Mark Steyn: Osama bin Laden Is … Not Dead

The Spectator ^ | January 15, 2005 | Mark Steyn

[omniscient]

But anything by Steyn (and Coulter) really MUST be read by all.

[hosepipe]

[ We haven't found Osama bin Laden, therefore he never existed..(oh..wait a second, no that's weapons of mass destruction I'm thinking of) ]

There you have it then... Sadaam killed all them Kurds by pushing them out 3rd story windows.. let's call "them" weapons of mass Smush'ation.. works for me, their just as dead.. and the Smush'erator is in the slammer.. for smusher'ating his own people.. just goes to show you, Islam is a religion of peace to muslims, unless you're the WRONG muslims.. Wonder if the "infidels" are worthy of getting pushed out 3rd story windows.. NAH!.. they might comit "weapons of mass destruction", on them guys.. cause their ARE no right or wrong infidels, they are ALL wrong.. and some of them very dumb too.. they would lick the boots of the head choppers.. ugh.. window thrower out'ers..

[quidnunc]

Pokey78 wrote:

Q does it just to irritate people. When q finds something q feels like MUST be read by all, he will post the entire article.

Wrong!

I only post complete articles if I consider them must-read and (1) they are not available on-line, (2) on-line access is available only with a paid subscription or (3) permission to reproduce in toto is specified.

[Minn]

Assuming your comment is serious, you must have missed that huge bulge in Steyn's cheek, which of course is his tongue.

Could be Copenhagen.

[finnigan2]

"My plan to flush him into the open by mocking him as a corpse year in year out finally paid off.

What an egotist. What makes him think that Osama knows [or cares] who this author is?

- Obviously you are not a person who has read much of Steyn in the past. Either that or you have had limited exposure to the use of irony.

[AmishDude]

Just make one up. Create a dummy yahoo account and do all registrations through that. No muss, no fuss.

[Naomi4]

Thank you for posting. I adore Steyn's writing and look for him, here, several times a week.

[finnigan2]

"The solution is really very simple, don't open any threads which I post and your problem will be solved."

- The solution is even simpler. Let another, more daring freeper post the full article in the first place and avoid these weekly running battles that we've all become tired reading about. It ruins a good thread when half the posts consist of bickering and carping.

[AmishDude]

I only post complete articles if I consider them must-read and (1) they are not available on-line, (2) on-line access is available only with a paid subscription or (3) permission to reproduce in toto is specified.

Follow me on this: If the article is available for free (with or without a bit of annoying registration) you will excerpt it. But if the company goes out of its way to protect its copyright, you will circumvent that.

Do I have it right?

[ASA Vet]

Sorry but dummy@yahoo.com is taken, you'll need to use something else.

[AmishDude]

So I don't think there's any reason to excerpt from publications that have not requested it. For ad-based publications outside of the US, we may be doing them a favour by reducing their bandwidth usage while leaving ad revenue unchanged.

That's brilliant and so true! Of course, no publisher will state that sort of thing outright, but you are correct on that score. Canadian sites might still want to advertise in the US market, but not people based in the UK.

[Oschisms]

I’d say something slippery along the lines that, in a sense, Osama is dead: he made no demands, no threats, no invocations of Allah even.

I'm certain Osama is dead and that was a Moore-on on that video tape. I mean really, a jihadist who doesn't mention Allah?

That was more likely a college professor in a beard who thought Kerry would win if only enough people saw Farenheit 9/11. So he put the beard and read a synopsis for the camera.

In addition, the prof thought all Americans were as cowardly as him and if he threatened terror attacks on the states that voted for Bush, we would surrender.

[Lurker]

" Ask not for whom the goat butts, he butts for thee. "

God, I love this guy.

L

[Eurotwit]

That's mine :-)

[ASA Vet]

Imagine how many FReepers and lurkers have clicked on it to see if it's valid.
The poor owner will be removing FR spam forever.

[ASA Vet]

oschisms is getting close to the meaning of the graphic.

[whd23]

The solution is even simpler. Let another, more daring freeper post the full article in the first place and avoid these weekly running battles...

You're exactly right. Steyn is so popular on FR there's no danger of his columns not being posted. The only logical reason for q to continue his annoying habit is because he likes the attention.

[Oschisms]

I wasn't meaning to.

But I got curious and googled "s1mone"

This was the first link. Now I understand.

[whd23]

I only post complete articles if I consider them must-read and (1) they are not available on-line, (2) on-line access is available only with a paid subscription or (3) permission to reproduce in toto is specified.

So you'll do something that you claim will violate copyright laws (reasons 1 & 2 above) if it suits you? So much for all your posturing...

[CharlieOK1]

oschisms is getting close to the meaning of the graphic.

Is this a contest? You are copying quidnic by teasing us and not showing the rest (the best part)