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Follow the money trail, please

Posted on April 23, 2013 | Comments Off on Follow the money trail, please

Haven’t seen or heard of any snooze media story yet on where the Boston Jihadis got their cash, not to mention their explosives and detonators. Such a traditional story, too, as Peggy Noonan makes plain:

“Who or what supported them? They had cellphones, computers, stylish clothes, sunglasses, gym equipment and gym membership, enough money to go out to dinner and have parties. They had an arsenal of guns and money to make bombs. The elder brother, Tamerlan, 26, had no discernible record of employment [but a wife and a child]…The younger brother, Dzhokhar, [19] was a college student, but no word on how he came up with spending money.”

I’m sure the snoozers are feverishly trying to track down the racial/social grievances of the brothers, since they can’t do the Jihadi angle without upsetting their patron King Pinocchio. But the least they could is follow the money trail. Pretty please?

UPDATE:  Well, it seems that the Boston Herald is interested. They found that until 2012 the deceased boxer was on state welfare. Then his Islam-converted wife started working 80 hours a week as a health aide and he was no longer eligible. He stayed home, apparently taking care of their child, unless his in-laws were doing it. That seems to account for some of his money. No word yet on his baby-faced brother.

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Boston Jihadi mission accomplished

Posted on April 22, 2013 | Comments Off on Boston Jihadi mission accomplished

There’s not much doubt, as my pal Snoopy the Goon writes in a good post with a headline similar to the above, that the Boston bombers got what they likely were after:

  1. Produce widespread fear. Accomplished.
  2. Obtain worldwide, national, or local recognition for their cause by attracting the attention of the media. Accomplished in full: worldwide, nationally and locally
  3. Harass, weaken, or embarrass government security forces so that the government overreacts and appears repressive. Accomplished with a good measure of over-achievement.

Especially the third one.

And also a fourth, which some perceive, which is for the target to quickly resume its former state of denial about what just happened. In this case, that it was not the Muslim boys’ bloodthirsty religion, oh no, but some mysterious (probably racial or social) grievance that must be rooted out with new laws, or else some malevolent foreign mastermind who turned these nice fellows bad.

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Of private security and concealed carry

Posted on April 22, 2013 | Comments Off on Of private security and concealed carry

I don’t expect the Jihadis to show up in Texas anytime soon. I’m sure they prefer the liberal environments of New York, Massachusetts and California with wall-to-wall, unarmed sheep who will ease their planning, arming and execution of mass killings for the glory of their blood-thirsty deity.

Down here, even in liberal Austin, they’re much more likely to encounter an informed and attentive gunner. For instance, the parents of one of Mr. B.’s best friends. They both carry concealed semi-automatic pistols. He’s a diamond merchant who often has the gems on his person and she, well, I’ve never asked but I presume she just feels more secure going about with a pocket pistol similar to this Ruger LCP which is fully reviewed here.

They’re one of the few couples we know who don’t have a private security system sign in the front flower bed of their home. Obviously they don’t need one. Most of us have them, even if we also have loaded firearms in the house. We count on the fact that the average criminal is a lazy bumbler without the imagination to figure out whether the sign announces a real security system or is a sign-only one.

As Wretchard says private security will be even more of a growth industry now after the Boston massacre. If for no other reason, there are lots of refugee Chechens living in the U.S. now and who knows how many pray five times a day? Unless you see their wives covered from head to toe in black ninja suits, you wouldn’t.

Just in case, I do think I will try to find one of the signs that CNN’s resident anti-gunner Piers Morgan has on his lawn. The words “armed response security systems” are so much more threatening than what we have now.

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Your Coexist sticker will not save you

Posted on April 21, 2013 | Comments Off on Your Coexist sticker will not save you

Amusingly enough, one of them was on the back of the Massachusetts SUV hijacked by the baby-faced monster and his boxer brother in which they would later shoot it out with the police. Shocker. You mean the Jihadis weren’t interested in sparing an obvious person-of-appeasement?

Nope. Your Coexist sticker is not an avoid-the-Jihadi guarantee. On the contrary, I bet they picked out the vehicle when they saw the sticker. A useful idiot, they may have thought or said to themselves, one of those dupes who believes in moderate Muslims. He surely won’t be armed and he’ll surrender his car without a fuss. And sure enough.

Not that they would have minded killing him. They killed the MIT security guard, after all, apparently for his gun. Didn’t have time for a background check. Sorry, Barry. But all that blood on the driver’s side seat makes for a sticky experience. Much easier to have the keys handed to you before the leftist owner (who else would have one of those stickers?) swoons with pleasure at having been approached by an actual, you know, Muslim.

UPDATE: The Powerline bloggers think the report of the sticker on the hijacked SUV was a conservative or libertarian prank, but they like Mark Steyn’s take: “…if it weren’t for that Islamic crescent [the letter C on the sticker] you wouldn’t need a bumper sticker at all.”

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Win war on terror: focus on the person

Posted on April 19, 2013 | Comments Off on Win war on terror: focus on the person

Wretchard is unusually good today at common sense:

“We focus on things because it is prohibited to focus on people. The TSA looks for things — scissors, liquids, shoes, etc — but it doesn’t stop the underwear bomber. People now want to blame ‘access to guns’ for the Tsarnaevs. But it would be uncouth to ask after what they heard from their imam or their teachers.”

Indeed, and I agree with his conclusion: I won’t hold my breath waiting for our PC strait-jacket to be loosened.

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In phony looting news…

Posted on April 19, 2013 | Comments Off on In phony looting news…

The cBS headline: “Small Amount of Looting at Texas Blast Site,” follows a script ably dissected by social comentator Rebecca Solnit on how authorities promote division among residents of a disaster area to enhance their power at the expense of community feeling and cooperation. DRUDGE cooperates by enhancing the tale with the headline: “Looters Raid Homes.”

The original cBS story depends on the nebulous quote of one police sergeant who can’t get specific because he apparently has nothing to be specific about. Ah, but the coppers have things well in hand. “Very secure” now they say, keeping even homeowners away from their damaged homes.

Which, of course, also is going on in Watertown, Mass, where postal worker Michael Demirdjian has been barred from his home, which contradicts the WaPo’s headline that residents have been told to stay home behind locked doors. This supposedly to aid the search for one bombing suspect, though I suspect “the authorities” there are simply reveling in their ability to order people around—shutting down schools, businesses and whole neighborhoods.

Looks pretty hysterical from afar. And counterproductive since, as Solnit makes plain with historical evidence, it turns people who might have helped in the search into passive sheep either isolated from one another or herded from one place to the next by armed and strutting bureaucrats who are absolute strangers to the area and in the best of circumstances couldn’t find their posteriors with both hands.

UPDATE:  Forget TSA’s airport excesses, the bureaucrats have turned Boston into a “Prison City.”

MORE:  Life in the Police State “…as convoys of heavily armed officers and troops arrived by the hour.” You couldn’t pay me to live in Massachusetts.

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Pols should be required to do their own taxes

Posted on April 19, 2013 | Comments Off on Pols should be required to do their own taxes

If they were required by law to do their own federal income taxes, the rules would be a lot simpler for the rest of us to understand and follow. Although that might diminish the livelihood of accountants like our friend Donnie Greenspan.

Still, as Instapundit says, the current complexity is a human rights violation

Mrs. Charm did our federal taxes fairly quickly again this year because, as usual, we have no deductions. Only had our mortgage interest payments to deduct in the past but they’re too small now to quality because the mortgage, which was low to begin with thanks to our foresight and planning, is almost paid off.

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