Topic: Those rich bastards should be looking for Osama (Read 6500 times)

BizB · « **on:** December 18, 2006, 07:40:29 PM »

I about gagged reading this.

http://mondoweiss.observer.com/2006/12/why-arent-american-alpinists-looking-for-osama-bin-laden.html

Here are some others that should be looking for Osama:
Anyone with an ATV
Anyone with a mountain bike
Anyone with a hunting dog
Orphaned children who are the spawn of troubled teens

BizB · « **Reply #1 on:** December 18, 2006, 07:49:59 PM »

Ugh.. this guy is a moron. A complete moron. He wrote another Op Ed asking if the Kim family were victims of SUV advertising.

Dark Shade · « **Reply #2 on:** December 18, 2006, 07:52:02 PM »

Geez, what a tool. Thanks for bringing him to my attention BizB.

xolik · « **Reply #3 on:** December 18, 2006, 11:34:36 PM »

I've been looking for something like this for quite some time now. You know, proof that somebody will publish ANYTHING regardless of content.

Evonus · « **Reply #4 on:** December 19, 2006, 01:19:45 AM »

I refuse to eat from this day forth until Osama is brought to Justice.

BizB · « **Reply #5 on:** December 19, 2006, 07:32:46 AM »

Quote from: Evonus on December 19, 2006, 01:19:45 AM

I refuse to eat from this day forth until Osama is brought to Justice.

Yes, but will you eat from a dish?

ivan · « **Reply #6 on:** December 19, 2006, 01:27:40 PM »

Well, what the guy suggests is asinine, and clearly just cheap and useless anti-Bush grandstanding, but I was thinking about the resources being used to find and rescue these (and many other) outdoorsmen in peril. That's a lot of taxpayer money spent just because some people like to get their kicks in dangerous ways. I heard an alpinist interviewed on the radio this morning, and the interviewer was easing up to this issue, asking questions like, "Is it really WORTH it, in the end?", and the alpinist guy blithely says stuff like oh, man, when you're up there, and it's you against nature, and blah blah blah, and the interviewer says, "Yeah, but in December? The most dangerous time of year?", and the alpinist says stuff like hell yeah! it's not so crowded up there, &c., and I just wanted to yell into my radio, "you selfish bastard! Why should I have to pay for your sorry ass to be hauled out of a ravine you fell into because of your goddam hobby?"

Well, there you go. I guess I'm just cranky. But I think if you're gonna climb a mountain in December, you should pay into some kind of rescue insurance fund or something. Only fair.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #7 on:** December 19, 2006, 03:35:03 PM »

Yet another reason that taxes suck.

BizB · « **Reply #8 on:** December 19, 2006, 04:13:01 PM »

I kiteboarded in December.

Water temp:38
Air temp: 50

It was cold. I got wet. The wind blew. I went home.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #9 on:** December 19, 2006, 04:18:10 PM »

Oh that's so cool. I saw a few hundred people kiteboarding on a hill one day and it struck me as insanely awesome.

Evonus · « **Reply #10 on:** December 19, 2006, 06:57:41 PM »

Quote from: Agent_Tachyon on December 19, 2006, 03:35:03 PM

Yet another reason that taxes are misallocated.

Fixed it for you.

xolik · « **Reply #11 on:** December 19, 2006, 07:10:49 PM »

The extent of which our taxes are just absolutely wasted never fails to amaze me. I want to form my own political part. The Pissed Off People's party, or P.O.P Party for short.

Evonus · « **Reply #12 on:** December 19, 2006, 07:53:31 PM »

Quote from: xolik on December 19, 2006, 07:10:49 PM

The extent of which our taxes are just absolutely wasted never fails to amaze me. I want to form my own political part. The Pissed Off People's party, or P.O.P Party for short.

You sir, have my vote.

MISTER MASSACRE · « **Reply #13 on:** December 19, 2006, 10:43:35 PM »

I've been looking for Osama for a while now, and I have to tell you, that guy is pretty sneaky.

BizB · « **Reply #14 on:** December 20, 2006, 07:32:36 AM »

He doesn't hang out in the women's fitting room at Target, silly.

ivan · « **Reply #15 on:** December 20, 2006, 11:33:54 AM »

Or.... does he.

Dark Shade · « **Reply #16 on:** December 20, 2006, 02:04:08 PM »

Maybe that's just what he wants us to believe. Damn he's good!

pbsaurus · « **Reply #17 on:** December 20, 2006, 07:59:38 PM »

I found him just the other day.

Scheherazade · « **Reply #18 on:** December 20, 2006, 09:02:33 PM »

Quote from: pbsaurus on December 20, 2006, 07:59:38 PM

I found him just the other day.

Was he hiding behind your couch like Jesus?

pbsaurus · « **Reply #19 on:** December 20, 2006, 09:11:02 PM »

Quote from: ihatecliches on December 20, 2006, 09:02:33 PM

Was he hiding behind your couch like Jesus?

Jesus doesn't hide. I can always find him standing in front of The Home Depot.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #20 on:** December 20, 2006, 10:25:38 PM »

I thought he was a baseball fan.

TeraHammer · « **Reply #21 on:** December 21, 2006, 09:31:04 PM »

Heh

You'll never catch me

Demosthenes · « **Reply #22 on:** December 22, 2006, 11:44:57 AM »

Quote from: xolik on December 19, 2006, 07:10:49 PM

The extent of which our taxes are just absolutely wasted never fails to amaze me. I want to form my own political part. The Pissed Off People's party, or P.O.P Party for short.

I want to start "The Obstructionist Party" ("T.O.P."). If elected to any legislative positions, T.O.P. members will vote against whatever appears to have a chance of passing, or, if elected to any executive position, will veto anything the legislative body passes.

The only safe government is an ineffective one.

Agent_Tachyon · « **Reply #23 on:** December 22, 2006, 05:09:48 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on December 22, 2006, 11:44:57 AM

I want to start "The Obstructionist Party" ("T.O.P."). If elected to any legislative positions, T.O.P. members will vote against whatever appears to have a chance of passing, or, if elected to any executive position, will veto anything the legislative body passes.

The only safe government is an ineffective one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws

I'll join that party, Demo.

Big Orange Cat · « **Reply #24 on:** December 23, 2006, 08:46:13 PM »

If those mountain climbers knew that THEY would be getting billed for the search and rescue, they might reconsider making those hazardous treks.

"Here's your bill for $50,000 for the two days we looked for you. You'll be getting a separate bill from the ambulance company."

And frankly, I want to know why these people keep getting called "heroes." I think the Kim story is tragic, but I'm not sure why someone who endangers his children by making a hugely poor judgment call, only to die of exposure, is heroic. My guess is that it makes the loss more bearable for the family to think of the person as a hero, rather than an idiot. That would be hard to live with.

The person who was really heroic in that instance was the wife, for breastfeeding not just the infant, but the older child, to keep them alive.

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