Major Hasan: All they've got is whining about a non-existent "harassment."

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So, we have a United States Army field-grade officer on orders for Iraq or AStan. He decides he doesn't want to go because Muslims must "stand up to oppression."

Well, this scumbag low-life not only violated his oath as an Army officer, but he certainly violated the Hippocratic Oath of a physician.

He can't claim, as much as the fringer's initially charged, that it was the stress of all his deployments; this particular scumbag was never deployed. That only leaves one "out," already mentioned by a cousin: harassment due to his race.

Claims of harassment

Hasan, who dealt with troops returning from combat and faced his own imminent deployment, had been harassed by his military colleagues because of his "Middle Eastern ethnicity," said his cousin Nader Hasan.

"I don't think he's ever been disenchanted with the military," Nader Hasan told Fox News.

"It was the harassment.

"He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. He was at the end of trying everything."

Nader Hasan says his cousin did not want to be deployed to Iraq.

"He is a good American and we are shocked," he said.

And to that I call bullshit.

"Good" Americans of any stripe do not slaughter unarmed innocents.

"Harassment," while not impossible in the Army, is extremely unlikely in this era of political correctness with it's emphasis on Race Relations and Equal Opportunity.

But "harassment" is all this scumbag has. He's not about to claim it was a result of his increasingly militant feelings against his own country.

The questions I have include these: the Army's chain of command has been aware of the scumbag's anti-American positions for months, both uttered and written. Yet, instead of kicking his dumb ass out and forcing him to repay the hundreds of thousands of dollars we, as grateful taxpayers, paid to make this clown into a doctor.... they PROMOTE him?

Multiple asses need to fry on this.

I really don't give a rat's hindquarter if his "harassment" was so bad it made his hair fall out.

It provides no cover, no justification, no mitigation.

This traitor to his country should, in the American tradition, be given a fair court martial. And if he did it, they should execute him immediately... or as immediately as you CAN execute someone.

Harassment.

I got your harassment hanging.
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Brian Baird: Coward (XXXI) Since the Health Care Plan won't be up for 72 hours in advance, will the scumbag have the guts to vote NO?

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So, he's already ignored his own plan to require 72 hours in advance to review bills BEFORE he votes on them when he voted on the Porkulus and the Cap and Swindle bill.

The local stain on journalism has worked double overtime to restore his shattered, hypocritical image for Baird, what are chances that he'll actually vote NO on this bill?



Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" committed to doing so.

House members are still negotiating important issues in the bill--whether it will provide taxpayer-funding for abortions, for example. Pelosi is pushing for a Saturday House vote, and a number of big changes will be introduced, likely less than 24 hours before the vote takes place (if in fact it does). The Rules Committee hasn't yet released its resolution, or rule, that must be passed before the bill can move from committee to the floor. The rule will set the terms of debate and determine what amendments are in order.

It seems likely that the rule will allow very few, if any, up-or-down votes on amendments on the House floor. Rather, the rule will include a series of amendments that will all be adopted at once if the rule passes.

On September 24, Speaker Nancy Pelosi told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that she was "absolutely" committed to putting the text of the final House bill online for 72 hours before the House votes:

TWS: Madam Speaker, do you support the measure to put the final House bill online for 72 hours before it's voted on at the very end?

PELOSI: Absolutely. Without question.

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Congratulations to Mayor-Elect Tim "The Liar" Leavitt and the Republican cabal that elected him.

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Wake me when this nightmare is over.

Only in Clark County could the Republicans be moronic enough to rally around a candidate like this weasel.

The local GOP coalesced around a guy who endorsed and supported the Cancer of the United States in the White House, and who, among others, had the Clark County DEMOCRAT Chair along with a DEMOCRAT county commissioner (Steve Stuart - also wholly owned by David Barnett) and a DEMOCRAT former Clark County Commissioner (Betty Sue Morris) along with a DEMOCRAT campaign manager (from other campaigns, Heather Melton) all working on his campaign.

To the morons in the local GOP, I say "brilliant."

They coalesced around a liar who entirely made up a bogus issue about tolls, hoping to jump on Tom Mielke's coat tails about his GENUINE desire to kill this massive waste of money in favor of a 3rd bridge... without taking any kind of stand at all, since this slimeball will CONTINUE to support another bridge even WHEN tolls are required.... all the while, standing there and telling the stupid that at least he TRIED to get a bridge without tolls.... even though he lacks the testicles to OPPOSE the bridge when tolls are mandated.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the local GOP rallied around a scumbag who played them like the tools they are. The right wing fringe worked very hard to elect this leftist liar, and unlike the NY 23, they got it done.

I'll be around to remind those morons about their stupidity on a frequent basis.

And Mayor-Elect?

Do yourself a favor and pass on the temptation of "dating" city employees. You're GOING to be the Mayor, now, so keep your pants zipped up around the hired help.

Know what I mean?

I want to congratulate the town of Megacasino (Formerly LaCenter) on their new, entirely Barnett-owned government.

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Tuesday night was an election blood bath in LaCenter, which will henceforth become known as the town of "David Barnett's Bitch," or "Megacaino" for short.

With the exception of Linda Tracy, every single member of the elected government of Megacasino is buried in Barnett's pocket, including a high ranking Clark County Sheriff who moved to LaCenter to aid Barnett's effort to take over the town.

Barnett and the Mohegans need an MOU with any community he can get. Since he owns the entire government of LaCenter, minus Linda Tracy, it's reasonable to expect a couple of things: first, it's likely there will be an MOU where the city government hands over Megacasino to Barnett in any way he wants by COB January... since the mayor, Birdwell, Nolan, Luis and "Poop" Vining ALL LIED about "opposing the casino."

Second, expect a massive tax increase designed to put the card rooms out of business.

I expect that part of the MOU will include immediate implementation of payments in lieu of taxes the moment the card rooms go under.

Of course, the city, even owned by Barnett, has to comply with the Growth Management Act... so they, like Clark County, should keep that in mind. But that won't be enough to stop them from entering an agreement given the guy who's calling all the shots.

So, again, congrats to the sheeple of Megacasino. You were handled expertly. Now, I look forward to the next election for Clark County Sheriff where I will hang a certain candidate as being neither democrat or republican, but entirely tribal.
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So, what does NY 23 mean to the fringe right?

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Look, like most people to the right of Lenin, I opposed the candidacy of Dede in the 23rd.

Like most mainstreamers, she was a democrat who had found it politically expedient to run as a fake "R" because someone else was running as the "D."

As a rule of thumb, candidates endorsed by the scummier elements like ACORN and Kos are not particularly "Republican" in nature. That the decision to run this miscreant as an "R" was made by 11 county GOP chairs instead of going with a primary or at least getting a PCO vote district-wide shows the all-too-frequent incompetence of the GOP on the ground.

Let's remember the topography here: this Congressional District had ONLY been represented by the GOP since the Civil War.

Since the Civil War.

So, even though in most areas where elections took place, the GOP made gains; some, like in the case of New Jersey, spectacular gains; the GOP also managed to take some moronic, unnecessary loses

And let's remember: Christie was no Hoffman in his political positions or philosophies. Christie was much closer to Dede then he was to Hoffman.

Christie did not win running a campaign on GOP social themes. He ran a campaign on the classic fiscal and integral themes to clean up rampant corruption and to rein in out of control government spending. Fortunately, Corzine was dragged down by the multiple appearances of a clueless president; a situation he obviously (and wrongly) felt to be to his advantage because he, Corzine, had failed to appreciate the impacts of campaigning with a failure.

And looking at New Jersey, let's not forget there was an independent candidate in this election as well, and how well did he do? (He has 5.7% of the vote at this writing)

The largest newspaper chain in New Jersey, the Star Ledger, had even gone so far as to endorse the independent, saying among other things, thus:

The lamentable fact is that the two parties are, themselves, little more than narrow special interests. Their competition for short-term political and/or monetary gain has jeopardized the state’s long-term economic health and left it with a tarnished national reputation.

Where the major parties have differed, their differences have been inconsequential. Where they’ve been the same, their similarities have been destructive.

All political parties seem to have become punch lines on the political scene; many of them populated by the most gullible, blinded, desperate, arrogant people I have ever known.

That type of attitude is marked here locally with the fringe-right wing support of Tim "The Liar" Leavitt and among those surrounding the conservative in the NY 23rd.

Here locally, we get this kind of garbage from a Jon Russell lackey:

Finally, I want to offer some advice to Jon’s political opponents within the Republican Party who have so eagerly manipulated this to reflect negatively on Jon. Take a look at all the Comments left by readers of what you’ve published on this. No doubt, I haven’t found all that has been written along these lines but of the ones I’ve found, I haven’t found one single Comment that supported the author’s position. With that in mind, I would encourage you to consider what I have termed the “Hoffman v Scozzafava … Wake-Up-Call …”. As the old folk song says, “The times, they are a changing” and you should be giving more sober thought to how your words and especially your actions, fit in with the current political landscape.

As deftly shown in the NY 23rd, the advice this political ingrate provides is worthless. It's also breathtaking in it's pomposity and arrogance.

I oppose Jon Russell's candidacy for reasons that transcend politics and enter into my personal knowledge of him as a man. No amount of political posturing or branding can change that, and no amount of bullying by his supporters will change the facts of what I know.

There can be no doubt that the GOP ran the wrong candidate in the NY 23. There can also be no doubt that had the powers-that-be ran a primary, or took the control of making the candidate appointment out of the hands of a mere 11 people, that the NY 23 would still be in GOP hands, instead of such a massive embarrassment because the GOP hammered the 3rd party candidate like a nail until, all of a sudden, their candidate, being such great judges of character, bailed and quite effectively endorsed her fellow democrat, there being no accounting for character.

Hoffman's fringe-right perspectives were not enough. His lack of charisma, the GOP's hammering of him on Friday and sudden support of him on Saturday, the lack of a coherent message from GOP leadership, the ultimately successful efforts by the media and leftists to demonize the right... all combined to take away a seat that the GOP has owned, outright, for over 140 years.

The GOP focuses on the wins in NJ and VA... they run around telling us the tide has turned.

And in the same breath, they try not to even talk about the debacle of the NY 23... like it was all a bad dream.

I view myself what I refer to as a "pragmatic conservative," sharing many of the views of the right. But I don't do it so blindly that I can blow past common sense, my own eyes, or develop the ability to suspend disbelief. That goes to the heart of why I've bailed on the GOP.

BOTH sides took hits yesterday. BOTH sides have much to consider. Both sides won, and both sides lost.

The unanswered question is this: what are they going to do about it?
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