Things go boom

[Cain]

Yeah.  I wasnt going to say anything until I saw your reply, but it's fairly common knowledge over here and in Ireland at least that this is how it works.

Or worked, anyway.  Apparently after nineeleven, people started to feel a bit different about terrorism.  That and the Provisional IRA was holding to its ceasefire agreement.  Nowadays, the Real and Continuity IRA have to do with weapons they stole from PIRA stockpiles, and money from smuggling, kidnapping and protection rackets.

Occasionally some foreign whackjob, like our good friend Colonel Gaddafi, slipped them a few bob too.

[Suu]

Okay, Washington St. 12 minute walk from Back Bay. If you meet me at Back Bay, that will probably help. I tend to get lost in that part of the aether between there and downtown.

Get off on the Dartmouth St side of Back Bay.  Turn left.  Walk down Dartmouth until you get to Washington.  It will be across the street from you.

http://goo.gl/maps/AigrV

I know where it is now. For some reason it looked more confusing than necessary. I'm bringing like 4 spags with me.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Indeed, but I am leaving it to the primates in question. Even if I was raised in my dad's hometown, I would have the same perspective. I don't live there, let them decide what they want to do.

Obviously.

I don't see what this has to do with the subject, though.  I am reasonably sure that drunken people of Irish descent are not hunting down IRA bagmen and beating them until they accept the money.  No, I'm reasonably sure said bagman buys a round or two, gets them all singing sentimental Irish shit, and then puts the arm on them.

Ask me how I know this.

In any case, this whole "MURRIKANS TELLING TEH POOR IRISH WAT TO DO" line is a crock of bullshit.  They let the bagman squeeze 'em a bit, they've done their part for the auld sod or whatever the fuck you call it, and then they can feel nice & Irish until next month.

I don't think anyone took you up on this. I'm curious.

Because it doesn't just happen in Boston & NY.  It is also common in Chicago and St Johns, and I've seen it work.  In fact, I've been pitched a time or two, on account of red hair.

I'm assumed some kind of mixed Irish in Mass (I do have a smidgeon but I don't think it shows), some kind of mixed Mexican in Texas. People just assume you're what "everybody else" is.

Oh, and that guy Jeff: BOTH legs. Photo 32, but it might be a good idea to just take my word for it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/boston-marathon-bombing-photos_n_3087332.html#slide=2340784

[P3nT4gR4m]

Yeah.  I wasnt going to say anything until I saw your reply, but it's fairly common knowledge over here and in Ireland at least that this is how it works.

Or worked, anyway.  Apparently after nineeleven, people started to feel a bit different about terrorism.  That and the Provisional IRA was holding to its ceasefire agreement.  Nowadays, the Real and Continuity IRA have to do with weapons they stole from PIRA stockpiles, and money from smuggling, kidnapping and protection rackets.

Occasionally some foreign whackjob, like our good friend Colonel Gaddafi, slipped them a few bob too.

So are the post-911 IRA factions actually still terrorist organisations? i was under the impression that they were just Cosa O'Nostra these days

[Cain]

Well, the Cosa Nostra may not be the best example, given they car bombed judges and generals in Italy    I actually used them once as an example of how terrorism is a selectively applied term, as the Cosa Nostra were a non-revolutionary force in Italian politics with strong links to the status quo.

Back to the little IRAlings.  Although they don't do much on the mainland nowadays, they're still somewhat active in Northern Ireland.  Whacking cops and planting bombs and things.  There's definitely a strong organized crime element to a lot of what they do, but they do also carry out what most people would consider to be terrorist activity.

[Cain]

So, been visiting the seedier sides of the internet, as is my wont, I have discovered two things:

1) The jihadists say they hope one of theirs was responsible, but no-one is actually coming forward and claiming it, and
2) the white nationalist crowd say it definitely wasn't them and if someone says it was, it's because Obama is a Muslim and set them up

The latter lot are also getting in something of a twist about the arrested Saudi, between the Islamaphobic factions, the traditional anti-Semitic factions and the anti all non-Christian white factions.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also, the very notion of being utterly severed from your heritage by means of immigration - as mentioned earlier, to do with "Irish-Americans" being some heinously offensive term - is utter rot and nonsense.

Retracting this.

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,34458.0.html

[LMNO]

"Breaking News" says they have images of one suspect. No images have been released to the public.

"The Vengance Machine That Is The Internet" has a slew of dodgy pictures and uncorroborated connetcions that will most likely get some dude killed in the next few days.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

"Breaking News" says they have images of one suspect. No images have been released to the public.

"The Vengance Machine That Is The Internet" has a slew of dodgy pictures and uncorroborated connetcions that will most likely get some dude killed in the next few days.

Check out "RLSH".

[LMNO]

Blockpage.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Blockpage.

Check it at home.  The horrormirth and silliness-with-potential-for-mayhem is simply too great to waste with an exception.

[Cain]

OK, it is more than possible that, due to recent circumstances, the tests involved are throwing up false positives.  And it is by no means clear that the two events are related.

But fuck me if this isn't suspicious.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/16/us/tainted-letter-intercepted/index.html

An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was told the letter was addressed to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi. A laboratory in Maryland confirmed the presence of ricin after an initial field tests indicated the poison was present, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/secret-service-ricin-laced-letter-obama-found/story?id=18978412#.UW7fXsqcFXA

A letter addressed to President Obama that field-tested positive for the poison ricin was received at the remote White House mail screening facility Tuesday, according to law enforcement officials.

The facility routinely identifies letters or parcels that require secondary screening or scientific testing before delivery.

The separate Senate mail-handling facility also Tuesday received a suspicious letter potentially laced with ricin addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, postmarked from Memphis.

Does this sound familiar?  It should do - a similar tactic happened in the aftermath of 9/11, a series of anthrax based attacks that, in my opinion, were never fully explained to my satisfaction.

[LMNO]

Yeah, I heard about that this morning, but I didn't want to comment until I could formulate a thought around it.  But yes.  2001 Anthrax scare.  Very interesting.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

OK, it is more than possible that, due to recent circumstances, the tests involved are throwing up false positives.  And it is by no means clear that the two events are related.

But fuck me if this isn't suspicious.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/16/us/tainted-letter-intercepted/index.html

An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was told the letter was addressed to the office of Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi. A laboratory in Maryland confirmed the presence of ricin after an initial field tests indicated the poison was present, Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/secret-service-ricin-laced-letter-obama-found/story?id=18978412#.UW7fXsqcFXA

A letter addressed to President Obama that field-tested positive for the poison ricin was received at the remote White House mail screening facility Tuesday, according to law enforcement officials.

The facility routinely identifies letters or parcels that require secondary screening or scientific testing before delivery.

The separate Senate mail-handling facility also Tuesday received a suspicious letter potentially laced with ricin addressed to Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, postmarked from Memphis.

Does this sound familiar?  It should do - a similar tactic happened in the aftermath of 9/11, a series of anthrax based attacks that, in my opinion, were never fully explained to my satisfaction.

Now I KNOW it's local.

The 911 attacks weren't domestic.  The anthrax attacks were, from what I gather.

We seem to have reached - nearly - maximum bugshit.

[LMNO]

All we're missing is randomly shooting innocent people that are deemed "suspicious".