Remember: The Tsarnaev brothers do not represent the entire Caucasian community. There are many good, law abiding Caucasians in our country.
— Feodor Chin (@FeoChin) April 19, 2013
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The Obama Diary 
First
Yes, you got your pretty foot in the door first! 😉
hahahahaha…smilin
😆
Congrats pf58!!!
ty BoB….smilin
Congrats, prettyfoot!
Thank youuuuu….smilin
You should be smilin’!
hahahahha
Anything else new? I don’t trust anybody but TOD.
Alive and in custody, calling for medic. Good.
Unconfirmed:
SUSPECT ALIVE AND IN CUSTODY; REQUEST FOR MEDIC ON SCENE — WHDH
Pelley really being extraordinarily cautious.
To be the parents of these young men, all the hearts they’ve broken. It is all too sad.
BUT you do drink … and I have Manhattans, cold, straight up with cherries … come on over LL, and bring the spouse! Love ya.
I think I’ll take you up on your offer!
Come on down … course I am in AL. But I would welcome the support!
Ambulance moving in …
We have to laugh, to keep our sanity!
I’m so glad he’s alive, he’s just a kid.
Exactly.
I agree Tally.
+1. This whole episode has been a very disturbing eye-opener for me.
I am so reminded of the scene at the coal mine years ago when Anderson Cooper announced that all the miners were alive and walking out, based on what somebody whispered in his ear … and then they weren’t. So, I will wait to hear that the suspect is in custody and alive from a reliable source. Not CNN. Not MSNBC. But I hope and pray he is alive, and captured.
Just heard: “Boston Police just tweeted suspect in custody,” per CNN, so hope so!
Jacqueline, local Boston CBS reporting he is in custody, and is on his way to a hospital for treatment of ‘prior injuries likely from the shoot out yesterday evening.’ Seems real. Thankfully.
Great.
Hahahahaha…..good one Chipsticks. That is one of the tweets of the week.
Has to be said….
Yes, indeed meta. My blood pressure and heart was acting up, and I prayed, prayed, and sure enough I came back into the room and turned to 2, and there was the calm, careful soothing and cautious voice of Scott Pelley. God answered my prayers. That is how I wanted and stayed with his calm voice.
Scott Pelley needs this beautiful BRAVO. Thanks meta. RT. HZ
xoxo, dear HZ. I had the same feeling and response to him. This is precisely the kind of reporting we need and deserve.
This is freaking hilarious. This writer lives in Boston. Goes out with friends to get wasted because it’s been a hell of a week. Girl calls him for a one-night stand. He says “sure” They do the headboard banging thing and he wakes up to Boston being on lock down. A one-night stand becomes an all day awkward event. What to do? 😆
Wonder if they had enough condos? 😯
and now NBC talking terrorism again. He committed a crime, he will get a trial. We don’t know if he’s anything other than a criminal… same as Lanza was.
What pisses me off is Lindsay Graham saying that the Obama Administration should treat him as an enemy combatant and deny him his Miranda rights. Evidently, he wants the guy to be sent directly to Gitmo. This disgusts me because republicans are always telling us how much they love the Constitution and how they think we have the best judicial system in the world. The thing is that they don’t love the Constitution and they have no strong belief that our judicial system can be trusted to handle cases involving terrorists. I’m sick of their lies and hypocrisy.
Heavy sigh!
go fuck yourself lindsey
I read on SC’s largest newspaper, The State, the other day that Graham’s approval numbers are down. Since he is up for re-election next year, the b*stard will do/say anything to feed red meat to the SC mouth breathers, amk. He has no shame.
wonder if momentum from elizabeth colbert can energize and contender to lindsey? assuming unlikely in statewide race, but i really no nothing about that state.
Majiir, is Lindsey Graham up for re-election next year? I thought It was Tim Scott who was up for re-election? If Graham is up too, I hope both of them are vigorously challenged.
Best news of the day.
Oh my—–they somehow managed to bring President Obama into the immediate aftermath reporting—–that suspect will be taken into custody and handled in civilian manner as any other arrest—–according to President Obama’s justice belief—-adding that there are some in Congress—-gee I wonder what party—-who want him declared enemy combatant. Pete Williams said “I can tell you that President Obama would never allow that.” (paraphrase)
“I can tell you that President Obama would never allow that.”
Damned skippy he wouldn’t!
So, I am to understand that those “some in Congress” want to join Russia in declaring war on the Chechen rebels fighting for Independence from Russia?
Wonder if PBO will make a statement tonight……
No, I don’t think POTUS need too make a statement, release a statement, but let the Governor and the people in Boston handle this.
too bad the f.b.i. wasn’t owned by mitt romney and his friends, since we know the thirst for personal gain and profit is the only motivator for us selfish animals called “humans.” let the FREE MARKET reign!!!!
Loud applause at end of Franklin Street as SWAT walks out to crowd.
Read more: http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon#ixzz2QxcCa85I
While, assuming the news is correct and he is alive, there will be two very important post mortems that need to take place.
The first will be the who’s, why’s etc of what happened from him. I have my own guesses, but I will withhold them at this moment. Let me just say it is obvious he is not a dedicated jihadist.
The second, and probably for the long term, more importnt post mortem will be on how the media handled this whole situation. Particularly, there should be a comparison between the local media and the national media. I think the results will be telling.
I’ll be back a little later with some other observations.l
There’s some serious drinking going down in BAHSTIN tonight.
yes!!!
Probably not a good idea to fill up their Twitter feed, but I did not want to show restraint in congratulating them.
MSNBC (mound of salt) says police say suspect has suffered gunshot wound and will receive medical treatment, and I hope it’s not life-threatening. It will be important to hear what he has to say. We need to know what made him and his brother take this route. Plus, it will be a big plus up if Boston Police didn’t immediately go in for the kill.
On Politics Nation, it was reported that he looked up to his brother, and this might be the reason he decided to do what he did. Sad. When I was growing up in the 1950s, the oldest brother/sister was supposed to be a role model for the other kids in the family. Some security analysts think that the fact that two brothers had made a trip to Chechnya recently might have something to do with why they did the things they did. President Putin called PBO to convey his condolences.
Only the older brother left the country—-for 6 mo.—–reportedly flew to Moscow—-who knows where he went from there—-but returned and started posting angry, extremist videos.
i read earlier that his trip was to hang out with is dad for 6 months. it would make sense that he’d fly into moscow and drive in from there or take a smaller plane.
Thank God. Scripture teaches us: “God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love and of a sound mind.” Second Timothy 1:7. That is one of the scriptures that POB used in his speech yesterday to all of us. I have been praying that scripture all day long. I am so weak from just eating a little soup and drinking water all day.
I am so grateful for all of the hard work that we all did to work so hard to re-elect POB. Thanks to All of our law enforcement men and women. I just prayed, “Please let them capture this young man tonight and let him be alive and please Lord do not allow those precious people in Watertown have to live in an unrestful night tonight. Let it end tonight. I am so grateful to everyone who made this a successful capture.
Little Martin Richard, we just stopped two people from stop hurting people. ” Peace” for little Martin Richard and all of the families tonight. I am so full, but “giving thanks in all things” as Gov. Deval Patrick stated in his speech yesterday. I cannot remember the chapter and verse right now. I am just so grateful that this part is over. HZ
thank goodness for the boat…….
i noticed a circus was in boston and their show was canceled for tonight. maybe they can have a new act now…The Fleeing Tsarnaev Brothers
https://twitter.com/BorowitzReport/status/325410846417244162
LOL!
https://twitter.com/adamsavader/status/325411741200703489
Awwwww…he and Gov. Deval Patrick
Thank you Boston Finest indeed.This is how you do it.
Kudos to bluestate Big Government in Massachusetts
I love the way Gov. Patrick does things–no drama, remain calm, just get the job done.
He is another calm one like our POTUS. The two are also very, very close.HZ
Seems it was quite a day – for those in the midst of it – I hope you are safe and well – for all the Chips folks – thank you for all the news reports
awesome notice he said LOCAL press. team obama rocks hard!
Yes Indeed! The National Press stinks!
Whew was waiting for an official word. I hope he is rushed to a hospital so he does not succumb to fatal blood loss.
the boston police department made a rhyme
Locals cheering loudly for law enforcement. Very grateful for a job well done.
yessss!!!!
almost all unionized folks too.
That the GOP don’t want to pay for
The President got it right, Mitt! We need to hire more policemen, firemen and teachers. What we don’t need are overpaid sensationalist national media people.
I love this tweet, amk. Thanks for telling Graham that he’s not all that. He seems to forget quite often.
Guess Graham wants to use some enhanced interrogation – he must have missed the recent report on torture
ha! awwwww thank you Amk. You just know the prettiest things to say 😉 RT’d yez.
Great, Great, tweet, AMK! Lindsey Graham is a joke, but MSM is in love with him because he is John McCain’s side-kick.
https://twitter.com/Boston_Police/status/325415205343481856
so impressed with the boston PD. thinking I should move there.
DM me on twitter before you give it another thought.
being the luddite that i am, i don’t know what DM means and i don;t have a twitter account. i do like my native los angeles too!
😦 DM = direct message, so we could chat.
ah. saw your note further down about you living there. i was joking mostly, since as randy newman says, i love l.a., but i have enjoyed boston the times i’ve spent there. you rock!
Yes. Boston & New England was a great education for me. I will NEVER EVER take SoCali for granted again, as long as I live. 😀 😀 😀
THIS IS LA!!!
It was fun eating cheap Labstah, and oystahs the size of my head. 😀
must say it’s sweet watching cnn flounder especially hard since jeff zucker took over. his first action was to force out soledad o’brien out and very clumsily too. this is the same guy who managed the conan o’brien/jay leno debacle that n.b.c. still hasn’t recovered from (what is it with zucker and people named “o.brien?”). yet the “FREE MARKET” keeps promoting this guy all over the place with $30M golden parachutes. i’m beginning to think the “free market” is one of the most INEFFICIENT systems possible. perhaps profiteering should be outlawed? any system that rewards the mental midget born on 3rd base mitt rmoney with hundreds of millions, and now thereby his sons, is f-ed up. just sayin….
Dear Ms Chips – I was going to thank you for your lovely g’nite a post or two ago – and then I read the retraction. My heart is broken.
But thank you for this wonderful place where the real news comes through – and how great that no-one has lost their sense of the real and sense of humor
Did O’Reilly & Rivera forget all those suicide bombers and Israel repeated bombing and occupation of Gaza and West Bank? So who should be bombed and occupied in response to the Boston bombing? Russia? And these idiots are paid millions to spew nonsense on television and want to tell me that i’s all about meritocracy.
Job well done to all who came the protect we the people. I hope you can now rest you deserve. God bless you all who serve and protect.
https://twitter.com/expatina/status/325415539394637824
Waterboard little Lindsey ???????
f- yeah, baby!! BOOM!
When our awesome president says something, he means it. There’s no telling what was going on behind the scenes at the WH. I love PBO’s way of handling things.
Boston Police: 9:30 press conference….
White House watching local Boston TV – POLITICO.com
White House officials have been watching events unfold on television much like the rest of the nation. But they’re watching local Boston channels. Through a special internal network, officials in the West Wing have been monitoring the capture of 19-year-old bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on NBC affiliate WHDH and ABC affiliate WCVB. It’s…
Ha! The coverage of local stations has been excellent, and very professional. As opposed to…
WOW, just think, we have the same “special” internet as the President…
IMO, this is a good rebuttal of Wayne LaPierre and his supporters. Although these brothers posed a threat to everyone in Watertown, none of the residents felt the need to grab an automatic weapon and go “hunt” them down. They let the very capable and highly trained FBI, National Guard, local law enforcement officials handle the issue, and they did an excellent job without having local, untrained gun wielding yahoos complicate their job.
Was just thinking the same thing!!
#FORWARD Together
Thanks for the tweet, Bobfr. You are our Twitter King!
Thanks Bob for this tweet! You and majiir are absolutely spot-on. I think “what professional law enforcement just accomplished in Watertown MA” was not only “a major rebuke to Lapierre & NRA,” It was also an affirmation of what the founders intended with the 2nd Amendment, which talks about ” A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state….” Surely if we had all these individual gun nuts, who claim to be the enforcers of the 2nd Amendment, dealing with this volatile situation in Boston we would have definitely ended up with more tragedies. Innocent people, suspected of resembling the alleged dark-skinned suspects, would have been killed. Black people, especially those in the South, know the horrors of so many innocent people murdered by the well armed and unregulated white mobs claiming to enforce justice.
Gun advocates are going to argue that it took 9000 law enforcement people to resolve the case.
Let them babble.
Let’s just wait for the news that those young men bought their weapons on the Internet or in gun shows…. Now THAT will be interesting…
“Gun advocates are going to argue that it took 9000 law enforcement people to resolve the case.”
So what? What is important is that innocent people were not killed because they were alleged to be suspects. In the Jim Crow South, whenever a black person was alleged to have committed a crime, unregulated white mobs, armed to the the teeth, would go on a rampage murdering innocent people. Just imagine how many suspicious “dark-skinned” individuals, entirely innocent, may have been killed, if gun advocates were allowed to go around trying to enforce the law?
Thank you Majiir for this excellent comment!
Suspect is in critical condition…..
Wound in the leg and wound in the neck.
Twitter is about to be broken…..
https://twitter.com/bardgal/status/325418902404337667
o fuck. must fix
okay heah :
sorry, but brian williams can go f- himself. apparently he was moments eariler questioning why they were sending in a negotiator which sows seeds of doubt about our hero public servants. just a simple brown-noser. waste of space.
It was hilarious because I used to live there, (which is why you should talk to me before you even think about moving there.)
Why Tally? Didn’t you like living in Boston?
DM me on twitter regarding Boston.. I am freaking out though, because the bombs were in my hood, Back Bay. So many memories.
3 other arrested in NB in relation to the bombings.
Newport Beach? wah?
North Boston-Italian Country. 🙂
AH. gracias. I had a confused.
New Bedford—-sounds like—from Boston Globe that they were friends or fellow students of suspect—-he had visited in their home—-2 men and a girl. I’m assuming they want to make sure they did not share same violent intentions.
copy that.
Jovie … really … what is NB? Link please …
Hahahahahahaha.
FOX says, “yes, we have no bananas.” in regards to carmen miranda.
FTW
PERFECT ty ut
Wow—someone got that shot?
Helluva week, y’all. So grateful to 1st responders, the CIC +Comforter In Chief and for all of you here at TOD. Thank you is so not sufficient Ms. Chips – but Thank You!
You’re lovely Sabreen, thank YOU!
https://twitter.com/LOLGOP/status/325417062472232963
New post:
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/04/19/yes-we-will-find-you/
Here bob is link you requested-
http://www.abc6.com/story/22028344/report-3-arrested-in-new-bedford-in-connection-to-bombing-suspect
President Obama to speak soon.
Carmen Ortiz, US attorney appointed by President Obama-
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
Oh yeah!