"Pointed snub. Of course, she stood for everything those in the Administration seek to suborn. Contrast this with official delegation they sent to radical Hugo Chavezs funeral-they did include official current administrative representation. Its a sad day when, once again, we let down our friends."
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If John Boehner had any balls, he'd go on behalf of the elected representatives of the people of the United States [or at least the majority thereof].
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In explaining why President Obama didn't call the Boston bombings a "terrorist attack," former adviser David Axelrod said, "I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is -- we really don't know who did this -- it was tax day":
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If it was a tax terrorism, the perp would not be bombing the Boston Marathon. Jeeze Louise.
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Wishcasting.
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Paul, the thing is, I can't think of anyone who has a serious hate on for marathoners. It's even kind of odd for a jihadist attack. You would have thought they'd have timed it for the front-runners if they were going for a classic terrorist attack. Also, it isn't exactly a symbol of America or anything like that. Also, somebody would have claimed responsibility by now if it was an organized terror group.
It doesn't seem right for bigots - the Boston Marathon is pretty solidly "Stuff White People Like", and you'd think they'd attack a more... ethnic sporting event. And again, somebody would have claimed responsibility by now.
The event has little to do with government, tax or otherwise.
The marathon has little to do with any of the hot-button issues of the day. Unless you count the awkwardness of the Sandy-NYC Marathon conflict last fall. And somehow I can't see a pissed-off Staten Islander bombing another city over what was an unpleasant but passing slight five months afterwards.
This is feeling more and more like your classic mad bomber. Which suggests to me that he may strike again. What's the next big event in the Northeast?
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Mitch, the Marathon is perfect for a terrorist bombing. Potential high body count, easy to plant multiple bombs without people noticing, lots of locations that will serve as bomb points, and responders strung out all along a 26 mile route.
Why aim at front runners? Someone pointed out yesterday that there's a BIG clump of finishers right around the 4 hour mark of a good marathon. You could set the bombs off then and be sure of quite a reaction, and it would be even more unexpected -- hence the 'terror' part of terrorism.
Oh, and Axelrod is an asshole. But we all know that.
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I was thinking about the timing. Your front runners would be the professionals with a number of internationals especially at a big'un like Boston. At this point, would it not be mostly US citizens? The aspiring pros, those who peaked but love it, charity runners?
"It was tax day...he was too busy counting the money and sipping champaign at the 19th hole. In fact, by the time he realized this would kick off both Korea and Kermit, he had already had someone write a sea chanty for him"
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Think about it: a terrorist does not have to have a specific target, but he terrorizes the population to disrupt a society and to spread fear. Think of the assets that had to be mobilized to respond to this. Think of all the other cities that felt that they had to step up vigilance and security to deal with the perceived threats.
All over a few pots of ball bearings fashioned into an explosive device. Where will the next one strike, sez the public? Let one's imagination run wild. The potential victims bring fear to the table.
One nutcase has a lot of leverage.
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Tax day, but also the day of the marathon. So if you want to bomb the marathon, then tax day is a coincidence--not a reason.
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Chris Mathews should be afraid of the right. If the left continues to promote policies that allow murderers foreign and domestic, to kill and maim defenseless innocent people sooner or later Chris Mathews and the left will not escape accountability from the right for the carnage they are responsible for.
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You mean like the occupy riots? Or the now ultra-religious aurora shooter?
Because a culture which respects compitition and achievement would destroy something which epitimizes those values. You know, I think the only difference between the phelps' and this grief monger is that the phelps jerks at least have the balls to go face to face with the greiving instead of hiding behind a camera and a spatula of make-up.
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they found a bomb in a back pack in Spokane,WA a while back, it was in place for another running race held there; Bloomsday. it was found to have been set by an Aryan Nations nutjob. is there a connection?
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Whew that was a close one Chris. You and your overlords almost had to start covering the Philly abortion trial.
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Initial blame on racist whites has been SOP since at least the Duke Lacrosse deal. I still remember the airplane suicide, wisconsin labor union occupy, the cheering on of the cop killer, the spiking of trees by enviro groups. Perhaps this would be more palatable if Kermit the Prog had attacked the runners with a pair of snippits. 105% of his targets died.
Terrorists use violence to achieve their political goals. That is exactly what Matthews is doing. The twist is that he doesn't make his own violence, but that doesn't change what he is. Minutes after the explosions, before anyone knew anything, he was blaming the right. It was a calculated move to score political points by exploiting violence. We have a word for people who do that--terrorists.
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they found a bomb in a back pack in Spokane,WA a while back, it was in place for another running race held there; Bloomsday.
Do you have a link for that, 746? The information would be useful for understanding what's happening in this country. Especially if your bomb turned out to be TATP (Mother of Satan) on of the Al Qaeda favourites, as has been suggested for the Boston Marathon bombs -- yours could be another datum pointing to a connection between white racists and jihadis, as has been documented elsewhere.
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That was the MLK Day march. The bomb methods don't sound particularly similar, that guy was lifting from the Palestinian playbook, not the Afghani playbook. Also, not a race.
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Thank you, Mitch. The key, I think, is a large crowd gathered that could be easily mown down. The bomb found at the Atlanta Olympics was neither a race nor a parade, but there were lots of innocent people available for explosion-fodder nonetheless.
1969 August 7: Twenty were injured by radical leftist Sam Melville in a bombing of the Marine Midland Building in New York City.
1969 September 18: The Federal Building in New York City is bombed by radical leftist Jane Alpert.[18]
1969 October 7: Fifth floor of the Armed Forces Induction Center in New York City devastated by explosion attributed to radical leftist Jane Alpert.
1969 November 12: A bomb is detonated in the Manhattan Criminal Court building in New York City. Jane Alpert, Sam Melville, and 3 other militant radical leftists are arrested hours later.[18][78]
1971 March 1: The radical leftist group Weatherman explode a bomb in the United States Capitol to protest the U.S. invasion of Laos.
1974 June 13: The 29th floor of the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was bombed with dynamite at 9:41 pm resulting in no injuries. The radical leftist group Weatherman took credit, but no suspects have ever been identified.[22]
1983 November 7: U.S. Senate bombing. The Armed Resistance Unit, a militant leftist group, bombs the United States Capitol in response to the U.S. invasion of Grenada.
Black militancy
1970 October 22: An antipersonnel time bomb explodes outside a San Francisco church, showering steel shrapnel on mourners of a patrolman slain in a bank holdup; no one is injured. The Black Liberation Army is suspected.[79]
1971: During this year the Black Liberation Army is suspected of killing three policemen one at his desk in San Francisco, shooting four others and opening fire on three patrol cars and rolling a grenade which heavily damages a police car and injures two officers. An attempt is made to bomb a police station. These incidents happen in various cities around the country. In August the group runs a one month long guerrilla warfare school in Fayetteville, Georgia. Seven are arrested in January 2007 in connection with the San Francisco desk shooting incident.[79][80]
1972 January 22: Two St. Louis policemen, Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie, are shot in the back by at least three persons; four suspects in the case are members of the Black Liberation Army; one suspect is later killed in a street battle with police; the recovered pistol matches Laurie's.[79]
1972 December 28: A Brooklyn, New York bartender is held for $12000 ransom by the Black Liberation Army.[79]
1973 January 7: After shooting a police officer a week earlier Mark Essex a former Black Panther party member shoots nineteen people, ten of them police officers, in retaliation for police killings in and around a Howard Johnson's hotel in New Orleans. He also set fires in the hotel before being killed by police.
1973: A New York City transit detective is killed and ten law enforcement personnel are shot four by machine gun during the year mostly in and around New York City by the Black Liberation Army. Also two members of that organization are arrested with a car full of explosives. In the next few years there are a number of violent incidents involving this organization but they are more criminal in nature.[79]
Chris you missed a few including O's BFF Bill Ayers
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] In explaining why President Obama didn't call the Boston bombings a "terrorist attack," former adviser David Axelrod said, "I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is -- we really don't know who did this -- it was tax day":
"The word has taken on a different meaning since 9/11," Axelrod said of the phrase "terrorist attack."
"You use those words and it means something very specific in people's mind. And I'm sure what was going through the president's mind is -- we really don't know who did this -- it was tax day. Was it someone who was pro--you know, you just don't know. And so I think his attitude is, let's not put any inference into this, let's just make clear that we're going to get the people responsible."
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