Explosion at Boston Marathon II

CNN's coverage was pretty bad through this whole thing, but I think pretty much all the media outlets screwed up quite a bit. The 24-hour news cycle and the sprint to be first, as opposed to the desire to be correct, was never more on display.

However, a little levity. Sometimes the coverage reminded me of some of the greatest television in history...

http://www.hulu.com/watch/10389

 

How did the two bombers support themselves? To my knowledge there is no mention of them having jobs.

 

A question I wondered as well. Specially the older brother who was married and had a 1 yr old. Younger brother was in college. How did he pay for tuition?

Lots of questions to be filled in.

 

Chechnyan president: Don't spit on our name now -- America is the root of the brothers' evils:

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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov blamed for the attack in Boston during the annual marathon on U.S. intelligence, according to RIA Novosti .

Speaking of suspects in terrorist brothers Johar and Tamerlane Tsarnaevyh, which the media called the natives of Chechnya, Kadyrov said: "Tsarnaevyh we do not know, they did not live in Chechnya, lived and studied in America. What happened in Boston, wines of U.S. intelligence. " The head of Chechnya, said that in recent years it has become customary to associate everything that happens in the world, with the Chechens, "even a tsunami." He pointed out that the prosecution - is not proof of guilt, and said that in any case Tsarnaevy brought up in America, and it is their upbringing.

Ramzan Kadyrov has also expressed his condolences over the terrorist attack in Boston, in which 3 people were killed and over 180 injured.

In his account to Instagram Kadyrov has also expressed his condolences to the people of Boston and the American people, but noted that it would be logical if Tamerlane Tsarnaeva killed while trying to arrest, and would delay and conducted an investigation. "Apparently, the special services needed by all means to calm the result of society," - he wrote. Kadyrov has also noted that the attitudes and beliefs Tsarnaevyh formed in the United States, and the roots of evil to be found in America.

http://lenta.ru/news/2013/04/19/kadyrov/

 

I wondered yesterday why Lexington closed the Battle Green. Today in the Globe I found out. One of the gun rights group to the right of the NRA had scheduled a rally there for April 19. Just what you need in a manhunt situation, a group of people likely to have firearms in their cars hanging around town

 

I hope I'm wrong, but I think we're going to have to get used to city-wide lockdowns and all that goes with this kind of horror.

 

It appears that the guild is off the lilly in terms of the sympthies that muslims have enjoyed in the USA in recent years:

“Police have to be in the community, they have to build up as many sources as they can, and they have to realize that the threat is coming from the Muslim community and increase surveillance there,” the New York Republican congressman tells National Review.

“We can’t be bound by political correctness,” adds King, who chairs the House subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. “I think we need more police and more surveillance in the communities where the threat is coming from, whether it’s the Irish community with the Westies [an Irish-American gang in New York City], or the Italian community with the mafia, or the Muslim community with the Islamic terrorists.”

MSNBC is back to using the dreaded "Islamic Terrorist" term.

 

Peter King, a vocal supporter of the IRA back in the day, should shut his pie hole about terrorism.

 

The first of many of these pieces, no doubt.

We'll know more about the Caucuses in the next month than we ever thought we'd have to know.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/04/blood-and-tragedy-the-caucuses-in-the-literary-imagination.html

 

I don't care that this guy wasn't Mirandized. He had his fair trail when he decided to make a bomb. He gave up his rights when he decided to go through with it. Some nutjob on TV just threw out the "mental illness" excuse. Fuck that shit.

 

He should #sticktosports.

 

He has evidence? Where? The same place that the Michelle Obama "Whitey" tape is located?