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Normally I’d ignore this, but “Ace” has posted something so moronically misguided and false it calls for a response: Charles Johnson Now Deleting Posts for Mentioning Hacked Global Warming Fraud Emails. “Ace” says I deleted this comment by LGF reader ‘bosforus’ with “no explanation,” and that I’m “suppressing the data.” ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime
Right wing bloggers and climate “skeptics” are ranting and fuming about “the global warming scandal of the century,” after the email server of one of the UK’s leading climate research centers was hacked, and thousands of emails were stolen and promptly posted all over the web. (Which is, of course, ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Hacking, Crime
As we learn more about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, it’s clear that he was throwing off warning signals right and left — but nobody wanted to step up and take action about him until it was too late: Hasan’s Supervisor Warned Army In 2007. Two years ago, a top ...
Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas, Walter Reed, Militant Islam
The Washington Post has published the presentation given to senior Army doctors in June 2007 by alleged Fort Hood killer Nidal Malik Hasan. Instead of lecturing about a medical subject as expected, Hasan recited a litany of standard justifications for militant Islam. It’s amazing (and not in a good way) ...
A lot of the early reporting in the Fort Hood mass murder story turned out to be false, and here’s another detail that the press got wrong: Sgt. Kimberly Munley, applauded as a hero for shooting Nidal Malik Hasan after being wounded herself, apparently didn’t even fire her weapon. The ...
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) has told the press there’s evidence that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan may have wired money to Pakistan. WASHINGTON – Authorities have been examining whether Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan wired money to Pakistan in recent months, an action that one ...
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Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas, Walter Reed, Militant Islam, Barack Obama, Eulogy, Video
As information comes out that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused Fort Hood shooter, was possibly trying to make contact with Al Qaeda, the real question becomes: how did the military miss all the warning signs Hasan was emitting? Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, Officials Say. ...
Crime, Shooting, Fort Hood, Texas, Walter Reed, Militant Islam
This NPR segment from Morning Edition reveals that alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan gave a lecture to other doctors at Walter Reed Medical Center that “really freaked them out:” Officials Begin Putting Shooting Pieces Together. The guy was apparently giving off all kinds of warning signs. [Video] ...
There are unconfirmed reports that Major Malik Nadal Hasan was shouting “Allah Akbar” during his alleged shooting rampage at Fort Hood Army base. CBS Video President Obama made a statement today, urging people not to jump to conclusions. We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution ...
At least 8 people have been shot in the Gateway Center office building in Orlando, Florida. Not many details available yet…
ABC News reports an identity for the Fort Hood shooter. The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan. [Video] UPDATE at 11/5/09 3:08:42 pm: More information from CBS News: CBS News investigative producer Len Tepper reports that Hasan, 39, is a licensed ...
There’s been a shooting incident at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, with up to 7 people dead and at least 12 wounded (this CBS 4 article says 20 wounded): Reports: Multiple Soldiers Shot At Ft. Hood In Texas. FORT HOOD, Texas (CBS) ― Multiple soldiers were shot ...
Last Wednesday we noted a report that eBay had rejected an auction by a radical anti-abortion group to raise money for alleged murderer Scott Roeder: EBay Says No to Scott Roeder Benefit Auction. According to TPM, however, the auction did go online for a brief time before being pulled down. ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God, Ebay
The Kansas City Star’s Judy L. Thomas reports that eBay has rejected an auction by anti-abortion extremists intended to raise money for Scott Roeder, the alleged murderer of Dr. George Tiller. The auction would have included items such as an Army of God manual, a “cookbook” compiled by a woman ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God
The more extreme anti-choice activists give themselves permission to do almost anything in the name of God. The latest example — an eBay auction of memorabilia from the violent fringe: Online auction to raise funds in Scott Roeder case. An Army of God manual. A prison cookbook compiled by ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God
Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is still continuing his obsessive campaign to smear murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. Now he’s latched onto a twisted fantasy that Sparkman was infected with teh ghey: Riehl World View: Bill ‘Fe Fe’ Sparkman Remembered For His Curls. What a pathetic, sick little human ...
Dan Riehl continues spinning off his weird, creepy fantasies about murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. He’s actually had an email exchange with a trained investigator who agrees with him that Sparkman just might have been a child predator — and may not even have been hanged at all: Riehl World ...
Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is speculating that Bill Sparkman, the census worker found murdered in Kentucky, was a child predator. Yes, really. His evidence? He don’t got to show you no steenking evidence! All he knows is that the murder wasn’t committed by anyone on his side — ...
They encouraged and applauded his murder, but anti-choice fanatics aren’t finished with Dr. George Tiller yet. Now the leader of the domestic terrorist group calling itself the “Army of God” has sent a letter to the church Tiller attended, telling pastors that they “brought damnation on themselves.” A Virginia ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Operation Rescue, Rev. Donald Spitz, Army of God
Some Onion parodies of the news media are more savage than others. This one is brutal. [Video]
This pretty much rules out the “suicide” hypothesis: Hanged Census Worker Found Naked, Bound. BIG CREEK, Ky. (AP) — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered ...
There’s not enough information yet to say for sure what was behind this killing, so let’s not jump to conclusions. But the description of the circumstances and the timing (around the time of the Washington DC tea party) raises a strong suspicion that anti-government sentiment may have been the motivation: ...
Suspected murderer Scott Roeder is apparently now enlisting the aid of a fanatical anti-abortion lawyer who plans to argue that it’s OK to gun down doctors like George Tiller: Justifiable homicide defense eyed in Roeder’s case. Attorney Michael Hirsh is known for trying to use this same insane strategy in ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Operation Rescue
White supremacist radio host/blogger Hal Turner, recently arrested for urging readers of his blog to kill Chicago judges, says (through his lawyer) that he was a paid informant for the FBI. Hal Turner, the blogger and radio personality, remains jailed pending charges over his recent online rants, which prosecutors ...
Hal Turner, Extremism, Radio, Paleocon, White supremacism, FBI, Crime