Miscellaneous semantic commentary about bombing in boston.

[bill]

Gut Reaction: No penalties for being wrong or paranoid or anything like that. If you had to guess, was the Boston Marathon Bombing a: Lone Nut or Group. b: Foreign Terrorists. or c: Domestic Terrorist Attack?

Im going to go with my bias, even though I only feel like I have 10% basis for thinking it.

my guess is that it is domestic terrorists.

Too many things that you would have to know that are specific to Americans, and Boston in particular.

1.  The Boston Marathon is one of the only unprotected events around the country.  The logistics are just too freaking extensive. 26 miles etc.  People from all over the world show up for it.

2.  Only Massachussetts celebrates today as Patriot's Day, since it over battles that happened there.  Thats a pretty particulor thing to know.

3.  Its income tax day.  Maybe Im crazy, but it seems like that wouldnt have the same kind of symbolism elsewhere that it has here.  However with our domestic terrorizing right wing element, its a big important day.  Timothy McVeigh etc.

4.  Its the 100th anniversary of the Income Tax, also not a day that other people would track, but which has been made a lot of lately as the Right Wing and GlenBeckistan keeps demonizing both the Fed and the Income Tax.

5.  Boston is the hometown of the Revolution, which was anti tax as well as the place of the Boston Tea Party.

All of these facts are the kinds of trick questions designed to fail people trying to take a citizenship exam.  Not too likely to have been foreign.

All of these things are, perhaps coincidentally, symbolic to the courthouse bombing, right wing of our own country.

Finally the very fact that there was literally no advance warning for the bombing points to a group of people who are paranoid about TIA, which also suggests our home grown domestic terroristas.  The measures needed to deploy that many bombs, in that many places, with all of the right wing symbolism seems to rule out a lone wolf.

On the other hand, there are VERY smart people in Boston.  So its conceivable that its just a couple of very determined students at one of the Ivy Leagues.

Nice analysis Inspector Clouseau. Do not let facts/logic get in the way of your agenda/narrative.

[Traveller]

He attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, not Dartmouth College.

[Adam W]

He attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, not Dartmouth College.

Massive difference!

[bill]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.[2] The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.

and wrong again Inspector Gadget. Could you try and get one thing correct?

[Adam W]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.[2] The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.

and wrong again Inspector Gadget. Could you try and get one thing correct?

You might find things start to disappear.

[bill]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

The Ivy League is an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group.[2] The eight institutions are Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. The term Ivy League also has connotations of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism.

and wrong again Inspector Gadget. Could you try and get one thing correct?

You might find things start to disappear.

I know the fuhrer does not like dissent or the facts.

[carpnter]

He attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, not Dartmouth College.

Massive difference!

Yep, Dartmouth College is in Hanover, New Hampshire about 2 hours north of Boston.

[bill]

He attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, not Dartmouth College.

Massive difference!

Yep, Dartmouth College is in Hanover, New Hampshire about 2 hours north of Boston.

yawn.  Im flattered that the group of you apparently hang on my every word.

Bill wouldnt you be more comfortable explaining the criminal nature of 'the blacks' as usual?

I would rather explain how I did not have to go to Wiki to find out who is in the Ivy League and that Umass at Dartmouth is not one of them. LMFAO

[bill]

He attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, not Dartmouth College.

Massive difference!

Yep, Dartmouth College is in Hanover, New Hampshire about 2 hours north of Boston.

yawn.  Im flattered that the group of you apparently hang on my every word.

Bill wouldnt you be more comfortable explaining the criminal nature of 'the blacks' as usual?

I would rather explain how I did not have to go to Wiki to find out who is in the Ivy League and that Umass at Dartmouth is not one of them. LMFAO

more yawn. Still think that everyone has a right to be armed to the teeth.  for freedom?

Background checks for pressure cookers. It is about the children.

[bill]

He attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, not Dartmouth College.

Massive difference!

Yep, Dartmouth College is in Hanover, New Hampshire about 2 hours north of Boston.

yawn.  Im flattered that the group of you apparently hang on my every word.

Bill wouldnt you be more comfortable explaining the criminal nature of 'the blacks' as usual?

I would rather explain how I did not have to go to Wiki to find out who is in the Ivy League and that Umass at Dartmouth is not one of them. LMFAO

And Im not sure where you are going with this fresh new line of dumb (even for you, its surprisingly mouth breathy)

Here is my opening remark:

Gut Reaction: No penalties for being wrong or paranoid or anything like that. If you had to guess, was the Boston Marathon Bombing a: Lone Nut or Group. b: Foreign Terrorists. or c: Domestic Terrorist Attack?

Im going to go with my bias, even though I only feel like I have 10% basis for thinking it.

my guess is that it is domestic terrorists.

Im not sure what part of that leads you to think that my speculation was meant to be promoted as the gospel, but obviously, it was domestic terrorists.

They were both American Citizens.

So if you have some other point, other than 'thank god my like minded right wingers might not be behind this', I think you are failing to register it.

But you failing to make any coherent point is hardly a surprise.

Other than, you know.  White people are generally superior in your opinion.

Now now Darely do not get your panties in a wad.

I will try and help you. First settle down. Then take a breath.

OK this is like your being completely ineffective at anything you try and get through the city council. You are like the Washington Generals of consumer advocancy.

One of the reasons for that is that you are a zealot and idealogue. Because of that you make rash judgements without facts. You also mimic others of your kind, like Maddow. Then when you are wrong your only option is going nuclear and using the race card or attempt to impune someones character. You revel in your rightness but really you look stupid. and you are still wrong. Please embrace your wrongness!! It is the only thing I have seen you do well.     

[bill]

Stevie,

It is truly sad that you have to resort to censor. The last tool of the stupid and desperate. But I guess when that is all you have.... and you are still wrong.

[bill]

I always like when you post Bill.  You perfectly represent your species.

Keep your chin up lil guy. If you listen you might win one someday

[bill]

I always like when you post Bill.  You perfectly represent your species.

Keep your chin up lil guy. If you listen you might win one someday

Ill keep my eyes peeled for that 'winning' opportunity, Mr. L!  You betcha!

That is the spirit lil fella. You cant be wrong all the time

[Ocklawaha]

They were both American Citizens.

Actually no, the oldest one was a resident, and the younger one became an American Citizen.

[Pinky]

He attended the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, not Dartmouth College.

Massive difference!

So massive! Adam.  Scuzzzz!  I guess I totally got burned, right?

My bad, actually.  Weve been pretty busy for the past couple of days ramping up our video and on-air projects for metrojacksonville that Ive really only gotten bits and pieces of the still out of focus picture of the two boys.  TV kept repeating Dartmouth, and I didn't really take a moment to look it up.  Just assumed he was a med student at Geisel.

I guess he was just the average run of the mill failure one usually associates with Medical School.

He wasn't in "Medical School"; the kid is 19 and just graduated from high school, so he's an undergrad student.  Medical School, if he made it that far, comes after one finishes a four year degree.