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Election 2012: Iowa President
Rasmussen Reports, by Staff
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Posted By:DaddyO, 11/1/2012 1:12:41 PM
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| Iowa remains neck-and-neck in the closing days of Election 2012, with Mitt Romney now showing a one-point lead. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Iowa Voters finds the Republican challenger with 49% support, while President Obama earns 48% of the vote. Two percent (2%) like someone else in the race, and one percent (1%) is undecided.
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If Iowa goes for Romney he'll be the next president, no question.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Constitutional, 11/1/2012 2:04:51 PM (No. 8980086)
As of this poll, Rasmussen now has Romney winning -- and by at least two points -- in every purple swing state except Nevada and Wisconsin (and he's tied in Wisconsin).
Nate Silver, what color is the sky on your planet?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Norwegian Goddess, 11/1/2012 2:06:49 PM (No. 8980091)
Have they polled the dead voters yet?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TakeBackAmerica, 11/1/2012 2:20:50 PM (No. 8980127)
There are no undecided voters. If there are, they have no business voting.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 11/1/2012 2:39:19 PM (No. 8980181)
Iowa is filled with sensible people, who often do the right thing. But then I look at Tom Harkin, the stolen valor senator, and have to wonder about them.
Now Mrs Valsik is running for the House seat. That would be a real disappointment if she wins...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Mr. Know-It-All, 11/1/2012 2:46:06 PM (No. 8980198)
I think that part of the reason for the tightness of the polls is the Bradley effect. That was not in play in 2008 since the great deluded electorate was all agog over the Hopey-changey end of racism hogwash. Plus mcvain was a lousy candidate.
But that's worn off now, and with this regime's incessant playing of the race card some people are reluctant to voice their true opinion, even in a supposedly anonymous poll.
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To Obama´s dismay, America
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fail, poll suggests
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Christian Science Monitor, by Patrik Jonsson
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Posted By: DaddyO- 4/25/2013 11:02:36 AM
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The paradox of American gun control got deeper Wednesday. Or, at least it appeared to. On the surface, the poll released by The Washington Post and Pew Research Center made no sense. Only 47 percent of respondents said they were "disappointed" or "angry" that the Senate last week failed to advance a bill to expand background checks to gun shows and online sales. Yet in February, a Pew poll found that 83 percent of respondents supported an expansion of background checks to cover gun shows and all private sales – measures that would actually be stricter than what the Senate rejected.
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How Obama Misread
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National Journal, by Josh Kraushaar
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Posted By: DaddyO- 4/20/2013 7:17:09 AM
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Watching President Obama’s fury after Congress failed to pass any gun-control legislation was a sign of his political helplessness. Despite aggressively pushing for expanded background checks, despite enlisting the victims of recent gun violence to lobby their representatives, despite getting one of the more conservative senators to support a watered-down background-check measure, he fell five votes short of getting anything passed in the Senate, including losing four members from his own party.
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Climate scientists struggle to
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Reuters, by Alister Doyle
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Posted By: DaddyO- 4/16/2013 10:27:10 AM
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Often focused on century-long trends, most climate models failed to predict that the temperature rise would slow, starting around 2000. Scientists are now intent on figuring out the causes and determining whether the respite will be brief or a more lasting phenomenon. Getting this right is essential for the short and long-term planning of governments and businesses ranging from energy to construction, from agriculture to insurance. Many scientists say they expect a revival of warming in coming years.
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Opinion of federal government
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Reuters, by Ian Simpson
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Posted By: DaddyO- 4/15/2013 1:41:50 PM
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Americans´ opinion of the federal government has fallen to a record low even as they continue to view local and state governments favorably, according to Pew Research Center survey released on Monday. Just 28 percent of Americans rate the government in Washington favorably, the lowest percentage ever in a Pew survey and down 5 percentage points from a year ago, Pew said in a statement. The favorability rating has fallen steadily from a high of 82 percent in November 2001, after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
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Gun bill sponsor apparently doesn’t
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Daily Caller, by Greg Campbell
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Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, the lead Democratic sponsor of a federal bill to ban high-capacity magazines, is apparently unaware that such magazines can be reloaded and reused, according to a comment she made at a Denver Post-sponsored forum on gun control on Tuesday. When asked how limiting the number of bullets in magazines would help reduce violence, she replied: (snip) "So if you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time, because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.”
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Intruder killed while breaking into
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Reuters, by Keith Coffman
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Posted By: DaddyO- 4/3/2013 8:53:43 AM
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An intruder who forced his way into the mountain home of a Colorado deputy district attorney was shot dead by either the prosecutor or her police officer husband, authorities said on Tuesday. The shooting, shortly before midnight Monday, comes two weeks after Colorado´s prisons director was slain as he answered the front door to his home, and two days after the district attorney of Kaufman County in Texas was found shot to death with his wife. An assistant prosecutor in the Kaufman County district attorney´s office was shot to death on January 31
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Chief scolds mom who
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Cincinnati Enquirer, by Carrie Blackmore Smith
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Posted By: DaddyO- 2/12/2013 11:04:18 AM
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Any adult who takes a school matter into his or her own hands – like a mother who allegedly entered Withrow High School without permission Thursday and helped her daughter beat up another girl – will be held accountable, Cincinnati Police Chief James Craig said Monday. Police say the mother, her daughter and another woman burst into a classroom at the school on Madison Road about 2 p.m. Thursday. The mother and daughter, according to police, assaulted a 15-year-old girl, striking her with fists, feet and a combination lock. Teacher Kim Kilby suffered a black eye in the scuffle.
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Gun control debate: Is an assault
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Yahoo! News, by Liz Goodwin
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Posted By: DaddyO- 1/11/2013 8:30:59 AM
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Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he will recommend new gun control measures to President Barack Obama, which include more comprehensive background checks on gun buyers and limits on the sizes of ammunition magazines. The proposal could lead to the most significant move on guns in 20 years, but one regulation highly coveted by gun control advocates is notably missing: a ban on assault weapons.
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Cyanide poisoning killed
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Chicago Sun-Times, by Stefano Esposito
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Last June, Urooj Khan literally jumped for joy as he stood in a Far North Side 7-Eleven, having just learned he held a $1 million-winning instant lottery ticket. Less than a month later, Khan, 46, died at his West Rogers Park home — of apparent hardening of the arteries. But now, Khan’s death has been reclassified as a homicide, and investigators say he died from cyanide poisoning. Investigators are moving toward exhuming Khan’s body for further tests, Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Stephen J. Cina said Monday.
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The Fiscal Cliff Deal´s Biggest
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The New Republic, by Jonathan Cohn
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Posted By: DaddyO- 1/1/2013 8:24:15 AM
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First things first. At 12:00:00 a.m., we go over the fiscal cliff. And at 12:00:01 a.m., most Americans will be talking about the new year, not the new fiscal regime. That´s entirely appropriate. In theory, midnight will usher in huge policy shifts: The tax code will return to what it was in the Clinton era, while a series of automatic spending cuts will begin to take effect. (snip) It’s as if President George W. Bush finally won—the tax cuts he’d always wanted would be staying on the books indefinitely, "starving the [government] beast" of the resources it needs to survive.
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´Brighter than a full moon´:
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The Independent, by David Whitehouse
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Posted By: DaddyO- 12/27/2012 9:19:26 AM
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At the moment it is a faint object, visible only in sophisticated telescopes as a point of light moving slowly against the background stars. It doesn´t seem much – a frozen chunk of rock and ice – one of many moving in the depths of space. But this one is being tracked with eager anticipation by astronomers from around the world, and in a year everyone could know its name. Comet Ison could draw millions out into the dark to witness what could be the brightest comet seen in many generations – brighter even than the full Moon.
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Piers Morgan, David Gregory
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Baltimore Sun, by David Zurawik
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Posted By: DaddyO- 12/27/2012 8:17:48 AM
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Remember all the big, high-sounding media talk right after the massacre at Sandy Hook about how maybe now we will have a "national dialogue" about guns? Remember how many members of the media vowed to put aside their own little, selfish, partisan agendas and get serious about making this a safer and saner country for our children? Well, here we are 12 days out, and what´s that big media conversation on guns about? Whether or not "Meet the Press" host David Gregory broke a law by waving an empty ammunition clip on the air Sunday
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Michelle Obama Wears Lacy
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New York Magazine, by Charlotte Cowles
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Michelle Obama did not walk the E!-streamed red carpet before tonight´s White House Correspondents´ Dinner — she was already at home, of course — so our first glimpse of her black Monique Lhuillier gown came later, once dinner started. And damn does she look good. This is a sexier look on her than usual, with a sheer lace panel over her decolletage and a molded bustier-style top. She very wisely chose a dress that photographs well while she´s sitting down, Schiaparelli-style, with elaborate beading along her collarbone and fitted cap sleeves that flatter her arms. Other observations:
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NBC: White House Regrets
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd reported this morning that the White House regrets publicly setting a red line with regard to Syrian use of chemical weapons: [Video] "I can tell you there is regret about that red line comment," said Todd, "because if you --" Host David Gregory interrupted, "In the White House?" "In the White House in this respect," Todd continued. "You don´t draw--I mean, they meant it. They do mean it on the chemical weapons. But saying it creates this political conversation. They didn´t want to go public last week
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Rep. Trey Gowdy: ‘Explosive’
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Rep. Trey Gowdy, appearing on Fox News on Saturday afternoon, promised that “explosive” congressional hearings over the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, are “coming quickly.” “There are more Benghazi hearings coming; I think they’re going to be explosive,” Mr. Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who is a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Fox’s Uma Pemmaraju. Mr. Gowdy wasn’t able to give out too many details, but he hinted that the public for the first time might hear from witnesses to the terror attack
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In a First, Black Voter
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Associated Press, by Hope Yen
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Posted By: rlwo- 4/28/2013 10:56:39 AM
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Washington - America´s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home. Had people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels, Republican Mitt Romney would have won narrowly, according to an analysis conducted for The Associated Press. Census data and exit polling show that whites and blacks will remain
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White House Correspondents´ Dinner:
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ABC News, by Sarah Parnass
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Comedian Conan O´Brien took a break from his late-night show, "Conan," to join President Obama in Washington, D.C. Saturday at the 2013 White House Correspondents´ Dinner. Two hours or so before the festivities began, he sent out a picture of himself behind a podium, sporting a Boston Red Sox hat. "Just rehearsed my routine to an empty ballroom at the Washington Hilton," the comedian tweeted. "The one guy unfolding chairs loved it."
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Obama urges US Congress
to end ´dumb´ budget cuts
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Agence France-Presse, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/27/2013 3:22:44 PM
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President Barack Obama on Saturday called on the US Congress to end the "reckless" and "dumb" budget cuts known as the sequester, and to adopt a plan of "smarter" cuts to fuel economic growth. Obama´s weekly address comes after Congress on Friday overwhelming approved a bill putting furloughed air traffic controllers back on the job, thus undoing one of the most high-profile effects of the so-called sequestration, the $85 billion in automatic budget cuts that took effect March 1 and hit federal spending across the board. (Snip) "Republicans claimed victory when the sequester first took effect,
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Obama: Our top priority must
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm
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Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 4/27/2013 12:33:55 PM
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President Obama´s weekly remarks: Hi, everybody. Our top priority as a nation must be growing the economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding opportunity for the middle class. But two months ago, Congress allowed a series of automatic budget cuts to fall across the federal government that would do the opposite. In Washington-speak, these cuts were called the “sequester.” It was a bad idea then. And as the country saw this week, it’s a bad idea now. Because of these reckless cuts, there are parents whose kids just got kicked out of Head Start programs scrambling for a solution.
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The Brothers Tsarnaev and the Danger
Whose Name we Dare not Speak
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: Judy W.- 4/28/2013 4:58:29 AM
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We now have had a number of terrorist attacks on the homeland -- though the administration often refers to them in ridiculous euphemisms like "workplace violence" -- and the behavior of the administration, including our lavishly funded FBI and Homeland Security Administration, and our richly rewarded media stars remains so predictable I´ve decided to spare you the time it takes to unravel the unending lies and poppycock we are regularly fed about these horrors, lies, and blundering that only increase our danger. This week´s bombing of civilians at the Boston Marathon in which three people, including an 8-year-old child,
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Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap
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Associated Press, by Eileen Sullivan & Matt Apuzzo
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/27/2013 5:40:17 PM
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WASHINGTON — Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call. In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, officials said. The conversations are significant because, had they been revealed earlier, they might have been enough evidence for the FBI to initiate a more thorough investigation of the Tsarnaev family. The conversations
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Sanford memorial dedicated for
Trayvon Martin, other families
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Central Florida News 13 [Orlando, FL], by John W. Davis
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/28/2013 11:06:44 AM
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Sanford - A new memorial was dedicated Saturday not only for Trayvon Martin, but for 10 other people who were killed in Sanford. Families of the victims used the occasion to share their stories and speak out for closure and justice. The new Trayvon Martin Memorial was established at the Goldsboro Welcome Center on Historic Goldsboro Boulevard in Sanford. It features Trayvon Martin’s name on a headstone and 10 other Sanford area residents who family members say were killed unjustly.
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A History Lesson for Marco Rubio
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Creators Syndicate, Inc., by Michelle Malkin
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Posted By: tocsin- 4/27/2013 12:55:43 PM
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Florida GOP senator Marco Rubio seems well-meaning enough. I know we both share, as second-generation conservative Americans, a common passion for this great land of opportunity. But when it comes to comprehending the real agenda of the open-borders zealots he’s allied himself with, Rubio doesn’t have a clue. And his abject ignorance threatens all of us who cherish American sovereignty and exceptionalism. On Fox News’ The Sean Hannity Show Tuesday night, Rubio defended his Gang of Eight “immigration reform” bill and insisted that we could and should have a system in place that vets
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´Lol these people are cooked:´ Boston
bomber´s chilling tweet sent just hours
after the deadly attack
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by Staff
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/27/2013 7:42:01 PM
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The surviving suspect accused of the Boston Marathon bombings tweeted in the aftermath of the terrorist attack, joking about the fate of victims of the explosions. Dzhokhar ´Jahar´ Tsarnaev, 19, took to the social media website and engaged in banter with a friend making light of the deadly explosions that killed three and injured more than 260. In one of his many tweets, the college sophomore wrote, ´Lol those people are cooked´ likely in reference to a since deleted conversation about the events unfolding in Boston.
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