‘Misha’ Speaks: An Interview with the Alleged Boston Bomber’s ‘Svengali’

 From the New York Review of Books. Who knew they do investigative journalism?

'It started in 2009. And it started right there, in Cambridge,” Tamerlan’s uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, told CNN after the attacks. “This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely.” These accusations set off a frenzied search for what some reports have called an Islamic Svengali, and over the past few days, the FBI has said it has located and has been talking to “Misha,” though his identity has remained unknown.

Today I was able to meet “Misha,” whose real name is Mikhail Allakhverdov. '

Oh, OK.

'Boston Bomber’s ‘Svengali’

Obama sat in the pews of a church pastored by a hate-mongering, anti-american, racialist bigot for 20 years, and all the MSM chimed in that there was nothing to see; no connection; didn't mean a thing.

And now, we're supposed to swallow this horsesh!t about some guy named 'misha?'

Uh, oh: Sex in Space May Not Be Safe

Dang. And that final frontier was third on Mrs. Locomotivebreath's bucket list.

From Space.com:

 'Sex is very difficult in zero gravity, apparently, because you have no traction and you keep bumping against the walls," biologist Athena Andreadis of the University of Massachusetts Medical School told SPACE.com in 2011. "Think about it: you have no friction, you have no resistance."

In spite of the challenges sex in microgravity poses, Woodmansee thinks that the Inspiration Mars journey could motivate other couples to take advantage of less ambitious cosmic destinations, such as low-Earth orbit, should they become commercially available.'

To boldly go where... OK. I'll stop.

Gold-Bedecked Skeleton May Have Been Ancient Queen

From the speculating Live Science:

'The woman's bones have been degraded by acid in the soil, making radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis impossible. Nonetheless, excavators believe she was at least 35 years old when she died sometime between 2500 B.C. and 2200 B.C., around the era Stonehenge was constructed.'

Or she could've been a thieving 12th century charwoman who fell into the moors upon her getaway from her pilfered employer. Or a returned alien abduction. Let's not hold back...

Related: Ancient Europeans Mysteriously Vanished 4,500 Years Ago.

Confessed Boston Terrorist Intended to Bomb Times Square

 Of course he did. Right after lil bro ditched classes at UMass-Dartmouth, and scored some fine road trip choom, they were going to jump into big (now dead) brother's Mercedes sedan, pay a fortune in gasoline, then kill more infidels in the Big Apple with crock pot EIDs, and probably catch an international flight back to Chechnya.  Because everybody can afford to do that on a welfare check.

Total lone wolves. Nothing to see. Move along, citizens.

Is Martial Law Ever OK?

David Scott Whinery, Esquire at KC Confidential wants to know, but offers few answers.

Uh, oh. Frost warnings are posted in h3ll when Mary Sanchez at the KC Star and I agree: If Kansas City's 25th anniversary charity 'Trolley Run' no longer allows bags or backpacks at the event, have the terrorists won?

 Boston Residents Ordered Out Of Homes At Gunpoint By SWAT teams - and we're OK with this suspension of the 4th Amendment in the name of 'public safety?'

Then there's this; from Katy Waldman at Slate: Why the door-to-door manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev doesn’t violate the Constitution.

Value Diversity, Define it Broadly

I say hogwash. Diversity for its own sake is no accomplishment, and in fact, only highlights division.

David  Stoeffler, in an editorial at the News-Leader, offers up the usual goldilock multi-cultural bromide about the 'value of diversity:' not too European; not too Catholic; not too rich, but ju-ust right, so we 'reflect the community.' But not until he assails us with a tale about his sheltered small town boyhood with all those White people where he grew up, and how Black folks were either Cassius Clay or Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Oh, and a family of Jehovah's Witness, too.

Mr. Stoeffler elaborates:

"Race and ethnicity are key aspects to any honest commitment to diversity — particularly given the changing demographics in our country — but they are not the only factors. The key is to recognize the value of all types of differences, including gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, physical disabilities and socioeconomics. Differing political values also should be recognized."

Differences, differences, and more differences, said the multi-culturalist.

Odd. We, as a nation, spend billions per year on higher education at university (unity from diversity), only to be indoctrinated with the demand for diversity, which is merely a mutated relativism, disdainful of morality, conservatism, and human nature, yet claims the mantle of tolerance. It all sounds so double plus un-good.


Diversity for its own sake is no accomplishment, and in fact, only highlights division. Unity of virtue is common ground for all people and societies: honesty, charity, patience, hard work. And it matters not what the color of your skin or where you where born in order to embrace these ideals; only the content of your heart.

Or was that just crazy talk from some guy many decades ago which liberals conveniently disregard??

Scientists: No Bra Leads to Perkier, Healthier Boobs

Methinks these might be male scientists who studied the, um, subject for 15 years.

'The professor conducting the study, Jean-Denis Rouillon, measured the distance between nipples and shoulders of women aged 18 to 35. “Medically, physiologically, anatomically – breasts gain no benefit from being denied gravity. On the contrary, they get saggier with a bra,” he said.'

Uh, huh. Maybe those skinny, a-cup types don't need the support, but voluptuous women, like my beautiful Mrs. Locomotivebreath, say this study is bull sh!t, and simply an excuse for professional jollies, probably paid for with tax dollars.

Nice work, if you can get it.

Why Are the Feds Trying to Identify All Gun Owners in Missouri?

Actually, it's all concealed carry weapon (CCW) permit holders in Missouri - not all gun owners - since CCW is the only registration of gun owners kept on file by the states.

But why do the Feds need with this info? Or, more specifically, what does the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General need with this info?? And why did the Missouri State Highway Patrol - which is directly answerable to Gov. Jay Nixon (a democrat) - supply that info to the Feds??


BTW: Anyone attempting to purchase a firearm via a federal firearms license (FFL) dealer is ran through the FBI NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System), but those records are destroyed soon after the check is complete.

Ammo hoarding: Could bullets become currency?

Along with bottled water, kerosene, and land navigation skills, yes. It's possible.

Mouths of Babes: Cult of Global Warming Explained

Have no fear, I'll be back soon.

TY TS

New Study: Turin Shroud 'is not a medieval forgery'

From Nick Squires at the telegraph UK:'

'Experiments conducted by scientists at the University of Padua in northern Italy have dated the shroud to ancient times, a few centuries before and after the life of Christ.

Many Catholics believe that the 14ft-long linen cloth, which bears the imprint of the face and body of a bearded man, was used to bury Christ's body when he was lifted down from the cross after being crucified 2,000 years ago.

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Archeologists Find Obituary for Jesus of Nazareth

Of course it's not a photoshop...

Obviously, the reports of His death have been greatly exaggerated.

Feds Furlough Workers, yet Posts 2,000 Job Openings per Week

All together now: because draconian sequester cuts!

From Eileen Ambrose at The Baltimore Sun:

'Now that the sequester appears here to stay, some agencies plan to furlough workers one day a week starting next month. That's the equivalent of a 20 percent pay cut over the half year.

Critics say the posting of thousands of new jobs this month is proof that agencies have ignored the OMB and continue with unnecessary spending. But some employment experts say it's not that simple, and agencies have valid reasons to post jobs that may — or may not — be filled.

One critic is Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, who launched a crusade against what he sees as nonessential hiring during the sequester. Coburn compiled a list of recent job openings that were posted during the sequester or in the days leading up to it.'

This insane neo-bolshevik clown show is just getting warmed up, America.

*What If There Is a God and It's Not Barack Obama?

'This unexpected schism is caused by recent experiments at the Large Handout Deficit Collider, in which generated sequester particles did not cause the universe to implode as predicted.'

Plus, a magnificent scheme to annihilate Schrodinger's Fat Cats.

Gulag gaiety at the People's Cube, Comrades. 


*(a note to proglodytes: this is satire)

Watch 24 Hrs of Global Internet Activity in 8 seconds

'The animated map, from an anonymous researcher, is beautiful, mesmerizing — and made using highly illegal means.'
 

(graphic courtesy of The Week)
 
So, how did they do it? I'll let Peter Weber at The Week explain:

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Polyandry: When a Woman Has More than One Husband

In this case, she has 5. All brothers. Just like her Mom. 

“I get a lot more attention and love than most wives.”

Indeed.

Forget about it, Perv. It's India.

Westboro Baptist now Sees a 'Rainbow House' across the Street

From Gawker (with photo goodness):

So while considering the Westboro Baptist Church, he began dinking around on Google Maps late one night. He pulled up the church, at 3701 SW 12th St. in Topeka, and took a virtual walk around the block. In the front yard of a house across the street, he noticed a For Sale sign.

“It hit me right away,” Jackson told me last night by phone. “Huh. That would be interesting to own a house across from the Westboro Baptist Church and turn it into something.’ And then, within five seconds: ‘And I’ll paint it the color of the pride flag.’ Perfect.”

I think the term 'pride flag' is rather dubious, but even I can appreciate the 'thumb in the eye' toward these raucous Westboro wack-a-doodles, whom we've dealt with many times before.

*E-Book Reader, C. 1935, sort of...

Because 'Photo-Mechanical Reader' just don't cut it...

Michael S. Hart is the man largely credited with creating the first electronic book - in 1971. He typed his first e-book, the Declaration of Independence, while a student at the University of Illinois. Hart typed the text into a computer (a huge Xerox mainframe computer in the Materials Research lab), and sent out a message on ARPAnet (the fore runner of the internet), and announced it was available to download. Six people took him up on the offer. The world's first e-book was born.


Or how about a 1939 Plexiglass Pontiac? Although, I don't know why.

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Pres. Obama Confirms Mrs. Obama's Private Financial Data Hacked

But I don't hear all those 'Anonymous OWS Wikileaks' supporters, who thought Assange/Manning were heroes for speaking 'truth to I.T.,' cheering very loud, right now.

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Seattle Saloon Bans 'Google Glasses' with Hidden Camera

"The 5 Point is the first Seattle business to ban in advance Google Glasses," the bar wrote. "And ass kickings will be encouraged for violators."

You can still get your beer goggles on, though.