The Glade 4.0

At 4:37, Kristof tried to walk back his comment: "People jumping on me for criticizing Sen Repubs for blocking ATF appointments. ok, that was low blow. i take it back." He deleted his original tweet.

Liberal Esquire columnist Charles Pierce immediately went political, speculating:

Obviously, nobody knows anything yet, but I would caution folks jumping to conclusions about foreign terrorism to remember that this is the official Patriots Day holiday in Massachusetts, celebrating the Battles at Lexington and Concord, and that the actual date (April 19) was of some significance to, among other people, Tim McVeigh, because he fancied himself a waterer of the tree of liberty and the like.

MSNBC's Luke Russert wondered about a possible home-grown connection, tweeting, "I was at Fenway Park w my dad and @mikebarnicleduring Waco which was on Patriots Day in 1993. Speculating on possible link."

Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur speculated about American racism in reaction to the attack. He tweeted, "Our reaction as a country to Boston Marathon is going to be completely different if it's a Muslim w/ a bomb or a white shooter w/ a gun."

Is it too much to ask that columnists refrain from immediately politicizing this tragedy?

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/51546956/

DE how large a device does it take to make that big a boom?

The president can not say this was terrorism? What was it a human facillitated disaster?

Obviously, nobody knows anything yet, but I would caution folks jumping to conclusions about foreign terrorism to remember that this is the official Patriots Day holiday in Massachusetts, celebrating the Battles at Lexington and Concord, and that the actual date (April 19) was of some significance to, among other people, Tim McVeigh, because he fancied himself a waterer of the tree of liberty and the like.

Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur speculated about American racism in reaction to the attack. He tweeted, "Our reaction as a country to Boston Marathon is going to be completely different if it's a Muslim w/ a bomb or a white shooter w/ a gun."

Not large. That was not a terribly big explosion. Looked in the neighborhood of 60mm to 81mm mortar round equivalent. Very dangerous to unprotected, unsuspecting people though, small enough for 1 person to carry several. Dunno about the actual device, thats just a rough guess on explosive power. Possibly enhanced with metal bits for shrapnel, but buildings look essentially intact so not a very big explosion.

I should point out that the reason the position is held is solely because of people like the ones in this thread who are crucifying this guy. If people weren't so prone to overreaction, or weren't so offended by other people and other opinions existing in the world, we wouldn't have this issue.

So excuse the guy who said it and poo poo on us who called it out.

Got ya.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

So excuse the guy who said it and poo poo on us who called it out.

Got ya.

Nice try. We're not excusing him for his stupid opinion, we're just rightfully saying it belongs to him and not NYT.

Nice try. We're not excusing him for his stupid opinion, we're just rightfully saying it belongs to him and not NYT.

Pretty much. It's not exactly calling someone Hitler, is it? On an offensiveness scale of 1 to Godwin's, what he said ranks somewhere below a "yo mama" insult. But if being that rankled by slight dickishness offends you, have fun.

Pretty much. It's not exactly calling someone Hitler, is it? On an offensiveness scale of 1 to Godwin's, what he said ranks somewhere below a "yo mama" insult. But if being that rankled by slight dickishness offends you, have fun.

Pretty much. It's not exactly calling someone Hitler, is it? On an offensiveness scale of 1 to Godwin's, what he said ranks somewhere below a "yo mama" insult. But if being that rankled by slight dickishness offends you, have fun.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

I should note that there is a whole "bombings that killed and grievously wounded over a hundred people" thing going on, too. Maybe that's worthy of discussion somewhere on the board.

I should note that there is a whole "bombings that killed and grievously wounded over a hundred people" thing going on, too. Maybe that's worthy of discussion somewhere on the board.

Facism is not a school of thought, it is a racial slur.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

Khross, honest question. Doesn't the President's response seem both tepid and a blatant admission that we were caught with our pants down?

If someone (or more likely someones) can plant 5 bombs at will throughout a major metropolitan area in the midst of a high profile event with elevated security, isn't that a rather damning indictment of the DHS, intelligence community (both foreign and domestic) and the Federal Government as a whole?

C'mon Lenas, you're not that dense...

Except where I disproved that assumption by providing proof that Kristof is on the Editorial Staff at the NYT and is using the NYT bio-page to advertise the aforementioned and offending twitter account. It seems to me, I put a smoking gun in your hand, but you're choosing to ignore it. He behaved poorly and in a professionally and ethically inappropriate manner.

Yes because they're foolish to think they can stop everything.

No because they really can't stop everything.

Honestly, I doubt it took very much effort at all to "plant" a few bombs in some trash cans near a heavily populated area.