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Open Thread

by Tim F|  May 2, 201110:41 am| 37 Comments

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If Max had to choose which “r” he felt last night, he would have to pick relief. Relief that the wounds left over from 9/11 could finally start to heal.

Getting in the spirit

Still, though he wouldn’t say it in so many words, Max felt a touch of regret. He liked to imagine that there was always some chance that Osama bin Laden would have turned down that safe house in Islamabad and instead tried hiding under his loveseat near the TV.

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  1. 1.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    May 2, 2011 at 10:57 am

    This cements Barack Obama place in history as a great president.

    Lincoln, FDR, Obama

  2. 2.

    jibeaux

    May 2, 2011 at 11:03 am

    Max really looks like someone from a rival dog fraternity decided to get cute with the purple drank….

  3. 3.

    Villago Delenda Est

    May 2, 2011 at 11:03 am

    I suspect that Max would assume that pose if he heard that Sylvester the Cat had been taken out by a crack team of Tweety Bird special forces.

    Or for no reason whatsoever, come to think of it, other than “my, this seems comfortable to me in ways that the silly hairless apes will never comprehend”.

  4. 4.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    May 2, 2011 at 11:03 am

    President Obama will speak at the end of the hour during a Medal of Honor ceremony.

  5. 5.

    geg6

    May 2, 2011 at 11:09 am

    MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!

    Why, oh, why did you put a t-shirt on the handsomest doggie in the world (next to my two, that is)?

    I have to say that I missed all the Osama hoopla last night. I finalized my move in with my John this weekend and have just been exhausted. John made dinner last night and we watched 60 Minutes (that Lara Logan story was hard to watch) and The Amazing Race and that was about as late as I could manage to stay up. I woke up this morning with John whispering in my ear “Obama killed Osama” over and over. I thought he was screwing with me, but no. It really happened. I can’t believe it still.

  6. 6.

    James E. Powell

    May 2, 2011 at 11:10 am

    That doesn’t look like relief. That looks like Steelers fan the morning after last year’s Super Bowl.

  7. 7.

    Mike Goetz

    May 2, 2011 at 11:17 am

    Savor this little nugget from our friends over at Digby’s:

    “One final, thought; It’s a very cynical thought, but that doesn’t mean it’s worthless: If ever there was a time that Obama could be persuaded to pursue even a moderately liberal agenda – as opposed to a (roughly) centrist/right one – that time is now. It is likely he will never be more popular. If progressive politicians haven’t anticipated this moment, and if they’re not prepared to make a full court press for those policies that matter to us, they will have failed us and there should be hell to pay.”

    Could there be a more crystalline specimen of a certain kind of pathology within the Progosphere?

  8. 8.

    slag

    May 2, 2011 at 11:23 am

    When I woke up this morning and heard the OBL news, I have to say I shed many, many tears of relief. I thought about a lot of things. How this would affect the wars we’re involved in, how it would affect our national psyche, how this would affect the residents of New York, in particular. But I can honestly say that not once did I even consider how this would affect Obama’s poll numbers.

    The internet sucks today. That is all.

  9. 9.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    May 2, 2011 at 11:27 am

    @Mike Goetz:

    Could there be a more crystalline specimen of a certain kind of pathology within the Progosphere?

    Yeah. I know what you mean. I didn’t know repealing DADT, declining to defend DOMA, the START Treaty, reforming Student Loans, HCR, doubling the size of SCHiP, Lilly Ledbetter were center-right ideas. Obama Derangement Syndrome is a sad and powerful affliction.

  10. 10.

    MTiffany

    May 2, 2011 at 11:33 am

    under his loveseat near the TV

    His own loveseat. That is one lucky dog.

  11. 11.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    May 2, 2011 at 11:35 am

    @slag: yeah, shame on political blogs for daring to think about the political and historical implications of this landmark achievement.

  12. 12.

    catclub

    May 2, 2011 at 11:36 am

    I would guess that relaxed is the ‘r’ that comes before either regret or relief.

    In honor of the friday wedding, royal is another possiblity.

  13. 13.

    mr. whipple

    May 2, 2011 at 11:40 am

    @Mike Kay (Team America):

    If there was ever any doubt, it is now gone.

    That said, he’s still blackity black black black.

  14. 14.

    mr. whipple

    May 2, 2011 at 11:42 am

    @Mike Goetz:

    Wow.

  15. 15.

    Joseph Nobles

    May 2, 2011 at 11:42 am

    Well, I just got a little deflation on realizing THE ANGLE. You know, how Fox and Friends are going to spin this and how that spin will take. And it’s not the “this is not a partisan moment,” because everybody knows they’d be all “President Bush took him out!” if Bush had bothered to keep chasing bin Laden. Besides, all the snotty Joe Wilson-types purposefully leaving any mention of the POTUS out of their thanks cancels that line out.

    No, it’s that Osama’s burial at sea was done in accordance with Islamic custom. They have “shown proper respect” to the body of Osama bin Laden and the rage will be palpable on the right.

    OK, back to the triumph.

  16. 16.

    Mike Kay (Team America)

    May 2, 2011 at 11:43 am

    Outside the White House

    http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0cVn0L579QdME/610x.jpg

    OBAMA!

    OBAMA!

    OBAMA!

    OBAMA!

    OBAMA!

    OBAMA!

    OBAMA!

    OBAMA!

  17. 17.

    Tom

    May 2, 2011 at 11:49 am

    Life goes on…

    For those of us of Canuckistani persuasion, there’s a federal election today. (IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED YET, WHY NOT?)

    For those of you who haven’t been following along, nobody knows how this will end. We’ve seen a third party rocket into second place in the polls, the current minority PM basically reduced to begging for votes, and the now opposition party going down in flames. Throw in vote splits on election night, and who knows who’ll be standing where when the dust clears. Should be fun.

    Get the popcorn ready, this will be a long night.


    http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadavotes2011/

  18. 18.

    JCT

    May 2, 2011 at 11:52 am

    @mr. whipple: And that’s all that matters. No matter what happens.

    And hah, Tim F. my beagle does that — we call them “ya-yas” — the best part is the look of “distain” on her sister beagle’s face when she rolls around like that.

  19. 19.

    Origuy

    May 2, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Wikipedia says about Islamic custom regarding burial at sea:

    The sacred texts of Islam prefer burial on land, “so deep that its smell does not come out and the beasts of prey do not dig it out”. However, if a person dies at sea and it is not possible to bring the body back to land before decay, burial at sea is allowed. A weight is tied to the feet of the body, and the body is lowered into the water. This would preferably occur in an area where the remains are not immediately eaten by scavengers.

    So they did it quickly, and weighted down the body. The wingnuts wanted them to leaving lying around before they put a life vest on it?

    BTW, the Wikipedia list of people buried at sea already lists OBL.

  20. 20.

    George W Bush

    May 2, 2011 at 11:54 am

    This thing about . . . let’s put 100,000 of our special forces stomping through Pakistan in order to find bin Laden is just simply not the strategy that will work.

  21. 21.

    IM

    May 2, 2011 at 11:55 am

    @Tom:

    Whom do you support? NDP Liberals, Greens, other? And why?

  22. 22.

    RossInDetroit

    May 2, 2011 at 11:57 am

    It will be interesting to see how high the president’s popularity bump is and how long it lasts. I’m sure that OBL’s death matters a lot to people but if they’re still paying $4+/gal for gas on July 4 that will have a big negative effect. He’s getting blamed for things he can’t control but at least he got credit for a big win.

  23. 23.

    Origuy

    May 2, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Ok, that should be “leave it lying around”. I need to get some breakfast.

  24. 24.

    Tom

    May 2, 2011 at 12:18 pm

    @IM:

    I’m not voting Conservative, I can tell you that

    PM Harper has spent the last few years as a control freak, scripting every little thing to the point that gov’t ministers won’t speak without his approval. And his treatment of Abdekrazik and Mohamud, Canadian citizens who ran into trouble abroad and were cut loose by the gov’t really disgusted me.

    Ironically I think the best person for PM, based on his past record, would be Gilles Duceppe. Too bad he’s a Quebec separatist.

    I’m still trying to decide if I want to vote for my incumbent, who’s Liberal and has been a good MP, or if I should back the NDP

  25. 25.

    kindness

    May 2, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    I see Max isn’t neutered or are those neuticles?

  26. 26.

    PWL

    May 2, 2011 at 12:40 pm

    Don’t mean to rain on the parade, but in some ways Bin Laden’s death is an anticlimax. He really hadn’t been much of a player for quite some time, and was likely on the way to being rendered irrelevant by the changes going on in the Middle East. Woulda been different if they’d got him ten years ago.

    That being said, It’s nice to note that while the Great Terrorist Hunter and Warmonger George W. Bush was never able to find Osama Bin Laden, it was that Kenyan-born Muslim in the White House who finally succeeded in doing Bin Laden in…

  27. 27.

    Tim F.

    May 2, 2011 at 12:50 pm

    @kindness: It’s an old pic. Max was neutered at nine months.

  28. 28.

    Svensker

    May 2, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    @Tom:

    If Harper pulls it off with only 35% of the vote… As a new transplant to Canukistan, I find that very frustrating. Perhaps leftie types in Canada should try to get together?

  29. 29.

    Joe Bauers

    May 2, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    @Mike Goetz:

    Digby’s blog has become unreadable for me. She should just change its name to the Daily Eeyore and be done with it. Nothing good ever happens. All parades must be rained on. All hope must be extinguished with bitter cynicism. Doom, doom, doom.

    And the commentariat is worse. I’m the leftest person I know in real life, but I’m Attila the Hun compared to the median commenter over there, one of whom expressed sincerely the belief that Obama is worse than bin Laden. If they were all I knew of liberals I’d never admit to being one.

  30. 30.

    giltay

    May 2, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    I’ll echo Tom above and urge my fellow BJ-Canadians to vote, and vote hard.

  31. 31.

    Brachiator

    May 2, 2011 at 1:27 pm

    @Tom:

    For those of us of Canuckistani persuasion, there’s a federal election today.

    Not Canadian, but it will be interesting to see how it all turns out.

    I was listening to a CBC podcast the other day, and the joke was that the news presenters were more interested in talking about the Royal Wedding in the UK than the various political parties involved in the upcoming election.

  32. 32.

    Yutsano

    May 2, 2011 at 1:36 pm

    @Svensker: They’ve been trying for years. Most of the history between the Liberals and the NDP tends to boil down to clashes of ego between the two party chairs. When they finally got close enough Harper threw a fit and prorogued Parliament. I lost a lot of respect for Michelle Jean for agreeing to that move.

  33. 33.

    quaint irene

    May 2, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    Haaaahaaahaaa! What is it about male dogs? The one male I owned would assume the exact same spread-eagled pose when it was time for seriious sleeping.

  34. 34.

    kindness

    May 2, 2011 at 1:54 pm

    @Tim F.: I’ll have to admit when I heard that neuticles were available for dogs, I thought it said more of the owner than the dog. I got my guy dog from a local pound and they gave me six months to bring them the certificate that he had been neutered & refunded me some money. The more recent female we got from a different pound, spayed her even though she was only two months old. They said it was the only sure way the dog got fixed. I objected as I think the dog growing up with all their hormones is better, but we adopted her anyhow as she was too cute to not.

    Thank you for spaying & neutering your critters.

  35. 35.

    giltay

    May 2, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    @Yutsano: I don’t really see what sort of choice she had. If she’d refused the wishes of the PM, we could have had another King-Byng Thing on our hands. And it apparently didn’t take much for the agreement between the opposition parties to dissolve—I don’t think it would have worked as a government. As much as I hate that Harper requested her to prorogue Parliament, I can’t fault her.

  36. 36.

    Jody

    May 2, 2011 at 3:46 pm

    “Fuck dignity” – all dogs everywhere.

  37. 37.

    M. Bouffant

    May 2, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    Relief that the wounds left over from 9/11 could finally start to heal.

    Do you really think that reactionaries won’t be picking at the scab for all eternity?

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