Suspected Fort Hood Shooter Called "Camel Jockey" By Military Colleagues

An American acquaintance who is very conservative but with a very good BS detector compiled this list:

Here is a glance at some of the worst U.S. mass shootings in recent years:

Nov. 5, 2009: The Army says 13 people were killed and 30 wounded in a shooting rampage at its Fort Hood base in Texas. The suspected lone gunman has been identified as Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan, one of the 30 injured.

April 3, 2009: A 41-year-old man opened fire at an immigrant community center in Binghamton, N.Y., killing 11 immigrants and two workers. Jiverly Wong, a Vietnamese immigrant and a former student at the center, killed himself as police rushed to the scene.

Feb. 14, 2008: Former student Steven Kazmierczak, 27, opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, fatally shooting five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide.

Dec. 5, 2007: 19-year-old Robert A. Hawkins opened fire with a rifle in Omaha, Neb., at a Von Maur store in the Westroads Mall, killing eight people before taking his own life. Five more people were wounded, two critically.

April 16, 2007: Cho Seung-Hui, 23, fatally shot 32 people in a dorm and a classroom at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, then killed himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

Feb. 12, 2007: 18-year-old Sulejman Talovic killed five and wounded four at the Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was then shot and killed by police.

Oct. 2, 2006: Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, shot to death five girls at West Nickel Mines Amish School in Pennsylvania, then killed himself.

March 21, 2005: 16-year-old student Jeffrey Weise killed nine people, including his grandfather and his grandfather’s companion at home, and then five fellow students, a teacher and a security guard at Red Lake High School in Red Lake, Minnesota, before killing himself. Seven students were wounded.

March 12, 2005: Terry Ratzmann, 44, gunned down members of his congregation as they worshipped at the Brookfield Sheraton in Brookfield, Wisconsin, slaying seven and wounding four before killing himself.

July 29, 1999: Former day trader Mark Barton, 44, killed nine people in shootings at two Atlanta, Georgia, brokerage offices, then committed suicide.

April 20, 1999: Students Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, opened fire at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 26 others before committing suicide in the school’s library.

March 24, 1998: Andrew Golden, 11, and Mitchell Johnson, 13, killed four girls and a teacher at a Jonesboro, Arkansas, middle school. 10 others were wounded in the shooting.

October 16, 1991: George Hennard, 35, smashed his pickup truck through a Luby’s Cafeteria window in Killeen, Texas, and fired on the lunchtime crowd with a high-powered pistol, killing 22 people. At least 20 others were wounded.

lots of Muslim terrorist mass shooters, no?

Illegal Alien Costume Big Halloween Seller

“Men in Black” was a whole movie about “illegal (space) aliens”. It was hysterical, the perfect companion for “Contact” that was released the same month.

Balloon Dad: "Hillary Clinton Is A Shape-Shifting Reptillian"

Hillary Clinton is also an Illuminatus and a Freemason. ;)

Levi Johnston To Pose For Playgirl

I guess this just about rules out a Levi Johnston/Bristol Palin ticket in 2012.

Phyllis Schlafly Gets "American Hero Of The Century" Award. But Which Century?

A retired high school mathematics teacher I know did notice a correlation between fatherless homes and low math scores. It was informal and based on parent-teacher interviews so this is not a scientific test. There were kids from single parent homes who did well and kids from two-parent homes who did poorly but the preponderance was that kids from single parent homes seemed to find calculus more difficult.

Florida Anti-Abortion Group Wants To Ban Birth Control

Banning birth control, which has been a long-term objective of the anti-abortionists and reveals their true colours, is really going to garner the votes of American women. ;)

Dear Abby: Should I Take My Sister's Porn Money For My Kids?

The aunt made a gift out of love for her sister’s children. Think of it that way.

What surprises me is that many of the porn industry’s female talent (they are no called “actors”)cannot hold onto such funds to be able to make such a gift. My contacts in the industry tells me the the number of talents who use their money wisely is relatively small.

The Truth About Canadian Health Care

One advantage that the media seems to forget is in Canada, regular, preventative health care is part of Canadian medicare. That means annual check-ups or for me with diabetes which was discovered in an annual check-up 4 annual visits with my physician and 2 annual visits with an ophthalmologist (I have diabetic retinopathy)are covered. I have never had an emergency hospital visit because of diabetes. Regular check-ups decrease the need for ER visits and thus reduce the cost of medical care. Incidentally, when my diabetes and resultant eye disease were first discovered, I had a lot more visits with specialists. Now that I am stable, my physicians have settled on the combined six annual visits. Bur these are determined by the physicians caring for me, not by some bureaucrat trying to find ways to deny treatment.

Bush Pulls A Cheney

I listened to the last hour of the Alan Colmes Show easrly this morning and I do think Alan is over-reacting. It is not as if President Bush was taking an offensive about the Obama administration. He answered a question which reflected his own opinion but did not attack Obama.

Scott Roeder: What We Know

As a Canadian, I am really appalled by some of the messages and news coverage I have seen on this. Whatever happened to presumption of innocence? In Ontario, we have a case of an 8-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered. There is almost nothing in the news media about the co-accused. Indeed, publishing items about the accused lives and backgrounds could land reporters and editors in jail. Reporters may attend preliminary hearings but must not report on them unless the charges are dismissed or the accused is found guilty or not-guilty in a criminal trial. They may report on the proceedings of a trial as it happens. I don’t hold a torch for murderers but I do hold one for the rights of the accused.

Your Turn

Regan’s second Normandy speech.When he was performing duties as Head of State rather than head of government, he could be eloquent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEIqdcHbc8I

Your Turn

I admired Ronald Reagan as an actor but not as a politician. But, in Normandy, he got it right: