While you wander, why don't you wonder as well?

Mostly because I find it frankly absurd that western society goes "explosion!? Must be muslims!"

RIP to the 3 and condolences to those who went to cheer on runners and left being unable to run.

So that makes you feel morally better, great, leave the christians out, stick up for the muslims! If you consider that in the last 10 years the majority of terror attacks are done by muslims it isnt that absurd at all, but again i said probably not it was.

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Edited by aussie4ever4: 16/4/2013 02:57:23 PM

Just saw some of the pictures the media won't release.

Fucking hell his leg has literally blown off......

CNN had helicopter video of blood and limbs all over the floor=\

Edited by aussie4ever4: 16/4/2013 03:01:52 PM

Let's hope they catch the people/person who done this in case the attackers have plans for future attacks.

Edited by aussie4ever4: 16/4/2013 03:06:02 PM

Considering in the last 10 years there hasn't been a single muslim terrorist attack on US soil, I'd say your 'probably' is horse shit.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Nah but what about the whole world?

Put up the stats for that, will be interesting.

Edited by aussie4ever4: 16/4/2013 03:33:17 PM

the mrs loves a show called "rizzoli & isles" because she's read all of the books that the show was based on - it's basically just a crime-solver show/books. she's had a couple of series of the shows for a while now, and last week we re-watched a few episodes.

there's one episode that is based around an attempted murder during the boston marathon. the moment i read about all of todays happenings, all i can think of is rizzoli & isles solving the case

/derailment

That data would be irrelevant since we're talking about what's happening in the USA.

I remember watching this Family Guy episode about a week ago.

Don't think it'll be on TV again for awhile.
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well terror is all a matter of perspective....for people in the muslim world, State Terror is just as much an issue as non-state terror. And thats from their own governments and ones outside...like ours...

How is it irrelevant, americans are the target islamic terrorist groups all over the world and at home and have been the target of many recent foreign attacks in Libya, Turkey, the 2010 times square bombing attempt and the Plane bomb plot.

Well that settles it. Seth MacFarlane is obviously the culprit.

If americans are the target then they're not doing a very good job blowing up downtown baghdad are they?

They arnt the only target, but they are certainly a target.

R.I.P to the victims.

A wave of attacks across Iraq, including a brazen car bombing on the way to Baghdad airport, have killed 50 people and injured hundreds more, just days before the country's first elections since US troops withdrew.

The violence, which mostly struck during morning rush hour amid tightened security ahead of the polls, raises further questions about the credibility of the April 20 vote, seen as a key test of Iraq's stability and its security forces' capabilities.

Officials said more than 30 bombings and a shooting hit 12 different areas of Iraq, leaving 50 people dead and nearly 300 injured, making Monday the country's deadliest day since March 19.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Sunni militants linked to Al Qaeda frequently attack both government targets and civilians in a bid to destabilise the country.

They have also reportedly sought to intimidate candidates and election officials ahead of polling.

The deadliest attacks were in Baghdad, where eight bombings struck in seven neighbourhoods across the capital despite tougher checkpoint searches and heightened security.

Among them was a car bomb in a parking area used by vehicles making their way to Baghdad's heavily guarded airport, a rare bombing on the road famously known as "Route Irish".

The airport road was once referred to by American forces as "RPG alley" for the high numbers of attacks there, but it has since become far more secure.


AUDIO: Deadly bomb attacks hit Iraq (The World Today)
"There were several people, buses and private cars in the parking area when the explosion went off," said a man who gave his name as Abu Ali, at the site of the blast.

"It happened all of a sudden, and several people were killed and wounded. Some of the buses went straight to the airport to avoid more attacks."

In all, 30 people were killed and 92 wounded in the capital, officials said.

Sites of the Baghdad attacks were reportedly cordoned off by security forces who barred journalists from filming or taking photos of the aftermath of the bombings.

In Tuz Khurmatu, 175 kilometres north of Baghdad, six people were killed and 67 wounded by three near-simultaneous car bombs, and in Kirkuk, five people were killed and 44 wounded by six more car bombs.

Attacks elsewhere killed nine people and wounded 92 others.

A total of 14 election hopefuls have already been murdered and just 12 of the country's 18 provinces will be taking part in this weekend's vote.

Soldiers and policemen cast their ballots for the provincial elections on Saturday, a week ahead of the main vote, the country's first since March 2010 parliamentary polls.

It is also the first election since US troops withdrew from Iraq in December 2011.

The election also comes amid a long-running crisis between Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and several of his erstwhile government partners, which officials and diplomats say insurgent groups exploit by using the political differences to enhance their room for manoeuvre on the ground.

More than 8,000 candidates are standing in the elections, with 378 seats on provincial councils up for grabs. An estimated 16.2 million Iraqis are eligible to vote.

Although security has markedly improved since the height of Iraq's confessional conflict in 2006-2007, 271 people were killed in March, making it the deadliest month since August, according to AFP figures.

AFP

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-15/bomb-attacks-across-iraq-kill-202c-injure-200/4630608

R.I.P

Seems weird talking so much about the attacks in America when 50 died in Iraq from a bomb.

That might be why. The more something happens, the less 'newsworthy' it is.

Yeah i understand that, just seems weird. Not complaining.

Most likely, statistically speaking, the terrorists are white Americans who are not Muslim.....

If i had a guess I'd say this is most likely an extreme right wing group given it was in Boston (the original home of the tea party) on patriots day and these attacks generally happen on days of significance. But that could just be over speculation and that all means nothing. But really i don't care who did it as long as they get caught and rot in jail.

At the end of the day I'm just happy that my family in Boston wasn't hurt and my deepest thoughts go out to the people who cant say that today.

Yeah, I agree with that.

Kill poor to fix budget, writes lobbyist with Liberal links

April 17, 2013


Heath Aston
Political reporter

An article published by a Liberal Party-aligned think tank that advocates killing off the poorest 20 per cent of Australians as a way to get the budget back on track has been described as a ''disgraceful rant'' by Treasurer Wayne Swan.

A ''modest cull of the enormously poor'' has been suggested by right-wing business lobbyist Toby Ralph in a tongue-in-cheek opinion piece written in reaction to the federal government's attack on the ''fabulously wealthy'' through superannuation taxes.

A modest cull would strike at the root of our fiscal dilemma.

''In contrast to the fabulously rich, the enormously poor make little useful contribution to society,'' wrote Mr Ralph, a long-time Liberal Party campaign strategist.

''They consume more than they contribute, putting tremendous strain on the national budget.

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''A modest cull would strike at the root of our fiscal dilemma. If the least productive 20 per cent of citizens were decommissioned it would directly release a recurrent $25 billion, which would almost cover overspending by the Gillard government between now and September 14th, assuming Mr Swan maintains his long-term average rate of profligacy.

''This bold initiative would rid us of indolent students, hapless single mums, lower-order drug dealers, social workers, performance artists, Greenpeace supporters and the remaining processing personnel in our collapsing yet heavily subsidised manufacturing industries.''

Mr Ralph's bloody prescription for national economic recovery was written strictly as satire, he told Fairfax Media, saying ''some people want to be offended''.

The article ends with a suggestion that the government could recoup the $900 million it will gouge from the rich in super taxes by simply spending within its means for six days - but ''that's clearly just daft'', he wrote.

That has not stopped critics, including Mr Swan, questioning the wisdom of Menzies House publishing the article.

Menzies House was founded by Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, recently sent to the backbench over his comments on same-sex marriage leading to legalised bestiality.

Menzies House stemmed from Senator Bernardi's Conservative Leadership Foundation but he has since insisted he has no active role or editorial influence over it.

Chris Browne, a long-time employee of Senator Bernardi, resigned as editor-in-chief of Menzies House after an anonymous article was posted describing Joe Hockey as incompetent and a stain on the Coalition's reputation as a good economic manager.

Mr Browne was replaced by Tim Andrews, executive director of the Australian Taxpayers' Alliance and a former vice-president of the NSW Young Liberals.

Mr Andrews said of the article: ''It's a satire in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' and, as such, I do not see any cause for persons to be offended.''

The 1729 essay suggested the impoverished Irish could ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for the rich.



Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/kill-poor-to-fix-budget-writes-lobbyist-with-liberal-links-20130416-2hygv.html#ixzz2QfJHJwy1

and yet if it were the reverse SATIRE piece...a leftist adviser advocating a cull of the wealthy to fill the welfare state coffers....that would no doubt illicit a few chuckles from the Labor frontbench :roll:

swan :oops:

Don't be dense, the vast majority of attacks that have gained widespread media coverage in the past decade have always been Islamic extremists or groups sympathetic to them. Is it any wonder why people jump to conclusions?

And recent AQ pronouncements on the use of pressure cookers and targetting sporting events with multiple devices certainly point that way.

It seems like the left really, really, really wanted this to be a fringe right winger so theyd have the basis to further attack constitutional freedoms and demonise opponents. Its really a vicious political cycle over there...freedom is the loser when both sides take turns at attacking liberty. Bizarre.

Its also true there are right orientated people theorising that its radical leftists who've done it, given it was Patriots day and an easy sell to pin it on the right. As great as the web is, the openness of it does mean all sorts of theories are widely floated. Makes an individuals critical faculties or bullshit detectors all the more relevant!

In the past decade there have also been detonations by Israelis, Quebec separatists, american looneys, christian fundamentalists...

Just because you hear hoof beats doesn't automatically mean horses.

Edited by afromanGT: 18/4/2013 02:55:53 AM

And yet... statistically speaking...

Edited by thupercoach: 18/4/2013 07:03:56 AM

Yes but the vast majority shown on TV have been?

.....Islamic extremists.

The Townsville Bulletin had a Boston Bombing Special Edition yesterday.

Front cover was all Red, White and Blue ala America style.

While I feel for those who are lost, that level of pro-America BS is just annoying.

-PB