Posted on 04/21/2013 4:43:36 PM PDT by bryan999
Edited on 04/21/2013 6:45:23 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Nouriel Roubini, the rock-star economist who is credited with predicting the collapse of the U.S. housing market, believes he knows who is responsible for Monday's attack at the Boston Marathon.
"So it looks like 1 of the sleeper cells on the Eastern Seaboard woke up. & since the NYC Marathon was cancelled they went for the Boston one," he tweeted on Monday night, more than seven hours after the explosions. When asked by a follower how he knew, Roubini cited "informed sources."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I dunno, Boston effectively shut down for a few days, estimates are billions in lost economic activity, scores of people with lifelong injuries, four dead. And it cost them a couple of thousand bucks worth of materials and only two young inexperienced men (so far at least).
Frankly, I'm appalled by the bang they got for their buck. We have to do better. The clues were there, the Russians warned us about the older brother. We were asleep.
Mmm.
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