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Q: Just been a Bombing in USA

Sorry to be the Bearer of Bad news

2 bombs have gone off in Boston at the Marathon

so far they think 3 dead and up to 60 hurt

this happened about a hour ago

 

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Yes, now they say 12 dead. 

cool

OK, three sounds better.

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As of right now, there are 2 dead, injured still being counted. Some are saying 60, some are saying up to 100, but these numbers will change as things clear up and are able to get accurate numbers. . 

It was 2 bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, one on each side of the road. 

A third bomb was found at the JFK Library a mile or so away, but now they are saying it was an unrelated fire.

A fourth and fifth bomb allegedly found at an undisclosed location, but those weren't detonated. 

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Tragic

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Newest update: 3 confirmed dead, about 130 injured... mostly in the lower

extremities: legs, feet blown away. One woman lost half of her jaw.
No bomb at the library; unrelated fire in the facility.
Two more explosive devices have been found at other locations.

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very sad news. prayers for the victims and their families. hope that who ever did it will be brought to justice and be spending many many years in jail or get the death penalty.

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What can you expect when eight members of congress are doing anything they can to give amnesty to 11,000,000 illegal aliens. An invitation for terrorists. But if you pay enough you can get anything you like and do anything you want and get away with it.in the USA. A democracy gone all to hell. Franck3

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So you are saying that giving amnesty to immigrates is a bad thing? BTW, we love most aliens, maybe not the Segorne Weaver ones, but I'd love to see another ET movie.

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wtf id the correlation? 

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24 hours and obama still says criminals instead of terrorist , way to kiss ass to the arab league potus

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it hasnt been 24 hours, its been almost 6 hours now. ANd he has only spoken about it once. Right now, it is 8:45 am Tuesday in China. 

Before anyone names it anything, they need to know if it was some douche bag sitting in their basement whacking off reading how to make bombs on the internet or some homegrown militia thing or something such as al-queda. Because it was a relatively small attack, and they are still investigating all four bombs, they are careful not to label it anything. 

YOUR thinking is one of the reasons they arent calling it terrorism yet. YOU are ASSuming it was an Arab attack. Have you heard of Timothy McVeigh? There are inbred white folk that do this shit too. No need for the hate to start against any group, which is exactly what is already happening again. Unfortunately, if it was an ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST terrorist group, muslims in general will pay the price, and there is absolutely no need for that. Before you get critical, know your shit.

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Also, they have found canisters with gasoline and clock connected in the train heading to Taipei last days. Was äsian"nationality those 2 already catched biatches. so not only arabs do this sh1t

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sorry if you havent read the drudgereport that says a saudi arabia national with a student visa has been arrested and under an armed guard in a boston hospital.

my point is obama is never going to use the word terrorist even after proof at the army base in texas. terrorist attacks could never happen under the great obama, benghazi was a bad video seen by 300 people right.

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I'm sorry you read less than credible sources and BELIEVE them. That alone lets your intelligence shine like a broken flashlight. There has been no arrest.

They were questioning a Saudi National at one of the hospitals who is in the states on a student visa, but is NOT a suspect according to the Police Commissioner in Boston.
At the moment, they are looking for a POSSIBLE person of interest: a dark man, possibly black, who was wearing a black hoodie who was trying to get into the crime scene. They don't even know if that person is a suspect.  

MY point is, it's idiots like you who jump to the conclusion that an Arab did it, and when that happens, it causes undue hate and animosity towards all Muslims here. Until they know who did this, we cant assume it was anyone,  because the reality is it could be anyone. 

Who cares if Obama uses Terrorist as a label. He chose criminal. Bottom line... the person/group who did this is... well...criminal. Whether he/she/they are inbred white folk with shaved heads who hates Jews, visitors from another country here to do damage, or fuckin purple people eaters, the one(s) who did this is CRIMINAL. Again, I refer you to OK City bombings from April 19th, 1995. A white man named McVeigh was the terrorist in that case. 

 

PS... it is now 10:30p on the east coast, almost 8 hours since it happened... just to keep you in time check. 

 

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you proved my point entirely, a terroist can be anybody but obama never uses the word terrorist, because you may offend someone, i am a asshole and it does not bother me or offend me to here the word.

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hahah, ofcorse they use the word terrorist and yes the word terrorist has nothing to do with a race, but there is a reason why most people would think of muslim and arabs when you say the word terrorist, any ways it wont be just obama who will throw around the word terrorist it will be the the media who will throw around all kind of speculation

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So, Obama is kissing Arabic ass by not saying the word terrorist, but the word terrorist has nothing to do with race? You should've probably spent at least as much time thinking about that statement as you did typing it.

 

But hey, anything to shit on the President, huh?

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A bomb goes off close to home and brings out the stupid in some people.   Of course nobody responsible should prematurely start shouting "terrorist", inciting hate and anger in an already tense situation.   And what's this about kissing Arab's #ss?  What the @#$%??   My god, something serious has taken place and our first goal is to try and stabilize the situation, not having knee-jerk reactions and blaming (and offending) a certain demographic of people before you have clear evidence.  This situation calls for subtlety, not loud mouthed brashness.

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Some people there lose their legs or arms, that's very sad, this "gift" they brought home from peaceful sport event. 

Let God help them to recover soon and FBI do their work properly. crack this idiot nuts and broken his all bones. Biatch :(

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the drudge report says a saudi national on a student visa has been arrested and under armed guard at a boston hospital, for those who said i jumped to conclusions, read some real news
, also a very interesting article in jordan 'jordan muslim group happy to see terror in america', happy reading.

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I'm sorry you read less than credible sources and BELIEVE them. That alone lets your intelligence shine like a broken flashlight. THERE HAS BEEN NO ARREST.

They were questioning a Saudi National at one of the hospitals who is in the states on a student visa, but is NOT a suspect according to the Police Commissioner in Boston.
At the moment, they are looking for a POSSIBLE person of interest: a dark man, possibly black, who was wearing a black hoodie who was trying to get into the crime scene. They don't even know if that person is a suspect.  

MY point is, it's idiots like you who jump to the conclusion that an Arab did it, and when that happens, it causes undo hate and animosity towards all Muslims here. Until they know who did this, we cant assume it was anyone,  because the reality is it could be anyone. 

Who cares if Obama uses Terrorist as a label. He chose criminal. Bottom line... the person/group who did this is... well...criminal. Whether he/she/they are inbred white folk with shaved heads who hates Jews, visitors from another country here to do damage, or fuckin purple people eaters, the one(s) who did this is CRIMINAL. Again, I refer you to OK City bombings from April 19th, 1995. A white man named McVeigh was the terrorist in that case. 

 

PS... it is now 10:30p on the east coast, almost 8 hours since it happened... just to keep you in time check

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proved my point , a terrorist can be anybody, but he never uses the word terrorist because he may offend someone, i am a asshole and it does not bother me that someone says it. my feelings are not hurt and offending me is a badge of honor. politcal correctness has gone to far. if a militia did this or right wing nut its still terrorism, not a simple crime.

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It's simply not true that President Obama never uses the word. Personally I'm happy to have a reasonable person as a President. George W would have played the fear factor rhetoric  for as much profit as his father could make with his defense contractor investments.

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@ambivalent - you are speaking from the perspective of an asshole.  On the other hand, most people do not want to be assholes.  Therefore, we try to be balanced and fair before accusing someone.  Thanks for your comment, anyways.  It's sometimes good to hear from the assholes POV.

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According to the bombs they found unexploded, they were pretty crudely made they say.  Bit of an unusual target too.  I don't reckon it's some major plot.  Probably just a small group of idiots or one lunatic. 

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I don't care if the people who did this were black, red, yellow, muslim, christian, atheist, or white. Anyone involved in this needs to be found and killed, preferably in front of the whole country. Sorry if that sounds extreme... wait, no I'm not. Kill all those motherfudgers.

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Let's blame China. 

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False flag event just like 9/11. New patriot act incoming in 5......4........3.......

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Are you the new wumao, now that Silva has had a day off?

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Lol, as if this Congress could ever get organized enough to pass something that big.

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Why would they need a "New" patriot act when all they had to do was not repeal the old one? 

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Don't you see man. This one is gunna involve kicking puppies and stealing candy from babies. Uncle Sam is evil man, and he isn't gunna stop until he steals all the gold that us freedom loving American are hiding in our back yards for when fiat money fails. Open your eyes.

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They just passed CISPA, a law that will effectively censor the internet and allow big websites like Facebook, Youtube and Twitter to send user info to the government without court approval. Convenient that the news is too busy with Boston to comment on the further eroding of civil liberties.

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http://www.mintpressnews.com/congress-repeals-disclosure-of-financial-transactions-critics-decry-insider-trading/

 

They also silently removed the ban on insider trading the same day of the marathon.

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  According to Ted Gunderson, former head of first the Memphis, then Dallas, then Los Angeles divisions of the FBI, most if not all terrorist activity in America and much of the world is perpetrated by the CIA. What a nut.

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I mean if that's what the CIA is broadcasting into your fillings.

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  Hey, don't shoot the messenger mate, look it up yourself. Thirty year career, became head of three branches of the FBI, talked high-jackers out of planes, brought down a major ring of organized kidnappers and child sex offenders, and after retiring became what is known as a whistleblower. What can I say? With those kind of credentials i'm willing to listen to the man. Doesn't mean you have to, i'm quite sure that in your career in........whatever the hell it is you do, you suuurely know better.

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Yea, I probably do know just as much about this as that guy. He was a regional director of the FBI, and in that job he had exactly the same amount of exposure to the inner workings of the CIA as I do as a foreign teacher in China. The same as you do. The same as anybody reading this does. None.

 

We've talked about this before. The reason that you're so willing to believe what most people would agree is non-sense has more to do with who you are than it does with any of the actual evidence. On some level, you, I and everyone else knows that it is probably preferable to believe that our world leaders are hyper competent, evil geniuses than it is to admit that our system of safety nets sometimes fail, and that any one of us could have our lives snuffed out in an instant by a small group of conspirators with a plan. That's fine, its a matter of faith for you, and you've just, unknowingly, built a religion around it. 

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  A foreign teacher, like myself, someone who's grown up in North London, living most of his life in nothing bed-sits, drinking his days away and drinking his nights, knows as much about the inner workings of the CIA as a man with a thirty year history as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations in three major capitals of the United States of America. Really? That's honestly your argument???

  And telling me (or rather those others who care to listen) who I am, and what I believe, is weak. You don't know who I am. You know nothing about me, anymore than I do you. What most people believe is not of my concern, I am fortunate in that I have the courage to think for myself. And I am certain that were you honest enough you would admit that these 'evil geniuses' DO exist, it's just a shame that you're only aware of them as the slant-eyed opposition. Personally I do not have an ounce of faith in the power structure of the east any more than I do of that in the west. I believe them both to be inherently corrupt.

  The bottom line is (other than full of fluff and grit, and not a small amount of shit) that I don't give a monkey's whether Ted Gunderson is right or wrong. I'm not saying he is, i'm just saying it's hard to ignore the words of such a man as he, and i've not been filled with much resembling hope for the words of anyone speaking against him. Most of the time I look the other way anyway. In some respects i'm a total nihilist. Or a defeatist. Or a realist. (After the last three beers and that vodka, i'm certainly half pissed). Frankly I don't care who's going around wasting everyone these days, if it's not one person it's another. (Yeh, i'm pissed, i'm sounding way too dramatic and struck with the tragedy of it all).

  I don't know or very much care if I am wrong, all I know is I have the freedom to ask the question. That much is my RIGHT. So leave me alone. Or buy me a drink. Cheers.

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Evil genius do not exist. And any explaination for something built around the idea that somebody, somewhere is like a real life Lex Luther or Dr. Doom does not pass the smell test with me. That's true of China, and thats true of the west. Further, I often do complain about the way the government does things here, and not because they are hyper competent, rather because they make a lot of bad choices for short term gains. Now the US and Europe do the same thing, but that hardly makes them brilliant.  

 

"A foreign teacher, like myself, someone who's grown up in North London, living most of his life in nothing bed-sits, drinking his days away and drinking his nights, knows as much about the inner workings of the CIA as a man with a thirty year history as the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations in three major capitals of the United States of America. Really? That's honestly your argument???"

   
Yes, that is exactly my argument. The CIA and the FBI (and the NSA for that matter) are totally separate institutions with very different goals. Respectively they focus on intelligence, law enforcement, and security. So when one of these institutions does something, they are very seldom working in concert with the two others. If the CIA wants a bit of information from the FBI they have to request it, and they are often refused because these types of bodies like to keep the information they have as secret as possible. For that reason the CIA is very selective about what it chooses to share with the FBI.
 
Beyond that, historically they tend not get along, or even work together very well. J. Edgar Hoover, who was responsible for building the FBI, and William Donovan, who headed the OSS which was the fore runner to the CIA, were professional rivals, if not out right enemies. Remember that the reason the OSS was created in the first place was because of the need for a foreign intelligence service after the FBI's perceived failure to prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor. And then after that the OSS, and then later the CIA, was more then willing to work with Communist agents, during the war at least, and former KGB defectors, while in the FBI, which was build on paranoia surrounding the turn of the century anarchists and the Red Scare, that would have found that unthinkable. So to say that these two things are interchangeable, or that there is even any oversight at all that exists between the two of them, is incredibly misleading.
 
About this being about you. You're a conspiracy theorist, and most conspiracy theorist develop conspiracy theories for the same reasons, because an elaborate, fantastic fiction is better, or at least much less horrible, then the truth of the matter. That was true of the people that felt that the JFK assignation was an inside job, and its true of 9/11 truthers like yourself. I mean look at how long it took you and this other guy to bring up the idea that this attack was an inside job. Less than a day. We literally know absolutely nothing about it. But if something goes wrong in Metropolis, its probably Lex Luther, isn't it? 
 

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  I didn't say these recent bombings were an inside job, and neither did Ted. Ted's dead baby, Ted's dead. I just quoted him as saying most terrorist activity is CIA perpetrated. That you believe such hugely powerful organizations as the FBI and the CIA know little or nothing of each other's dealings just goes to show that you're about as brainwashed as the average card carrying CCP robot out here. We 'have' been down this road of conversation before, and it ended abruptly when you said that the CIA no more created Al Qaeda than they did the Mujihadeen. I then pointed out that former British foreign minister Robin Cook (not sure where I got MI6 from) confirmed the very fact of that relationship; that the CIA played a central role in forming Al Qaeda, at which point you promptly buggered off if I remember correctly.

  But now you're back.

  So what is this argument? That there are no criminal elements in government; the government of any country? I happen to believe there are. The term criminal is relative of course; one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and i'm certain that those 'bad guys in disguise' believe in their cause, as i'm certain did the late great Adolph Hitler. As we all do. Is every working component of the world operating out in the open? I do not believe so. Is it every man's responsibility to ask the questions they fear to ask, if in the asking they might better find the truth? Makes sense to me. Then may I remind you that your government, by its own admission, made plans to commit acts of terrorism upon its own soil, and against its own people back during the Cuban missile crisis? Once again, if you do not believe me, Google the name 'Operation Northwood' and read it for yourself, i'm tired of teaching you this stuff, you're like a child with a learning disability. NOW, if just that fact IS the fact of the matter, then NOBODY has the right to judge me for questioning ANY act of terrorism on U.S. soil as being possibly self inflicted. IT IS SIMPLE LOGIC TO ASK THESE QUESTIONS. (Sorry about the f**k off).

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1) You clearly implied that it might be.

 

2) I stopped talking to you because I was tired of watching you tie yourself into knots to justify this fantasy that you'd constructed. Like with that guy you mentioned. He's spent most of the 1980s on the back benches and only came out with this line while trying to gain the support of the British Anti-war movement in the run up to the Iraq war. After the UK decided to go to war in Iraq, his government more or less forced him into resigning. He's hardly unimpeachable here. That he died almost immediately afterwards makes him look like that much more of a martyr.  However, when we consider that both the US government and AQ have denied working together even during the Soviet-Afghan war his claims start to look even more suspect. Honestly, it's dull talking to you about this because it really only works if you squint, turn your head to the side, and ignore the mountains of evidence to the contrary. That does make you worthy of ridicule. 

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  That's the difference between me and you; I don't see Cook's stance as an anti-war campaigner as a negative, it only makes me value his word more. As to his resignation, it was made in protest to the Iraq war, and at the time of it he was the Leader of the House of Commons. You're right about his death though. Very sudden apparently. Just four weeks after speaking out on CIA links with Al Qaeda. Heart attack and a fall down a hill.

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It's not a negative, I opposed the war in myself. But what I see happening here is him trying to save his position. How long to you think Blair would have permitted him to stay on after the UK made the choice to go into Iraq? That's why he resigned, because a principled resignation is easier to come back from than getting thrown out by the Prime Minister. So he just made the type of thing that politicians do in that situation, they say the kind that's plausible, scandalous, and can almost be mistaken for the truth if you don't pay attention to the details. Here the truth of the matter is that the US funded the Afghans during the Soviet-Afghan war. Now after the fact, both the CIA and AQ have denied working together. The CIA said that AQ was too radical to qualify for funding, and AQ stated that it never requested any because they felt it would have meant betraying their core principles.

 

But beyond that, Cook was the foreign secretary, which means he was the head of MI6 in the same way that John Kerry is head of the CIA. He was further up the ladder, but not really at the head of it. He would have had briefings, but they would have between 1997 and 2001. The question the becomes whether he misremembered what he was told, knowingly passed off a falsehood, or the people who briefed him got it wrong.  But if the choice we have is between both principle parties saying that they never had anything to do with each other, and a politician at the end of his career saying they did, why should be believe the politician.

 

 Oh, and given the diet of your average scot, and the topography of Scotland, how is  the fact that one of them died of a heart attack and then fell down a hill even note worthy?

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  Sure, fair enough, but then my strong leaning toward these unpopular beliefs does not rest solely on the words of Robin Cook. It is a very large number of things. (That mention of his sudden death was in suggestion of foul play by the way. Half joking, but only half). What I don't get is how you find it such an outlandish idea in the first place. I mean, you don't deny that the joint chiefs of staff agreed upon a plan of committing acts of terrorism upon US soil and against US citizens with Operation Northwood, do you? It was only Kennedy who said no and we all know what happened to him. So why should it be so absurd to consider that such a plan might get the go ahead under a different leader, or even without his knowledge?

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Yea, that Curtis LaMay, the head of the joint chiefs of staff during the Kennedy administration, suggested something crazy is hardly news to me, and I believed your assertion that he did so immediately. The reason he was made a member of the joint chiefs in the first place was because he was the one that master mind the Bombing Campaign against Japan. Prior to him, the idea had been to fly supplies over the hump into China from India, fight the Japanese across the whole of China, eventually forcing them into a peace treaty. At the time, an over land campaign would have been the conventional way to do it, and its how the Brits and Americans had agreed to fight the Germans in Europe. LeMay was the guy that decided it was too inefficient, and thought up the Island Hopping campaign as a prelude to the Air War. The result was a strategy that would target Japanese industry and civilian population. He even consider himself a war criminal over it. He had a bunch of other crazy idea that didn't pan out as well. He came up with the idea to use Cuban Exiles to overthrow Castro in Cuba, I'm sure you've heard of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and then later he came up with a plan to kill Castro with, and I shit you not, a poisoned wet suit.  I'll agree that Curtis LeMay was crazy, he was actually the person that Dr. Strangelove's General Ripper was based on, but that said, the guy is the exception, not the rule.

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  Well you're clearly far more educated than me, i've never heard of Curtis LeMay. Curtis Mayfield, sure. Superfly. But as for LeMay being the exception to the rule, I don't know. I mean, that objective was accepted by the joint chiefs, not simply this LeMay fella himself. The way I see it, everyone looks to cover their arse (sorry, I can't say 'ass', i'd feel like one of those fat white birds on Jerry Springer saying 'You go girl!'), and in big business, which, let's face it, is what we're talking about here, decent human beings are easily subject to being corrupted into abhorrent forms of misbehaviour. The 'you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs' mentality has been the justification for more acts of immorality than one would care to think about. It's human nature.

  Anyway, I like that our discussion has taken a more civil tone, but it's late and i've got to.................well to be honest, finish drinking brandy and watching Platoon. (Yeh, don't ask me why - sometimes we prefer a burger over a steak, the movie's junkfood).

  I will leave you with something of interest though. It's on the subject of 9/11; an intelligently written paper that seems to cover much of what has intrigued me on the subject. Please ignore the site I picked it up on, i've never visited it before, it's just the first place I looked when I googled the paper.

  http://www.911falseflag.com/docs/intersecting_facts_and_theories_on_911.pdf

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http://www.firehouse.com/press_release/10919925/boston-to-deploy-mass-casualty-tablet-device-during-marathon

April, 12

 

BREAKING NEWS: Police will have controlled explosion on 600 block on Boylston Street
12:53 PM - 15 Apr 13
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Officials: There will be a controlled explosion opposite the library within one minute as part of bomb squad activities.
12:53 PM - 15 Apr 13
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regardless of my bias in this issue, will obama call this a domestic terrorist act or international terrorist act or will he call it a domestic disruption or international criminal act, are we so political correct that we cant use the word 'terrorist' any more , just like 'undocumented worker' instead of illegal alien.

 

TedDBayer:

They did call it a terrorist act. What do you call a bomb going off in a crowd?

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i have never heard obama call anybody or any action against america a terrorist act, just want to hear him say it one time. not gonna happen

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The amazing thing here is that you probably really believe that. Of course he has, he called the attack on the US consulate at Bengazi an "act of terror" the day after it happen. When Mitt Romney made a similar assertion to the one that you're making right now at the debates last fall, he was corrected, and frankly publicly embarrassed, by the Candy Crowley, the moderator. I'm sure you remember that happening, and you probably even accused Crowley of bias over it. But, she was technically correct, even if she did overstep her bounds as moderator, and you can look up the tape.

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an act of terror is not the same as calling someone a ' terrorist' he will not use the word because its not political correct. i have never heard him say the word 'terrorist' ever.

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mattsm84:

Oh, I see. You want him to be that guy. You know the one I mean. The one that said every damn fool thing that popped into his head the very second his synapses misfired. That guy was in charge for almost a decade, and up until now I'd been enjoying the change. Sure, I don't get to laugh at the stupid shit he says, but having a guy that is considered and that is frankly worthy of the office is kind of nice. 

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Then maybe you should watch the news cause he called it one yesterday.

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TedDBayer:

I heard him say terrorist.

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MissA:

I miss laughing at the stupid shit... in fact I think I'm going to take time out from my busy ECC schedule to go google Bush Top 10.

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Dear ambiv...

By definition, a terrorist attack is "a surprise attack involving the deliberate use of violence against civilians in the hope of attaining political or religious aims."(simple definition provided by Google, but in agreement with several reputable dictionaries, fyi)

 

Because the bombs were crude and unsophisticated, basic devices with instructions to make easily found on the internet, perhaps Obama and the gang (excluding the media) are waiting to find out if the bomber in this case didn't get the tax refund he was expecting, believes Irish Catholics are devil spawn, or if it was some nut who was pissed off that his route to work was detoured by the marathon. 

The first two would constitute a terrorist. The third... an over ambitious nut job with wifi and a 2001 model Dell desktop he salvaged from the junk yard.

ambivalentmace:

the fbi is 'investigating this as an act of terrorism' , this is a  ' heinous act',

he the great leader who has killed thousands of civilians with drones does not say this  'is an act of terrorism' , somebody is not listening or reading the same speech that i am.

my point is words mean things and his nuance is disconcerting like you cant be a judge of what is terrorism because of professional courtesy.

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Your ignorance is exhausting. You are looking for anything you can to discredit him. Are you Bush in disguise, is it you have your head so far up Bush's bum that you can taste what he had for dinner? He is not under the assumption, as you are, that it was a terrorist group who committed this heinous, criminal act. He is waiting to find out if it was, by definition, a terrorist attack, or a pimply faced teen who, much like yourself, hasn't gotten laid. Ever. The minor fact that no group has claimed this... and we all know if Al-Q did it, they'd be all... LOOKIE WHAT WE DID! The minor fact that the bombs were unsophisticated and did... minimal damage compared to what an organized group is capable of doing. You call it what you want. You jump the gun and blame whoever you want. You sell your story to who ever you can get to listen, and show the world your idiocy. Be. My. Guest. As I said, you are exhausting, narrow minded and only want someone to support your little theories. Good luck with that. I am done with you :)

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ambivalentmace:

clinton, bush and obama are all war criminals. i dont like hypocrites, im a conservative , bush was democrat light. clinton bombed christians from 15000 feet in bosnia to protect mulims, bush killed civilians everywhere, and obama has done the same thing with drones. liberals who call conservatives war mongers need to look in the mirror, reagan left when the barracks was bombed in beirut and did not start a war over this.

when presidents kill civlians you get payback, i want obama to grow a set and say what he thinks and stop trying to please the whole world. a president who is liked by the whole world more than his own people scares the hell out of me. love your country, fear your government.

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Maybe it would be better to find out EXACTLY is responsible for this terrible attack before name calling, etc.

Like Hugs said above, it could be a myriad of people with an axe to grind: Middle Easterners, North Korean Saboteurs, Montana Militias, Puerto Rican separatists, the guy with the tin foil hat, the dweeb who didnt get laid, etc.

This is the moment to remain calm, and to find out who did it. Once the identity of the person, group, etc has been discovered, THEN unleash the Hell Hounds, (and engage in name calling).

This is a terrible tragedy, which is all the more reason we need to remain calm and focused.

 

Hulk:

I agree. Once found guilty, string them up. Death by hanging+firing squad+lethal injection. All at the same time.

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according to CNN, FBI has confirmed one of the three dead as a Chinese citizen

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They now have a suspect

The FBI is looking for a man caught on CCTV that left a back back with the Bomb in it

and also the second one

I did not hear of any description of the man

also some Nut sent a Ryasen leased letter to the President of USA

this is the latest at 6am in Australia

Nessquick:

baceball cup turned back, black jacket, white hoody and thats all I read about him

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They have got the second Bombing suspect in custody

however there are reports that they have also taken up to 3 other people in for questioning over this matter

10;50 am Aus time 0850 China time

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ambiv: now do you understand why the pres didn't come right out (2 mins after the bombings) and say it was arab terrorists? 

the funny thing is people like this will never learn. next time a bomb goes off their gonna start accusing arabs again and again and again ....

philbravery:

Unfortunately he was half right and it has been linked to that Religion and they are working on a link to the usal Ass holes

This is according to Media  in Australia today

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when gorbochov was in power he should of allowed chechnya to seperate with ukraine and the rest of others. keeping the area has proven bloody and not worth the trouble. let the muslims have their little domains of male dominated societies and laugh at them like we do north korea, just keep them out of developed countries with their intolerant religion.

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