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Marathon Killers Apprehended: the Aftermath

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Patman said:
The only thing I've learned at best is that Williams-Sonoma sells pressure cookers and either run by geniuses (for telling the world they sell pressure cookers)
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Gosh, you don't suppose that's what they had in mind all along?
 
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Little Leaguers march in a parade honoring Martin Richard.
 
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Priceless said:
I could make a ton of explosives using every day household chemicals (not that I plan to, Officer Mike!) which haven't been banned yet. If people really want a lesson in how to make explosives, just Netflix a few seasons of MacGyver or tune in to MythBusters or a half dozen other shows that are on the air today. The original ABC News story had a diagram showing how the pressure cooker bombs were made. It was removed when someone pointed out that educating wannabe terrorists probably shouldn't be the goal of the news division.
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This. You don't need to go to Afghanistan for 6 months to learn how to make a bomb. You need 10 minutes and YouTube.

And the GENIUS of taking pressure cookers off the shelves right after the gun control bill was...shot down...is beyond laughable. If someone goes on a spree of killing people with their shoelaces, everyone's gonna be wearing loafers while exercising their 2nd amendment rights.
 
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Love how they are saying speedbumps mother was put on the watch list because of speedbump, BS, she was put on there because she is crazy and would put a bomb under her burka in a heartbeat
 
walrus said:
Love how they are saying speedbumps mother was put on the watch list because of speedbump, BS, she was put on there because she is crazy and would put a bomb under her burka in a heartbeat
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She sounds too self-absorbed for that... But otherwise I think that's more or less right... Wouldn't put material support past her
 
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walrus said:
Love how they are saying speedbumps mother was put on the watch list because of speedbump, BS, she was put on there because she is crazy and would put a bomb under her burka in a heartbeat
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hopefully one with a short fuse.

sis, boom, burka
 
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Dude Love said:
This. You don't need to go to Afghanistan for 6 months to learn how to make a bomb. You need 10 minutes and YouTube.

And the GENIUS of taking pressure cookers off the shelves right after the gun control bill was...shot down...is beyond laughable. If someone goes on a spree of killing people with their shoelaces, everyone's gonna be wearing loafers while exercising their 2nd amendment rights.
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After 9/11 Starbucks got hammered into submission by idiots concerned about a company promotion which featured two silos with dragon flies buzzing around. The idiots thought the silos looked like the twin towers and the dragonflies. . .well, you can guess. Starbucks ultimately cancelled the promotion, because idiots are apparently a key demographic for the company.
 
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Old Pio said:
After 9/11 Starbucks got hammered into submission by idiots concerned about a company promotion which featured two silos with dragon flies buzzing around. The idiots thought the silos looked like the twin towers and the dragonflies. . .well, you can guess. Starbucks ultimately cancelled the promotion, because idiots are apparently a key demographic for the company.
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Jeebus...

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dxmnkd316 said:
Jeebus...

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Meh, some people thought the 2nd Lord of the Rings movie was attempting to capitalize on 9/11 because of the "The Two Towers" title. Never mind that the book of the same name was written during WWII.

People in general are idiots.
 
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unofan said:
Meh, some people thought the 2nd Lord of the Rings movie was attempting to capitalize on 9/11 because of the "The Two Towers" title. Never mind that the book of the same name was written during WWII.

People in general are idiots.
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I know, but I don't even know how someone could correlate that ad with 9/11. I guess I could see the LotR connection if someone wasn't aware of the series, but the Starbucks ad? Seems like a stretch even by the idiot standard :p
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
I know, but I don't even know how someone could correlate that ad with 9/11. I guess I could see the LotR connection if someone wasn't aware of the series, but the Starbucks ad? Seems like a stretch even by the idiot standard :p
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You underestimate the PC police greatly. Smart move by Starbuck's...
 
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Slate

It’s been 10 days since Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were identified as the Boston Marathon bombers. In that time, three of the nation’s leading newspapers—the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times—have dispatched teams of reporters to dig into the family’s background and the sons’ radicalization. This weekend, all three papers published extensive articles. Here’s a summary of the most intriguing patterns and conflicts they found.

1. Theft and lawbreaking. By now, most of us have heard that the bombers’ mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, was arrested last year for shoplifting and destruction of property. This weekend’s stories confirm that the charge was a felony, that the quoted value of the merchandise was $1,600, and that the owner of the property was Lord & Taylor, the same company whose security cameras captured the bombers at the marathon. As many as nine dresses were involved in the theft, according to the Post. Zubeidat left the country before the case was resolved, so a warrant remains out for her arrest.

Now it turns out that the bombers’ father might be a shoplifter, too. Anzor Tsarnaev fixed cars for a living. “Sometimes, when he needed parts, he would show up at Nissenbaum’s Auto, a nearby parts and repair shop,” the Post reports. “Several times, workers said, Anzor went into the parts yard to find a bracket or screw and emerged offering to pay a small sum for a handful of items. But employees would see his pockets stuffed. Confronted, they say, he admitted picking up a few other meager items.” The Post cites other stories in which Anzor bent laws or ethics. He “obtained cars in bad shape, made cosmetic fixes and then sold those vehicles for a profit,” the article reports. A neighbor says Anzor “regularly threw his trash in neighbors’ recycling bins despite being asked to stop, filled precious spaces in this parking-starved city with cars he was working on, and claimed a 10-minute loading zone as his all-day storage space.” These are petty offenses, but what stands out in the neighbor’s account is Anzor’s imperviousness to reproach: “No matter how many times people told him it wasn’t right, he did it anyway.”

We’ve all heard that Dzhokhar was a pothead. But the Los Angeles Times says that according to his friends, he also regularly sold the drug. His sister Bella may have done the same: The Post reports that in December, she was arrested and charged with intent to distribute marijuana.

These infractions are nothing like terrorism. But a family with two shoplifting parents and two pot-selling kids is, on its face, a family with a culture of bending or breaking the law. Zubeidat’s flight from justice, coupled with that line about Anzor—“No matter how many times people told him it wasn’t right, he did it anyway”—doesn’t suggest a lot of remorse, either. The family culture doesn’t explain the bombing. But it’s hard to believe that it’s entirely unrelated.
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Much more at link
 
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Not that I feel sorry for that family in any sort of way, but that story reminds me more of that Mike Birbiglia joke about the New Jersey traffic stop, where the cop says, "Hey, you look poor. Pull over and we'll figure out what laws you've broken."
 
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