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Tonight's game in Washington vs. the Jets should be fun. Jets are one back of the Caps for the SE title, and then it's a total shitshow from 9th - 6th (+ the Caps) in the East with all 5 of those teams within 2 points of each other.

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That's the first episode in a long time where I was completely shocked that the hour was up. FANTASTIC stuff. You kind of knew Dany knew what he was saying and was going to fuck shit up, but it was still AWESOME to watch. And you could see the Kingslayer and Brienne relationship kicking off when he ...

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Smartest Man in the World - Jeff Probst. Very liberal, very smart, very funny. Sometimes his references fly over my head, but it's worth the listen.\ This is Greg Proops, not Jeff Probst. Although I 'm certain "Whose Line Is It, Anyway" and "Survivor" are almost the same show. I...

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I suppose you could argue, and argue it well, that it was a hit from behind on a prone player. But "if he was hurt" or "if this" or "if that" don't have any bearing. More of a salt-in-the-wounds moment. I do have a suggested for you though, based on NHL rules *if* you ...

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Mohr Stories (Jay Mohr) - Has become hit or miss, but I'll always tune in to see if the guest is compelling. The Crabfeast - Comedians Ryan Sickler and Jay Larson. I found them through Mohr. I really encourage folks to try them out. They basically just focus on telling funny stories (usually get on ...

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Dammit Sybian, I need fucking closure here!

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Yeah, bloodhounds. It's funny, we have so much high tech gadgetry, yet they had no idea where this kid went, within minutes of his fleeing. Do no police forces have tracking dogs anymore? It seems like that would have been a good idea and possibly could have ended this thing hours earlier. That's a...

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I'm not happy that I'm literally a couple of blocks outside the area where they just finished doing a house-by-house search, and this guy is fleeing by foot ... Just sayin'. Doesn't Ed Romero live in Watertown? Anyone heard from him? As a Boston resident, I thought the discussion between Howard and...

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this is a largely commercialized area. within a mile of where they had the firefight last night. the toyota of watertown on arsenal is where i take my truck. there's also a lexus dealer a little closer to the scene. i imagine those parking lots would provide pretty good cover on the run for him to ...

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Weird. Fox local is saying they see lots of flashes and hear explosions... Not sure what's going on.

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There are a number of "profile" stories coming out now (I read a very long piece on boston.com) saying the older brother was of the angry, domineering sort. There's a lot more to it, but here... http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/19/bombing-suspects-were-local-normal-immigrants/AGztkX...

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I've seen that on Facebook, too, just without the cowering liberal aspect.

My response, "yeah, because what we need now are a bunch of panicked citizens taking shots at everything that moves in their backyard."

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J-lo... I don't know, so this is a legit question... Do the Chechen rebels/terrorists blew themselves up, as a rule? It might be that they've kind of modified the martyr thing a bit, and these kids just picked up on that. Again, not that they were coordinating with them, or were trained by them, bu...

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J-lo... I don't know, so this is a legit question... Do the Chechen rebels/terrorists blew themselves up, as a rule? It might be that they've kind of modified the martyr thing a bit, and these kids just picked up on that. Again, not that they were coordinating with them, or were trained by them, but...

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It just seems extremely bizarre that these seemingly well-adjusted kids just up and decided to pull something like this off on their own. And that's not to say anyone helped them plan it. But planted the seed? Not by any means the first time: http://sportsfrog.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=4130#p4130&q...

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CBS now reporting, with full "we're not sure" caveats, that there WAS a robbery at that 7/11, but these two guys weren't the ones doing the robbing. Only minutiae to most, but I'm still hung up on why these guys would feel the need to rob anyone given the obvious, MASSIVE downside to that ...

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Look, they played the freakin' Bruins game on Wednesday. If their goal was to keep the city/country under some cloud of fear, they would've canceled all public events until further notice. Except that there wasn't currently a manhunt in progress. And at that point, carrying on was the proper course...

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So... Um... I haven't seen it discussed much, but... Devoutly Islamic. Family says they've lost touch with them over the years. You've gotta think the FBI is scouring local mosques to see if there are any signs of radicalism. It just seems extremely bizarre that these seemingly well-adjusted kids ju...

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These two guys are gonna end up psychologically closer to the Columbine murderous freaks than Mohammed Atta devoted jihadist. I loved the uncle's interview. Hopefully it provided him and his family a measure of, um something. But leaving them alone would still be preferable. And I also stipulate th...

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garyclark wrote:Hey Nonlinear, I wasn't making any kind of statement about what I believed was happening in regards to govt/media. Just explaining why they canceled it.

Understood, sorry... I tried to thread that comment in response to a convo howard and I were having.

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Look, they played the freakin' Bruins game on Wednesday. If their goal was to keep the city/country under some cloud of fear, they would've canceled all public events until further notice. Instead, we got one of the most moving and iconic sports moments since Chicago Hawks fans blew the roof off aft...

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And, you know... I wonder if this kid is somewhere watching TV thinking, geez, Auntie, Uncle. STFU.

One is saying the evidence is staged by the FBI, the other is calling him a loser.

Crazy like a fox?

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One of the main reasons they have the city on lockdown is that they don't want this kid to be able to mix into any kind of crowd to escape. You turn traffic and the T back on, and now he's got some cover (potentially.)

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Everyone in Los Angeles went on to work/school. We don't know (as I said); we will know with time. Just sayin'--the terrorism worked. And no, no conspiracy theory is necessary to make this judgment; so keep that straw man for another time. Those same armored personnel carriers and helicopters were ...

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Steve, the media is a huge part of this process. The news channels directly profit from fear (to overly simplify). AB, frankly all I know about the actual degree of 'locked-down ness' is what the media has told me. Over and over and over. Again,media is a huge part in the propagation of disproporti...

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There is a level of overreaction for sure. But a few things seems almost necessary given that they were in a manhunt this morning. 1)All roads out closed/monitored. Trunk checks, etc. at a bare minimum. 2) All places where a guy could blend in also put a large number of people in immediate danger i...

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In the take it for what it's worth category: CBS reporting that one of Jahar's classmates hung out with him YESTERDAY on UMass campus at some point between 11am-noon. The talked for 10 minutes, he got a ride from Jahar across campus, and then the parted ways. No sign, at all, that anything was amiss...

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I'm reposting something I dropped on some friends in another forum. * Why didn't these guys flee? Could they possibly have thought, with all the coverage showing the thousands of cameras shown on the news, that they weren't going to be found out? Even if their initial plan was to (naively) feel like...

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The two uncles that were tracked down by CBS are from Montgomery Village, a suburb of DC up near where I live (kind of). For folks vaguely familiar with MD suburbs, it's essentially Gaithersburg, just north of Rockville. (Shady Grove Metro stop.) Nothing earth shattering, just thought some of you wh...

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There's an awesome clip floating around of a marlin jumping onto a boat and FUCKING SHIT UP. Hold on, I'll look for it. Search term: "marlin fucking shit up on a boat" First return: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaJNXnH1_g" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (Turn i...

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govmentchedda wrote:Blue Jays will fuck your shit up. Cardinals, not so much, unless we're talking kiddie diddling.

I have a great story about my cat fucking up a blue jay, but it's too long and off topic.

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On the one hand, the big problem is that a 3 syllable nickname is inherently problematic, unless... it provides an easy way to turn it into a one syllable thing you can shout (Hurricanes, on first blush, is terrible, but you can just say 'Canes and it's now OK.) Let's go Pels! Nope. That said, I lov...

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The stuff about authorities having prior knowledge because there were bomb sniffing dogs, coming from the Mobile University (??) x-country coach are about is thin and useless as anything I've seen in the aftermath. But the two dudes who totally look like ex-military? Would love to know their back st...

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tennbengal wrote:
howard wrote:Good on ya, bengal. There's nothing to fear but fear itself.
And crazy people. And bombs. And stink bugs. And a few other things. But, fear too, perhaps.

Cicadas.

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That final scene was awesome. I hate HATE hate any kind of stuff that messes with people's eyes. It's pretty much the one thing in movies I have trouble not turning away from. So, when he pulled the knife back, I was so relieved. And then, WHAM! And I loved the Hold Steady song. Thought it was a pre...

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I dunno man. They don't have an underground garage? They've got to scare the shit out of hundreds of people, not just here but also a local hospital?

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Dammit. And that was funny, too.

Sorry rass! Didn't mean to be a "the jokes not funny if you have to explain it" buzz kill guy.

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rass wrote:CNN's liveblog does not mention the bomb threat at the courthouse, but does have this note:

[Updated at 2:23 p.m. ET] As news of an arrest spreads, a crowd has been gathering outside a federal courthouse in Boston.

Wait, for real?

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"Very close" according to this article. Here's the thing, unnamed official. Shut. The. Fuck. Up. How in the world does your desire to play some role in this investigation lead you to think that getting ahead of the FBI on this is a good idea? There's just no way this helps, on any level. ...

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As much as I hate surveillance, I really hope they find some footage of the asshole responsible planting the bombs. I'm trying to figure out how they DON'T have this. There were so many cameras focused on that area. My hope is that they haven't scratched the surface of video evidence, and are just ...

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