{"id":4146,"date":"2013-04-17T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2013-04-17T08:42:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T13:42:05","slug":"i-dont-have-evidence-to-back-that-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4146","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t have evidence to back that up"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldsfamousphotos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/oklahoma-city-bombing.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"508\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The work of Timothy McVeigh, Islamic Extremist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The FBI and I don&#8217;t know who planted the bombs in Boston.\u00c2\u00a0 Nor does Susan Collins, Senator from Maine.\u00c2\u00a0 She, however, is\u00c2\u00a0willing to speculate (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2013\/04\/boston_marathon_bombing_washington_speculates_on_the_meaning.html\">Dave Weigel at Slate<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whenever we have an attack like this it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult not to think that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s somehow involved in Islamic extremism,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Maine Sen. Susan Collins, until recently a top member of the Homeland Security committee and still a prime mover on security bills. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have evidence to back that up. <strong>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just based on previous attacks<\/strong>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is really dumb&#8211;&#8220;based on previous attacks&#8221; is evidence.\u00c2\u00a0 Really bad evidence.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2013\/04\/17\/getcher-open-thread-right-here\/\">Via Ballon Juice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Except maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Centennial_Olympic_Park_bombing\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/30\/AR2010073003254.html\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ted_Kaczynski\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Whitman\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe there ought to be some kind of history test for Senator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI and I don&#8217;t know who planted the bombs in Boston.\u00c2\u00a0 Nor does Susan Collins, Senator from Maine.\u00c2\u00a0 She, however, is\u00c2\u00a0willing to speculate (from Dave Weigel at Slate): \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whenever we have an attack like this it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s difficult not to think that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s somehow involved in Islamic extremism,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Maine Sen. Susan Collins, until recently &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I don&#8217;t have evidence to back that up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1640,1639,1638,1636,1637],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-boston-marathon-bombing","tag-islamic-extremism","tag-oklahoma-city-bombing","tag-susan-collins","tag-timothy-mcveigh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}