BREAKING!! Two explosions, casualties at Boston Marathon

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  1. Volpone

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    Also, he doesn't do anything except nihilistic bitching because that would entail, you know, doing something.
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    The guy is in custody as of about 2045 EDST.
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    All those cops and tech and dogs and it was just a guy stepping into his yard for a breath of fresh air who noticed something odd about his boat and found blood on it who found him.
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  4. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Clearer footage of the shootout:

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    I seem to have clicked "reply" on the wrong post, I had no intention of replying to yours. Will try to correct.
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    Yes, like the guy who claims to have black friends before saying something racist you tried to cover your ass. You seem to think this is about you being wrong. Other posters were also speculating that it could be right wing extremists and they were also wrong and I have no problem with that. My issue is with your obvious hope that it turn out to be right wing extremists. Personally I wouldn't care if it had been. I'm not right wing or an extremists. Let alone a right wing extremist. I have no vested interest either way. But you wanted it to be a certain group so you could ridicule and demagogue right leaning posters and that's just disguising. That's my problem with you. You're a disgusting human being.

    The reason there is a "before" in my previous post was to highlight that before anyone knew anything you were speculating it was right wing extremists contrasted by the fact that after we learn they are Muslims you refuse to speculate on motive. To me, those two things clearly indicate that you hoped it was one group rather than the other whereas everyone else was just wondering who was responsible. My post had nothing to do with rubbing your face in being wrong but in exposing the desire you had that it be right wing extremists you assclown.
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  7. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    I certainly wouldn't say I was hoping anything just showing that there were two main possibilities though I confess I did say I was ever so tepidly leaning one way due to the April 15th part though repeatedly said there is no way to reach a conclusion. How on Earth do you extrapolate that into me hoping it was one? That sounds like more of your BS just like your previous claim.

    Oh, well, I guess it is WordForge style to keep moving the goal post after your first claim was debunked as nonsense.
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  8. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    WTF? A bloody boat is common? Those people take their fishing seriously.....assuming they were fishing of course! :nocomment:
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    Watching the parade of police vehicles leaving Watertown Square. Pretty emotional and spectacular.

    :salute:
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    Nova livin on the edge of the ledge Writer

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    I believe the intent was to say:

    A common citizen finding the key clue (instead of the dragnet) is pretty common
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    No, I don't. I do think that a hell of a lot of what the right wing media does, not to mention right wing politicians who love to pander to the extremists, is dangerous especially when they try to excuse dangerous actions by people on their own side especially trying to play the violent nutjobs up with calls encouraging violence. I.E. "If we lose at the ballot box then we'll win at the bullet box", saying it is time to water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants, calling for a new civil war, attempting to excuse terrorists who bomb family planning clinics and assassinate doctors, enabling armed militia fanatics, etc...

    I have repeatedly said that those aren't everyone on the right, as you know but which you conveniently feel the need to ignore, but do decry their nearly weekly support for political violence during the last two election cycles. You're, once again, deliberately lying about my positions.
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  14. The Flashlight

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    Sigh....we obviously don't know everything about their motives. There's plenty of people who think America is swirling down the toilet in terms of values (as we'll be hearing plenty of if the Boy Scouts go ahead and end the ban on gays as reports today have been suggesting), that doesn't necessarily provide the impetus for building bombs. The next 24 hours will be informative.

    As for CS, yeah he was clearly salivating at the possibility of it being right-wing extremists, but it was perfectly reasonable to consider that one of the options.
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    Here's a picture they didn't have.

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    [?=And the ABC news version...][​IMG]

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    The Flashlight Contributes nothing worthwhile Cunt Git

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    :rolleyes:

    Calling CS a bigot because he abhors right-wing demagoguery isn't any different than calling someone a bigot because they disagree with Obama's policies.

    Besides, he's got legitimate points about right-wing media whores & politicians pandering the extreme elements of conservatism, which unfortunately encompass the true racists, bigots, Christian Taliban and oppressive xenophobes.

    I think CS is pretty open about his distaste for modern conservative media. I don't think he's trying to hide anything.
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    No, it's that all the high tech stuff doesn't solve as many crimes as the old fashioned methods do. The high tech stuff gets all the credit, because its sexy.
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    He posts every slathering extreme left e-mail that comes his way...or at least he was until he got tired of the reaming.

    He posted pictures from Occupy camps and claimed they were Tea Party rallies and posted diatribes about their filth and degeneracy and went completely silent when he found out it was his precious Occupy hippies who made the messes.

    So, yes, wondering if it was a right wing extremist was a reasonable question...others postured it, too. They didn't get shit because CS has a long record of bigotry and lies where conservatives are concerned. This isn't his first time being this way.
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    Offhand, neither, but something really stupid. Get to basics. What does the Marathon commemorate?
    Who lost? The nation formerly known as Persia. There are those who find Persia-Iran, to be the stuff of heroes.
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    I keep hearing this from you.

    Can you link to a single right wing politician or media person who has said any of that?

    And I'm not talking about some obscure member of a state legislature or an equally obscure talk radio host in a minor market.

    Im talking about someone most of us would recognize without having to Google search it.
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    Tepidly? Try "damn near gleefully."
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    Wait. So the guy who tried to poison the Obama is a Democrat!?
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    He's a white supremacist TEA Party member who's pissed off about taxes.
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    Crazy is crazy as far as I'm concerned. Democrat, Republican, just a name someone uses to advance their brand of crazy. When I see crazy Senators and Congressmen, I don't say "that's a crazy Democrat/Republican," I say "there's a crazy asshole who needs to be out of office before they get someone killed for their mental shittery."

    The older I get, the more I see politicians less as Democrat or Republican, and more as "crazy ass" or "lazy ass." Sometimes we even get the special breed of "crazy, lazy ass."
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    Oooo... the more I read, the more this is looking like a split decision... One brother fanatically religious and wanting to further the jihad, and the other a textbook psychopath, ready to watch the world burn. The behavioral specialists at FBI are going to be having fun with this one!
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  27. Fisherman's Worf

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    ^Do you have a link? I'm most interested to know their motivation at this point.
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    Drudge has a fairly diverse collection of story links right now.
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    Only a fool would get into a boat on dry land in Watertown.

    I'm just sayin'.
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    There is information out now that indicates a full 1 percent or more of Chechen immigrants currently in the US are involved in this, including the two brothers.