Bin Laden To Be Announced As Kiiled

[Tupac Shakur]

Prior to the historical digression, Albie was right on

Albie's also right on the historical digression; Lonestar's Hannibal "quotes" are historically illiterate in addition to being pretentious and annoying.

[Al B. Sure!]

I don't know what history this 'history nerd' is reading but it sounds like some pulp alternate history nonsense.

[Whoha]

Democrats did what Republicans couldn't.

You mean the tea party did what democrats and republicans couldn't.

[Asher]

If the Tea Party had their way, wouldn't they have done nothing and used no money?

[Tupac Shakur]

No, the Tea Party is racist and all about funding attacks against brown people.

[giblets]

You mean the tea party did what democrats and republicans couldn't.

Obama is part of the tea party?

[Al B. Sure!]

Hannibal was defeated at Zama in 202 BC. Look at the green which is the extent of the Roman Republic after Zama and the conclusion of the Second Punic War:



A superpower? No.

These were the powers in 200 BC:

[giblets]

No, the Tea Party is racist and all about funding attacks against brown people.

Are Afghans actually brown or is that just a popular perception of third world hellholes?

[Asher]

Hannibal is a Cannibal and all of y'all ought to fact check before starting boring threadjacks.

[Al B. Sure!]

Hannibal is a Cannibal and all of y'all ought to fact check before starting boring threadjacks.

Lonestar started this threadjack with his pretentious quotes, not me.

[Al B. Sure!]

Are Afghans actually brown or is that just a popular perception of third world hellholes?

See the other thread where I recently explored how people of Middle Eastern descent were 'minority-ized' in the late 1960's, following the emergence of terrorism.

Apparently, terrorism turns you 'brown', actual skin complexion is irrelevant to what makes someone white or other.

[Al B. Sure!]

Crowds climb trees and celebrate early
Crowds climb trees and celebrate in Lafayette Park early Monday, May 2, 2011, in front of the White House in Washington after President Barack Obama announced that Obama bin Laden had been killed. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Really? I must be the only one who treats this as "ehh... whatever." Maybe the fact that it's been 10 years has something to do with it or also that it means very little.

[Asher]

I like how the Marines are infront of the White House celebrating how the Navy did their job for them.

[Al B. Sure!]

I like how the Marines are infront of the White House celebrating how the Navy did their job for them.

What the hell are you even referring to? What Marines in front of the White House celebrating?

[Al B. Sure!]

SWAG