Boom goes Beantown!

[Samurai_Jerk]

Don't forget it was tax day in the US.

Plus the observation of Patriot's Day in Massachusetts

Yup. Maybe we should bet on whether it's Muslims, Tea Baggers, or North Koreans.

[sublight]

I'll wait for the investigation, but the Muslim terror groups seem to follow the maxim of "go big, or go home." If the attack is one of theirs, it would be one of their smallest on western soil.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I'll wait for the investigation, but the Muslim terror groups seem to follow the maxim of "go big, or go home." If the attack is one of theirs, it would be one of their smallest on western soil.

There have also been plenty of failed attempts by guys like the shoe bomber and underwear bomber. Anyway, I'm not looking forward to the new set of limits to personal liberty that's inevitable going to follow this regardless of who did it.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Anyway, I'm not looking forward to the new set of limits to personal liberty that's inevitable going to follow this regardless of who did it.

Yeah, but dude, you'll still maintain your right to bear arms.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Anyway, I'm not looking forward to the new set of limits to personal liberty that's inevitable going to follow this regardless of who did it.

Yeah, but dude, you'll still maintain your right to bear arms.

Can't take that one away without amending the constitution and that ain't happening anytime soon.

[wagyl]

Can't take that one away without amending the constitution and that ain't happening anytime soon.

They managed to ban alcohol once. This world can be full of surprises.

[Coligny]

Can't take that one away without amending the constitution and that ain't happening anytime soon.

They managed to ban alcohol once. This world can be full of surprises idiots.

fixed dat fer youze...

[Taro Toporific]

I cerebrate the terror of Boston!
--- by takoyaki200812
Thx for Google Transelate!
I am Japanese!
My English is Cool!
Ching Chong!

[Taro Toporific]

That was a quick copyright claim...

Might be time to shutdown capitalism life support system...

[Taro Toporific]

That was a quick copyright claim...
Might be time to shutdown capitalism life support system...

Here' are alternative sources for the video that "blame" Koreans for making it.

http://youtu.be/DzH77OiGMfE?t=1m39s

takoyaki200812 - YouTube.jpg

takoyaki200812 - YouTube.jpg

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

When he said 'cerebrate," I naturally assumed he meant to say he was "thinking" about the bombings in Boston.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Some crazy shit going down in Beantown right now.

Boston Marathon bomber manhunt: One suspect dead, second on the run

BOSTON—A late-night police chase and shootout has ended with one marathon bombing suspect dead and another on the run here, Boston Police commissioner Ed Davis said early Friday morning.
Federal agents swarmed neighboring Watertown after local police were involved in a car chase and shootout with at least one of the suspects. During the pursuit, officers could be heard on police radio traffic describing the suspects as having grenades and other explosives.
At approximately 10:30 p.m. Thursday, a robbery was reported at a 7-Eleven in Cambridge, Davis said. An MIT officer responding to the robbery was shot, and later pronounced dead. The suspects fled in a stolen Mercedes-Benz. Watertown Police spotted car and shots were fired between police and the suspects.
One suspect was shot by police and later died, but the second fled on foot, and a tense manhunt ensued.
"We believe this to be a terrorist," Davis told reporters at a hastily arranged press conference in Watertown. "We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him into custody."
An MTA officer was seriously wounded during the exchange of gunfire, Davis said.
The FBI has yet to publicly confirm a connection between the events in Watertown and the twin explosions that killed 3 people and injured 170 others at the Boston Marathon on Monday. But according to a radio alert sent issued to fellow officers, the suspect who remained at large was the "one in the white hat" seen in the photos released by the bureau on Thursday.
The suspect was described as a "white male with dark complexion or a Middle Eastern male with thick curly hair wearing a charcoal gray hooded sweatshirt ... possibly with an assault rifle and explosives." Police in Watertown, Newton, Brighton and Cambridge were put on high alert as the suspect was said to be armed with a "long gun."

[Coligny]

How much does the DHS/NSA costs ?
Because, 1 they didn't see jack shit coming (apparently from Tchtechnian student no less), 2 after the fact they were still totally clueless. 3 shit was developped thanks to FBI posting picture and local police leading the manhunt.

Because as of now... basic policework seems enough to do the job... and I bet mah cheezeburger muney for the week that no amount of drone or other hightech shit would have been able to do better than a bit of local humint... (unless you put a camera up to everyone's ass 24h/24, which gloriously defeat any high tech side of the move, sort of like killing everyone on the scene in hope to also kill the terrurists)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

How much does the DHS/NSA costs ?
Because, 1 they didn't see jack shit coming (apparently from Tchtechnian student no less), 2 after the fact they were still totally clueless. 3 shit was developped thanks to FBI posting picture and local police leading the manhunt.

Because as of now... basic policework seems enough to do the job... and I bet mah cheezeburger muney for the week that no amount of drone or other hightech shit would have been able to do better than a bit of local humint... (unless you put a camera up to everyone's ass 24h/24, which gloriously defeat any high tech side of the move, sort of like killing everyone on the scene in hope to also kill the terrurists)

Why the fuck would you engage in preventative measures when that will only deprive you of the opportunity to use your God-given, Constitutionally protected firearms(especially on an A-rab terrorist you no longer have to get taxpayers to fund until they're convicted)?

[wagyl]

sort of like killing everyone on the scene in hope to also kill the terrurists)

That one has been done before. As Arnaud Amalric, Abbot of Citeaux is reported to have said when ordering the massacre at Béziers, "Kill them all, God will know His own," meaning the innocent will be conveyed to Heaven so it is no real problem if some innocents are killed ... well ... all the innocents are killed, too. It is a damning indictment, if we are at the stage where we are speculating that the next step in the evolution of national security will resemble a crusade against a heresy from 800 years ago.

[Russell]

Hmm.

It wasn't the Titanic after all...

NK-Titanic.jpg

[Russell]

sort of like killing everyone on the scene in hope to also kill the terrurists)

That one has been done before. As Arnaud Amalric, Abbot of Citeaux is reported to have said when ordering the massacre at Béziers, "Kill them all, God will know His own," meaning the innocent will be conveyed to Heaven so it is no real problem if some innocents are killed ... well ... all the innocents are killed, too. It is a damning indictment, if we are at the stage where we are speculating that the next step in the evolution of national security will resemble a crusade against a heresy from 800 years ago.

Wasn't that the philosophy of Donald Rumsfeld too?

[yanpa]

Meanwhile, I've been wondering: why "Beantown"? Coffee beans because they chucked the tea in the harbour?

[Yokohammer]

Never heard of "Boston beans?"
Or "Boston baked beans?"

[yanpa]

Never heard of "Boston beans?"
Or "Boston baked beans?"

I plead innocence. Are they particularly virulent?

[Yokohammer]

The Origins of "Bean Town"

[yanpa]

Right... (makes notes) I must have missed that page in one of the Bill Bryson books, from which I also know that it is not known why the Hoosier State calls itself the Hoosier State (whichever state that is, I forget).

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Thanks for the Beantown information. I had no idea, either, and had not heard of it before this thread. Sounded like something out of Noddy to me.
When I think of Boston, I think of either bags, buns, Bambino, the Tea Party (the one where they dressed up as squaws, not the one attended by the Mad Hatter) and shitloads of plastic Paddies in the 1970s/1980s funding the IRA (possibly because it was so easy to spell).

Edit: Having read the Beantown information Yokohammer provided above, I'm beginning to wonder whether there really was a bombing this week and perhaps there wasn't another reason behind those blasts....