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(Yahoo) Asinine Obama says, 'Don't jump to conclusions on Ft. Hood gunman.' Will also invite gunman and the female cop who shot him over to the White House for a beer   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 826
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DarthBrooks [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:15:36 PM  
He's right, you know.

Maybe it was self-defense.

Maybe the psychiatrist was on a secret mission, ferreting out civilian first responders who were actually Soviet sleeper agents, left in place since the fall of the USSR.

 
nekom [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:18:00 PM  
Ok I LOL'd at the headline.

Seriously though, the dude was crazy. Exactly what is the difference between him going crazy because of religion, the VT shooter going crazy due to being antisocial or McVeigh going crazy due to anti-government sentiment?

Nuts is nuts whether it over religion or otherwise. Unfortunately, people go nuts from time to time for a variety of reasons and this kind of thing happens.

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:20:12 PM  
Yes, let's all just be little fascists and assume he did it because he was a Mooslim without any evidence and throw all of them in detention camps. That's what I'm reading from the right anyway.

 
Kirk's_Toupee [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:22:02 PM  
nekom: Exactly what is the difference between him going crazy because of religion,

well it matters to wing nuts and their ilk. gives the right wing terrorists an excuse to threaten Muslims....

doesn't matter to me where he go his crazy from bu tthen again i lean on the sane side. i think.

 
AdolfOliverPanties [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:22:03 PM  
So wingnuts got on Obama for jumping to conclusions about the Gates-Cop issue and now they are pissed that he is NOT jumping to a conclusion on this issue. Is that about it?

More proof that to a rightwinger, it doesn't matter what Obama does. If Obama does it, it is wrong.

He could cure cancer and the wingnuts would be biatching about cutting into pharmaceutical companies' profits and putting surgeons out of work.

 
DarthBrooks [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:22:16 PM  
GAT_00: Yes, let's all just be little fascists and assume he did it because he was a Mooslim without any evidence and throw all of them in detention camps. That's what I'm reading from the right anyway.

Well, thank God *you* don't judge everyone in broad stereotyped categories with cartoon-like motives.

 
Code_Archeologist [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:22:39 PM  
But... but... but... what about politicizing personal tragedy? How are we supposed to blame this on Obama if we don't jump to conclusions?

 
St_Francis_P [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:23:21 PM  
GAT_00: Yes, let's all just be little fascists and assume he did it because he was a Mooslim without any evidence and throw all of them in detention camps. That's what I'm reading from the right anyway.

They're reaching out to minorities again, but this time they're going to get them!

 
Tastes Like Chicken [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:23:43 PM  
AdolfOliverPanties: So wingnuts got on Obama for jumping to conclusions about the Gates-Cop issue and now they are pissed that he is NOT jumping to a conclusion on this issue. Is that about it?

More proof that to a rightwinger, it doesn't matter what Obama does. If Obama does it, it is wrong.

He could cure cancer and the wingnuts would be biatching about cutting into pharmaceutical companies' profits and putting surgeons out of work.


This, this, and this.

 
sigdiamond2000 [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:25:08 PM  
DarthBrooks: He's right, you know.

Maybe it was self-defense.

Maybe the psychiatrist was on a secret mission, ferreting out civilian first responders who were actually Soviet sleeper agents, left in place since the fall of the USSR.


That's crazy talk.

An appropriate response to this shooting would be to bomb Iran.

/Has anyone used the word "dithering" yet?

 
MuadDib [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:25:09 PM  
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Code_Archeologist [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:25:45 PM  
AdolfOliverPanties: He could cure cancer and the wingnuts would be biatching about cutting into pharmaceutical companies' profits and putting surgeons out of work.

If he ate a BLT the Republicans would try to ban bacon.

 
Doctor Funkenstein [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:27:26 PM  
FTFA: We don't know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts," Obama said in a Rose Garden statement otherwise devoted to the economy.

But I want to yell at brown people now :(

 
albo [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:28:53 PM  
has he also said not to jump to conclusions on the guy who shot up his office today?

 
DarthBrooks [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:29:15 PM  
How do we know for certain these "victims" didn't shoot themselves?

 
AdolfOliverPanties [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:30:12 PM  
Code_Archeologist: AdolfOliverPanties: He could cure cancer and the wingnuts would be biatching about cutting into pharmaceutical companies' profits and putting surgeons out of work.

If he ate a BLT the Republicans would try to ban bacon.


And accuse him of only eating the bacon to hide his Muslin-ness.

 
Barbigazi [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:31:22 PM  
sigdiamond2000: DarthBrooks: He's right, you know.

Maybe it was self-defense.

Maybe the psychiatrist was on a secret mission, ferreting out civilian first responders who were actually Soviet sleeper agents, left in place since the fall of the USSR.

That's crazy talk.

An appropriate response to this shooting would be to bomb Iran Laos.

/Has anyone used the word "dithering" yet?


No one would expect it.

 
Barakku [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:32:29 PM  
DarthBrooks: How do we know for certain these "victims" didn't shoot themselves?

How do we know "bullets" really made those holes? I don't see any evidence of bullets left in any of the photographs.
And why did the fourth bullet land in a field? This is just too suspicious.

 
damageddude [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:34:39 PM  
nekom: Nuts is nuts whether it over religion or otherwise

The Army needs to do a better job keeping an eye out for soldiers going mental (crazy, stressed out, depression, etc). You'd think someone would really notice a Major muttering how much he hates the war against Islam etc. There were enough warning signs. And what the F' were the feds doing by not taking action other than being aware when he started making those posts about suicide bombers being like soldiers who throw themselves on grenades?

 
Tastes Like Chicken [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:35:00 PM  
Jesus farking Christ people. I thought folks were joking about criticizing Obama for saying this.

Can we all just agree that we should let the FBI and the cops do their job? Or is that too much to ask?

 
Barbigazi [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:35:10 PM  
Barakku: DarthBrooks: How do we know for certain these "victims" didn't shoot themselves?

How do we know "bullets" really made those holes? I don't see any evidence of bullets left in any of the photographs.
And why did the fourth bullet land in a field? This is just too suspicious.


Are you saying these may have been chicken wire soldiers? It's beginning to make sense!

 
nekom [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:36:00 PM  
damageddude: nekom: Nuts is nuts whether it over religion or otherwise

The Army needs to do a better job keeping an eye out for soldiers going mental (crazy, stressed out, depression, etc). You'd think someone would really notice a Major muttering how much he hates the war against Islam etc. There were enough warning signs. And what the F' were the feds doing by not taking action other than being aware when he started making those posts about suicide bombers being like soldiers who throw themselves on grenades?


Well that much is true, it looks like there were red flags everywhere. But that would also be true if he had been an ultra right-wing nationalist who spouted anti-government slogans all the time then finally went on a shooting spree.

Either way, the army certainly does need to watch for the warning signs.

 
Barakku [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:36:30 PM  
Barbigazi:

/Has anyone used the word "dithering" yet?

No one would expect it.


NOBODY expects the Dithering Inquisition!

 
trainwrecky and inappropriate [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:37:27 PM  
I think Obama knew about the attack before it happened but didn't do anything to stop it so he could wage a war against crazy people.

WE DESERVE THE TRUTH!

 
Obdicut [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:37:40 PM  
People have immediately begun using this tragedy to start to smear Obama.

It's pretty farking sickening.

 
GraysonAC [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:38:08 PM  
GAT_00: Yes, let's all just be little fascists and assume he did it because he was a Mooslim without any evidence and throw all of them in detention camps. That's what I'm reading from the right anyway.

Painful hypocrisy is painful.

From the facts so far, it looks like this guy did snap because of his religious beliefs. That shouldn't be surprising to anyone, given that we've been blowing up the Middle East for a long while now. Personally, I don't think this is any scarier than someone going crazy for any other reason and shooting people.

Also, seriously, the number of people killed by crazies like this each year is tiny compared to less interesting things like asshats getting drunk and getting behind the wheel of a car. If you want to help protect your country, go campaign about that, and you'll save a lot more lives.

 
Diogenes [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:39:08 PM  
The Army guy at the press conference today said the exact same thing. How dare Obama agree with our military leaders! I'm outraged!

 
Tastes Like Chicken [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:40:53 PM  
Obdicut: People have immediately begun using this tragedy to start to smear Obama.

It's pretty farking sickening.


Seriously.

Is it because they spent so long draping themselves in 9/11 that now they think that's the only reason tragedies even happen? For political ammo?

 
DarthBrooks [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:41:42 PM  
nekom: Either way, the army certainly does need to watch for the warning signs.

My SO is a military contractor. Based on what I've seen from her work environment, someone that high up in rank could come in with warpaint and a machete and it would take MONTHS before any higher-up would "look into it."

Plus the guy was a doctor AND a psychiatrist. His client interactions were with a lot of people whose mental stability was already under question - - who in the administrative levels would focus on the patient complaints about a staff psychiatrist at the Army's top hospital?

 
what_now [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:42:16 PM  
Look, the media told me he was Muslim, so I am absolutly going to stop listening to everything else.

I'm glad he's dead, and I hope the two other guys go to prison for ever.

 
vygramul [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:42:46 PM  
Hell, anyone else remember people getting assaulted after Oklahoma City because of jumping to conclusions?

 
vygramul [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:43:26 PM  
what_now: Look, the media told me he was Muslim, so I am absolutly going to stop listening to everything else.

I'm glad he's dead, and I hope the two other guys go to prison for ever.


Well done.

 
valloned [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:44:01 PM  
Reads like a commie headline to me...yep.

 
known error [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:45:46 PM  
I read this as a "fascist" headline. Funny it's marked "commie"...

Way to go, whoever greened this. You and subby are idiots.

 
Tastes Like Chicken [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:47:17 PM  
known error: I read this as a "fascist" headline. Funny it's marked "commie"...

Way to go, whoever greened this. You and subby are idiots.


I think they do that to maintain the balance of the "Past 30 Days" one. Otherwise it'd be pretty far to the right.

 
deadapostle [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:49:34 PM  
known error: I read this as a "fascist" headline. Funny it's marked "commie"...

Way to go, whoever greened this. You and subby are idiots.


Once the PITA showed up, fark took a disgusting turn to the right and is off to crazy-town. Long live reddit!

 
smooshie [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:51:08 PM  
Hmm let's see...

1) He called the War on Terror the "War on Islam"

2) He was warned after proselytizing about Islam to his coworkers.

3) He shouted "Allahu Akbar" before he shot people

4) He gave out Korans the morning of the shooting.

5) He was described as a devout and observant Muslim who always prayed on time.

6) He posted "To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers." on an Internet forum.

7) He hated the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and called on people to "stand up against the aggressor"



But remember, if you even dare insinuate that his religion had anything to do with the attack, you're an evil racist Islamophobe who needs to be taken to the nearest CAIR center and re-educated about how Christians are just as bad because of McVeigh and the Crusades.

 
known error [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:51:12 PM  
Tastes Like Chicken: I think they do that to maintain the balance of the "Past 30 Days" one. Otherwise it'd be pretty far to the right.

Probably. Don't even get me started on what TFA actually says...

 
albo [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:53:13 PM  
smooshie: But remember, if you even dare insinuate that his religion had anything to do with the attack, you're an evil racist Islamophobe who needs to be taken to the nearest CAIR center and re-educated about how Christians are just as bad because of McVeigh and the Crusades.

plus you're a necon GOP teabagging Bushbot

 
thompsonius [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:53:17 PM  
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what_now [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:53:49 PM  
smooshie: Hmm let's see...

1) He called the War on Terror the "War on Islam"

2) He was warned after proselytizing about Islam to his coworkers.

3) He shouted "Allahu Akbar" before he shot people

4) He gave out Korans the morning of the shooting.

5) He was described as a devout and observant Muslim who always prayed on time.

6) He posted "To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers." on an Internet forum.

7) He hated the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and called on people to "stand up against the aggressor"



But remember, if you even dare insinuate that his religion had anything to do with the attack, you're an evil racist Islamophobe who needs to be taken to the nearest CAIR center and re-educated about how Christians are just as bad because of McVeigh and the Crusades.


Yesterday I was told this was the work of three people, one of whom had been shot dead.

Today CNN had "video footage" of him buying a cup of coffee.

I will wait a few days before assigning blame or cause. It's not going to make the soldiers any less dead, and you might find out that some of that stuff isn't completely true or relevant.

Srsly, if it turns out this guy's wife had been farking around, you're all going to feel very, very stupid, but the 24 hr media has to have EXCLUSIVE LIVE COVERAGE!!111

 
what_now [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:54:34 PM  
what_now: I will wait a few days before assigning blame or cause.

Well, we can assign blame to this douche, but let's wait on the motive.

FIFM.

 
deadapostle [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:55:08 PM  
smooshie: Hmm let's see...

1)2 all-beef patties

2) special sauce

3) lettuce

4) cheese

5) pickles

6) onions

7) sesame seed bun



But remember, if you really want a tasty burger, you're better off making it yourself.



Made that post a little more palatable.

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:56:08 PM  
DarthBrooks: He's right, you know.

Maybe it was self-defense.

Maybe the psychiatrist was on a secret mission, ferreting out civilian first responders who were actually Soviet sleeper agents, left in place since the fall of the USSR.


Maybe he was just nuts and it had nothing to do religion or politics. Just because he has a Koran and some Muslim political literature on his bookshelf doesn't mean anything, right?

I mean, that's what I heard after a bunch of libtards got shot in a church in Tennessee, anyway.

 
Barbigazi [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:56:39 PM  
smooshie: Hmm let's see...

1) He called the War on Terror the "War on Islam"

2) He was warned after proselytizing about Islam to his coworkers.

3) He shouted "Allahu Akbar" before he shot people

4) He gave out Korans the morning of the shooting.

5) He was described as a devout and observant Muslim who always prayed on time.

6) He posted "To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause. Scholars have paralled this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers." on an Internet forum.

7) He hated the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and called on people to "stand up against the aggressor"



But remember, if you even dare insinuate that his religion had anything to do with the attack, you're an evil racist Islamophobe who needs to be taken to the nearest CAIR center and re-educated about how Christians are just as bad because of McVeigh and the Crusades.


Where are you getting these facts, even Foxnews isn't saying any of that.

 
deadapostle [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:56:45 PM  
what_now: Srsly, if it turns out this guy's wife had been farking around, you're all going to feel very, very stupid, but the 24 hr media has to have EXCLUSIVE LIVE COVERAGE!!111

I'm pretty sure nobody is going to feel stupid. They carry it around with them so much, it is almost like it isn't there.

 
BlackCat23 [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 03:58:06 PM  
deadapostle: smooshie: Hmm let's see...

1)2 all-beef patties

2) special sauce

3) lettuce

4) cheese

5) pickles

6) onions

7) sesame seed bun



But remember, if you really want a tasty burger, you're better off making it yourself.


Made that post a little more palatable.


img.photobucket.com

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 04:00:41 PM  
smooshie: But remember, if you even dare insinuate that his religion had anything to do with the attack, you're an evil racist Islamophobe whoargarbl

Or your a guy jumping to conclusion based on sketchy information.

You may turn out to be right - some of us would rather wait until the dust settles. I for one would like to hear what the dead three shooters and the dead woman who shot them have to say.

 
GAT_00 [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 04:00:54 PM  
DarthBrooks: Well, thank God *you* don't judge everyone in broad stereotyped categories with cartoon-like motives.

I'm just saying I've seen rhetoric on the right looking exactly like that. But yes, I'm jumping to conclusions.

 
known error [TotalFark] 2009-11-06 04:01:39 PM  
Lionel Mandrake: Maybe he was just nuts and it had nothing to do religion or politics. Just because he has a Koran and some Muslim political literature on his bookshelf doesn't mean anything, right?

I mean, that's what I heard after a bunch of libtards got shot in a church in Tennessee, anyway.


Or maybe Obama is trying to avoid having all the neanderthal wingnuts out there go vigilante patriotic on their Muslim neighbors. Ever think about that?

 
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