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Comments (15)
If you don't like ballerina... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Son Of The Godfather | July 8, 2008 11:23 AM | Score: 16 (16 votes cast)
If you don't like ballerinas, you're a racist!
1. Posted by Son Of The Godfather | July 8, 2008 11:23 AM |
Score: 16 (16 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 11:23
2. Posted by Clay | July 8, 2008 11:26 AM | Score: 16 (16 votes cast)
Obviously, we need to pay far more attention to those shifty ballerinas.
That's profiling, and that's wrong!
2. Posted by Clay | July 8, 2008 11:26 AM |
Score: 16 (16 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 11:26
3. Posted by mojo | July 8, 2008 12:11 PM | Score: 14 (14 votes cast)
Need some new meter maids too, I think.
3. Posted by mojo | July 8, 2008 12:11 PM |
Score: 14 (14 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 12:11
4. Posted by macofromoc | July 8, 2008 12:12 PM | Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
I'm sure those Ballerinas represent a small radical minority. Afterall, ballet is a peaceful dance.
4. Posted by macofromoc | July 8, 2008 12:12 PM |
Score: 15 (15 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 12:12
5. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | July 8, 2008 12:19 PM | Score: 16 (18 votes cast)
"Terrorists Losing Criminal Support"
Now if they would just lose Democrat support...
5. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | July 8, 2008 12:19 PM |
Score: 16 (18 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 12:19
6. Posted by GianiD | July 8, 2008 12:31 PM | Score: 12 (14 votes cast)
Will never happen Jeff, them, criminals, illegals, and dead people are all key voting blocs for the donkeys.
6. Posted by GianiD | July 8, 2008 12:31 PM |
Score: 12 (14 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 12:31
7. Posted by Oyster | July 8, 2008 12:59 PM | Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Everyone got voted up one - all great comments :)
7. Posted by Oyster | July 8, 2008 12:59 PM |
Score: 10 (10 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 12:59
8. Posted by kevino | July 8, 2008 1:13 PM | Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
RE: Everyone got voted up one - all great comments :)
I agree!
8. Posted by kevino | July 8, 2008 1:13 PM |
Score: 7 (7 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 13:13
9. Posted by Oyster | July 8, 2008 1:22 PM | Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
I read more on this and the police are saying it could be in connection with a Chinese national who was caught with similar paraphernalia in the recent past and also detonated a bomb in '02 injuring a tenant, but he's been in jail in Rhode Island since January. The van was parked a few blocks from his home that his wife recently sold.
9. Posted by Oyster | July 8, 2008 1:22 PM |
Score: 3 (3 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 13:22
10. Posted by OregonMuse | July 8, 2008 4:33 PM | Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
What's the difference?
10. Posted by OregonMuse | July 8, 2008 4:33 PM |
Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 16:33
11. Posted by hyperbolist | July 8, 2008 5:06 PM | Score: -12 (14 votes cast)
Duke Cunningham and Scooter Libby are Democrats?
11. Posted by hyperbolist | July 8, 2008 5:06 PM |
Score: -12 (14 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 17:06
12. Posted by JLawson | July 8, 2008 7:30 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Oyster -
So who owns the van? They can trace the registration by the VIN, after all...
Or could it just be politically incorrect to say?
12. Posted by JLawson | July 8, 2008 7:30 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 19:30
13. Posted by Brian The Adequate | July 8, 2008 7:50 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
The article I saw (sorry too lazy to find a link) said that the police believed, but could not prove that the van was the work of a guy they had in custody for a different attempted bombing.
The target (if the cops are right) was the dudes Ex-wife who lived on the block where the van was found. The guy has been in custody on the other charge since shortly after the van was first parked there.
13. Posted by Brian The Adequate | July 8, 2008 7:50 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 19:50
14. Posted by JLawson | July 8, 2008 8:02 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
If the van belongs to the guy who was in custody... that's one thing, and I'd imagine they'd come out with a definite yes/no on it.
But to kind of fuzz the issue like this - ah, hell. I'm suspicious any more of stuff like this.
14. Posted by JLawson | July 8, 2008 8:02 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on July 8, 2008 20:02
15. Posted by Oyster | July 9, 2008 6:26 AM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
JLawson: I agree. The four media reports I read did mention that the tags were registered to another car, so we know the police started tracing right away. I'd imagine they knew who the car was registered to, but why the media reports don't say so is beyond me. Every report says the car had been there for over a month, but this guy has been in jail since January - that's 6 months. This is what irks me about much of the media. No follow up, selective information reported, and on to the next speculative story they go.
15. Posted by Oyster | July 9, 2008 6:26 AM |
Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on July 9, 2008 06:26