Meanwhile........more terrorist accomplishments...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbasis considering dissolving the PA and declaring the failure of the peace process with Israel, PA officials in Ramallah said over the weekend.

Abbas was now waiting to see if the US and other parties would exert enough pressure on Israel to stop settlement construction and recognize the two-state solution before he makes any decision, the officials said.

In his televised speech on Thursday, in which he announced that he has "no desire" to run in the upcoming presidential election, Abbas said that he would also consider taking "other measures" in the future, but did not elaborate.

UPDATE..J'POST

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will meet US President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday evening, Israel Radio reported overnight Saturday, following weeks of uncertainty and speculation of whether such an encounter would materialize. An official confirmation has not yet been given, but the Prime Minister's Office said it appeared that the meeting
would take place.



Now I realize that of course Obama has to go to Fort Hood..(why he has not been there yet is beyond me)...however, there is NO reason that meeting Bibi IS a priority...take him with you..I refuse to see MORE excuses from this man. He has proven to be the most dangerous man in politics and in the oval office.

I watched C-span tonight as the House acted like they were in some Pep Rally for Obama as they passed, barely, the Health Care Reform bill. As I watched, I thought Geraldo was going to have a tingle of two run up his leg, CNN I could of sworn cheered in the background - and MSNBC, well they honestly knew that this was not over..(I know, shocking!)

The media needs to learn the procedures of Congress before they dare to even attempt again to explain the passage of bills...just because the House passed it does not mean the Senate will..in fact, I propose that Harry Reid is probably having a heart attack as we speak trying to pre spin its 'dead on arrival' status in the Senate. There is NO way this bill is going to stand in the Senate, let alone conference - however, if we do not realize that this is the last stand, and I mean LAST stand, then we are in for the changing of health care as we know it.

One more thing.........who is our primary challenge to Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao of Louisiana. ?????? HE GOES DOWN IN 2010!!!!!!

A very interesting wave is occurring across the country among the nations pediatricians - the refusal to the H1N1 vaccine - why? Some say it is because they fear parental reaction if the vaccine has unexpected side effects (now or eventually) others say it is because they simply do not feel the vaccine is appropriate. Despite the differences..it is a curious phenom..I have heard from two friends now whose docs have said NO to the ped vaccine..quite interesting to say the least...

No mincing of words here, right to the point. I am horrified at what has happened at Fort Hood. I am saddened for the same reasons you are, and also for some you may not be - what I witnessed yesterday, at the world's largest Army base, in the greatest nation on earth and the most powerful military...was the Key Stone Cops meets High School Drama.

Again, as in my observations of the media..the information was fast and furious..yet the questions are the same? Who, what, where, why and when? why...why....why....Y?

Can this happen anywhere? Yes. Can it ever happen on a US military base? Yes.  However, the assumption, instantly, that this was some rogue 'off the bend, PTSD', guy made me furious. One, because it is a serious condition that many many veterans deal with on a day to day basis (which is a smack in the face to those who survive with it) and  - then I concluded that the military itself was as to blame for the knee jerk response of that assumption as was the media.

I was watching, as were you as the lock down began, then the SWAT Team was brought in...........STOP THE VIDEO TAPE................THE SWAT TEAM???????? Can someone tell me why at FORT HOOD, the SWAT TEAM was brought in? I don't care what you quote me as far as procedure, what you may 'know' , what you know to be protocol.........I heard SWAT TEAM and said to myself..."this is like a high school shooting for God's sake!"

We then heard that military members on the base don't carry firearms - SOP or not, 'as you know it to be' or not...'when I was on this or that base' or not...........it was blow number 2.

Fast forward......military are rushing OUT of the buildings (although we did hear of the very brave who helped those injured and the stories of the saving of those in pain and you KNOW I am not dismissing that at all.) .....military are rushing to cell phones to call people, on the phone with media describing their 'being afraid, upset, shocked.." how, they, "were in Iraq and never had to go through such trauma"...STAY WITH ME....

Colonel Terry Lee, former co-worker of Hasan.."Hasan said Muslims should fight the aggressors" - That Haslan has said things such as these quite a few times. STOP THE VIDEO TAPE AGAIN............. Lee believed this was investigated by military, but he did not know the outcome.

The AP reported that Hasan was under investigation for internet postings in regards to suicide bombing..............FEEL FREE TO KEEP THE TAPE STOPPED.

Lt. General Cone..the shooter was dead, the FEMALE FIRST RESPONDER OFFICER THAT SHOT HIM WAS ALSO DEAD (Later to be a 'take back') STOP THE DAMN TAPE AGAIN. IF you don't know what is wrong with that statement then come back to me when you do.

In the aftermath, a string of unanswered questions remained about the shooter's motives, his background and whether the military was aware that he posed a risk to his colleagues.

Addressing reporters gathered outside Fort Hood, northeast of Austin, Army Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said of the incident: "It's a terrible tragedy. It's stunning," adding that "soldiers and family members and many of the great civilians who work here are absolutely devastated."

He (Hasan) was recently promoted and transferred to Fort Hood. STOP THE DAMN TAPE AGAIN..........

What I am now about to say needs to be said...deal with it. The last thing this nation needs to see is their US Army running around in a situation such as this as if they do not know their right hand from their left - panicked - chaos...in the face of an attacker...ON THEIR HOME TURF. I want you to try and PICTURE what the enemy sees...........go ahead and stop acting all offended......DO IT. Picture what they are saying right now. .......not a good picture is it............

In Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Iraq DAILY, they go through worse than what happened at Fort Hood.....how do they react? How do they cope? Do they need 'grief counselors' - do they need 'press conferences'? Do we accept excuses about the attackers? Stay with me..................

Then comes your Commander and says, "Soooooorry we had a oopsie, the shooter I told you was dead, he is alive..and the first responder woman that shot him, she is alive too!" "There was hospital confusion." OH NO.......at this point stop the whole damn picture.

The questions about command, about security, about Hasan and his 'issues', about why the FBI, the SWAT Team and a first responder came in and helped to secure FORT HOOD MILITARY BASE.......are just the beginning of a realization that most of us have come to.......the US Military is not the military of our fathers, not in organization, not in instruction, not in mission, not in training and not in leadership.

Saying this is the hardest thing to say. I want to trust the US military command, I can not. I want to believe they can handle sending our men and women into battle, they can not. I want to see for my own eyes, the command structure and training come to fruition when trouble strikes, I do not. I want to see commitment by the President of the United States when his men are in trouble, I saw ineptitude and he was blind to the needs of his men. Do you see where this is going. This IS NOT about the men and women on the ground, never, no..it is about those in command, be it military or civilian. We have come from a place of confidence to a place of unease, confusion, disjointed goals.

The United States military sends a message when they react to a situation such as this - what happened was absolutely horrific..and from all accounts, it was absolutely (IN THIS CASE) PREVENTABLE. Until we begin as a nation..and indeed YES as a military to address the enemy, to straighten up and tighten up our own house, to use the M word and do so with clarity of purpose, to become a lot more Patton like and a alot less well.......MEOW like...we will see this infiltration more and more, and it will manifest itself with greater intensity.

What I watched today, in Fort Hood Texas...from the media to the military command was like a bad rerun of a bad movie...but the hardest thing to say is that these are ones in charge of our men and women now..and it comes from the top..and it has from many Presidents before this one..but with this one, the manifestation of mediocrity is UNACCEPTABLE TO ME.....

STRAIGHTEN UP YOUR HOUSE PENTAGON......WE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE WHITE HOUSE.......CONGRESS NEEDS TO GET INVOLVED AS WELL AS OVERSIGHT DEMANDS...I don't care where this faltering of military command began, be it correctness  or  multiculturalism Bill Clinton or Barack Hussein Obama.......it must end because the confidence of the US Military is something that can not be allowed to fail.

Most of us were on the 'net when the shootings began yesterday - immediately, we started to gather the information, the who, what, where, when and why. We went to our social networking sites, turned on cables and local area web casts, connected with Twitter and began to focus on getting the facts, regardless of whether those facts were politically correct or militarily in vogue.


Contrast that to certain anchors, cable shows and cable networks, who refused, refused to mention the M word..because it may incite unnecessary emotion. We all know what Shepard Olbermann did on Fox, the arrogant ass of the FNC - chastising his viewers, lecturing us that we must be extra careful not to jump to conclusions - even so far as refusing to give the man's name.




While those of us on Twitter had the man's name, knew his rank, also knew that he was a psychiatrist - where he went to school, had his picture posted and were getting close to the place of his chosen Mecca worship, Shep' was still preaching to us that we can not draw conclusions.

It was not just Smith on Fox, MSNBC's (not to be outdone) Chris Matthews went on a 15 minute interview wondering if Hasan may have had problems with the "Middle Eastern" name he had, discrimination..and then wait for it.."if he as a psychiatrist had to listen to too many stories of horror from Iraq and Afghanistan and that caused him to lose control" . 



He tries throughout the course of the interview to get the 'expert' to come to the conclusion that this is some Patty Hearst type "I Hate Bush" syndrome. It's pitiful!


Then as the course of the day today, it was CNN that began to reveal what we had known all along...





I have audio and video of the absolute embarrassment that the media was yesterday, but you watched it as well as I did. That does not mean we do not call them out on the attempt to somehow disconnect the fact that they refused to call this man a Muslim, they refused, until later in the day to read the AP story about how Hasan had been watched by authorities for going online and posting about suicide bombings - they constantly tip toed around the fact that indeed it WAS his views on the UNITED STATES and his hatred of the US policy that was his motivation.

If he had been white, Christian and from the South, I can guarantee you we would of had that blasted all over the air waves in breaking blazing letters. His name John Q Redneck would of been emboldened in the Confederate flag with his Aunt Martha being interviewed with her pastor by her side! His term papers, undoubtedly on Mein Kampf, would of been shown on the screen in milliseconds and his baby pictures in swastika jammies would of been on the news websites. While this sounds absurd, is it?

The media treats us as if we are two years old in some ways, and in most, that we are too uneducated to understand the nuances of the story. When it takes us 10 minutes of internet work, connection and research to get up maps of Fort Hood, radius of Mosques to the area, pictures of Hasan, links to the Army Times and background of who he was and the who what where and why of the story (albeit basic)..and it takes them three hours to admit he was a Muslim...........well, then you tell me why they are failing and we are the new media.

Bias? No. This goes far beyond bias..........this is molding the story........the one problem is.........we know the story before they do now........and that is a fear they experienced tonight very well.

If you dare put together the fact that the enemy we fight are indeed Muslim, that Islam is the religion they have used, and to the 1% (IMHO) abused - that is the Islamic that is selling their children for suicide bombings, blowing themselves up in the name of their god, using the illusion of 'peace' as an instrument for war...........that the connection and the realization they are using our own laws and our own way of life to promote and achieve those ends of domination ...then they have indeed failed and Bush and you and all those who know the true fight of this war may may be right...well......you know the conclusion.

MUSLIM, he was a MUSLIM............and now the second M word that needs discussing....the MILITARY and what I am deeming the high school shooting at Fort Hood......to be continued. ...

First of all Shepard Smith needs a smack upside the head..as other news outlets were reporting the NAME of the shooter, Mr. Smith wanted to 'air on the side of caution'. Caution for what...you arrogant ass.

Now as far as what has happened at Fort Hood. Of course at the first shot reporting, our instinct was Islam...terror...and to say it was not is lying. This is NOT PSTD, this is not a lone gunman...this was reportedly two individuals, planned, execution style attack. I have said, to the chagrin of many, that the US Military needs to cleanse itself from within - straighten up from the TOP and stop the PC, free for all nonsense. I do not blame those on the ground, the soldier..never will...this to me is the tip of the iceberg that is about ready to explode.

The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan.

CBS reports

CBS News investigative producer Len Tepper reports that Hasan, 39, is a licensed psychiatrist from Silver Spring, Md.

A Fort Hood press release confirmed that "more than one shooter fired shots into the Soldiers Readiness Processing Center and Howze Theater on Fort Hood."

According to Cone, the shooting began at 1:30 p.m. in the Soldier Readiness Center, a facility where soldiers receive medical treatment and fill out paperwork in preparation for deployment.

The victims of the shooting have not been identified but Cone said that the slain included U.S. soldiers and a civilian police officer working at the base. He said that no children had been killed to his knowledge.


ON FNC, Rep Carter reports as of 6:17PM that they are still looking for another suspect on the Ft.Hood base....he also stated that they two held have been released, but he was a bit sketchy on that...

Of course we keep them all in our prayers, that goes without saying..but for me, this is a deeply, deeply alarming and emergency situation.

UPDATE 9:33PM ET: SHOOTER NOT DEAD.

CONFUSION ??????? MORE LIKE PURPOSEFUL LYING

http://www.breitbart.tv/pelosi-plan-exposed-gop-launches-12-hour-marathon-telecast/

Discuss and comment, or question them too...it's a good thing.

OPEN THREAD, USUAL RULES..there are none..

This is not good news to be quite honest - in fact, this only furthers fuel on the fire.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that he had no wish to seek re-election at a presidential poll he has called for January and that he was not ready to debate the issue.

In a speech broadcast live from his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the 74-year-old PLO leader, who replaced the late Yasser Arafat five years ago, said: “I have told our brethren in the PLO … that I have no desire to run in the forthcoming election.”

Mahmoud Abbas says the stalemate in peace negotiations with Israel prompted his decision not to run again. He charged the U.S. with backtracking on its Mideast policy and refusing to press Israel to freeze construction in its West Bank settlements. [...]

Officials from Abbas’ Fatah Party say they have no leading candidate to replace him. Despite the announcement, activists say Abbas could be persuaded to change his mind.

According to Haaretz, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri responded to the announcement by calling on Mr. Abbas to “face the Palestinian people and tell them frankly that the path of negotiations has failed.”

Let's face it ...the parties are panicking on both sides....and good. The Dems are wondering how to curtail their nutroots...the Right, how do we contain the 'baggers'...my suggestion is this...LISTEN TO THEM, or get out of their way...Both sides want their party back and we for one want all of you OUT. We do not need to be 'handled'..we in fact want your 'hands' OFF. Ahhhhhhh, when the politicians run. I envision myself chasing down Nancy through the Halls of Congress....I can now sleep with a vision of a great moment..and me and my 'scooter' hunt the politicians ...no harm shall be done in the making of this dream...

We have heard the call. Today, it is expected that hundreds of Americans, if not thousands will answer the call of Representative Michelle Bachmann to attend a rally on Capitol Hill. She is calling for a "House Call" to meet with your Representative 'eye to eye' and tell him or her how you feel about this Health Care Reform Bill. This has been a rather instant call - so don't expect millions, but I do hope that many can go and that they do get the chance to enter the Capitol Building and meet with their Representative.

Those that listen to Mark Levin know that he will be there today. GOOD. I have called upon the BIG TALKERS to begin to take part directly in these rallies, I am happy that he has realized that his presence can make a difference in the outcome. On his show last night, he encouraged participation, respect and keeping within the decorum of the House. My concern is not our people, my concern is the 'restrictions' that Nancy Pelosi will place on the ability of these citizens in entering the Capitol.

I also hope that these Congressman are 'in' today. Something tells me most will be 'out of the House'...in 'meetings'..'not available'...or in some cases confrontational. Hold your ground..report what you know and what YOU see.


http://www.breitbart.tv/pelosi-plan-exposed-gop-launches-12-hour-marathon-telecast/