My thoughts and prayers to the fallen in this brutal massacre.  The reports have been contradictory at best, so I waited to post info…Here is a roundup..

CNN Video of Hasan This Yesterday Morning

13 dead, 30 others in stable condition. Heard this morning two of the dead were civilians. Also this from the AP (and commenters in the thread), “Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar!” before opening fire, the base commander said Friday”

Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster Preparation

With Fox News exposed as a political advocacy organization and not a news channel, that leaves msnbc as the #1 most watched news channel on cable.

Ace didn’t see him covering it, did you?

But with bad news for the Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a funny thing happened on the way to the bonus Hour of Spin. Keith wasn’t there!

Where in the world was Keith Olbermann?

MSNBC boasted that on election night they would present a “special live edition of Countdown” at 10:00 pm. But with bad news for the Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a funny thing happened on the way to the bonus Hour of Spin. Keith wasn’t there! After a live update (not from Olby but from Lawrence O’Donnell) A-Mess-NBC (”the place for politics”) proceeded to rerun the 8:00 pm showing.

Obama’s Big Win of the Night: Voters Repeal Maine’s Gay-Marriage Law, Outlawing It Once Again.

Oh, and by the way, we quickly have to embrace gay marriage because opposing it is so obviously a losing issue.

I mean, the anti-gay-marriage forces can only manage a bare majority in the Deep South states of California and Maine.

It would seem to me that they should based on the fact that they are a form of religious persecution.    Am I wrong?  I ask because Michelle Malkin linked to this blog post, that describes the brutal murder of  Noor Faleh Almaleki.  Noor died of  the injuries she received when her father ran her over with his car because he felt she was becoming “too Westernized”.

Michelle asks Why Are the Islamists Suddenly Silent?, but I found this question to be a bit more intriguing:

If that poor child were a lesbian run over by a fundamentalist conservative Christian, the media would be baying for blood, and wanting to charge the man’s pastor with “hate speech”.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Actual cost of Pelosi bill: $1,200,000,000,000.

That doesn’t  include the amendments that we all are waiting for!

The pro-Fox Democrats – Daniel Libit – POLITICO.com.

Very interesting!

Our high-benefit/high-tax model no longer works, especially compared with low-tax states like Texas.

via The Golden State isn’t worth it — latimes.com.

California and Texas are not perfect representatives of the alternative deals, but they come close. Overall, the Census Bureau’s latest data show that state and local government expenditures for all purposes in 2005-06 were 46.8% higher in California than in Texas: $10,070 per person compared with $6,858. Only three states and the District of Columbia saw higher per capita government outlays than California, while those expenditures in Texas were lower than in all but seven states. California ranked 10th in overall taxes levied by state and local governments, on a per capita basis, while Texas, one of only seven states with no individual income tax, was 38th.

HALLOWEEN: House Dems unveil health bill; Millionaire Tax...

Officials said the measure, once fully phased-in over several years, would extend coverage to 96 percent of Americans. Its principal mechanism for universal coverage is creation of a new government-regulated insurance “exchange” where private companies would sell policies in competition with the government. Federal subsidies would be available to millions of lower-income individuals and families to help them afford the policies, and to small businesses as an incentive to offer coverage to their workers.

Large firms would be required to cover workers, and most individuals would be required to carry insurance.

Prior to Hope and Change, 95% of the country was insured

Pelosi's biggest one yet! 1,990 pages...

Sick. Skincare Company Now Using Aborted Fetal Tissue in Anti-Aging Cream

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Truce: White House, Fox News end feud.

On Afghanistan, Obama May Mix McChrystal’s Acumen With Biden’s Blustering Idiocy, Thus Creating a Perfectly Balanced Plan of Clever and Stupid

Smart. In other words, Al Qaeda will have free reign to build their bombs in the hinterlands, so they can then transport them to our troops ringed around the “population centers” and murder them.

“Present,” Obama voted heroically.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Reid: Those tonsil vultures stole my vote.

Reid brought the bill to the floor in an effort to secure the support of doctors groups such as the American Medical Association (AMA) for the future fight over an overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system.

Reid’s gambit, however, backfired, leaving Reid blaming the AMA for failing to secure GOP votes and the AMA retorting that the leader misinterpreted its pledge.

Reid told colleagues that the AMA said it could deliver 27 Republican votes for the legislation, according to two Senate Democratic lawmakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

After Stimulus: 49 of 50 States Have Fewer Jobs!
*6 Million Jobs Shy of Administrations' Projections...
Obama trying to boost party money, morale...
RNC Beats DNC in Money Race...
Dems lock Republicans out of committee room: 'They don't know how to behave'...
HealthCare Propaganda On Govt. Website?
House Dems Want Medicare for Everyone...
Administration plans big pay cuts at bailout firms...
Salaries of top executives by 90%...

WHITE HOUSE MASTER TO SLASH EXEC PAY

“How do you like being patted on the head by the White House?”

via Hot Air » Blog Archive » Hume’s challenge to media: Do you really want the Gibbs Seal of Approval?.

After reading that, take a look at:  Krauthammer Rips ‘Repulsive Audacity’ of White House for Fox News Attacks

“And look, there is nothing illegal about it. It’s not unconstitutional. But it is outside the Democratic norms of our society, which are Madisonian,” Krauthammer continued. “Our idea is that you have as a way to protect against tyranny in governments is to have the growth, the interaction, and the clash of what Madison called ‘factions’ but what we call ‘interests,’ special and otherwise, and you argue, you interact and you clash. But you don’t undermine, delegitimize, and destroy. That is the Madisonian way, and we are getting, instead, is the Chicago way.”