Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

Cain said:
I wish you would put me on ignore. .... I overheard someone say that we can expect fierce competition at the next Paralympics.
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No way I'll ever put you on ignore. {Sick} humor is one way we deal with tragedy.
Travis said:
1) Why would a foreign terrorist cell target Boston, a city almost no one outside of America is even aware of?
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You are making some deep assumptions there. Probably wrong. .
3) Running is often considered a past time of the left (at least according to some who think "true Americans" use gas powered vehicles only to get around)
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Horsecrap. Running is a fitness thing. See also the Marine Corps Marathon, annual event.
4) Boston has a history with Tea Parties
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Yes, but I wonder why the Tea Party would hit its own home.
Not seeing it.
 
I've just heard - no link yet - of a major earthquake in Iran. There is a breaking news bulletin on Reuters, no story yet. If accurate, HAARP-ers will have a field day over this one for sure.

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LashL said:
Indeed, he is, and he is almost as disgusting as the lowlife creeps who will pretend to have been first responders in Boston this afternoon when they weren't there at all. I fully expect that to happen. Just like the lowlife scumbags who pretended that they were FDNY on 9/11 when they were no such thing, and just like the lowlife scumbags who pretended to have had military honours when they had no such thing, I expect that today's incident in Boston will garner yet another wave of similar "stolen valour" claims by similar lowlife scumbags.

I expect that it won't take long, but I sincerely hope that I am wrong.


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No doubt you are correct. But perhaps it will help to think of people like this guy. He's Joe Andruzzi, a former New England Patriot football player whose three brothers are FDNY. They were in the WTC on 9/11, but managed to get out before the collapse. Joe's football career was cut short by Hodgkin's; since then he's devoted his time establishing a charitable foundation raising money for children with cancer. He was at the finish line yesterday, and when the bombs went off he sprang into action carrying victims to safety. And his response afterward was to insist he'd done nothing special.

I'm sure few people will ever hear of the Andruzzi family. But as others have alrady stated, there's probably more people like them out there than the attention-seeking loudmouths.
 
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Darth Rotor said:
No way I'll ever put you on ignore. {Sick} humor is one way we deal with tragedy.

You are making some deep assumptions there. Probably wrong. .

Horsecrap. Running is a fitness thing. See also the Marine Corps Marathon, annual event.
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Yes, and fitness is seen as a "left" thing. Or should I tell the guys that keep calling new jogging/cycling trails communistic that they don't exist?
 
Actually, with the crowds thinning out, the shot would have more room to spread, perhaps going through more than one or two people. A dense crowd would have soaked a lot of it up in a short radius. Setting it off lower just increased the number of victims. They may have figured that it would be more effictive to main dozens than to kill three or four. This is also part of my reasoning in suspecting white nationalists orother domestic terrorists. They have more to gain from large numbers of families feeling traumatized and losing faith in the ability of government to protect them from harm.

Masive damage to a cultural icon or commercial interest, especially a commercial interest which has a grip on the ecconomies and banking systems of other countries, like some of those that operated out of the WTC, or major military installations would be prime targets for foreign, especially AQ-affiliated group. The less-remarkable-looking the person who planted the bombs, the better his chances of blending into the crowd and not being entered into anybody's WTF? file while doing so.

AQ people like to personally see the project through to the gorey end.
 
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Manopolus said:
I'd love to try, but I'm not sure I can joke about someone getting their legs blown off just after running 20 miles.

There's something intrinsically wrong with this beyond normal terrorism, in my mind.
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I can't think of the last significant act of terrorism where that didn't seem true, I suspect because the definition of 'normal' terrorism is a little shady.
 
gumboot said:
Sorry if this has been raised already, but has anyone else come across people online posting this old Daily Mail article and implying it happened yesterday?

I've come across a lot of examples of people having a rant that goes something like: "the media gets all upset at a couple of dead Americans but meanwhile Americans bombed a tonne of Arabs on the same day and none of the media care".

It doesn't look like the Daily Mail have actually reposted the event as new news or anything - the page source indicates it was last updated in July 2002 and you'll note the article says the US war in Afghanistan started "last year". But because they haven't dated the article itself a lot of people are buying into it.

An eye-opening glimpse into the fallability of web-based news reporting, perhaps?
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Yeah, seen something similar from an extreme lefty/new age dope smoking nut I've got on FB (but I actually kind of like the guy). I'm not so sure it was the same thing, but it was the same basic statement... probably a derivative. My reply acknowledged that our mainstream news is a bit ethnocentric, but also said that this doesn't lessen the significance of the event in the least.

Whatever comes out of it will likely have political and possibly legal ramifications for years to come, among other things... so yeah, it sort of affects us more.
 
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Captain_Swoop said:
On the Underground and Train Stations in the UK we get regular warning broadcasts to look out for unattended luggage.
Every now and then the Bomb Squad blow someone's briefcase or rucksack up as it has been reported.

Better to be safe when you know it's a fave method of attack and has been used regularly over the last 30 or so years.
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It's an anathema to most of those outside the UK. First time I went on the underground with a Dutch girlfriend she complained about the litter. I told her there were no litter bins and the reason why. She had no idea. And that was way after the Good Friday Agreement. The concept of having to go about your daily life and be observant regarding suspect bags and packages was completely alien to her.

I very much doubt any Irish connection. Both sides of terrorists in that mess had decades of experience with IEDs. The blasts yesterday were small compared with what we've seen in the UK. Thankfully two devices failed to explode, which indicates a less experienced bomb-maker/planter.
 
The 8 year old is confirmed as Martin Richard. Poor kid.

145 now reported as injured, 17 critical.

Police searched an empty apartment within hours of the blasts. Hopefully this means they are on to whoever is responsible.
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Bad joke: and they say running is tough on your knees...
 
As a fire fighter, I always did have a strange sense of humor and used it as a shield. There is a limit to that, however. This is especially true when innocent children are still suffering and possibly disfigured for life. Some things just do not lend themselves to humor.

People didn't laugh at most Jonestown jokes because the punch lines were too long.

Now, here's another thing that I found especially disgusting.

 
I haven't read the entire thread, so if tis has been asked and answered, forgive me. Who was he idiot at the 8:30 (EDT) press conference that kept trying to ask about the possibility of this being a "false flag" attack? He was well ignored, obviously, but does anyone know if it's one of the usual nutjobs?
 
quadraginta said:
There's something intrinsically wrong with the idea of "normal" terrorism in my mind.

Maybe that's just me.
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Fair enough. Maybe it's just the fact that I tend to empathize more with the living than with the dead; I don't know. The thought of the injuries actually bothers me more than the fatalities. Dead people? Meh. Everybody dies sometime. It's never a good thing, but still.
 
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Alferd_Packer said:
Does anyone even still make cordite?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordite
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Not that I'm aware of, it faded in use after the sixties. Plus there was no US production and little domestic use.
However 'cordite' *is* still used a lot as a generic term for smokeless/nitro powder.

Graham2001 said:
Last night (around 11pm Perth time) I was standing on a bus platform with an unattended bag sitting on a bench near me.

Neither I nor the driver of the bus I was catching gave it much thought, never again...
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Yeah, something similar happened to me a while back when the USAians were here in numbers for the Notre Dame v USN game and I noticed an unattended bag and reported it.

Mister Earl said:
Just put Cain on ignore. It's just another case of somebody being incapable of realizing that trolling isn't new or witty or original. That it's nothing more than a carbon copy of a carbon copy of a carbon copy of a carbon copy of something that might've been funny at one point. Trolling is what some people do when they literally have nothing meaningful to add to any discussion ever.

So, yeah. Ignore button is your friend. Left click his name, add to ignore list. Once and done.
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Travis said:
Yes, and fitness is seen as a "left" thing. Or should I tell the guys that keep calling new jogging/cycling trails communistic that they don't exist?
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:boggled: Really?
 
SUSpilot said:
I haven't read the entire thread, so if tis has been asked and answered, forgive me. Who was he idiot at the 8:30 (EDT) press conference that kept trying to ask about the possibility of this being a "false flag" attack? He was well ignored, obviously, but does anyone know if it's one of the usual nutjobs?
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It's been asked, but I don't think it's been answered.
 
SUSpilot said:
I haven't read the entire thread, so if tis has been asked and answered, forgive me. Who was he idiot at the 8:30 (EDT) press conference that kept trying to ask about the possibility of this being a "false flag" attack? He was well ignored, obviously, but does anyone know if it's one of the usual nutjobs?
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Here is one theory
 
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