Ft. Hood Killer Slip Through the Cracks

When Major Nidal Hasan went his killing spree at Ft. Hood on Thursday. No one knew of his anger towards the US.

Hasan problems began after September 11th Terrorist attacks. Hasan’ cousin told Fox News anchor Shepard Smith that he was harassed by fellow soldiers. He believed that US should not be in Middle East. He was hoping that President Obama would get the US out of Afghanistan.

According to Gawker Hasan was on Obama campaign  Homeland Security Policy Institute’s presidential transition task force last year. The group was to draft American policy recommendations for the in-coming Obama Administration.

According to AP a former classmate of Hasan gave a startling presentation at the war on terror was  a war on Islam. Hasan “made himself a lightning rod for things” when his faith was challenged.

According to Wall  Street Journal soldiers who witnessed Hasan “shouted Allahlu Akbar” the Arabic Phrase for God is Great before opening fire. Meanwhile the Army is investigating  Hasan writing on his blog if it gives clues into his mindset and his defense of suicide bombing.

The Army warns not to draw conclusions  on why Major Hasan would attack his fellow soldiers. There questions if his religion play any role in attack.

The Army psychiatrist was also  angry  about his deployment to Afghanistan. Hasan was previously stationed at Walter Reed Army Hospital. At Walter Reed. He was not a sympathetic voice or a sounding board when listening and talking to soldiers coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan. Or those who are shipping out.

However, those who know Hasan wasn’t aware of his hostilities towards the war and US role in it. They said couldn’t tell by his actions.

“It’s a shock,” said Col. Kimberly Kesling, who supervised Maj. Hasan at Ft. Hood.

Neighbors found Hasan friendly and personable.  His neighbor Patricia Villa didn’t notice anything wrong as he was preparing to leave for Afghnistan.  Nadal ask Villa to tidy up his apartment for $60. Villa asked about him about the deployment.

“I asked him, ‘Are you afraid of going over there?’” Ms. Villa recalls. “He said, ‘I’m ready for it.”

His    apartment complex owner Jose Padilla found him friendly. Hasan asked Padilla of his native language he said Spanish. He gave Padilla a Quran in Spanish. Two week ago Padilla give key to his owner and refused his $400 deposit.

“I cannot comprehend that the enemy was among us,” Padilla said, as he teared up. “I feel a little guilt that I was basically giving housing to someone who is going to do so much destruction.”

His relatives in the Washington D.C. area and the middle east was shock and troubled as well.

“Our family is filled with grief for the victims and their families involved in yesterday’s tragedy,” said Nader Hasan, a cousin who lives in northern Virginia. “We are mortified with what has unfolded and there is no justification, whatsoever, for what happened. We are all asking why this happened, and the answer is that we simply do not know.”

However, a cousin who lives in West Bank  said Hasan was treated poorly. “He told (them) that as a Muslim committed to his prayers he was discriminated against and not treated as is fitting for an officer and American,” said Mohammed Malik Hasan, 24, a cousin. “He hired a lawyer to get him a discharge.”

Mohammed Hasan said outside his home in Ramallah that he heard about the shooting from a relative. “I was surprised, honestly, because the guy and his brothers are so calm, and he, as I know, loves his work.”

Hasan filed a report with the Killeen Police Department  about vandalism to his car. An Army employee scratched his car causing about a $1000 in damages.  John Thompson manger of his building  said the soldier has just came back from Iraq and objected to Hasan’ religion. He took off sticker that read Allah is Love.

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Via Gateway Pundit

Thousands Attends to Protest The Health Care Reform Bill Before the House Vote

Thousands attends at a rally to protest the House of Representative Health Care Reform bill Thursday on the west capitol steps in Washington D.C.

Led by Representative  Michelle Bachman(R-MN) who made the last minute announcement on the “Sean Hannity Program” on radio and repeated again on “Hannity” on FOX News Channel. The announcement spread like wildfire.

People in the crowd chanted “Kill the Bill, Kill the Bill” Speakers included Radio Talk Show host, Author and Former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese under President Ronald Reagan, Mark Levin. Representative Tom Price(R-GA;  and  Rep Bachman. Actors Jon Voight and John Ratzenberger also lent their voices.

“They’re going to listen,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who originally called for the rally. “The biggest voice in the United States is your voice.”

“Republicans are in the minority, but a minority in Congress plus the American people equals the majority,” Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., told Fox News Thursday.

Voight decried radical Chicago tactics” of the Obama Administration. While Ratzenberger warned about Socialism creeping in.

In addition the protest, the GOP members introduced their own version of the Health care reform which includes high risk pools, the ability to buy insurance across state lines. Keep cost down and is a fraction of what the Democrats bill costs. It would also cover 40 million people.

Democrats quickly denounced the plan.  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said the GOP plan doesn’t force insurance companies from denying coverage to people who has pre-existing claims.”That’s a very big difference,” Pelosi told reporters Thursday.

On Wednesday, Pelosi spokesperson issued a statement blasted the Republicans. Nadeam Elshami said in a statement

“Bottom line: Americans lose and insurance companies win under the Republican plan,” he said.

Still Republicans still they have a chance of defeat House Democratic bill if the so-called blue dog Democrats vote against it. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told Fox News.

“A lot of Blue Dogs in this country are going to have a lot of ’splaining to do back at home in their districts, where people do not want the health care that’s being peddled by this administration,” Steele said.

“They don’t want government control. They don’t want a government option.”

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The Joys of Obamacare

From The Blogprof: Thousands line up to receive the H1N1 vaccines in the driving rain Friday in the Detroit suburb of Clarkston, MI in Oakland County. Some people arrived from Thursday evening around 10 P.M. to get their free shots.  The clinic started giving the shots to people around 9A.M.

He was told that the wait for the shot would be 5 -7 hours long.

Thousands line up for hours to get H1N1 vaccine in Clarkson,MI

The line snake around the Clarkston Jr. High gymnasium twice. Three hours later a lady walks up  and announces after receiving her shot  if your pre-registered for the vaccination there is a shorter second line. Sure enough there was a second line for those who preregistered. No other announcements were made. Poorly planned and  executed.

Hat Tip:  Instapundit

A lone voice in the wilderness Mike O’Keefe of the Milwaukee area holds a sign of the times that reads “Welcome to Government Healthcare.”

Welcome to Government Health Care

He was protesting at makeshift clinic at Cedarburg High School in the Milwaukee area.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel special thanks to Jim Hoft at GatewayPundit

Democrats’ Childish Games by Locking the Republicans Out.

Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were locked out a meeting room to when Democrats are not there.  Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lock the GOP committee members because they (The Republicans) have the video taped the room with democrats leaving only empty seats in the chamber.

Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) minority leader of the committee has have asked repeatedly to hold meeting in regard to the Countrywide VIP scandal which have Senators Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad receive special loans from Countrywide founder and former head Angelo Mozillo. Towns have been avoiding the Issa request.

Many times Issa has request that’s Towns has routinely deny Issa’s requests. Democrats has repeatedly canceled meeting. So one of Republican staffers have taped the meeting and placed the video on the House Oversight and Reform Committee web site.

“It’s not surprising that they would choose to retaliate given the embarrassment we caused by catching them in a lie on tape,” said Issa spokesman Kurt Bardella. “If only they
would use their creative energy to do some actual oversight rather than resorting to immature tactics, but I guess we’re getting some insight into what lengths they’ll go to avoid addressing the Countrywide VIP issue.”

Towns’s office said in a statement the locks were changed on Republicans “because they don’t know how to behave.” As for the video the GOP made, Towns’s office pointed out: “The minority is using taxpayer dollars to make these campaign style videos.”

Nice to know that the politicians like to play games. Transparency is taken seriously since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said(I paraphrase) “This will be most ethical congress ever.” When taken control in 2007.

Good Job Nancy Good Job

The Hill

NBA Star and Talk Show host John Salley Wonders Does White People Hate President Obama

NBA star, talk show host John Salley wonders if all of America white community has it out for President Barack Obama. Salley was on Adams Carolla’s radio program earlier last week when he asked Carolla does he hate Obama. Carolla said,”No”. Then he asked after 266 days after being election Why the hate Obama. Carolla said “Who” Salley said, “All the White People.”

This comes on the heels of statement by Former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, former Vice President Walter Mondale, Governor Patterson of New York State and others.

I wrote over a year ago that American will be call racist  if they don’t agree with the President-elect. I was right. Politicians, celebrities,  are saying people who opposed the president is Racists.  My community the black community are using specious arguments against those who criticism from outside the black community.

Playing the race care is a canard. President Obama policies is the problem, Owning car companies Chrysler and General Motors, The stimulus package that promised keep unemployment in check at 8 plus percent. It now at a breath taking record breaking 9.7% nearly 3 million people out of work. Promise that the program would create job but there no proof.( In fact the President use the ambiguous phrase of save or created a million jobs there is no proof of such.) Promise of putting the stimulus on the White House before he sign the bill into law.

Next up the omnibus spending bill which cause billions more. Cap and Trade which causes American energy bills to soar by $1765 for every man, woman and child in the country.  The president quadruple the  national debit in 2009. Then there HR 3200 and it’s sister bill in the US Senate (which has not been voted on) which takes over the Health Care  industry.

Obama did the politically expendable thing and move to the center  after winning the nomination. Most people except conservatives know what policies would be. Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck  along with radio talk show host Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham  an others know about The president’s past and his left wing tendencies. The so-called “Main Stream Media” did not do long exposes` on Obama’s politics and his up-bringing like they did with George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, and other candidates and nominees in past election cycles. The Media gave Obama a free pass. Many people did not know of Obama predilections until after the election. Now people who gave the president the benefit of the doubt don’t like the direction Obama is taking the country.

I could blame all of the white people that I have known of the last 37 years of my life from first grade teacher in St Lucy Elementary School to the church I attended Orange Avenue Baptist Church and my friends, schoolmates and co-workers From JC Penney to today for all my failings. But I can’t. Why you asked because It is my fault. I let fear  and anxiety to dominate me and control my mind and my life. I am trying to break it. Its not easy.  But its something I need to do.

I got news for the Black community you and President you NEED white folks. White folks vote regularly compared to Black, Latino and Asians. White folks provide the finances for election campaigns. There more white that there are black and other minorities and the can decide the will vote against you.

I’ve got a secret for you Black community not ever body is going to like you. Read the Bible the Pharisees and Sadducee in the in Sanhedrin did like  Jesus when he taught and healed and befriended people who they thought Jesus should not do.

By the way, President Obama got it  in a recent interview he stated that opposition to his policies and the direction the nation is going not the color of his skin.  Sadly, many in the Black community don’t get like the President. That’s a crying shame.

Gateway Pundit via Storyballoon.org

The Price of Kumbya: Iran building second Nuke Plant

President Obama and  G-20 leaders reveals on Friday that Iran is in the process of building of second nuclear power plant. Obama said along with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown blasted Iran for lying about the nuclear ambitions.

“Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow,” Obama said, condemning what he described as a “covert uranium enrichment facility.” Western based intelligence discovered over two years  and consistently monitoring the situation. The president is calling for for a full scale investigation. The Facility located underground  mountains near the city of Qom,Iran.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,  at a press conference in New York defended the plant saying it is legal and the country providing it citizenry need energy.

“We have no fears,” Ahmadinejad said, “I don’t think Mr. Obama is a nuclear expert.” The Iranian leader  says he’ll welcome the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect the plant. Will he do it is another story.

The CIA and other agencies  from Britain and France discovered the plant  in 2007  they believed the plant maybe completed by 2010 and will able to produce on nuclear bomb a year.

The CIA also revealed that Iran sent a letter to the IAEA that plant was begin build this  week and the west had to uncover the what they know.

The revelations of the nuclear plant would to the press the Russians and the Chinese of the severity of Iran ambitions. Russia in a statement “must cooperate with this investigation.”

The  Washington Post has rest of the story.

President Obama Throw the State of Israel Under the Bus

Boy,oh boy the bodies under the Presidents bus is bloody and bumpy. This man has thrown Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger, The UK, Tea Party Protesters, Van Jones,ACORN, the assistant to NEA head,the nations of the Czech Republic, Poland, and now the President has done it. President Obama has thrown the State of Israel.

In in his address to the United Nation son Wednesday , President Obama has slammed Israel by saying  Israel and Palestinians must meet for peace without preconditions.  And the told Israel that “America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.”That was highly received by the UN with standing ovation.

Obama also demanded that the Palestinians must stop it quote “incitement of Israel.”

Reaction was swift former US Ambassador to the UN  John Bolton said that the President Put Israel “on the chopping block.”

The president said four issues that need to be resolved: Security, borders, refugees and and Jerusalem. The goal is clear for Peace: A secure Jewish State for Israel and”a viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967.”

President call for another New World order.

“The United States does Israel no favors when we fail to couple an unwavering commitment to its security with an insistence that Israel respect the legitimate claims and rights of the Palestinians. And nations within this body do the Palestinians no favors when they choose vitriolic attacks over a constructive willingness to recognize Israel’s legitimacy, and its right to exist in peace and security,” he said.

He calling for all countries to get together to solve the worlds problems.  The days of putting the burden on the US . and the us will seek consensus instead of going it all by our selves. “Those who used to chastise America for acting alone in the world cannot now stand by and wait for America to solve the world’s problems alone,” Obama said.

Well Obama’s bus load keeps lighter and lighter and the road get more bumpier and more bloodier as he throws his friends, family, acquaintances, supporters, allies under the bus. I wonder who’s next?

Fox News has the rest of the story.

Hat Tip: Jim Hoft of  Gateway Pundit

Friends with Enemies, Making Enemies with Friend: Obama Disses Gordon Brown

What’s Barack Obama’s beef with the British. I mean giving back a bust of Sir Winston Churchill. Giving her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of IPod of President Obama’s s speeches.(Wonderful Mr. President love the sound of your voice much) Now, the president has done it again. Obama has snub the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Not only the president snub him once,  twice, trice but five times (count’em 5 times).

According to The Guardian, Prime Minister Brown wanted bilateral talks during this week between the the US and UK either at UN today in New York or G-20 summit in Pittsburgh, PA. Brown the embattled  leader in UK is facing  election in 2010, there has been speculation resigning early due to health issues .

In addition, Brown help facilitate the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, The Lockerbie, Scottland Bomber of Pan Am 103 in 1988.This brought condemnation  by the US and families that lost loved ones.

Officials at Number 10 Downing the Prime Ministers office denied that The Prime Minister was snubbed. The spokesperson will have plenty of opportunity to discuss on issues between the two when they sit next to each others during the summit.

The Guardian has much more including the UK Attorney general was fined 5,000 pound sterling for hiring an illegal immigrant.  This has led to The Prime Minister Parliamentary Aide to resign in disgust.

Congressman Who Yelled “You Lie” to President Obama is Admonished

US Representative Joe Wilson(D-SC) who shouted at the President Barack Obama last week “You Lie” was rebuked by a divided congress on Tuesday. The vote by led by Representative James Clybourn (D-SC) by 240-179.  Republican House Minority Leader, John Boehner called it a waste of taxpayer’s money.

We’re here on some witch hunt, some partisan stunt that the American people are not going to respect, said Boehner.

But House Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer(D-MD) who co-sponsored the bill with Rep. Clybourn, says this has to do with decorum and rules.

“The resolution is not about the substance of an issue but about the conduct we expect of one another in the course of doing our business,” said Hoyer.

I don’t what it is with Democrats. They may lose it all a year from now.

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Pelosi Warns of on Coming Violence, Republicans Blast Pelosi Rhetoric as

US Speaker of the House of Representative Nancy Pelosi, warned today of on coming violence. During weekly meeting with the media the speaker was a asked about the potential the violence  as a result of the growing TEA Party-9/12 movements by conservatives.

Pelosi said, “I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw — I saw this myself in the late ’70s in San Francisco, this kind of — of rhetoric was very frightening and it gave — it created a climate in which we — violence took place,” Pelosi said.

“And so I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made, understanding that — that some of the people — the ears it is falling on are not as balanced as the person making the statement might assume,” she said.

“But, again, our country is great because people can say what they think and they believe, but I also think that they have to take responsibility for any incitement that they may cause.”

Pelosi was refering the assiniation of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by Supervisor Dan White  in October 1978.

The Republicans accused Pelosi of  smearing conservatives by says they were inciting violence. Congressman Pete Sessions(R-TX), chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee said the speaker went too far and released a statement.

“The Speaker is now likening genuine opposition to assassination. Such insulting rhetoric not only undermines the credibility of her office, but it underscores the desperate attempt by her party to divert attention away from a failing agenda,” Sessions said in a statement. “During one of the most important policy debates of our time, the American people have been completely abandoned by those elected representatives under her control. Voters are justifiably frustrated with Washington, and the Speaker’s verbal assault on voters accomplishes nothing other than furthering her reputation for being wildly out of touch with the American people.”

What a sad commentary the speaker is.  Down right disgusting.

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