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Press Secretary Gibbs is an idiot

Posted by Catmman on Friday, November 06, 2009 8:40:30 PM
The only question now is if it's purposeful.

"Imagine just a few years ago had somebody walked around with images of Hitler."  Gibbs said this in a broader context in this remark about the health care protesters in Washington yesterday.  He says this as if he has no memory of the last eight years and the hell the Left gave Bush, using just the imagery Gibbs now decries.

Well, for the sake of helping out our moronic press secretary, here's a campaign ad from MoveOn.org during the 2004 Presidential campaign (just a few years ago...):



I know it may have been hard to see.  Did you catch any Bush-Hitler imagery there?

To paraphrase Curly from "City Slickers" - "I've crapped smarter than you."
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More of Hasan's Non-PTSD inspired radicalism

Posted by Catmman on Friday, November 06, 2009 8:08:56 PM
Let's be sure to get this out there before the PTSD meme takes complete control of the narrative.  Of course it doesn't matter that Hasan was never in combat to have suffered from PTSD.  He heard about it while counseling real soldiers returned from Iraq.  Hey, if it's enough for the likes of Chris Mathew and Keith Olbermann, it should be good enough for us all...

From The Jawa Report:

Here's a great idea: let's give this guy a military commission and then promote him to Major!
Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas, regularly described the war on terror as “a war against Islam,” according to a doctor who was in a graduate program with him.

“He was very vocal about the war, very upfront about being a Muslim first and an American second,” said Finnell, 41, a preventive medicine doctor in Los Angeles

Sounds like someone shares the world view of Osama bin Laden and hundreds of millions of other Muslims around the world who claim victim status to the global Zionist-Crusader plot against them.

More here and here.
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Media Narrative on Ft Hood Shooting Takes Shape

Posted by Catmman on Friday, November 06, 2009 3:24:37 PM
Hasan's Muslim faith had nothing, nothing I say! to do with it.

Here's an example of "It's stress because the military is on the brink of collapse" meme.

Hasan's Muslim faith could have had nothing to do with his actions, but pointing out the guy was a Muslim must be Islamophobia.

President Prissypants says we shouldn't "jump to conclusions"  From Ace of Spades HQ:

Funny but he was willing to reach conclusions within hours of the murder of abortionist George Tiller. Interestingly, it took Him 2 days to issue a statement when a Muslim terrorist killed a soldier at an Army recruitment office in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Seems some incidents call for restraint and others call for immediate conclusions.

Also, compare and contrast the media reaction.

Immediately Tiller's murder an act of domestic terrorism (here, here and here for just a few examples. Warning: liberal sites).

Yep.  An abortionists murder was immediately an act of domestic terrorism.  Hasan's act of murdering US servicemen while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" was simply that of a stressed out individual.

Nope.  No evidence of a Jihadi in action.  None at all.

At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades.

ADDED:

I like this headline from The Jawa Report:

AP Unclear What Motivated Devout Muslim Shouting "Allahu Akbar" to Kill
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Cold Fish

Posted by Catmman on Friday, November 06, 2009 10:09:19 AM
Obama has demonstrated a trend that after highly charged incidents, he doesn't know his a-- from a hat.

During the incident resulting in the "Beer Summit" the President, after stating that not all the facts of the incident were in, stated a police department acted "inappropriately" in dealing with a black man.  Of course it was later learned that the police acted just as they should have acted and the only one who acted "inappropriately" was the President himself. 

Now we have the presidents response to the Ft. Hood shooting yesterday:

After news broke out of the shooting at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas, the nation watched in horror as the toll of dead and injured climbed. The White House was notified immediately and by late afternoon, word went out that the president would speak about the incident prior to a previously scheduled appearance. At about 5 p.m., cable stations went to the president. The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.

But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks. At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner."  Three minutes in, the president spoke about the shooting, in measured and appropriate terms. Who is advising him?

Anyone at home aware of the major news story of the previous hours had to have been stunned. An incident like this requires a scrapping of the early light banter. The president should apologize for the tone of his remarks, explain what has happened, express sympathy for those slain and appeal for calm and patience until all the facts are in. That's the least that should occur.

Read the rest here.

This shows a remarkable lack of compassion and empathy from the President.  Obama just has no frame of reference in handling these types of situations, especially if they involve the military.  He has spent decades cavorting with people who wish and ask for this very type of incident to be visited upon US soldiers.  Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and others are infamous for their loathing of the military and Obama has lived hand-in-hand with these idiots for years.

Obama showed no such levity when he was pontificating about the abortion doctor who was killed some months back.  And this may be picking fly poop out of pepper but he couldn't even get the award for the doctor he gave a "shout out" to right - he wasn't a Medal of Honor winner, he won the Medal of Freedom, a civilian award.

Just as his photo op at Andrews the other day with returning dead servicemen was inappropriate, so was his response yesterday.  What is sad is he and his minders probably see absolutely nothing wrong with what he did. 
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Unemployment 10.2% - All Hail Porkulus

Posted by Catmman on Friday, November 06, 2009 9:32:56 AM
At least Obama has a super-awesome HBO documentary out about himself.

Unemployment hit double digits for the first time in 26 years as more than 558,000 lost jobs in October.  The jobless rate went from 9.8% to 10.2%, a leap that quadruples the increase from August to September...

And this:

WASHINGTON – The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 — and is likely to go higher.

But the loss of jobs last month exceeded economists' estimates. It's the 22nd straight month the U.S. economy has shed jobs, the longest on records dating back 70 years.

Counting those who have settled for part-time jobs or stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate would be 17.5 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994.

More here.

We're officially off the chart as this graph indicates.

The stimulus was so effective it failed to 'save or create' another 558,000 jobs last month.  No word yet if this news will have any effect on Obama's tee time this weekend...
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Major Malik Nadal Hasan

Posted by Catmman on Thursday, November 05, 2009 9:14:43 PM
Muslim murderer of American soldiers on America soil.

The media wouldn't publicize the guys name at first.  Why?  Because they needed to spin as much as possible that this couldn't be a terrorist act or that this person's recent conversion to Islam had nothing whatever to do with this.

Bull.

Perhaps he was 'upset' about having to go to Iraq.  I don't buy that meme for a second for several reasons.  1) The guy was a Major.  He's been in the Army for some time.  He would be less inclined as not only as an officer but a high ranking officer to let personal feelings get in the way of his duty.  Don't get  me wrong.  If the guy has deployed a lot, it does get old.  It is frustrating to have to go back to a war-zone over and over.  But as an officer, you have more than a personal responsibility to deal with.  And the guy is an officer.  If he was so upset with going, he could resign his commission and quite - he didn't have to go again.  2)  Apparently he was also a psychiatrist.  If he were suffering from PTSD or other mental 'problems' he would have been the first to realize the warning signs and could have done something about it.  He would have realized that murdering a dozen people and attempting to kill dozens more is not the way to express your displeasure with having to deploy.  So I'm not buying the whole PTSD, not wanting to deploy meme as this guys sole motivation.

I am more inclined to believe that this guy did what he did at least partially being motivated by his Islamic 'faith'.

What will be really interesting is to see what connection the other two folks who were arrested had with Hassan.  Were they in on it?  Did they help?  Are they also Muslims or recent converts to Islam?  If so, then the dynamic changes completely and the PTSD spin will be even harder to acknowledge as having any bearing.
It is striking that any other act of murder committed by anyone else identified as religious, Christians, fundamentalists, etc. is one of the first points publicized by the media.  If a person calling themselves a 'christian' murders an abortion doctor, the President himself can't wait to publicize that fact and the media runs with it.  Timothy McVeigh was portrayed as a christian fundamentalist wacko.

The Muslim shooter of Jews in California at a airline ticket desk is simply a deranged individual.  Muslim murderers at a Jewish day care center in Washington are deranged individuals.  The Beltway snipers weren't publicized as Muslims until well after their arrest.  Muslim rioters in France are portrayed as 'unknown youths'.  The FBI says no terrorism was involved before even beginning an investigation and arriving on the scene of the incident.  The media speculates for three hours about what's going on at Ft. Hood taking every opportunity to sensationalize the incident, but when the murderers religion is revealed they want to be 'extra sure' they get everything right before putting it out there.

I however am not governed by such ridiculous restraints on the truth.  Major Malik Nadal Hasan was a Mulsim.  He murdered American soldiers on American soil.  He was a Muslim.

UPDATE:  The two folks arrested in conjunction with this incident have apparently been released so I am amending wrote I wrote earlier - actually leaving what I wrote, just striking through it so the information is still there.  Also there is now speculation if Hassan is indeed a Muslim.  You can read the update here for yourself.  As I read it, it reads more like a spin attempt than an actual debunking about the guys religious faith.  If it is revealed that Hassan was not indeed a Muslim, I will retract this post and apologize.

UPDATE II:  No need to apologize for the guy being a Muslim and now it seems it may have been his motivation to do what he did - to kill in the name of Islam.  It also appears the FBI may have been tracking some of this guys radical beliefs - for six months or so.  Yep, no terrorism here.  Good work FBI.  Oh, and so much for any PTSD stress angle.  The guy never deployed before.  More here with updates.

The guy was a POS of the 1st Order and I hope he rots in Hell.
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Obama not voting 'Present', he's voting 'Past'

Posted by Catmman on Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:21:11 AM

Let's consider what the Bush administration was facing on the one year anniversary of election day...a terror attack that left 3,000 people dead, an economy already in recession after their predecessors tech bubble run and now damaged by fear and uncertainty. They were also a whole month into the war in Afghanistan and listening to likes of the NY Times compare the campaign to the 'quagmire' of Vietnam.

But of course we all remember how Bush for months, if not years, blamed Bill Clinton for spending too much time screwing around with the interns when he should have been going after al Qaeda.

Bush was a leader. Obama is a whiner.

(* post title stolen shamelessly from DrewM at AoS)
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Swine Flu jumps species

Posted by Catmman on Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:09:47 AM
I'm not a big fear-monger when it comes to the flu (though I have come down with a cold suddenly, horror) but this is interesting.

Vets in the US state of Iowa said Wednesday that a household cat had tested positive for swine flu -- the first known case in the world of the new pandemic strain spreading to the feline population.

The domestic shorthair, a 13-year-old castrated male, apparently caught A(H1N1) off its owners -- two of the three members of the family had previously contracted the deadly virus.

"This is the first cat that we are aware of with the pandemic H1N1," said Brett Sponseller, an assistant professor of veterinarian microbiology who helped treat the pet at Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine.

This is what the cat gets for trying to steal its owners breath at night.  Serve's him right.
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