MSM Worships, You Don't Get to Decide VII

Army Major Nidal Hasan, Islamofascist jihadist terrorist, and the MSM's response.

Newsweek Editor at Large, Evan Thomas : "I cringe that he's a Muslim. I mean, because it inflames all the fears. I think he's probably just a nut case. But with that label attached to him, it will get the right wing going and it just -- I mean these things are tragic, but that makes it much worse." Was there a backlash against Muslims in this country after 9/11? No. Have there been as many threats against Obama by the "right wing" as were made against Bush? No. Was there violence against Jews by Christians as a result of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ"? No. Was there right wing violence at either of the protests in DC against ObamaCare? No. (They, unlike violent leftist protests, even picked up their trash.) Was there right wing violence at any of the town hall meetings this past summer? No. Not by right wingnuts anyway; the violence was a couple times when SEIU thugs beat the crap out of a couple middle class citizens. The MSM excuses the violence of leftists and the politically correct protected groups, but do talk about all the potential violence of the wingnuts (the term of endearment of leftists for conservatives).

NPR Statist Judicial Reporter (I was going to say 'court reporter' but they are actually accurate): “It really is tragic that he was a Muslim.”

Statist talk show host (yes there are such people)Stephanie Miller: "George Bush made many people around the world feel like this was a war against Islam by using words like crusade." (He used the term once, Islamofacist apologists were apoplectic and he backed down. He use 'religion of peace lots and lots of times.)

It's Bush's fault thirteen soldiers are dead. Its the way this terrorist thought he was being treated that thirteen people are dead. It's everybody's fault but the guy that did it. This guy pronounced himself a jihadhist and both the FBI and the military knew it and did nothing. He even presented a slide show and paper,“The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S Military". But the MSM is focusing on everyone else. They are apologists for Islamofasicsm.

He may, said the MSM, be suffering from “pre-traumatic stress,” but had never served combat, and just thought he might be. Good grief.

Obama didn't want us to jump to conclusions. This from a guy that praises Islam and distances himself from Christianity.

ABC’s Martha Raddatz said, “As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, ‘I wish his name was Smith.’”

Newsweek’s Evan Thomas (again): “...that he’s a Muslim. I mean, because it inflames all the fears.”

Army Chief of Staff. Gen. George Casey said he feared a “backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers." The Army Chief of Staff main concern is political correctness, not the mission of liberty and security of the military. "I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here."

MSNBC Statist Comentator Ed Shultz: "When somebody's down at the mouth and when somebody is not with the program, why does the military keep him and expect him to do things? Because you don't do that in private business. Well, (voice turning sarcastic) this is the military, well, wait a second now! You know, if they're absolutely our finest and we support them to the max, it would seem to me that there was a chink in the armor somewhere. Right? That's how I feel about it! That the vetting process of the military personnel was, maybe I'm totally wrong on this one, totally off-base and everything else. But, I don't know." Obviously he doesn't know. What a knucklehead.

The MSM's initial response was not so much about the murdered, it was about making excuses for the jihadist's terrorist act. It was their concern that he was Muslim. It was their concern about political correctness.

In Honor of Veterans Day, Moving Arrangement of Taps

Dead Skunks and Armadillos

This vid is in tribute to Moderate Republicans aka RHINO's. Every time one of these knuckleheads rise in position in the Republican Party, we loose. Well, ya know what, the only thing in the middle of the road are dead skunks and other road kill. Nixon, on top of all his nefarious deeds, brought us the Dept of Ed and the Environmental Protection agency, and lost his office. RINO Arnold Schwarzenegger kept caving to the Dems and CA is now in deeper debt with more problems than when he replaced Gray Davis. Bush the First reneged on taxes, ran up deficits and lost the presidency. Colin Powell, a highly praised RINO once considered by 'establishment' RHINO's to be presidential material, voted for the Statist Obama. Michael Bloomberg of New York was a Dem that changed party's to ride in on Moderate Rudy Giuliani's coat tails. Then there's Shamisty Lindsey Graham that's supports illegal immigration and crap 'n tax. Let's not forget G W Bush that signed the first stimulus, with as much if not more entitlement programs and increased social spending as LBJ. And finally, drum roll, the biggest RINO of all, John McCain, the perfect moderate, loved especially by Dems, that led the Republicans to about the biggest ass whoopin' ever a year ago. Let's add a line to this song, dead RINO in the middle of the road.

DC Sniper to be Executed Tonight

Tonight "Beltway Sniper" John Allen Muhammad will meet Justice and be executed. Defense attorney Jon Sheldon doesn't think he's such a bad guy, saying: "I perfectly understand the families of the victims want to throttle him. It is hard to get a handle on the amount of damage he has done." "John Allen Muhammad is absolutely responsible. He's guilty. But there are glimpses of him being thoughtful. People don't want to see that. It's much easier to wrap him up into the thing he did."

Perhaps the families of the murdered don't think John Allen Muhammad all that thoughtful. One can certainly say John Sheldon isn't such a thoughtful person.

Our prayers for the families of the murdered: Claudine Parker, James Martin, James “Sonny” Buchanan, Premkumar Walekar, Sarah Ramos, Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera, Pascal Charlot, Dean Harold Meyers, Kenneth Bridges, Linda Franklin, and Conrad Johnson.

Some Vaguely Heretical Thoughts on Health Care by John Cassidy

The New Yorker’s John Cassidy wrote this. He's a Statist in support of the government taking over health care and health insurance. The difference is that he tells the truth regarding what this is about. It's not about health, it's about making more people dependent on the government. Below are some quotes, full article here.

"The future cost savings that the Administration and its congressional allies are promising to deliver are based on wishful thinking and sleight of hand. Over time, the reform, as proposed, would almost certainly add substantially to the budget deficit, thereby worsening the long-term fiscal crisis that the country faces. (emphasis mine)
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The U.S. government is making a costly and open-ended commitment to help provide health coverage for the vast majority of its citizens. I support this commitment, and I think the federal government’s spending priorities should be altered to make it happen. But let’s not pretend that it isn’t a big deal, or that it will be self-financing, or that it will work out exactly as planned. It won’t. (emphasis mine)
Many Democratic insiders know all this, or most of it. What is really unfolding, I suspect, is the scenario that many conservatives feared. The Obama Administration, like the Bush Administration before it (and many other Administrations before that) is creating a new entitlement program, which, once established, will be virtually impossible to rescind. At some point in the future, the fiscal consequences of the reform will have to be dealt with in a more meaningful way, but by then the principle of (near) universal coverage will be well established. Even a twenty-first-century Ronald Reagan will have great difficult overturning it." (emphasis mine)

In the Begining Were the Words

Let's start with the premise that words mean something. In the context of Statists' firming up the foundation for their new oppressive vision of Amerika, on November 7 we were presented with the 2000 page, 450,000 word Rules for Obedience to the State.

The word regulation appears 181 times.
The word tax appears 214 times.
The word fee 103 times.
The word shall over 3,000 times.

The Dems, the Statists, are going to take more of our money in the form of taxes and fees, and we shall submit to their vision of how we take care of our bodies, and ultimately how we live every aspect of our lives.

Looks Like Those Christian Terrorists Are Back

I had written about Christian Terrorists!!! a year ago, about the idea of Christian fundamentalists and Muslim fundamentalists being equivalent. Since then the idea just keeps popping up.

The latest transgression is by none other than Harvey Cox, one of the most influential and insightful theologians of the twentieth century. How a thinker of his stature could fall to this low is beyond me. Writing in the Boston Globe, article here, about the history of religious fundamentalism, he drew the comparison.

Cox: "As the 20th century ended and a new one began, fundamentalism has taken on more formidable shapes, both politically and religiously. Though most of its adherents work through spiritual and educational channels, the small minority that turn to violence have caught the media’s attention. If some seem ready to die for faith, others are ready to kill for it, gunning down abortion doctors in church, hijacking planes, and exploding bombs at weddings. For plenty of thoughtful people, fundamentalism has come to represent the most dangerous threat to open societies since the fall of communism."

My observations in my previous blog show that the comparison is outrageous. In the context Cox puts it, the gunning down of an abortion doctor in church happened exactly one time. No Christian fundamentalist has ever hijacked a plane. Since 1972, when Roe vs Wade was passed, that's thirty two years, eight abortion doctors or staff have been murdered, all of them denounced by Christians. I don't hear any, well maybe very weak, denunciations of acts of Islamofasist violence by Muslims. The massive violence and terror is perpetrated by Muslims. Just look at the hard cold numbers.

I expect such nonsense from anti-Christians, but am very surprised that Harvey Cox expressed it. There's a lot of good observations in the article, and it's worth the reading time. I recommend his most widely read book 'The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective'.

I'm just disappointed that someone I so admired since I was a teenager would say something like this. I'll just chalk it up to an aberration, and hope he doesn't revisit the comparison. Hopefully he'll correct it.

Our Insulting Classless President

President Obama, in his pitch to Democrats on the Hill today (from the New York Times):

"Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, 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.'

So if you're against having the government control your health insurance and your health care, actually, every every every aspect of one's life, they you're "anti-government". A 'teabagger'; just to remind everyone, 'teabagging' is a male homosexual act. This is the President of the United States! insulting a huge segment of his own citizens. And if you oppose the government taking over your life, you're an extremist? This from the guy that is working with the Dems to overthrow the Constitution and implement every fascist and communist principle and idea he can. The man-child has no class and is an extremist Stalinist ideologue. Even the Clinton's had more class and were more respectful of the people of the United States.

Well over half the people are against this legislation. Get out the pitchforks and storm the (metaphorical) gates of the new establishment!

Da Pacem Domine - Monastic Gregorian Chant

How busy are we the we neglect our quiet moments with God? I had a hard time sitting for just ten short minutes to watch and listen to this. Take ten. Your day will be better for it.

Ft Hood Man Made Disaster

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Muslim, murdered and wounded a lot of people today at Ft Hood. He was a US Soldier, an Officer, a mental health professional, a Army psychiatrist that had practiced for years in Bethesda, Md.

Islam teaches that their religion comes first. Above all else. Including country. If I were a soldier, and I knew that a Muslim is fighting beside me, can I trust him? What does that do to unit cohesion?

What about Muslims in this country? I'm still waiting for the outcry and denunciations for 9/11. I'm watching news sources tonight, and not seeing Muslims denouncing, or showing grief or concern. NBC and CBS didn't announce he was Muslim. This is a case of political correctness run amok.

In WWII Japanese were interned in camps. A grievous act to be sure. To prove their allegiance to America, they joined in the fight, enlisted, formed a unit, and killed so many bad guys they became the most decorated unit in the war.

Compare that to what we have now. We have CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) an anti-Semitic organization that are apologists for anti-American Muslims and terrorists. That have funded terrorist organizations, laundered money for them, and who knows what else. Don't see any American Patriots there. Don't see any Muslims, rising en masse, to crush Islamofascist Terrorism.

I grieve for the lost soldiers. They were being deployed, many of the men and women for the third or forth time, to fight for and protect the freedoms of Muslims, as well as to protect this country from Islomofascists.