Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists

Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.

 By Philip Sherwell and Alex Spillius

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, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.

The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.

Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas,

Read more at the UK Telegraph.

George W. Bush makes secret visit to mourning families at Fort Hood; Laura Bush goes too

November 7, 2009 |  4:28 pm

Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood.

The Bushes instructed the commander of the mourning military base that they wanted no publicity. With their Secret Service detail, Bush and his wife made the 30 mile trip unannounced from their ranch near Crawford, Texas Friday evening.

Fox News broke news of the visit this afternoon. Other sources said the former first couple spent about two hours meeting with family and soldiers, talking quietly and at times hugging them as they did in private at other times of crisis such as post-9/11.

Read more at Los Angeles Times

Lord, we need better leadership!!!  If this terrorist attack on our own soil has shown us anything, it's how fragile our safety is with Obama in charge. 

Americans!  It is time to wake up!  Our country is worth keeping!

Doesn't this look like a Rockwell painting?

During the election campaign, Barack Obama's cool detachment was a winning quality, the "No Drama Obama" a welcome contrast with the "Mr Angry" John McCain, never mind the hot-headed "I'm the decider" President George W Bush.

A year into his presidency, however, Mr Obama seems a curiously bloodless president. If he experiences passion, he seldom shows it. It is often anyone's guess as to whether an event or issue truly moves him.

He has spent more than two months considering a troop increase but do we know how he really feels about the Afghan war?

In a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over, I began to hear this week the first stirrings of a wistfulness about Mr Bush. "I never thought I'd hear myself say it," one Democrat told me. "But Obama makes you feel that at least with Bush you knew where he was on something."

When Mr Bush's Republicans were defeated in the 2006 mid-term elections, it was the President himself who stepped up and declared that his party had received "a thumpin'". The Democratic defeats on Tuesday were not on anything like the same scale but Mr Obama acted as if nothing at all had happened.

Mr Obama had campaigned for Jon Corzine, New Jersey's Democratic governor, five times, twice just last Sunday. But when Mr Corzine lost by four points in a state Mr Obama won by 15 last year - a 19-point swing to Republicans - White House aides just shrugged.

Read it all - and weep for what is left of our country at UK Telegraph

But leave them all to God for a couple days. it's time to relax and enjoy your family. Is your hubby home? See if listening to perhaps the greatest singer of all time puts you in a better frame of mind.

Dream a Little Dream of Me:

Dancing Cheek to Cheek:

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Blue Moon - grab your man and slow dance :)

Let's make this Appreciate Your Husband Day!

I Can't Give You Anything But Love:

November 7, 2009

The mother who brought down the Fort Hood killer

Mega-Bureaucracy: J.E.C. Chart Shows Speaker Pelosi's New Bill Will Create Unprecedented Health Care Labyrinth
Posted by GOP Leader Press Office on November 7th, 2009

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The Joint Economic Committee (JEC) House Republican staff, which earlier this year created a chart mapping the bureaucratic complexity of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's original health care proposal (H.R. 3200), has combined similar analysis by the House Republican Conference with the earlier chart.  The analysis details new additions to the health care bureaucracy contained in the new version of the Speaker's bill (H.R. 3962) that were not previously listed.  Let's just say the Speaker's vision for government-run health care hasn't gotten any simpler.

"This is the blueprint for a taxpayer-funded mega-bureaucracy," said House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH).  "The new chart is an astonishing and unsettling glimpse of the future that awaits American health care, should H.R. 3962 be passed by the House and signed into law."

The chart, completed at the direction of Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), the committee's ranking House Republican Member, shows that the Pelosi plan has grown even more complex in the months since it was originally unveiled by congressional Democrats.  The new bill - expected to be brought to a vote in the House as early as Saturday - contains all of the bureaucracy of the original plan, plus a whole lot more, the chart illustrates.  The full chart can be seen here:

"The American people have spoken.  They don't want their health care replaced by massive government bureaucracy.  This chart shows the Democratic leadership hasn't listened," Boehner said.  "Instead of starting over on a common-sense plan to improve our health care system, Speaker Pelosi and her allies have created a bureaucratic beast that will end the American health care system as we know it.  I commend Ranking House Republican Brady and his team for illustrating what's at stake."

In addition to establishing the Mother of All Bureaucracies, House Republicans note, the Pelosi health care bill will kill millions of small business jobs at a time when our nation's unemployment rate has exceeded 10 percent.  It will also cut Medicare, pile massive debt on future generations, increase Americans' health care costs, and use federal funds to pay for abortion.

Republicans have offered a better solution: a common-sense, step-by-step approach to health care reform, which can be seen in full legislative text at http://healthcare.gop.gov/.

 I Dear Barbara,

I wanted to let you know that this coming weekend (November 6-8), we're going to open up Care.com for a Free Weekend of access. This is only the second time we've ever done this, and we're doing it to raise awareness for National Family Caregiver Month while giving families the chance to meet great, local care providers and screen lists of backup caregivers.

During the coming Free Weekend, all visitors to Care.com will get to experience the benefits of a premium membership to our service. Families can see full profiles for nearby care providers, contact them directly to set up interviews, check references, and request background checks for free!

I thought you'd be interested in a little advance notice of the Care.com Free Weekend. I'd love to have you check out Care.com and see the great babysitters, nannies, senior caregivers, special needs care providers, tutors, pet sitters, and housekeepers we have on our service!

If you have any questions, just let me know! I'd be happy to help.

Thanks for your time,

Cheers,

The Care.com Team

P.S.
The Care Hero Contest is still running, and will be up on our Facebook
page until the end of the month. Thanks!

As one of the Founding Mothers of the Second Wave of Feminism, I am appalled that they sold out to the sexual exploitation of women in all its forms - including dressing little girls as prostitutes, encouraging teenage promiscuity, breaking down the natural modesty of women, and violence against women (a form of porn) on TV shows:

Drudge headlines:

Lauren wrote what has grieving me all day:

I am so furious about the media coverage of this event. They keep coming at it from a "mental health" angle and suggest that the military didn't do enough to keep its troops free of stress.

First of all, US soldiers are have a suicide and murder rate far lower than others in their age group. They are suprisingly well adjusted.

Even if that weren't the case, it is absurd to pretend that this happened because of some sort of "pre-traumatic stress disorder." Please! This happened because Mr. Hasan was carrying out his own personal Jihad. To pretend otherwise is maddening.

I want to scream everytime I see a reporter wringing their hands over the mental health of our military. Can we please focus on, oh I don't know, THE TERRORISM!?

Obama is out warning us "not to jump to conclusions." The only question that should be in anyone's mind right now is if the TERRORIST acted alone.

I agree. It is sickeningly surreal - I mean physically nauseating - to see how the media is spinning this as though the military were our enemy and this poor guy so oppressed, who could blame him?

My heart goes out to the families who must not only bear this senseless violent loss, but must also see it spun this way. How could our media behave so irrationably and terribly. Can you imagine if the killer had been a fan of Rush Limbaugh's?

What to make of a media so bent on maligning our country that they vilify FOX News and Sarah Palin and Rush and Sean and whoever else is on the White House Enemies List, but are filled with compassion for a terrorist - a Muslim extremist who deliberately took out our soldiers as they were being prepared to be sent to war?

Can you imagine any other country behaving this way - stripping the citizenry of its national pride and spirit and beating a drumbeat of shame? How insane!! And this is what many teachers are teaching our kids. 

A More Likely Scenario

By Andie Brownlow

The shooting on Nov. 5th in Fort Hood may be indicative of similar attacks to come. The shooter carried out an attack on specifically outbound soldiers for deployment at the Soldier Readiness Center. Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan, was raised as a Muslim and opposed to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The fact that he chose to kill or maim over 40 US soldiers rather than go to war against Muslim jihadists is indicative of another motive. Explaining away this massacre as a conflict of conscience seems to be an oxymoron. Looking past the incident as a singular event you'll find a very different,... (Read Full Article at American Thinker)

"The question is, do people think we're tending to the things they care about?" said Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) as he left a meeting of Senate leaders. He said there was palpable concern among his colleagues Wednesday that the main agenda items Democrats are pursuing -- health care and climate change -- resonate very little with voters focused on finding or keeping jobs.

"Don't think people in my state are going to stand up and start cheering about Copenhagen," Rockefeller said, referring to the European city that will host a summit on global warming next month. Critics of the climate-change legislation before Congress say it would be a job-killer in states dependent on manufacturing and natural resources.

Maybe they're starting to get it?  Maybe the election results put the fear of God - well, if not God, at least voters- in them?

See Washington Post: For parties, the soul searching begins.

All the words his speechwriters came up with for him to read cannot make up for the astonishingly cavalier and jaunty attitude which preceded it.

This is not a "horrific act of violence" but a terrorist attack on our own soil. The "deeply religious" Muslim major yelled 'ALLAHU AKBAR' before opening fire. There is still a lot of mystery around this: it is being reported that he acted alone, and yet two men are in custody. And how could one man have killed and wounded so many people in such a short amount of time surrounded by military personnel?

Ft. Hood suspect reportedly shouted `Allahu Akbar'