Goodmorning Blogmocracy Netizens. It’s Saturday and I hope everyone has a fun and relaxing day. I made this an open thread since there are so many events occurring that no one topic can be focused on . Instead there are several stories I am following.
The House Democrats as of this moment still don’t have the votes to pass Their vile Obamacare bill.
WASHINGTON — Amid intense lobbying by the Obama administration, House Democratic leaders struggled Friday for the final votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation, working to ease concerns among Hispanic holdouts and abortion foes.
“We’re very close” to having enough votes to prevail, said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland, although he added a scheduled Saturday vote could slip by a day or two and sought to pin the blame on possible Republican delaying tactics.
I really hope this Bill doesn’t pass, this is not the way to go with Health-Care reform. It will make the situation worse and could politicize medical decisions. Our economy will also be burden at a time we can’t sustain more spending and debt.
Colonial Imperialist Nidal Hassan was stopped by Mother of one and Police Officer Kimberly Munley.
A police officer and mother of one was hailed a heroine yesterday after it emerged that she almost single handedly ended the massacre at America’s biggest military base.
Kimberly Munley does not look as if she would be much of a match for a heavily armed US soldier on a murderous rampage. But the slightly built 34-year-old civilian officer was first on the scene after Major Nidal Malik Hasan began firing on comrades at Ford Hood in Texas as they prepared to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. The 39-year-old psychologist killed 13 and left 31 others with serious injuries.
She is a Resistance hero for her act of bravery. She stopped Imperialist aggression dead in its tracks. Kimberly is a true Patriot and deserves our applause.
In an incident that could have implication for our National Security, hackers were able to bring down the power grid in Brazil and cause blackouts.
A series of power outages affecting millions of people in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 were the result of cyber attacks, 60 MINUTES has learned. The two-day event in Espirito Santo State affecting more than three million people in 2007 and another, smaller event in three cities north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005 were perpetrated by hackers manipulating control systems. The revelation is part of a Steve Kroft investigation into how computers and the Internet can be used as weapons to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 8 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
Former Chief of U.S. National Intelligence Retired Adm. Mike McConnell believes it could happen in America. “If I were an attacker and wanted to do strategic damage to the United States, I would either take the cold of winter or the heat of summer,” he tells Kroft. “I would probably sack electric power on the U.S. East Coast, maybe the West Coast and attempt to cause a cascading effect.” If hackers did attack the U.S. power grid, “The United States is not prepared for such an attack.” says McConnell.
Congressman Jim Langevin (D.- R.I.), who chaired a subcommittee on cyber security, agrees. He says that U.S. power companies need to be forced to deal with the issue after they told Congress they would take steps to defend their operations but did not follow up. “They admit that they misled Congress,” says Langevin, and they still haven’t made much progress. “The private sector has different priorities than we do in providing security. Their…bottom line is about profits,” he tells Kroft. “We need to change their motivation so that when see vulnerability like this, we can require them to fix it.”
This is worrisome because it can happen here in the United States. We need to improve our Network Security and prevent any attempts to bring down our Power grid. Failure to do so will leave us vulnerable.
Today is College Football day as well! Today’s big showdown is #9 LSU vs. #3 Alabama. This is a rivalry and should be a great game to watch. It will be broadcast 3:30 EST on CBS.
No. 3 Alabama and No. 9 LSU will play Saturday for the sort of stakes typical for a November game between SEC leaders. If the Crimson Tide wins, it clinches the SEC West championship. If the Tigers win, they not only move into the SEC West driver’s seat but also remain in the race for the national championship.
And when Alabama and LSU play, national aspirations don’t matter one bit. There’s too much else on the line.
Another game to watch is #16 Ohiop St. vs. #11 Penn. St. This will be broadcast 3:30 EST on ABC.
Enjoy your Staurday and all discussions and topics are encouraged on this thread!
Update: It is Macker’s 49th Birthday, let’s wish him a happy one!
ROLL TIDE!
LSU needs to hand a loss to $aban.
Which is why I now call this Health Care DEform.
Oh, and before I forget…today is my 49th Birthday! I already have the best present ever: my wife!
@ Macker:
Happy Birthday Macker!
@ Macker:
Happy birthday Macker. :cheers:
the qb for OSU is a local pittsburgh kid. he decide not to go to PSU because, and this is quotable, PSU doesnt put the names on the back of the uniform.
i hope psu burries this highly over rated ego maniac. nice job mom, you raised a narcissist.
Will we support a down the line National security Conservative or a weak assed Libertarian in the GOP primary in kentucky?
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/11/must-oppose-rand-pauls-campaign-for.html
@ Macker:
Check the Update!
@ coldwarrior:
Good morning how are you today?
@ Rodan:
i’m good, and you?
i dont think the dems have the votes…
off to shopping! bbl.
oh happy b day macker!
@ coldwarrior:
I’m great have to do some work today and then I’m just kicking back!
again, nice job mightyC!
thanks.
bbl
Happy Birthday, Macker!
Officer Munley is a true hero. Nailed that pig with four shots despite being wounded.
Rodan……….. Got a new band for you to checkout…. (Why didnt someone tell me about these guys???)
Chickenfoot – Sammy Hagar – Michael Anthony – Joe Satriani – Chad Smith
About the power grid hacking:
Rest assured that if it was possible for hackers to affect parts of Brazil’s power infrastructure, that someone there made some very basic design errors. There’s no valid reason to have hackable computers connected to the internet in places where they can affect the operation of the power grid. Period.
In the US, the donkeys are itching to spend billions on the “smart grid”, even though no one can define what a smart grid is. These stories about hackers taking the infrastructure down are part of a campaign to get billions of government money for something that nobody can even define.
And even if the “smart grid” was a well-defined program, the concept places the grid at MORE risk of cyber attack.
The taxpayers are being rolled. To the extent that there’s a benefit at all in adding IT infrastructure to the grid, the utilities ought to be funding it, just like all other capital expenditures.
So, did anyone else have a problem accessing this site yesterday afternoon/evening?
@ Rightside:
Hmmm, you mean like pages refusing to load, taking a long time to load? Stuff like that?
While Obama meets cheerleader press members for lunch,
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/11/lunching-with-the-pundits.html
George W. and Laura Bush visited the wounded at Ft. Hood.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6708655.html
@ Rightside:
Yes it was slow for a bit yesterday.
@ Urban Infidel:
Obama could care less about this incident. His actions are showing this.
Is there a more hideous political figure out there then Nancy Pelosi (aka San Fran nan)?
off to get the recovery discs to the comp shop.
see you all this afternoon!
@ Urban Infidel:
Obama seems to have no real idea what is expected of a President immediately following an incident such at this: Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
On the other hand, GWB reacted instictively. Whatever my gripes have been with Bush, he is, and always was a class act.
@ doriangrey:
No, like this site was gone completely. Just wasn’t there.
Rodan wrote:
He has lived in a milieu that despises the military. Col. Ralph Peters said this morning on Fox & Friends (paraphrasing) “He could not go to Ft. Hood, but if this had been a shooting in a Mosque in Detroit, he would have been over there in a heartbeat”.
@ Urban Infidel:
For all his faults, we lost a decent man when GW Bush left the White House and turned the keys over to this man/child Obama.
Rightside wrote:
Apparently you were banned and made the obligatory kissass email to conservative and were reinstated.
Or not.
Happy Birthday Macker. Nice to have a Saturday birthday
Idiot question: how do I update my avatar?
@ typicalwhitey:
ROTFLMAO………..
@ blueiris:
Gavatar.com
I can’t manage to get my gravatar icon to load either. I downloaded it and everything, but nothing… can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.
president wee-weed is a complete and dangerous fool.
The Bushes took time out of their day to visit the wounded, while the idiot-in-chief lunched with his lapdogs.
Thanks Urban Infidel for pointing this out to us.
OT:
Found this over at Atlas.
Ayn Rand on Phil Donahue talking about the middle east.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/11/go-ayn.html
Donahue is such a tool!
“He obviously didn’t want to go,” said Duane Reasoner, 18, who looked up to Hasan as a sort of religious mentor. “He said he shouldn’t be going to Iraq, and Muslims shouldn’t be in the military — it was an obvious conflict of interest. Muslims shouldn’t be killing Muslims. He told me not to join the military.”
Reasoner said he wouldn’t condemn Hasan after the shooting spree.
“I don’t know his intentions,” Reasoner told FoxNews.com. “I don’t know what he was thinking. I won’t condemn another Muslim.”
Happy birthday Macker!
newsjunkie_ky wrote:
It is simply disgusting beyond all belief! All I can wonder is: WHAT NEXT? What is Odummy going to DO next?
@ Urban Infidel:
He hasn’t done anything yet, how can he do something next?
Guggi wrote:
And, therein lies the problem with Islam…
Try this for how to use gravatar.
Guggi wrote:
And that right there say’s it all…
Urban Infidel wrote:
I shudder to think what that asshat has up his communist sleeve. Yes, I wrote communist.
Happy Birthday Macker
@ Speranza:
No truer words could be said.@
Urban Infidel:
You signed up at Gravatar or WordPress?
Gotta go. Happy Birthday Macker.
Happy birthday Macker!
ummm ummm ummm, let them eat cake for brekkie.
@ Rodan:
I signed up at gravatar step-by-step just as RightSide explains in his link above and NADA. If there’s another way, lemme know!
@ Urban Infidel:
Have you cleared your cashe and re-booted?
@ Urban Infidel:
it took a day for mine to show up.lol
The very least that Odummy can do is at least visit Sgt. Munley who felled this POS Islamist.
mawskrat wrote:
And look at what it hath wrought! LOL
Maybe mine will take a day or so more.. Or can I reboot and de-cache or sumpthin!
@ Urban Infidel:
I had a heckuva time signing up too.You might try asking m, she helped me.
@ Urban Infidel:
It doesn’t seem to be in his DNA to take a stand for his country and the military that defends her. He’s strictly a political animal and he proving to be not even very good at that.
Urban Infidel wrote:
How telling is this?! Zero disrespectfully banters and gives shout outs to audience members for several minutes before awkwardly and insincerely addressing the horror that had just unfolded. Pres. Bush would have rushed to the scene immediately to comfort and support the troops. It obviously didn’t even occur to Zero to do that. This shows you what he thinks of our military. He is a disgusting anti-American communist and he looks at our military with disdain. If he ever shows up at Fort Hood he is NOT going to get a warm welcome. Our troops can tell he’s worthless.
@ newsjunkie_ky:
Imagine you are a wounded soldier from Ft. Hood. Who would YOU rather see at your bedside? Odummy or Bush? Pretty much a no-brainer there. Forget about Michelle Odummy, that would cause PSTD.
Also, there were no media cameras during the Bush’s visit.
To cover sex change ops too?
This is becoming a Fellini movie.
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/3309#more-3309
MacDuff wrote:
Also a strong, armed woman doesn’t fit into the progressive ‘victimhood’ category. So they aren’t touching it.
@ chickadee:
Not only that, but look at the Bamster’s reaction to two earlier attacks.
Dr. Tiller’s murder was (rightly) condemned, and in strong language.
The deadly attack on the recruiting office was halfheartedly mentioned.
LOL,all the wimmen Rs are making anti Obama don’t care statements into the congressional record. Love it.
@ vagabond trader:
The men too.
@ Rightside:
Cheers, Rightside.
With all the stimulus money thrown around you would have thought our ageing infrastructure would have been a first priority,right?
Why are you laughing?
@ Urban Infidel:
Ask M to help. I’ve seen her help others.
Rodan, this is very good, and may be good thread fodder in the future.
mfhorn wrote:
Exactly, it’s irrefutable who Zero is and where his sentiments are.
Congressman Frank tells FOX25 that he [...] wouldn’t recognize a marijuana plant if he saw one because he is, “not a great outdoorsman,” and ,”wouldn’t recognize most plants.”
And you wouldn’t know a boy’s butthole either, because you never went to scout camp, right?
@ snork:
Oh yeah it will!
After giving the Ft Hood massacre no more than weak statement or so, what’s on his agenda today? Going to visit the wounded? NO. Going to see the heroine who likely saved a number of lives and was wounded in the process? NO.
Actually, he’s going to Capitol Hill to ensure his Socialist Health Care scheme makes it through Congress.
Another putrid example of his misbegotten priorities.
@ snork:
Great article and I agree it would make a great thread…
@ snork:
Says he only smokes ceegars too. LOL.
I signed up for Gravatar too. This is a test to see if it worked.
snork wrote:
I think most people in the USA know a marijuana plant looks like. has he ever read a magazine or news paper?
It worked! That was easy.
@ vagabond trader:
What a lying sack of shit… We all know he smokes something else as well.. He is America’s best known Peter Puffer after all…
and just in time to vote recently elected rep Owens from NY23 breaks campaign promise.
Shocka!
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/
@ doriangrey:
LOL, thats a, um, cute way of saying it.
Happy 49th Birthday, Macker!
That’s a very special birthday!
So special that I just keep celebrating it year after year!
In honor of …. something, who cares what, I’ve just prepped ribs for a slow smoking tomorrow.
Jack Daniels bbq sauce, lightly rubbed in with seasoned salt, Head Country dry rub, Daddy Hinckles spicy pepper and garlic powder.
letting it sit all day and night, wrapped in foil in the fridge. tomorrow morning, alarm goes off at 8AM, charcoal goes on by 8:30.
@ wolfie:
I prefer the recurring 39th b’day. It just won’t go away!
Barny Frank is using the same defense he used when his live-in boyfriend ran a brothel out of his apartment:
I didn’t see anything, I don’t even know what to look for.
which means that he is either the stupidest person alive (A possibility) or he expects that his voters are (also a possibility).
I mean… come on… even *I* know what pot looks like, and I’ve never smoked the stuff.
We’ll probably never know why the Major did this.
Sincerely,
Chris Tingle
@ LanceKates:
ROTFLMAO… sounds like my favorite In honor of …. something, who cares what, Holiday…
doriangrey wrote:
I used to have a poster up on my wall when I was younger. It was a calendar of a reason to party for every day. I forget which day, but one day was labelled “Nothing Day” because they couldn’t find anything noteworthy that happened that day.
kansasconservative wrote:
Chrissy chooses to remain in a state of self inflicted stupidity…
@ Macker:
49 ? I wish I was 49 again,
Happy B-Day
@ doriangrey:
Would that be Chris “Tingle” Matthews, who upon seeing Bill Clinton’s first public appearance after surgery said “It’s like Lazarus, coming out of the tomb!” but then pretends to be impartial?
mfhorn wrote:
And remember when his professor buddy was arrested? His remark was that the police reacted “stupidly”.
It’s tragic that we have a President who has no problem giving a cop a presidential tongue-lashing for doing his job, but seems to have no where near the same disdain for the Muslim killer of 13 Americans.
@ doriangrey:
Peter Puffer Puffed a Pinky Packer Pecker.
/But did he inhale?
LanceKates wrote:
As The Blogmocracy’s resident Nearly Practically Almost Famous Rock Star and aspiring Science Fiction Author, I give “Nothing Day” my full seal of approval. There is little more I love than to celebrate throwing animal flesh on a open flame grill and standing around swilling rotting barley water, for absolutely no reason what so ever…
Something Is Missing
@ LanceKates:
Yup…
Happy B-Day Macker!
“That’s all ancient history,” he said. “He’s well-respected.”
Where have we heard that before?
snork wrote:
I am not sure that inhaled would be the correct word to use. I do know that he likes chocolate stars.
Hi everyone. HAppy Birthday MAcker.
Gravatar test.
vagabond trader wrote:
Yes! I failed to exploit that one properly, though.
What I did when my 49th was approaching was to make a deal with Mr. Wolf. He had to buy me a really, really nice present because it was the last b’day I intended to celebrate. From then on he didn’t have to remember the date, much less buy a gift. Works for both of us!
@ doriangrey:
I don’t know all that, but I do like to eat dead animals.
And every time a vegan tells me that they’re vegan, I ask them what it is like eating the stuff that my food eats.
snork wrote:
Excellent find, snork. I find the following graphs particulaly good:
And:
@ wolfie:
so you’re still 49, eh?
After I turned 25, I realized that with my car insurance rates going down, all I had left to look forward to (age wise) was mid-life crisis, retirement and death.
I’m thinking about a black convertable sports car when I hid the mid-life crisis. Red is so overdone.
@ LanceKates:
Heh heh heh, yea, if they want to de-evolve themselves I say let um…
@ MacDuff:
Doesn’t pay to be cool? Someone is suggesting that Obama is ‘cool’ ?
He’s as cool as the A/V kid in high school, wearing his Versity jacket he got for drama club….
@ MacDuff:
He flunked the empathy test miserably yesterday. Sometimes I wonder if his ears are surgically altered to remove the pointy tips.
LanceKates wrote:
Heh heh, 49 next year and I already got the Red Corvette so when my mid life crisis hit I would be ready…
snork wrote:
Highly illogical.
@ doriangrey:
My father and I were at the state fair a couple years ago. We were talking to the lady renting those little scooters for older folks to use at the fair. My dad mentioned that it must be hard working right across the street from the burgers, corn dogs and chicken stands. She said that it wasn’t because she was a Vegan and liked how much healthier she felt.
When we were returning the cart, we found her smoking. We didn’t say anything, but we both got a big laugh out of that after we returned the scooter.
@ Urban Infidel:
You have to ‘upload’ it, not ‘download’ it. Choose one from somewhere – off the net whatever, save to hard drive, note what file you saved it to and the name of the picture/avatar then go to gavatar. Click on ‘upload from computer’ or whatever it says (similar) and let it run the upload. Associate it with your e-mail address (the one you registered with and all should work. Hope I didn’t miss a step – going from memory and thats not always good !
snork wrote:
Nope, his empathy was for the Muslim terrorist and he could hardly contain his euphoric joy over what had happened.
@ snork:
Nah, Vulcans feel emotion, at least once every 7 years.
Hey, hornball is an emotion, I’m certain.
@ doriangrey:
Sometimes I wonder if my desire for a bigger motorcycle isn’t a mid-life crisis coming a decade early.
But I don’t care, I’m still getting a bigger motorcycle in the spring.
OT/ for Iron Fist
From the “Dear Pharmacist” (Suzy Cohen) newspaper column (excerpts):
Sources:
A dose of vitamin D a day keeps the doctor away
A dose of vitamin D a day keeps the doctor away
Suzy’s Articles
Suzy Cohen – Dear Pharmacist
@ LanceKates:
Vegans are pretty close to being certifiably insane, being a veggie dont make you health, it makes you very unhealthy and vegans avoid this by consuming special protein supplements, supplements that they convince themselves aren’t from animal tissue, but really are.
doriangrey wrote:
It’s from an Organic Food Store, so it must be healthy! *smirk*
@ LanceKates:
ROTFLMAO…. No, it’s a normal perfectly natural result of owning a motorcycle… (I’m currently trying to justify spending about $7000 for a Dyna Glide)
@ CloudyDay:
Wow, that’s interesting news. I’ll get some Vitamin D.
@ LanceKates:
Now, now. You can’t blame everything on a midlife crisis, especially when you haven’t even hit midlife, young man!
Blame it on Bush!
Another one for Rodan:
Penultimos Dias has word that Yoani Sanchez and other Cuban bloggers have been arrested in Havana.
doriangrey wrote:
Yep, we’re built to be omnivores and you just can’t go against the basic design. I’ve heard of vegans who try to turn their dogs and cats into vegans. You can’t feed carnivores vegetables without very unhealthy and fatal results.
LanceKates wrote:
Hey, tobacco is a plant…
I work with eating disordered patients-they almost always go through a vegan phase, claiming it’s because they oppose animal cruelty. Actually, they oppose anything with more than 50 calories a serving in it.
wolfie wrote:
You know, I personally aged 8 years under the Bush administration. How much more proof does one need?
Shutting off the miracle-drug spigot
@ LanceKates:
I’m glad you found it helpful.
Please let Iron Fist know about that post the next time you see him. I don’t always visit every thread, nor do I visit the blog every single day, so I hope he doesn’t overlook that information.
I don’t have diabetes myself, but I too found that information interesting, as well as some of her other articles.
That Cohen lady has a lot of information about how drugs meant to help “Condition X” rob your body of nutrients/ vitamins/ minerals which in turn creates “Condition Z,” so that you wind up having to take even more medications.
Obama’s ‘Delayed Empathy’ over Fort Hood Massacre
MacDuff wrote:
Yup, me too, sadly though I feel like I have aged another 8 since Obummer was sworn
atin…@ Speranza:
He displays many characteristics of a passive aggressive sociopath.
vagabond trader wrote:
He is a narcissitic sociopath with delusions of grandeur when in reality he is a little man/child.
@ MacDuff:
A Muslim veteran affairs organization says it has not received reports of harassment from Islamic soldiers, contrary to claims by a relative of the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base.
and:
“We were all shocked at the tragedy yesterday at Fort Hood and the act of cowardice by the attacker,” Shora said. “We were all attacked yesterday. Let’s remember that this was an attack on all Americans and it’s a time for all Americans to come together in unity and in faith.”
Just sayin’…
@ Speranza:
Or to put it simply he is an over reaching azzhole who was elected by ignorant azzholes.
@ Rightside:
Sorry for my post – reading bottom to top again ! Yours is a much better
tutorial…
@ 4_Sticks:
Oh.. our resident Muslim troll is back…
4_Sticks wrote:
So, what are you “just sayin’”?
@ MacDuff:
He’s saying.. Were a bunch of “Evil White Christian Warmongers”
wolfie wrote:
D’oh! Forgot about that.
Hey, when can we start blaming stuff on Obama? I mean, I’m already considered a racist because I didn’t vote for the commie…..
I might as well get some mileage out of it.
@ doriangrey:
Gah I had enough of the moral equivalency and apologia yesterday. Dude is a murdering jihadi folks, deal with it.
doriangrey wrote:
If I sell mine for 2500-3k in the spring (01 Suzuki Marauder, custom paint job and keyless ignition with security system and good mufflers) and add it to my income tax refund (hopefully another 2-3k like last year) and my bonus from work (maybe another 800 bucks) I should be able to get a decent 1000-1200cc bike.
@ LanceKates:
Seriously… Who has time for a mid life crisis, my life has been one crisis after the next since the day I was born, by the time I have time to get around to having a mid life crisis I’ll be around 200…
@ doriangrey:
That’s not what I’m getting from that. Read carefully. It’s saying that no other Muslims are claiming harassment, like the Major is claiming. Which implies that either the Major is lying, or he must have done something to ask for it.
@ MacDuff:
There was a scene from the cartoon Futurama where a bunch of vegans celebrated that they trained a lion to only eat tofu.
They showed the lion, all sickly, ribs showing, coughing weakly.
Even the cartoons make fun of vegans for their silliness.
now, anyone can do what they want to, really, I don’t care. Just don’t push it on me or try to guilt me into joining by trying to suggest that eating bean sprouts and carrots are the way to go. (Do you have any clue how much bacteria there is in bean sprouts that can’t be washed off?)
Most U.S. youths unfit to serve, data show
75% of Potential Recruits Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve
@ doriangrey:
No he isn’t. Or at least that’s not what I’m ‘hearing’ him say.
I think you are setting up a false dichotomy where there are only two extremes and nothing in between.
@ vagabond trader:
4_Sticks called us all a bunch of White Christian Soldiers happy to commit the most vile atrocities yesterday on another thread, fuck him…
@ snork:
@ wolfie:
If you had read what 4_Sticks wrote yesterday you would understand…
doriangrey wrote:
Or, as I put it: Before I was born, life was great. No responsibilities, no requirements, and anytime I needed apple juice, I just pulled on the umbilical cord and my mother went to get some. Since birth, it’s gone downhill.
@ snork:
Yes. And I don’t expect the MSM to publicize that much because it doesn’t fit their stupid narrative of victimization.
There’s nothing the Left hates more than blacks, women, Hispanics, Muslims, etc. etc. who stand up and say I AM NOT A VICTIM. It ruins their story.
@ LanceKates:
Which is why you need to crawl back in the womb and vote socialist!
@ CloudyDay:
too dumb to serve? Aren’t these the same branches of the military that Kerry said were ‘stuck’ in Iraq because they weren’t all that bright?
man, that’s gotta be pretty dumb then, if we go by Kerry’s insinuated intelligence level of your average soldier.
Smart enough to college welfare though…..
When do we take education back from the government? Why do we allow a FEDERAL hand in education at all? That’s as unconstitutional as the Department of Energy (at least that can be partially justified as it’s original purpose was to work with our foreign sources of oil to reduce the need for it)
wolfie wrote:
When you vote socialist, your head isn’t stuck up a womb….
LanceKates wrote:
Geeze, and that worked out sooo well…
@ doriangrey:
OK. If there’s a back story, then I will reserve judgement!
@ doriangrey:
Fine. I actually saw that story, but didn’t think it worthy of linking because it’s just self-reporting.
@ 4_Sticks:
1-Islam is devoid of introspection and self-criticism. The hesitance to “not criticize another Muslim is the root of many of its problems.
2-Muslims continually blame their problems on outside forces, rather than examining their own culpability.
3-The fact that “A Muslim veteran affairs organization says it has not received reports of harassment from Islamic soldiers, contrary to claims by a relative of the man authorities say is responsible for the worst mass killing on a U.S. military base.” tends to reinforce the view that Hassan was steeped in the victimhood that’s prevelent within the most pious sections of Islam.
4-It’s up to Islam to change, not us. As long as the blood lust exists within the Islamic world, the blood will continue to flow.
@ doriangrey:
Didn’t it? Just like our education system…… now we’re going to let them run healthcare!
Joy! I hope no one gets sick in the next few decades.
@ doriangrey:
Didn’t see that but have had my fill of excuses for the jihadi murderer.MDs are an elite corp in the military, no way was he “picked on”, no way was he going “into combat” and if the military conflicted with his beliefs he should never have taken the free government/taxpayer ride.When you join up you automatically become contracted to serve your country and it is not a matter of choice.
vagabond trader wrote:
But taking ‘free government money’ is what today’s liberals are all about. ESPECIALLY when you couple it with whining about having to live up to their end of the bargain. I remember the upheaval in the Army (you didn’t see it from the Marines) about people not wanting to go to Afghanistan or Iraq back after 9/11. They joined for the free education and didn’t think they’d have to do anything to earn it.
Self-Responsibility, Duty and Honor are lost on much of our nation. Saddly, by design.
@ vagabond trader:
He joined up because Muslims believe that it is their birthright to have us infidels service their every whim and desire, in other words, we owed him an education and living and joining the US Military without any intention of fulfilling his obligation was part and parcel of that belief. The reason he went jihad was because he discovered to his shock and horror that the US Military had every intention of forcing him to fulfill those obligations regardless of what he thought his Islamic birthrights entitled him to.
@ vagabond trader:
He probably thinks he has a RIGHT to a ‘free’ medical education. And why not? The Left thinks we all have a RIGHT to ‘free’ medical care.
Hit and Run………..
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Power to the Correct People!
(“0″(pronounced zero)is so incorrect.)
@ wolfie:
Muslims think of us infidels as the soil of the earth, and themselves as great trees. They will gather their nourishment from us and there is nothing we can or have any right to do about it. So yes, he did/does believe he had a Allah given right to a free medical education at our expense. After all, as a Muslim it is his Allah given right to enjoy the fruits of the labor of those whom Allah placed on this earth to serve the faithful.
Secret Service strained as leaders face more threats
I notice that farther down, the article quotes “The Southern Poverty Law Center” as a source:
It seems to me as though George W. Bush got way more death threats during his 8 years than Obama has gotten in his first year – and nobody really seemed to care about Bush getting these threats, except for Laura Bush and some conservatives.
@ CloudyDay:
What rubbish. Many of these “dignitaries” should be required to hire their own private security. Why should it be up to the taxpayer to watch over every two bit America hating dictator who is allowed to travel here. Same goes for the domestic America haters. Foot yer own bill!
@ CloudyDay:
The Southern Poverty Law Center is another far-left front group that sees militias and Klan members behind every tree.
They have zero credibility on this topic.
This is rich:
This coming from the asshole who calls climate skeptics “deniers”. I guess it’s ok when you’re on the left side of the issue.
And speaking of, after insisting that McIntyre’s criticisms of Mann were unfounded, we have this:
After a year of stonewalling, Mann has published an update at his “grey” Supplementary Information (not yet reported at PNAS) in which he acknowledges an “error” in his figure S8a as follows:
What say you now, Chucky?
@ snork:
He can’t hear you, because he’s busy composing a new thread proving that Hasan can’t be an Islamic terrorist because he put down “no religious preference” on his Officer Record Brief.
@ lobo91:
And here I thought the reason he could hear was because his head was still firmly lodged up his ass..
@ doriangrey:
That too.
@ CloudyDay:
I am all for spending whatever it takes to protect the president. If he’s getting twice the threats, give him twice the security.
I really was amused when CJ began reading the SPLC bible and citing it chapter and verse like a good little schoolboy. The SPLC, despite what Chuckles thinks, is notoriously unreliable. No respectable left-wing academic would cite it as a source without mountains of corroboration.
@ lobo91:
and he is a Major.
I haven’t read the thread yet so I am asking a favor of the Blogmocracy Netizens in case I’m not here when GOTC gets here. I went to the Doctor the other day and I have either nerve damage on the side of my brain (not that anyone would notice !) or possibly epilepsy. Can ya help a Redneck out with a prayer or two? Thanks. Now to read the thread.:)
wolfie wrote:
Umm, yea, but Chuckles isn’t an academic, let alone a scientist. In fact all evidence appears to suggest Chuckles just plain isn’t all that bright.
@ wolfie:
Actually, if he’s getting twice the threats, they need to be investigating twice as many threats. The security itself is what it is. But paint me skeptical that he’s getting twice the threats. That’s too convenient a political talking point.
@ wolfie:
Absolutely.
But the SPLC has no real interest in protecting the president. Hell, it would serve their interests if something were to actually happen to him.
Their motivation is to convince people that there is some shadowy right-wing movement out there that’s trying to take over America, which can only be stopped by implementing draconian new security measures (including new gun laws).
OK, well time for me to head out and burn some poor animals and drink some rotting barley water… ya’ll have a good day now ya hear…
@ RedneckNaRocknRollBar:
Noted on my own prayer list.
I’ll keep an eye out for GOTC.
Hang in there.
@ doriangrey:
As I wrote the phrase “respectable left-wing academic,” it occurred to me that only one of those terms applied to Chucky!
Hmmmmm.
Well, it sure wasn’t “academic” and it sure wasn’t “respectable.”
@ lobo91:
Yep. You nailed it.
Thanks, Wolfie. I appreciate it.
ahhh…college football saturday!
@ RedneckNaRocknRollBar:
I’m so sorry to hear of your health problems. I’ve already said a prayer for you.
Thanks to all!
@ doriangrey:
Woooowwww there, hold it !!! LOL !!! Not at all my point !! Damn, I wish I had seen your post earlier – dead thread – talking to my self here, will catch up with you somewhere…seriously, not at all what I was saying !!!
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