Boston Marathon - explosion

chadwick

says those two guys are, one, a high school athlete who is a runner who works at a shoe store selling running shoes & the other dude is his running coach

chadwick

middle eastern dudes are fucking jammed up big freakin time. totally unfair & ignorant. but that's the united states, totally unfair & ignorant.

JimmyV

polaris_x wrote:

JimmyV wrote:

Listen, we can go back and forth like this all day but doing so is not going to keep this thread on track. I never said you had a racial prejudice, I said you have a prejudice against Americans. I think your words proved that pretty clearly. I used race as an example to show you why. And if someone linked to a study that said 6 out of 10 brown people in a particular demographic were unable to do something, and then touted that as proof that a majority of brown people were unable to do it, I do think you would absolutely say they had a racial prejudice. Yours isn't racial, but a prejudice against Americans is still a prejudice. You were throwing stones from inside a big glass house yesterday.

again ... if it is factually correct - how is it a prejudice? ... i'm sorry you don't like what that fact implies and i'm also sorry you are so sensitive to my viewpoints ... feel free to prove anything i wrote wrong ... i will gladly detract ... simple as that ...

One more time...you never proved what you wrote was factually correct. You "proved" that 6 out of 10 18-24 year olds could not, and you called that "most Americans". And then you followed the most Americans line up with the line about beating up any brown people we could find. Following point one to point two, it is not hard to conclude you were saying most Americans were out beating up brown people. It isn't about me being sensitive, it is about you blaming an entire country for the actions and deficiencies of a few. It wouldn't be OK if you were doing that about brown people, it is not OK to do it about Americans.

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Jason P wrote:

the wolf wrote:

Jason P wrote:

NY Post = TMZ

I'm betting TMZ's hit/miss record would be better though.

probably ... they may be better then Fox and CNN at this point ....

Speaking of which ... if John King worked for Fox News ... I think the outrage thread for what he reported yesterday would be at page 56 right now. :geek:

I agree.

g under p

With Boston being my former hometown as a youth this brought me to tears from the Bruins game last night.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzMsagY7oRs

Peace

JimmyV

g under p wrote:

With Boston being my former hometown as a youth this brought me to tears from the Bruins game last night.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzMsagY7oRs

Peace

It was beautiful last night. I knew it would be emotional but that was amazing.

Godfather.

chadwick wrote:

middle eastern dudes are fucking jammed up big freakin time. totally unfair & ignorant. but that's the united states, totally unfair & ignorant.

"once bitten twice shy"

Godfather.

JimmyV

If it turns out these are the two guys - and we don't even know if these really are the two who are being sought yet - then it is neither ignorant nor unfair.

Thinking that deliberately blowing up a crowd of spectators at a road race is going to further whatever goal you hoped to further is ignorant.

Godfather.

JimmyV wrote:

ofthegirl99 wrote:

Well, the NY post just implicated these two. Why is it that the NY post looks like a gossip site?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/f ... wmysU42scJ

No one else seems to have it yet. Hmmm...skeptical.

While federal law enforcement officials consider releasing images of one or possibly two persons of interest in the Boston Marathon bombings, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday that the FBI wants to speak with two men seen in at least one video from the race.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/18/ob ... z2QpNehxbK

maybe the same video/picture ?


Godfather.

Jeanwah

gimmesometruth27

Jeanwah wrote:

sadly this is the state of the american media.

the international pages like the guardian have not been wrong this entire time, while major "sources" like the ny post and fox, and even cnn have been wrong time and again. someone should be fired over those errors.

polaris_x

JimmyV wrote:

One more time...you never proved what you wrote was factually correct. You "proved" that 6 out of 10 18-24 year olds could not, and you called that "most Americans". And then you followed the most Americans line up with the line about beating up any brown people we could find. Following point one to point two, it is not hard to conclude you were saying most Americans were out beating up brown people. It isn't about me being sensitive, it is about you blaming an entire country for the actions and deficiencies of a few. It wouldn't be OK if you were doing that about brown people, it is not OK to do it about Americans.

good grief ... if that stat isn't good enough for you ... what do you want me to do? ... do you really think most americans can find iraq on a map? ... do you honestly?

following one point to another ... i believe that is the definition of projection ...

AGAIN - i'm not too sure how many times I need to repeat this but I suspect that you lack anything else so you continue to repeat the same faulty accusation ... at no point do i ever claim all americans are morons who are going after brown people ... it's simply not even possible to believe that ...

either way - the fact i need to keep re-iterating something that is clearly written means we are not getting anywhere ...

let me know when you want to discuss the potential violation of civil liberties because of faulty and unnecessary reporting ... i'll be happy to discuss it ... but if all you care about is defending some nationalistic pride and jumping on me for things I never said - feel free to do that as well ...

Guitar92player

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

This pretty much sums it up

Jeanwah

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

Jeanwah wrote:

sadly this is the state of the american media.

the international pages like the guardian have not been wrong this entire time, while major "sources" like the ny post and fox, and even cnn have been wrong time and again. someone should be fired over those errors.

What you say proves that reading / viewing international news over American mainstream media makes a whole lot more sense.

JonnyPistachio

Ok, I've heard some silly poles that say half of the people counldnt find Madegascar on a map... blah blah blah...
yes, there are some uneducated folks who might not know. maybe there's a lot. But the majority of people I know, know exactly where Iraq is on a map. Especially since Georgie Bush's dumb ass blew it up in 2003.

How did this thread go from a terrible tragedy in Boston to bickering over how stupid american are? Give it a rest. :roll:

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Jeanwah wrote:

That's funny. I applaud that artist. Good stuff.

polaris_x

JonnyPistachio wrote:

Ok, I've heard some silly poles that say half of the people counldnt find Madegascar on a map... blah blah blah...
yes, there are some uneducated folks who might not know. maybe there's a lot. But the majority of people I know, know exactly where Iraq is on a map. Especially since Georgie Bush's dumb ass blew it up in 2003.

How did this thread go from a terrible tragedy in Boston to bickering over how stupid american are? Give it a rest. :roll:

my topic was about the violation of civil liberties ... instead of discussing that - people focused on some stats i put forth ... i could write a noble prize winning essay on the impacts of terror on civil liberties but if I say one bad thing about americans - that's all anyone focuses on ... sort of like you and florida ...

JonnyPistachio

polaris_x wrote:

JonnyPistachio wrote:

Ok, I've heard some silly poles that say half of the people counldnt find Madegascar on a map... blah blah blah...
yes, there are some uneducated folks who might not know. maybe there's a lot. But the majority of people I know, know exactly where Iraq is on a map. Especially since Georgie Bush's dumb ass blew it up in 2003.

How did this thread go from a terrible tragedy in Boston to bickering over how stupid american are? Give it a rest. :roll:

my topic was about the violation of civil liberties ... instead of discussing that - people focused on some stats i put forth ... i could write a noble prize winning essay on the impacts of terror on civil liberties but if I say one bad thing about americans - that's all anyone focuses on ... sort of like you and florida ...

Hey! leave Florida out of this!
btw, some lady pulled up in a fancy caddy a few days ago with NY plates and asked if I knew any good restaurants.
I sent her to Outback to spite you. :P

polaris_x

JonnyPistachio wrote:

Hey! leave Florida out of this!
btw, some lady pulled up in a fancy caddy a few days ago with NY plates and asked if I knew any good restaurants.
I sent her to Outback to spite you. :P

Indifference

I didn't vote for him the 2nd time around but well done Mr. President, well done indeed.