Friday, September 14, 2012

It must be a day ending in "y".

CNN reports:
In Afghanistan, hundreds of demonstrators in the eastern Nangarhar province burned a U.S. flag and chanted "Death to America"...
Uh, in the Islamic world* the events described above are usually termed "Friday". (Thursdays they chant "Death to Israel".)
Call me when you've got some news, there, CNN.

Stories don't get much more dog-bites-man than that.


*Also Dearborn, anywhere the WTO is meeting, and Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...


MSNBC: Bush/Cheney corporate friends reap huge profits on the death of Americans in Libya.

Gerry

Jayson said...

Me: why aren't we reporting napalm dropped on these jackasses?

JD Rush said...

Jay Carney/MSNBC:
It was because those filmmakers wore short skirts or something.

montieth said...

"...our country is stronger, safer and more respected in the world."

So sayeth TOTUS on 9/11.

Ygolonac said...

I understand that in Afghanistan, Thursdays are reserved for a different traditional male bonding ritual...

Maybe they're chanting while enjoying the afterglow cigarette?

Meanwhile: "Vilerat" (Sean Smith) tribute article on the SA frontpage - http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/sean-smith-vilerat.php

Kristophr said...

Jayson: Because having the Air Force drop napalm on CNN is a Posse Comitatus violation.

KM said...

Because having the Air Force drop napalm on CNN is a Posse Comitatus violation.

Can we settle for MOABs?

Nathan said...

You should come to Dearborn some time. It's both exactly like that and nothing like that.

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

I have a new idea. If they want to storm an embassy, let 'em. Let them all in, as many as they can get in there that want to go in. If the mob wants to climb the walls and storm the gates, don't try stopping them, just clear out and wait until they're all inside the walls.

Then hit the place with a Tomahawk or five.

We only kill the guilty ones that way, but we kill them all, and we do it brutally and decisively. And after we do that a couple of times maybe the rest of the barbarians might think twice before doing it again.

Kristophr said...

And the Salafist pukes are starting to pick off isolated US military units in Egypt ...

NotClauswitz said...

Why aren't we dropping napalm on the Media who built the strawman video argument to cover for the Unicorn Rider's incompetence and careless disengagement.

C.E. LeMay said...

Forget napalm - that's such a target rich environment it deserves a reply from a B-52.

Since it's football season, we could call it 'Linebacker III'.

Go Huskers!

Anonymous said...

Actually, Tam, as much as I hate to nitpick. It's ManLoveThursday.