On drums...

I still can't believe what I've seen and heard...

Those idiots used pressure cookers, stuffed with nails and all sorts of metal bits to be used as shrapnel...

To do this kind of a sadistic act on innocent people, and on a sporting event that symbolizes peace, love and friendship - You must be an ANIMAL, a TYRANT, don't know what else to say...


AWFUL!!!!!!!

I hope they get it "between the eyes". Every last one of them...

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Goki - short from Goran

Let the good drums roll!!!

It's sickening. I stood near that finish line almost every year for the 10 years I lived in the city. Some years I watched from a roof top. Very fun and joyous event that will be changed forever.

I'm very worried that even with all the pics and videos people took that they don't have any great clues yet. But there are a lot of people investigating this so I'm hopeful...

- D.

I feel so sorry for everybody this has effected.......thing is it will now effect us all forever in many ways and the biggest and worst changes that will happen we will all ask for so we feel safer.

Can't let these people make us scared and stop us trusting nice people.

Not sure this is worded the way I wanted it to be but there you go.

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Ron

It's terrible. I was running a job across the street from the second blast for the last year, got done about 2 weeks ago. This week I have been on the edge of the shutdown zone working and it has been pretty stressful with the amount of security and constant military presence, getting id's walking down the street, etc. I tried to go in this morning but they shut the city down before I could get into the building, so we had to leave. Worst thing is those kids lived right down the street from us, about a 15 min walk, right where my wife used to work.
I don't even know what to say anymore. It's depressing but the positivity of the human spirit around here has been amazing this week. We all realize it easily could have been one of us that got hurt, so the love has been pretty strong.
Hope you guys are doing alright, Goki I wish you were visiting at a better time. Are you still coming here?

No, we can't give in to thugs. Right wing, left wing, it doesn't matter, it's all iniquity. Evil can strike anywhere and will continue to do so as long as man continues to believe he knows best. One would think, after looking at the massive failures and evil generated by hard or soft utopian plans (communism, socialism, Naziism, Islamism), people would begin to think twice before trying to create a perfect world version according to their individual visions... but human beings are always getting it wrong because we continue to trust our selves: "Since I am good, the world would be a perfect place if everyone was like me."

We will continue to act this way until we become holy, which is to say, until we have no evil in us.

All I have to offer are prayers for everyone.

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Gregory

This is terrible. However, here in the States we feel safe and secure while other parts of the world deal with these kinds of things everyday. Wasn't 20-30 years ago, Britain and Ireland had bombings quite often. Now Syria. It just seems to take its turn.

Gregory, I agree, until mankind is truly good or without greed, these things will continue.....

And that's the point. We are not, and by our own efforts cannot be.

Glad these guys were caught. Now that gun control legislation has failed, maybe they'll try to take our pressure cookers away.

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Gregory

Here it starts, Ron. And it not that I entirely disagree with His Honor The Mayor of New York about surveillance of groups or individuals known to be dangerous, but rather I disagree completely with the notion of skipping right over the problem of wrestling with the moral obligation of being a citizen, straight into the infringement of freedoms because we are unwilling to deal with the oxymoron of "mulitculturalism." That the terrorists jacked a car with a "COEXIST" bumper sticker still puts a smile on my face despite the horror of the day; Patriots' Day, no less.

There was a time went a moral commitment to the country, at least in the US, was necessary to become a citizen. Now people deride that notion, and treat citizenship like a stay in a hotel, or a way to suck from the economic tit. The consequences are self evident.

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Gregory

Whoops, forgot the link

http://politicker.com/2013/04/bloomberg ... to-change/

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Gregory

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Cliff

River City Trio

What if we did all have the same opinions?