I mean...you do appear to be posing for someone, after all."

Don't tell me how to behave when you don't even have basic social self-control.

--d!