Which of course does not prove that they bombed the marathon, ysd. I don’t know how to explain the “small IEDs,” as the criminal complaint calls them, that they had on April 18, but these were not pressure cooker bombs or it wouldf have said so.

This is compelling evidence.

A factually challenged report immediately following a violent occurrence is not evidence that a conspiracy is afoot. Recent events illustrate this. Initial reports following the Sandy Hook tragedy indicated the shooter’s mother was a teacher at the school. Just this week, in the hours following the Oklahoma tornado there were grim reports of scores of [...]

We have compelling evidence as to who planted the bombs. It was the Tsarnaev Brothers. The Tsarnaev Bothers admitted to planting the bombs on 3 separate occasions over 4 days. You might explain away 1, but 3 is mission impossible. Beyond the enormous amount of circumstantial evidence supporting their multiple admissions, we have Jeff Bauman’s [...]

A number of your factual assertions are objectively incorrect. First, your time line is wrong. The carjacking occurred before the firefight in Watertown. Second, Massachusetts transit officer Richard Donohue was struck by friendly fire in the firefight in Watertown. He survived the friendly fire injury. Third, the policeman Tamerlan Tsarnaev told “Danny” he killed was [...]

You are incorrect. All 3 were not under the control of the authorities. In an interview with the Boston Globe the carjacking victim, “Danny,” reported this confession by Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

“Don’t be stupid,” he told Danny. He asked if he had followed the news about Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. Danny had, down to the release of the [...]

ABC is reporting photos were taken by local authorities of the scrawl inside the boat immediately after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apprehended. One of these photos was shown to ABC. The story is here.

The point is the prosecutors, if this scrawled note exists, would not have been concerned about Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s hospital confession being thrown out as a consequence of the delay in Mirandizing him.

This, once it is forensically verified, would appear to resolve any doubt as to the Tsarnaev Bothers involvement in the Boston Bombing.

Central to my optimism is what friends and acquaintances in the building trades are telling me. Their crews and manufacturing plants cannot keep up.

To oldgold @ 81 If you provide an actual link I might look at it.

A link was provided at #81. The Boston Globe has done a great deal of reporting on the Boston Bommbing. Here is a compendium page that provides links to the hundreds of stories the Boston Globe has done concerning various aspects of the bombing. [...]

BoxTurtle,

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bgrothus @78 Not much has been written about the naked arrestee. The best article I have read is here at The New Yoker magazine’s news desk site. It does not definitively answer the question of who this individual was, but gives the reporter’s eyewitness account surrounding his detention and opinion that it was not Tamerlan [...]

What is the psychological appeal of conspiracy theories? Steven Hauwaertz offers this:

 As human beings, we try to explain and analyse events or situations that can have a possible emotional effect on us.  In today’s world, perfect rationality (i.e. full information) is impossible, and neither can necessarily rely on academic or scientific information all the time.  Very [...]

The case is not compromised. The real action in this case is whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is going to be executed or receive a life sentence. This is evident by the moves being made his defense team. Here is the story of the defense team attempting to load up with attorneys proficient in assisting their high-profile clients [...]

This Article in the NYT, ” What Do The Birders Know,” discusses changes noted by bird watchers as a result of climate change.

And what are today’s birds telling us? The Audubon Society estimates that nearly 60 percent of 305 bird species found in North America in winter are shifting northward and to higher elevations in response [...]