Some random tweets I bookmarked this past week.
In no particular order.
The One who got away:
My artist rendering of what the dude would look like without the backward baseball cap. twitter.com/ExJon/status/3…
— Jon Gabriel (@ExJon) April 18, 2013
You’ve lost Mother Jones … :
Dead Boston suspect’s YouTube page contained video on prophecy associated with...
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...
From College Insurrection:
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...
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...
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...
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.”
Picture of the century: highjacked car had “COEXIST” bumper sticker twitter.com/chelseagrunwal…
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 19, 2013
+31-1UPDATE — Suspect in custody.
Ace has the photo of the take down.
Suspect in custody. Officers sweeping the area. Stand by for further info.
— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 20, 2013
“We got him” #oneboston twitter.com/mayortommenino…
—...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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