Bombing in Boston

[Jake]

Shockingly it looks like that what's the government is doing, trying to figure everything out before saying what it really is? They did say it might be terrorist action but not what kind and Obama's inital statements avoided saying terrorism even once. I've heard that some infamous pundits have made statements about knowing what is going on only to be shouted down because they don't

[Red_Mage]

Unless a pundit happens to be an FBI or BPD investigator, I don't think I really give a damn who they think is responsible. Yesterday, for instance, the "pundits" were all convinced that it was a Saudi student turned terrorists here on one of "Obama's visas". Today, that student's been released and cleared of all suspicion.

I respect the government for trying to ascertain some facts before they make assumptions or point fingers. Remember Bush fingering the "Axis of Evil" in the wake of 9/11 (Iran, North Korea and Iraq)? Remember how those countries had nothing to do with the attack, or any sort of cooperation at all? And remember how we went to war with one of them for no reason? Kind of glad to see the Administration avoiding those sorts of missteps. As to his supposed "failure" to mention the word terrorism in his speech yesterday: not only is it still a bit premature to do that sort of thing (there's still the possibility that this is the work of some random psycho), but Obama was making a conciliatory speech to the public. He wasn't ignoring the threat of terrorism so much as A) waiting for the facts to come and and B) trying to comfort people and reassure them that justice would be done. It's not really fair to expect a policy statement or a war declaration there.

It disgusts me that some pundits are using this tragedy as a means of making cheap jabs at the President, or to make a political statement of some kind.

[Clickme]

I think Obama handled it well, focusing on extending condolenses and putting to rest rumors that had already sprung up about knowing who was behidn this or hving people in custody. Rather than rile people up in a call to arms, or instigate locals to hunt down this or that person with assumptions, he stuck to addressing the tragedy for what it was, and sticking only to the fact uncovered, however few they were.

[Sephie]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/15/us/bos...ion/index.html
http://what-if.xkcd.com/40/

Originally Posted by Joke

To all the runners who told me I should quit smoking...

Who's smoking now?

Originally Posted by joke

Just got a call from my wife who was running in the Boston Marathon. She said they had a blast and she can't feel her legs.

Glad to hear she's having a good day.

Originally Posted by joke

I was in Boston today and it was horrific. There were huge, shapeless chunks of flesh all over the place, it was enough to make you sick.

...and then the bomb went off.

Originally Posted by Sick Joke

So I hear the Boston Marathon was won by a nose..... an ear and a finger

Sorry if this offends, but dark humor helps me deal with tragedies.

[vincent_richter]

Originally Posted by Red_Mage

Let's just pump the brakes before we start pointing fingers at our fellow countrymen, okay? To me this sort of feels like a domestic incident, but that doesn't mean we should start guessing at motive or affiliation. Considering that the FBI doesn't even know what the hell's happened just yet, it's a bit premature. I've seen people suspect everyone from the NRA to the Tea Party to American Muslims, and none of it is even remotely fair until we know better.

It says something about our current political atmosphere that none of those possibilities would really shock me. Personally, I suspect white supremacist groups (a blanket term if ever there was one) - their members have been on a murdering spree of late, and the similarities to Atlanta a decade-and-a-half ago are too striking to be coincidence.

The stark reality of the matter is that we may never know the truth; and, until we do, the Obama administration is taking the prudent course by not acting on questionable intelligence.

[Vengeance1701]

Yeah, the moron's done a good job.

Unfortunately, he long ago took my flagging hope that Presidents were worth a damn and dragged it through the mud and calmly drowned it in a sea of shit.

He's been better than Bush and probably better than the Mor-bot. But he's like a D- to Bush's F.

[Sephie]

seriously though right after xkcd talks about pressure cooker bombs filled with shrapnel, someone makes a pressure cooker bomb filled with shrapnel.

[Clickme]

So the new news is becoming clearer. The man suspected as the bomber in the Boston Marathon has been picked out in photos but no name has been released, and is not in custody yet. Initial reports used the word arrest, but over the last 20 mins all the hcaos has been cleared up as reports continued filtering in. The authorities have not come forward wit ha full report yet, but the word from inside is that no arrest is been made yet.

[sodacat]

The barbarians are inside the gates:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...99795051147264
https://twitter.com/grahamblog/statu...46404644048897
https://twitter.com/GrahamBlog/statu...48075197583361

[Clickme]

Suspect in custody

[Rachel Bronwyn]

Phew. I was just going to check in on that.

And thanks for harshing by buzz, sodacat.

Hm. I assume we're talking about the live suspect, not the brother killed in the MIT firefight last night. Will take a look. Yes, that would be correct.

It's interesting how unwilling to die this kid has shown himself to be. Not super common when you're dealing with Jihadists. I know it's usually the point to take as many people with you as possible but I don't think Dzhokhar Tsarnaev intended to be a martyr. By contrast, his brother wore explosives and would have died from the explosion if gunfire hadn't got him. Interesting.

[cpt soban]

Originally Posted by sodacat

https://twitter.com/GrahamBlog/statu...48075197583361

Oh Jesus Christ.

WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE ALLOWED TO BREED!