Explosions at Boston Marathon

[Sava]

I had a scary thought. With all the first-responders and volunteers from other cities going to Boston, what if there was a nuclear device in Boston... and the attackers just set off the first bombs to lure in those kinds of people to the area.

[Dr Strangelove]

I had just got home off the night shift from work on both accounts.


I was in elementary school when Watergate happened.

I was in elementary school when the world stood on the brink of destruction and when Kennedy was shot.

[Docfeelgood]

All I remember..........is

Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy.
Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.
Booth shot from a theater and fled to a warehouse.
Oswald shot from a warehouse and fled to a theater.
Kennedy was killed riding in a Lincoln.

Just a bunch of nonsense.

[Docfeelgood]

I was in elementary school when the world stood on the brink of destruction and when Kennedy was shot.

Dr Strangelove was the one in preschool when they announced Lincoln was shot.

[Sava]

so doc
in your medical opinion

do you think brain/computer interfaces will be possible?

[DinoDoc]

Very true.

Back to Sava's post, which I have been thinking about more. Sava claimed that other than it happening to be tax day there was nothing else to suggest the possibility of this being an attack by right wing extremists. I agree that there is no hard evidence and we'll have to wait to find out who actually did it to find out what motivated them but that said there is more than just the fact that it was tax day as a hint at a possible motivation.

-There is the fact that Post-Newtown massacre Massachusetts passed strong new gun control legislation which very publicly enraged many of the gun nuts on the far right.

-There is the fact that the particular last mile of the race was dedicated to the Sandy Hook victims and was being used as a fund raiser for additional gun control measures and that several of the Sandy Hook Families were reported in the media as going to attend the event; those are people the conspiracy nuts think are conspiring with Obama to steal their guns.

-It was tax day which is a date every right wing nutjob hates and uses for a rallying cry to action.

-Finally it is a city in a state which the die hard right wing extremists absolutely loath because it continues to be rich and highly successful despite all of their ideological talking points. Their two favorite states to hate are Massachusetts and California.

Again, none of that is conclusive of anything and we don't know if those facts motivated the attacker or not but it isn't fair to say there is nothing which wouldn't have made the event a tempting target for a right wing domestic terrorist. I suppose we will know in time.

Edit: Oh, I forgot! The gun nuts love to use the NRA talking point claiming massacres can be brought about without using guns therefor there is no need for gun control of any sort. Yes, I could see someone trying to prove a point (especially if they were deranged about Sandy Hook as so many Alex Jones listeners are, thinking it a conspiracy) by carrying out a mass killing out not using a gun. "See! All those people were killed despite Massachusetts new gun control law!" Ignoring that one untrained gunman killed two dozen or more in five minutes with an AR-15 while this bomber only managed to kill three with all his advanced planning.

Out of interest, what were you posting in the aftermath of the Giffords shooting? Wasn't it something about the right wing?

[Uncle Sparky]

The 'bombs' were pressure cookers, the local was Boston, so why not accept that it was a horrible baked beans incident. I blame vegans.

[Sava]

i occasionally go through dietary phases where i am accidentally vegan

oh wait
does greek yogurt count?

**** then
nevermind

[Dinner]

Out of interest, what were you posting in the aftermath of the Giffords shooting? Wasn't it something about the right wing?

Not that I recall.

[Hauldren Collider]

I seem to recall him blaming sarah palin.

[Sava]

she looks horribe now

i would've done her before
like 2008
but now that whole thing is just gross

[regexcellent]

I like Sava's priorities.

[Sava]

[Sava]

also the porno parody of her wasn't that great

[Lonestar]

Sava dude


go outside and get some fresh air