Their page invites you to thank Boston's first responders -- by giving them the full field of information sought for fundraising purposes.

And then they attacked Republicans for making an issue of it:

Via @lachlan

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Okay, the Sorority Scold has been ID'd, and she's semi-funny, or at least trying to be funny.

Well whatever, she tries. She drops a lot of sexual references but I assume that's just part of the 4chan/lulz sort of jaded humor That the Kids All Like These Days.

I post this mainly to prove that yeah, the C*** Punt Author was indeed a chick, and you can see here her appreciation for that style of humor.

Meanwhile, this is sort of sad. Guy's been waiting for some time to be an Anchorman. Well, not all that long; he's young. But he's been working towards this goal and they finally give him a try-out shot on the local news as the new weekend anchor and he just completely nuts it, Ron Burgundy style, except this wasn't on the TelePrompter.

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Obviously he's innocent, one keen-eyed Internet Detective observes; he questions the timing.

“He’s fucking innocent. If he were ‘guilty’, it wouldn’t take this long to fucking prove it, and there would actually be evidence,” says one supporter, although the government has yet to charge the incapacitated, hospitalized Tsarnaev with a crime.

I mean, Mein Gott, it took 72 hours. You can fake a lot of video in 72 hours, you know.

The best part of any flame that attracts the conspiracist moths is how quickly so many people become experts on so many obscure fields of information. Such as: Precisely how much blood would be visible on the sidewalks after a bombing?

It turns out, some people know how much blood there would be, and that it must be that the FBI is faking victims.

@J_Tsarsupport posted a photo (warning: graphic) claiming “proof that half the ‘victims’ are fake” based on a suspicion that there ought to be more blood.

Somehow Dzhohkar, who is completely innocent, wound up shooting a cop and carjacking someone and then having IED's on hands to throw at pursuing police:

Links to conspiracy accusations on Infowars — which disrupted an FBI press conference on Thursday — proliferate. Photos circulate purporting to show, as with this one, that the backpack containing the bomb matches one carried by a different individual. “We The Private Eye have Proven Jhar innocent an soon he will publicly be innocent ..Keep up the great job campaigners,” tweeted another advocate using the hashtag #TroyCrossleyTruth. Compressing the cycle of accusation and refutation online, the hashtag is already getting trolled.

And if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the conspiracy:

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On the popular photo-sharing network, @Freejaharheda posts a tinted photo of Tsarnaev declaring his innocence; disbelievers “are NASA, GOVERMENT , CSI, NSI, ARMY etc. It is those who is dealing with satan.”

NASA?

I suppose he meant the NSA but then he also meant "goverNment" and I guess he thinks that "CSI" is a federal organization and who the hell knows what NSI might be. Apart from that, he sounds very informed.

We need the death penalty here, or this guy will have more sex with more wives than any free man, just like Tex Watson from the Manson Family.

More: "LOL!"

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Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

Some former lower-tier singer or something wrote a poem supposedly about Dzhozkar Tsarnaev but which sounds suspiciously like an advertisement for herself-- that is to say, an expression not about the terrorist but about herself and her elevated sense of empathy.

I went off on this phenomenon yesterday on Twitter, noting that we are now in the Conspicuous Compassion Floor Exercise program of the Moral Peacocking Olympics.

Many statements during this phase must be discounted as to their false mention of external facts, such as terrorism. That is just a red herring. The real subject of these sorts of Look At Me And Be Amazed By My Empathy and Cleverness statements is, as usual, The Almighty I.

Palmer, whoever she is, doesn't want to talk about Dzhohkar; she wants to talk about herself. However, as there's a social penalty associated with Narcissism, many Narcissists have learned to make statements seemingly about external matters which in fact are actually all about The Almighty I.

Palmer doesn't have any empathy for Dzhohkar, and I say this because I rather doubt she has empathy for any human being. What she primarily has empathy for his herself, and her ego, and her need for validation, and her desire to separate herself from the Masses by scoring the natural but "obvious" and therefore "common" reaction to a slaughter -- the natural and common reaction that a mass murderer is a bad guy -- by peacocking around an uncommon attitude towards it.

The aristocrat demonstrates that he is not common by cultivating a different sense of taste, style, and manner than the common folk; these demonstrations are not chosen simply because they suit him, but specifically because they are different than those of the common masses he wishes to elevate himself above.

Thus Palmer is required -- if she's to demonstrate her un-Common-ness -- to seek out and adopt postures that are rejected by the Common, such as "Mass murderers deserve our empathy and love."

Making this more obvious is the fact that the thoughts that Palmer is supposed channeling from a 19 year old male gritty-banlieu immigrant Chechen terrorist sound suspiciously like the thoughts of a 30-something suburban-raised/urban-identifying white privileged American woman with arrested adolescent development disorder.

That is to say, much like the thoughts and scary-bad problems of Amanda Palmer herself. (Apparently Amanda Palmer's biggest problem is that she scammed fans out of $1.2 million for a Kickstarter project which couldn't possibly cost that much and is now unable to fully account for why she needs so much money to record an album.)

Anyway, here are bits of Amanda Palmer's troll-post, which is intended as a Celebrate Me for Being a Special Little Ultra-Empathetic Snowflake invitation.

I'm sure you'll have poetry of your own.

Note all the lines that sound suspiciously like the "problems" of an OCD/Narcisstic brittle-psyche artistic type who grew up in a wealthy country. I'm frankly shocked Palmer didn't mention how Dzhohkar was dogged his whole life by Negative Body Image received from Fashion Magazines.

you donÂ’t know how it felt to be in the womb but it must have been at least a little warmer than this.

you donÂ’t know how intimately theyÂ’re recording your every move on closed-circuit cameras until you see your face reflected back at you through through the pulp.

you donÂ’t know how to stop picking at your fingers.

you donÂ’t know how little youÂ’ve been paying attention until you look down at your legs again.

you donÂ’t know how many times you can say youÂ’re coming until they just stop believing you.

you donÂ’t know how orgasmic the act of taking in a lungful of oxygen is until they hold your head under the water.

you donÂ’t know how many vietnamese soft rolls to order.

you donÂ’t know how convinced your parents were that having children would be, absolutely, without question, the correct thing to do.

you donÂ’t know how precious your iphone battery time was until youÂ’re hiding in the bottom of the boat.

you donÂ’t know how to get away from your fucking parents.

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you donÂ’t know how to tell the girl in the chair next to you that youÂ’ve been peeking at her dissertation draft and thereÂ’s a grammatical typo in the actual file name.

you donÂ’t know how to explain yourself.

you donÂ’t want two percent but itÂ’s all they have.

you donÂ’t know how claustrophobic your house is until you canÂ’t leave it.

you donÂ’t know why you let that guy go without shooting him dead and stuffing him in some bushes between cambridge and watertown.

you donÂ’t know where your friends went.

you donÂ’t know how to dance but you give it a shot anyway.

you donÂ’t know how your life managed to move twenty six miles forward and twenty eight miles back.

you donÂ’t know how to pay your debts.

you donÂ’t know how to separate from this partnership to escape and finally breathe.

I assume that last is a reference to Palmer splitting from whatever band she used to be in -- the Dresden Dolls or something.

How is this "for Dzhohkar"?

BTW, sometimes she looks like this:

Yoko Ono just called, she said she's owed royalties.

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You have noticed, I imagine, that in a spectacular crime conducted with explosive devices made from ball bearings and a pressure cooker the left and the media (pardon my repetition) is talking much about guns?

Well, here's another chance to talk about guns.

Authorities are investigating whether the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died after a shootout with police had any connection to an unsolved triple homicide in suburban Boston in 2011, a spokeswoman for prosecutors said on Monday.

The 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, identified by the FBI as one of two brothers suspected in last MondayÂ’s blasts, was a close friend of one of three men who were stabbed in the neck in an apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts in September, 2011.

At the time, the Middlesex County District AttorneyÂ’s office said it appeared that the victims knew their assailant or assailants and that the attacks were not random.

TsarnaevÂ’s potential connection to the case surfaced after the website Buzzfeed.com reported that some of his former associates suspect he may have been involved in the murder.

Here's how you square this circle, I think: guns lead to thoughts of murder and then thoughts of murder lead to knives. And also, murder.

So obviously we need some gun control.

BTW, how obnoxious is it that the left literally cannot shut up for two seconds about its agenda, even in places in which it has no place? Even where, as they say, it's wrong to "politicize a tragedy" even as the tragedy is not fully over?

We're the overly-political ones, eh?

Fresh Bomb Plot: There are too few details to really speculate this was connected to the Boston bombing, apart from the timing.

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Well, the smiling face, let's have a civil discussion about amnesty mask dropped last night.

Conn Carroll of the Washington Examiner proposed a plan that would allow illegals here to register and receive work visas but permanently exclude them from citizenship. That would be a real penalty (not ones like in the Schumer-Rubio amnesty plan). Rubio's spokesman Alex Conant, who until that point had engaged several critics (myself included) in polite debate, replied this way.

@conncarroll We haven't had a cohort of people living permanently in US without full rights of citizenship since slavery.

— Alex Conant (@AlexConant) April 21, 2013

Well, we have a cohort of people living here now who are without full citizenship rights. That's kind of what this whole thing is about, no? If they don't want to be like "slaves" they can do something actual slaves can't....leave.

As Carroll points out today, Conant's language is straight out the left's playbook.

I was worried that Team Rubio would be tougher to beat since they were doing so much smiling faced outreach to conservatives. It was easier to deal with snarling John McCain or Lindsey "tell the bigots to shut up" Graham. Conant has made things easier for the anti-amnesty side.

BTW- I know some people still want to fight over the word "amnesty". Clearly I think it the Schumer-Rubio plan is. To further my case, I'd like to call to stand one Marco Rubio (circa 2010).

During a March 28, 2010 Fox News debate against then-Gov. Charlie Crist, Rubio said: “He would have voted for the McCain plan. I think that plan is wrong, and the reason I think it’s wrong is that if you grant amnesty, as the governor proposes that we do, in any form, whether it's back of the line or so forth, you will destroy any chance we will ever have of having a legal immigration system that works here in America.”

In a CNN debate on Oct 24, 2010, moderator Candy Crowley asked, “So your plan is that you're going to close the borders, get the electronic system, fix the legal system, and then do what?" Rubio responded: “And then you'll have a legal immigration system that works. And you'll have people in this country that are without documents that will be able to return to the -- will be able to leave this country, return to their homeland, and try to re-enter through our system that now functions, a system that makes sense…Earned path to citizenship is basically code for amnesty.

Sure Rubio changed his mind (or lied depending on how charitable you are feeling) but you can totally trust him when he says it's not amnesty now and the border security provisions in his bill are strong . Sure you can.

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One of the most pernicious aspects of the chronic unemployment rampant during the Great Depression was that it took many people (mostly men) out of the workforce permanently. Many men simply became unsuited for making a living, and this in turn prevented them from forming families or even becoming a part of normal society. The same pattern is appearing now, and it is a cause for grave concern. Chronic unemployment isn't just a hit to the economy; it attacks the very fabric of society.

The simplistic approach to this problem is to demand that the government create jobs ex nihilo, but this almost never works in practice. Besides being wasteful of tax dollars and of limited use in actually reducing unemployment, these types of programs also tend to cultivate a sense of cynicism in the workers themselves. FDR's various make-work schemes were a perfect example of this. (The old joke about the WPA was that it stood for "We Piddle Around".)

Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on the war our government is waging on its own young people.

Richard Epstein: "Down with sick leave!"

Japan's demographic implosion is accelerating. The demographic and economic decline of Japan is going to be one of the biggest stories of our age, I think. I hope the historians draw the correct lessons.

The UKIP's Nigel Farage resorts to a level of honest dialogue about the Euro that many Europeans are uncomfortable with.

Detroit, Stockton...and now Philadelphia.

How the welfare state serves the strong rather than the weak. If you turn people into thralls to an overbearing state, you hold power over them. A nation of free men offers too few opportunities for the exercise of this kind of power; much better to have docile sheep who will stand still to be sheared.

Progressives love to trot out the Scandinavian countries as positive examples when challenged on the sustainability of the modern welfare state. However, it turns out that even the Scandinavians are not immune from reality. The Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians aren't that much different than anyone else when it comes to human nature: if you pay people not to work, they're not going to work. As the welfare state sinks its tendrils ever deeper into the body politic, working for a living begins to seem like a chump's game to the able-bodied citizens still laboring in the private sector.

The most ruinous cost of the welfare state isn't the drain on the treasury, or the burdens it puts on the productive members of society. It is the rot it generates in the civic virtue of the citizenry. Which brings us back to the United States, and the ruinous effects of unemployment in the age of the welfare state: government aid can be a deadly trap that takes many able-bodied workers out of the economy forever.

UPDATE: As the ObamaCare ship takes on water and begins a pronounced list to starboard, the rats are scrambling for the exits.
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Happy Monday.

The latest news out of Boston is that they are questioning Tsaraev, although he's only responding via writing due to the possibly self-inflicted injury to his throat.

Officials say that the brothers were on their way to NYC with more explosives when they were first confronted by police in the early morning hours on Friday.

I couldn't read it, but AP has a piece on the Boston nurses who described what it was like in the hospitals after the bombing.

And the police are saying that the bombers did not procure or possess their firearms legally.

In other news, Ramesh Ponnuru slaps around the Washington Post's "Five Myths" column for making up abortion facts in order to settle so-called "abortion myths." That'll leave a mark.

The ricin letter suspect will appear in court today.

The DSCC outraised the NRSC by $2 million in March. It was part of the DSCC's "best first quarter ever."

Rep. Paul Ryan was on EWTN on Thursday, making generally positive comments about the Gang of Eight's immigration reform plan. He'll be doing a joint appearance in Chicago today with Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez.

Also, I'll be on Bruce Carroll's Match Game again tonight at 9pm Eastern, along with Kurt Schlichter, Tony Katz, Mary Chastain, Amy Otto, and Tabitha Hale.

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