SEAL-mania grips nation in wake of bin Laden raid

[GeorgeGist]

Source: AP

ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — Joe Stumpf snaps the 115-pound barbell up to his chest and swiftly lifts it over his head, holding it with gritting teeth and locked arms as sweat streams down from his gray hair line.

The barbell hits the ground in a clang seconds later. After eight reps, the 54-year-old businessman dressed in camouflage pants rushes to the next excruciating exercise.


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Bring in the clowns

[dipsydoodle]

1. Better than clubbing them to death I guess. GRAPHIC WARNING

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2. Joe Stumpf sounds like the kind of guy...

that would sign up for the "Rex Kwon Do" school of self-defense...

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80500613/

[apnu]

3. Mania? I see one guy... maybe there's a few more out there but I don't see them.

And I work in a 90% Republican, flag-wrapping, St. Ronnie of Ray-Gun office where nobody, and I mean NOBODY, is crazy for the SEALs. They respect them, they love them, they "honor" them in that special Republican way (i.e. theft of post-action care), but none of them want to be SEALs.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. "SEAL-mania grips nation"

No it doesn't.

[WinkyDink]

5. Really? Because it's done and over with here in eastern PA.

[AsahinaKimi]

6. Let the Games begin...

ARMCHAIR COMMANDOS!!! UOOHA!!!

[damntexdem]

7. Urk, urk, urk.

And the walruses are getting restless about it.

[crim son]

8. It hasn't gripped me

or anybody else I've spoken to. Guess I'm hanging with the wrong peeps, heh.