Follow-up: Was This Tragedy An Act Of Cowardice?

In follow-up to the post yesterday about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan,

“Was This Tragedy An Act Of Cowardice?”

an interesting note from the mainstream media:

CBS and NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC’s Raddatz Relays: ‘I Wish His Name was Smith’

Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn’t cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, “Fort Hood tragedy: An Army officer, a Muslim convert, is the suspect in a shooting spree…” Introducing his first story, Gibson referred to how Major Nidal Malik Hasan “an army officer, a Muslim, opened fire with handguns…” (With a range of frequency, during late afternoon/early evening coverage, CNN, FNC and MSNBC all identified Hasan as a Muslim.) Cryptically, ABC’s senior foreign affairs correspondent, Martha Raddatz, concluded a story on reaction at Fort Hood: “As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer’s wife told me, ‘I wish his name was Smith.’” So, a concern this will lead to groundless fear of Muslims?

And then Our Dear Leader, President Obama warns that we should not jump to conclusions about Hasan! And just why shouldn’t Americans at least think that a life long Muslum could be a terrorist? Who exploded a truck inside the World Trade Towers? Who blew up American embassies in Africa? Who killed American sailors aboard the U.S.S. Cole? Who beheaded an American journalist? Who hijacked multiple aircraft on 9-11-2001 killing thousands of Americans? MUSLIMS! WAKE UP DEAR LEADER, they are our enemies! They want to kill Americans and to destroy the American way of life.

When is this idiot of a president going to wake up and realize we are at war. A war for our very existence. These are a people who have wanted to destroy every Christian since their religion was founded. Using nice polite terms is not going to win this war. Terms like collateral damage, persons of interest and overly restrictive rules of engagement are not helping our cause. They are getting Americas killed. It is time to drop this PC crap and call a spade a spade. A terrorist is an evil person who wants to kill as many Americans as possible. Let the military do what it was trained to do… kill our enemies! If a few civilians are killed, that is the price of war.

 

There is also the problem with what the doctor was reported yelling while on his killing spree, soldiers reported that the gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar!” — an Arabic phrase for “God is great!” Is this not a “battle cry of radical Islamic terrorist?

 

There is much that needs to be explained, both by the local police and the military regarding this killer. Could it be possible that Hasan was a sleeper agent? How many more possible Islamic terrorist could just be sitting out there time in the military, waiting to unleash terror?

Another case where some people just have to change history, no matter how correct it is!

Black Students Asked To Act As Slaves In Civil War Lesson

Reporter, by Mark Becker.

 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Some parents from Union County say a history lesson at Mecklenburg County’s Latta Plantation went too far when black children were picked out to play the roles of slaves.

 

The students from Rea View Elementary in Waxhaw were touring the plantation Wednesday when Ian Campbell, who is a historian at the site, chose the three children from a group of mostly white children to portray slaves in the 1850s.

 

The children were given shoulder bags to carry the cotton they would have picked.

 

Campbell, who is black, told Eyewitness News he was simply trying to make the presentation as realistic as possible, but the mother of one of the children called the selection outrageous.

 

A spokeswoman for the Union County school district said administrators were “surprised by the lack of sensitivity” of the presentation. Parents plan to meet with school administrators Friday morning to address their concerns.

 

Campbell said he will ask for volunteers in future presentations. He suggested he’s surprised by the uproar.

 

“I chose to be historically correct instead of politically correct,” he said Thursday.

Once again we are not allowed to reenact history as it really happened. We have to be Oh So Politically Correct! It makes my stomach turn. This is similar to the case where ONE person objected to historic newspapers hanging in a V.A. Hospital declaring the end of World War II with the words “Japs Surrender”! That was the terminology of the time. Get with it people, you can’t change history because you object to historical facts! Live with it. It is called history. I’m sure Mr. Campbell is not a racist. He is a gentleman who knows history. I don’t think I have a ever seen a picture of a White, Native American, Chinese or any other race than Blacks as slave. Yes it was wrong, yes it was a terrible chapter of American history, but it happened. LIVE WITH IT!

Was This Tragedy An Act Of Cowardice?

12 Dead, 31 Wounded in Base Shootings

Was This Tragedy An Act Of Cowardice?

Why would an Army trained psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, MD, U.S. Army, MD  turn out to be a cold blooded killer? How could a physician who was trained at the the military’s Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD, completed a residency in psychiatry and worked at Walter Reed Medical Center, the Army’s show case medical facility perform such a horrendous act on his fellow soldiers?

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, MD, U.S. Army

Was this a man who already suffered from PTSD due to his work with returning warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan even before he saw the horrors of war? Or, was this the act of a man who saw an easy way to get a medical degree for free? Then when the reality that he might be sent into harm’s way, he snapped, going on a killing rampage.

What ever the answer, it is a true tragedy for the Army and civilians who were exposed to this event. At last total, there are 12 dead and 31 wounded at the sprawling U.S. Army Base at Fort Hood, TX. My heart goes out to all of the killed, wounded and their families.

Only time will tell the story.

If George Bush was an Idiot…..

If George Bush was an Idiot…..

 

THIS SUMS UP OUR CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE I HAVE SEEN. STRONG FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

 

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

 

If George W. Bush had spent of thousands of tax payer dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

 

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

 

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

 

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

 

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

 

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?

 

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

 

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

 

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced iembarrassment?

 

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

 

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

 

If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

 

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

 

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved?

 

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

 

If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

 

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

 

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in 10 months — so you’ll have three more years to come up with an answer.

 

 

Ben Stein Figures Out Our Dear Leader, Comrade Obama.

WE FIGURED HIM OUT! By Ben Stein

 

Why is President Barack Obama in such a hurry to get his socialized medicine bill passed?

Because he and his cunning circle realize some basic truths:

The American people in their unimaginable kindness and trust voted for a pig in a poke in 2008.

They wanted so much to believe Barack Obama was somehow better and different from other ultra-leftists that they simply took him on faith.

They ignored his anti-white writings in his books.

They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student.

They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East , way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future. The American people have already awakened to the truth that the stimulus bill — a great idea in theory — was really an immense bribe to Democrat interest groups, and in no way an effort to help all Americans.

Now, Americans are waking up to the truth that ObamaCare basically means that every time you are sick or injured, you will have a clerk from the Department of Motor Vehicles telling your doctor what he can and cannot do.

The American people already know that Mr. Obama’s plan to lower health costs while expanding coverage and bureaucracy is a myth, a promise of something that never was and never will be — a bureaucracy lowering costs in a free society. Either the costs go up or the free society goes away.

These are perilous times.. Mrs. Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, has given Iran the go-ahead to have nuclear weapons, an unqualified betrayal of the nation. Now, we face a devastating loss of freedom at home in health care. It will be joined by controls on our lives to “protect us” from global warming, itself largely a fraud if believed to be caused by man.

Mr. Obama knows Americans are getting wise and will stop him if he delays at all in taking away our freedoms. There is his urgency and our opportunity. Once freedom is lost, America is lost. Wake up, beloved America .

Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu . He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.

 

How true, how true.

How very true. The one exception would be MADAM Pelosi.

Enough said!

The Shovel Ain’t Ready.

 

When President Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus bill last February, the administration projected that the bill would create or save 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year, in part by quickly implementing “shovel-ready” infrastructure and energy projects. Unfortunately, the job market has thus far deteriorated further than economists had projected and proponents of the stimulus bill are now scrambling for explanations. But new data on the stimulus bill makes clear that many supposedly shovel-ready projects are still tied up in administrative red tape.

The administration recently announced that stimulus spending totaled $113 billion by the end of fiscal 2009 (which ended September 30). While this top-line number was consistent with what the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected when the bill passed, the composition of spending differs significantly from the original estimates. Transfer payments to states and individuals for unemployment insurance and education have far exceeded initial projections, while spending for construction and infrastructure projects, designed to fuel job creation, is far below the original plan. A closer look at the implementation of the stimulus bill reveals why it is not surprising that the bill has failed to meet its objective of stimulating the economy.

The Departments of Commerce, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, Interior, and Transportation have spent less than 10 percent of their stimulus funds, far less than what was originally anticipated.

Federal departments and agencies tasked with spending money on infrastructure and construction have overwhelmingly failed to get the money out the door. The Departments of Commerce, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, Interior, and Transportation have spent less than 10 percent of their stimulus funds, far less than what was originally anticipated. In the case of the Department of Energy, the stimulus bill provided $38.7 billion to promote energy efficiency and develop renewable energy sources, yet only $779 million, or 2 percent, of the money was spent by September 30, less than half of what was expected. The Department of Transportation, with its particular emphasis on shovel-ready projects, spent 8 percent of its stimulus funds—only three-fourths of what it was expected to have spent thus far. Other agencies have done far worse—National Institutes for Health and the National Science Foundation spent only 1 percent of their stimulus funds in the first seven months. At that rate, those agencies would take 58 years to exhaust their stimulus money.

Why is the money for these projects being spent so slowly? Spending on infrastructure and construction takes time because states must identify appropriate projects and then ensure that those projects meet all laws and requirements, including any required environmental impact studies prior to obligating funds. Once the money is committed, the state generally must select a contractor through a competitive bidding process before work can commence. This process can take years. The CBO, for example, originally estimated that some of the money provided for infrastructure in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act would not be spent until 2019.

The CBO originally estimated that some of the money provided in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for infrastructure would not be spent until 2019.

Meanwhile, spending for transfer programs, especially for unemployment insurance benefits, and new and existing federal education spending, is proceeding much faster than anticipated. States received $6.5 billion more than CBO estimated for education through the Department of Education’s new State Fiscal Stabilization Fund. Spending for student financial assistance at the Department of Education also outstripped CBO’s original estimate by about the same amount. Altogether, the Department of Education spent $20.6 billion by the end of fiscal 2009, $11.7 billion more than anticipated. The Department of Labor spent $27.5 billion, an amount that exceeded CBO’s original estimate by nearly $10 billion, because total unemployment benefits were substantially more than expected. The Department of Health and Human Services was the biggest spender by department, with nearly $33 billion in outlays, nearly all of it federal payments to the states to operate Medicaid, about the same amount as originally forecast.

With a promise to restart the economy by providing needed demand in a faltering economy, Congress delivered the stimulus bill to the president’s desk less than a month after his inauguration, a legislatively impressive feat. Unfortunately, as the hard evidence about the bill starts to accumulate, it is clear that the legislation has done little thus far to help get workers back to work. Looking forward with a goal of creating jobs, lawmakers need to reexamine the stimulus bill and ask if there is any reason to hope that it will perform better in the year ahead. With the federal deficit exploding, Congress needs to either find a way for the stimulus bill to create real economic results quickly and efficiently or maybe just pull the plug.

Alex Brill is a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was formerly chief economist and senior advisor to the House Ways and Means Committee. Rachel Forward has worked for the Congressional Budget Office, Senate Budget Committee, and the House Ways and Means Committee.

Scheming in secret.

How Reid thinks about Americans

Don’t you just love transparency in our government?

 

Harry Reid,

The MADAM

Nancy Pelosi, and

Our Dear Leader, Comrade Obama.

Barack Obama are scheming in secret on ObamaCare… they’re essentially meeting behind closed doors to re-write it.

 

What’s in this re-write? Who knows? But one thing is certain… your worst health care nightmares are about to come true… and soon.

 

That’s not a rumor. It’s an unfortunate fact. Patricia Murphy with Politics Daily writes:

 

“[T]op White House officials are now meeting in the Capitol with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sens. Chris Dodd of Connecticut

I need a gun!

and Max Baucus

How I love to screw Americans

of Montana, away from Republicans and the press….”

 

But it gets even worse.

 

Once the cat was out of the bag – in what may go down in history as one of the most surreal moments of American political history – Harry Reid and Max Baucus actually emerged from their proverbial smoke-filled room just long enough to reassure us that they’re actually being open and transparent.

 

According to Jeffrey Young with The Hill:

 

“Two senators at the forefront of healthcare reform went to great lengths Tuesday to brag about how open and transparent the legislative process has been. Then, they resumed prepping for another closed-door meeting.”

 

Baucus actually had the audacity to tell the assembled reporters:

 

“I have not been involved in such an open and transparent process as this. I’m very, very proud that we have done it… it’s so important to remind ourselves that no effort that I’ve been involved in and I don’t think anyone else in the Senate’s been involved with – certainly nothing with such significance and magnitude – has been so open and transparent as this. Totally open and transparent and I’m very proud of it.”

 

Dodd picked up the thought and continued the sickening charade:

 

“Let me pick up on the point that Sen. Baucus was making. The suggestion somehow that this is being done otherwise is just blatantly false and a distraction from [what] we need to be talking about.”

 

And when they were finished… they excused themselves and went back to their back-room negotiations.

 

Feel like screaming yet? Remember, they are all looking out for us, and their bank accounts!

 

They Say They Don’t Have Time To Read The Bill!

THEY CAN’T READ THE BILLS THEY VOTE ON BUT THEY CAN PLAY SOLITAIRE AND CHECK BALL SCORES!

 

Nothing else need to be said. This is one of their THREE DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for. I am ready to start from the beginning by voting out all elected officials and not letting any of them stay in office for more than two terms. No more lifelong healthcare, retirement, voting in their own pay raises, taking perks on our taxes, etc.

 

 

House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)

 

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two… he’s on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

 

These are the folks that can’t get the budget out by Oct. 1, Seriously!!!

So, we’ve got a 30 day budget extension. Well, guess what, 30 days from now we will be in the same boat. I guess this makes it easy for the news ‘reporters’ as all they have to do is recycle the same headlines from this week and from 2 years ago. And these yo-yo’s will still be playing SOLITAIRE!!!

 

Where Does The MADAM Get The Gall?

When Asked Where the Constitution Authorizes Congress to Order Americans To Buy Health Insurance, Pelosi Says: ‘Are You Serious?’

Friday, October 23, 2009

By Matt Cover, Staff Writer

The MADAM!

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

(CNSNews.com) – When CNSNews.com asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday where the Constitution authorized Congress to order Americans to buy health insurance–a mandate included in both the House and Senate versions of the health care bill–Pelosi dismissed the question by saying: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

Pelosi’s press secretary later responded to written follow-up questions from CNSNews.com by emailing CNSNews.com a press release on the “Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform,” that argues that Congress derives the authority to mandate that people purchase health insurance from its constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce.

The exchange with Speaker Pelosi on Thursday occurred as follows:

CNSNews.com: “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?”

Pelosi: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”

CNSNews.com: “Yes, yes I am.”

Pelosi then shook her head before taking a question from another reporter. Her press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, then told CNSNews.com that asking the speaker of the House where the Constitution authorized Congress to mandated that individual Americans buy health insurance as not a “serious question.”

“You can put this on the record,” said Elshami. “That is not a serious question. That is not a serious question.”

Currently, each of the five health care overhaul proposals being considered in Congress would command every American adult to buy health insurance. Any person defying this mandate would be required to pay a penalty to the Internal Revenue Service.

In 1994, when the health care reform plan then being advanced by President Clinton called for mandating that all Americans buy health insurance, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office studied the issue and concluded:

“The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States. An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government.”

Later on Thursday, CNSNews.com followed up on the question, e-mailing written queries for the speaker to her Spokesman Elshami.

“Where specifically does the Constitution authorize Congress to force Americans to purchase a particular good or service such as health insurance?” CNSNews.com asked the speaker’s office.

“If it is the Speaker’s belief that there is a provision in the Constitution that does give Congress this power, does she believe the Constitution in any way limits the goods and services Congress can force an individual to purchase?” CNSNews.com asked. “If so, what is that limit?”

Elshami responded by sending CNSNews.com a Sept. 16 press release from the Speaker’s office entitled, “Health Insurance Reform, Daily Mythbuster: ‘Constitutionality of Health Insurance Reform.’” The press release states that Congress has “broad power to regulate activities that have an effect on interstate commerce. Congress has used this authority to regulate many aspects of American life, from labor relations to education to health care to agricultural production.”

The release further states: “On the shared responsibility requirement in the House health insurance reform bill, which operates like auto insurance in most states, individuals must either purchase coverage (and non-exempt employers must purchase coverage for their workers)—or pay a modest penalty for not doing so. The bill uses the tax code to provide a strong incentive for Americans to have insurance coverage and not pass their emergency health costs onto other Americans—but it allows them a way to pay their way out of that obligation. There is no constitutional problem with these provisions.”

MADAM Pelosi has to be one of, if not the most dangerous woman in America today. She has an ego larger the even Our Dear Leader, Comrade Obama.