Randy Haddock

What's with the reluctance to call a Muslim extremist a Muslim extremist?

From Hollywood to the MSM, there has been a tendency for a long time to brand those serving in our military as mentally unbalanced. Almost as soon as the tragic news of the Fort Hood shooting broke out, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was blamed. A crazy soldier who about had it and just snapped seems to be the preferred narrative. Nidal Malik Hasan never served overseas. A former colleague of Hasan by the name of Terry Lee described Hasan as a fierce critic of US foreign policy, going as far as saying Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan have every right to stand up and fight the aggressor (in the mind of many, us). Now news is surfacing that Hasan allegedly made online postings where he described suicide bombers as heroic soldiers that sacrifice themselves to save their comrades. Witnesses describe Hasan as yelling in Arabic while murdering his victims.

I live in a neighborhood with a large Muslim population and will be the first one to say that “Muslim” is no synonym for “terrorist.” Most Muslims living in America are hard-working, good people with no ill-feelings towards America. Nidal Malik Hasan was not one of them. He was nothing but a cowardly pathetic, murderous Muslim extremist who, yes, is a terrorist; and not representative of our brave men and women serving in the military working to protect us.

By the way, it was just revealed in the latest press conference that Hasan is not dead and is in stable condition.

God bless those who perished today and may the victims’ families have the strength to deal with this horrific tragedy. My heart goes out to them.

There’s an H1N1 vaccine shortage in the US but do not despair: Gitmo detainees are getting their shots

The H1N1 vaccine has generated some controversy but whatever thoughts you may have on it, one thing is for certain: Americans should have first dibs on the vaccine. Well, the Obama administration doesn’t seem to see it that way. While the country faces a vaccine shortage, the Pentagon will soon ship enough vaccines to Guantanamo to cover those poor, tortured detainees.

Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday. Army Maj. James Crabtree, a spokesman for the U.S. jail facility in southeast Cuba, said the doses should start arriving this month, with guards and then inmates scheduled for inoculations. He acknowledged there may be an “emotional response” from critics who argue that terror suspects should not be allocated swine-flu medications while members of the U.S. public are still waiting due to a vaccine shortage.

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) is urging the Administration to rethink this decision:

I don’t know if detainees at Gitmo should never be given the H1N1 vaccine,” Pence told CNN during an interview. “But, certainly, at a time of such acute shortages, again, involving American citizens… I think the administration should immediately suspend the plan to deploy H1N1 vaccines to terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay, until such a time that sufficient vaccinations are made available to the American public.”

And so is Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI):

As long as Americans must wait to receive the vaccine, the detainees in Guantanamo Bay should not be given preferential treatment to receive the H1N1 vaccination,” Stupak said in a letter to Secretary of the Army John McHugh.

This cartoon from 2004 pretty much sums up this whole thing:

Crossposted on RedState

The Chinese inject clouds with chemicals in order to make it snow

And, apparently, they’ve been doing it for years. What the…

Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.

The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures as low as minus 2 Celsius (29 Fahrenheit) and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news agency reported.

Besides falling in the northeastern provinces of Liaoning and Jilin and the northern province of Hebei, the eastern port city of Tianjin also got its first snow of the autumn, the report said.

“We wont [sic] miss any opportunity of artificial precipitation since Beijing is suffering from the lingering drought,” the report quoted Zhang Qiang, head of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, as saying.

Chinese meteorologists have for years sought to make rain by injecting special chemicals into clouds.