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President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.

On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater.” He said those who died on the nation’s largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft.

“The stakes are far too high,” Obama said in a video and Internet address released by the White House while the president he was flying from Tokyo to Singapore, where Pacific Rim countries were meeting.

Thank you former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush « HillBuzz.

I had a tear in my eye when I finished reading this post!

If this is true then just about all the worst fears we had about Obama as Commander in Chief are coming true.

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior administration official said Wednesday.

Uncle Jimbo:

Honoring all the Veterans, past and present!

God Bless

ABC: FBI knew Hasan tried to contact Al-Qaeda

Would it normally be considered a national-security problem if a high-ranking military officer had tried to contact an enemy of the United States during wartime?  ABC News reports that the FBI knew that Major Nidal Hasan had attempted to contact al-Qaeda and its associates months before Hasan went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, killing 13 people.  Did the FBI tell the Army about it?  That gets rather murky

UPDATES

Feds dropped inquiry into Hasan’s contacts with jihadis because … he didn’t seem violent

Freddie Mac posts $5 billion loss – Yahoo! Finance.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE – News; NYSE:FRE – News), the second largest provider of U.S. residential mortgage funding, on Friday posted a loss of $5 billion in the third quarter and predicted it would need more government support amid a “prolonged deterioration” in housing.

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...