So does this mean I can go to the airport without getting groped?

[KamaAina]

Or better still, that we can get the fsck out of Afghanistan?

No? I thought not.

So what does it mean? Why, exactly, are people dancing in the streets, other than out of raw, bloodthirsty revenge?

edit: For me, this ought to be a time of somber reflection on how the country has changed in the past ten years, and, of course, on the thousdands he killed.

[Poboy]

1. NO! This means we are winning and we should broaden the wars!

[Common Sense Party]

2. I don't know what they're doing, but I put my flag out in the front yard

to salute our fine troops who put themselves in harm's way every day, and to honor the great country I call home.

Raw, bloodthirsty revenge? No. I'm happy that that ruthless murderer has assumed room temperature. I'm not sure what you're upset about.

[KamaAina]

4. Flag in front yard? Not a problem.

People running down Fifth Avenue? Mob mentality. :scared:

[MineralMan]

3. It means that Osama bin Laden is dead.

That's what it means. Did you expect it to mean something else?

I recently went to the airport. I was not groped. I walked through the metal detector and to my gate. :shrug:

I'm not dancing in any streets.

What it means is that Osama bin Laden is dead.

[villager]

5. No, but it means many will now rush to stop you from asking such questions!

"Mission accomplished!"

[MineralMan]

6. How would any of us stop the poster from asking questions?

We can answer them, though.

[villager]

7. "stopped" as in dismissing the question entirely. Sure, it exists as a post...

The question is what kind of discussion such a post engenders. Many similar ones have been met with a lot of scorn here, these past 12 hours, so we shall see.

[MineralMan]

8. I didn't minimize the question. I answered it.

The bin Laden event has nothing whatever to do with the other things mentioned. Logic. It is what it is.

[MisterP]

9. correction: groped AND accused of being a union-busting useful idiot nt

[kick-ass-bob]

10. Agent Smith says...

TSAgov Agent Smith
Sorry, but it's going to take more than a dead terrorist to get rid of us. We're the herpes of government agencies. #TSA

[Zanzoobar]

11. No, but who would want that?

It's the only thing that makes a visit to the airport worthwhile.