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The One who got away, and other random tweets

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Posted by    Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 8:00pm

Some random tweets I bookmarked this past week.

In no particular order.

The One who got away:

You’ve lost Mother Jones … :

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Saturday Night Card Game (Masters of the English language)

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Posted by    Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 6:00pm

This all is making my head hurt.

A couple of weeks ago we lost Illegal Immigrants.

Now we’re losing the Master Bedroom.

Homebuilders scrap ‘master bedroom’ because of racist, gender-biased connotations:

The “master suite” is being phased out — not from our homes, but from our lexicon.

A survey of 10 major Washington, D.C.-area homebuilders found...

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Students react to Boston Marathon Bombing (Updates added)

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Posted by    Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 4:05pm

From College Insurrection:

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Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Phoned Uncle Hours Before His Death

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Posted by    Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 12:47pm

A few hours before he would be shot and killed by law enforcement, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev called an uncle with whom he had not spoken in about two years.  During that call, he asked his uncle for forgiveness.

From USA Today (via the Journal News in Westchester County, NY):

“He...

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Cops may have played the media

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Posted by    Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 11:00am

The NY Post and other media outlets are being raked over the coals for releasing a photo of alleged suspects which turned out to be wrong, as I discussed.

It turns out the cops may have been playing the media deliberately to give the real suspects the impression that their identities were...

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Boston lock-down exposes gun culture divide

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Posted by    Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 9:30am

Most Americans believe that having a gun in the home makes you safer:

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Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives

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Posted by    Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 8:00am

It started with Bill Sparkman, the part-time Census worker who went missing and then was found dead, setting off an avalanche of mainstream media and left-blogosphere accusations that he was the victim of anti-government “right-wing” hate.  It turned out that...

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Coexist, “reportedly”

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Posted by    Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 7:00am

Many people sent me links to this image.

I don’t know if it’s real, or was obtained from Reddit, 4Chan, or CNN.

But it’s too good not to print, with all the caveats, “reportedly.”

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Reports — Second Suspect “Down” (UPDATE – in custody)

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Posted by    Friday, April 19, 2013 at 7:11pm

UPDATE — Suspect in custody.

Ace has the photo of the take down.

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Boston curfew lifted, mass transit reopened, suspect still on the run

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Posted by    Friday, April 19, 2013 at 6:12pm

At a news conference at 6 p.m. the reopening of mass transit and the lift on the request for people to stay in their homes has been lifted.

There will be increased police patrols.

The suspect still is on the run.  No indication was given as to whether the police believe he has...

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Mideast Media Sampler – 04/19/2013 – #MiddleEast reacts to #BostonMarathon bombing

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Posted by    Friday, April 19, 2013 at 3:49pm

1) The Middle East and Boston

What have been the reactions in the Middle East to the Boston Marathon?

Jordanian Salafists, unsurprisingly, endorsed the terror.

“American blood isn’t more precious than Muslim blood,” said Mohammad al-Chalabi, who was convicted...

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Chilling history of #Gosnell and babies struggling to survive

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Posted by    Friday, April 19, 2013 at 1:41pm

On this day when we are focused on Boston, also remember Philadelphia

Chilling history from James Taranto, Back-Alley Abortion Never Ended:

Back-alley abortion was indisputably a problem before Roe. Deep in the 281-page report that accompanied the 2011 indictments of Gosnell and his staff,...

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Letter from the Family of Lu Lingzi

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Posted by    Friday, April 19, 2013 at 12:08pm

The family of Lu Lingzi, the Chinese graduate student killed in the Boston Marathon bombing, issued a statement Thursday, via BU Today:

We are grieving and at a loss for words to describe the pain and sadness we are experiencing following the sudden passing of our dear daughter, Lingzi. She was the...

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Boston Marathon suspect manhunt underway – ongoing updates

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Posted by    Friday, April 19, 2013 at 10:47am

UPDATE 1:30 pm EST:

The Associated Press is reporting that the FBI is at the New Jersey home of the alleged Boston Marathon bomber’s sister.  Authorities say that she has been cooperative and that there are no reports that she was...

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Boston Marathon manhunt Live Feeds

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Posted by    Friday, April 19, 2013 at 8:40am

I’m going to leave this as a stand alone post for you to follow updates as they happen in real time.

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