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Explosions reported near finish line at Boston Marathon [W:162, 896, 911]]

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shrubnose said:
IF your aunt was a man s/he would be your auncle.
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Or your father. Never know in these days of multi-tasking now do you.
 
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I think Boston has done an amazing job with this--nothing but respect for them. Someone who wanted to kill a lot of people sort of picked the worst place to do it in the marathon because of the medical tent being right there fully staffed in a city with a lot of top notch hospitals which did brilliantly. As for the investigation--that will pan itself out.
 
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jonny5 said:
The lack of claiming credit makes me think its domestic.
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yep. but not just domestic. politically unmotivated
 
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jonny5 said:
The same way Israel does. You put a National Guard station every mile on the border, and the technology to make it very difficult to sneak by. And you punish Mexico for enabling their citizens to violate our sovereignty. And if that doesnt work, then you try something else. Anything is better than the current system.
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If you'll take a look at a map you'll see that the USA has lots of borders other than the Mexican border.
 
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Fisher said:
I think Boston has done an amazing job with this--nothing but respect for them. Someone who wanted to kill a lot of people sort of picked the worst place to do it in the marathon because of the medical tent being right there fully staffed in a city with a lot of top notch hospitals which did brilliantly. As for the investigation--that will pan itself out.
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I watched events unfold on the news but have to say I was very impressed with the way Boston's Emergency Services dealt with the situation and treated the injured. I was also impressed with the way the Massachusetts General Hospital dealt with the injured, luckily for the survivors Boston has some of the worlds finest hospitals and medical institutions. :)

I hope they catch whoever was responsible for the killing of an eight year old child waiting for hid daddy to finish the marathon as well as many other inncocent people who where killed or maimed whilst enjoying themselves at a sporting event. :(
 
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shrubnose said:
How is this post NOT playing politics with this tragedy?
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You mean one of our posters is Steny Hoyer?
 
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PerfectStorm said:
You mean one of our posters is Steny Hoyer?
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If you want to play games you'll have to find another partner.
 
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shrubnose said:
If you want to play games you'll have to find another partner.
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Fine, I was just reporting the news, not making it.
 
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PerfectStorm said:
Fine, I was just reporting the news, not making it.
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You criticized others for bringing politics into this, and then you brought politics into this!
 
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shrubnose said:
Who's watching the East Coast, the West Coast, the Gulf Coast, and the Northern Alaska Coast?
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I didn't realize that you were so concerned about borders which were covered by water.

Which terrorists are you expecting to arrive by boat?
 
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Grant said:
I didn't realize that you were so concerned about borders which were covered by water.

Which terrorists are you expecting to arrive by boat?
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Any that have a boat or access to one.
 
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shrubnose said:
How do you think that the government failed?

How could the government have prevented this?

Fill us and the U.S. Government in.
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It doesn't matter how I think they could have prevented it or how I think they failed, what matters most, as you clearly know, is that they did fail. The most important thing now is to get a complete and accurate accounting of the events in which we can glean a full understanding of them. And in order to get that, we need transparency. It best serves so we don't have episodes like this again.
 
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Jango said:
It doesn't matter how I think they could have prevented it or how I think they failed, what matters most, as you clearly know, is that they did fail. The most important thing now is to get a complete and accurate accounting of the events in which we can glean a full understanding of them. And in order to get that, we need transparency. It best serves so we don't have episodes like this again.
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There is no evidence of failure. The bad guys won a round. That is going to happen every now and then even if the good guys do everything right. Bobby Bowden once observed that among the most valuable things he learned as a young football coach was that "the other team has players on scholarship too.":cool:

Let's wait until all the facts are in before we offer judgments.:hm
 
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shrubnose said:
Who's watching the East Coast, the West Coast, the Gulf Coast, and the Northern Alaska Coast?
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Sauron.
 
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Jack Hays said:
There is no evidence of failure. The bad guys won a round. That is going to happen every now and then even if the good guys do everything right. Bobby Bowden once observed that among the most valuable things he learned as a young football coach was that "the other team has players on scholarship too.":cool:

Let's wait until all the facts are in before we offer judgments.:hm
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I'm not trying to be critical in a negative or Alex Jones kind of way. I feel horrible about what happened yesterday in Boston. There's no excuse for something like that. But when the "bad guys win a round", that is failure on the part of our government. There are still barbarians at the gate, there is evidence of that in the news everyday and yesterday, it was brought to our homeland, and we failed to protect ourselves from it. I'm not going to sit here and beat the government over the head for it, though. I hate to say it, but it's not as big a failure as 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. But it was a failure, nonetheless. Anytime the government does not protect us civilians from things like that, it is failure on their part because it is their function to protect us from things like that. The men running around carrying guns, bomb-dogs, etc - agents of the law - they failed. There's simply no getting around that.

It sucks. But it is reality. And it is the truth.
 
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Jango said:
I'm not trying to be critical in a negative or Alex Jones kind of way. I feel horrible about what happened yesterday in Boston. There's no excuse for something like that. But when the "bad guys win a round", that is failure on the part of our government. There are still barbarians at the gate, there is evidence of that in the news everyday and yesterday, it was brought to our homeland, and we failed to protect ourselves from it. I'm not going to sit here and beat the government over the head for it, though. I hate to say it, but it's not as big a failure as 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. But it was a failure, nonetheless. Anytime the government does not protect us civilians from things like that, it is failure on their part because it is their function to protect us from things like that. The men running around carrying guns, bomb-dogs, etc - agents of the law - they failed. There's simply no getting around that.

It sucks. But it is reality. And it is the truth.
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No. It is not the truth. There is loss in all wars, even on the winning side. :hm
 
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Jango said:
But when the "bad guys win a round", that is failure on the part of our government.
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That....or life. I mean I guess we can define everything not being absolutely perfect as a failure of government; but it seems rather that it's the human condition. Some people choose to act more like our monkey relatives and f things up. The government can't protect you from everything.
 
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Fisher said:
I think Boston has done an amazing job with this--nothing but respect for them. Someone who wanted to kill a lot of people sort of picked the worst place to do it in the marathon because of the medical tent being right there fully staffed in a city with a lot of top notch hospitals which did brilliantly. As for the investigation--that will pan itself out.
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My guess is that the bomber thought there would be more damage because of the timing of the race, this is when as others stated most of the Americans finish so the bomber might have wanted to hit family members specifically. Placement and internals of the IEDs suggest to me that the desire was to injure and kill rather than to simply make a statement, either way the attacker is sub human trash.
 
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Jango said:
Anytime the government does not protect us civilians from things like that, it is failure on their part because it is their function to protect us from things like that. The men running around carrying guns, bomb-dogs, etc - agents of the law - they failed. There's simply no getting around that.
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Every government fails sooner or later.

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in trying to protect us from ourselves." ~ Ronald Reagan
 
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shrubnose said:
Who's watching the East Coast, the West Coast, the Gulf Coast, and the Northern Alaska Coast?
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Southerners are watching the gulf coast, all good here. :cool:
 
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MaggieD said:
I hope it can't be traced to radical Muslims.
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I doubt it's radical Muslims. They would have said something by now. When the radicals strike, they'll usually tell you it was them, and they tend to have a fetish for symbolic targets. I can't imagine that some marathon in Boston would mean jack-**** to them.

MaggieD said:
First, you have to imagine you're a sick ****. (God! I hope that's very difficult for you! ;) )

Then you have to imagine you're the sick **** who planted those bombs. Imagine the ultimate kick that sick **** would get from watching wall-to-wall news coverage...videos played over every channel over and over and over again. And, just maybe, your face in the crowd. And there you sit in front of the television with your dick in your hand saying: "I DID THAT!!!! "
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I don't think I want to imagine any of that. I can understand standard crime, robbery, murder, assault, etc. Those all have tangible reasons and gains, but this new breed of trigger happy shot jockey just doesn't make any sense to me. We should start analyzing the ones we're able to capture and convict. Hardcore analysis, the kind that makes the ACLU reach half-mast.
 
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