Just Nuts November 11, 2009
Posted by denmick in Uncategorized.trackback
By DEVLIN BARRETT
Nearly a year before Maj. Nidal Hasan allegedly went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, terrorism investigators conducted an “assessment” of him before deciding he did not pose a threat.
After the shooting, the FBI is doing a new assessment — of its own conduct.
The Army psychiatrist is believed to have acted alone despite repeated communications — intercepted by authorities — with a radical imam overseas, U.S. officials said Monday. The FBI will conduct an internal review to see whether it mishandled early information about the man accused in the bloody rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 29.
President Barack Obama was joining grieving families and comrades of the victims Tuesday at a memorial service at the sprawling Texas Army base. Hasan, awake and talking to doctors, met his lawyer Monday in the San Antonio hospital where he is recovering, under guard, from gunshot wounds in the assault.
In Washington, an investigative official and a Republican lawmaker said Hasan had communicated 10 to 20 times with Anwar al-Awlaki, an imam released from a Yemeni jail last year who has used his personal Web site to encourage Muslims across the world to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. Despite that, no formal investigation was opened into Hasan, they said.
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This guy was nuts, plain and simple. As many psychos before him had, he plunged into the world of psychiatry to deal with his own internal demons, this guys demons were religious, surprise, surprise. Of course he chose the easy way to kill using a gun instead of a sword the gutless coward.
Ban guns? Nope, ban religion. Your big daddy god won’t keep you from dying but in the wrong hands he could indirectly hasten the process.
Hey there! Just wanted to report that Brandon did NOT come down with H1N1. Thank God.
What do you think of Dodd’s bill on bank reform?
Also, I will openly admit the decision to send 40,000 plus troops to Afghanistan is downright idiotic. Bad, bad way to go. I know Micksters and most of the rest of you agree with that.
It’s just wrong, wrong, wrong. It will bring nothing but extreme trouble. I understand the concerns cited about stabilizing Pakistan. Do it some other way. Period.
Hope you all have a good day.
Veterans Day puts this event in a different light. To have survived the rigors of war to face another enemy at home is one of the perils in a violence-prone society.
We build entire industries just for war, we sacrifice the very young for war, then honor the fallen from the war we created. Why?
Did Iraq ask us to come to their country to kill and maim the citizens there or did we volunteer whether they liked it or not. How about Afghanistan? same question.
We have a volunteer Army that voluntarily invades sovereign countries, why? Because force is all we have left. We cannot tout our freedoms because they have been slowly disappearing. We cannot claim our economic power because through greed we have squandered it too.
The simple fact is we need war to survive. The rest of the World knows we have gone from super power to super bully willing to sacrifice it’s citizens for oil and power, we may be able to lie to ourselves but others see us for what we are.
It is hard to believe that in 8 short (chimp) years we have fallen so far and now faced with more tribulation we continue the same course, a course that will take us to destruction of all we hold dear and the principals of real veterans of real wars fought all those years ago.
Well, we could put all those resources into doing something about climate change. Creating good jobs right here on the homefront.
ASTOUNDING! Matt Drudge and National Review are making sense — go to the UPDATE at this article to read more
Someone has to give Joe Lieberman a puppy. He needs some attention.
Good…about Brandon.
According to this, DODD GOES FOR BROKE WITH TOUGH BANKING BILL
Carey — well, one thing, at least Sen Dodd isn’t starting out with important things taken off the negotiating table from the git-go — as was done with the health care “negotiations.”
I wonder where Lou Dobbs is going to go after announcing his resignation from CNN tonight. (Not that I ever watch him — but I sure hear a lot about him!)
Faux News says there have not been any discussions with him about joining their so-called news organization.
Ohmigod. What if he’s going to run for public office?
It’s 4:00PM PST
Maybe just a peaceful retirement?
Lous Dobbs? A peaceful retirement?
Hmmmm. Doesn’t seem to fit the M.O.
But, anything is possible.
Before Robert Novak died, he suggested that Lou Dobbs should run for president as an independent candidate. Then John Fund jumped in with the same idea.
Well, 2012 is a long way off, isn’t it? Maybe not, considering that Barack Obama started running for president about two years before the 2008 election.
Dobbs, himself, once said he was an independent populist. He talks the language of the anti-immigration and tightened border security folks. He bashes the free-trade agenda, laments the squeeze on middle-income citizens, he is critical of the economic threat (and possible military threat) to the U.S. posed by China. He says the middle class, the majority, are ignored by the “elites in Washington.”
Except for the fact that he says he’s pro-choice which would make it unlikely, I wonder if he’s made a deal with Sarah Palin and that gang to start leaping the hurdles to get on ballots around the country, collecting signatures, hiring lawyers to manage the myriad state elections laws, etc.
I bet he could raise the dough for a 3rd party campaign.
But, on the other hand, maybe he’s going to Faux Follies.
Then on the other hand, he’s just going to have a peaceful retirement.
Now, I’ve run out of hands.
Dobbs undoubtedly will go to Faux. He seemed to be eager for that in the end at CNN.
I didn’t know he announced resignation. Think he was asked to. He had gone far enough.
The various reports on veterans have been rather good. They’re bringing the horrendous conditions of many to brighter light. Yet, it never does any good, it seems. Vets continue to suffer.
Betcha Rupert stuffed his pockets with cash to get him onboard.
On the other hand, maybe he’ll move to Pennsylvania to run against Lieberman.
You mean to Connecticut to run against Lieberman?
Or to Pennsylvania to run against Arlen Specter?
Yes, on that hand, those are possibilities, too
Or, on another hand, to Massachusetts to run against the person who was selected to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy’s term?
I didn’t know he announced resignation. Think he was asked to. He had gone far enough.
It was supposed to be on tonight’s show — with tonight the LAST show. Unusual way to exit.
He still got ratings. That’s all that seems to matter.
To change the subject, is the US ambassador to Afghanistan actually being sensible?
Funny you should say that. Bill and I were just saying, “looks like the ambassador has the right approach.”
Correction: Bill just told me that Dobbs’ ratings were steadily decreasing.
So, I was wrong about that.
Holy smokes, he’s not just a political “payback” window-dressing ambassador….he served as top military commander….
The United States ambassador to Afghanistan, who once served as the top American military commander there, has expressed in writing his reservations about deploying additional troops to the country, three senior American officials said Wednesday.
Lou Dobbs final show transcript:
Tonight I want to turn to a personal note, if I may, and address a matter that has raised some curiosity. This will be my last broadcast here on CNN, where I’ve worked for most of the past 30 years, and where I have many friends and colleagues whom I admire deeply and respect greatly. I’m the last of the original anchors here on CNN and I’m proud to have had the privilege to helping to build the world’s first news network. I’m grateful for the many opportunities that CNN has given me over the many years. I’ve tried to reciprocate with a full measure of my ability. Over the past six months it’s become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us. And some leaders in media, and in politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role at CNN and to engage in constructive problem solving as well as to contribute positively to the great understanding of the issues of our day and to continue to do so in the most honest and direct language possible. I’ve talked extensively with Jonathan Klein. John’s the president of CNN, and as a result of those talks, John and I have agreed to a release from my contract that will enable me to pursue new opportunities. At this point, I’m considering a number of options, and directions, and I assure you, I will let you know when I set my course. I truly believe that the major issues of our time include — the growth of our middle-class, the creation of more jobs, health care, immigration policy, the environment, climate change, and our military involvement, of course, in Afghanistan and Iraq. But each of those issues is, in my opinion, informed by our capacity to demonstrate strong resilience of our now weakened capitalist economy and demonstrate the political will to overcome the lack of true representation in Washington, D.C. I believe these to be profoundly, critically important issues, and I will continue to strive to deal honestly and straightforwardly with those issues in the future. Unfortunately, these issues are now defined in the public arena by partisanship and ideology rather than by rigorous, empirical thought and forthright analysis and discussion. I’ll be working diligently to change that as best I can. And as for the important work of restoring inspiration to our great free society and our market economy, I will strive as well to be a leader in that national conversation. It’s been my great honor to work with each and every person at this wonderful network. I will be eternally grateful to CNN, to Ted Turner, and to all of my colleagues and friends and, of course, to you at home. I thank you, and may God bless you.
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Doesn’t sound like quiet retirement to me.
Jus’ what we need, a populist party…
I know it has been reported that he is considering a move to FOX business channel but this goodbye doesn’t sound like a move to another network with basically the same show.
I’m beginning to think that my punditocracy
above about an independent run for something with a populist tilt is what’s gonna come down…..
Oy!
I need beer.
Looks like Ambassador Eikenberry’s rather strong reservations about a possible troop buildup in Afghanistan has put the brakes on deploying more cannon fodder — at least for now.
Obama doesn’t plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team.
At least that’s what’s being reported.
Sounds like the beginning of a political campaign, to me…
Dobbs’ Resignation — ain’t no swan song!