April 18, 2013

Blue Jacket Guy: I'm Not the Boston Bomber
— Ace

I never really suspected this guy. He looked like a runner. The right shape, the right clothes.

Turns out, he is a runner:

I noticed that Newsweek editor Michael Moynihan was also tweeting skeptically about the two guys in the photo this morning and e-mailed him to ask why he thinks theyÂ’re innocent. Answer: He found their Facebook pages last night and says it seemed pretty clear from the volume of material about track and field, along with lots of other innocuous crap, that theyÂ’re unlikely to be the culprits.

And in fact both men-- black backpack and blue jacket -- have been cleared. (I was pretty suspicious of Black Backback, I admit.)

By the way, this is why I think Ricin Elvis might not be the terrorist the authorities say he is. Liberty Lady found all his social media appearances before his name was officially announced (she figured it out by the initials "KC" and his frequent mentions of key quotes, like "I'm KC and I approved this message).

Here's "KC" reacting to the Boston Massacre:

we the people are just not safe anymore! I mean bombs where folks are “racing”??? Elephants in Tupelo Circus getting SHOT??? What next! I guess there will come a time when Elvis fans can’t even go out to watch a bunch of Elvis Impersonators pay tribute to a man who gave his life for we the people! Geesh! It’s a sad sad world!

That doesn't seem to fit the psychology of a poison-pen-letter killer. While one could say "Oh, he's putting on appearances, maintaining a simulacrum of normal behavior," I've gotta say I don't buy that. People who do this sort of thing -- killers, psychopaths, maniacs, violent extremists, terrorists -- are so driven by their weird demons that they are pretty proud to announce them publicly.

If you think about escalation, it starts with angry denunciations, then goes to threats, then goes to stalker-type behavior, and then proceeds to actual violence. I'm not sure that a guy so crazy he sends ricin to the president is in control of his shit enough to maintain appearances on his Facebook posts.

And I'm not sure the truly crazy know what sane looks like enough to fake it when required. Jared Loughner and James Holmes, for example, were plainly insane in their social media postings. It might have provided them some help at trial to pretend to be sane, but they didn't bother, or they didn't know what a sane person might sound like.

Anyway... I still sort of think we're going to find out this guy has some castor bean plants growing by his house and the "ricin" detected was castor pollen or something.

The other day on Breibart I noted that I gave the media a pass for all its erroneous reporting on these matters, because, honestly, I'd rather have the unvetted rumor now than the nailed-down story later.

Andrew McCarthy, however, points out that a wash of erroneous information is detrimental to investigations-- and helpful to terrorists.

[M]ost journalists and many agents are not well-versed in the esoterica of the justice system — in which, for example, “arrest” is different from “custody”; a “suspect” is different from a “person of interest”; and “detention” is different from “apprehension” —

I keep pointing this out. The media is as ignorant about these distinctions as it is about the difference between a semi-automatic and automatic weapon.

-- and you have the roadmap to error-ridden reporting. The problem is not that reporters and sources are intentionally misleading the public. It is that their information is both less reliable than they think it is and easily given to miscommunication. A potential witnessÂ’s voluntary submission to a law-enforcement interview could be mistaken for a suspectÂ’s surrender to police custody. Solid leads on a potential bomber based on video and forensic evidence could be miscommunicated as a solid identification of a suspect. The issuance of an arrest warrant for a person not in custody could be miscommunicated as an actual arrest.


...

And even worse than its effect of confusing and angering the public is the help it gives the terrorists. The leak-generated misinformation puts pressure on investigative agencies to correct the record; these public corrections give the terrorists insights into the state of the investigation that they would not otherwise have. It makes them harder to catch.

Well, now that you put it like that.

By the Way: There's a puppet show in France, like Britain's Spitting Image, called Les Guignols d'Info. A day after the Boston attack, they announced the winners of the Marathon -- a severed leg, a severed arm, and a limbless torso. It's at 1:46 to 1:50 or so, here. It's in French but the "joke" (I use the term advisedly) is visual and obvious enough.

I don't know if it's really worth noting that there is a lot of bad taste in the world. Also, of course, a lot of bad comedy; this is the sort of joke an amateur seventh-grader thinks up. It's usually not thought of as being professional level work.

If you want revenge, you already have it: These assholes are puppeteers.

(If you want a brief translation of how Le Figaro introduced that clip: With the question, basically, "Did the Guignols go too far?" Wikipedia tells me the show is "leftist and populist" and often accused of presenting a dumbed-down version of the news to dumbed-down people. And it's accused of being anti-American as well. I think we can safely move that out of the "accused" category to "declared.")

Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole.

-- tasker

France.

-- blindside

Posted by: Ace at 11:49 AM | Comments (294)
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1 If I had something to say besides "first," I'd say it.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 18, 2013 11:53 AM (mp+4g)

2 I'm certainly relieved that you're on the case, ace.

Posted by: swarthy saudi national at April 18, 2013 11:53 AM (J+ziD)

3 Rumor going around in previous thread  that Iran may have been responsible, BTW.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 18, 2013 11:54 AM (mp+4g)

4 Hello, Boston!

Posted by: soothsayer at April 18, 2013 11:54 AM (LPRBM)

5 MSM: Breaking News: FBI Briefing at 5:00. Or Not. Bush Tax Cuts!

Posted by: USA at April 18, 2013 11:54 AM (RIg+t)

6 I never really suspected this guy. He looked like a runner. The right shape, the right clothes. Yep, coming from a jock, here, first thing I thought of was, they're jocks.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 18, 2013 11:54 AM (XYSwB)

7 Where is the black jacket guy's backpack??

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 18, 2013 11:54 AM (tVTLU)

8 But hey, wild-assed speculation is what makes the world go 'round. I would use a Richard Jewell sock, but that's been done to death.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith[/i][/b][/s][/u] at April 18, 2013 11:54 AM (qyfb5)

9 My comments might be plainly insane but I can account for the whereabouts of my pressure cooker.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at April 18, 2013 11:55 AM (epxV4)

10 Still think it was the original Saudi kid that they were deporting for having done nothing wrong apparently, but since Beck outed them they can't deport him now.  It would look bad for TFG.

Posted by: Jaimo at April 18, 2013 11:55 AM (9U1OG)

11 What about portly dough faced flannel shirt guy?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 11:55 AM (cipri)

12 It'll turn out to be the guy I cleared in my investigation yesterday. Bud light guy, toasting to the camera.

Posted by: Whatev at April 18, 2013 11:55 AM (VRgVw)

13 Has the Pat Caddell look-alike been cleared? 

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 11:56 AM (UypUQ)

14 That doesn't seem to fit the psychology of a poison-pen-letter killer. Although, the part where his friends think he's nuts and crazy might be something.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 18, 2013 11:56 AM (XYSwB)

15 I gave my grandmother's pressure cooker away when she died, I sure hope it didn't fall into enemy hands.  It was really really old.  Just that little pressure thingy on the top could go through the ceiling.

Posted by: Jaimo at April 18, 2013 11:56 AM (9U1OG)

16 The bomber is being 'deported' after an unscheduled meeting between Obama and the Saudi foreign minister.

Posted by: Anonymous Coward at April 18, 2013 11:56 AM (4ghWI)

17 "And I'm not sure the truly crazy know what sane looks like enough to fake it when required."

Sociopaths -- as distinct from the Loughners and Holmeses, who are schizophrenics -- are notoriously able to fool even trained psychiatrists into diagnosing them as normal.

Posted by: torquewrench at April 18, 2013 11:56 AM (gqT4g)

18 This guy is lying because he wants to make President Obama look bad for some reason........

Posted by: Tifiney Franklind at April 18, 2013 11:57 AM (HlUFk)

19

In otherwords, that backpack was pretty stuffed.  Stuffed with what??

 

And ace, what about the tactic of faking social media for sometime, to just fit in as a "normal guy".

 

Think, the Amerikans.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 18, 2013 11:57 AM (tVTLU)

20 Also, why haven't they given us the make and design of the backpack used?  You know they've figured at least that out by now.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 11:57 AM (UypUQ)

21 My son lived a block from there till 6 months ago, and is now a mile away. I called him to see if he was okay that afternoon. His response?  "Huh?" "Whu?"

Ah, to be 20 again. His worldview? "We got any weed left?"


Posted by: Tobacco Road at April 18, 2013 11:57 AM (4Mv1T)

22 Sociopaths are scary people, especially the skilled ones. I worked for one for about 6 months and bailed after HR refused to do anything

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 18, 2013 11:58 AM (nTgAI)

23 it's funny how the castor bean stuff explanation is becoming so popular we deduced that right here in the threads a couple of nights ago, before anyone else

Posted by: soothsayer at April 18, 2013 11:58 AM (GcwH1)

24 Liberalism will be the death of society.  Most media personnel are liberal. 

In the famous words of Mt. Michael Moore, 1+1 = 2.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 18, 2013 12:00 PM (xmcEQ)

25

I keep pointing this out. The media is as ignorant about these distinctions as it is about the difference between a semi-automatic and automatic weapon.

 

That's what I mean when I say that the MFM loves its thesaurus way too much.   Words have meaning.   "In custody" and "arrested" are different, even if a thesaurus tells you they're synonyms.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at April 18, 2013 12:00 PM (4df7R)

26 Blue Jacket Guy: I'm Not the Boston Bomber —Ace I never really suspected this guy. He looked like a runner. The right shape, the right clothes. Turns out, he is a runner: ***** Well word is the other kid is a victim, injured. Plus his backpack straps and other markers did not match. Add to all that they were not at the second site where supposedly the Lord and Taylor video caught the image of someone leaving the package that matches the before and after pics sent into NBC Boston.

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 12:00 PM (r2PLg)

27 Different video of the explosion http://t.co/XWN8jLCAeb

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:00 PM (8sCoq)

28 the one in Texas I mean

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:00 PM (8sCoq)

29 So no one did it? A spontaneous explosion.

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:00 PM (cipri)

30 Those French guys are really jejune

Posted by: Jerry Lewis at April 18, 2013 12:01 PM (DrC22)

31 7 Where is the black jacket guy's backpack??

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 18, 2013 03:54 PM (tVTLU)

That was my issue yesterday, too. I guess he could have had it on the ground by his feet but it certainly wasn't clear that the backpack was by his feet. Plus, the one picture I saw of his backpack from behind showed a bulge in the backpack that looked an awful lot like the top of a pressure cooker.

Posted by: Slappy at April 18, 2013 12:01 PM (LTbLf)

32 There's a puppet show in France, like Britain's Spitting Image, called Les Guignols d'Info. A day after the Boston attack, they announced the winners of the Marathon -- a severed leg, a severed arm, and a limbless torso.

I believe the original "Love Bug" did this gag once with a car .

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 18, 2013 12:01 PM (qyQU6)

33 Eh, from what I saw everyone had a hat and a backpack. That's pretty common at a marathon. Also Boston is full of college students who have backpacks, and the public transportation was full of them. A range from socially awkward M.I.T. kids to stuck up Harvard snobs to partying hard BC frat boys. It also wouldn't be hard for someone to buy marathon/running gear, the guy could have easily walked into the expo and purchased a bunch of over priced running clothes to try and blend in with the crowd

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 18, 2013 12:01 PM (oBhEo)

34 7 Where is the black jacket guy's backpack?? Posted by: Prescient11 at April 18, 2013 03:54 PM (tVTLU) I think he is holding the backpack in front of him. His shoulders going forward looks like he is holding something heavy.

Posted by: nevada-ette at April 18, 2013 12:02 PM (tEe1I)

35 Bad taste or HILARIOUS?

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 18, 2013 12:02 PM (3+QKS)

36 13 Has the Pat Caddell look-alike been cleared? Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 03:56 PM (UypUQ) ******* Well the latest reports---*if* those are correct--use the descriptive phrase-- "very young". That presents a whole host of problems. IOW if they are 'very young" did they just do a chore for a puppy type of thing.

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 12:03 PM (r2PLg)

37 I have difficulty believing Crazy Elvis is handing out ricin-laced letters.  I'm sure he's handing them out, I just doubt they have ricin on them, or that he put it there.  Anyone who uses that many punctuation marks   that often  -- even in the heat of the moment -- is not someone who can get their hands on ricin and then apply it to envelopes with sufficient safety measures to keep from killing   HIMSELF in the process.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at April 18, 2013 12:03 PM (4df7R)

38 By the by, in case people missed it.  The geniuses at WaPo are now blaming the constitutional make up of the senate for the gun control #fail.

https://t.co/FsNv17b458

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 18, 2013 12:03 PM (qyQU6)

39

So...the Ricin Guy might be getting framed?

 

Wouldn't surprise me a bit.

Posted by: wheatie at April 18, 2013 12:03 PM (T1BD9)

40 How to mock the fwench puppeteers? Somehow an asshole suspended from a string just doesn't have much visual impact.

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 12:04 PM (OlN4e)

41

I will say, how long were the bombs place at their location.  And they keep talking about backpacks, but the one, at least from the first to the second picture, with an hour's difference or so, looked like a big white flour sack or something.

 

Not a backpack.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 18, 2013 12:04 PM (tVTLU)

42 Ricin Elvis? Who in the hell writes this stuff?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:05 PM (cipri)

43 It also wouldn't be hard for someone to buy marathon/running gear, the guy could have easily walked into the expo and purchased a bunch of over priced running clothes to try and blend in with the crowd

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 18, 2013 04:01 PM (oBhEo)



And then had his picture taken?



http://tinyurl.com/cu5vc4h

Posted by: Tami[/i] at April 18, 2013 12:05 PM (X6akg)

44 as soon as a cop pulls you over for going 80 in a 25 mph zone ( on meth, naked ) you're 'in custody'--and remain so until he waddles away after writing you several tickets.


If he slaps the cuffs on and propels into into his back seat, you're 'under arrest'.  You aren't formally charged until a judge gets a look at you


significant differences, there are...

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville, maintaining a simulacrum of normality at April 18, 2013 12:05 PM (Dll6b)

45 honestly, I'd rather have the unvetted rumor now than the nailed-down story later.

Really?
You'd rather have a dozen incorrect facts before getting a somewhat authentic version of events?

What would be the cost to not having the media chase its collective tail for 24 hrs? How would anyone be hurt by avoiding thinly-sourced rumors?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 18, 2013 12:05 PM (5Hl3g)

46 "If you want revenge, you already have it: These assholes are puppeteers."

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Awesome line. 

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 12:05 PM (UypUQ)

47 Ricin Elvis may have multiple personalities, so one of him may have done it.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 18, 2013 12:05 PM (3+QKS)

48 >>> That's what I mean when I say that the MFM loves its thesaurus way too much. Words have meaning. "In custody" and "arrested" are different, even if a thesaurus tells you they're synonyms which brings us back to their stupid belief that simply by being reporters they are fully conversant with the technical language and concepts of the subjects they cover.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 12:05 PM (LCRYB)

49 >>>Bad taste or HILARIOUS?

An 8 yo boy waiting to hug his dad at the finish line makes up some of those body parts that jokingly "won" the race.


Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER! at April 18, 2013 12:05 PM (0q2P7)

50 That KC guy has supposedly been on their radar sending threatening letters for a long time Ace.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2013 12:06 PM (53z96)

51 Also, why haven't they given us the make and design of the backpack used? You know they've figured at least that out by now.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 03:57 PM (UypUQ)

 

Getting into such specifics would just tip off the bad guys.   "It was a black nylon Champion duffel bag" doesn't do much for the public, but it tells the bad guys, " Shit, they know it was a Champion bag."   Just "a black bag of some sort, possibly a backpack or duffel" is enough without being too specific. 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at April 18, 2013 12:06 PM (4df7R)

52

Another thing, I know you're learning French but I hope you are not spending your time watching French fucking puppet shows!!

 

Next thing we know you won't know how to fight and turn into a JFKerry socialist!

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 18, 2013 12:06 PM (tVTLU)

53 >The geniuses at WaPo are now blaming the constitutional make up of the senate for the gun control #fail. One wonders if they would have CREDITED the constitutional make up of the senate had the bill PASSED

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:06 PM (8sCoq)

54 I read Elvis' twitter feed last night, and I kinda think the guy is innocent, too. He's guilty of being a doofus, but that's about it.

Posted by: Joejm65 at April 18, 2013 12:07 PM (UZuc4)

55 I thought they caught the ricin guy walking with a backback and letters in it containing ricin?  Who was that then?  Just another false fucking report from our crack media whores?

Posted by: © Sponge at April 18, 2013 12:07 PM (xmcEQ)

56 So no one did it? A spontaneous explosion.

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 04:00 PM (cipri)

 

Obviously someone was just trying to make some stew and had the heat turned up a little high.

Posted by: Eric Holder at April 18, 2013 12:07 PM (wAQA5)

57 http://tinyurl.com/bqs386t Live presser in West, Texas regarding last night's explosion. Was supposed to have started at 3:00 Central. Nothing yet.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2013 12:07 PM (GFM2b)

58 >>>That KC guy has supposedly been on their radar sending threatening letters for a long time Ace. Threatening or weird and erratic? The guy seems weird and erratic. I can see this being taken as "threatening." He seems like a goof to me. Anyway I suppose we'll soon know.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 12:08 PM (LCRYB)

59 Thats right, Ace is trying to learn Fwench. What does this tell us?

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 12:08 PM (OlN4e)

60 Doesn't making ricin require some knowledge and equipment so you don't poison yourself? I didn't get the impression that Elvis is a mad scientist. Mad, maybe but not a scientist.

Posted by: waldo at April 18, 2013 12:08 PM (y2XjR)

61 Boy the NY Post sure is having a CNN day week isn't it? 

Posted by: Nate in New Orleans at April 18, 2013 12:08 PM (lhX9P)

62 There's some reportage coming from Fox that the FBI may have some information on possible suspects from social media.  "Coded" shit, perhaps.

Anyhow, I won't hold my breath for any real info at the 5:00 presser.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:08 PM (lVPtV)

63 The media's refusal to learn the difference between robbery, and burglary/theft drives me crazy.

Posted by: Xander Crews at April 18, 2013 12:08 PM (IydAq)

64 I am sticking with my query which is why are people sure the terrorists were male?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at April 18, 2013 12:08 PM (RZ8pf)

65 Is anyone looking for white guys in a white van?

Posted by: CNN at April 18, 2013 12:08 PM (mCvL4)

66 effing strike throughs HOW DO THEY WORK?

Posted by: Nate in New Orleans at April 18, 2013 12:09 PM (lhX9P)

67 Mime puppeteers.

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2013 12:09 PM (KXm42)

68 Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER!


Jesus. I'll tell ya what's not funny.....you're "blog".

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 18, 2013 12:09 PM (3+QKS)

69 "If you want revenge, you already have it: These assholes are FRENCH puppeteers."

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Corrected for accuracy.

Posted by: © Sponge at April 18, 2013 12:09 PM (xmcEQ)

70 I don't know if it's really worth noting that there is a lot of bad taste in the world. Also, of course, a lot of bad comedy; this is the sort of joke an amateur seventh-grader thinks up.

I have to admit I often enjoy humor that is in poor taste.  Er, witness my reading the comments at some unnamed Mil blog.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at April 18, 2013 12:09 PM (QupBk)

71

which brings us back to their stupid belief that simply by being reporters they are fully conversant with the technical language and concepts of the subjects they cover.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 04:05 PM (LCRYB)

 

Yep.

 

I've mentioned it before, but I often wonder why people go to college for advanced degrees in engineering, chemistry, law,    medicine,   or any other rigorous career field   when all they have to do is get a journalism degree and PRESTO!    They'll be instant experts    in EVERYTHING!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at April 18, 2013 12:09 PM (4df7R)

72 Threatening or weird and erratic?

The guy seems weird and erratic. I can see this being taken as "threatening."

He seems like a goof to me.

Anyway I suppose we'll soon know.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 04:08 PM (LCRYB)


Sen. Wicker says he hired the guy for a party once.  Per Twitchy.


http://tinyurl.com/d7naogz

Posted by: Tami[/i] at April 18, 2013 12:09 PM (X6akg)

73 Are there false positives for ricin? All I've read is that the mail tests positive for "traces" of ricin. If you wanted to kill or seriously makes someone sick, why send traces?

Posted by: waldo at April 18, 2013 12:09 PM (y2XjR)

74 How can you get away with a crime like this? There were so many cameras.

Posted by: Eaton Cox at April 18, 2013 12:10 PM (q177U)

75 65 Is anyone looking for white guys in a white van?



*points finger* *jazzhands!*

Posted by: David Sirota at April 18, 2013 12:10 PM (lVPtV)

76 >>>The geniuses at WaPo are now blaming the constitutional make up of the senate for the gun control #fail.

And a reading of the Federalist shows they are exactly correct. One of the STATED PURPOSES of the way the legislative branch was constituted was to derail exactly this type of action.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER! at April 18, 2013 12:10 PM (0q2P7)

77

 

Remember...

This is the Administration that blamed an innocent Video-maker for what happened in Benghazi.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 18, 2013 12:10 PM (T1BD9)

78 53 >The geniuses at WaPo are now blaming the constitutional make up of the senate for the gun control #fail.

One wonders if they would have CREDITED the constitutional make up of the senate had the bill PASSED

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 04:06 PM (8sCoq)

Of course, these same idiots at the WaPo were fine with the constitutional make up of the Senate when Harry Reid, along with Nancy Pelosi in the House, used every single procedural trick to get ObamaCare passed through Congress a few short years ago.

Posted by: Slappy at April 18, 2013 12:10 PM (LTbLf)

79 I think one of the worst effects of a misreporting and erroneous suspects is that the social media starts spreading it around, the next thing you know some innocent person is slammed with hate mail, threatening phone calls, hate tweets, etc

Remember what the wrong Adam Lanza went through

Posted by: kbdabear at April 18, 2013 12:10 PM (mCvL4)

80 65 I think I saw those two earlier.

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:10 PM (cipri)

81 The only thing about the 2 people they just cleared are " What happened to their back packs"? They seem to disappear in later pics?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 18, 2013 12:10 PM (9Bj8R)

82 77
Remember...
This is the Administration that blamed an innocent Video-maker for what happened in Benghazi.



Is that poor sap still in jail?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:11 PM (lVPtV)

83 Relax, folks, I'm all over this.

Posted by: Top.Man. at April 18, 2013 12:11 PM (ZVZLb)

84 >>>Another thing, I know you're learning French but I hope you are not spending your time watching French fucking puppet shows!! no I'm reading Le Figaro, which linked that story. I'm doing this thing now of reading stories on Le Figaro, then finding an english version for the blog. So it's sort of "working" in that I am kind of getting stuff for the blog. The rape stories both came from Le Figaro. The margaret thatcher stuff too, and a couple of other stories. Eh, it's kind of working while also doing this self-imposed project of learning another language.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 12:11 PM (LCRYB)

85 Well, it sounds like Slate may get its wish. Fox reports that the FBI has a picture of a WHITE guy putting down a package. They say he appears young. I don't have a lot of faith in the FBI. They are so PC now that they will avoid the obvious because it is not PC.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 12:11 PM (wR+pz)

86 What else do the French have going for them if not puppets?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at April 18, 2013 12:11 PM (gzJVB)

87 Well the latest reports---*if* those are correct--use the descriptive phrase--


"very young".


That presents a whole host of problems.

IOW if they are 'very young" did they just do a chore for a puppy type of thing.

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 04:03 PM (r2PLg)


Hoo boy, isn't that the MO the Iranians attempted in the Saudi Embassy plot?  To get some Mexican gang members to carry out the attack for them?

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 12:11 PM (UypUQ)

88 By the by, in case people missed it. The geniuses at WaPo are now blaming the constitutional make up of the senate for the gun control #fail.
Posted by: tsrblke

Editorial at Bloomberg said pretty much the same thing.

"( Senatorial representation ) is a problem for sensible gun legislation. It is also a problem for American democracy. If the nationÂ’s laws fail to represent the views of the overwhelming majority of its people, representative democracy becomes a shallow and unsustainable exercise."

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 18, 2013 12:11 PM (5Hl3g)

89 66 effing strike throughs HOW DO THEY WORK? Posted by: Nate in New Orleans You download the free AoS chrome app, highlight, and then hit the strike button. strike strike strike

Posted by: waldo at April 18, 2013 12:11 PM (y2XjR)

90 Threatening or weird and erratic?


From what I have been seeing and hearing in the news all of the above.


The guy seems weird and erratic. I can see this being taken as "threatening."

Yes

He seems like a goof to me.


Looks like a goof to me too but you could say the same ting for the CO shooter and the guy who shot Giffords.

Anyway I suppose we'll soon know.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 04:08 PM (LCRYB)



Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2013 12:12 PM (53z96)

91 I am sticking with my query which is why are people sure the terrorists were male?

Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at April 18, 2013 04:08 PM (RZ8pf)



Yeah, there were 2 women in head scarves with one typing on the phone and the other looking pretty ominous at a guy next to them in that picture from yesterday.  Al-Gore Qaida have been using women lately.....

Posted by: © Sponge at April 18, 2013 12:12 PM (xmcEQ)

92 OT today is the 71st anniversary of the Doolittle Raid.

Posted by: OldDominionMoron at April 18, 2013 12:12 PM (SikKz)

93 >>> I've mentioned it before, but I often wonder why people go to college for advanced degrees in engineering, chemistry, law, medicine, or any other rigorous career field when all they have to do is get a journalism degree and PRESTO! They'll be instant experts in EVERYTHING! you're preaching not just to the choir but to the prophet himself on this.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 12:12 PM (LCRYB)

94 ace, why don't you bone up on your French watching Henri the cat videos? 

Kidding, of course.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:12 PM (lVPtV)

95 Remember how everyone was confused about Benghazi before they explained it to us?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:13 PM (cipri)

96 Hoo boy, isn't that the MO the Iranians attempted in the Saudi Embassy plot? To get some Mexican gang members to carry out the attack for them? Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 04:11 PM (UypUQ) ******* Good question. I'm not familiar with that. But the term "very young"--that is bugging me.

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 12:13 PM (r2PLg)

97 >>>Looks like a goof to me too but you could say the same ting for the CO shooter and the guy who shot Giffords. yeah but I didn't see any hold on sanity from those two. I just think it's weird that this guy is aghast at political terrorism while he's conducting political terrorism, you know?

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 12:13 PM (LCRYB)

98 If the nationÂ’s laws fail to represent the views of the overwhelming majority of its people, representative democracy becomes a shallow and unsustainable exercise."

Hmm.  The irony burns like a blowtorch.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at April 18, 2013 12:13 PM (QupBk)

99 Tu va alla plage?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:14 PM (cipri)

100 If a muslim is wrongfully suspected, we get lectured nonstop about "profiling" and "rushing to judgement"

If a white Christian male gets wrongly suspected? Why it's time to blame everyone to the right of Saul Alinsky, time to end everyone's rights, and maybe even time to open those camps

And they never apologize for reporting the wrong guy if he's white


Posted by: kbdabear at April 18, 2013 12:14 PM (mCvL4)

101

as soon as a cop pulls you over for going 80 in a 25 mph zone ( on meth, naked ) you're 'in custody'--and remain so until he waddles away after writing you several tickets.

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville, maintaining a simulacrum of normality at April 18, 2013 04:05 PM (Dll6b)

 

If he's naked, how do you know he is a cop?

Posted by: rd at April 18, 2013 12:14 PM (zLp5I)

102 >>>ace, why don't you bone up on your French watching Henri the cat videos? I tried that actually. I still can't follow the spoken language much (bits and pieces). I can "read" french with the significant help of google translate. When you read you can take your time and look things up.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 12:14 PM (LCRYB)

103 And a reading of the Federalist shows they are exactly correct. One of the STATED PURPOSES of the way the legislative branch was constituted was to derail exactly this type of action.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER! at April 18, 2013 04:10 PM (0q2P7)



Well it goes unstated I thought that they think this is a problem. OMGWTFBBQ, you mean that a majority of senators could represent a small part of the population?! The horror!

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 18, 2013 12:14 PM (qyQU6)

104 >effing strike throughs HOW DO THEY WORK?

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:14 PM (8sCoq)

105 "If you want revenge, you already have it: These assholes are FRENCH puppeteers." ----- Corrected for accuracy. Posted by: © Sponge at April 18, 2013 04:09 PM (xmcEQ) Beat me to it. Frog fucks. As if I didn't already hate france enough.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 18, 2013 12:14 PM (l86i3)

106 Well, it would certainly throw the investigation off if they haven't even considered that women might be responsible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2013 12:14 PM (BVq/X)

107 Hmm. The irony burns like a blowtorch.

Posted by: toby928©

***

 

But it can't melt steel./

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 18, 2013 12:14 PM (uhftQ)

108 What does "very young" mean, college age? late 20's? teenager?

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (oBhEo)

109 This is the same kind of paranoid hypersensitive bullshit we had after 9/11. Errbody gettin' ricin in they mail up in here.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (+lsX1)

110 One other thing to keep in mind about the Ricin event.  The postal people said it was very weak and bad Ricin as if it had not been processed very well.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (53z96)

111 POTUS  isn't  returning  my  calls.  That's gratitude  for  you!

Posted by: Bill Ayers at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (ypzqs)

112 when all they have to do is get a journalism degree and PRESTO! They'll be instant experts in EVERYTHING!  Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 18, 2013 04:09 PM (4df7R)

True, but, you do not really need the J-school degree, just become and Liberal and you not only know EVERYTHING!, you also know what is best for everyone.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, FLLDFC Gangstette Wily Wench at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (kXoT0)

113 you're preaching not just to the choir but to the prophet himself on this.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 04:12 PM (LCRYB)



You express to have at least SOME sort of knowledge.  Media types are talking heads with enough intelligence to utter something like "Meteors are because of GLOBAL WARMENING!!!!1111!!!!"

Posted by: © Sponge at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (xmcEQ)

114 >>>Jesus. I'll tell ya what's not funny.....you're "blog".

I should put a warning label on it for those suffering from depression. I get humanitarian awards for every month I don't write a post.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER! at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (0q2P7)

115 I tried that actually. I still can't follow the spoken language much (bits and pieces).

I can "read" french with the significant help of google translate. When you read you can take your time and look things up.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 04:14 PM (LCRYB)


For Spanish they recommend videos with CC on.  It allows you to hear the language, with the benefit of reading.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (qyQU6)

116 "( Senatorial representation ) is a problem for sensible gun legislation. It is also a problem for American democracy."

Fine, let's repeal the 14th Amendment.

"If the nationÂ’s laws fail to represent the views of the overwhelming majority of its people..."

Like Roe v Wade?

"... representative democracy becomes a shallow and unsustainable exercise."

Last time I checked, we were a Republic.


Posted by: Country Singer at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (L8r/r)

117 I'm starting to wonder if they will EVER figure out who the bombers are. It seems they knew the area, the location of the cameras and their coverage, and instead of hanging around, dropped the packages and got the fuck out of the area. Long gone by the time the bombs detonated. And if nobody takes credit, then there you are with nothing.

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (OlN4e)

118 I can read French Philosophy books but little else.

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:15 PM (cipri)

119 ...because, honestly, I'd rather have the unvetted rumor now than the nailed-down story later. As much as i hate to admit it, i agree. That's why i didn't pile on with the whole "media sucks" thing. That and i can't keep up with the horde.

Posted by: shredded chi at April 18, 2013 12:16 PM (iQ2ri)

120 I just think it's weird that this guy is aghast at political terrorism while he's conducting political terrorism, you know?

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 04:13 PM (LCRYB)

 

that would only hold true if HE believed what he was doing is political terrorism. this guy thinks he is being persecuted by the govt. to him his actions are justified and righteous.

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 12:17 PM (t05mB)

121 Does Le Figaro have a Page Three Girl?

Posted by: waldo at April 18, 2013 12:17 PM (y2XjR)

122 how to do strikes

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 12:17 PM (UypUQ)

123 The French probably thought the marathon was a blast.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 18, 2013 12:17 PM (GTvg+)

124 off topic.... Texas lawman killer was an x-cop. Chris Mathews insisted the perp was a skinhead.

Posted by: tony redenzo at April 18, 2013 12:17 PM (H3SNW)

125 I can read French Philosophy books but little else. Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 04:15 PM (cipri) Is that a book or a Pamphlet?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 18, 2013 12:17 PM (l86i3)

126 >>>I can "read" french with the significant help of google translate. When you read you can take your time and look things up.

Trying to learn a language where the written part is treated as a vague suggestion of pronunciation is going to be tough.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER! at April 18, 2013 12:17 PM (0q2P7)

127 Strike?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:18 PM (cipri)

128

If you want revenge, you already have it: These assholes are puppeteersFrench.

Posted by: Ace at 03:49 PM

FIFY



Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2013 12:18 PM (/WLC3)

129 I'm not going to go too far in my denounciations of the Guignols until I see what the Taiwanese do with the story.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at April 18, 2013 12:18 PM (QupBk)

130

I think what is scary to me is people so far removed from sanity, as ace put it, that they can't act sane because they don't even have enough of an idea of it to fake it.

 

On the other hand, very useful for identifying people that are crazy.

Posted by: Heralder at April 18, 2013 12:18 PM (+xmn4)

131 The irony about Obama and the Senate Democrats bitching about not being able to get that BS gun bill through the Senate is that it had absolutely zero chance of making it through the House.


It seems to me that all this posturing and Obama's wrath are all crocodile tears purely for playing to the base.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2013 12:18 PM (53z96)

132 If you want revenge, you already have it: These assholes are puppeteers.

But do they have masters degrees?!

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 18, 2013 12:18 PM (/kI1Q)

133 A Sacramento morning drive team got pulled off the air for the rest of the week for making jokes about the bombings in Boston.

http://t.co/ZRKOxn0dPn

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at April 18, 2013 12:18 PM (XrGnJ)

134 I think it's a shame we don't have foreign language classes in our lower schools.

Living in Germany for three years when my dad was in the AF, it was required to study the language.  I was young and soaked it up like a sponge and spoke it fluently. 

Our son was taking Spanish in pre-school and learning it quickly, and we moved to Chicagoland where no foreign language was offered in elementary school.

I studied French in high school for three years (including advanced my senior year) and can barely speak a word of it now.  Same with German.

You really have to immerse yourself in a country to learn the language, I believe.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:19 PM (lVPtV)

135 All I know is muzztards are dancing in the street, just like 9/11. OSP would have nuked some brown people long ago.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 18, 2013 12:19 PM (l86i3)

136 In fairness, the Colorado murder does appear to be the work of a skinhead prison gang, so the media is not always wrong, just mostly.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at April 18, 2013 12:19 PM (QupBk)

137

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 04:15 PM (OlN4e)

 

what makes you think that? and even if they had scouted the location of security cams there is absolutely no way to account for all the private cameras and media, etc that will be there the day of. I expect that when the bomber(s) are identified we will see that they were in the pix that we have all been viewing all along.

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 12:19 PM (t05mB)

138 125 Mine is skinny paperback sized. Most terms are the same in all Western languages.

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:19 PM (cipri)

139 Ah, somebody beat me to it.

Typical.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2013 12:19 PM (/WLC3)

140 I can "read" french with the significant help of google translate. When you read you can take your time and look things up.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2013 04:14 PM

The reading translate google with french order words of typing in not order

Posted by: Le traduire Google at April 18, 2013 12:19 PM (mCvL4)

141 But do they have masters degrees?! Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 18, 2013 04:18 PM (/kI1Q) Phd's in education.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 18, 2013 12:20 PM (l86i3)

142 Trying to learn a language where the written part is treated as a vague suggestion of pronunciation is going to be tough.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose DOOMCASTER! at April 18, 2013 04:17 PM (0q2P7)

 

 

This is one of the reasons I will never, ever be able to speak or read Korean.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at April 18, 2013 12:20 PM (4df7R)

143 ...because, honestly, I'd rather have the unvetted rumor now than the nailed-down story later.

Why? What a pathetic compulsion.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at April 18, 2013 12:20 PM (+lsX1)

144 So are the reddit/4chan guys just 12 hours ahead of everyone else? That appears to be where the blue jacket guy rumors started. And where nypost and others got their info. And that's also where the blue jacket guys was cleared. While nypost was publishing the dude's photo this morning, the subreddit was announcing his innocence and banning anyone who posted his name. Is reddit the source of all undernews now?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 18, 2013 12:20 PM (ZPrif)

145 It seems to me that all this posturing and Obama's wrath are all crocodile tears purely for playing to the base.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2013 04:18 PM (53z96)

 

 

The Demotards control the Senate. If it passed the Senate and the House killed it he could hang it on the GOP. Not so easy now.

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 12:20 PM (OlN4e)

146 Ooooo. Edgy Frenchies. Ooooooo.

Posted by: zsasz at April 18, 2013 12:20 PM (MMC8r)

147

I'm starting to wonder if they will EVER figure out who the bombers are. It seems they knew the area, the location of the cameras and their coverage, and instead of hanging around, dropped the packages and got the fuck out of the area. Long gone by the time the bombs detonated. And if nobody takes credit, then there you are with nothing.

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 04:15 PM (OlN4e)

 

I think you may be correct.  If they have pictures, why aren't they posting them and asking for help?  Even a "this is the area, if you were here, please contact the FBI, your help would be appreciated."

 

And if that happens, the conspiracy nuts will have a field day. 

 

 

Posted by: rd at April 18, 2013 12:21 PM (zLp5I)

148 Some percentage of leaks to the media are intentional disinformation designed to make a perp think LE is in the weeds and they're safe, or to get a perp to make an overt move.

Others are just imbeciles who can't keep their mouth shut

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 18, 2013 12:21 PM (/gHaE)

149 One thing to consider is that all these leaks are disinformation to lure the real bombers into a sense of safety or not?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at April 18, 2013 12:21 PM (9Bj8R)

150 "He looked like a runner."   



Of course anyone in shape couldn't be evil.

Posted by: irright at April 18, 2013 12:21 PM (pMGkg)

151 64 I am sticking with my query which is why are people sure the terrorists were male? Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at April 18, 2013 04:08 PM (RZ8pf) They have to be male. If they were female, more people would be dead.

Posted by: Joejm65 at April 18, 2013 12:21 PM (UZuc4)

152 Strike through?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:21 PM (cipri)

153

....'Guignols'

 

I was trying to pronounce that in my head...

The French pronunciation would be -- Gwee-Noes?

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 18, 2013 12:21 PM (T1BD9)

154 It seems to me that all this posturing and Obama's wrath are all crocodile tears purely for playing to the base.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2013 04:18 PM (53z96)

Of course. The only pure emotion he displays is petulance when he is denied something, and lust when he sees Reggie Love.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 18, 2013 12:22 PM (/WLC3)

155 Posted by: Country Singer at April 18, 2013 04:15 PM (L8r/r


Frankly it's a moot point anyway is it not?
He didn't even add up population represented by the actual senators who voted against the bill.  Which includes Texas, which as several large cities.  My guess is they represent something closer to 40% of Americans.
Which BTW is the whole fucking point of the bicameral legislature, to prevent 51% from making the rules.

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 18, 2013 12:22 PM (qyQU6)

156

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 04:19 PM (t05mB)

 

 

 

Because they have all kinds of pics, and no perps.

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 12:22 PM (OlN4e)

157 My TV is showing some jug-eared fuck in a church sound is off okay there's cavuto again

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:23 PM (8sCoq)

158 Hopefully we'll know more soon once the FBI briefs. They are putting out the info that the guy they have a pic of is young and white.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 18, 2013 12:23 PM (ZPrif)

159

Knave:

 

Use square brackets around your formatting tags.

 

[[b]s (for strikethrough)     b   (for bold)     i    (for italic)    or   u (for underline)]

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at April 18, 2013 12:23 PM (4df7R)

160 French porn might be an easy way to learn French. The conversations would be simple and cover what you might be familiar with. E.g., Je suis ici pour réparer la machine de copie. Plus, words/sentences would be repeated and you would pick up some useful french phrases that you could really use.

Posted by: waldo at April 18, 2013 12:23 PM (y2XjR)

161 Today Rush said Obama wanted the bill to fail, but fail in the House not the Senate. I'll buy that; it makes sense if the whole point is to win the next election.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 18, 2013 12:23 PM (Fely/)

162 Is reddit the source of all undernews now?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 18, 2013 04:20 PM (ZPrif)

 

God I hope not.  Crowdsourcing some things can be useful, yes ... but putting lives in the hands of some of the retards at reddit or 4chan is a horrible mistake.

Posted by: Heralder at April 18, 2013 12:23 PM (+xmn4)

163 The left is vile,whatever nationality they may be.

Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2013 12:23 PM (9XBK2)

164 So the 17-year-old runner can't be the bomber because he's 17 years old. And a runner. Hm ...

Posted by: MaxMBJ at April 18, 2013 12:24 PM (deaac)

165 Some idiots in the MSM who think real investigations are like a CSI episode are complaining that no arrests have been made and they nailed McVeigh in less than two days

They're forgetting that they caught McVeigh because he made so many mistakes like driving on a major interstate with no license plates and a shitload of incriminating literature in the back seat

Posted by: kbdabear at April 18, 2013 12:24 PM (mCvL4)

166 The French think that's funny? Yo surrender monkeys got a joke for you.. Who's the big winner on Bastille day? Car dealerships, Muslim youths and zippo Assholes. ****spit****

Posted by: Navycopjoe at April 18, 2013 12:24 PM (u0HjB)

167 A handful of latin root words goes a long way towards half-ass reading French/Spanish/Italian.

French throws you more curve-balls and deviate more from the latin than spanish/italian do.  They do this just to be perverse.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 18, 2013 12:24 PM (/gHaE)

168 Is it wrong that the bombing happened Monday and we're surprised there's no arrest by Thursday?

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:24 PM (8sCoq)

169 Strike through?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 04:21 PM (cipri)


Like a bold, only with an 's'.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 12:25 PM (UypUQ)

170 I must admit,I thought arrests(or maybe a dead perp or at least solid ID) would have been made by now.

Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2013 12:25 PM (9XBK2)

171 157 My TV is showing some jug-eared fuck in a church

sound is off



Awww....too bad you missed, "Hellooo Boston!"  Yes, TFG did open with that.  To applause from clapping seals of course.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:25 PM (lVPtV)

172 ICE Official Responds to Blaze Report: ‘Categorically False’



A senior law enforcement official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) told TheBlaze Thursday that reports claiming the department was deporting Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi under section 212 3B (“security and related grounds”) and had opened an “event” (or file) on the Saudi Arabian national following the Boston attacks is “categorically false.”

The official also told TheBlaze that Alharbi was never in custody nor ever considered for deportation by ICE, but that the department does have a different Saudi national in custody being held on grounds unrelated to the Boston bombings.


http://tinyurl.com/d5pyklq



I report, you decide....

Posted by: Tami[/i] at April 18, 2013 12:25 PM (X6akg)

173

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 04:22 PM (OlN4e)

 

yes, they surely have tens of thousands of pictures that they have to sort by time, location, position of camera. they have to mesh them together and I imagine they are going back timewise a couple of hours if not more. they have to analyze movements and actions. this is a gargantuan task and there probably wont be a smoking gun pic but the pix will lead them to suspects and in the interviews and research into suspects is where they find the perp(s)

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 12:25 PM (t05mB)

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:26 PM (cipri)

175 I don't get Bastille Day you liberate a prison and the inmates go on a rampage, and you hang your nation's identity on that?

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:26 PM (8sCoq)

176 Took 12 years to nab unibomber...and even then it was only because his brother gave him up.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 18, 2013 12:26 PM (/gHaE)

177 I'm hearing police and fire sirens now in Glenn Burnie, MD.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 12:26 PM (UypUQ)

178

Upchuck Schuma and McLame are on Tapper's showright now talking about what fighters for the 2nd Amendment they are

They have a 0% and 50% lifetime rating respectively form the NRA

Posted by: Albie Damned at April 18, 2013 12:26 PM (Yhu4q)

179 And I'm not sure the truly crazy know what sane looks like enough to fake it when required.

My remote diagnosis is a little different.

Ricin Elvis is mimicking sanity poorly, and he has no idea that that's what he's doing. People's poor reactions to him have made him paranoid, because he doesn't get what's happening, what exchange is really going on between him and the world.

His kind of crazy is one that often shows up in "outsider art." Crazy people don't make crazy shit like Finnegans Wake or ear-shredding noise-symphonies. You have to know all kinds of mostly unspoken social and aesthetic codes to make that kind of thing. Crazy people make bad versions of normal shit, like "fan fiction" or Wild Man Fischer songs. And they don't know what it is about what they're doing that makes it repulsive. They can't tell the difference between "Merry Go Round" and "Ticket to Ride."

That's bum-crazy or crazy-uncle crazy, not homemade-biological-warfare crazy--which can manifest in any kind of dude except this kind.

Ricin Elvis is trying. That's not what any serious-problem crazy does. Not for long, anyway. And he's been at it for years.

And look what he got for it.

Posted by: oblig. at April 18, 2013 12:26 PM (cePv8)

180 > Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 04:26 PM (cipri) WHACK Again!

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:27 PM (8sCoq)

181 86 What else do the French have going for them if not puppets? Well, they did invent the bikini, for that we should be eternally grateful. I hate champagne, or I'd mention that too.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 12:27 PM (wR+pz)

182 159 Knave:

Use square brackets around your formatting tags.

[s (for strikethrough) b (for bold) i (for italic) or u (for underline)]

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at April 18, 2013 04:23 PM (4df7R)



You gonna tell him how to turn all those things off!?  Oh dear gawd....this is gonna be a mess.


[ /s] [ /b] [ /i] [ /u]

Posted by: Tami[/i] at April 18, 2013 12:27 PM (X6akg)

183

The person of interest now is a "toung white male"

 

I'm thinking Occupy

Posted by: Albie Damned at April 18, 2013 12:27 PM (Yhu4q)

184

@Frankly it's a moot point anyway is it not?
He didn't even add up population represented by the actual senators who voted against the bill. Which includes Texas, which as several large cities. My guess is they represent something closer to 40% of Americans.
Which BTW is the whole fucking point of the bicameral legislature, to prevent 51% from making the rules.

----------------------

And of course all of his posturing ignores the fact that a majority of Americans were opposed to the legislation to begin with.

But that's never stopped him before - case in point Obamacare.

 

Posted by: junior at April 18, 2013 12:27 PM (UWFpX)

185 Which, btw, tells us two things. 1. The Democrats are not worried at all at losing the Senate in '14. 2. The Democrats believe they have a better than good chance of taking the House in '14. I happen to agree with the Democrats assumptions. Just look at how the Republicans are handing over the SC seat to Colbert.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 18, 2013 12:27 PM (Y4TdB)

186 Tami, don't forget to tell him to close spaces. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:28 PM (lVPtV)

187 Whoops..."young white male"

Posted by: Albie Damned at April 18, 2013 12:28 PM (Yhu4q)

188 Props to my alma mater and our fine, fine baseball team.  These are the hats they're wearing tonight: http://preview.tinyurl.com/culxwoo

Posted by: Country Singer at April 18, 2013 12:28 PM (L8r/r)

189 Oh sweet jesus, the Lord and Taylor camera runs 24/7. They have a picture of who dropped that bomb. They are either hunting, have the perp already or sent the perp back to the house of saud.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 18, 2013 12:28 PM (l86i3)

190

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 04:25 PM (t05mB)

Maybe, but a perp can move a hell of a long way in 3 days. To the other side of the world in fact.

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 12:28 PM (OlN4e)

191 177 I'm hearing police and fire sirens now in Glenn Burnie, MD. The fastest way to the Krespy Kreme!

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 12:28 PM (wR+pz)

192 176 Yes,but that was a different kind of bomber.

Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2013 12:28 PM (9XBK2)

193 They have Francois De La Mothe Fenelon. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2013 12:28 PM (BVq/X)

194 Isn't it probably that they have seen who the bombers are already, they either don't know which person it is, or they lost them? They really should have shut down all airport traffic out of Boston for swarthy men aged 20-45 immediately when the bombs went off.

Posted by: Baldy at April 18, 2013 12:28 PM (opS9C)

195 It's interesting to me that -- it appears -- the FBI was looking at the same guys that 4chan and reddit found in some pictures. It seems to me this whole case could be solved by the pajamahadeen.

Posted by: MaxMBJ at April 18, 2013 12:29 PM (deaac)

196 I'm attempting to create a grassy knoll theory that Lance Armstrong's artificially testosterone enhanced testicles were rolled into the crowd moments before blast. But math, damnit. I'm only half-way there.

Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at April 18, 2013 12:29 PM (feFL6)

197 If it passed the Senate and the House killed it he could hang it on the GOP. Not so easy now.

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 04:20 PM (OlN4e)



I think almost ALL of the Republicans would have not minded being blamed for killing a gun control bill.  The Democrats have overplayed their hand on this one, ALL due to following the choom boy.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2013 12:29 PM (53z96)

198 So the 17-year-old runner can't be the bomber because he's 17 years old. And a runner.

Hm ...

Posted by: MaxMBJ at April 18, 2013 04:24 PM (deaac)


Young runners are some of the most annoying and pretentious kids I know. But bombers probably not.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at April 18, 2013 12:29 PM (oBhEo)

199

"They have a picture of who dropped that bomb"

 

If he was wearing a hat and looking at the ground, they might not be able to see his face well enough to make any determination.

Posted by: Lauren at April 18, 2013 12:29 PM (wsGWu)

200 If you have a query, you need to speak with Brittney Griner.

Posted by: The Answer Man at April 18, 2013 12:29 PM (DrC22)

201 I'm going out on a limb here and predict the FBI presser will be a big ol' nothing burger. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:30 PM (lVPtV)

202 Strike?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:30 PM (cipri)

203 Posted by: Knave [ s ]what you want struck through[ / s ] Remove the spaces in the boxes.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2013 12:30 PM (GFM2b)

204 @185 Won't happen. District one is solid GOP.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 12:30 PM (wR+pz)

205 153 ....'Guignols' I was trying to pronounce that in my head... The French pronunciation would be -- Gwee-Noes? Posted by: wheatie at April 18, 2013 04:21 PM (T1BD9) ******* Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole. Stuck on cul which I think only gets you the ass not the hole.

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 12:30 PM (r2PLg)

206 175 it's kind of descriptive of Paris today though Paris...the only place in Europe which makes you wish you were in naples italy

Posted by: Navycopjoe at April 18, 2013 12:30 PM (j8JLb)

207 It never crosses people's minds that people might do these things who aren't crazy, they're just malicious.

Goebbels was clearly a piece of work, but would you call him insane? Gosnell will probably be just like this; a person who, to retain their sanity, gradually become a monster as their choices led them deeper into evil.

I get tired of the 'there's no evil, just crazy' line. There's both evil and crazy, and evil is not a kind of crazy. It's like we think the world is Gotham City.

Posted by: RiverC at April 18, 2013 12:30 PM (El+h4)

208 Testing, 1, 2, 3 ...

Posted by: MaxMBJ at April 18, 2013 12:30 PM (deaac)

209 I think almost ALL of the Republicans would have not minded being blamed for killing a gun control bill. The Democrats have overplayed their hand on this one, ALL due to following the choom boy. Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2013 04:29 PM (53z96) He doesn't understand middle America.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet is no longer shamelessly hawking his book Amy Lynn available on amazon. at April 18, 2013 12:30 PM (l86i3)

210 @BreakingNews
Toll from suicide-bombing attack at Baghdad cafe rises to 27 - @AFP

Damn. Who's Sirota hoping to finger on this one?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at April 18, 2013 12:31 PM (5Hl3g)

211 Has anybody started looking for the one-armed man?

Posted by: Richard at April 18, 2013 12:31 PM (DrC22)

212 Just saying.  If you had the predilection for committing a crime like the Ricin letters, it'd be pretty easy to find some internet whacko and use some of his/her material to throw the investigation off. 

Either KC was really stupid, or the Ricin letter sender was really clever in using KC's information. But then again, that ex-judge in TX was apprehended as a result of sending his demand/threat email from his personal computer.  So, I guess the smart money goes on stupid. 

Posted by: assault flounder at April 18, 2013 12:31 PM (Kkt/i)

213 I have a feeling someone's about to break the blog again.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:31 PM (lVPtV)

214 How is Jammit Neopolitano knows nothing about the Saudi National she is having deported?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:31 PM (cipri)

215 I would b.s it. Espagnol-- So-- Gwin-olz?

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 12:31 PM (r2PLg)

216 161 Today Rush said Obama wanted the bill to fail, but fail in the House not the Senate. I'll buy that; it makes sense if the whole point is to win the next election. --- I'll buy that, too. Problem for him is that Landrieu, Begich, Pryor, and numerous other Dems in the Senate didn't want to be hung out to dry come 2014. They saw what happened in 2010 and don't want to be on the wrong end of a wave election.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 18, 2013 12:31 PM (+x8q5)

217 They really should have shut down all airport traffic out of Boston for swarthy men aged 20-45 immediately when the bombs went off. They sort of did. They held all international flights and checked the manifests on all of them.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 12:31 PM (wR+pz)

218

Posted by: maddogg at April 18, 2013 04:28 PM (OlN4e)

 

that is very true. however that is a different issue than identifying the perp.

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (t05mB)

219 FNC says that FBI will release video of the suspects at 5pm

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (8sCoq)

220 210 Mormons.

Posted by: steevy at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (9XBK2)

221 Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole.

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 04:30 PM (r2PLg)

Assholes.

 

 

(yes I'm being a wise ass.)

Posted by: Heralder at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (+xmn4)

222 they said 'suspects'

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (8sCoq)

223

Young White Guy does  = OWS

 

It takes time for a Right-Wing Wacko to get violent, happens in middle age.

But for a Left-Wing Wacko, well....they tend to get violent at an early age of 18-24.

 

  

Posted by: Howard at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (to/4w)

224 7 Where is the black jacket guy's backpack??

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 18, 2013 03:54 PM (tVTLU)

Smart bombers buy two.  One is to show the authorities later.

Posted by: assault flounder at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (Kkt/i)

225 Katherine Herridge says the FBI will play out a video showing the suspects.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (lVPtV)

226 Funny how they had a BOLO for  black male, then an arrest/not an arrest, meeting with SoS and SA minister, mtg with POTUS & Saudi minister, then pics of swarthy arabs, now the accused is a white male. Funny how that works.

Posted by: Baldy at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (opS9C)

227 Fox say 5:00 FBI will show video of "suspects".

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (wR+pz)

228 I get tired of the 'there's no evil, just crazy' line. There's both evil and crazy, and evil is not a kind of crazy. It's like we think the world is Gotham City. --- To paraphrase Stephen Wright's role in Natural Born Killers, "They know the reason between right and wrong. They just don't give a damn."

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (+x8q5)

229

 Shhhh....don't tell the newbies how to avoid me.

 

Barrel likes noobs, all fresh-like and new.

 

Posted by: The Barrel at April 18, 2013 12:32 PM (T1BD9)

230

Posted by: Howard at April 18, 2013 04:32 PM (to/4w)

 

Young White Guy also = John Walker Lindh

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 12:33 PM (t05mB)

231 222 Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole. --- Democrats.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 18, 2013 12:33 PM (+x8q5)

232 what you want struck through

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:33 PM (cipri)

233 Nut cakes come in every variety. Here's an idea, let's treat the fucker(s) like we treated McVeigh no matter what their motive. You get dead, no bitching allowed.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 18, 2013 12:33 PM (ZshNr)

234 [š]Strike?[/š]

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:33 PM (UypUQ)

235 The barrel is waiting...

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:33 PM (lVPtV)

236 222 Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole. Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 04:30 PM (r2PLg) Assholes.(yes I'm being a wise ass.) Posted by: Heralder at April 18, 2013 04:32 PM (+xmn4) ******** LOL!

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 12:34 PM (r2PLg)

237 All prisoners are political prisoners.

175 I don't get Bastille Day

you liberate a prison and the inmates go on a rampage, and you hang your nation's identity on that?

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 04:26 PM (8sCoq)

Posted by: Bill Ayers at April 18, 2013 12:34 PM (cv5Iw)

238 It takes time for a Right-Wing Wacko to get violent,happens in middle age. But for a Left-Wing Wacko, well....they tend to get violent at an early age of 18-24. Posted by: Howard at April 18, 2013 04:32 PM (to/4w) Hey, you talking about Vic and me? I am telling you, we're not "middle aged" but we might be wackos

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 12:34 PM (wR+pz)

239

Unfortunately my pick is the old white man with what is apparently the same type of backpack that was blown up.  He immediately reminded my of the Unabomber.  

 

I hope I am wrong. 

Posted by: polynikes at April 18, 2013 12:34 PM (m2CN7)

240 Can they trace the path of the letters? Anyone know? That could exonerate KC as he could indeed just be a 'fall guy'.

Then again, perhaps KC knew the letters would be intercepted and this would be his chance to step into the spotlight.

Posted by: RiverC at April 18, 2013 12:34 PM (El+h4)

241 Fuck

Posted by: CSMBigBird at April 18, 2013 12:34 PM (jsWA8)

242 What else do the French have going for them if not puppets?

Pastries. Oh, say,  "Puits d'amour."

But as long as we can keep Vienna, we can scrap France and still have our pastry needs met.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 18, 2013 12:35 PM (/kI1Q)

243 I got it first try

Posted by: CSMBigBird at April 18, 2013 12:35 PM (jsWA8)

244 Fox News tried to warn us that maybe there had been no arrest. I mean, their slogan is "We Report, You Decide." You know, like "we report that the Martians have landed and you decide whether it's actually true."

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 18, 2013 12:35 PM (XUKZU)

245 Won't happen. District one is solid GOP.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 04:30 PM (wR+pz)


I am not that sure any more.  The local rags all printed everything he did in relation to his ex, including saying he was "sneaking" around her house.  But they did NOT print that he was there to visit his 14 year old son,



I had to go to a NYC paper to find that.  The Democrat PR rags are doing everything they can do to kill him and when you add the State Republican Party and the RNCC doing the same thing its hard to fight all that.



But the silver lining is this is a special election and the real one will be next year.

Posted by: Vic at April 18, 2013 12:35 PM (53z96)

246 Gotta run to the store and buy some fresh crab.  Heh.  Just caught myself spelling "crab" "crap."

Don't break the blog while I'm gone.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 12:35 PM (lVPtV)

247

They really should have shut down all airport traffic out of Boston for swarthy men aged 20-45 immediately when the bombs went off.


They sort of did. They held all international flights and checked the manifests on all of them.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 04:31 PM (wR+pz)

 

 

How far to JFK or LaGuardia?  They could have been to Europe and then the mid-east by the next morning. 

Posted by: rd at April 18, 2013 12:35 PM (zLp5I)

248 Nut cakes come in every variety.

Mmmm.  Lebkuchen.  *homer*

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 18, 2013 12:35 PM (/kI1Q)

249 Yeah! I did it. Is that code called html or something?

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:36 PM (cipri)

250

205...Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole.

 

Assholeos.

Posted by: wheatie at April 18, 2013 12:36 PM (T1BD9)

251 233 222 Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole. --- Democrats. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 18, 2013 04:33 PM (+x8q5) ********* Yes, tu gagne!

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 12:36 PM (r2PLg)

252 "If you want revenge, you already have it: These assholes are puppeteers."

You got that right.

Posted by: Union of Mime Professionals, Inc. at April 18, 2013 12:36 PM (ndlFj)

253 I got it first try Now bold it. Use b instead of s.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2013 12:36 PM (GFM2b)

254 An Elvis impersonator is the ricin poisoner. I'm thinking street mimes may be the Marathon bombers. It's better than any lead the FBI has.

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 18, 2013 12:37 PM (XUKZU)

255 143 Why? What a pathetic compulsion Not pathetic at all. Call it what you want, but I'd rather know what they at least think they know than know nothing at all. We all know that the first 24 hrs (at least) is going to a lot of wrong info and speculation. Are you saying that you didn't saying watch any news? Didn't come here to read/comment on the news as it was breaking (even knowing at least some of it would be wrong)?

Posted by: shredded chi at April 18, 2013 12:38 PM (iQ2ri)

256 I like italic food.

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:39 PM (cipri)

257 I'm just a hunka-hunka burnin' ricin.

Posted by: DeathElvis at April 18, 2013 12:40 PM (MMC8r)

258 New post up.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2013 12:40 PM (GFM2b)

259 249 How far to JFK or LaGuardia? They could have been to Europe and then the mid-east by the next morning. Posted by: rd at April 18, 2013 04:35 PM (zLp5I) With ZERO traffic? 4 hours.

Posted by: Joejm65 at April 18, 2013 12:40 PM (UZuc4)

260 I don't think I've ever seen such a look of misery and dejection on the face of my daughter as I just did a moment ago. I sat down with her on the sofa and (as calmly as I could) tried to explain to her why an Elvis impersonator is charged with a crime. I tried to keep my voice steady, but it became increasingly difficult - the rage and feelings of helplessness were just too much. She could tell something was wrong. I found myself at such a loss for words - nothing made any sense; nothing makes sense anymore. I finally had to admit, " I just don't know - I don't know what's going on in this country anymore..." When I finished her lower lip started to tremble and her eyes began to fill with tears, "Mommy" she said, "why are the Republicans doing this to the country?" Well, that was it for me: I finally fell apart. I just fell into her arms and we both began sobbing for several minutes. She had to comfort me and get me back on my feet. Sometimes I just think itÂ’s too much, but seeing the strength in my daughters voice helped me to get through.

Posted by: CheChe v.7.0 at April 18, 2013 12:40 PM (feFL6)

261 205 Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole.

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 04:30 PM (r2PLg)

Trous de cul (I believe)

Posted by: Slappy at April 18, 2013 12:40 PM (LTbLf)

262 RE: Boston / Ricin letters

This might be a test of a 'new system' - where sleepers are used in a similar way that 'zombie boxes' are used in DDoS attacks. The people chosen are those among the cells that have no history and therefore are low on the list of suspects, and may have little to no evidence pointing to culpability.

Sleeper systems work best when orders are indirect - signals which are to the uninitiated undetectable as signals are used, which tell the sleepers that it is time to act. This is real basic spycraft kind of stuff I think, kids can figure it out.

The thing that strikes me as peculiar about the Boston attack is that it is not so much evil as just cruel; it didn't kill a lot, it just created misery and pain. In other words, it did little 'damage' but made a big psychological mark.

All of it is troubling.

Posted by: RiverC at April 18, 2013 12:40 PM (El+h4)

263

My prediction:

 

1.The "Younger Pat Cadell" the guy with the same strap to his Backpack as the blown up one used in the bombing.

 

2. The balding white guy standing to the right of "Young Pat Cadell" with the sun glasses on in all the pictures.

 

I'm assuming with this prediction that the information of being a young white man coming out in the press is either disinformation, or just incorrect information.

 

99% chance I'm incorrect.

 

Posted by: Howard at April 18, 2013 12:40 PM (to/4w)

264 Funny how they had a BOLO for black male, then an arrest/not an arrest, meeting with SoS and SA minister, mtg with POTUS Saudi minister, then pics of swarthy arabs, now the accused is a white male. Funny how that works.

By tomorrow they'll be looking for albino Chinese conjoined twin midgets.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 18, 2013 12:41 PM (SY2Kh)

265 We get to loaf on Jerry Rivers now.

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:41 PM (cipri)

266 stupid 4chan, getting our hopes up.

Posted by: joeindc44 wonders what sound a democrat duck makes, is it lame lame lame? at April 18, 2013 12:41 PM (QxSug)

267

Lucy is setting up the football for another kick attempt at 5 p.m.

 

Posted by: FUBAR.B.I. at April 18, 2013 12:41 PM (x9s9/)

268 " Wikipedia tells me the show is "leftist and populist" and often accused of presenting a dumbed-down version of the news to dumbed-down people." ---- So...French Daily Show?

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at April 18, 2013 12:41 PM (Y5I9o)

269 >their slogan is "We Report, You Decide." You know, like "we report that the Martians have landed and you decide whether it's actually true." my 2nd LOL today

Posted by: Jones in CO at April 18, 2013 12:42 PM (8sCoq)

270
SAT Test Question:

Youtube anti-muzzie video guy is to the Benghazi massacre as _______ guy is to the Boston bombing.

a. Ricin
b. ricin
c. RICIN
d. All of the above

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 18, 2013 12:42 PM (mKNJE)

271

Posted by: CheChe v.7.0 at April 18, 2013 04:40 PM (feFL6)

 

I fell for it thru the first few sentences!! man that is a great throwback!

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 12:42 PM (t05mB)

272 By tomorrow they'll be looking for albino Chinese conjoined twin midgets.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 18, 2013 04:41 PM (SY2Kh)

 

me too, if they're female.

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 12:43 PM (t05mB)

273 205 Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole. Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 04:30 PM (r2PLg) France.

Posted by: blindside at April 18, 2013 12:43 PM (x7g7t)

274 What else do the French have going for them if not puppets? Quiche, Citroens, berets, androgynous fashion ... and they are all Bien Pensants ... ... LesBiens

Posted by: Arbalest at April 18, 2013 12:44 PM (kHfIr)

275 Unfortunately my pick is the old white man with what is apparently the same type of backpack that was blown up. He immediately reminded my of the Unabomber.

I hope I am wrong.

Posted by: polynikes at April 18, 2013 04:34 PM (m2CN7)

The guy who resembles Pat Caddell?

His pack seems too light given how he's causually supporting it with one arm.

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 12:44 PM (UypUQ)

276 Just because someone is a "law enforcement source" doesn't mean they know what they are talking about.

Posted by: Lucky Pierre at April 18, 2013 12:45 PM (5fSr7)

277 sock off.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 18, 2013 12:45 PM (UypUQ)

278 Posted by: CheChe v.7.0 at April 18, 2013 04:40 PM (feFL6)

I fell for it thru the first few sentences!! man that is a great throwback!

Posted by: chas at April 18, 2013 04:42 PM (t05mB)

 

That one is the gift that keeps on giving

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 18, 2013 12:45 PM (nTgAI)

279 well, then. It's agreed. If this was done by a white person, we dissolve the republic.

Posted by: joeindc44 wonders what sound a democrat duck makes, is it lame lame lame? at April 18, 2013 12:46 PM (QxSug)

280 plural of  'asshole' is 'connards' ( ou, les connards )

Posted by: Jerry Jack in Jacksonville, maintaining a simulacrum of normality at April 18, 2013 12:46 PM (Dll6b)

281 181 86 What else do the French have going for them if not puppets?


Well, they did invent the bikini, for that we should be eternally grateful. I hate champagne, or I'd mention that too.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectal at April 18, 2013 04:27 PM (wR+pz)

 

The French did give the world my favorite feminie hygiene product, "Janitor in a Drum"

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at April 18, 2013 12:46 PM (YYyqq)

282 "Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole." Asshole: Noun [ass - hol]. Def: Person who you disagree with. Ex. "Chris Matthews is an asshole." Often used with adjective "f***ing. Plural form: Assholes. Hipster variant: Assholz

Posted by: MaxMBJ at April 18, 2013 12:46 PM (deaac)

283 An Elvis impersonator is the ricin poisoner. I'm thinking street mimes may be the Marathon bombers.

It's better than any lead the FBI has.

Posted by: WalrusRex

***

 

Any excuse to go mime hunting.

When you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer?

Posted by: Tilikum the Killer Assault Whale at April 18, 2013 12:46 PM (uhftQ)

284

205 Dang it my brain is still trying to come up with the plural of asshole.

Posted by: tasker at April 18, 2013 04:30 PM (r2PLg)

France.

Posted by: blindside at April 18, 2013 04:43 PM (x7g7t)

 

 

Les Obamas

Posted by: The Jackhole at April 18, 2013 12:46 PM (nTgAI)

285 The thing that strikes me as peculiar about the Boston attack is that it is not so much evil as just cruel; it didn't kill a lot, it just created misery and pain. In other words, it did little 'damage' but made a big psychological mark. All of it is troubling. --- This is the idea behind the kinds of terrorist attacks Tom Clancy theorized in Teeth Of The Tiger... mall shootings in mid-sized cities designed to create psychological panic as much as anything else.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at April 18, 2013 12:46 PM (+x8q5)

286 It's interesting how it never occurs to the French why everybody wants to kick their asses.

Posted by: Fritz at April 18, 2013 12:47 PM (gyDll)

287 "By tomorrow they'll be looking for albino Chinese conjoined twin midgets." Eng: They better not! Chang: It wasn't me, it was him!

Posted by: MaxMBJ at April 18, 2013 12:48 PM (deaac)

288 286 An Elvis impersonator is the ricin poisoner. I'm thinking street mimes may be the Marathon bombers. It's better than any lead the FBI has. Posted by: WalrusRex *** Any excuse to go mime hunting. When you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer? --- You hit them with an olive loaf.

Posted by: Opus The Penguin at April 18, 2013 12:48 PM (+x8q5)

289 Starting to wonder if this might be a couple of High School assholes who wanted to take Columbine etc. up a notch.

Posted by: Outta here if it's a rightwinger at April 18, 2013 12:51 PM (x9s9/)

290 134 I think it's a shame we don't have foreign language classes in our lower schools.

Living in Germany for three years when my dad was in the AF, it was required to study the language. I was young and soaked it up like a sponge and spoke it fluently.

I studied French in high school for three years (including advanced my senior year) and can barely speak a word of it now. Same with German.

You really have to immerse yourself in a country to learn the language, I believe.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 04:19 PM (lVPtV)


Same here, Hahn AFB in the mid to late 70's.  Any overlap.  Also studied french in high school.

Posted by: assault flounder at April 18, 2013 12:56 PM (Kkt/i)

291 You really have to immerse yourself in a country to learn the language, I believe. Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 18, 2013 04:19 PM (lVPtV) Same here, Hahn AFB in the mid to late 70's. Any overlap. Also studied french in high school. Posted by: assault flounder at April 18, 2013 04:56 PM (Kkt/i) --- Nah, they could do it here if they tracked classes appropriately and marketed it to students who really show initiative. But they don't because it's a requirement for everyone, so it gets dumbed down.

Posted by: JeremiadBullfrog at April 18, 2013 01:01 PM (Y5I9o)

292 Reading through KC's twitter, his passions, in order, seemed to be 1. Really bad music 2. The underground organ harvesting trade 3. Paranoia over Internet stalkers 4. Chemtrails Above all, by far, bad music. It wouldn't stun me if he's the real guy, but it wouldn't if it isn't either. I was expecting the "oh yeah they found him" reaction like Loughner or Holmes give you, but it wasn't close to that. Someone would have had to take a ton of effort to make it seem like him though, that's for sure. Then his paranoia would be well justified.

Posted by: Dave S. at April 18, 2013 01:07 PM (pQdNP)

293 The guy who resembles Pat Caddell?
His pack seems too light given how he's causually supporting it with one arm.

Posted by: Knave at April 18, 2013 04:44 PM (UypUQ)

 

That he is holding it instead of wearing it was also troubling to me. 

Posted by: polynikes at April 18, 2013 01:10 PM (m2CN7)

294 Here is my contribution to the panel of Idle Speculation. What we know about the Boston Bombing: sophisticated, devices of a type in common use by Jihadis, devices loaded with anti personnel shrapnel to cause maximum casualties, occurred in Boston, on Tax Day/Patriot Day. I would rule out your "average" anti Government extremist, despite the ugly CNN type musings, due to (a) the sheer cruelty/civilian casualty intensive nature of the attack, and (b) lack of any claim of responsibility/manifesto, etc. The more likely target of a McVeigh or fellow traveller I think would be an "official" Govt installation, and more concern about destruction of Govt installations or even Govt employees, vs such wanton, cruel pursuit of civilian casualties. Even a "lone wolf" totally deranged (Breivik type) would, I think, have published some early claim of responsibility. Given the cruelty/civilian seeking nature of the attack, I come back to the intense hatred of Americans and mindset of the committed Jihadi. But the lack of any claim of responsibility and choice of symbolism that puts the "Tea Party" under suspicion, brings me more to the extreme hard-core, Ayers type Commie left. Cui bono? From: (1) wanton killing/maiming of Americans, (2) a "blow" to an iconic American public event, and (3) causing suspicion to fall on "right wing" groups by the symbolism of Tax Day in Boston? If this was straight up Jihadi, or anything without seeking that collateral, political point (of bringing Tea Party/libertarians under suspicion) then I think someone would have claimed responsibility by now. So, I truly think there is a "false flag" aspect to this, and that those who did this are also hoping to weaken the political hand of the conservatives who are essentially the only ones left fighting for traditional America. I don't for a minute think that this is mainstream Democratic left, but this all hangs together I think as the work of the radical left, perhaps in collaboration with Jihadis. That, and I bet they all ate bread within 24 hours of the bombing.

Posted by: NYC Parent at April 18, 2013 01:44 PM (HEo6y)

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