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Translation: disaffected foreign loner.

Not really referring to that. These events have a habit of leaving a trail of legislation in their wake. The link that Verbal posted earlier (in jest, I'm sure) suggests that the legislation in this case will be a tightening up of gunpowder. Obama certainly isn't happy with the NRA:- http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/angry-obama-attacks-nra-after-gun-control-defeat-1.1365214 I wonder if these events, like Sandy Hook, will be used for further clampdowns gun ownership. I seem to remember much talk of loophole closure after that devastating school shooting. Not that I think that's a bad thing, but I know many Americans who do.

It's a shame you restrict yourself to three a day, mate. However, I do find this development interesting. The real test will be the policy agenda that follows.

I don't wonder why at all. I love a good conspiracy theory. I'd believe them all if I could.

Dead men tell no tales, KRG. Will be interested to see what they have on the fella.

SNCF, my friend. SNCF. How do you feel about our Gallic cousins kicking our arses on every "failed" nationalised industry you care to mention?

One suspect in the Boston bombings has been killed, apparently. I don't expect the other will be taken alive either. That's that, then

East Coast railways, which is a state-run enterprise, requires a net subsidy of just 1% to run, compared with an average of 32% for the private lines. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/18/east-coast-rail-line-taxpayer-subsidy Fancy that, as Private Eye might say!

The comedic soundtrack that used to accompany much Saints defending, in my head at least.

I take it you have heard the Benny Hill music in your head before?

Live station. http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive/

Some might argue that the only reason they got that good is the number of chances they got

I spotted something else. Q: "Do you think Mauricio [...] gave the players more belief, more self-belief, to just take on anybody and take the game to them?" A: "Yeah, I think that brain is very important in this game as well. I think our manager can use that quite well"

I've been poring through the David Icke topic this evening. By far the most interesting link so far is this one:- http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/04/boston-marathon-bombing-videos-show-raw-chaos/ Third video down, taken in the immediate aftermath of the bomb. The cameraman manages to get to the scene quick smart before being turned away. Barely anyone there.

FOX News (twice in one day - I'm a bad man). This is one of their smaller channels. Probably an attempt to smear the devil Obama, but there you go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=anYwmWlwZuA#

We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. We forge our spirits in the traditions of our ancestors. You have our gratitude.

Foo Fighters today. Colour and the Shape.

Two persons of interest identified, according to (ahem) FOX News. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/17/fbi-boston-police-say-range-suspects-motives-remains-wide-open/

Some of the American fellows I work with refer to a software program called the Work Order Generator using the same term.

This was released early doors, I think. I'll give it credence when it happens to a high degree of accuracy, and not before.

I think that these acts need to be given the same scrutiny as anything else, and proven in the same way that we normally prove things; on the basis of evidence and on serious charges, a jury of our peers. 9/11 was the crime of the century, yet the level of investigation was p!ss-poor. Anything that fell outside the official narrative was simply excluded. A decent investigator would not run the investigation of a single murder in this way, let alone 3,000. I can accept the view that there may be genuine national security issues during a time of war, but too often, national security is used as means to stop people asking questions. Now, if we'd had an unbroken history of fair dealing when it came to national security matters, then I might be more trusting. However, we are proven liars on the world stage - our PM signed the death warrants for countless lives when he fabricated evidence - and as we've discussed before, national security has been used to erode civil liberties.

No worries, VW - there were loads of reports going around yesterday about someone being arrested. I also didn't read your post properly.

I think you go too far when I say I love "this sort of stuff". Let's not forget that some people have died and scores of people have been injured. To be clear, I do not love that sort of stuff. I'd rather that these things did not happen and we were all talking about something else. However, when they do happen, I maintain an interest in stuff across the board, and let me tell ya, there's a lot of crap to sift through and honestly, I'm still not any clearer on many of the details now. There are people out there that'll happily give you a complete A-to-B of who did it, why and what happens next. I can't give you any of those answers, 'cos I just don't know. What I can tell you is that I don't generally trust government narratives. Too many of the recent ones have been untrustworthy, so I keep a close eye on anything new. On a smaller scale, we'd all be suspicious of an individual who had repeatedly told us lies. Don't see why that changes when it becomes a government who are doing the fibbing.

Apparently no-one has been arrested yet.