Chechen President: American upbringing to blame for terrorism

The Chechen president says that American upbringing is to blame for the Boston Marathon bombings.

Riiiight.  Because there is no violence in Chechnya.

Internet Sleuths

With high quality cameras in the hands of everyone with a smartphone, not to mention professional photographers and numerous surveillance cameras, the internet turned into a hotbed of would-be Sherlocks pouring over hundreds of images of the Boston Marathon in search of the bombing suspects. I have to admit that I got caught up in it driving myself crazy with a high-stakes game of Where’s Waldo? I mean, the terrorists have to be here somewhere, right?

Talk about needle in a haystack.  But several pictures supplied any number of possibilities. As I pressed on, all sorts of people turned into suspects.  These two guys obviously did it.

Actually, it was these guys…

No, wait, it had to be him…

Possibly one of these…

                      

Or… holy cow!  Why does everyone in Boston wear a backpack?

Even though the actual terrorists turned out to be two guys I never saw a picture of prior to the FBI releasing the actual suspects' photos, I am still convinced there has to be something they can arrest this creep for.

At least I can take comfort in not being one of the people who ever thought this poor guy was one of them.

The zoo is evil!

The baby giraffe that the Houston Zoo egregiously named Yao Ming has a bone infection. And you will never guess where the problem area is.  According to the Houston Chronicle:

"A week after Yao's birth, keepers noticed that he was favoring his rear left leg. When the limp gradually became worse, zoo veterinarians X-rayed the leg"

The poor thing was doomed from the start.

OOPS, KNOW YOUR CAMEL KEEPER

Hollande's Camel Eaten in Latest Setback to French Leader

 Published: Wednesday, 10 Apr 2013 | 2:50 AM ET

Malian authorities will give French President Francois Hollande another camel after the one they gave him for helping repel Islamist rebels was killed and eaten by the family he left it with in Timbuktu, an official in Mali said.

A local government official in northern Mali said on Tuesday a replacement would be sent to France.

"As soon as we heard of this, we quickly replaced it with a bigger and better-looking camel," said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

"The new camel will be sent to Paris. We are ashamed of what happened to the camel. It was a present that did not deserve this fate."

Hollande was presented with the camel when he visited Mali in February several weeks after dispatching French troops to the former colony to help combat al Qaeda-linked fighters moving south from a base in the north of the country.

The president joked at the time about using the camel to get around traffic-jammed Paris. But he chose in the end to leave it with a family in the town on the edge of the Sahara desert.

Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was tasked with giving Hollande regular updates on the camel's status and had to inform him of its death last week, French media said.

"The news came in from soldiers on the ground," said a French government official.

French leaders have received many gifts of exotic or wild animals from Africa and further afield over the years.

Last week, a robber chainsawed a tusk off the skeleton of an elephant offered to Louis XIV by a Portuguese king in 1668. Police caught the robber as he fled, tusk under his arm.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100629394

???

Does Mr. Burns own this hotel I am staying in?

Kim Jong Un hates hippies

A North Korean war room photo showing possible areas of attack on the US mainland surprisingly showed Austin as a target. Rick Perry says that Austin is on North Korea’s hit list because of its economy.  If that’s the case, why not go ahead and target the larger Houston?  The Turkish Minister recently called Houston “the heart of the US economy.”

Rick Perry can talk all he wants, but I think it’s obvious that Kim just hates patchouli. And I agree with him... but just this once.