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67 Responses to “Selected News For Nov 7 – Nov 13”

  1. jimwilson
    November 7, 2009 at 6:54 am

    Thank GOD for WBTV (TV station in Charlotte) and for Rep. Sue Myrick (US Rep from North Carolina )

    Myrick wants to focus on Muslims in the military

    CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) – U.S. Congressional representative Sue Myrick (R-NC) is weighing in about Muslims in the military after a shooting at Fort Hood left 13 dead and nearly 30 hurt.

    Charged in the case is a life-long Muslim, Army Major Nadil Malik Hassan, who was said to have opposed the war in Iraq and Afghanistan before allegedly going on the shooting spree.

    Myrick, in her words, believes it’s time to stop being politically correct, because she’s worried about Muslims infiltrating the military.

    “I really and truly feel very strongly that we’ve got to look at this in a different light,” Myrick told WBT News Friday morning. “And we’ve got to look to look at the breakdown between our intelligence in this country and the military, because this isn’t the first time this kind of thing has happened in the military.”

    http://www.wbtv.com/global/story.asp?s=11457794

    Oh, there is also a poll on the story… Go VOTE!!

    U.S. Representative Sue Myrick (R-NC) said Friday that she is “very concerned about infiltration into the military” by Jihadists. Should we be worried about such a scenario?

    Yes
    No
    I’m not sure

    • Rusty Shackleford
      November 7, 2009 at 11:23 am

      As of 11:17 the results so far are:

      Yes——————-90%
      No———————9%
      Not Sure————-1%

      ‘Course it could be pinging from the potential for knee-jerking from Thursday’s events. However, there were those who sought to isolate Japanese citizens from military service during WW II and they created internment camps as well. Not one of our best moments, although I understand the fear.

      So how best to do it?

      I’m afraid I’m fresh out of answers and the only one I can come up with is barring any mooselimb from military service period simply because their religion is in direct conflict with the Constitution of the United States which they have to take an oath to defend.

      It’s as simple as that.

      If you are devout to your religion of islam then by definition, the Constitution is pretty much 180 degrees out from that.

  2. Melly
    November 7, 2009 at 8:49 am

    Great audio interview with Col. Ralph Peters on Fort Hood podcast: No Time for Political Correctness

    Today’s interview with Col. Ralph Peters is below the fold. The colonel has always been a voice of reason when it comes to military matters, Iraq and Afghanistan. A noted soldier, author and columnist, I asked for clarity on the Fort Hood massacre when we set this up and he certainly gives it.

    “This was a cold blooded, premeditated, act of terrorism. There’s no other word for it. But I have to tell you, the Army also bears blame for this. The Army is so sick with political correctness that no one had the guts to take this guy on.

    He argued with his patients about foreign policy, posting hate speech and praising suicide bombers on the internet, labeling himself Palestinian and no one, no one said this guy’s not fit.”

    Listen to the whole thing, but it really takes off about a third of the way through. Click on the play button…

    http://radioviceonline.com/col.....rrectness/

    • Liberals Demise
      November 7, 2009 at 4:51 pm

      The Army has been doing “Social Engineering” for quite some time but I would not blame this on that. The sole blame rests on the sick and twisted religion the muslims practice on helpless Americans.
      King Barack is not helping our side either as a closet mooselimb and America hater!

  3. Gila Monster
    November 7, 2009 at 9:33 am

    MoveOn reminds everyone that “Thou shall not disagree with the party, …..ever!” From Fox News;

    MoveOn Threatens to Push Primary Opponents to Dems Voting Against Health Plan

    Moveon.org has reportedly raised $3,578,117 in contributions to fund primary challenges against ‘any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option,’ according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.

    A civil war is threatening to erupt within the Democratic Party as liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org looks to punish moderate Democrats opposed to the sweeping health care overhaul proposed by party leaders.

    MoveOn has reportedly raised more than $3.5 million in contributions to fund primary challenges against “any Democratic senator who blocks an up-or-down vote on health care reform with a public option,” according to an e-mail sent to group members on Thursday.

    The e-mail warned that any Democratic House member who joins Republicans to filibuster the health care reform measure will “face an enormous backlash from the grassroots.”

    The group also highlights a letter from Democracy for America, the nation’s largest progressive political action founded by former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, which urges Senate Democrats to strip committee chairmanship from “any Democrat who filibusters health care.”

    MoveOn.org, which has 5 million members, has become increasingly vocal in its threats against conservative and moderate Democrats who remain opposed to the health care bills laid out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

    Several Democrats, including Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama, have expressed resistance to Pelosi’s $1.055 trillion measure in recent days — underscoring the intra-party rift over President Obama’s top domestic priority.

    Obama had planned a rare visit to the House Friday morning to persuade wavering Democrats, but was forced to reschedule it until Saturday as delays push back a vote on the measure.

    Among the most heated disagreements among rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers are issues related to abortion and illegal immigrants.

    Democratic opponents of abortion — under pressure from Catholic bishops — want stronger provisions written in the bill that no federal funds would be used to finance abortion in coverage bought in the government-run exchange.

    http://tinyurl.com/yaf3eva

    Marx, Alinsky, Ayers, Goebbels, Dean and Emanuel must be so proud.

  4. proreason
    November 7, 2009 at 12:49 pm

    A few (dozen) more new beaurocracies in PelosiScare. Via Powerline, you really have to take a quick look at this. It is STAGGERING:

    http://hotair.cachefly.net/ima.....-chart.jpg

    And rembember, the government only delivered 23% of the Swine flu vaccines it promised,
    and of course, Cash for Clunkers cost over $25,000 per $4,000 rebate,
    and of course, Medicare is funcitionally bankrupt,
    and of course, Social Security is a ponzi scheme that is destined to implode soon,
    and of course, the Post Office is a welfare system for government workers,
    and of course….

  5. proreason
    November 7, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    Who knew. The AP discovers shocking truths about unemployment:

    What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent

    …The survey of companies doesn’t count the self-employed and undercounts employees of small businesses. So the economic picture could be even more dire….

    Troubles for small businesses could have a disproportionate effect on the economy, because they account for about 60 percent of the nation’s jobs. They tend to rely on credit cards and home equity lines — both of which banks have tightened — for cash flow.

    And the unemployment rate doesn’t include people without jobs who have stopped looking, or those who have settled for part-time jobs. Counting those people, the unemployment rate would be 17.5 percent, the highest since at least 1994….”

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/.....4.html?x=0

    S&L has known these truths since the beginning. Perhaps the AP should begin coming to us for their unemployment data analysis.

    But there is actually a new kernal of information in their story. In addition to the numerous unemployed who aren’t counted that we are already well aware of, it turns out that somebody knows that layoffs of employees for small business are undercounted.

    Of course, they never say that the 17.5% figure doesn’t include the groups that they identify as data problems.

    I guess I am going to have to begin saying the true unemployment is “well over 20%”, now that I know about the undercounting of the employees that represent 60% of the country’s workforce.

    • Rusty Shackleford
      November 7, 2009 at 3:08 pm

      Juss cant wait ta gits me one dem gubbmint jobs. Gnome Sayn?

    • Liberals Demise
      November 7, 2009 at 4:54 pm

      “Sho’ nuff duz!!”

    • proreason
      November 7, 2009 at 6:20 pm

      Another uncounted 1.5 million people have withdrawn from the workforce since Obamy tanked the economy.

      http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servle.....NS11300000

      The chart is the government’s count of “workforce participation”, which means the percent of people of working age (16 to 64) who are working or actively looking for work. (note: it’s a survey number)

      Notice that between Jan 1999 and August 2008, the percentage fell from 67.2% to 66.1%. That probably represents an aging population.

      But from Sep 2008 until now, the drop is another full 1% (9 times the rate of the recent historical drop).

      That represents people who have withdrawn from the workforce in the last 12 months. It’s about 1.5 million people. They were trying to find work before Obamy, but now aren’t even trying.

      They aren’t counted in the unemployments statistics either.

      I guess they are living on Obamy dollars.

      and hope

    • U NO HOO
      November 12, 2009 at 11:49 am

      I look at net Social Security/FICA receipts for a good indicator of how much work is being done and by extension the effective number of people working.

      Just my way of looking at things. When people work they pay FICA. No need to survey households for who is working full time, part time, looking, or gave up.

      http://seekingalpha.com/articl.....s-down-5-5

      Social Security receipts are down 5.5%

  6. proreason
    November 7, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    BigGov Statistical fog hides Obamy White House stealth destruction of Amerika’s Small Businesses: By David Grossman of Online AsiaTimes

    It’s About the Death of Small Business

    As I said on Larry Kudlow’s CNBC show Wednesday night (see link in previous post), the big issue in the US economy is the massacre of small business. That’s why the household survey shows that 558,000 Americans “became unemployed” during October, while the establishment survey of payrolls shows a decline of only 190,000 jobs. The establishment data, which are collected from larger businesses, are more reliable; the household survey is based on telephone interviews with randomly-selected households. But the numbers are so large as to make clear that small businesses are shutting down.

    With commercial and industrial lending by American banks down 13% since September 2008, and most banks continuing to “tighten lending standards” in the Fed’s official poll, this is not surprising. Wal-Mart will make it through a recession; not the tea-cozy shop down the mall corridor, much less the real-estate agency in the half-abandoned exurb. The global speculative grade default rate, as Moody’s reported this week, has risen to a post-Great Depression high of 12%. Credit lines for small businesses (including home equity, credit cards, and all the other devices entrepreneurs use to fund themselves) will continue to shrink.

    Numerous analysts have made the point that in all previous post-war recoveries, it was small business that led job creation. During the 1980s and 1990s large businesses lost employment and small businesses grew. The fact that job losses at small business are evidently far higher than those at large businesses does not make this look like any recovery at all.

    http://blog.atimes.net/?p=1224

    All according to plan. All according to plan.

    As I’ve said many times, the institution that the fascists hate the most are Religion, the Family, and Small Businesses.

    Those three institutions are the lifeblood of the country. They are our social structure. They are our safety net. They, along with the Constitution, are what have made this country so great.

    So they must be destroyed.

    Even Glenn Beck isn’t on this, but think about it.

    The attacks on religion have been going on for 50 years (except, of course, Islam). The attacks on the Family are more subtle, but that is the real purpose of Gay Marriage, and Abortion, and Femi-naziism, and the sexual revolution.

    But you didn’t know that Small Businesses are being wiped out while the shell moves from Fox News to the Olympics to Afghanistan to Global Warming to Date Nights to puppies in the White House, did you?

    Soon there will be NO small businesses.

    And why not? GM capitulated in a month. GE fell years ago. Big Pharma and the Health Insurers….lap dogs to the government. But while small businesses exist, they are totally unmanageable. There are thousands of them. It’s like a herd of cats. A nightmare for the commissars.

    So what is a good fascist to do, when faced with such a problem?

    Why, bankrupt them of course. Bankrupt them.

  7. nuthingbettertodo
    November 7, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    For your amusement….. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg_TpflmSXs

  8. Rusty Shackleford
    November 7, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    This is just pathetic reporting:

    An overly long piece that could be summed up thusly:

    Obama sending less than needed troops and not till next year.

    Simple. But McClatchy takes over a thousand words to justify the boy’s position.

    Obama nearing decision to send more troops to Afghanistan

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclat.....DMQ–

    By Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott And Nancy A. Youssef, Mcclatchy Newspapers – Sat Nov 7, 2:22 pm ET

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told McClatchy .

    As it now stands, the administration’s plan calls for sending three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky. and the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, N.Y. and a Marine brigade, for a total of as many as 23,000 additional combat and support troops.

    Another 7,000 troops would man and support a new division headquarters for the international force’s Regional Command (RC) South in Kandahar , the Taliban birthplace where the U.S. is due to take command in 2010. Some 4,000 additional U.S. trainers are likely to be sent as well, the officials said.

    The first additional combat brigade probably would arrive in Afghanistan next March, the officials said, with the other three following at roughly three-month intervals, meaning that all the additional U.S. troops probably wouldn’t be deployed until the end of next year. Army brigades number 3,500 to 5,000 soldiers; a Marine brigade has about 8,000 troops.

    The plan would fall well short of the 80,000 troops that Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal (asked for), the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan , suggested as a “low-risk option” that would offer the best chance to contain the Taliban -led insurgency and stabilize Afghanistan .

    It splits the difference between two other McChrystal options: a “high-risk” one that called for 20,000 additional troops and a “medium-risk” one that would add 40,000 to 45,000 troops.

    And people wonder why I scream at the radio.

    The reporting makes me mad enough but even more is the intentional foot-dragging on the part of the boy. His intentions are more than transparent and his arrogance is showing like a hooker’s ass. (sorry).

    Pathetic….just…..absolutely pathetic. Why don’t you just pull our troops out? Instead of making this big show of “concern” and “weighted pseudo-intellectual thinking”

    What did Captain Binghampton used to say? “I could just scream.”

  9. canary
    November 9, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Obama calls teabaggers anti-government extremists among other things.

    New York Times:Lawmakers Detail Obama’s Pitch
    By Jackie Calmes Nov 7 2009 Prescriptions:

    Both Mr. Obama and the House leaders showcased Democrats’ newest colleague, Representative Bill Owens, who last Tuesday won a special election in an upstate New York district…

    Mr. Owens gave unabashed support to the pending House health care bill, despite the opposition of national conservative groups, including the new Tea Party Patriots….

    Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats,.. and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon,…,

    the president asked,
    “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”

    Democrat from New Mexico, Representative Martin Heinrich, said the president’s comments overall were reassuring. “If you want to see a recipe for failure,” Mr. Heinrich said,

    http://prescriptions.blogs.nyt.....mas-pitch/

    • proreason
      November 9, 2009 at 4:14 pm

      “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people ”

      That is probably the most stunning thing I have ever heard a POTUS say.

      Not because it indicates he hates the country. We already know that.

      Because “teabag” is the vilest possible word, propagated by MSLSD queers, to describe their enemies.

      It’s no different than him calling us “b**tf**krs”.

    • Rusty Shackleford
      November 9, 2009 at 10:43 pm

      Well, it doesn’t matter what he says. He could come out and call every white American male a “sheet-wearing cracker” and, oh wait. Never mind.

      The white-apologists in the news (which is 99.9% of them) would feel “we” have it coming and see nothing wrong with a little “social justice”.

      In one sense, I wish I could go to another planet…let the “victims” have the whole thing and I would have a telescope to watch the progress. I’d give it about three weeks before the whole place became a glowing mass of nuclear material.

  10. Rusty Shackleford
    November 9, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    To hell with healthcare; There’s a much bigger elephant in the room:

    From Yahoo finance:

    China’s Premier Warns Obama to Get America’s Deficit to an “Appropriate Size”

    http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-.....LT,PGJ,UDN,

    Posted Nov 09, 2009 01:32pm EST by Heesun Wee in Investing, Newsmakers, Commodities, Recession, Banking

    As President Barack Obama prepares to depart Thursday for his first Asia trip, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao is urging the U.S. to keep its deficit to an “appropriate size,” a clear message to the leader of the world’s largest debtor nation from its largest creditor.

    Oh, good. Barry is going to Asia? That can only have a profoundly good effect on us, right? Like as with the middle-eastern nations…and Honduras, and North Korea and….and…..

    China is the largest holder of U.S. government debt and has invested an estimated 70% of its more than $2 trillion stockpile of foreign-exchange reserves (the world’s largest) in dollar assets, Reuters reports. Further dollar weakness, brought on by enormous U.S. deficit spending and near-zero interest rates, would erode the value of China’s huge U.S. holdings, as Henry and Aaron discuss in the accompanying clip.

    But wait, a little further down you say that deficit spending in the form of stimulus money is good. What gives?

    “Most importantly, we hope the United States will keep an appropriate size to its deficit so that there will be basic stability in the exchange rate, and that is conducive to stability and the recovery of the global economy,” Wen Jiabao said over the weekend at a news conference in Egypt.

    In contrast, the best strategy for the U.S. may be an inflationary stance. We need stimulus spending to jump start our economy and reduce the real value of our record budget deficit of $1.42 trillion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. An improved U.S. economy also would mean more Americans buying up Chinese-made goods.

    So, the answer is: No matter what we do, we’re screwed.

    With an answer of “spend more money before we go broke” I’m afraid I can draw no other conclusion. I’m no economics major, and it’s obvious that the eggheads who are would laugh at me. But I am reminded of the “blood and turnip” analogy.

    Collision course with China? But as historian Niall Ferguson discussed in a recent sitdown with Aaron at Buttonwood, there’s danger the U.S. may be on a collision course with the Asian giant. China, notably, is buying up hard assets with its cash including natural resources and oil from regions including Africa.As any history textbook will tell you, many political conflicts arise over disputes about natural resources.

    Regardless of whether or not China chooses to unpeg its reminbi from the dollar, longer term the U.S. must come to terms with its deficit structure. Meanwhile, the dollar further weakened against the euro Monday as G-20 finance ministers offered no assurances they would take steps to strengthen the greenback.

    So, it’s a matter of “deficit structure“. I must admit I’ve never heard of that term before. How do you “structure” debt? Or is there some magic that makes debt look not like debt? I’d like to know how that works since, I’ll admit I never listen to those commercials that say “turn debt into cash, fast”. Perhaps I would but it’s the “fast” part that worries me.

    (I’m mistrustful like that)

    • Confucius
      November 10, 2009 at 8:51 am

      Two more bits:

      –India has stopped buying the U.S. dollar. They’re buying gold now.
      –OPEC wants to “de-peg” oil from the U.S. dollar.

      It seems the world is valuing the dollar at worthless.

  11. canary
    November 10, 2009 at 1:00 am

    The Washington Post: Ft. Hood Suspect Warned of Threats Within Ranks
    Dana Priest
    In Walter Reed lecture, psychiatrist urged Muslim soldiers be released as conscientious objectors instead of fighting in wars against other Muslims.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/?reload=true

    The Washington Post refers to the muslim threatening murdering terrorist as a ’suspect’.

    If only the Obama liberals would honor their muslim hero and grant his wish.
    Hasan did complain of U.S. muslim soldiers, patients he saw (who volunteered) that did not feel comfortable being deployed and fighting their own. They prefer the luxury of American soil to sludge sand, when it comes to killing Americans and spilling blood. Less apt to get killed before they slaughter 4 dozen Americans.

  12. canary
    November 10, 2009 at 1:10 am

    The Washington Post:: Imam condemns support of Ft. Hood suspect

    An official with a Virginia mosque denounced the statements of a former employee. The employee made claims that American Muslims who condemned the shootings at Fort Hood are hypocrites who have committed treason against their religion. (Nov. 8) (The Associated Press)

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....id=topnews

    They love everyone. (They don’t follow the Koran?) I’d call it deception, though it was nice for someone to condemn Hasan’s horrible act.

  13. canary
    November 10, 2009 at 1:19 am

    The Washington Post: Maj. Nidal Hasan exchanged e-mails with radical cleric in Yemen, but contact did not lead to probe.

    by Philip Rucker, Carrie Johnson and Ellen Nakashima
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/?reload=true

  14. canary
    November 10, 2009 at 1:32 am

    The Washington Post: Lieberman: Committee investigation of Fort Hood to go forward – by John Amick

    Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), said today…

    “… two, if the reports that we’re receiving of various statements he made, acts he took, are valid, he had turned to Islamist extremism.”

    Lieberman said if the shootings were fueled by such viewpoints it was the worst act of terrorism in America since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

    “Therefore, if that is true, the murder of these 13 people was a terrorist act and, in fact, it was the most destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11.”

    http://voices.washingtonpost.c.....tigat.html

  15. canary
    November 10, 2009 at 2:10 am

    POLITICO: * Coburn threatening to have bill read on Senate floor
    by Carol E. Lee Nov 6 2009

    Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican…threatening to have the entire health care bill read on the Senate floor.

    Senior Senate Democratic aides… “If he did this it would be even outrageous for a guy who’s become known as Dr. No around here,” one of them told POLITICO.

    Coburn, who has a reputation for using procedural rules to block and delay legislation, has been an outspoken critic of the president’s health care overhaul

    … told the New York Times: “My mission is to frame this health care debate in terms of the fiscal ruin of this country. … I have instructed my staff to clear my schedule for every minute that bill is on the floor.”

    http://www.politico.com/livepu.....ml?showall

  16. canary
    November 10, 2009 at 3:10 am

    Video Gibbs uses address of Ft. Hood memorial to push health care, liberal newspapers, plugs NYT, slams NYP, & gives Chuck Todd’s e-mail.
    GIBBS SAYS OBAMA OBSESSED in daily reading and consuming newspapers. Skip to 4:30 seconds for Gibb’s below words.

    Political: Gibbs & Takes; Nov 9 2009

    The President is a voracious consumer*** of news. uh. likes to read newspapers everyday. I would uh..mm..uh..duh..duh.. I think if you pick-up many of the newspapers with which you discuss..uh..uh..uh..
    I notice there was an article in the NEW YORK TIMES today about the circulation drop in the NEW YORK POST and I’m not sure I’d…and I’m not sure I’d categorize that as a liberal-pro Obama newspaper.

    http://www.politico.com/largev.....9464204001

    ***Websters: voracious – 1. greedy in eating; ravenous 2. very eager

    Newspapers, mags, News-shows, radio, photo-ops, mag interviews, ongoing AF1 campaigning, Olympic soliciting, celebrity party’s, partys, beer summits, hugging Chavez & ArMadMan, bowing to Saudi-Arabia, reading communist books, burying his head in sand (most likely shipped from Middle-East), appearing on entertainment shows, Letterman, etc.

    but no time to read military reports or health care bill. Sorry so long. :(

  17. canary
    November 10, 2009 at 7:28 am

    AP: FBI reassessing past look at Fort Hood suspect
    By Devlin Barrett Oct 10 2009

    WASHINGTON – Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him

    Hasan had communicated 10 to 20 times with Anwar al-Awlaki, … who has used his personal Web site to encourage Muslims across the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq.

    Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said….Hasan and the imam exchanged e-mails that counterterrorism officials picked up…Hasan posing questions to the imam as a spiritual leader or adviser, and the imam did respond…

    Investigators tried to interview Hasan …, but he refused to answer and requested a lawyer, …

    On Monday afternoon, Hasan’s new civilian and military attorneys met him …. said retired Col. John P. Galligan, who was hired by Hasan’s family.

    Galligan said Hasan asked for an attorney even though he is on sedatives….

    “Given his medical condition, that’s the smart move,” Galligan told…. “Nobody from law enforcement will be questioning him.”

    …and Maj. Christopher E. Martin, Fort Hood’s senior defense attorney, met Hasan.

    ~~Galligan questioned whether Hasan can get a fair trial at Fort Hood, given Obama’s visit to the base….

    (entire article)http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091110/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe
    /us_fort_hood_shooting;_ylt=Au_CVI5xALjh8ctrnbyu_h6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNtbmJkcXB2BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMTEwL3VzX2ZvcnRfaG9vZF9zaG9vdGluZwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzMEcG9zAzExBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3J5BHNsawNmYmlyZWFzc2Vzc2k-

    Hasan refused to speak without an attorney, requested sedatives a smart (and sane) move by Hasan, Galligan said in order to bring up mental issues.
    Obama’s visit keep Hasan from a fair trial????? Obama has offered nothing but support for Hasan, implying it was mental.

    • canary
      November 10, 2009 at 8:14 am

      One of Hasan’s new attorney Galligan said on CBS’s “The Early Show” that Hasan is coherent and is aware that he is a “suspect”. Oh, he’s such a brilliant attorney, I hope he goes on ever show there is.

    • canary
      November 10, 2009 at 10:45 am

      oh my gosh there’s Galligan on the tv again, saying how well Hasan’s doing and his hopes to do a good job to help him. He should milk it for all it’s worth.
      Can you imagine the nest egg Hason must have, having lived in a small low-income apartment, having to borrow his neighbors computer. Other than his uniform, he just had to wear a toga.

  18. nuthingbettertodo
    November 10, 2009 at 10:39 am

    Obama Says He Wants To Visit A-bomb Cities Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki During His Presidency

    TOKYO (AP) – President Barack Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won’t have time during this week’s trip to Japan to go to the cities devastated by U.S. atomic bombs at the end of World War II.

    No sitting U.S. president has visited the two cities largely because of the controversy it could raise at home.

    In an interview with Japanese broadcaster NHK that ran Tuesday, Obama said he would be unable to visit the cities on his trip to Japan this weekend due to time constraints but would be willing to do so in the future.

    “The memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are etched in the minds of the world and I would be honored to have the opportunity to visit those cities at some point during my presidency,” Obama said in the interview, done Monday at the White House.

    Calls have grown in Japan for Obama to visit the two cities since his April speech in Prague envisioning a nuclear-free world and since he was named Nobel Peace Prize winner last month.

    The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have invited Obama to their cities before a U.N. review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty next May. Japanese newspaper editorials and anti-nuclear activist groups have also called for Obama to come, pointing out that previous Nobel Peace Prize winners have visited the cities.

    Many Japanese were impressed when new U.S. Ambassador John Roos visited Hiroshima last month, just weeks after he arrived in Tokyo.

    A request by the Nihon Hidankyo, a nationwide organization for atomic bomb survivors, for a meeting with Obama was rejected because of the limited time he will be spending in Japan.

    “We atomic bomb victims have been fighting for non-proliferation for the last 64 years,” said 80-year-old Mikiso Iwasa, a leader of the group who became an orphan at 16 from the Hiroshima bombing on Aug. 6, 1945. It killed an estimated 140,000 people. The U.S. dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, killing 80,000. Six days later, Japan surrendered, ending the war.

    “We hope that Obama will not take a step backward but achieve a world without nuclear weapons hand-in-hand with us,” Iwasa said.

    But traveling to either city could be a political minefield for any U.S. president. Signs of sympathy toward Japanese suffering could be seen as criticism of the decision to drop the bombs – viewed among many Americans as a pragmatic decision to hasten the end of the war that the U.S. entered after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

    Others see the bombings as crimes against humanity.

    Former President Jimmy Carter stopped by the atomic bomb memorial in Hiroshima in 1984, after he was out of office. The highest-ranking American to visit while in office is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who went last year.

    Obama is due to arrive in Tokyo on Friday to meet with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama before he flies on to an Asian summit in Singapore on Saturday.
    http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cap.....iroshima_1

    • canary
      November 11, 2009 at 12:10 am

      Obama sure didn’t mind America getting the Japanese & Dutch out of Indonesia when they took it over. He’s just angry that America did not come and kill the muslims that were purging the communists.
      Indonesia is all about Obama. Iraq, Afganistan,’s brutality is not our business. John Kerry was saying that we will keep residential forces in Iraq and Afganistand, etc. which is the norm when we fight a war in a country, but John Kerry was against us stopping the beheading by the North Vietnamese against the South. John McCain said we’d have residential Americans in Iraq, but oh no. Obama was going to bring every troop home. Obama was a big fan of Truman’s cold war policies. I think Kerry & Obama have brain damage from drugs.

      Barney Frank too. Suddenly, he is recalling, that he lived with his boyfriend, (sat on front poorch when the police came) the house with bongs and pot inside. But, I think Barney Frank just lied.

  19. Confucius
    November 10, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    From Chicago Tribune:

    Goldman Sachs, Citigroup among NYC employers that got hard-to-find swine flu vaccine

    KAREN MATTHEWS
    November 5, 2009

    NEW YORK (AP) — Some of New York’s biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.

    Hospitals, universities and the Federal Reserve Bank also got doses of the vaccine for employees who need it the most, such as pregnant women or chronically ill workers, according to the city’s health department.

    In order to receive the vaccine, companies had to have their own medical staff. …

    “Vaccines should go to people who need them most, not people who happen to work on Wall Street,” Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut said Thursday.

    “Wall Street banks have already taken so much from us. They’ve taken trillions of our tax dollars. They’ve taken away people’s homes who are struggling to pay the bills,” union official John VanDeventer wrote on the Web site of the 2 million-member Service Employees International Union. “But they should not be allowed to take away our health and well-being.” …

    Dr. Thomas Frieden said any decisions that appear to send vaccine beyond high-priority groups “have the potential to undermine the credibility of the program.” …

    Dr. William Schaffner, a flu expert at Vanderbilt University, said allocation of limited vaccine is tricky. CDC guidelines provide a list of patients who should be at the front of the line: children and young people through age 24, people caring for infants under 6 months, pregnant women, health care workers, and adults with health conditions such as asthma and diabetes. …

    Besides Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, they include Time Inc. and hospitals such as Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. …

    Morgan Stanley received 1,000 doses of the vaccine for its New York and suburban offices, but the company turned over its entire supply to local hospitals when it learned it received shipments before some area hospitals, spokeswoman Jeanmarie McFadden said.

    http://www.chicagotribune.com/.....3637.story

    So there you have it–the government redistribution and rationing of healthcare. Just like our wealth.

    Who knew it was for bankers, brokers, professors and “journalists” at Time magazine?

  20. canary
    November 11, 2009 at 6:48 am

    Cellphone alert system expected in 2 yrs
    Nov. 7, 2009
    Yaakov Lappin , THE JERUSALEM POST

    ….Israel that will be able to calculate the precise location of an impact zone, and alert residents in an affected neighborhood via their cellphones,

    will take four forms: A cellphone vibration, audio alert, light flash, or text message.

    Currently, air raid sirens are programmed to identify and alert cities that are at risk of rocket attacks following a hostile launch.

    He noted that the technology available to the Home Front Command has come a long way since the 1991 Gulf War, when Iraqi Scud missile attacks set off air-raid sirens across the whole country.

    There is no longer a need to set off a nationwide alert,” he said.

    rocket-delivered explosives possessed by Iran, Hizbullah, and Hamas is no more than 3,000 tons.
    “For the sake of comparison, 3,000 tons of explosives were dropped in one day during the Dresden bombing raid in World War II,” he said.

    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/S.....e/ShowFull

  21. canary
    November 11, 2009 at 9:06 pm

    ABC News:Officials: U.S. Army Told of Hasan’s Contacts with al Qaeda
    Army Major in Fort Hood Massacre Used ‘Electronic Means’ to Connect with Terrorists
    By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE & BRIAN ROSS Nov 9 2009

    According to the officials, the Army was informed of Hasan’s contact, but it is unclear what, if anything, the Army did in response.

    Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said that he requested the CIA and other intelligence agencies brief the committee on what was known, if anything, about Hasan by the U.S. intelligence community, only to be refused.

    In response, Hoekstra issued a document preservation request to four intelligence agencies. The letter, dated November 7th, was sent to directors Dennis Blair (DNI), Robert Mueller (FBI), Lt. Gen Keith Alexander (NSA) and Leon Panetta (CIA).

    Hoekstra said he is “absolutely furious” that the house intel committee has been refused an intelligence briefing by the DNI or CIA on Hasan’s attempt to reach out to al Qaeda, as first reported by ABC News.

    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/.....amp;page=1

    CIA has denied the request was ever made. Who, aside Nancy Pelosi is going to argue with the CIA

    • proreason
      November 11, 2009 at 9:23 pm

      “U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with an individual associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. ”

      Not “years ago”. Not “last year”. Not “more than a year ago”. Yes…”months ago”

      See, that explains it all.

      The agencies knew about it and they were prevented from acting by……guess who.

      And he isn’t going to let anybody find out why he squelched the investigations.

      He’s too busy with shout-outs, basketball, and date nights.

      Maybe someone will take his life in his hands and blow the whistle.

  22. canary
    November 11, 2009 at 10:35 pm

    U.S. Recognizes Iran’s “Right” to Nuclear Power Nov 11 2009

    (IsraelNN.com) U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns told the Middle East Institute in Washington on Tuesday…

    “… We do not seek regime change. We have condemned terrorist attacks against Iran. We have recognized Iran’s international right to peaceful nuclear power. With our partners in the international community, we have demonstrated our willingness to take creative confidence-building steps, including our support for the IAEA’s offer of fuel for the Tehran research reactor.”….

    http://www.israelnationalnews......spx/174341

    Obama needs to read one of those books “why women like bad men”

    • Liberals Demise
      November 12, 2009 at 8:06 am

      Bad move ……very bad move, indeed!

      I like how dingle”Barry” condemns terrorists attacks (and calls it so) against Iran but can’t seem to find the same words for attacks upon our own soil. As does Iran ….. no condemnation.

      So much hate from a guy who talks a mean line of togetherness and love for one another.

      What a rube.

  23. canary
    November 12, 2009 at 1:03 am

    At GA, Emanuel defends Mideast policy Nov. 10, 2009
    HILARY LEILA KRIEGER & E.B. SOLOMONT , THE JERUSALEM POST
    White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel pushed back Tuesday against those who had raised questions about the US commitment to Israel…

    “It is only through dialogue that we can achieve the lasting peace that Israel seeks,” Emmanuel said.

    , Emanuel stressed that the engagement US President Barack Obama had conducted throughout the Arab and Muslim world should not be seen as Washington turning its back on Israel.

    “As this administration has sought to engage the region, there are some who suggest this implies a diminished level of support for Israel,”

    “Demographics cannot be denied,” he declared, referring to a situation whereby Israel would have to “attempt to preserve a democratic state, a Jewish state when Jews will soon be a minority west of the Jordan River.”

    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/S.....e/ShowFull

  24. canary
    November 12, 2009 at 1:57 am

    Obama claims universal partnership with Iran, also in the article above, Emanuel also speaks of success with Iran, and comments Obama’s making Iran safer than the Bush adminstration. Obama’s recent statement that deeds are more important than words, hasn’t come into place. Obama and his administration are nothing but empty words. Below site is the documentation and photo’s, evidence to support Israels report of the ship detained Nov 3, 2009. Pictures paint a thousand words, when there are no deeds to back them. When a sefl & star-struck U.S. President fails as commander of chief, focusing on Serina Williams and Tony Hawk visits…

    (go to link below for files and photo’s of evidence)
    Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs 10 Nov 2009
    Documented proof of Iranian complicity in arms smuggling to terrorists

    On Tuesday (November 3, 2009) a special Israeli naval force detained and boarded the MV Francop, a merchant ship flying the flag of Antigua and destined for the Syrian port of Latakia.

    …disguised as civilian goods, the ship contained a consignment of 36 shipping containers with 500 tons of arms en route via Syria to the Hizbullah terrorist organization in Lebanon. A total of about 9,000 mortar bombs of different types were seized, along with about 3,000 Katyusha artillery rockets, 3,000 recoilless gun shells, 20,000 grenades and over a half million rounds of small arms ammunition.

    … The Iranian Revolutionary Guards transfer their shipments over air, sea, and land routes, and do not hesitate to make use of civilian carriers,…

    http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/The+.....v+2009.htm

    God warns he against any country that attacks Israel, the birthplace of Jesus Christ who came to save men.

  25. canary
    November 12, 2009 at 3:19 am

    Conservative American
    800 reasons not to relectl Obama
    http://conservativeamerican.or.....alth-care/

  26. canary
    November 12, 2009 at 8:25 am

    AP: MIA dog found in Afghanistan after 14 months Nov 12 2009

    SYDNEY – A bomb-sniffing dog that disappeared during a fierce battle in Afghanistan between Australian troops and militant fighters has been found and returned to its unit after more than a year….And Sabi the black labrador is getting a celebrity welcome home.

    Sabi was with a joint Australian-Afghan army patrol ambushed in restive Uruzgan province in September 2008, triggering a gunfight that wounded nine troops and earned one Australian soldier the country’s highest bravery medal.

    But there was no sign of Sabi after the battle, and months of searching

    a U.S. soldier recovered Sabi at an isolated patrol base elsewhere in Uruzgan.

    The dog was returned to the Australians’ base in the province just in time … was photographed Wednesday along with the U.S. commander in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal petting Sabi.

    use dogs to sniff out roadside bombs and other explosive booby traps.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....er_returns

  27. Liberals Demise
    November 12, 2009 at 8:49 am

    [all-things-usmarines] Feds: Man dressed as Marine, wore Navy Cross
    Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:21 PM
    From:
    “Otis Willie PIO The American War Library”

    Feds: Man dressed as Marine, wore Navy Cross
    http://www.marinecorpstimes.co.....st_111109/

    *********One year isn’t enough.***************
    Five minutes with Gunny R. Lee Ermey would be justice!
    Let’s see what his “salad bar” looks like after meeting the “GUNNY!”

    • Liberals Demise
      November 13, 2009 at 9:53 am

      ************************ UP DATE 11/13/09 ************************

      This poser plead “Not Guilty” to the charges on Thursday and was released on $10,000.00 bail with a new court date set for 12/21/09.

      I will be following this and keep you all apprised.

  28. canary
    November 12, 2009 at 8:50 am

    AP: Obama said to want revised Afghanistan options
    By Ben Feller And Anne Gearan Nov 12 2009

    WASHINGTON – … Obama won’t accept any of the Afghanistan war options before him …

    Obama will not do anything to lock in an open-ended U.S. commitment….
    He remains close to announcing his revamped war strategy …

    Yet in Wednesday’s pivotal war council meeting, Obama wasn’t satisfied with any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, one official said….

    The president instead pushed for revisions….has asked for a rewrite…
    The sense that he was being rushed and railroaded has stiffened Obama’s resolve …

    The war is now in its ninth year and is claiming U.S. lives at a record pace
    ….the president still has time since no additional forces could begin flowing into Afghanistan until early next year.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....stan/print

    • Liberals Demise
      November 12, 2009 at 9:00 am

      Damn the torpedoes, ma’am!
      Health Care must be rammed through first. Then he can be bothered with the trivial and mundane!

    • Rusty Shackleford
      November 12, 2009 at 1:07 pm

      Can’t say we didn’t see this coming. It had bells, a siren and all.

      Now, can you ask any sane person what these actions signify?

      Do we REALLY need to go back to the campaign of 2008 and prior to get the quotes from this guy as regards “Afghanistan….the war of necessity?”

      Quite simply, his inaction is treasonous.

  29. OneAmericanCitizen
    November 12, 2009 at 10:15 am

    “if guns kill people then pencils misspell words.”

    FROM A LISTENER
    By Neal Boortz @ November 12, 2009 8:41 AM Permalink | Comments (8) | TrackBacks (0)
    Yesterday I told you about Chicago’s Thug Mayor Richard Daley, who blames the shooting at Fort Hood on “America’s love of guns.” Thought you might enjoy this reaction from a listener. John says: Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming dollar bills for insanely spending themselves in Washington on entitlement programs.

    Absolutely. But I’m sure that these politicians in Washington who are bankrupting this country and your grandchildren’s futures .. I am sure they will find a way to blame it on the dollars themselves rather than just simply looking in a mirror.

    Another listener .. this time on Twitter … said that if guns kill people then pencils misspell words. That about wraps it up.

  30. BillK
    November 12, 2009 at 11:33 am

    How can this be?

    I thought liberals employed for life at a “living wage” with full benefits?

    From Mediaweek:

    Current TV Shifts Focus, Cuts 80

    By Anthony Crupi

    Current TV, the cable channel founded by former Vice President Al Gore, has begun overhauling its programming model, a process that began Wednesday with the elimination of 80 full-time staff positions.

    Originally positioned as a showcase for short-form, user-generated content, Current is shifting toward a more traditional content strategy, with plans to run 30- and 60-minute programs, many of which will be acquisitions.

    While Current will continue to generate some in-house content, most of the cuts were made at the channel’s Los Angeles-based production and programming facilities. Pink slips were also handed out in Current’s New York, San Francisco and London offices.

    Per recent estimates, user-generated content accounts for some 30 percent of Current’s programming. “We are as keen as ever on participatory media,” said chief operating officer Joanna Drake Earl, adding that the channel is likely to program more themed compilation shows rather than run blocks of standalone viewer submissions.

    The move comes just months after former MTV president and chief operating officer Mark Rosenthal was named CEO of Current Media. A charter member of Current’s board of directors, Rosenthal in July replaced founding CEO Joel Hyatt.

    In a statement issued Wednesday afternoon, Current said the reorganization “was not the result of a need to cut costs.” Rather, the company has elected to reallocate its resources, placing greater emphasis on licensing and acquisitions. …

    http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/co.....cbfcc7ba21

    In case you can’t tell through all the euphemisms, what this means is Current is going to be dumping their in-house staff and will instead be purchasing content from third-party contractors.

    You know, the very thing they accuse big evil corporations of doing.

  31. canary
    November 13, 2009 at 12:40 am

    From the Associated Press:

    Fort Hood suspect charged with 13 counts of murder

    By Angela K. Brown And Lolita C. Baldor Nov 12 2009

    FORT HOOD, Texas – An Army psychiatrist was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood massacre….

    It had not been decided whether to charge Hasan with the death of the unborn child of a pregnant soldier who died,

    … John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, will oversee the review. … Obama also ordered the preservation of the intelligence…

    … Hasan was charged in the hospital without his lawyers present, said John Galligan, his civilian attorney.

    “What I find disturbing is that my client is in ICU, and he’s 150 miles south of his defense counsel, and he’s being served with the charges,” he told The Associated Press. “Given his status as a patient, I’m troubled by this procedure and that I’m not there. I’m in the dark, and that shouldn’t be the case. I am mad.”

    Akhter said. “His main thing was, ‘America is killing Muslims in the Middle East.’ That made him very, very upset.”

    “I tried to convince him to try to be a moderate Muslim,” Akhter said.

    Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday he was appalled at news leaks about the investigation into last week’s deadly shootings at Fort Hood.

    “Frankly if I found out with high confidence anybody who’s leaking on the Department of Defense, who that was, that would probably be a career-ender,”… “Everybody ought to shut up.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_us
    /us_fort_hood_shooting;_ylt=AuFIUijmny7uvxmZqumdw_Os0NUE;ylu=X3oDMTMza29lcG5wBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMTEzL3VzX2ZvcnRfaG9vZF9zaG9vdGluZwRjcG9zAzIEcG9zAzYEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA2ZvcnRob29kc3VzcA–

  32. canary
    November 13, 2009 at 12:56 am

    Hasan’s attorney Galligan “What I find disturbing is that my client is in ICU, …and he’s being served with the charges,”
    (This upsets me too. It’s too easy to guard and protect him in ICU)

    It’s for Galligan’s protection too !!! for when Hasan finds out his attorney defends U.S. combat soldiers charged with being too mean to muslim terrorists. lol.

    Galligan has already been on news saying that Hasan was well enough to know his first words were “he wanted an attorney”, and “accepting Galligan to rep him” On Greta, Galligan said it was a “privilege” to defend Hasan, and complained they were holding Hasan without charging him. He wa such an obnoxious windbag, Greta had to cut him off the air.

    • canary
      November 13, 2009 at 1:00 am

      Both Robert Gates and Obama playing Ahmadman’s & Chavez’s games.
      If only the news had not reported the Ft. Hood ‘incident’ in the first place.

    • Rusty Shackleford
      November 13, 2009 at 2:42 pm

      (to the tune of Gilligan’s Island)

      Just sit right down and you’ll hear a tale
      A tale of a fateful trip
      That started at an Army Post
      and ended up like this.

      The mate was a sprightly lawyer man
      The shooter lame and dull
      and fourteen others who cannot speak
      because they all got killed.

      Hasan was just a doctor type
      maligned, misunderstood.
      His screaming “Allahu Akbar” that day
      Gave proof that he meant good.

      In any case he’s bedridden
      he’s numb from head to toe
      His lawyer says he needs his rest
      (P-PTSD, you know.)

      So join us here each week my friends
      It’s gonna take awhile
      To get to the source of this heinous act
      Here on Galligan’s Isle.

  33. Liberals Demise
    November 13, 2009 at 9:43 am

    From:
    “Otis Willie PIO The American War Library”

    Decorated Marine announces run for Congress
    http://www.marinecorpstimes.co.....ss_111109/

    {EXCERPT} The Associated Press Posted : Wednesday Nov 11, 2009 21:00:31 EST

    SAN DIEGO — A decorated Marine veteran who was famously photographed smoking a cigar after the fall of Baghdad announced Tuesday that he is running for Congress in California’s most southern district.

    Nick Popaditch, 42, said he will seek the Republican nomination to unseat Democrat Bob Filner on a campaign that promotes limited government, a strong national defense and secure borders.

    Known as “Gunny Pop,” Popaditch was awarded the Silver Star for combat actions in Fallujah, where he was blinded in one eye by a rocket-propelled grenade to the head.

    ************************* Tell it to the Marines **********************
    There is no better time for our Veterans to step forward and wretch Freedom from the hands of those that would sell it for a cozy CONgressional health care plan that the filthy peasants only dream of.
    Best wishes Marine and Semper Fi !!

  34. Rusty Shackleford
    November 13, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Algore, what say you?

    Toll rises to 38 in China’s heaviest snowfall in 60 years
    By IANS
    November 13th, 2009

    http://blog.taragana.com/n/tol.....rs-228209/

    BEIJING – The toll has risen to 38 Friday amid China’s heaviest snowfall in the last 60 years, China Daily reported.

    The storm brought up by the heavy snowfall hit the northern Chinese provinces of Hebei, Shanxi and Henan, with some regions affected by snow storms for the first time in a hundred years.

    As of Friday, 38 people died in the freezing weather, which caused upheaval to millions of people, a chinanews.cn report said.

    The heaviest snowfall since 1987 hit Xian, capital of Shanxi province Wednesday, resulting in the lowest temperature in the province during the past 22 years.

    Liaocheng, in northwest Shangdong, was blanketed by the heaviest snowfall ever seen in the region. An average of 16.2 mm of snowfall occurred overall, with the lowest temperature plummeting to minus 4 degree Celsius.

    In Shijiazhuang, capital of worst-hit Hebei province, six people died and 630,000 have been affected due to the severe weather. The direct economic loss has reached 419 million yuan ($59 million). Transportation there has been blocked, with many people stranded on their way.

    Over 470 accidents occurred in Shanxi province from Monday to Wednesday, with a toll of 24 and injuries to 70 people, according to the reports.

    Dang, and I listened to Algore and bought a gross of SPF factor 200 for the upcoming permanent summer we’re supposed to have.

  35. canary
    November 13, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    Hasan wiring money to Pakistan and may be paralyzed

    AP:Lawmaker: Hasan had communications with Pakistan
    By Angela K. Brown And Suzanne Gamboa Nov 13 2009

    FORT HOOD, Texas – The Army psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people in a shooting spree at Fort Hood made or accepted wire transfers with Pakistan, …

    Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the ranking GOP member of the House Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee, said …”But if he is wiring money to Pakistan, that could be terrorist financing…

    McCaul said he does not know the direction of the transfers…only that they passed between Hasan and Pakistan….lack of additional information is why Congress should launch an investigation.

    Galligan said doctors have told Hasan he may be permanently paralyzed from the waist down….

    and said Hasan didn’t flinch when Galligan touched his leg during a meeting Thursday, when one of Hasan’s relatives was able to see him for the first time since he was hospitalized.

    … Hasan has directed hospital officials not to release any information about his condition or injuries.

    In Texas, he lived in a rundown apartment that cost $350 a month and drove a 2006 Honda.

    … He also gets $1,128 a month for a housing allowance and $223 a month for meals, which adds up to another $16,212 a year.

    Hasan’s Army records are sealed due to the ongoing investigation, and it isn’t clear if he was eligible for the bonus or agreed to the conditions.

    members of Congress, particularly Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, have also called for a full examination…

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....tlcmhhc2E-

    Galligan said doctors have told Hasan he may be permanently paralyzed from the waist down….
    … Hasan has directed hospital officials not to release any information about his condition or injuries.

    This would mean Hasan gave written permission for Galligan to release
    his medical condition to draw sympathy. Hasan’s knowing his legal rights shows he is still very sane and alert. No mental conditions arising from his
    injuries.

    • canary
      November 13, 2009 at 9:46 pm

      ‘Galligan said…Hasan didn’t flinch when Galligan touched his leg during a meeting.’

      Well, I’m not sure why Galligan was fondling Hasan’s leg, but maybe if he’d have poked him harder…

  36. sheehanjihad
    November 13, 2009 at 10:16 pm

    Great way to close this segment….William the Freezer got 13 years in prison for his corruption in Congress~!!! Where was the DNC on this one? lol.

  37. canary
    November 13, 2009 at 10:17 pm

    Media now putting American Middle-East Terrorist funding to Iran under Religion
    AP: Case against Iranian foundation threatens mosques
    By AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll Nov 13 2009

    NEW YORK – The organization that federal investigators say is a front for the Iranian government….on philanthropy: buying property for four U.S. mosques, funding religious schools and language classes, and translating books on Islam.

    The mosques were not mentioned by name, only listed by street address.

    Sabukta Chowdhury, a parent at the Razi School, a K-12 school that is part of the Imam Ali Mosque in Queens, said her child would be upset if the school closed.

    Abdulaziz Sachedina, a University of Virginia professor and expert on Shiite Islam, predicted the four Islamic centers in New York, Maryland, Texas and California would shut down without Alavi money.

    ~~~”Muslims aren’t used to membership fees,” said Sachedina, …”In Muslim countries, most services are free, provided by rich people.~~~

    Here, for the first time, Muslims are required to pay donations….”

    The New York charity started the Potomac mosque in 1981… pays Alavi nothing for use of the property and receives other support from the organization, according to 2007 tax records.

    ….Islamic Center of Houston, said the mosque serves about 300 families, runs a K-12 Islamic school… The Houston congregation includes Iranian, Pakistani, Syrian and Lebanese immigrants,…

    “I’m just upset that the mosques are being targeted for closure,” Shabazz said. “There’s guilt by association,…

    “They don’t like to have a boyfriend for their daughter. They don’t like a girlfriend for their son. So this is the point. An Islamic atmosphere as protection,” Jaber said.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....forfeiture

  38. canary
    November 13, 2009 at 10:59 pm

    AP: Ex-congressman gets 13 years in freezer cash case
    By Matthew Barakat Nov 13 2009

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A former Louisiana congressman who famously hid $90,000 cash in his freezer was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison …

    William Jefferson, a Democrat ….convicted in August of taking roughly $500,000 in bribes and seeking millions more in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa.

    “His activity represented the most extensive and pervasive pattern of corruption in the history of Congress,” Lytle said.

    Jefferson’s lawyer, Robert Trout, ….urged the judge to consider the fact that Jefferson lifted himself up from poverty to become the first African-American to represent Louisiana in Congress since Reconstruction.

    “He has led an extraordinary life,” Trout said.

    “Public corruption is a cancer on the body politic,” said Ellis, who lamented that so many other congressmen have been convicted on similar charges. “There must be some sort of greed virus that attacks those in power.”

    Jefferson was also ordered to forfeit roughly $470,000 in bribery proceeds — ….
    Jefferson, meanwhile, has filed for bankruptcy protection and his wife is claiming rights to some of those assets.

    …he had planned to use the money to pay a bribe to the then-vice president of Nigeria to secure a multimillion-dollar telecommunications deal there,..

    … a disgruntled businesswoman, Lori Mody, agreed to wear a wire after telling the FBI she had been cheated out of $3.5 million in deals brokered by Jefferson…

    He was re-elected in 2006 even after news of the bribery scandal broke

    Cristian Boise, 41, of New Orleans,…Jefferson’s actions, which may have hurt the state’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina.

    “He hindered our recovery efforts, and he really did this city a lot of harm at a time when it needed help.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....zbQ–

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