and the impact on my life today was......negligible. I actually didn't notice a single thing change today from yesterday. Good shit, but also don't really care much. The guy has been sick and ailing for years, hasn't led an assault on the US personally since 2001, and was purposely dragging it out for as long as possible so the US would spend trillions of dollars finding him, causing political and social unrest in the US. He succeeded in doing that. He knew the US would pursue him like they did in Vietnam, the guy isn't an idiot. I watched a Dan Rather special on him from the 80s, he is actually a very smart person. Who else could hide in plain sight from US?

Did anyone catch the fox news segment last night? I honestly swear around 2am I got home, and turned it on to hear one of the correspondents say "...lets not forget, in the 1980s Osama bin Laden fought along side invading Russian forces to forge a terrorist safe-haven in Afghanistan...." My lord there is so much misinformation going around, everyone got trigger happy as soon as they heard he was dead and just started making shit up. Did anyone see the news story, was it the AP, that said he was killed by a tomahawk....and then people said a predator drone....and then people were saying murdered by a rival al qaeda sect.


Sigh.


Don't get me wrong, I am glad we can finally move on. I just don't think it is as significant as people have blown it out to be. He was in Pakistan since 2005, and since then how many people got fucked up looking for him in Afghanistan? I also predict 90% of America will forget about it by early next week.


edit: I also forget to add this bit. Donald Trump is announcing next week he demands to see a death certificate, in long form, he is also suing the white house in a defamation suit for airing their special broadcast during his air time of celebrity apprentice :P