Comments on: More Heroes at Fort Hood

By: Sassy

Sassy — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:28:34 +0000

Most of my fiction reading is about gutsy, smart women who can handle themselves very well…I recommend James Patterson’s books.
One heroine was always ruining her designer handbags by shooting through them! LOL!
Now I know that Kimberly Munley and others like her are the real deal! Hurrah!

By: Kinder Gentler Galt

Kinder Gentler Galt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:42:59 +0000

Thanks for the info.

By: elizabethrc

elizabethrc — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:32:40 +0000

I hope that the news is spread far and wide in the Middle Eastern countries that it was a woman, a tiny woman, who took down this POS.
I pity the women of those countries today, though, because in those very civilized countries there will probably be a rise in stonings and killings of women.
And we want to have relationships with those countries???!!!

By: elizabethrc

elizabethrc — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:53:37 +0000

In the name of peace and ‘getting along’, too much is excused on the part of violent muslims, anti-woman muslims, anti-American muslims. (You can substitute any ethnic group here you like). We spend far too much time worrying about their ‘feelings’ and apologizing for our negative feelings toward them. Those negative feelings exist with good reason.
As to seeking common ground with the ‘good’ of a particular religious/ethnic group, when they set about cleaning out their own house, and stop making halfhearted statements about ‘the actions of that individual are not representative of the rest of us’ instead of apologizing to America for what their member did, perhaps I’ll start considering a more openminded view of them. Further, I believe the need to reach out falls on their shoulders, not ours.
Perhaps you have a stronger belief system than I do. Confronted with the daily practicalities of life, I am coming around to more of an eye for an eye approach.

By: fif

fif — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:48:52 +0000

This woman walked faced down a heavily armed killer, at the risk of her own life, and shot repeatedly until she took him down–even after being wounded. That is heroic, regardless of what melodrama the MSM conjures up.

By: fif

fif — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:43:16 +0000

lol–tell us how you really feel!

By: fif

fif — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:41:33 +0000

“By many news accounts?” Yea, we know how reliable the news can be…there are many psychiatrists treated veterans who do not pick up pistols and massacre 40 people. This man was clearly unbalanced.

By: TeakWoodKite

TeakWoodKite — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:11:24 +0000

Yikes! It won’t embed.
http://primeval.wikia.com/wiki/Anomaly

By: TeakWoodKite

TeakWoodKite — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:09:43 +0000

My bad, I was looking for a tube of one. but inleiu of that;

Nick Cutter describes them being somewhat like an earthquake in time which occur along temporal fault lines. They resemble glowing shattered pieces of glass floating in mid-air, through which people, animals and objects can travel. It is guessed that this could be a ‘fracture’ in the time continuum.
~snip~
Also the team encountered Dodos at one anomaly, a bird which did not evolve until well after the time of the dinosaurs ended (the dinosaurs became extinct at the end of Cretaceous period 65 million years ago whereas the Dodo had not separated from its common ancestor with the Rodrigues Solitaire until around 25 million years ago). This would indicate that the anomalies can be linked to any period in the earth’s history.

There is one at 1600 and just now one appeared on the House floor. There were Dodo birds a plenty.

By: lorac

lorac — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:07:56 +0000

House of Reps just passed the health care bill.

By: lorac

lorac — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:06:25 +0000

Yeah, instead of 11 virgins, he’s going to be “served” by 11 sexually mature, strong, competent, and pissed-off military nurses! I hope his doctor is a woman, too!

By: TexasMirth

TexasMirth — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:04:53 +0000

THERE WAS NO PHOTO-OP!!! And the soldiers here deeply appreciated seeing GWB & Laura.

By: lorac

lorac — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:00:10 +0000

ter·ror·ism
n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Typically, they stage unexpected attacks on civilian targets, including embassies and airliners, with the aim of sowing fear and confusion.

Geraldo was just on, and he seemed to be linking terrorism to Muslims, and saying that his guest wouldn’t be calling it terrorism if the shooter had been hispanic.

It seems to me that terrorism can’t just be decided on the front end – you also have to look at the results end. If the behavior has terrified people, confused them (ie, caused chaos and injury), it seems like terrorism, regardless of the ethnicity of the shooter.

And in a way, the Fort Hood guy met the part in the definition about “civilians”, because even though they were military, they were attending a graduation and weren’t armed or expecting an attack.

So the guy who shot up his ex-employment site – that won’t be called terrorism – although the results were the same as terrorism. Must be because of a difference on the front end – maybe because it was all about himself, not about some ideology….?

By: Kinder Gentler Galt

Kinder Gentler Galt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:48:48 +0000

anomolies? Is that supposed to be a link? Its not showing on my computer if it is.

By: armymom

armymom — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:46:33 +0000

Oh, that’s good too!