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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:18 PM
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Diver To Look For Bin Laden's Body
KTLA News

10:18 a.m. PDT, June 12, 2011
A California scuba diver says he plans to go on an underwater search to find the body of Osama bin Laden, since there has not been a photo released to the public to prove the terrorist leader is dead.

Bill Warren, 58, is an experienced deep-sea scuba diver normally dives searching for underwater treasure in sunken ships. He said last week that he plans to scour the North Arabian Sea for bin Laden's body. The U.S. Navy allegedly buried bin Laden at sea by pitching his body overboard there in early May.

Warren said the expedition could cost about $500,000. He plans to rent a ship and a remote-control submarine at the cost of $11,000 per day.

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-diver-search-for-bin-laden,0,982311.story


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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:19 PM
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1. The nutty get nuttier. nt
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:19 PM
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2. Who's paying for this
More Kochroaches?
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:20 PM
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5. DU cynics?
I keed! I keed!
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WheelWalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:08 PM
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34. DC Comics?
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surrealAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 05:23 PM
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53. Would that mean he's ...
... Aquaman?
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Safetykitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 10:36 PM
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71. DB Cooper
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PCIntern Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:19 PM
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3. And the RW complains about 'wasted' stimulus money!!
There goes half a million into the economy...idjits like this, we'll be great in no time!
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:28 PM
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16. Not Very Much of It Will Stimulate OUR Economy
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RB TexLa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 05:12 PM
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49. It would be our economy, since there is only one global economy
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:20 PM
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4. about all you can do is
:rofl:




:eyes:
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virgogal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:20 PM
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6. Obviously a man with too much time on his hands.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:22 PM
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9. And far too much money. One wonders how many hungry children could be fed.
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Motown_Johnny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:21 PM
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7. and when he doesn't find it he will claim it was all a hoax
here we go again
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:24 PM
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12. You're ahead of me on that
A fifteen minute swim should be all he needs, then look out, talk shows!
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:21 PM
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8. Fuck! Why didn't I think of that?
There are so many suckers born every minute. I can spend their money better.
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:24 PM
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10. They better hope that the US didn't pack a few Snickers bars in that body bag.
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Politicalboi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:56 PM
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29. LOL!
"Steve was delicious" I love that commercial.
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digitaln3rd Donating Member (533 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:24 PM
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11. If Bush had done it, everyone would be the first to question it.
Why is it so different just because a Democrat is in power?
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:29 PM
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17. "Everyone would be first"? Man the Koch's a scaping the bottom of the barrell.
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:30 PM
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19. Only Question I'm Asking Is
"Can we declare victory and bring the troops home now?"

Same question I'd be asking if Bush had done it.

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phleshdef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:51 PM
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26. No. If Bush had done it with all the confirmations we have available, I'd believe it.
So that pretty much blows a hole in your fragile theory.

The fact is, Al Quaida confirmed it, Bin Laden's family has confirmed it, Pakistan has confirmed it, The US military has confirmed it, White House staff have confirmed seeing the pictures and Senators have confirmed seeing the pictures. They have video tapes and intelligence that they took that more than confirm they got ahold of personal stuff that belonged to Bin Laden.

He is dead. We killed him. And it was really him. Period. People have been convicted of murder on much, much less evidence than this.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:58 PM
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40. Bush found him more useful alive than dead. Whenever his
poll numbers dropped, or some scandal erupts, he'd trot out a video, or raise the threat level. Remember the Tape that came out the weekend before the 2004 election? That was enough to give bush a spike on election day. After the election, bin Laden disappeared from the screen, and so did the terrorist threats.

Read "Jawbreaker." It was written by a CIA field commander.

http://www.amazon.com/Jawbreaker-Attack-Personal-Account-Commander/dp/0307237400
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:26 PM
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13. It's in an underwater cave.
.
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Proud Liberal Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:27 PM
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14. "The U.S. Navy allegedly buried bin Laden........"
Edited on Sun Jun-12-11 01:27 PM by Proud Liberal Dem
"Allegedy?!"

:wtf:
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:31 PM
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20. Your Repiglickin' Media At Work
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:27 PM
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15. And if they don't find him intact...
maybe they can catch every flesh-eating creature in the ocean and slit open their bellies to find the scraps...


oy...

:eyes:

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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:30 PM
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18. If they don't find him it proves he's still alive....
....just ask Ken Lay.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 04:27 PM
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41. You Are Not Going To Perform Some Half-Assed Autopsy On A Shark!

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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 05:21 PM
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52. Thread win!
:)
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cherokeeprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 07:24 PM
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55. He's long since passed through the digestive tracts of every animal
who partook of his flesh...

He doesn't sleep with the fishes any longer, he sleeps with the muck.
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 07:27 PM
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56. Exactly...that's why killing the critters
to look for scraps would be stupid.

Besides being STUPID, I mean...

:+



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izquierdista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:33 PM
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21. Who wants to join my expedition?
We'll be going to Kenya to look for the long lost Obama birthplace. We'll be taking a submarine up the Zambezi river, making a right turn at Lake Turkana, and then we'll stop and ask directions. I'm applying for a grant from the Koch foundation and Jerome Corsi will be along to document what we find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46btEgKmCTo
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former9thward Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:40 PM
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22. This is utterly nuts.
The Navy has not said where they dumped the body except that it was in the Arabian Sea. That is an area about the size of the Gulf of Mexico or about a million square miles.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 07:50 PM
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59. It's gonna be a hard search
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:43 PM
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23. One thing he will for sure find:
The North Arabian Sea is very, very big.
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:44 PM
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24. +! very good
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:51 PM
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25. "Hold my beer, Bubba. I think I see him and I'm goin' in."
:splash:

:eternal silence:
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 04:32 PM
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42. (((rim shot)))
:rofl:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 04:43 PM
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46. here!
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 05:09 PM
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48. perfect!
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:54 PM
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27. The rethuglicans will consider it money well spent.
Edited on Sun Jun-12-11 01:56 PM by lpbk2713



And when this fishing expedition (predictably) comes up empty handed all the goppers will say is ...

"AHA!!11! We knew it. There never was a body to begin with, OBL is still out there somewhere!!11!"


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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 01:56 PM
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28. I wonder about his intent. Let's say he finds sunken valuables;
Does he have any obligation to share the proceeds with investors? It seems to me that he has a much better chance of finding loot of some sort than one small human body, dumped months before the searchers begin. The body will likely be long gone by then, unless it's very deep indeed.

This might be an easy way to grab publicity and scoop up enough funding to do a general sweep of an area that he thinks might yield profit.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:03 PM
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30. Good luck with that, then.
It's a big area, and a very small object. I don't believe the Navy publicized the location of the burial at sea.
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Kaleva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:04 PM
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31. Big area to search for fish crap.
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:05 PM
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LOL. The search continues.
:rofl:
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:05 PM
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32. LOL. The search continues.
:rofl:
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:05 PM
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33. ROFL...
and when he can't find it, that will just be PROOF that he Osama wasn't killed.

Sid
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Dappleganger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:19 PM
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35. His diving partner is HAWT!
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:50 PM
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36. He's crab poop by now.
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zappaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:52 PM
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37. Funniest thing I've read in a while!
Thanks for posting!
K&R
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:55 PM
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38. Bet this moran was a birther before he was a deather
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 02:57 PM
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39. Can't find what's not there!
:eyes:
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 04:35 PM
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43. you go on down there bill, you go on....
heheheheee

this world is getting crazier by the day
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Blue-Jay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 04:39 PM
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44. Ghoulish.
I hope he loses his ass while he's tilting at this particular windmill.
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intaglio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 04:40 PM
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45. The guy is a loon
Say his search area is a 300 x 300 mile square; that's 90,000 sq miles with water depths of 750 - 2000 fathoms and he is searching for something 6'x2'x1 that is soft and has probably been eaten by crabs.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 04:46 PM
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47. Sifting through fish poop?
:rofl:
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 07:32 PM
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57. Probably better than sifting through people poop...
Sorry...it just made me think of the time my son-in-law ended up swallowing one of the false teeth from his upper denture.

He spent the next couple of days saving his poo and sifting through it with a metal ruler.

I never asked what happened if/when he found the tooth.


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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 05:16 PM
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50. Take your time, dude. Take all the time in the world.
:rofl:
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 05:20 PM
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51. There are probably lots of bodies
in the Arabian Sea. I doubt this guy will find any of them.
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pipi_k Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 07:34 PM
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58. Wouldn't it be ironic, though....
to finally find Jimmy Hoffa in a trunk?

:7

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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 05:49 PM
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54. Snag me a 275/70 - 18 truck tire while you're down there.
Prefer outline white letter, but a blackwall will do.
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 07:52 PM
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60. The truth is out there.
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thelordofhell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 07:55 PM
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61. I agree with Tom Hanks on this.............
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 07:57 PM
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62. Oh geeesh there must be something better to spend time
and money on than that. Let the fishes have OBL!
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 08:01 PM
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63. World Net Daily is financing his practice runs at Lake Wobegon Minnesota.
:hide:
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 09:06 PM
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66. Where all of the children are above average?
This guy's going to ruin that statistic.
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 09:24 PM
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67. Not with Guy Noir running the operation.
:toast: Toast to another PHC listener.
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FLPanhandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 08:01 PM
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64. This guy is going to get fools to pay for him to go diving
Why the hell didn't I think of that!?! Smart guy.
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ChrisBorg Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 08:11 PM
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65. There is nothing left to find. Studies show warm or cold water, skeleton after 2 months.
A 2002 study in the journal Legal Medicine examined nine bodies that had drifted hundreds of kilometers in cold waters off the coast of Portugal and Spain. Bodies recovered in the first week were in good condition, but the beginning signs of decomposition were present on a body recovered after eight days. The two bodies recovered after 20 days were highly decomposed and could only be identified through DNA analysis or dental records. As for warmer water, A 2008 study on two human bodies recovered following aircraft accidents found one body off of Sicily to be partially skeletonized after 34 days and a second body off of Namibia to be completely skeletonized after three months.*

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AnnieBW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 10:19 PM
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68. I Hope He Likes Picking Through Shark Sh*t
Or crab shit. Because that's what Osama is.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 10:20 PM
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69. Good luck with that!
:hi:
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ChoppinBroccoli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 10:32 PM
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70. And Guess What Will Happen When He Can't Find It
It will be "proof" that Obama is lying about Bin Laden's death. Cue the book deal from World Nut Daily and all the birthers rushing to embrace this guy.

The truth of the matter is that his body has certainly been eaten by now. But we all know what it means when you can't prove the truth. It means it's not really the truth (at least by birther "logic").
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Lil Missy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-12-11 10:46 PM
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72. He's obviously a Tea Bagger. n/t
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