Comments on: Blast Heard in NYC; Hype to Follow?

By: HareTrinity

HareTrinity — Sat, 07 May 2005 20:30:47 +0000

England? Not sure. People keep complaining that it’s too easy, but every country has a set of people who do that.

We’re pretty crowded, though.

By: random42

random42 — Fri, 06 May 2005 17:05:57 +0000

HT, what country are you in again? And how hard is it to get citizenship there?

By: HareTrinity

HareTrinity — Fri, 06 May 2005 11:18:24 +0000

Wait, this was seriously an issue?

I thought it was a joke! Let’s hope the fundamentalists pray to their god to help save them and future generations of flower pots. Between ranting that anyone who now doesn’t use flower pots is being unpatriotic.

By: jingo

jingo — Fri, 06 May 2005 00:29:28 +0000

Yes, why the ambulance when no one was hurt?

Did the little pansies in the flower pot need to go to the emergency room?

By: J. Matthew

J. Matthew — Thu, 05 May 2005 18:50:01 +0000

I was right! They needed a red border to make it look menacing. See?

Also notice the ambulance to make it all look extra scary and important? Major crime scene, folks: there was a gardening container that sacrificed one of its corners in the War on Terra!

The “U.N. Worker Being Questioned” is an extra-nice right-wing conspiratorial touch.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 05 May 2005 18:14:04 +0000

Of COURSE they’re livid! Wouldn’t YOU be livid if YOUR provocation and YOUR propaganda effort ended up sounding like some high school student’s effort to get a day off from school with the old “Bomb Scare” tactic? And everyone ended up LAUGHING at you for such an ameteurish effort?

By: furrjen

furrjen — Thu, 05 May 2005 18:06:53 +0000

Looks like the right wing nuts are flying off the handle that anyone DARES to point out that a flower box being blown up by a couple of oversized firecrackers is not a national crisis. Check out those trackbacks. They’re livid!

By: Liberteaser

Liberteaser — Thu, 05 May 2005 14:22:08 +0000

Bomb In NYC…Just Hype?!

Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print. Ok, so a bomb went off outside the British Consulate in Manhattan today.

By: GOP and the City

GOP and the City — Thu, 05 May 2005 13:58:31 +0000

NYC Brit Bombing

Could this have been a “dry run” for something larger? Was the UK election used as a diversion?

By: Slant Point

Slant Point — Thu, 05 May 2005 13:52:39 +0000

Grenade explosions in New York City

Two grenades exploded in NYC this morning at 3:35 AM outside the British Consulate on 3rd Avenue and 51st Street. They were inside of a cement flowerbox in front of the building. The grenades are being called “make-shift,” being more home-made than o…