Friday Night Tweets: Terror Suspect and Major Rainstorms

We have tweets. We have tweets. Did we say: "We have tweets."

Let's explain the images real quickly: 1) the famed Paul Revere statue in Boston; 2) a Boston Red Sox umbrella; 3) a bear sloth cub which might well look like the one at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, that we will be mentioning.

Here we go; of course, the emphasis here is on today's developments in the now successful effort to apprehend Boston Marathon bomber suspect Dzohkar Tsarnaev:

1. The Fix @TheFix ("Washington Post" reporter Chris Cilliza): "People trying to make jokes on this standoff. Just quit it."

2. Anderson Cooper 360 @AC360: "@BrianToddCNN says there are floodlights on the boat, police are yelling at suspect in #watertown."

3. WBEZ @WBEZ (NPR station in Chicago): "Update: Shots fired in Mass. as police seek second bomb suspect."

4. National Review @NRO ("National Review" is a conservative American journal; we usually disagree with them): "BREAKING: Dead suspect spent 6 months abroad last year, flew from JFK to Russia. Unclear what he did during trip."

5. Muslim Matters @MuslimMatters: "American-Muslim communities pls touch base with your local police depts and request extra patrols and a physical security assessment."

6. HuffPost Celebrity @HuffPostCeleb: "Boston attack survivor Jeff Bauman gets a star-studded visit at the hospital."

7. Chapel Hill Magazine @ChapelHillMag: "Good luck to everyone running the @Tarheel10Miler tomorrow morning!"

8. geneweingarten @geneweingarten: "Are there any Jews involved in this things? If so, I am so embarrassed."

9. Katrina vanden Heuvel @KatrinaNation: "Dzhokar Tsranev in custody, alive."

10. National Zoo @NationalZoo: "At 4 mos old, our sloth bear cub is quick and enthusiastic when it  comes to training."

11. @The Kansan: "Suspect in custody! Great police work!!"

12. Mayor Tom Menino @mayortommenino (the mayor of Boston): "We got him."

13. Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow: "Everyone in Boston: take a deep breath. Have a drink. Have two."

14. Jesus Christ @jesus: "Over and out." (We wonder if he's hanging out with the fringe preacher the Rev. Johnny Roberston in Martinsville, Va.)

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Our Favorite Olympic Athletes (so far)_ One of Four

Wow! A blog entry about a tweet from 2008 women's American Olympic gymnast Shawn Jonson has drawn very, very hits so far. Hopefully, that will not be the case with this one.

We are looking at some of our favorite Olympic athletes. Today, we start with American male athletes, but we will also include international athletes as well:

1) Tony Azevedo, 31, water polo, Long Beach, Calif. (was born in Brazil), Stanford University (pictured top): The United States water polo captain is one of many American athletes born on foreign soil, but fortunately even fringe right-wingers will accept athletes representing the United States irregardless of where their birth certificate is from. Team America (3-2) faces an uphill challenge as they lost to Hungary 11-6 yesterday. They lost by the same score earlier to Serbia. This result will pit the United States against Croatia (5-0) in the quarter-finals. Azevedo is part of the team that won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

2) Justin Gatlin, 30, sprinter, Brooklyn, NY, University of Tennessee (pictured center)_ Gatlin who won gold in the 100-meter relay at the 2004 Athens Olympics, had the misfortune of running against the legendary Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt who has won the same event in the last two Olympics during the current summer games (Gatlin did not participate in Beijing). Gatlin raced the event in an impressive 9.79 seconds. Bolt's Jamaican teammate Yohan Blake took silver in the 100-meters. The National Zoo in Washington, DC, named a male cheetah cub after Gatlin.

3) Richard Lambourne, 37, indoor volleyball, Louisville, Kentucky, Brigham Young University (pictured below)_ Lambourne who has played professionally in Belgium, Greece and Poland is the libero of a so far undefeated United States team that won gold in 2008, and last defeated Tunisia.

4) Ryan Lochte, 28, Daytona Beach, Florida, University of Florida_Lochte has had both the fortune and misfortune of being on the same national swimming team as Michael Phelps. But, Lochte will leave London with two golds, two silvers and one bronze medal.

5) Chris Paul, 27, Winston-Salem, NC, Wake Forest University_ Paul is a local hero in the Winston-Salem area where he went to high school at West Forsyth, where we imagine his number is retired. Yesterday, Paul, who now plays for the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA, scored 17 points in Team America's 126-97 win over Argentina, in which the United States only had a one-point lead at half-time against an Argentinian which has beat them in a shocking semi-final result at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

6) Galen Rupp, 26, track (10,000-meters), Portland, Oregon, University of Oregon_ Rupp won silver in the 10,000-meter race finishing second to Mo Farah of Great Britain on Saturday.

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Virtual Postcard from Washington DC_ The National Zoo

Since we just got back from Washington, DC, we thought we'd share a Virtual Postcard with you of the National Zoo, even though we did not go to the esteemed zoo; in fact, we've never been there?!

To make this fun for you (thanks for those of you who are reading this in Bulgaria, we walked past your embassy), and quick for me, we thought we'd do a DC By the Numbers entry. We think most of these numbers are at least fairly accurate.

In addition, we threw in figures from some silly things we noticed, like the number of women wearing unseasonable shoes (one was even in flip flops?!), but we did not count the joggers or dog walkers, though a part of me wishes we had.

Here we go:

310- Number of miles between Politcs and Prose, an independant bookstore in Washington, DC, on Connecticut Avenue and The Regulator, an indy book outlet in Durham, NC.

61- Number of people we saw riding bicycles, motorcycles or vespas!

32- Number of museums in Washington, DC, this includes the National Zoo, the National Cathedral and Ford's Theatre

31_ Number of women wearing unseasonable shoes. In addition to the woman in flip flops, there was another woman in sandals.

27- Ah, yes, the annoying cute young couples, one can see them everywhere in DC. One couple who smooched as we were approaching Farragut North on the Red Line really took the cake. The girl looked like a fashion model, the guy looked like a chemistry lab geek. Go figure!

13_ Number of players on the Georgetown Hoyas' men's basketball roster.

10_ Number of Starbucks in Washington, DC, alone

7_Number of Starbucks in the DC suburb of Fairfax, Va.

5-Number of Starbucks in another DC 'burb of Bethesda, Md.

3- Number of animal shelters in DC, according to the search engine we used (ok, so it was Google). We certainly hope Helga, a gorgeous, spayed female black cat who is 5 years and two months old, finds a home soon. It has been reported that many pets, like people, are now homeless in DC. Go to warl.org to find out more Helga and other cats and dogs in the city.

2- The number of hours I expect to actually sleep tonight.