We’d rather watch them tackle the Lucky Strike account, but this will have to do. (Your word of the day, Congressman Wilson, is “sycophants”.)

WorldNetDaily must be reading our mind:

The second they heard about the Fort Hood massacre, millions of thinking Americans wondered in their gut: “Oh God, is this another crazy Muslim terrorist carrying out a one-man jihad, as has happened so many times before?”

Actually, our early wondering was whether the Adkisson Brigades had been activated for Guy Fawkes Day. Then, as “multiple shooters” were mentioned, we considered Seven Days in May. Our actual gut reaction when we heard the shooter’s name was “Oh fuck.” Followed minutes later by “envisioning tonight’s very ugly WND headline.”

As in: “Oh God, is this shooting going to result in another crazy anti-Muslim jihad, as has happened so many times before?”

The rush to exploit a tragedy for political point-scoring and book sales is something we’ve already noted, and will continue to note as particularly egregious examples come to our attention. (They’re all egregious on the face of it, but we must be selective.) But the question we posed Saturday morning — Did Hasan act alone? — remains top of mind.

So: What do we know Tuesday morning that we didn’t know three days ago?

Answer: Nothing conclusive.

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Dick Armey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVxrz9s0gHQ

Back in January, when we first took note of the latest End of the World, we had no idea Hollywood was planning on buying the farm with a holiday blockbuster. Nor could we have imagined that NASA would provide The Greatest Trailer of All Time with a huge promotional boost:

The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie.

The latest big screen offering from Sony Picture, “2012,” arrives in theaters on Friday, with a 200-million-dollar production about the end of the world supposedly based on myths backed by the Mayan calendar.

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You’d think Apple introduced a new iPhone, the lines are so long to take advantage of a shooting:

The Liberty Counsel released a statement on Monday linking Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in last week’s Fort Hood massacre, to the gay-rights movement.

“In the wake of the horrific act of Islamic domestic terrorism at Fort Hood Texas, it has been learned that militant homosexual activists recently made similar online postings to those of Nidal Malik Hasan, threatening additional acts of terrorism against Christians,” stated an email from Matt Barber, Liberty Counsel’s director of cultural affairs, as well as an associate dean at Liberty University Law School.

Said militant homosexual activists are actually commenters at Joe.My.God. And while the referenced post has been deleted, Joe warns his readers not to “post anything, even in jest, that you wouldn’t mind saying in a signed letter to your local newspaper.”

Here, of course, all Swiftian vituperation is welcome. We’re not a target yet.

Conservative group links gay-rights movement to Islamic terrorism [Raw Story]

Peter LaBarbera: The Liberty Counsel Has Called The FBI Over JMG Commenters [Joe.My.God.]

“Gay” Activists Mull “Organized Terrorism” Against Christians [Americans for Truth about Homosexuality]

Like Randall Terry, the Westboro Baptist Clown Troupe is usually so predictable in their outrage, it’s not worth paying them notice. But today we’ll make an exception:

Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside Sidwell Friends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama.

Protesters were carrying signs with anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-Obama slogans, slowing down traffic all along Wisconsin Avenue this morning.

“Anti-Obama” here applies to the entire family, as the Clown Troupe performance schedule makes clear:

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While we here in the U.S. ponder the ramifications of the Congress passing health reform legislation, most Europeans are remembering a watershed event in modern history: the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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