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04-15-2013, 06:19 PM
Quote: (04-15-2013 06:07 PM)polymath Wrote:
Barely four hours after the explosions and people are already bickering over whether the TSA is useful or construction workers are more important than firefighters.
Personally I want to know who did this, and why. There seems to be so little to gain from hurting runners and spectators, some of whom are children. Boston's a tough city, and we will be fine, but I am sure I am not the only person in Boston who is confused about the rationale behind today's events.
You're right Poly. I'm offended by this bickering. TSA4LIFE
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04-15-2013, 06:23 PM
This has to be, historically the worst week in US history--
4/15 -- Boston Marathon gets bombed.
4/16/07 -- Seung-Hui Cho goes on a shooting rampage, killing 32 people at V tech.
4/19/95 -- Timothy McVeigh blows up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK. 168 people dead, hundreds injured.
4/20/99 -- Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 15 (including themselves), and injure 21 at Columbine High School.
Crazy coincidence--though I wouldn't be opposed to seeing heightened security during this week.
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04-15-2013, 06:27 PM
How many of you would bet that the bomber doesn't get laid much?
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04-15-2013, 06:38 PM
Maybe it was Kim Jung Un.
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04-15-2013, 06:40 PM
Whoever created that facebook page renamed it after what happened.
Reppin the Jersey Shore.
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04-15-2013, 06:40 PM
Bombs go off every day across the middle east: No one gives a shit.
One bomb goes off in the US: The world stops turning in shock.
I feel bad for those who got killed, but not any more than anyone else out there.
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04-15-2013, 06:47 PM
No one gives a shit if we kill over 100,000 civilians for a pointless war.
It's the Americans HERE, in America, group mentality.
Pride, being part of a pack.
No one actually cares if someone dies as long as they don't visualize it.
Sad.
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04-15-2013, 06:50 PM
It's simple : It's too much outside the norm. Did you hear about that one shooting and the bombing in Medellin? No, because shootings happen every day and bombings every week. If bombs were to detonate every week in the US, eventually the world's media would stop looking at it as a shiny new toy.
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04-15-2013, 06:54 PM
War on foreign land is just television.
War in your front yard is war.
No one cares until they see blood on their own clothes.
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04-15-2013, 06:58 PM
Quote: (04-15-2013 06:42 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
Quote: (04-15-2013 06:40 PM)Firestorm Wrote:
Bombs go off every day across the middle east: No one gives a shit.
One bomb goes off in the US: The world stops turning in shock.
Like the same didn't happen when those bombs went off in the London buses.
lol you're talking to someone who is zero patriotic and who wants to leave the UK. If people ask if i am British i say ''only by passport''.
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04-15-2013, 07:25 PM
Pretty sure this is homegrown to to take attention away from north korea. Today was kim jong's anniversary date. NK was building up hype for today to launch a new long range missile. So much for that.. I haven't seen NK in the news at all in the last few hours.
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04-15-2013, 07:41 PM
Quote: (04-15-2013 07:39 PM)reino341 Wrote:
NSFW
http://imgur.com/a/orFvG
My god that is absolutely horrific.
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04-15-2013, 07:56 PM
Quote: (04-15-2013 05:56 PM)le prince perdu Wrote:
Each and everyday the U.S is becoming less safe and more controlled, the greatest country on Earth going down right in front of our eyes.
I'm sorry but no. This country is orders of magnitude safer than it was 10, 20, or 30 years ago. Violent crime is down significantly in all major cities. How many children are being abducted into white vans today? Virtually none. 2 or 3 terrorist attacks in a decade won't change this. What does change the perception of safety is the hysterical reactions we have, and are constantly bombarded with. The truth is, absent a 1984 type existence, we can never prevent an isolated, sporadic incident like this.
I live in Boston, and the Marathon is a great event, the only day long, outdoor party of the year essentially. You can kiss that goodbye. Why? Because we want to be "SAFE." You know what I think the best reaction would be to this...Ignore it. Pay your respects mentally, and go on as though it never happened. Make absolutely no adjustments to your life or anyone else's. These attacks are the cost of doing business, like tolls on the highway, getting the flu or getting a parking ticket. You can't get rid of them, and shouldn't waste any energy trying to.
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04-15-2013, 08:24 PM
Someone trolled the governor during a press conference about the bombings
http://www.businessinsider.com/obnoxious...lag-2013-4
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04-15-2013, 08:24 PM
It's not the same. You're standing around. With the Marathon your mobile.
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04-15-2013, 08:41 PM
Man I really wish I didn't click on that link with the pictures.
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04-15-2013, 08:42 PM
The blast happened 1 block away from my office building,shook the building, we were evacuated.
Blood on the streets. I hope that the subhumans who did this are caught and hung. There were families and kids there, man. limbs torn off.
My thoughts and prayers to the injured, the Marathoners from ALL OVER THE WORLD, and most of all my Bostonians.
To all my Boston poeples: Stay Safe and watch your backs.