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malsperanza's avatar

Thank God for Glenn Beck--at least now I have a decent model to follow.

As of this morning, the news was reporting that someone else robbed the 7-11 on the same night that the bombers went to it to use the ATM machine. Poor ol' 7-11.

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malsperanza's avatar

Oops, now the reports are that it was them after all--sorry!

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Bourgeois Nerd's avatar

Wait, you're a FOREIGN?!!11 What magical land birthed such an adorable bulldog? And what assholes were your parents banishing you to Texas?

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fuflans's avatar

You are totally not drunk enough.

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WA Bishop's avatar

Depends on the hobby. I think in a country where few people think twice about needing to convince an expert in a white coat of your need for penicillin, we could keep our supplies of explosives pretty close to the chest.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

And morale never improved? What's the matter with these people? (<--snark)

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Yeah, I get the impression that Tamerlan was a real piece of work, willingly led into this by nutjob internet preachers. "Just following orders," as it were. Which doesn't work as a defense, whether think your orders come from God/Allah/FSM, alien lizard people, or your parakeet.

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Comrade Wingtardd's avatar

Myself as well. But I'm not sure if that's because he has such an angelic face or what. When you see a young person so innocent and pretty, it's hard to decouple your impression from what the reality might be. I am very curious as to just how he became this sick, given what everyone who knew him says about him. It just doesn't make sense, and I don't want to believe it myself.

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FeloniousMonk's avatar

I also thought of the fact that that Tamerlane's military campaigns are estimated to have killed <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timur" target="_blank"> about 5% of the world's population</a>. This could be the worst case of <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nominative_determinism" target="_blank">nominative determinism</a> ever.

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bobbert's avatar

Master of Time and Space.

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malsperanza's avatar

Only for Muslims.

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malsperanza's avatar

Someone else robbed the 7-11; the bombers were not involved.

But if they had been, it would have been a good line, for sure.

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malsperanza's avatar

Whoever in the White House arranges these things has really bollocksed it up this time. If the nefarious liberal goal was to create an event that would spur Congress to swing its support to gun control and immigration reform, they should have perpetrated the bombing a week earlier.

Really, Obama's incompetence sometimes astonishes me.

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chascates's avatar

Fundamentalist religion is the opium of the masses. And I don't mean that in a good way.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

There's a novel, a Broadway play, and an HBO movie in this tale of two muzzies. Not necessarily in that order.

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

OT: But today is Hitler's birthday and here in Hartford CT the gun fondlers are celebrating with a gun rally at the Capitol. Coincidence? Even though everyone in attendance was white, I decided not to bring a pressure cooker and a black backback because I look a little too Caucasian to try something like that. The stupid: It burns!

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