I've come to a conclusion: This was perpetrated by Muslim Libertarian Seth MacFarlane fans who take cats upstairs! :mad: :p
Anyway, jokes aside, that's an interesting (for the lack of a better word) phenomenon, Woty, and it's called Funny Aneurysm. Given the amount of cultural output nowadays, some of these things are inevitable. That's why, in the link posted above your post, people say The Dark Night Rises may have predicted the Colorado cinema shootings. Except in this particular case it's anything but funny, but the point stands.
wotyzoid
Yeah, crazy coincidence. He even blows up two bombs on the phone.
PivotTechno
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This one is interesting.
My neighbors and I gathered to talk about recent events while looking up at the helicopters that dotted the sky. The smokers went looking for cigarettes, the drinkers went looking for beer, the coffee-drinkers were cheered to hear that every Dunkin' Donuts would be open and set off for the one on the corner...and we all very voluntarily did what had been asked of us: stay off the streets, don't travel, and don't open your door for anyone who you don't know and who doesn't have a badge.
But guess what? Tony, one of my upstairs neighbors, hopped on his motorcycle and went to work. Bill, another of my upstairs neighbors, hopped in his car and motored right out of town. I went for a walk on two separate occasions, and when I did, I saw lots of other people also out and about, walking dogs or just enjoying what actually happened to be the nicest day of the year so far.
None of us were arrested, detained, or threatened, and we were smack-dab in the middle of the so-called "lock-down" zone.
And the Dunkin' Donuts was open.
And the Tedeschi's was open.
And the local pub was open.
And the sub shop was open.
And there were cars driving by.
Contrary to a number of addle-brained pontifications offered by people who have never set foot in the 617 area code, we were not "cowering in our homes," and Boston was not transformed into a "police state," and it was not "martial law." The governor asked us to stay inside - there was a bomber on the loose who made his own bombs, several of which were thrown out the window of a car during a miles-long shoot-out, so maybe there was also unexploded ordnance in the streets between where the brothers started running and where they stopped, and maybe the surviving brother had more such explosives with him, along with the gun he used to shoot at police in a well-recorded battle - and so we did.
How is it a police state if all the Dunkin' Donuts were open? Fascists need caffeine, too?
Or maybe it was voluntary, a city-wide community action. We're pretty good at that here in Boston. We get huge snowstorms every winter, and our public officials always ask us to remain indoors and not to drive so they can clean it up. When the blizzard hit in February, our public officials asked us to stay inside and off the roads. They were the exact same public officials who asked us to stay inside on Friday...and gloriosky! It worked!
I had a beer at my local on Saturday with a guy who lives next door to the house where they found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev bleeding out in the boat. He showed me a picture of the boat taken from his bedroom window. When a toast was raised to the way Boston law enforcement handled the situation, his was the first pint in the air.
That happened because I live here. I know better than you, and he knows better than me, how all this went down.
Work that into your argument about the people getting screwed by the police on Friday. Go ahead, I'll wait.
I have some bad news for those who think they are battering down the walls of fascism and authoritarianism by fostering and spreading what in reality is nothing more or less than misinformation and angst regarding the situation in Boston. You've joined a pretty rotten and disreputable club.
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Guess what, you intrepid sleuths with your theories about the "police state" in Boston and "martial law" and Miranda? That's you, too. You're just as bad as CNN and MSNBC. You're in the same chapter of this story, titled How I Spent A Week In April Making A Fool Of Myself In Front Of Everybody. Comes the cry, "But but but we're just trying to get to the truth!" No, you're not. You are masturbating in public, and you are using our city and our experience as lube. You are short-stroking the idea that you are a constitutional scholar, terrorism expert, law enforcement expert, ballistics expert, Chechen expert, lawyer, doctor, sociologist, psychologist and seer all at once, and I know it feels really good, because you can't stop no matter how many times you get the facts wrong.
Vivid Boy
So Osama has released a video, with megatron
Lira
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No, it isn't.
Wow, I thought it was just an unfortunate coincidence, and didn't bother checking. What the hell is wrong with people? :wtf:
Also, I'm lucky there are very few truthers among my Facebook friends. But the few that are never fail to amaze me: What makes them think grainy pics on the internet are enough to solve complicated crimes!? Some of the things they say are so out-there it hurts.
