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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #225 on: April 18, 2013, 06:42:39 PM »
Told you so:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/345866/senator-introduce-legislation-requiring-background-checks-sale-explosive-powder

I want to know:

1. The length of the bill in question, in pages or words
2. The typing speed of the Senator, or the dictation/typing speed of his secretary.

Dollars to donuts this jerk had the bill stashed in a file cabinet, waiting for the next opportunity to just take a little bit more.

No more.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #226 on: April 18, 2013, 06:42:57 PM »
I think you might be looking at it the wrong way - consider it for a while. The target: the people. Any people. Men, women, kids. Symbolic? Perhaps not. But the act is a statement in itself - "you believe you're safe - you're not". Any time you're at the mall, or a sporting event, or an amusement park, or have taken your kids to the playground, you're potentially within the range of someone with a backpack full of explosives. How's that for terror?
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #227 on: April 18, 2013, 06:45:52 PM »
I think you might be looking at it the wrong way - consider it for a while. The target: the people. Any people. Men, women, kids. Symbolic? Perhaps not. But the act is a statement in itself - "you believe you're safe - you're not". Any time you're at the mall, or a sporting event, or an amusement park, or have taken your kids to the playground, you're potentially within the range of someone with a backpack full of explosives. How's that for terror?

Color me uninspired. ;/

It happened in a Blue City.

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #228 on: April 18, 2013, 06:51:14 PM »
Was Atlanta a blue city?

How about Oklahoma City?

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #229 on: April 18, 2013, 07:12:35 PM »
I think you might be looking at it the wrong way - consider it for a while. The target: the people. Any people. Men, women, kids. Symbolic? Perhaps not. But the act is a statement in itself - "you believe you're safe - you're not". Any time you're at the mall, or a sporting event, or an amusement park, or have taken your kids to the playground, you're potentially within the range of someone with a backpack full of explosives. How's that for terror?


That part I get, but the terrorist would want us to know who we should fear. Who do we appease, to make the bombings stop? The marathon wasn't on anyone's hate list, so the terrorist should be letting us know who he represents. But he hasn't.

So I guess until someone claims responsibility, I'll be avoiding anything health or fitness-related, and make sure I buy enough donuts and Big Gulps to appease the anti-marathon faction.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #230 on: April 18, 2013, 07:24:16 PM »

That part I get, but the terrorist would want us to know who we should fear. Who do we appease, to make the bombings stop? The marathon wasn't on anyone's hate list, so the terrorist should be letting us know who he represents. But he hasn't.

So I guess until someone claims responsibility, I'll be avoiding anything health or fitness-related, and make sure I buy enough donuts and Big Gulps to appease the anti-marathon faction.
If they intend to stop the bombings. They could be bombing for the cause of causing terror.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #231 on: April 18, 2013, 07:28:17 PM »
This race draws people from all around the world. Who is in the hospital? Could this have been an international hit with the second bomb thrown in to distract? Give them time to get away?

I'm starting to think it was a small cell from some terrorist group that doesn't want a predator drone blowing them up if they take credit for it so they are just enjoying the panic going on.

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #232 on: April 18, 2013, 07:35:00 PM »
Told you so:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/345866/senator-introduce-legislation-requiring-background-checks-sale-explosive-powder

Well, sorry to start the panic buying, but I'm not getting caught flat-footed. Just ordered a 12lb combo of 2F and 3F from Grafs. Two week order processing wait.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #233 on: April 18, 2013, 07:39:05 PM »
If frat boy in the photos is the perp....I wonder if it's just a random act of insanity....
Everyone seems to want it to be the result of an ideology.  But what if these are just another set of wack-a-doodles?
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #234 on: April 18, 2013, 08:27:39 PM »
Trying to understand insainity, is by definition, insane.

I rolled my eyes about about the Kraft guys. Hmmm... Bunch of reasonably fit guys at a sporting event that allows for amatures to participate. I love that no one mentioned the possibilty that they where standing around, in their special clothes, to celebrate a friend finishing the Bosten Marathon?

Bomb makers don't always make it away from their scene completly intact. Could the reason behind no one taking credit for this act be that the person/s in question are still receiving medical treatment? Or, if insane nutjob lone wackadoodle, freaked out by becoming injured and keeping quiet because they've furthered their wackadoodle state?

I'm just pointing out that there are some reasonable explainations for a lack of someone taking credit then the doom and gloom of "they want to do it again !!1!"
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #235 on: April 18, 2013, 08:37:43 PM »
I'm just pointing out that there are some reasonable explainations for a lack of someone taking credit then the doom and gloom of "they want to do it again !!1!"


I don't think it's doom and gloom. Just collatin' data, as they say. There could be another terrorist attack anywhere, at any time. Not doom and gloom, just life on planet Earf.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #236 on: April 18, 2013, 08:45:44 PM »

I don't think it's doom and gloom. Just collatin' data, as they say. There could be another terrorist attack anywhere, at any time. Not doom and gloom, just life on planet Earf.

Then be sure to be collaten' all of it. Everybodys hearing hoofbeats... But I'm betting all the zebras are still in Africa.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #237 on: April 18, 2013, 09:08:26 PM »
But I'm betting all the zebras are still in Africa.


That's where I'm keeping all of mine.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #238 on: April 18, 2013, 09:30:59 PM »
Napolitano says the "individuals" are not "suspects" but are to be considered "extremely armed and dangerous."

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/18/authorities-have-clear-video-images-two-suspects-boston-marathon-bombings-official-says/eDuBdL4QhkcMVwhlrVBrcJ/story.html

Sounds like deliberate language to evade the legal system and rendition these non-suspects somewhere and coach them in the "right" answers when/if they ever get a trial.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #239 on: April 18, 2013, 09:43:08 PM »
Napolitano says the "individuals" are not "suspects" but are to be considered "extremely armed and dangerous."

http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/18/authorities-have-clear-video-images-two-suspects-boston-marathon-bombings-official-says/eDuBdL4QhkcMVwhlrVBrcJ/story.html

Sounds like deliberate language to evade the legal system and rendition these non-suspects somewhere and coach them in the "right" answers when/if they ever get a trial.

You dropped this

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #240 on: April 18, 2013, 09:48:36 PM »
You don't find it deliciously ironic that Napolitano and Obama are using the exact same tactics to evade due process that they condemned Bush for?
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #241 on: April 18, 2013, 10:10:43 PM »
You don't find it deliciously ironic that Napolitano and Obama are using the exact same tactics to evade due process that they condemned Bush for?

Actually I find it shameful....
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #242 on: April 18, 2013, 10:13:42 PM »
Was Atlanta a blue city?

How about Oklahoma City?

At that time, yes. They went red after Clinton....
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #243 on: April 18, 2013, 10:36:58 PM »
Seeing speculation off another site that this guy http://www.metro.us/boston/news/local/2013/03/24/search-for-sunil-tripathi-includes-boston/ resembles suspect number two.  Picture comparison included a side by side that IMHO was pretty convincing.....

I can't seem to get the pic captured from my kindle.

Okay okay I grabbed the laptop. 



All I can say is  :O
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #244 on: April 18, 2013, 11:03:56 PM »
Seeing speculation off another site that this guy http://www.metro.us/boston/news/local/2013/03/24/search-for-sunil-tripathi-includes-boston/ resembles suspect number two.  Picture comparison included a side by side that IMHO was pretty convincing.....

I can't seem to get the pic captured from my kindle.

Okay okay I grabbed the laptop. 



All I can say is  :O

Sunil Tripathi has been missing since March 16th.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/sunil-tripathi-surveillance-footage-shows-missing-ivy-league/story?id=18845517

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #245 on: April 18, 2013, 11:18:19 PM »
Gone for a month.  No signs that he was abducted or otherwise taken against his will.  *expletive deleted*ck me running.   [tinfoil]



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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #246 on: April 18, 2013, 11:26:24 PM »
Yeah I dunno.  The more I look at the pic, Sunil has more of a hook at the tip of his nose.  The suspect has a more rounded ear, too.  Close, but I'm thinking no.  Damn interesting the *expletive deleted*it that the crowdsourcing is turning up, though.
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #247 on: April 18, 2013, 11:34:46 PM »
Yeah I dunno.  The more I look at the pic, Sunil has more of a hook at the tip of his nose.  The suspect has a more rounded ear, too.  Close, but I'm thinking no.  Damn interesting the *expletive deleted* that the crowdsourcing is turning up, though.

Camera angles are interesting.  Large nostrils from a slightly lower angle can make a nose hook, while from a level or above camera angle be straight.  Same with ears.

Another pic.  Note the T-shirt.

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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #248 on: April 18, 2013, 11:42:44 PM »
Camera angles are interesting.  Large nostrils from a slightly lower angle can make a nose hook, while from a level or above camera angle be straight.  Same with ears.

Another pic.  Note the T-shirt.



Yeah, in one of the camera angles, their ears match up pretty well.  Definitely suspicious.  However, I was reading a reddit thread where people are apparently accusing the kid outright on the "find Sunil" facebook page.   :facepalm:
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Re: Two explosions close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
« Reply #249 on: April 18, 2013, 11:56:37 PM »
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/18/shooting-reported-on-mit-campus/

MIT campus cop got shot tonight.


Our "non-suspect" who is extremely armed and dangerous?  Hiding with a sympathetic friend at a neighboring school, or using the MIT computer lab or library for anonymous computer use?
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