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sweetbac
Apr 15, 2013, 6:27:58 PM4/15/13
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Just hearing about this now...anyone heard from
Neil X or the Nantucket Nitwit??
I imagine they might be in harms way if a pub crawl was
targeted instead of the Boston Marathon.
Neil X or the Nantucket Nitwit??
I imagine they might be in harms way if a pub crawl was
targeted instead of the Boston Marathon.
wereoawl
Apr 15, 2013, 8:06:32 PM4/15/13
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"sweetbac" <swee...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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I love Boston. I have friends there too.
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sweetbac
Apr 15, 2013, 8:14:50 PM4/15/13
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"schizoawl" <calja...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> I love Boston. I have friends there too.
Now hush, fool.
dr.narcolepsy
Apr 15, 2013, 8:22:52 PM4/15/13
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sweetbac
Apr 15, 2013, 8:53:51 PM4/15/13
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"dr.narcolepsy" <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote in message
Jeez....I dont open blind links, and I open THIS!!
I guess I'll wait to eat dinner.
Edwin Hurwitz
Apr 15, 2013, 10:55:05 PM4/15/13
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probably carry psychological damage for some time), but damn, this is fucked up.
trb...@frontier.com
Apr 16, 2013, 2:11:17 AM4/16/13
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On Monday, April 15, 2013 9:55:05 PM UTC-5, edwin wrote:
> Way fucked up. The block where this went down was my daily hang in high school. I had friends and family all within the vicinity, luckily they're all OK (although the ones who were up close will
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> probably carry psychological damage for some time), but damn, this is fucked up.
What sort of person (using the term liberally)
> Way fucked up. The block where this went down was my daily hang in high school. I had friends and family all within the vicinity, luckily they're all OK (although the ones who were up close will
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> probably carry psychological damage for some time), but damn, this is fucked up.
would do such a thing?
Tom "Ain't it just like the night"
Edwin Hurwitz
Apr 16, 2013, 2:49:16 AM4/16/13
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iL_WeReo
Apr 16, 2013, 3:34:10 AM4/16/13
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Walter Karmazyn
Apr 17, 2013, 12:03:49 AM4/17/13
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Bombings? Some Initial Clues" which offers up some interesting ideas.
Here's a bit of it, with a link to the entire article below. Worth the
read, and like you, I hope we find out just who....
Who might use such a device? The first possibility would be individuals
following al-Qaeda’s recipe, imagining themselves to be furthering its
goals by carrying out a “do-it-yourself” attack. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula has been publishing “open-source jihad” instructions and ideas
for how to commit low-level terrorist attacks, and Westerners hoping to
participate in the “jihad” are urged to carry it out at home. It’s too
risky to travel to Pakistan to get trained; jihadist volunteers are too
likely to get caught. Instead, volunteers are urged to carry out their own
low-level, leaderless attacks.
But leaderless resistance actually has its origins in American
antigovernment groups, which is the second possibility. The concept was
first introduced in the 1980s in a magazine called Survivalist Alert. It
was then popularized by neo-Nazis on websites like Stormfront and later
picked up by groups affiliated with al-Qaeda.
************
The rest of the article explores that second possibility.
http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/16/whos-behind-the-boston-bombings-some-initial-clues/
W
Neil X.
Apr 17, 2013, 11:55:39 AM4/17/13
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Hi All,
I gotta say, an attack like this takes on a different level of
significance when something like this happens in one's own back yard.
I've read thousands of words about other tragedies of much greater
magnitude: the World Trade Center, hurricanes in NOLA, mass murders at
Virginia Tech, Columbine and Newtown, CT. Much greater carnage in all
of these cases, but when it happens on a street I've walked down 200
(500?) times, it hits at a different emotional level.
My wife walked a mile across the Seaport District on Monday so that
she could drive home with me instead of trying to take the subway
home. The Green Line was closed, and the Orange and Red Lines were
bypassing the downtown stops--Downtown Crossing and Park Street. Our
commute home from work this evening was disrupted by a terrorist
attack. It was a tiny inconvenience, pretty much the only impact the
attack had on us personally. But having Homeland Security involved in
your daily routine is unnerving.
Copley Square is still closed, which is amazing, the number of
businesses that have been unable to continue to open up since the
attack. Gotta be tens of millions of dollars in lost revenues. But
as far as I can see, there is little fear here, and I trust there is
none in your town either. It takes a lot more than a couple of
pressure cookers to scare Americans. Cry no tears for Boston. The
city was fine today. Folks seemed to be extra polite to each other on
the subway so far this week. Just being good people. Yeah, Boylston
St. is still a crime scene, and Copley Station on the Green Line is
closed indefinitely, but life goes on. It is a good thing.
I gotta say, an attack like this takes on a different level of
significance when something like this happens in one's own back yard.
I've read thousands of words about other tragedies of much greater
magnitude: the World Trade Center, hurricanes in NOLA, mass murders at
Virginia Tech, Columbine and Newtown, CT. Much greater carnage in all
of these cases, but when it happens on a street I've walked down 200
(500?) times, it hits at a different emotional level.
My wife walked a mile across the Seaport District on Monday so that
she could drive home with me instead of trying to take the subway
home. The Green Line was closed, and the Orange and Red Lines were
bypassing the downtown stops--Downtown Crossing and Park Street. Our
commute home from work this evening was disrupted by a terrorist
attack. It was a tiny inconvenience, pretty much the only impact the
attack had on us personally. But having Homeland Security involved in
your daily routine is unnerving.
Copley Square is still closed, which is amazing, the number of
businesses that have been unable to continue to open up since the
attack. Gotta be tens of millions of dollars in lost revenues. But
as far as I can see, there is little fear here, and I trust there is
none in your town either. It takes a lot more than a couple of
pressure cookers to scare Americans. Cry no tears for Boston. The
city was fine today. Folks seemed to be extra polite to each other on
the subway so far this week. Just being good people. Yeah, Boylston
St. is still a crime scene, and Copley Station on the Green Line is
closed indefinitely, but life goes on. It is a good thing.
Edwin Hurwitz
Apr 17, 2013, 6:07:58 PM4/17/13
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sweetbac
Apr 17, 2013, 9:08:18 PM4/17/13
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"Neil X." <nei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> Cry no tears for Boston. The city was fine today.
> Folks seemed to be extra polite to each other on
> the subway so far this week. Just being good people.
I got a call from my old runnin' pardner, Sully...
kid said he gave his krewe the nite off from pick-pocketing
the tourists in Copley Square and rolling the drunks on the red line.
<stares eastward>
wereoawl
Apr 18, 2013, 8:57:26 AM4/18/13
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"sweetbac" <swee...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Neil X.
Apr 19, 2013, 12:26:51 AM4/19/13
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On Apr 17, 6:07 pm, Edwin Hurwitz <ed...@indra.com> wrote:
You must have grown up rich, if that was your 'hood.
Things are pretty much all open now. City is bustling, and ready for
the Sox game and Broonz game simultaneously tomorrow. We had dinner
tonight at the Boston Beer Works, across the street from Fenway Park,
and drove down Mass. Ave. past Boylston St. on our way home. Berklee
had been closed for the past 3 days, but was open today, and it was
pretty much a mob scene. If I hadn't been so happy to see the city a
block frorm ground zero so vibrant, I would have been irritated by the
usual mobs of jaywalking pedestrians.
Peace,
Neil X.
Peace,
Neil X.
Things are pretty much all open now. City is bustling, and ready for
the Sox game and Broonz game simultaneously tomorrow. We had dinner
tonight at the Boston Beer Works, across the street from Fenway Park,
and drove down Mass. Ave. past Boylston St. on our way home. Berklee
had been closed for the past 3 days, but was open today, and it was
pretty much a mob scene. If I hadn't been so happy to see the city a
block frorm ground zero so vibrant, I would have been irritated by the
usual mobs of jaywalking pedestrians.
Peace,
Neil X.
Peace,
Neil X.
Edwin Hurwitz
Apr 19, 2013, 3:53:46 AM4/19/13
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early 60s. Now, not so much.
Walter Karmazyn
Apr 19, 2013, 10:24:02 AM4/19/13
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you'll keep us posted with a local perspective.
W
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B
Apr 19, 2013, 5:15:05 PM4/19/13
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. Berklee
> had been closed for the past 3 days, but was open today, and it was
> pretty much a mob scene.
My 16 yo son is going to a 5 week program there this summer. Drums. Kid
> had been closed for the past 3 days, but was open today, and it was
> pretty much a mob scene.
lives jazz drumming. Freaks me out how good he is. Thought the school was
on Mass Ave, a few blocks from Copley. I went to BU but my mind map isn't
as clear as it wasn't in 1980.
Edwin Hurwitz
Apr 19, 2013, 9:58:23 PM4/19/13
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an apartment on the corner of Boylston and Mass Ave when he first moved to Boston in the 50s and it was like that then. Made for a colorful breakfast at the drug store on the corner of Hemenway and
Boylston. All that's gone now. Even the Bumblebee Bookstore and Joe and his amazing breakdancing dog (the source for the Real Books. Still got my 15th edition).
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