Rosemead Herald

I pray for the families who lost loved ones at Ft Hood Texas. Was Hasan a Muslim first and an American second?  There appears to be evidence that Hasan saw the American military as the enemy of Islam.  And, one could argue that a free medical education was his primary motive for being in the military.  More information to come on this.  

Dr. Val Finnell, a classmate of Hasan's at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, attended a master's in public health program in 2007-2008.

Finnell says he got to know Hasan because the group of public health students took an environmental health class together. At the end of the class, everyone had to give a presentation.

Classmates wrote on topics such as dry cleaning chemicals and mold in homes, but Finnell said Hasan chose the war against terror. Finnell described Hasan as a "vociferous opponent" of the terror war. Finnell said Hasan told classmates he was "a Muslim first and an American second."

President Obama addresses the shooting at FT Hood in a way that makes one wonder who is writing his speeches.  The idea that a Native American conference is more newsworthy that a tragedy at FT Hood mystifies me.

The situation called for not only his trademark eloquence, but also grace and perspective.

But instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks.

At the event, a Tribal Nations Conference hosted by the Department of Interior's Bureau of Indian affairs, the president thanked various staffers and offered a "shout-out" to "Dr. Joe Medicine Crow -- that Congressional Medal of Honor winner."

Well well, this is another fine mess. The UN wants more of our money to pass out to countries that despise us.  The last time I checked, we were being criticized for being too heavy handed in our foreign relations.  However, it seems that potentates from all over the world still want Americans to give them money.  The Millennium Development Goals is just another way of saying, "the UN wants more money from American tax payers".

Millennium Development Goals:

In line with the Monterrey Consensus, developing countries will need to
expand their domestic resource mobilization to finance MDG-based poverty
reduction strategies by drawing on government revenues, household contributions,
and private sector investment to the greatest extent possible. In many
low-income countries, and practically all Least Developed Countries, domestic
resources alone will not be enough to meet the Goals

To finance these investments, we assume a major increase in domestic
resource mobilization by increasing government expenditures on the Goals by
up to four percentage points of GDP through 2015. These added resources will
likely need to be raised through a broad-based revenue source such as a value added
tax, as well as by rechanneling current low-priority spending into higher
priority MDG investments.

Well well, this is a fine mess.  The UN is continually working to establish themselves as a taxing and governing authority.  Even though America contributes heavily to fund the UN, it seems that UN wants more.  Since we supply about 25% of the funding for the UN, it would seem that world community would appreciate us more.  However, just the opposite is happening.  The world community despises us most of the time.  Is it important for America to continue being part of the UN.  Maybe we should withdraw from the UN and spend the billions we send to the UN on feeding our own hungry and homeless population.

The Ft Hood shootings are reminders that America needs to be alert to the dangers of insane people.  Major Hasan was a mental health professional,  He evidently did not see any value to human life, because he took lives with little thought.    

It was one of the of the deadliest mass shootings on a U.S. base, but the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that killed 13 and wounded as many as 38 this week has sparked a debate about whether it was an act of terrorism.

The alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a Palestinian-American and an Army psychiatrist, reportedly shouted "Allahu akbar! -- Arabic for "God is great!" when he opened fire. He was seriously wounded by police and is being treated in a military hospital.

The military has said he was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan, and family members suggested he was trying to avoid serving overseas.

ObamaCare may not work.  This is sad, because Americans need a better deal. 

Former Clinton Labor Secretary and current Obama economic adviser Robert Reich believes healthcare legislation currently being debated on Capitol Hill "won't offer most Americans any appreciable decline in the cost of their health insurance nor clear improvement in the efficiency or quality of the health care they receive."

Well well, what a fine mess we have now.  President Obama and the Democrats now have the power to push a UN tax.

A nice-sounding bill called the "Global Poverty Act," sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States.

The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.   

The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.