TARP me!

[carbonelle.livejournal.com]

Remember General Motors? Recall how the firm recieved a major pile of pork stimulous money purportedly to further the president's scheme to not only save jobs, but to promote environmentally-friendly energy choices. Saving jobs, and saving the planet: what a twofer! The future is "green" jobs!

They just axed their electric car program and let all the employees working on it go.

Lovely.

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[coldblossom.livejournal.com]

You know what irritates me about today's Fort Hood memorial ceremony (besides the fact that I must automatically dismiss anything our Commander in Chief says, any sentiment he expresses, as being fake--a show for the cameras and nothing else. I dare him to prove me wrong)? The fact that, despite what happened, despite September 11th, the Khobar Towers, the Embassy bombings, the U.S.S. Cole, the first WTC attack, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran...despite all of this, our government won't acknowledge that radical Islam wants to destory us.  They won't acknnowledge it today (God, Obama and First Lady MIchelle just arrived and people cheered) and, even if we DID have another September 11th or another shooting like this, they'll still not acknowledge it.

The more that I hear about this man and how the CIA, the FBI, and the Army all knew he was trouble but...likely because he was Muslim, they did nothing about it. They stated that an active-duty Army officer attempting to contact Al-Qaeda was "not alarming or dangerous." That's a load of bullsh--. Its beyond dangerous. Some theorize that perhaps they hoped he would make contact and that they could use him. If so, they need to bloody well come clean.

What I believe is that the victims of Fort Hood weren't just victims of a crazed gunman or a radical religion. They were the victims of political correctness. Had this man been anyone else, I believe the Army/FBI/CIA would have shut him down long ago to prevent him attempting to carry out whatever radical plans he might've had, even before he'd plotted them.  However, they were too concerned with--to them--the greater danger of offense of Muslims in the armed forces, Muslims in the civilian world, and Muslims in the world outside of the United States and so they decided to leave him alone, perhaps until they had something "concrete." I don't know what could be more concrete than his web postings, his openess about his views to his collegues and patients, his attendence at the same mosque as the September 11th hijackers, and finally, his direct attempts to contact Al-Qaeda.

Obama says in his speech today "this is a time of war." But neither he nor anyone else in goverment seems to acknowledge or even know who the enemy is.

Ft. Hood Round-Up

[andric.livejournal.com]

I remain appalled at the lack of attention drawn to Hasan. There were so many clues, warning signs, DANGER signs about this guy, but nobody in the Army did a thing about him.

Hassan On Islam -- Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, the Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood, was supposed to discuss a medical topic during a presentation to senior Army doctors in June 2007. Instead, he lectured on Islam, suicide bombers and threats the military could encounter from Muslims conflicted about fighting wars in Muslim countries.

Nidal Hasan’s calling card explained

Major Muslim's Calling Card: "SoA", "Soldier of Allah"

AP Sources: Defense Dept worker looked into Hasan

Political correctness is going to kill us all. No one seemed to want to say anything because this man was a Muslim. There's a reason we profile.

Pamela Geller has quite a bit on this at her blogsite and a LOT of good articles. (She's also very hardline against Jihadists and Islam.)

Hasan's Mosque Leaders Going To Ft. Hood Memorial Service . . .At Same Time Feds Raid Mosque's Trash Cans...Question: What One Word Would You Use To Describe Feelings About Ft. Hood Masacre?

Between the ball being dropped on Hassan, allowing him to commit this act, and our Representatives violating our rights and our Constitution, I'm more and more disgusted by the day.

D.C. Sniper/Jihadist Sent To Satan's Eternal BBQ

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

Finally, the Commonwealth of Virginia has executed John A. Muhammad, known popularly as the D.C. Sniper (declared dead at 9:11 p.m.). He and his teenage sidekick Lee Malvo spread three weeks of terror as they shot 13 people in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. in October 2002.

I lived in Fairfax County, VA when all of this happened. It seemed like every time I turned on the news, another person got shot. People were really afraid. I looked over my shoulder every time I left the house and avoided getting gas as long as possible. When I had to get gas, I picked a pump far away from the street and was bordered on one side by a wall. Since they shot out a window at a Michaels store and shot a woman leaving another Michaels store, I stayed away from my local stores (and I go there a lot). Everybody went running in a zig-zag between their cars and wherever they were going, like it was Beirut 1982. Just about every craft fair, Halloween carnival, and Halloween parade in the region got cancelled. The Vienna, VA Halloween parade, a tradition for over 60 years, was cancelled for the first time in its history. Schools were cancelled in Richmond, VA after Muhammad and Malvo issued a threat. The shooting that came closest to where I lived was in Falls Church, in the parking lot of a Home Depot I'd shopped at many times.

Finally when these scumbags were caught, I prayed Virginia would get first crack at them because Maryland had suspended its death penalty and D.C. didn't have it. Unfortunately the VA jury gave Malvo a life sentence and even more unfortunately, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty couldn't be applied to a juvenile offender, never mind that Malvo was almost 18 at the time.

I know the death penalty is controversial but if there's anyone who deserved it, it was this guy on his freelance jihad mission. Let's remember the lives this bastard stole:

( In Memory of the Victims )

On behalf of the four million people terrorized by this POS, may he shovel coal in hell for the next zillion years.