Comments for Jules Crittenden

Comment on Combat Wounded, Combat Dead by saveliberty

saveliberty — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:51:46 +0000

This is excellent, Jules. Thank you.

Comment on Dots, Not Connected by MikeHu

MikeHu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:17:08 +0000

Jules - He may have been a Hokie, but he wasn’t an ROTC student at Virginia Tech (Corps of Cadets, there).

Comment on Dots, Not Connected by RebeccaH

RebeccaH — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:14:29 +0000

No kids. Too bad. Marriage and children ground us, give life a special meaning, help cut through a lot of noise.

Somehow I don’t think marriage and children would have made much difference, considering Hasan’s extremist views. He claimed “harrassment”, but there’s also information out now that he was an obnoxious proselytizer (of his patients, no less). Having a family might have delayed the explosion somewhat, until his American daughters got out of hand and merited honor killing. That’s not to say he isn’t mentally unbalanced, but I’m pretty sure he bought wholesale into the “slay the infidels” thing.

Comment on Jackass 101 by RebeccaH

RebeccaH — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:06:46 +0000

Houston, we have jackass!

Gold.

Women certainly can be jackasses, just as much as men. Maybe sometimes worse. Digby combines jackass with kneejerk reactionary, considering that initial jump to the Oathkeepers, and I don’t care about the mea culpa, because it will certainly happen again. Such is the nature of jackassedness.

Comment on Dots, Not Connected by MikeHu

MikeHu — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:43:52 +0000

Good questions. The lib spinning on this for the next several weeks is going to be an awesome sight to behold. MSM organizations I’ve heard over the last 12 hours seem pretty quick to run with the “he was harassed because he was a Muslim” angle without any supporting evidence, as opposed to the possibility he was an Islamist wackjob intent on carrying out his own personal jihad (and who knows how “personal” it all really was).

If death by firing squad was good enough for Eddie Slovik, than it should be good enough for him.

Comment on The Phillies Won! by mojo

mojo — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:02:53 +0000

Standard Yankees - $435 mil on three players, anyone? Consistently ignores salary caps? Hello? Anybody?

Comment on Dots, Not Connected by Details Emerging About Accused Fort Hood Massacre Shooter Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan | The Moderate Voice

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:47:45 +0000

[...] –Jules Crittenden says the dots were “not connected”: Not in time, anyway. The murders of 12 people and wounding of 31 others by one man with two handguns probably made a lot of things painfully obvious, and probably helped cut through a lot of clutter and red tape pretty quickly. [...]

Comment on Dots, Not Connected by Fatty Bolger

Fatty Bolger — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:54:58 +0000

According to the NYT and others, this was clearly a case of PTSD*. Here’s the current headline for the NYT:

Hasan was ‘mortified’ about deployment
Relatives: Ft. Hood suspect upset over being harassed about being Muslim

See, it was all about the PTSD* and the harassment. You wouldn’t want to get the silly idea that the shooting spree was religiously motivated. Perish the thought!

* Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Comment on Dots, Not Connected by jhstuart

jhstuart — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:12:59 +0000

The dots, if properly connected, will likely lead to MAJ Hasan’s mosque, the particular Islamic ideology (i.e. Wahhabist) advocated by its imam and Hasan’s desire to martyr himself.

Comment on Dots, Not Connected by Mr. Bingley

Mr. Bingley — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:45:30 +0000

If you investigate/act against a devout Presbyterian who proselytizes and posts statements supporting suicide bombers, etc, than you are a racial profiler whose career will be over.