The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder of the brothers suspected in the Boston bombings, in 2011, two U.S. law enforcement officials told ProPublica Friday evening. The FBI agents conducted the inquiry into suspected extremist or terrorist activity at the request of a Russian security agency, the officials said.
“Yes he was interviewed,” a U.S. law enforcement official said. “Nothing derogatory came of it. We reported it back to the other agency, but never got anything as far as further communications from them. There was never any reason to do anything else.”
“Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed early Friday after a shootout with police in Watertown, Mass., traveled to Russia for six months in 2012. Law enforcement officials are now conducting a review of that trip to see if Mr. Tsarnaev might have met with extremists or received training from them while abroad, current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials said.”
Doing a bunch of cleanup around the house to have a few buddies over for a session of drinking and playing Magic: The Gathering. Yeah, we’re a bunch of immature nerds.
In non-new news, I will be out in LA in approximately 3 weeks, and I’m trying to round up BJers in the area for a meetup on Friday, May 10th…looking to do it at Golden Road Brewery in Glendale, probably around 7 or 8 PM…let me know if you have interest! You can drop me an email at [email protected], as long as you don’t also promise me there’s a Nigerian prince waiting to send me loads of Bitcoins.
5.
Ben Franklin
“Author John Laughland wrote: “the leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The list of the self-styled ‘distinguished Americans’ who are its members is a roll call of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusiastically support the ‘war on terror.’
“They include Richard Perle, the notorious Pentagon adviser; Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be ‘a cakewalk’; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld and a director of the rightwing Heritage Foundation; Frank Gaffney of the militarist Centre for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of Lockheed Martin, now president of the US Committee on Nato; Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, a former admirer of Italian fascism and now a leading proponent of regime change in Iran; and R. James Woolsey, the former CIA director who is one of the leading cheerleaders behind George Bush’s plans to re-model the Muslim world along pro-US lines.”
People are sending checks to the guy who owned the boat that hid the Boston bomber. They want him to be able to get a new boat since his old one is shot up.
I recently became FB friends with someone I went to high school with, and found out she has a son named Darwin. I’m not sure if I think that’s awesome or dumb.
10.
Violet
@PeakVT: Big earthquake in China. Not a slow news weekend. Maybe in the US, though.
11.
Ben Franklin
“It is possible that she is saying that Anzor Tsarnaev was a soldier or security policeman for the pro-Russian Chechnyan government of Akhmet Kadyrov, established in 1999 in the course of the Second Chechnya War against the Islamic Peacekeeping Army, which had invaded Daghestan.”
Then there’s this which was news to me….
“Most ex-Soviet Muslims are secular and many don’t believe in God or think religion is important. Their families lived under a Communist regime for some 70 years, with its campaigns of official atheism and anti-religious indoctrination in schools. In the ex-Soviet Muslim-heritage republics, there are huge struggles between those happy in their secularism and those who are attempting to recover a Muslim identity. That struggle has played out in Chechnya as well as in Uzbekistan.”
Arrrrgggh. My team hits the post three times, has to settle for a draw that serverely damages their chances of making the playoff.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge.
13.
Arm The Homeless
Pro Tip: A celebratory evening is not served well by watching The Pianist
The fiance won an award for a distinguished graduate career this week after successfully passing her dissertation defense and has an interview with a southern liberal arts school next week. Her and her colleagues have been tapped to edit an entire series on Modernism based on their first book. May I say that she is an academic rock star? I will anyways, despite her modesty.
Enjoying our beautiful spring weather here in the swamp, oiling my cast iron in preparation for some epic corn bread baking tonight and using my awesome new Fiskars hatchet to clear out some invasive pine roots. Should be a productive day.
@Alison: I had a HS teacher named Darwin. In HS I thought he was pretty good. He taught English including several classes that ultimately got dropped due to school board pressure after a visit from a fundamentalist whack job speaker. He got foisted onto us by the wife of a school board member, who spent the entirety of his presentation sitting in the front row of our auditorium – genuflecting each time this clown sited the Bible.
After HS, I learned good old Darwin was himself something of an intolerant Christianist asshole. He was spearheading the picketing of a local video store for having the temerity to carry X rated videos. The fact they held the vids behind a closed door, and you needed to produce ID to see them were totally irrelevant to Darwin. So yeah, I’ll go with asshole based on that single data point.
18.
Roger Moore
@Alison:
Nothing wrong with being named Darwin, though it isn’t quite as cool as my nephew, Noah Darwin.
@Roger Moore:
What the fish, man, he’s old enough not to swear if he doesn’t want to.
22.
Anya
Things I want to know more about:
1) did they capture CNN’s dark-skinned man, or is he still on the loose?
2) weird that firebaggers and wingnuts hate and vilify Eric Holder with the same intensity.
23.
raven
@Anya: And how is the murder of Mr White cap coming?
24.
Linus Pickle
Am I the only person who feels terribly let down by the new Daft Punk single? It sounds like a porn soundtrack to me.
@Roger Moore: I mean, I don’t think there’s anything “wrong” with it. yay evolution! Just wondering what it would be like for a kid with that name, you know?
28.
JoyfulA
@Gravenstone: I see in the small-town newspaper where I lived when I was little an occasional obituary for an 80-something Darwin. I don’t know why.
On Darwin, my vote would be “awesome.” At the very least, it will be/must have been character-building for the young man.
To the best of my recollection, burnspbesq has always been cagey about his favorite professional sports teams. (His college allegiances he waves proudly.)
Here’s an interesting article about last weekend’s flare-up of hooliganism in the EPL and a comparison with the sport’s dark days there:
@JoyfulA:
Amazingly enough, Darwin used to be a more popular name than it is now. According to the Social Security baby names web site, Darwin reached the apex of its popularity in 1938, when it was the 297th most popular boy’s name. It gradually declined in popularity until it dropped out of the top 1000 in the late 1990s, before recovering back into the 750 range today.
@handsmile: As a Newcastle fan I am both sad and glad about that piece. But mostly sad because God, they’re sucking lately :/
32.
Haydnseek
@Anya: Wingnuts hate him because he’s part of Obama’s cabinet. Being black doesn’t help. Firebaggers can make a very convincing case. He’s proven himself a Wall Street stooge from day one. NO charges brought against the masters of the universe that joyfully defrauded millions of Americans, resulting in the destruction of the economy. NO charges brought against the war criminals that murdered and tortured the population of Iraq for ten years. I’m no firebagger, and sure as hell no wingnut, but Holder has been an absolute disaster. Commit any heinous crime you want. There will be NO consequences.
33.
beltane
@Alison: I know someone with a daughter named Darwin, member of Team Secular. It’s not any more dumb than half of the other names I see these days.
34.
Anya
@Roger Moore: I am desperately hoping that’s not the case.
In another news, it looks like the 19 year old bomber might be a sociopath. According to his friend he was back in campus after he committed this heinous act and was acting normal and interacting with is friends. If he was not a sociopath, how can he not show any distress in light of all the damaged he’s caused? I wonder how he felt after looking at the smiling face of young Martin Richards? This reminds me of an interview I’ve watched recently where Timothy MCVeighn was asked about all the innocent little kids he’s killed and he said that he considered them “collateral damage.”
There was a Darwin Martin who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building in Buffalo (now gone). Wright also built a house for him (still there).
38.
Origuy
You know who I feel sorry for? The parents of that Indian-American kid, Sunil Tripathi. He’d been missing for weeks and then it’s reported that he’s a suspect in the bombing. They must have been totally freaked out. He’s still missing; maybe the fuss will make him come forward, if he’s still alive.
“Most ex-Soviet Muslims are secular and many don’t believe in God or think religion is important. Their families lived under a Communist regime for some 70 years, with its campaigns of official atheism and anti-religious indoctrination in schools. In the ex-Soviet Muslim-heritage republics, there are huge struggles between those happy in their secularism and those who are attempting to recover a Muslim identity. That struggle has played out in Chechnya as well as in Uzbekistan.”
I’m not entirely surprised, my dad’s worked in Bosnia and Kosovo and reports that that’s pretty much the case over there as well.
However, while “Muslim” may not mean much as a religion e.g. a way to live one’s life and all, I suspect it probably still means quite a bit as a label, a “heritage” thing. Sort of like the way Catholicism was a huge part of Irish, Italian, Polish etc ethnic identity here in the U.S, even for people who weren’t all that religious.
I endorse a hearty Clay Davis a.k.a. “Shhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit!”
And broccoli.
43.
Amir Khalid
@Origuy:
With one Tsarnaev brother dead and the other in custody, aren’t the other possibles already out of contention as suspects?
44.
Origuy
@Amir Khalid: Yes, of course, I was referring to the time before that. They were on an emotional roller-coaster. Now they are back to having a missing suicidal son.
Didn’t realize you were a Geordie! (or do you prefer a Magpie?) Taking a look at its roster, I can’t understand why they are languishing so this season. I do expect them to avoid relegation however.
I myself maintain a masochistic relationship with Arse-nal.
(After the onslaught of the past five days, I’m doing my level best to focus on the trivial and ephemeral for the weekend.)
Always two lists of suspects:
* Those of the authorities
* Those of the mouth-breathers
Locally, we have the unsolved shooting murders of two Sikh men who had the temerity to take a walk in broad daylight. The only clue is an old pick-em-up truck seen in the area at the general time. One wonders whether their “crime” wasn’t lookin’ mooslim.
Certainly, the feds will focused on whether the brothers had help, direct or otherwise. There’s much we don’t yet know. OTOH if I lived in the Boston area I’d resume life as before.
49.
Amir Khalid
@Ben Franklin:
Is any official actually suggesting a connection between these arrests and the Boston Marathon bombing, or did you infer such a connection on your own?
Ah yes, that’s the Benny Wingnut we all know slithering into the sunlight.
Figured out your latest conspiracy theory yet? Or is your alien message decoder filling still not working?
56.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Those arrests were mentioned during last night’s post-capture news conference by one of the police officials, so I wouldn’t say *no* connection. New Bedford is closer to Dartmouth (where Dzhokhar went to school) than Boston is, and it has its fair share of decaying housing and the attendant ills. Suspecting that someone there might have had some connection to Tsarnaev is not from out of left field.
57.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Oh, and Hispanic or Portuguese surnames are probably the majority in New Bedford these days. Quite a few good Portuguese restaurants, incidentally.
So do I tell my boss that I think the Chinese restaurant she very kindly took me to gave me food poisoning, or should I keep my mouth shut?
(I definitely had food poisoning — not 100 percent sure it was the restaurant but, since I had a vegetarian dinner at home, odds are high that it was the restaurant. Drinking ginger ale right now, and may risk a piece of toast in half an hour or so.)
Just installed a new mainboard and 8 core CPU. Windows 7 installed in less than ten minutes. I guess it worked.
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Section H
@ranchandsyrup: I hope we can show up around 8. Sinned Backwards (Mr S) is coming down from the LA Times Festival of Books to O’side ETA 7~. We’ll slink in as soon as we can.
I wouldn’t. I told some friends that I thought a cream cake (storebought) they served me had given me food poisoning, because the husband was recovering from open-heart surgery and I thought he shouldn’t eat any more of it, but it turned out to be norovirus I caught from students. They are remarkably similar.
@Chris: On the other hand, that can sometimes make a seeker even more vulnerable to religious extremism. Simply being around more religious traditions can allow one to be familiar with that is sensible and what is the ravings of an extremist. Most major religious traditions have a basic ethical tradition that doesn’t condone terrorism, that allows someone to be devout without being destructive.
@Amir Khalid: Not really. Someone could have helped them store their stuff, build the bombs, hid them while police were looking for them, given them encouragement al-Alawaki, given instructions. Even if it’s not a big international conspiracy, there could still have been helpers who also need to be held to account.
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Tonal Crow
And in today’s installment of “If we ban guns, murderers’ll just use hubcaps”:
Two people were killed at least four more wounded in hubcap violence throughout the city since Friday afternoon.
Donald Holman, 37, was hubcapped three times in the legs about 7:45 p.m. Friday in the 1100 block of North Menard Avenue, authorities said.
He was taken to Advocate Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, where he died at 8:21 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
Lucas Zimmerman, 34, was found unresponsive with multiple hubcap wounds in a convenience store parking lot in the 3900 block of North Kimball Avenue at about 12:10 a.m., authorities said.
Witnesses told police Zimmerman was hubcapped in an alley in the 3300 block of West Irving Park Road before stumbling to the parking lot, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. He was hubcapped in the arm and face with a vintage 1957 Rocketship Chevy hubcap, Alfaro added, saying that it was “damned heavy”.
Zimmerman was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:25 a.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
He was the second person to be killed by hubcap discharges in the Irving Park neighborhood in the last week.
At least three other people were wounded in hubcap violence throughout the city this weekend.
The most recent occurred before 1 p.m. Saturday when a man standing on a street corner in the 6700 block of South Langley was hubcapped as someone jumped out of a vehicle and threw a hubcap, possibly from a Cadillac, police said.
The victim was wounded in the buttocks and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said. His exact condition was not immediately available, but according to police the victim was alert and talking when he was taken to the hospital.
…
No one was in custody for any of the hubcappings as area detectives investigated.
You’re probably right. I think I’m going to throw the leftovers away, though, just to be safe.
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Violet
@Mnemosyne: By the time you feel better and want to eat them, they may be past their eat-by date anyway. There are definitely stomach bugs going around. A friend got one this week and one of her friends told her she knew of three people who had it as well. No fun. Take care of yourself.
I’m still suspicious that it’s food poisoning, because so far the toast and banana I ate are sitting fairly well. I’ll probably make some tea in a little bit.
One of my brothers had norovirus over the holidays and that was really bad. He couldn’t even hold down clear liquids for three days.
The version that both I and my husband had (two months apart) was horrible and violent for 6-7 hours, and then it was over except for brief nausea after eating, especially if we ate the wrong thing, i.e. dairy.
Where are all the bloggers today? Exhausted from Boston, I guess.
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Ben Franklin
The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder of the brothers suspected in the Boston bombings, in 2011, two U.S. law enforcement officials told ProPublica Friday evening. The FBI agents conducted the inquiry into suspected extremist or terrorist activity at the request of a Russian security agency, the officials said.
“Yes he was interviewed,” a U.S. law enforcement official said. “Nothing derogatory came of it. We reported it back to the other agency, but never got anything as far as further communications from them. There was never any reason to do anything else.”
http://www.propublica.org/article/boston-bombing-suspects-echo-home-grown-terrorists-in-madrid-london-att#
Other news outlets say FBI did not disclose the country making the request.
The elder spent 6 mos in Russia in 2011.
Ben Franklin
correction-
…
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/us/boston-marathon-bombings.html
“Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed early Friday after a shootout with police in Watertown, Mass., traveled to Russia for six months in 2012. Law enforcement officials are now conducting a review of that trip to see if Mr. Tsarnaev might have met with extremists or received training from them while abroad, current and former intelligence and law enforcement officials said.”
ranchandsyrup
Meetup in San Diego tonight.
Duck Dive in Pacific Beach at 7. http://www.theduckdive.com
Look for a pic of Tunch and some green balloons.
PsiFighter37
Doing a bunch of cleanup around the house to have a few buddies over for a session of drinking and playing Magic: The Gathering. Yeah, we’re a bunch of immature nerds.
In non-new news, I will be out in LA in approximately 3 weeks, and I’m trying to round up BJers in the area for a meetup on Friday, May 10th…looking to do it at Golden Road Brewery in Glendale, probably around 7 or 8 PM…let me know if you have interest! You can drop me an email at [email protected], as long as you don’t also promise me there’s a Nigerian prince waiting to send me loads of Bitcoins.
Ben Franklin
“Author John Laughland wrote: “the leading group which pleads the Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The list of the self-styled ‘distinguished Americans’ who are its members is a roll call of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusiastically support the ‘war on terror.’
“They include Richard Perle, the notorious Pentagon adviser; Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be ‘a cakewalk’; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld and a director of the rightwing Heritage Foundation; Frank Gaffney of the militarist Centre for Security Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence officer and one-time vice-president of Lockheed Martin, now president of the US Committee on Nato; Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, a former admirer of Italian fascism and now a leading proponent of regime change in Iran; and R. James Woolsey, the former CIA director who is one of the leading cheerleaders behind George Bush’s plans to re-model the Muslim world along pro-US lines.”
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/04/19/chechen-terrorists-and-the-neocons/
PeakVT
FSM please let this be a slow news weekend.
Violet
People are sending checks to the guy who owned the boat that hid the Boston bomber. They want him to be able to get a new boat since his old one is shot up.
ranchandsyrup
@PsiFighter37: Pimp jinx. We owe each other a
cokebeer.Alison
I recently became FB friends with someone I went to high school with, and found out she has a son named Darwin. I’m not sure if I think that’s awesome or dumb.
Violet
@PeakVT: Big earthquake in China. Not a slow news weekend. Maybe in the US, though.
Ben Franklin
“It is possible that she is saying that Anzor Tsarnaev was a soldier or security policeman for the pro-Russian Chechnyan government of Akhmet Kadyrov, established in 1999 in the course of the Second Chechnya War against the Islamic Peacekeeping Army, which had invaded Daghestan.”
Then there’s this which was news to me….
“Most ex-Soviet Muslims are secular and many don’t believe in God or think religion is important. Their families lived under a Communist regime for some 70 years, with its campaigns of official atheism and anti-religious indoctrination in schools. In the ex-Soviet Muslim-heritage republics, there are huge struggles between those happy in their secularism and those who are attempting to recover a Muslim identity. That struggle has played out in Chechnya as well as in Uzbekistan.”
http://www.juancole.com/2013/04/fathers-sons-chechnya.html
burnspbesq
Arrrrgggh. My team hits the post three times, has to settle for a draw that serverely damages their chances of making the playoff.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudge.
Arm The Homeless
Pro Tip: A celebratory evening is not served well by watching The Pianist
The fiance won an award for a distinguished graduate career this week after successfully passing her dissertation defense and has an interview with a southern liberal arts school next week. Her and her colleagues have been tapped to edit an entire series on Modernism based on their first book. May I say that she is an academic rock star? I will anyways, despite her modesty.
Enjoying our beautiful spring weather here in the swamp, oiling my cast iron in preparation for some epic corn bread baking tonight and using my awesome new Fiskars hatchet to clear out some invasive pine roots. Should be a productive day.
Alison
@burnspbesq: Which team?
dr. bloor
@burnspbesq:
We will not tolerate profane soccer hooliganism on this blog.
Ben Franklin
Yes, Iran is the culprit, so says CIA operative.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/boston-bombers-followers-of-irans-ayatollah/?cat_orig=world
http://atimetobetray.com/about/
Gravenstone
@Alison: I had a HS teacher named Darwin. In HS I thought he was pretty good. He taught English including several classes that ultimately got dropped due to school board pressure after a visit from a fundamentalist whack job speaker. He got foisted onto us by the wife of a school board member, who spent the entirety of his presentation sitting in the front row of our auditorium – genuflecting each time this clown sited the Bible.
After HS, I learned good old Darwin was himself something of an intolerant Christianist asshole. He was spearheading the picketing of a local video store for having the temerity to carry X rated videos. The fact they held the vids behind a closed door, and you needed to produce ID to see them were totally irrelevant to Darwin. So yeah, I’ll go with asshole based on that single data point.
Roger Moore
@Alison:
Nothing wrong with being named Darwin, though it isn’t quite as cool as my nephew, Noah Darwin.
Roger Moore
@burnspbesq:
We’re grownups around here; you’re allowed, nay even encouraged, to say fuuuuuuuuck.
hildebrand
Bah – Fulham lost today.
Amir Khalid
@Roger Moore:
What the fish, man, he’s old enough not to swear if he doesn’t want to.
Anya
Things I want to know more about:
1) did they capture CNN’s dark-skinned man, or is he still on the loose?
2) weird that firebaggers and wingnuts hate and vilify Eric Holder with the same intensity.
raven
@Anya: And how is the murder of Mr White cap coming?
Linus Pickle
Am I the only person who feels terribly let down by the new Daft Punk single? It sounds like a porn soundtrack to me.
Morzer
@raven:
And where is “Ben Franklin”‘s latest conspiracy theory?
We can’t move forward as a blog or a nation without our crackpots being productive.
Roger Moore
@Anya:
Not really. They hate him for the same reason.
Alison
@Roger Moore: I mean, I don’t think there’s anything “wrong” with it. yay evolution! Just wondering what it would be like for a kid with that name, you know?
JoyfulA
@Gravenstone: I see in the small-town newspaper where I lived when I was little an occasional obituary for an 80-something Darwin. I don’t know why.
handsmile
@Alison: , et al
On Darwin, my vote would be “awesome.” At the very least, it will be/must have been character-building for the young man.
To the best of my recollection, burnspbesq has always been cagey about his favorite professional sports teams. (His college allegiances he waves proudly.)
Here’s an interesting article about last weekend’s flare-up of hooliganism in the EPL and a comparison with the sport’s dark days there:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2013/apr/19/football-beware-hooliganism
As for football, I’m just salivating in anticipation of next week’s Champions League semifinal matches. So delicious!
This afternoon, it’ll be surrealist drawings at the Morgan Library for me.
http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=70
Roger Moore
@JoyfulA:
Amazingly enough, Darwin used to be a more popular name than it is now. According to the Social Security baby names web site, Darwin reached the apex of its popularity in 1938, when it was the 297th most popular boy’s name. It gradually declined in popularity until it dropped out of the top 1000 in the late 1990s, before recovering back into the 750 range today.
Alison
@handsmile: As a Newcastle fan I am both sad and glad about that piece. But mostly sad because God, they’re sucking lately :/
Haydnseek
@Anya: Wingnuts hate him because he’s part of Obama’s cabinet. Being black doesn’t help. Firebaggers can make a very convincing case. He’s proven himself a Wall Street stooge from day one. NO charges brought against the masters of the universe that joyfully defrauded millions of Americans, resulting in the destruction of the economy. NO charges brought against the war criminals that murdered and tortured the population of Iraq for ten years. I’m no firebagger, and sure as hell no wingnut, but Holder has been an absolute disaster. Commit any heinous crime you want. There will be NO consequences.
beltane
@Alison: I know someone with a daughter named Darwin, member of Team Secular. It’s not any more dumb than half of the other names I see these days.
Anya
@Roger Moore: I am desperately hoping that’s not the case.
In another news, it looks like the 19 year old bomber might be a sociopath. According to his friend he was back in campus after he committed this heinous act and was acting normal and interacting with is friends. If he was not a sociopath, how can he not show any distress in light of all the damaged he’s caused? I wonder how he felt after looking at the smiling face of young Martin Richards? This reminds me of an interview I’ve watched recently where Timothy MCVeighn was asked about all the innocent little kids he’s killed and he said that he considered them “collateral damage.”
Chris
@Ben Franklin:
THIS IS HOW YOU KNOW BUSH WAS A LIBERAL!
/wingnut
Amir Khalid
@Linus Pickle:
Doesn’t everything Daft Punk does sound like a porn soundtrack?
/old fogey
gogol's wife
@Roger Moore:
There was a Darwin Martin who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building in Buffalo (now gone). Wright also built a house for him (still there).
Origuy
You know who I feel sorry for? The parents of that Indian-American kid, Sunil Tripathi. He’d been missing for weeks and then it’s reported that he’s a suspect in the bombing. They must have been totally freaked out. He’s still missing; maybe the fuss will make him come forward, if he’s still alive.
Ben Franklin
@Chris:
Sorry. I don’t understand your reference.
Chris
@Ben Franklin:
I’m not entirely surprised, my dad’s worked in Bosnia and Kosovo and reports that that’s pretty much the case over there as well.
However, while “Muslim” may not mean much as a religion e.g. a way to live one’s life and all, I suspect it probably still means quite a bit as a label, a “heritage” thing. Sort of like the way Catholicism was a huge part of Irish, Italian, Polish etc ethnic identity here in the U.S, even for people who weren’t all that religious.
Ben Franklin
@Chris:
Yeah. It’s more of an ethnicity and we know how little violence occurs there.
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
I endorse a hearty Clay Davis a.k.a. “Shhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit!”
And broccoli.
Amir Khalid
@Origuy:
With one Tsarnaev brother dead and the other in custody, aren’t the other possibles already out of contention as suspects?
Origuy
@Amir Khalid: Yes, of course, I was referring to the time before that. They were on an emotional roller-coaster. Now they are back to having a missing suicidal son.
ranchandsyrup
4/20 Never Remember
Ben Franklin
@Amir Khalid:
Contiguous with yesterday’s events from 5-7 people (hispanic names)in New Bedford were arrested but no connection can be proffered.
handsmile
@Alison:
Didn’t realize you were a Geordie! (or do you prefer a Magpie?) Taking a look at its roster, I can’t understand why they are languishing so this season. I do expect them to avoid relegation however.
I myself maintain a masochistic relationship with Arse-nal.
(After the onslaught of the past five days, I’m doing my level best to focus on the trivial and ephemeral for the weekend.)
trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
Always two lists of suspects:
* Those of the authorities
* Those of the mouth-breathers
Locally, we have the unsolved shooting murders of two Sikh men who had the temerity to take a walk in broad daylight. The only clue is an old pick-em-up truck seen in the area at the general time. One wonders whether their “crime” wasn’t lookin’ mooslim.
Certainly, the feds will focused on whether the brothers had help, direct or otherwise. There’s much we don’t yet know. OTOH if I lived in the Boston area I’d resume life as before.
Amir Khalid
@Ben Franklin:
Is any official actually suggesting a connection between these arrests and the Boston Marathon bombing, or did you infer such a connection on your own?
Ben Franklin
@Amir Khalid:
Neither. I think they were just uncooperative when rousted.
SiubhanDuinne
@JoyfulA:
BREAKING: Darwin Still Dead
Amir Khalid
@Ben Franklin:
So no one is actually saying that there’s any connection between the bombing and these arrests you’re bringing up. Okay, got it.
SiubhanDuinne
@gogol’s wife:
The complex also includes a house built for Darwin Martin’s sister, one Mrs. Barton. Always loved the Larkin-Darwin-Martin-Barton cadence.
handsmile
Meanwhile, in news from the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory:
http://www.abc.net.au/darwin/news/
Morzer
@Ben Franklin:
Ah yes, that’s the Benny Wingnut we all know slithering into the sunlight.
Figured out your latest conspiracy theory yet? Or is your alien message decoder filling still not working?
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Those arrests were mentioned during last night’s post-capture news conference by one of the police officials, so I wouldn’t say *no* connection. New Bedford is closer to Dartmouth (where Dzhokhar went to school) than Boston is, and it has its fair share of decaying housing and the attendant ills. Suspecting that someone there might have had some connection to Tsarnaev is not from out of left field.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Oh, and Hispanic or Portuguese surnames are probably the majority in New Bedford these days. Quite a few good Portuguese restaurants, incidentally.
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
I denounce broccoli and the Stalin mandate.
Mnemosyne
So do I tell my boss that I think the Chinese restaurant she very kindly took me to gave me food poisoning, or should I keep my mouth shut?
(I definitely had food poisoning — not 100 percent sure it was the restaurant but, since I had a vegetarian dinner at home, odds are high that it was the restaurant. Drinking ginger ale right now, and may risk a piece of toast in half an hour or so.)
burnspbesq
@Alison:
Nottingham Forest.
Higgs Boson's Mate
Just installed a new mainboard and 8 core CPU. Windows 7 installed in less than ten minutes. I guess it worked.
Section H
@ranchandsyrup: I hope we can show up around 8. Sinned Backwards (Mr S) is coming down from the LA Times Festival of Books to O’side ETA 7~. We’ll slink in as soon as we can.
gogol's wife
@Mnemosyne:
I wouldn’t. I told some friends that I thought a cream cake (storebought) they served me had given me food poisoning, because the husband was recovering from open-heart surgery and I thought he shouldn’t eat any more of it, but it turned out to be norovirus I caught from students. They are remarkably similar.
rikyrah
@Roger Moore:
weird that firebaggers and wingnuts hate and vilify Eric Holder with the same intensity.
badump pa
Liquid
Thank Christ 4/20’s on a Saturday. Less than three hours until I get to Tacoma and smoke ’til all earthly sense has left my body.
CarolDuhart2
@Chris: On the other hand, that can sometimes make a seeker even more vulnerable to religious extremism. Simply being around more religious traditions can allow one to be familiar with that is sensible and what is the ravings of an extremist. Most major religious traditions have a basic ethical tradition that doesn’t condone terrorism, that allows someone to be devout without being destructive.
CarolDuhart2
@Amir Khalid: Not really. Someone could have helped them store their stuff, build the bombs, hid them while police were looking for them, given them encouragement al-Alawaki, given instructions. Even if it’s not a big international conspiracy, there could still have been helpers who also need to be held to account.
Tonal Crow
And in today’s installment of “If we ban guns, murderers’ll just use hubcaps”:
http://www.suntimes.com/19608427-761/2-killed-4-wounded-in-weekend-gun-violence.html
Two people were killed at least four more wounded in hubcap violence throughout the city since Friday afternoon.
Donald Holman, 37, was hubcapped three times in the legs about 7:45 p.m. Friday in the 1100 block of North Menard Avenue, authorities said.
He was taken to Advocate Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, where he died at 8:21 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
Lucas Zimmerman, 34, was found unresponsive with multiple hubcap wounds in a convenience store parking lot in the 3900 block of North Kimball Avenue at about 12:10 a.m., authorities said.
Witnesses told police Zimmerman was hubcapped in an alley in the 3300 block of West Irving Park Road before stumbling to the parking lot, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said. He was hubcapped in the arm and face with a vintage 1957 Rocketship Chevy hubcap, Alfaro added, saying that it was “damned heavy”.
Zimmerman was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:25 a.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
He was the second person to be killed by hubcap discharges in the Irving Park neighborhood in the last week.
At least three other people were wounded in hubcap violence throughout the city this weekend.
The most recent occurred before 1 p.m. Saturday when a man standing on a street corner in the 6700 block of South Langley was hubcapped as someone jumped out of a vehicle and threw a hubcap, possibly from a Cadillac, police said.
The victim was wounded in the buttocks and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli said. His exact condition was not immediately available, but according to police the victim was alert and talking when he was taken to the hospital.
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No one was in custody for any of the hubcappings as area detectives investigated.
Tonal Crow
@ranchandsyrup: Is that you Bobo?
Mnemosyne
@gogol’s wife:
You’re probably right. I think I’m going to throw the leftovers away, though, just to be safe.
Violet
@Mnemosyne: By the time you feel better and want to eat them, they may be past their eat-by date anyway. There are definitely stomach bugs going around. A friend got one this week and one of her friends told her she knew of three people who had it as well. No fun. Take care of yourself.
gogol's wife
@Mnemosyne:
Yes, I would too. If it is noro, you should eat bland things (bananas, rice, apples, toast, the acronym BRAT), and no dairy for a while.
Sly
Paulie Walnuts: “You’re not gonna believe this. He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians! Guy was an interior decorator!”
Christoper Moltisanti: “His house looked like shit….”
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
@gogol’s wife:
I’m still suspicious that it’s food poisoning, because so far the toast and banana I ate are sitting fairly well. I’ll probably make some tea in a little bit.
One of my brothers had norovirus over the holidays and that was really bad. He couldn’t even hold down clear liquids for three days.
Yutsano
@Gin & Tonic: Mmm…sopa de ajo!
gogol's wife
@Mnemosyne:
The version that both I and my husband had (two months apart) was horrible and violent for 6-7 hours, and then it was over except for brief nausea after eating, especially if we ate the wrong thing, i.e. dairy.
Where are all the bloggers today? Exhausted from Boston, I guess.