Boston Marathon – Granite Grok

It Is Completely Impossible To NOT Acquit Tsarnaev

Over the years, I have tried different methods of sticking up for the young lad who was outrageously accused of bombing the Boston Marathon. The methods included writing a book, becoming an amicus curiae, staging a small moot-court appeal in the Watertown Public Library, filing a RICO suit, requesting autopsies for Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Ibragim … Read more

Will Men Running as Women in the Boston Marathon Mean Fewer Women Competing?

by Steve MacDonald

If a man can run as a “woman” in the Boston Marathon “she” need (only) beat a target which is half an hour slower than the men’s time. Was the Marathon’s goal to make sure more men and fewer women would participate?

Blogline of the Day: Boston Marathon Terrorists – State supported?

by Skip

“The Tsarnaev brothers were state-supported terrorists. The state was Massachusetts.” Howie Carr was talking about this on his radio show today – what the Herald (the paper where he is a columnist) had gotten from the State of MA for welfare payments via FOIA demands – 500 pages with welfare payments over $100,000. Yeah, the … Read more

Stella Tremblay Already Proven Right – Sort of…

by Steve MacDonald

Democrats love to dither over context, so here’s a stick in your eye. Tremblay, who bless her heart refuses to back down despite being badgered by the left over her own personal concerns about US government sponsored domestic terrorism with regard to the Boston Marathon bombing, was–to some degree at least–correct. Skip provided that tid-bit … Read more

On the news that US Senators Manchin and Reid will be trying to grab for gun control again this year….

by Skip

After all, it was not US DHS MRAPs, the FBI SWAT teams, MA State Police, or the Watertown Police (and all the others) that found that 19 year old Bomber. Once again, with a single, solitary Citizen finding him, it could have been a case of “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away” … Read more

Williams – Sonoma: the Dick’s Sporting Goods of the kitchen set?

by Skip

Updated & Bumped: This is when you get caught being stupid. From CNSNews:

Williams-Sonoma Releases Statement Apologizing for Pulling Pressure Cookers

“Pressure cookers are available at all our stores nationwide.

“In the days immediately following the tragic bombings in Boston a local decision was made to remove pressure cookers from the sales floor of the stores near where the bombing occurred. We apologize if we offended anyone by this action.”

Offended? No, that’s not the word I would pick. Cowardly? Political Correctness junkies? Just plain STOOPID in trying to put as much space as possible from even a HINT of being associated with the Boston Marathon Bombers. I do wonder if this decision was from their Sr. Leadership (such that might exist) or from an avalanche of “dumbness” sent their way.

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Back in December, just after the tragedy of Sandy Hook, Dick’s Sporting Goods stopped selling AR-15s. They screwed over customers and they screwed over their suppliers as they did not honor their contracts and did not honor transactions in process. They didn’t care – their cowardly side showed over this particular style of modern sporting rifles.

But really, this?? From Big Government (emphasis mine):

Williams-Sonoma Pulls Pressure Cookers

The Respite

by Rick Olson

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” —Dale Carnegie News, day and night is awash with the Boston Bomb tragedy. Three people, one of whom is a kid…perished…No need to rehash the whole sordid thing, its plain tragic and horrific. Nobody will come right … Read more

Obomba

by Steve MacDonald

I don’t know. As things progress, it just seems like we might be spelling it that way moving Forward. President Barack Obomba.

Why NOT start blaming the Left….

by Skip

After all, the Left has been blaming the Right since Boston happened… (H/T: Hot Air)

Explosions at the Finish Line of the Boston Marathon

by Steve MacDonald

Update: video

Update: 6:16 pm – JFK Library event may now have just been an electrical fire. Looks like the authorities are slowing down the “immediate” news releases as we get past the first couple / few hours after the initial explosions. If someone wanted max media exposure for the after effects, they got it.

New York Times Nicholas Kristoff, big Lefty, already goes partisan attack dog and blames Republicans for tragedy

by Skip

And of course, the Lefty Progressives were the first to blame Republicans – NYT’s Nick Kristoff was the first to go all-in-nuclear-partisan: tweeted out ”explosion is a reminder that ATF needs a director. Shame on Senate Republicans for blocking apptment“. Uncool and he has since recalled it as EVERYONE went after him. But again, NOTHING … Read more