UPDATE3: The Smoking Gun¹ has a good article that does a good enough job of convincing us these two guys aren’t it. You judge for yourself.

UPDATE2: According to ABC News² one of the two previously suspicious appearing individuals identified below has talked to police claiming his innocence.

UPDATE1: According to InfoWars³ the two likely Navy SEALs might be private security from Craft International⁴.

Apparent Seal Team Members

InfoWars ⁵ showed its awesomeness yet again by collecting key photographs with basic analysis of the Boston Marathon Bombing. From these pictures we can draw a few conclusions, with the caveat that who knows if the analysis is accurate.

1. Navy SEALs were deployed for security

In the image from InfoWars it appears that two Navy SEALs are providing security near the finish line. The conclusion is based on the BDU-style dress of the individuals, the fact that both are dressed alike, and that one of the persons wears a hat with the SEAL Team logo.

Assuming that the analysis is accurate, it begs the question why SEALs were present. Perhaps they deploy to all similar events. It’s also possible that Boston had some reason to be concerned, perhaps for the same reason that the New York City Marathon was cancelled last year.

2. There Seem To Be Two Obvious Suspects (OR NOT — See the UPDATE above)

Infowars saved everyone some time by finding the two individuals who showed up, looked like they didn’t belong, and one of whom showed up at the finish line with a backpack, and apparently left without it.

It’s probably no coincidence that the backpack, the jacket, and the hat match the FBI description of the individual that they have identified in a store video dropping off the backpack.

InfoWars Identifies Terrorists?

Suspected Terrorists With Heavy Bags

What makes the match more likely is the fact that the explosive devices must have been heavy, on the order of 20-30 pounds, due to the pressure cooker body that was used as the vessel, and shrapnel within. This would make a bag with the device appear heavy. As it happens, the two individuals identified by InfoWars carry bags that seem unusually heavy.

In the picture it’s also obvious that the heavy item in the backpack is relatively large, with an odd shape, and is similar to what a pressure cooker body with the handle removed might look like in a backpack of similar size.

Finally, it just happens that the two individuals have middle Eastern features. Coincidence? We will likely know when the FBI makes some announcements.

In the meantime, you are free to draw your own conclusions. Also be sure to check out the InfoWars article which made the disclosures in the first place.⁶

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This requires at least a basic understanding of the issues in the Middle East. With it you are likely to find this funny, regardless of which side you are on.¹

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CAIR

It seems that the Council for Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) ¹ has been protesting too loudly about being an unindicted co-conspirator of another organization that was found guilty of funneling funds to the HAMAS terror organization.

The US Department of Justice has issued an opinion to a member of Congress regarding the CAIR-HAMAS link, which sums up the problem that CAIR has. According to the DOJ:

“Enclosed are … trial transcripts … contain testimony and other evidence … which demonstrated a relationship among CAIR, individual CAIR founders, and the Palestine Committee. Evidence was also introduced that demonstrated a relationship between the Palestine Committee and HAMAS.” ²

On the other hand, CAIR might not need to protest about being an unindicted co-conspirator for much longer, as according to some reports there is a federal grand jury investigation into the matter.³

[Hat tip to www.investigativereports.org.]

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Islam Is... no query suggestions shown

Christianity Is... many query suggestions shown

One has to wonder who still buys the tagline from Google to not be evil?

It’s not too long ago that Google participated in censorship of the Internet for the Chinese government¹, so that the Communist leadership would accept Google. It seems that the Chinese keep Google on a relatively short leash, reminding them sometimes who’s the boss.²

Now it seems that an entire religion has hijacked Google, or Google is kowtowing to one. If one were to type “Christianity is“, “Scientology is“, “Judaism is” and many other terms followed by “is” into the Google search field, many query suggestions will be shown before the user hits the enter key, some offensive³, but reflective of common queries and search results.

However, if the typed term happens to be “islam is“, there will be absolutely no query suggestions presented. This is not normal behavior, as Google specifically states that the query suggestions are a typical feature unless disabled.⁴

This inconsistency was first publicized on Fox News’ website.⁵ According to the article Google explained the unusual behavior to be a very unique bug, but the same article continues to state that no clarification was provided by the company.

Everyone can draw their own conclusions, as not much more needs to be said.

Don’t be evil? Yeah, right.

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The Christian Action Network has published video from a “Muslims of America” training camp in the United States.¹ The video from this camp in Hancock, NY shows various types of combat training, and military-like conditioning.
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Terrorists — aka Enemy Combatants — in Guantanamo Bay Prison must be humming to the tune of Happy Days.¹ That’s because they’ve moved from an enemy combatant held under Geneva conventions up to apparently the same rights as those afforded to American citizens. No longer do they need to worry about a criminal tribunals like others who were similarly situated in former conflicts.²

But what does it really mean to kick out past precedent and start anew?
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Super64 over Mogadishu

There are some interesting similarities between Obama’s Afghanistan and Clinton’s Somalia. Both new presidents inherited the foreign situation from their predecessor. Both have (or had) advisers who would rather pay off terrorists than fight them unless it brings political benefits.

When it came to Clinton, White House control — which inevitably meant changing missions and holding back military resources¹ — was a key contributor to the events that are well known from the book and movie Black Hawk Down.² After the events Clinton quickly turned tail and ran from Somalia.

The million vote question for Obama is, will he keep our fighting men from what they need until he has his Black Hawk Down moment, too? And if he were to do so, will he also turn tail like Clinton did?

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Nidal Malik Hasan

The Fort Hood tragedy inflicted by Major Nidal Malik Hasan is a somber reminder of the gun-free zones forced on our military by President Clinton in 1993.¹ Mr. Hasan, spouting religious slogans² killed 14 and wounded 29 before being stopped by a police officer Kimberly Munley.

The term gun-free zone is actually inaccurate. It really should be lawful gun-free zone, as criminals are well known to ignore laws as they see fit.
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