The Rules

Rule #1. Do not date a girl you meet in the bar. She drinks too much.

Rule #2. Do not date a hair stylist. (Thanks Deane...)

Rule #3. Do not date her if she has not been single.

Bin Laden: The Story Changed

When Steve first posted "Osama Bin Laden is Dead", I wasn't sure if he was joking or not...he's like that. So the investigative reporter in me immediately googled it to see what the internet was saying at that moment. It confirmed what Hurricane said, Osama was dead. He'd been dead a week and Osama was about to confirm it by DNA.

I know I wasn't dreaming and was not the only one who heard or saw the original reports...they said "LAST WEEK"... here is the text, copied from the other night, as reported by The Associated Press:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, is dead, and the U.S. is in possession of his body, a person familiar with the situation said late Sunday.

President Barack Obama was expected to address the nation on the developments Sunday night.

Two senior counterterrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week. One said bin Laden was killed in a ground operation, not by a Predator drone. Both said the operation was based on U.S. intelligence, and both said the U.S. is in possession of bin Laden’s body...The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to speak ahead of the president.

The number of links to any information regarding a seven day delay or the method of his demise in the reporting of Bin Laden's death is rapidly shrinking...or have been edited from their original versions to a boilerplate version of the story with no mention of him being killed a week earlier...

one example...the Denver Post: Original Article (Google Cache) vs Current Link

here's more...

Sources: Osama bin Laden was Killed Last Week in Pakistan | KSTP ...

1 May 2011 ... Two senior counterterrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week. One said bin Laden was killed in a ground ...
kstp.com/news/stories/S2091001.shtml?cat=1 -

Northwest Herald | Source: bin Laden killed in Pakistan

1 May 2011 ... Two senior counterterrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week. One said bin Laden was killed in a ground ...
www.nwherald.com/2011/05/...bin-laden-killed-in-pakistan/as071hn/

Osama bin Laden dead - Telegraph

2 May 2011 ... Two senior counterterrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week. One said bin Laden was killed in a ground ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/.../Osama-bin-Laden-dead.html

Report: Osama Bin Laden killed

1 May 2011 ... Two senior counterterrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week. One said bin Laden was killed in a ground ...

www.fox11online.com/dpp/.../Report%3A-Osama-Bin-Laden-killed - Cached

Osama bin Laden is dead - The Daily Telegraph

2 May 2011 ... Two senior counter terrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week, AP reported. One said bin Laden was killed ...

www.dailytelegraph.com.au/...bin-laden.../story-e6freuy9-1226048340655

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has been killed - The Denver Post

1 May 2011 ... Two senior counterterrorism officials confirmed that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan last week. One said bin Laden was killed in a ground ...

www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_17971598 - United States - Cached

Just sayin is all...

Thank You Canada

Thank You, Canada, for voting. I don't care who you voted for.

I DO care who you did not vote for.

Thank You, for sending the treasonous Bloc Quebecois a clear message that they are no longer welcome in our house, our home, our Canada.

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‎"It is certain that I will vote, and I encourage all other people to vote, and I encourage people to do the same as me and vote Conservative." -Stephen Harper, May 2, 2011 on CKNW Vancouver

Sections 480 to 499 of the Canada Elections Act list the offence provisions, categorized according to whether intent is required, and the burden of proof required to prosecute them. Offences include election advertising during the blackout period.

If a judge finds a person guilty of an offence, the person may receive a fine or a period of imprisonment, or both. Under section 501 of the Act, the Court may also impose additional penalties, such as with respect to certain offences, the deregistration of a party and liquidation of its assets, and the liquidation of the assets of the party's registered associations.

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I want my brass mesh hat...

Most experts agree that if you have quality DNA, and you do ordinary marker testing, the kind nearly always done, the process usually takes five to seven days from the moment the process starts.

The process can also be "pushed," if it's urgent enough, as it sometimes is in a serious criminal or medical case, and all the DNA results usually needed for forensic evidence or medical treatment can be obtained within seventy-two hours.

When I first heard the news of Bin Laden's demise last night about 9:00pm, initial reports said he had been killed in a bombing raid about seven days prior, DNA testing was now complete and Bin Laden's identification was confirmed, with the President poised to announce it. The mission that killed him was part of a "kinetic action" .

“Kinetic action, by its nature, provides the instant gratification of measuring effectiveness by physical forensic evidence: a bomb is dropped, a building is destroyed,” Dennis M. Murphy, Professor of Information Operations and Information in Warfare at the U.S. Army War College, writes in Parameter in 2009.

Even better than this, Murphy explains that kinetic actions are all done by trial and error.

Strategic communication then becomes a series of variations of messages (through actions, images, and words), and selecting and retaining those that work best. This means the “decide, detect, deliver, assess” model is still relevant, but the assessment of results occurs more slowly over time and is more complicated than when the process is applied to kinetic actions.

When I awoke this morning at 3:42am, that story had evolved into a tale within which Navy SEALS surgically stuck Bin Laden's lavish and defended million dollar mansion, hidden cleverly 100 yards from the gate of the Kakul Military Academy, an army-run institution where top officers train...the DNA testing completed in 48 hours and his body buried at sea, "...in accordance with Islamic tradition... "

I want my brass mesh hat.