Terrorist Attack at the Boston Marathon

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Then "normal" isn't good

I don't know what you expect. Kids are always disobeying, disrespecting, and vandalizing. Prices always go up. This is normal behavior.

What happened today sucks, yes, but the world is not on fire.

[aholbert32]

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The world is going fine.

We probably live in the safest geopolitical environment ever. Within most OSers lifetime, the biggest geopolitical threat to the United States was a communist superpower with 20,000 nuclear warheads facing this country.

I'll take what will probably amount to an amateur Timothy McVeigh over that, thanks.

On topic, my thoughts go out to those affected.

Great post. I'll take this over the Cold War any day.

[aholbert32]

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Don't forget about the Olympics bombing as well.

Totally forgot about that one. 3 in 4 yrs.

[RAZRr1275]

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Thoughts go out to the victims and their families.

[Phobia]

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I don't know what you expect. Kids are always disobeying, disrespecting, and vandalizing. Prices always go up. This is normal behavior.

What happened today sucks, yes, but the world is not on fire.

Yea as terrible as it is, I want to point out the reason these things seem more common is because "News" has become more about sensationalizing everything. The goal of the media and news sources now is to gain as much attention as possible and that means everything from shootings, to stabbings, to explosions are brought front and center over and over again while other important news is pushed to the back burner because it won't invoke fear and hook you into watching as this will.

So the world is not burning and becoming "a much worse place", instead that is just all that is shown now sadly.

[cubsfan203]

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Just said there was a 3rd explosion somewhere during the press conference.

[Cusefan]

CNN is reporting that 6 of the 28 injured are in critical condition, hoping for some good news.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Just said there was a 3rd explosion somewhere during the press conference.

3rd explosion was at the JFK library.

[TheMatrix31]

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Commish says the JFK Library explosion wasn't controlled.

[Cusefan]

Just said there was a 3rd explosion somewhere during the press conference.

It was unrelated, mechanical fire at JFK library

[VDusen04]

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Yea as terrible as it is, I want to point out the reason these things seem more common is because "News" has become more about sensationalizing everything. The goal of the media and news sources now is to gain as much attention as possible and that means everything from shootings, to stabbings, to explosions are brought front and center over and over again while other important news is pushed to the back burner because it won't invoke fear and hook you into watching as this will.

So the world is not burning and becoming "a much worse place", instead that is just all that is shown now sadly.

I tend to subscribe to this notion. There's no getting around the terrible nature of these events today but the fact there's now nearly unlimited access to all corners of information nowadays means it's very easy for anything to grow to extreme proportions.

[R0ver]

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Lou Merloni @LouMerloni 3m
“@GerryCallahan: "One of the unexploded devices was found under the grandstands, which were filled with spectators" - WBZ TV” My God

This is getting out of hand...

[JODYE]

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JFK fire reportedly not related to marathon explosions.

[jbd345]

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press conference confirms that JFK library event was related.

[Cusefan]

CBS news is reporting that they may have a suspect on Camera.