You may have heard that an explosion was detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon
Curiously, it happened after the runner from Africa crossed the finish line, so the SPLC probably won’t try to blame this on neo-nazi white Christian anti-abortion tea party Glenn Beck loving skin heads. Probably.
So what country is the Nobel Peace Prize winner going to bomb now? Syria? North Korea? Freedonia?
America. No kidding. All is going according to the Plan.
The UK had a decades of street, car and pub bombings and during those decades even the police didn’t carry guns.
Massachusetts, like the UK has very strict gun laws.
I do not mean to imply that the tragic bombings today were a result of gun laws in Massachusetts.
Instead, I mean to show that whether in the UK or in Massachusetts, the problem is angry people and a world with no guns will not be a safer world, just one with more freedoms criminalized.
Obama is an angry man.
Latest report is police are searching an apartment in Revere, a diverse suburb of Boston
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revere,_Massachusetts
Revere is the terminus of the MBTA’s Blue line. All week we’ve been talking about Chicago’s Blue line and the MBTA – coincidence?
http://www.mbta.com/uploadedfiles/Documents/Schedules_and_Maps/Subway/Rapid%20Map.pdf
The Blue Line is only a couple stops between Revere and Logan Airport – the airport from which the 9/11 attack was launched. Probably just a coincidence
In Jayna Davis’ investigation of the OK City bombing there was ME/Arab looking guy that eye-witnesses saw getting out of a 20-foot Ryder rental truck parked in front of the Murrah Federal Building….23 eye-witnesses who placed Timothy McVeigh and the ME/Arab looking guy together.
Funny thing…..a PI tracked down the guy…..he had a job at Logan Airport.
Probably just a coincidence.
Would you ride a blue line with Red Sox?
Totally unrelated – the City of Chicago announced a deal to rebuild Wrigley Field, putting up more advertising displays. The World Series is now just around the corner
Finally, some good news……
Super Bowl is coming too. Republican Gov Christie through NJTransit is spending $2.5 million to make is easier for a few thousand people to take a train ride to and from the game.
If he helps 5,000 people, that is $500 per Super Bowl ticket… bet the fans would rather take a limo to the game.
I wonder – why not just two stops at that station that day one for the front and one for the back of the train, but it is not my $2.5 million…. oh wait! yes it is!
forgot this
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/03/before_it_can_be_super_meadowl.html
I know a piece of the answer – there are several stations on the New York to New Haven line where the platform is too short for the trains – Stratford is one for certain. If you get on in New York and plan to get off there, you have to know to walk forward in the train when you board the train in Grand Central. People who don’t know that get a last minute warning that “the doors on only the first 4 cars will open” which is useless information since riders have no way of knowing how many cars are in the train ahead of them
Note the expansion is at the Secaucus Junction station, not the Meadowlands. There is a much better example if this in Pittsburgh – I’ll try to dredge up the details
My local train station is that way too – too short for the trains. I am not sure when the train station was built, but the line itself was built in the early 1800s.
Under President Obama, there was a study about restoring commuter service west to Allentown, PA. The study concluded that there would be about 1000 daily riders. If they each paid $100 per day, more than the price of a taxi and much more than the price of existing bus service, the line would lost money. Somehow, despite the crazy tarp spending, they decided not to spend the $700,000.00 per passenger to restore the service.
If you want a fascinating tour of an abandoned train station that had been in service until the 1970s and would presumably be part of that restoration, this is your link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi0oA-sIVbQ
The North Shore Connector is a one mile tunnel under the Allegheny River connecting Gateway Center with the North Shore, which has Heinz Field and more importantly – the empty casino that was going to bring prosperity back to Pittsburgh.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/transportation/north-shore-connector-timeline-333834/
This is not a “subway” in the big city sense – it is a trolley (LRV) that runs through a hole in the ground. I think they can couple two of them together, but they have only a small fraction of the capacity.
During the first big weekend, there was a concert at Heinz Field. Taking people to an event is much easier than when an event ends. People arrive spread out but all want to get on at once when the game / concert is over.
Well, the Port Authority (PAT) had basically closed for the night. People stood on the platform for two hours waiting for a train to show up. Pat blamed the transit union, the union blamed PAT management.
The root cause of all this goes back to the early 1960s. Allegheny County outlawed the operation of buses by other than the newly formed PAT. That forced anyone who wanted to drive a bus to work for PAT and be a member of the union.
Pittsburgh at the time had an extensive streetcar system and a very busy downtown. There was minimal parking downtown – everyone rode public transit.
With a captive ridership and taxpayer subsidy, the union was empowered to hold several strikes, despite being some of the best paid workers in town. With people unable to get to work, they found alternatives. They bought cars, more parking lots were built, South Hills Village opened to move shopping away from downtown. Ridership plummeted, metro Pittsburgh lost 400,000 in population. Families (like mine) were fed up with the taxes and corruption and moved away.
I believe Chicago in the South Chicago part of the city had removed some rails and paved the rail bed for motor vehicles and had used them for buses. That makes sense to me. Whenever I see even a crowded train, I wonder how many more people could be served by that same land if it were re-purposed for automobiles.
CTA reference in comments
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/04/rethinking-subway-seating/
New York and Chicago are very different systems. I was reading a FAQ just the other day on this.
Chicago cars have to be shorter because of legacy tight curves – so cars have only three sets of doors, not 4 like in New York.
New York is way over capacity, especially the Lexington line. Commuter rail carries more of the load in Chicago, spread over 5 stations downtown.
It’s extremely rare to have to stand up on the “L” in Chicago.
Ribbon, we NEED a new ribbon to deal with this. OK, a ribbion, a Facebook page and, and a series of tweets!
How do we FURTHER elevate the First Responders beyond their saintly-overpaid-union perch – here we go.
One of the more pathetic things I read was a woman who saw some cosmic symbolism between the 26 mile race and the 26 people murdered in Connecticut.
Speaking of CT, Don Imus finally sold his home in CT for $14.4 million – he had tried to sell it in 2005 for $30 million. Don’t feel too badly for him – he paid $4.6 million in 1997. I hope he didn’t take out a $20 million mortgage though
Maybe it’s time to ban American intrusion in the Middle East. Maybe it’s time to ban unfettered support (both financial and moral)for Israel. Maybe it’s time to ban Saudi oil love.
Here is a start – announce that we won’t tolerate a dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, demand the Saudi Royal family step down, seize the bank assets of the Saudi Sovereign wealth fund, hold internationally supervised elections and bring democracy to another country in the Middle East. Then enforce our law against countries that prohibit minority religions.
Hey, it worked in Libya, right?
Or we do some wacky thing like develop our own resources and tell the Arabs to eat our excrement. Then we dispose of the Israel-first crowd as an overriding influence in foreign affairs, we GTFO of the region and leave it to burn.
Amen.
There are a lot of people who have written a lot of books on the lessons we learned from Vietnam.
One false lesson we learned was that we could kill innocents remotely from the sky and expect people to just turn the other cheek.
OMG – the spare tire on this bus was bald!
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/05/16/pittsburgh-police-inspect-tour-buses-on-north-shore/
That’s middle age – the driver had a spare tire and was bald. 😉
My suspicion is the reason for the police conducting the inspection of this interstate bus (over which local police would have limited jurisdiction) had more to do with the skin color of the patrons.
A spare tire on a bus serves no function. I was on a bus once that developed a flat tire on I-80 back in the 1970s when there was nothing along the road. You don’t just get out a jack and change the tire. You have to get a tow truck with specialized gear for heavy vehicles. It was the inside tire on an axle with dual wheels, requiring taking off both wheels.
Was it an undersized donut tire to improve mileage?
Alex Jones will be on Coast to Coast for the entire show or until his voice gives out
If you have to go to bed early, you can catch it repeated when you wake up KHVH 830 until 9 AM Eastern Time when the Glen Beck show starts. Hawaii has not daylight savings time, so there is a 6 hour time difference with eastern daylight time.
http://www.khvhradio.com/pages/onair.html
I saw one comment in an article suggesting that readers be sure to wear genuine tin foil hats because aluminum does now work properly. 😉
It is a serious topic and I will toss my speculation out for conversation. There has been some talk from the administration that tea party or constitutionally focused people might have been behind it. Anything is possible. I just don’t see someone upset with their taxes deciding the explode nails through an 8 year old spectator – that makes no sense to me.
Mental illness, maybe. My first thought was someone from outside the country that has suffered loss of life in his family and generically blames the people of our country. That kind of thinking can keep a conflict going for decades or even centuries and that is extremely troubling.
” My first thought was someone from outside the country that has suffered loss of life in his family and generically blames the people of our country.”
Not the answer, does not make sense. Read here: http://streamingradioguide.com/startingover/?p=7029#comment-5399
How about this one?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/135654.html
It can be interesting to speculate. It could also have been “shadow people” from Coast to Coast. People still speculate on the killing of President Kennedy.
I am predisposed to think it is from overseas but it is nothing more than a hunch.
I re-thought your idea that “someone from outside the country that has suffered loss of life in his family and generically blames the people of our country.” and that does make more sense than I originally gave it. Your last link about Ayers and the 1960’s terrorist group, The Weather Underground makes a lot of sense too. And, they could have recruited someone from outside the country.
Are you discrediting the “shadow people” theory?
Seriously, try not to dwell on it too long- it is what it is and you can not change it. Focus on something were you can have a positive impact for your self and your loved ones.
Playing Internet “connect the dots”
The debris on the Fox Atlanta web site was a UL registration number that points to this as the manufacturer
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/21996004/exclusive-photos-boston-marathon-bomb
http://www.fixya.com/support/t15587860-gas_electric_vitro_induction_inox
http://www.fagoramerica.com/about_us/about_us
It’s a company based mainly in France and Spain and their products are distributed by a company in New Jersey.
They’re sold everywhere – Walmart, Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, Crate & Barrel, Dillard’s, Amazon, JC Penney, Macy’s, Sears, Kohl,’ Bloomingdales… If they have a suspect in mind maybe they can prove a link after the fact, but they haven’t narrowed the suspect list very much
The oddest thing so far is the pre explosion picture shows the bomb on the street side of the crowd control fence. That means it was put there from the street side or somehow it was dropped over the fence which would be hard to do. So much for “see something, say something”
The Saudi student has been released and is not a suspect or person of interest at this point.
Confirmed – it was a Fagor pressure cooker
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/17/marathon-bomber-caught-camera/i7D02kduJKCz9g2yZyquqM/story.html
You know, life would be so much better if we all moved to smart cities planned by the government. As a country, we could greatly reduce our carbon foot print, reduce the huge quantities of food we waste, and solve food insecurity once and for all by setting up Feeding Centers where everyone would be provided with free nutritious meals, a place to sleep, health care, clothing that is uniform and a government work assignment. Work will make you free. That barbed wire is there to keep the bad guys out, not keep you in. Don’t you trust us?
“feeding centers”, “barbed wire” “Gov Heath care”?
Sounds like a feed lot just outside Lubbock Texas. To fatten up cattle before the slaughter. Yeah I see the correlation. Senator Shumer and Bloomberg will take care of us, by their rules. I’ll pass, cause that ending doesn’t look good.
It’s about 9am and for some reason I already think I need a drink. Thats bad.
Parrott
Look at how we treat farm animals and that’s how progressives think they should raise “the next generation of healthy children”
Bloomberg (who is very much tied in with global bankers and runs his own business intelligence operation) just reported they have video of the person planting one of the bombs.
I’m going to stick my neck out and predict the video will show a person wearing a police uniform. One of the risks having too many police is they don’t know each other and makes it easier for a fake “trusted” person to sneak into a secure area.
Here are 3d renderings of the blast locations
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/04/17/us/caught-in-the-blast-at-the-boston-marathon.html?_r=0
The NY Times believes the bomb was detonated behind the crowd, not in front as the Fox TV images had suggested
The news accounts of what is going on is rapidly changing
Clearly they need to be implanted with RFID chips, containing Public Key Certificate from Verisign.
How else can we trust that they are who they say they are?
And who proves that we can trust Verisign?
The Bilderbergs – Ms Elizabeth Rubble 😉
Perhaps instead of a hierarchy of trust, we need a hierarchy of deniability
I find it odd with all the pleas for help that the image from the Lord and Taylor camera giving a clear image of who planted the second bomb hasn’t been released. With that, people can start finding real connections from the other pictures. In other similar situations, police and media suppress images generally for the same reason – they think we can’t handle the truth.
With the killers not yet identified or in custody, it’s odd the President is headed to Boston. Maybe he’ll just read his TelePrompTer out at the airport. Or maybe the person is in super secret custody.