MaxRedline

More On Massacre

Bloomberg, as is typical for American media, offers an extensive article headlined Fort Hood Shooting Spurs Re-Examination of Stress on Soldiers. 

In the aftermath of Major Nidal Malik Hasanallegedly shooting fellow soldiers at Fort Hood Army Baseon Nov. 5, officials said they are redoubling efforts to study the impact of multiple redeployments and battlefield experiences.

Allegedly?

The impact of redeployments and battlefield experiences?

That Muslim shrink did not "allegedly" do anything; he was taken down while in the process of committing mayhem.  Moreover, he'd never laid eyes on a battlefield.

If you want actual news, you have to go elsewhere.  Nobody in the American media has made the connection between this dirtball and the 9/11 hijackers, but it's being reported in foreign media.

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists.

Oh, but as BO says, we shouldn't leap to any conclusions.

Right.

Speaking of BO, he hasn't found time in his schedule to visit any of the wounded - he's reportedly relaxing at Camp David.  However, the President reviled by the Left as "Chimpy" has taken the time to visit, as has the former First Lady.

BO and MO have class, though.  Too bad all of it's low.

The Turning Of The Worms

In recent weeks, BO and his administration conducted a war of sorts against Fox News, primarily because they didn't play the game.   It'll be interesting to see how they handle the media from here out, as when even NBC runs a headline decrying Obama's "Frightening Insensitivity" in regard to his response to the Texas massacre, the bloom is definitely off the rose.  NBC and assorted other media outlets, after all, did the heavy lifting required to propel him into the White House.  They've been, if not his willing accomplices, then certainly his allies.  Now that some, other than Fox, have dared to criticize, what form will his reaction take?

BO's Ears Must Be Ringing

With thousands of folks shouting "Kill The Bill" (and no, they weren't talking about former President Clinton) - the area must have been pretty loud.  Of course, this isn't about BO: he can't propose legislation; he can only sign it.  And sign he will, if the opportunity arises.  Never mind that Pelosi's grand health care plancontains many gross discrepancies and may even be unconstitutional - that little scrap of paper is just a minor annoyance to really smart people.  Buried in the bill is the hallmark of socialized medicine: the waiting list.

H.R. 3962, the Democrats’ health insurance reform bill, to be voted on this week by Congress, contains a provision to establish waiting lists as a mechanism to control costs.

Such waiting lists have long been a characteristic – and a bane – of socialized medicine.



Indeed, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled them illegal in June 2005.

"Access to a waiting list is not access to health care," wrote Canada’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverly McLachlin at the time.

Oh, piffle!  What do Canadians know about government-run health care anyway?  So sniffs Nancy, as she lashes out any any who dare to oppose her wishes.  But a growing number of Dem Representatives are entertaining some serious second thoughts, in light of the recent elections. 

Election Day losses in Virginia and New Jersey have congressional Democrats focused like never before on jobs---their own.

While the White House and party leaders are urging calm, Democratic incumbents from red states and Republican-leaning districts are anything but; Tuesday's statehouse defeats have left them acutely aware that their votes on health care reform and other major Obama initiatives could be career-enders in 2010 or beyond.

The Worst Bill Ever

That's how The Wall Street Journal describes the 1,990-page "health bill" that Nanny Pelosi unveiled last week.  If anything, WSJ sugar-coated it.  Among the many "features" of the bill are some which are likely unconstitutional, such as the requirement that individuals purchase health insurance or face heavy penalties. 

Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who has served in the Senate for 33 years and is a longtime member of the Judiciary Committee, told CNSNews.com that he does not believe the Democrats’ health-care reform plan is constitutionally justifiable, noting that if the federal government can force Americans to buy health insurance “then there is literally nothing the federal government can’t force us to do.”

This is roughly akin to the feds suddenly deciding that because milk has vitamins and minerals and is therefore "good for you", then everybody should be required to purchase milk.  You may, for reasons of your own, prefer not to buy it.  Your preferences, however, no longer matter, because milk purchase is now a requirement.  You will buy it, or suffer the consequences for your failure to comply.

If you want to drive, most states require that you pass a test, register and license the vehicle, and purchase insurance, correct?

Actually, no.  Most states require that you either purchase vehicle insurance or demonstrate that you possess sufficient financial resources to render such purchase unnecessary.  The states don't require you to purchase insurance or to provide similar assurance unless you choose to drive on public roadways.

If you have a large ranch, for example, and if you drive only on that ranch, you are not required to pass a test, to pay registration and license fees, nor to purchase insurance in order to drive a vehicle (on your own property).  What democrats hope to ram through is entirely different: it is an attempt to impose a federal requirement that you purchase a specific product, and this is far outside the purview of government in the USA.  Or, it has been - until now.

This is but one of several egregious attempts during the past month - all at the hands of democrats - to permanently degrade your freedom.

Democrats during the past month placed an amendment on a defense appropriations bill to make speech against homosexual conduct a thought crime.  The President joined with Egypt to sponsor a U.N. resolution that would ban speech that "defames religion" (though presumably exemptions were inserted into the language so that Jews and Christians can continue to have their beliefs urinated upon).

BO campaigned (his only real accomplishment to date) on a message of "hope and change".  That was the message - but it was likely only because the fawning media had dyslexic issues.  The real message was likely "dope and change". 

Scozzafava Endorses Democrat Opponent

Sinking in the polls, the liberal Democrat who was nominated by local Republican leaders in an effort to hold the NY-23 seat for Republicans suspended her campaign and has now endorsed her Democrat former "opponent".  Dede Scuzzofava was running third after an upstart conservative entered the race and quickly polled about evenly with the Democrat.  Her endorsement of the Democrat is interesting, but only the latest quirk in what has become perhaps the most riveting political race in recent history.

"You know me," she said in a statement released today.  Indeed, voters in the district do know her, which is why her numbers were so low.

The Turkey's Done

Okay, that's a Thanksgiving Day line.  In a way, however, the day has arrived early, as Scozzafava has suspended her campaign in New York.  While she hasn't gone so far as to endorse the conservative candidate in the race, she apparently realized that her goose is thoroughly cooked.  Perhaps she should consider running as a Democrat, next time.  It's now a two-man race, and it looks as though an actual conservative has a good shot at winning unless election officials want to count hanging chads or something.

There's a reason why the Scozz hasn't endorsed the conservative: she's so liberal that an endorsement would likely drive voters away.

The success of conservatives in this race and in others should serve as a kick in the butt to both Democratics and Republicans. 

But the impact of those candidacies on the high-profile contests points to an anti-incumbent, anti-establishment sentiment that could be a prevailing theme in the 2010 congressional elections and beyond.

The War On America

Isn't it a curious thing?  This administration seems to require an unending parade of domestic enemies.  Fox News is an enemy.  So are tax protestors.  So are ObamaCare protestors.  As Valerie said, “I think that what the administration has said very clearly is that we’re going to speak truth to power. When we saw all of the distortions in the course of the summer, when people were coming down to town-hall meetings and putting up signs that were scaring seniors to death. . . . ”

Putting up signs is a Very Bad Thing.  That whole First Amendment thing is really quaint, but archaic and inconvenient.  "Truth to power"?  What a catchy, Leftist turn of phrase.  You can almost see Val out in the streets, railing against "the Man".  Of course, as BO's "senior advisor", she is the Man.  She's railing against herself.

Now BO and Co. are doing damage-control in advance of what they anticipate will be an election day that will not go well for them.  Of course, it's all Bush's fault, and Fox news, and a bunch of tea-baggers who really shouldn't be allowed any voice in important issues at all.

The most transparent administration in the history of the country that was promised has failed to materialize.  What we have, instead, is the whiniest administration in the history of the country.  Everything is always somebody else's fault.

The only individual in the administration who seems able to tell the truth is - surprisingly - Hillary Clinton.  “The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world... We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.

It may not be what she meant to say, and it may further strain her relations with BO's administration.  But the truth of her statement is indisputable, unlike what the rest of BO's administration has been trying to feed us. 

Tansparency InAction

A whole bunch of Obamanation has filtered out in the past couple of days, and none is especially encouraging.  Remember, this was to be the most ethical and transparent administration in the history of the country.  Some folks will say anything to get elected, it seems.  That whole politicization of the NEA, which BO disavowed any involvement in?  Um.  Facts have come out.

Former actor and present White House associate director of public engagement Kalpen Modi was directly involved in planning the controversial conference call hosted by a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) flack to encourage tax-supported artists to create propaganda for President Obama, according to emails obtained by Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.

As well, it happens that there's a shadow in the White House with veto power, and I don't mean BO or MO.  They call her Valerie.

Simply put: Valerie Jarrett is a radical leftist with a rapacious appetite for power and wealth. In Richard Daley’s Chicago, she was the turn-to person for flexing muscles, padding pockets, and covering tracks. In Barack Obama’s Washington, she is the single advisor most responsible for both for originating and orchestrating his most brazen attempts to impose what many see as a socialist regime upon the American people.

But wait; there's more:

Are there cases of environmental pollution that are so egregious that the polluters should be punished as murderers?

Absolutely, says Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Heinzerling. Given her way, she would turn into murderers every manufacturer in America who had any inkling of an idea ahead of time that their actions had even the remotest statistical chance of causing a pollution-related death. And she is determined to give her view the force of law.

And while driving back from the grocery store, I caught a bit of the latest EPA shenanigans: apparently, they intend to impose regulations on dust.  10 micrograms per cubic meter?  That idiocy would curtail all human activity - and that of most animals, as well.  This idea is right up there with the one proposed a few years back in which it was suggested that the deer running loose in Portland's Bull Run watershed should be diapered.

They're Called Dimocrats For A Reason

Pew Political IQ Poll: Republicans Consistently More Knowledgeable

When it comes to current political understanding, Pew Research has shown that Republicans consistently outperform Dimocrats, and often by double-digit margins.

A September 2007 quizshowed more Republicans than Democrats could identify even the Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.

An April 2007 Pew Quizshowed this about partisan difference: "Republicans and Democrats are equally likely to be represented in the high-knowledge group. But significantly fewer Republicans (26%) than Democrats (31%) fall into the third of the public that knows the least."

And the latest poll, conducted only days ago, shows Dims continuing their trend of cluelessness.

For Dimocratic politicians, things are getting a little unnerving.  It's starting to look like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are leading the Donner Party, the snowbound emigrants who bogged down in the Sierra Nevada winter in the 1840s and resorted to cannibalism to survive.

2nd Amendment Turned Back In Court

It doesn't matter if you have a permit, landlords can ban gun possession by renters.  This ruling is clearly unconstitutional.