Face of Evil

Soldier's mom says Fort Hood jihadist scared her

Mom of soldier says Fort Hood doctor Nidal Malik Hasan scared her, by Joanna Molloy for the New York Daily News, November 9:

He was supposed to help her hero son - but all she saw in Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's eyes was evil.

The mom of a soldier who received psychiatric treatment from the accused Fort Hood gunman said she was frightened of the psychiatrist from the very beginning of her son's stay at Walter Reed Medical Center.

"I looked into his eyes, and he scared me," Cindy Gagnier told the Daily News. "He made some comments to me that made me feel very uncomfortable, and I don't become uncomfortable very easily."

The New York-born mother of four was at her son Christian's bedside constantly after he suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2005 while fighting in Iraq.

The young veteran, who also is dealing with posttraumatic stress disorder, spent 18 months at Walter Reed, where Hasan spent six years on staff....

Gagnier virtually lived at Walter Reed during a difficult stretch of her oldest son's care.

During that time, she recalls Hasan as "not very empathetic."

"[Hasan] said it was all right for my son to leave the hospital, but it wasn't," Gagnier said....

She doesn't buy reports that Hasan simply woke up one day and snapped.

"I don't think he flipped out," she said. "I think what he did was an act of terrorism."

Interesting. And since I'm on the religious nut/right wing side of the argument that Major Pile was a terrorist sleeper agent (Sen. Joe Lieberman and Rush Limbaugh agree with me, damn it), let's add some gasoline to the fire...

Jesus, from the sermon on the mount;

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be sound, your whole body shall be full of light.

But if your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Early Rush Spills the Beans

In an interview with Rush Limbaugh (from, oh, 1988 maybe?) he brags exactly how he manipulates his listener's emotions for profit.

Rush Limbaugh - How Talk Radio Works

Rush gives away the magic beans. Like any form of entertainment, the primary goal is to capture the attention of the audience and compel them to keep listening. Rush is remarkably candid in describing his attitude toward his performance and the importance of caller screening.

I've said for years that Rush is nothing more than Howard Stern - but with only one boob. Thanks for proving my point, buddy.

Die in a fire: The Fairness Doctrine

Taken from some other source: "The House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using taxpayer dollars to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters who feature conservative radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.

By a vote of 309-115, lawmakers amended the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill to bar the FCC from requiring broadcasters to balance conservative content with liberal programming such as Air America."

Wheeew. Say what you will about all the Conservative AM Radio programs and all those Liberal - er, ah, well - they've still got NPR, right? - anyhow...
This was one of those they're idiots, but they're not THAT stupid are they?

The fact this matter was taken as far as it was scares me more than wiretaping my phone and spying on me 24/7.

In fact, earlier today, they found a two car bombs on my route home. So I'm rather glad that I'm not blown up, and I have the chance to talk about it without some damn counter-point waving fingers in my face about it's somehow MY fault someone wanted to burn me up with nails and whatnot on Haymarket by way of an Iraqi style cruise missile. I'll take a little NSA over being dead, thank you.

Now back to music, baseball, and funny pictures.

When I read that Craig Biggio hit 3000 - I thought it meant he had BEEN hit 3000 times.

Maybe he can get a new helmet. One that fits now.