Nothing to be learned from these dead young men in the news - here today, gone tomorrow - conveniently taking what they know about terrorism in this country with them to the grave.
Friends of Ibragim Todashev, 26, who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Orlando say he is from Chechnya and knew Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. (PHOTO/Orange County Jail)
A former mixed martial arts fighter who was fatally shot by an FBI agent in Florida following a "violent confrontation" knew one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, a friend of the victim said Wednesday.
FBI Agent Dave Couvertier said in a statement that an unidentified agent encountered Ibragim Todashev, of Orlando, while conducting official duties.
"The agent, along with other law enforcement personnel, were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a violent confrontation was initiated by the subject," the statement read. "During the confrontation, the individual was killed and the agent sustained non-life threatening injuries. As this incident is under review, we have no further details at this time."
Khusen Taramov, who was at the scene and identified himself as the victim's friend, said Todashev, 27, knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old former amateur boxer suspected in the April 15 bombings that killed three and injured more than 260, MyFoxOrlando.com reports.
Rumors that Todashev - and others involved in the Boston Marathon incident (which increasingly does not look like workplace violence, as initially reported somewhere) - were members of an Episcopalian sect in Tallahassee are still being investigated.
Because good news is rare these days - not because it isn't out there, but because it doesn't attract anywhere near the attention it deserves - to offset even a little of the bad, so readily reported.
Sadly, because the Republicans still haven't figured out the rules of the political game, she was one and done this morning, one plea of her Fifth Amendment rights and that was all before they let her off the hook, no more questions.
The emptiness on the newspaper's front page, where the real story might have been told, is where it . . .
Wasn't.
Unsurprising that so little light was shed, given that those who held the flashlight did not know - again, still - where the on-button was.
I get credit all the time for things I never said. You know that line in You Bet Your Life the guy says he has 17 kids and I say 'I smoke a cigar but I take it out every once in a while.' I never said it." -- Did Groucho Really Say That?
And I'm going to bet my life - or at least a lot - that if he didn't say it - if his writers didn't think of it - he wished he'd said it, because it sounded so much like something he would have said . . .
Given the chance.
It was a chance he had each time his radio, and then television, show came on, the latter in glorious black-and-white, back in the day, before political correctness was born, and when it would have been laughed right off the stage if it had ever tried to act out its silliness with an audience back then.
Groucho didn't swing and miss at many straight lines, that I can recall, and I was a fan, both listening and later watching, at every opportunity, and if he did, his iconic eyebrows would bail him out every time.
This one would have been a round-tripper, off his verbal bat and out of the park.
"We're very excited with how the numbers look," said Kellie Barnes with the anti-fluoride group Clean Water Portland.
If the early returns hold up, "then Portlanders spoke out to value our clean water and ask for better solutions for our kids."
Voters in Portland twice rejected fluoridation before approving it in 1978. That plan was overturned two years later, before any fluoride was ever added to the water.
The City Council voted last year to add fluoride to the water supply that serves about 900,000 people. But opponents quickly gathered enough signatures to force a vote on the subject.
File under . . .
Curses! Foiled Again!
Fifty years ago, the paranoia was on the Right, fearing an international conspiracy to poison the nation's water supply. See, e.g., Dr. Strangelove for further details, and to know more about the perceived threat to our "precious bodily fluids".
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, he believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace . . .
Feel free to shake your head in wonder as you laugh at the latest from the Left in Portland.
And be glad you don't live there.
Only your dentist knows for sure, and let's face it, if you follow the money, as we are told we should always do, you are going to quickly understand that . . .
He/she in the white (or powder blue) coat has a conflict of interest about it all.
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