OH! The ironing!
The torch relay that culminates in the ceremonial lighting of the flame at Olympic stadium was ordered by Adolf Hitler, who tried to turn the 1936 Berlin Games into a celebration of the Third Reich.
thanks Mitch
in 'what JR said'.I also wish that President George W. Bush would have been the key note speaker at the USS NEW YORK (LPD-21) commissioning today.
in 'President visits wounded at Ft Hood'.*** Nidal Malik Hasan was born in Virginia but didn’t think of himself as an American: on a form he filled out at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, he gave his nationality not as “American” but as “Palestinian.” A mosque official found that curious, saying: “I don’t know why he listed Palestinian. He was not born in Palestine.”
*** He is a graduate of Virginia Tech and has a doctorate in psychiatry from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. While there, NPR reports, Hasan was “put on probation early in his postgraduate work” and was “disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues.”
*** While at Walter Reed, he was a “very devout” member of and daily visitor to the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring. Faizul Khan, a former imam at the Center, expressed puzzlement over Hasan’s murders: “To know something like this happened, I don’t know what got into his mind. There was nothing extremist in his questions. He never showed any frustration….He never showed any remorse or wish for vengeance on anybody.”
*** On May 20, 2009, a man giving his name as “NidalHasan” posted this defense of suicide bombing (all spelling and grammar as it is in the original):
“There was a grenade thrown amongs a group of American soldiers. One of the soldiers, feeling that it was to late for everyone to flee jumped on the grave with the intention of saving his comrades. Indeed he saved them. He inentionally took his life (suicide) for a noble cause i.e. saving the lives of his soldier. To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan. They died (via crashing their planes into ships) to kill the enemies for the homeland. You can call them crazy i you want but their act was not one of suicide that is despised by Islam. So the scholars main point is that “IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOUR INTENTION IS THE MAIN ISSUE” and Allah (SWT) knows best.”
*** Of course, it may not be the same Nidal Hasan. But there is more. One of his former colleagues, Col. Terry Lee, recalled Hasan saying statements to the effect of “Muslims have the right to rise up against the U.S. military”; “Muslims have a right to stand up against the aggressors”; and even speaking favorably about people who “strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square.”
Maybe he just snapped, perhaps under the pressure of his imminent deployment to Iraq. But it’s noteworthy that if he did, he snapped in exactly the same way that several other Muslims in the U.S. military have snapped in the past. In April 2005, a Muslim serving in the U.S. Army, Hasan Akbar, was convicted of murder for killing two American soldiers and wounding fourteen in a grenade attack in Kuwait. AP reported: “Prosecutors say Akbar told investigators he launched the attack because he was concerned U.S. troops would kill fellow Muslims in Iraq. They said he coolly carried out the attack to achieve ‘maximum carnage’ on his comrades in the 101st Airborne Division.”
And Hasan’s murderous rampage resembles one that five Muslim men in New Jersey tried to carry out at Fort Dix in New Jersey in 2007, when they plotted to enter the U.S. Army base and murder as many soldiers as they could.
That was a jihad plot. One of the plotters, Serdar Tatar, told an FBI informant late in 2006: “I’m gonna do it….It doesn’t matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested, or get taken away, it doesn’t matter. Or I die, doesn’t matter, I’m doing it in the name of Allah.” Another plotter, Mohamad Shnewer, was caught on tape saying, “They are the ones, we are going to put bullets in their heads, Allah willing.”
Nidal Hasan’s statements about Muslims rising up against the U.S. military aren’t too far from that, albeit less graphic. The effect of ignoring or downplaying the role that Islamic beliefs and assumptions may have played in his murders only ensures that – once again – nothing will be done to prevent the eventual advent of the next Nidal Hasan.
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in 'what JR said'.Speaking of ammo, are those places online that quote $25 a hunnerd for 9mm for real? The best I can find locally is $12.97/20 at WallyWorld.
My new leetle fren… he ees hongry
P.S. Grandfathered and legal. Heh.
P.P.S. Practical? Not so much.
in 'what JR said'.Wow. These people really aren’t like us, are they? I mean the ones who live in Japan.
It’s like a foreign country over there.
in 'KisP Daily Zen'.Such a contrast. OBambi couldn’t be there today. . . might miss his tee-time.
in 'President visits wounded at Ft Hood'.Melissa - To answer your last question; Yes, they are.
in 'what JR said'.Larry also thinks that we are not real.
Larry thinks we are figment’s of the Mistress’ imagination.
Larry is a deluded, closeted, leftist douche nozzle who never met an insane socialist position he wouldn’t support.
Larry hates America
Larry hates the troops
Larry hates the Constitution
Larry hates the Bill of Rights
Larry likes that the government is his “Mommie”
Larry likes the individual choice is being stifled
Larry likes to work with young boys
Larry likes that Obama has infiltrated the government with radicals
Larry likes that the White House hates the freedom of the press
Where the hell do these anti Americans come from? obama must know of a pile of rocks in some septic tank that he can turn over and find these bastards.
Beautiful Fall day here in North Texas. Think I might go out and do some target practice.
in 'I think we know where this is going'.Bless the Bushs for that appreciative act. Locals in Temple, Kileen and other nearby spots lined up to give blood.
What a contrast the dignity of the Bushs is to the overexposed vanity of the obamas.
in 'President visits wounded at Ft Hood'.GWB, like most of us, is far from perfect, but he is a gentleman and a class act. Ditto for his wife, Laura.
If he hadn’t visited the families and the wounded, I would have been surprised.
in 'President visits wounded at Ft Hood'.We are getting closer to the day we put all that bought up ammo to good use.
Oh Tom, you got that right.
Do they really have no idea… are they truly that dense?
Lets start calling the deed what it was. Not terrorism, which takes the entire act out of focus.
It was JIHAD for pete’s sake. The cowardly murderer was careful to “shout out” the magic words prior to commencing his dirty work.......Hasan is a JIHADIST.
in 'PotUS spackle pt 2'.We are getting closer to the day we put all that bought up ammo to good use.
If this bill and the cap and trade bill pass, goodbye freedom. They will constantly add amendments to both bills that further erode our freedom. All of it is unconstitutionanal, but obama, Pelosi, Reid et al have thrown The Constitution under that handy , but growing bus.
in 'what JR said'.Great linky steppy!
Even if I want to slap O’Reilly....
Yep, everyday folks like us. Several of them would probably be porch sitters if they knew about us.
This Hasan was a ticking time bomb. Yet his associates in the shrink clinic did not recognize it. So much for the accuracy of psychiatry.
in 'they have names too'.CNN was full-bore annoying last night. Had quotes around “Hero”, called Hasan the “accused gunman”, all weepy for the poor maniac killer…
Argh.
in 'they have names too'.Thanks for that link to Col. Peters, Mizz Steppes!
He told it like it is! I hope lots of peeps see his comments!!
The PC MSM sickens me!
How do these seditionists even get security clearances to visit the building?
Ever seen The Lost Boys?
Invite the head guy in, and it’s all downhill from there.
in 'I think we know where this is going'.
