May 2011 - Argghhh!

'I bet Bin Laden regrets allowing his iPhone app to "use his current location".' "Mrs. Bin Laden just updated her Facebook status to single." "Bin Laden shouldn't have used his real address for his PSN account." "They should have captured Bin Laden alive and made him continually go through airport security for the rest of his life." "RIP Osama bin Laden, World Hide and Go Seek Champion (2001-2011)" "The 72 virgins all have headaches...

…are usually, as Sam Clemens said after reading his own obituary, “greatly exaggerated.”Over the past couple of years, I must’ve seen three or four articles each year reporting the Final Retirement of the UH-1H, usually worded to give a casual reader the impression that the unit doing the obligatory Photo-Op Flyby was the last unit flying the last Huey in the Army. After several months, another article from another unit reporting the Final Retirement of the UH-1H, again worded...

His "Osama bounce" wasn't that large, nor did it last that long , and it didn't really pull up his "performance on the economy" numbers. This despite the hacks in the White House Spin Room tossing OPSEC under the bus in order to sex up the story, regardless of downstream consequences to the people who actually, you know, take *actual* risks with their lives and health. But hey, they're volunteers and expendable to Teh Agenda. Regardless of all that - here at Castle...