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Media Roundup of Fort Hood Shooting

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:24:12 GMT

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Clip Source: bighollywood.breitbart.com

Investigation: Ft. Hood Killer Had Access to Fox, Talk Radio, Right-Wing Blogs

Receipts show killer’s apartment had cable

‘03 Nissan registered to Hassan had AM radio

Napolitano: “I told you so”

Sources: Despite 17 citations as Countdown’s ‘Worst Person In The World,’ FBI failed to detain Limbaugh

Defiant Palin rejects calls to apologize

INEVITABLY, ANOTHER SOLDIER SNAPS

Distraught pacifist conscientious objector tormented by horrors of war, as far as you know

Newsroom experts: stress, violence, stupidity, tragedy a way of life for GIs

Former M*A*S*H stars say it’s finally time to disarm the military

Hollywood insiders: Sean Penn early favorite for lead in planned Oliver Stone biopic

Another Typical Day in Dixieland U.S.A.

In the land of cotton, some hear echoes of Civil War in latest violent redneck rampage

American-born killer was son of the Jim Crow South

NASCAR may have been involved

Britons warned: limit U.S. travel to safe areas such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles

Tags: dead stream media, muslim, killer

The voice of broken soldiers

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:27:03 GMT

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Clip Source: russiatoday.com

The voice of broken soldiers

In 2006, British soldier Martin Webster hit the headlines after being involved in a media scandal when he filmed British troops in Iraq beating up Iraqi youths

“Once the children started using grenades and firing RPGs, they certainly became a threat to our lives. Our underlying issue as infantry soldiers is to preserve life – our lives and civilians around. So once you pick up a weapon and you are going to use it – you become a target for us to either be captured, arrested or killed.”

“When video cameras became widely available I do not think that the [British] government accounted for the fact that the public is going to see how horrific the war is,” remembers Webster. “You’re fighting kids [in Iraq]. People find it very hard that their Western boys are fighting children. That is the horrible fact of war. Those bombers were in their teens.” He added that the notorious clip with British soldiers beating up Iraqi youth destroyed his life.

Tags: soldiers, war, iraq, children, rpg, grenades, teens, weapons, video

Handler never gave up on lost army dog

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:05:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Handler never gave up on lost army dog

The handler of an army-trained labrador that went missing for more than a year says he never gave up hope for the lost dog.

The black Labrador called Sabi went missing in action in southern Afghanistan, during the battle in which the SAS trooper Mark Donaldson won the Victoria Cross.

Now Sabi has been reunited with her Australian unit. The Australian Defence Force says an American soldier spotted the dog last week.

The 10-year-old female was trained to detect explosives like the roadside bombs used extensively by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. This was the dog's second tour of duty.

Soldier spots dog

He says the dog was recovered by a US soldier who can only be identified as John. The soldier was aware the Australians were missing an explosive detector dog.

He says the soldier reportedly gave it some commands it understood.

"When she did come back we were all overjoyed with what happened," he said.

Dog back after a year MIA in Afghanistan

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:03:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Dog back after a year MIA in Afghanistan

(CNN) -- An Australian special forces dog has been found alive and well more than a year after going missing in action in Afghanistan.

Explosives detection dog Sabi was recovered by a U.S. soldier who found her wandering near an isolated patrol base in the desolate southern province of Oruzgan last week, according to the Australian Government Department of Defense.

John, the U.S. soldier, who was identified only by first name, knew his Australian counterparts were missing an explosive detection dog. He knew immediately that Sabi was not a stray.

When she disappeared, the black Labrador was nearing the end of her second tour of duty in Afghanistan. She went missing in September 2008 when insurgents ambushed a combined Australian, U.S. and Afghan army convoy. Nine Australian soldiers, including Sabi's handler, were wounded during the gunbattle.

Video: MIA military dog found

Tags: k9

Dog lost in Afghan battle returns

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:07:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "She's the last piece of the puzzle. It's a fantastic morale booster for the guys,"
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I'd show you her picture but I still HAVE NO ORANGE LINES.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Defence officials said Sabi the dog was recovered by a US soldier at an isolated patrol base.

The dog returned to a celebrity welcome from visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and US commander Gen Stanley McChrystal.

Sabi is being tested for disease before a possible return to Australia.

The black labrador bitch was with a joint Australian-Afghan patrol that was ambushed in Uruzgan province in September 2008.

Nine Australian soldiers, including Sabi's trainer, were wounded in the exchange.

After the battle there was no sign of the dog, and months of searching failed to find her. Sabi was officially declared Missing In Action.

it would probably never be known exactly what had happened to Sabi in the 14 months she was missing, but the fact that she was in good condition indicated she had been cared for by someone.

And despite being MIA for more than a year, she showed through a simple game of "catch" with a tennis ball that she hadn't forgotten her training.

Tags: animals

Happy Dog and Returning Soldier

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:30:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I thought this was so precious.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Seeing my dog the day I got back from Afghanistan

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To commemorate Veterans Day

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:37:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The last vid had me in tears.

Clip Source: www.mentalfloss.com

To commemorate Veterans Day, here are some overjoyed dogs greeting returning soldiers.

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In our first clip, Gracie welcomes her dad, who has returned from Afghanistan.

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Buddy can’t contain his enthusiasm after seven months apart from his owner.

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I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anything make a sound quite like this. How great are dogs?

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We’ve posted this incredible clip before—dogs greeting a soldier after 14 months in Iraq. Worth watching again.

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Basset hound Reggie welcomes his best friend home from Afghanistan.

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Rocky gives his favorite soldier the welcome home he deserves.

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From the YouTube description: “Soldier daddy comes home after a month of training, and the pups go ballistic!”

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This boxer was cautious at first, but that caution was quickly replaced by excessive jubilation.

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Dachshunds Franklin and Sally give a vocal welcome to their dad,

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This soldier is attacked (and nearly hurdled) by his pups.

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Tags: videos, soldiers, welcome

Rachel Maddow Takes On Pete Hoekstra

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:34:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: MADDOW: Why is it Pete Hoekstra who's taking it upon himself to tell the press that this radical cleric is having his email read by U.S. intelligence agencies?

Well MadCow - because the media bows to Obama and reports only the "oh he's such a sweet guy" kind of stories - do not expect everyone to goose-step right behind you. Typical far-left attitude though - attack the messenger instead of the facts.
Hasan is a home grown Islamic Terrorist - who murdered 13 on US soil while masquerading as a US Soldier. He did it in true Islamic form shouting Allah's praise prior to opening fire. My question is - why the hell don't pukes like yourself quit trying to cover up facts and try reporting them for a change, that is if you can stop your Obama idolizing long enough.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Rachel Maddow Takes On Pete Hoekstra's 'Epic Grandstanding'

On last night's edition of the Rachel Maddow Show, the host dug into the curious case of Representative Pete Hoekstra, who's been courting cameras lately in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre, telling tales out of school. Chief among them are his account of the email habits of Fort Hood murderer Nidal Hasan to a Yemen-based "radical cleric." Maddow asks the obvious question:

MADDOW: Why is it Pete Hoekstra who's taking it upon himself to tell the press that this radical cleric is having his email read by U.S. intelligence agencies? The FBI had not said publicly that this cleric had been emailing Hasan. The CIA, the NSA, the White House... nobody else had reported this cleric was e-mailing Hasan. This is just Pete Hoekstra letting us know -- and letting the radical cleric that is under surveillance know -- that he's under surveillance.

Tags: madcow, maddow

Veterans Day 2009: Thank you

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:57:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They are casualties of war… and as far as I’m concerned, Sergeant Kimberly Munley, who took their cowardly attacker down, is a veteran today.

The terrorist enemy doesn’t have a formal chain of command that can sign an armistice, they don’t muster on clearly defined battlefields, and they’re quite happy to benefit from the efforts of deranged fanboys. If we don’t stand behind our professional soldiers, and give them the tools to do their jobs now, we will all become soldiers before this enemy is defeated.

Somewhere in the world tomorrow, an American soldier will ring in the eleventh hour of the eleventh day with gunfire. Another will arrive home after an honorable tour of duty, perhaps passing brothers and sisters in arms saying farewell to their families. A mother’s tears will fall on a letter from the far side of the world. Old veterans will spend a beautiful afternoon watching children play beneath the flag they raised at Anzio, Guadalcanal, Incheon, or Khe Sanh.

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Applebee’s honors vets and active duty military with a free meal today. Krispy Kreme is doing the same. Or take a vet out to McCormack & Schmick’s or Golden Corral for a special dinner.

Must-read Veterans Day tributes at milblog Mudville Gazette and from Blackfive’s Matt Burden, who reminds us: “It’s about the living.”

To honor our wounded troops, make sure you pitch in at Project Valour-IT. Today’s the last day of the annual fundraiser.

Happy 234th Birthday, Marines!

Doctor Zero on “The Eleventh Hour:”

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of 2009, the wounded of Fort Hood will remember their fallen friends, and wonder how a man wrapped in enough red flags to turn him into a bloody mummy was allowed to infiltrate their base. Those wounded and dead rely upon us to ask the questions their superiors in the chain of command cannot comfortably answer. Calling the injured and dead of Fort Hood “victims” perpetuates the blindness that compelled those men and women to face the enemy unarmed.

Tags: airforce, army, coast guard, marines, national guard, national security, navy, veterans day 2009

Dear soldiers: Please come home safely - your puppies miss you

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:49:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As do many others.

The dogs in the "I've never heard anything make a sound like this" clip are beagles, which explains the noise – that's the famed "bugling" they do.

And the dog almost hurdling its owner is an Italian Greyhound: half spring, half rubber, half Mexican jumping bean.

Clip Source: www.mentalfloss.com

To commemorate Veterans Day, here are some overjoyed dogs greeting returning soldiers

Gracie welcomes her dad, who has returned from Afghanistan

[Video]

Buddy can’t contain his enthusiasm after seven months apart

[Video]

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anything make a sound quite like this

[Video]

dogs greeting a soldier after 14 months in Iraq

[Video]

Basset hound Reggie welcomes his best friend home from Afghanistan

[Video]

Rocky gives his favorite soldier the welcome home he deserves.

[Video]

Soldier daddy comes home after a month of training, and the pups go ballistic!

[Video]

This boxer was cautious at first, but that caution was quickly replaced by excessive jubilation

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Dachshunds Franklin and Sally give a vocal welcome to their dad, a U.S. Navy man returning from an eight-month deployment to Kuwait

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This soldier is attacked (and nearly hurdled) by his pups

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Not a dog person? We’ll end with a compilation of returning soldiers surprising their kids at school.

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Tags: video, dogs, soldiers, veterans, big-sappy-moosh

We Salute You

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:26:51 GMT

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Clip Source: nickihawj.blogspot.com

We Salute You: Hmong, Lao Veterans of America to Kham Xiong and U.S. Army Victims

"Private First Class Kham Xiong has accomplished his honorable service to our great nation, the United States of America, I salute him and his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood killed in this terrible shooting," Colonel Wangyee Vang said on behalf of Lao and Hmong veterans from Minnesota and across the United States.

Private Kham Xiong and many of his family were natives of Minnesota's Twin Cities where there are large Lao Hmong communities in both St. Paul and Minneapolis. U.S. Army Private First Class Xiong was a Hmong refugee born in Thailand following the communist takeover in Laos and Hmong exodus at the end of the Vietnam War.

In times like this, we feel so powerless to give aid and comfort to the dead soldier’s family

Tags: ft hood

62 Journalistic Sins or Why Marvin Kalb Is Wrong About the Internet

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:55:55 GMT

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Clip Source: newsbusters.org

62 Journalistic Sins or Why Marvin Kalb Is Wrong About the Internet

Randall Hoven at American Thinker has a catalog of over 60 instances of journalistic malfeasance and takes to task journalist Marvin Kalb's famous lament from 1998 that the Internet would usher in an era of damage to the media's ability to put forward "reliable, substantiated information." Below are 10 of the 62 Hoven cites:

I leave it to you to judge whether the internet damaged "journalism's ability to do its job professionally", as Marvin Kalb accuses, or if the internet has in fact helped expose an already damaged "profession".

Associated Press (AP) (2005). Fell for hoax and phony photo. The AP ran a story, with a photo, about a soldier held hostage in Iraq. The photo turned out to be that of an action figure doll; there was no such soldier.

Scott Beauchamp, The New Republic (2007). Lying.

Joe Biden, U.S. Senator and candidate for President (1988). Plagiarism.

Jayson Blair, The New York Times (2003). Lying/fabricating

Tags: media

Fort Carson Soldier Arrested

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:30:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.vaildaily.com

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Sheriff's officials say a 22-year-old Fort Carson soldier is suspected of shooting at two people who were leaving a Colorado Springs bar.

No one was injured and the El Paso County Sheriff's deputies arrested Jayson Stear. He is being held on $100,000 bail on investigation of attempted first-degree murder, felony menacing, and felony theft.

Sheriff's officials say Stear shot at 36-year-old Michael Hellon and 27-year-old Aranda Callen at about 2 a.m. Saturday.

Several Fort Carson soldiers have been accused of violent crimes upon returning from deployments in the last few years. An Army study released this year said the soldiers had trouble adjusting to civilian life and refused to seek help out of fear of being belittled or punished.

Monday, November 9, 2009

When Muslims Commit Violence

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:30:14 GMT

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Clip Source: jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com

When Muslims Commit Violence

It seems, though, that when an American military officer who is a practicing Muslim allegedly shoots forty of his fellow soldiers who are about to deploy to the two wars the United States is currently fighting in Muslim countries, some broader meaning might, over time, be discerned, especially if the officer did, in fact, yell "Allahu Akbar" while murdering his fellow soldiers, as some soldiers say he did. This is the second time this year American soldiers on American soil have been gunned down by a Muslim who was reportedly unhappy with America's wars in the Middle East (the first took place in Arkansas, to modest levels of notice). And, of course, this would not be the first instance of an American Muslim soldier killing fellow soldiers over his disagreements with American foreign policy; in 2003, Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar killed two officers and wounded fourteen others when he rolled a grenade into a tent in a homicidal protest against American policy.

Tim McGirk, friend to the Taliban and promotor of the 'secondary PTSD' defense for the murderer Hasa

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:54:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Noah Pollak at Commentary has discovered that Mr. McGirk has a rather interesting history:

This shouldn’t be surprising coming from Tim McGirk. He went to Afghanistan after 9/11, had Thanksgiving with the Taliban, and wrote a long piece for National Geographic about what a great time he had and how we’re all just human beings doing our thing on this big blue marble, so let’s not judge. Then he went to Iraq and singlehandedly created the Haditha Massacre hoax. Then he went to Jerusalem and spent a few years slandering Israel. Now he’s trafficking in pop psychology on behalf of a likely domestic jihadist. It’s been quite a career.

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Time Magazine reporter Tim McGirk has posited the theory that Nidal Hasan --- who attended a radical mosque with the 9-11 hijackers, told colleagues that infidels should have their throats cut, and screamed "Allahu Akbar" as he killed 13 people --- was suffering from "secondary trauma," a sort of "contact PTSD," where hearing stories from combat soldiers who suffered from PTSD drove him to commit mass murder. Because it couldn't possibly have been Islamic jihad, and the media will grasp at any straw to deny that. possibility.

Noah Pollak at Commentary has discovered that Mr. McGirk has a rather interesting history:

Empathy for the enemies of the United States is the default position for Mainstream Media organs like Time Magazine. It's a good thing that they are dying.

BTW, here's yet another clue the MSM will ignore. Hasan's business card contains the notation "SoA" meaning "Soldier of Allah." Will they still claim this guy just needed a vacation?

Another cluebat to the head of the MSM

Tags: fraud, tim mcguirk, time magazine, traitor, lies