After the events at Ford Hood, it is more apparent than ever that the mainstream media is completely disconnected from the real world. They ascribe the psychotic behavior of a murderer to the vague taunts of people who weren't even his victims.

They fail to note that Hasan was in a position of power. He was a doctor and an officer. In no way was he a victim, as the press and our President would maintain. This represents a lack of reality testing ability.

Reason, logic and faith are all useless against the willfully ignorant.

 Nidal Hasan 2007 Presentation to Military - "The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military"

• Adobe Acrobat PDF file of Nidal Hasan 2007 presentation
  http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/nidal_hasan/Hasan_2007.pdf
• addresses "Offensive Jihad,"  Says "Fighting to establish an Islamic State... is condoned"
  -- Nidal Hasan Slide 49: "Fighting to establish an Islamic State to please God even by force is condoned by the Islam"
• Nidal Hasan Comments Slide 48 ends with "We Love Death More Than You Love Life"
• Nidal Hasan Offensive Jihad Slide 44 quoting verse that Muslims should fight non-Muslims (with bold by Nidal Hasan) "until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection."

"If we can't convince a million and a half people we're worth less than a dollar a week, the market will have spoken," Newsweek's editor Jon Meacham said in May 2009, according to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post.  And Meacham has been working hard to make his dream come true, by featuring such laughable headlines as The Thinking Man's Thinking Man: Al Gore's New Plan for the Planet, Yes He Can (But He Sure Hasn't Yet): A Liberal's Survival Guide, and my personal favorite, Why Joe Is No Joke: From Afghanistan to Health Care, A Vice President to Be Reckoned With, a hilarious attempt to validate Joe Biden.  At this point, the number of Americans who believe Newsweek is worth more than a dollar a week is shrinking faster than Harry Reid's approval ratings.

"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America rise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation." - John Adams

Lloyd Blankfein (pictured), the chairman and chief executive, of Goldman Sachs, has claimed that bankers do "God's work". Lloyd Blankfein, chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, the son of a Brooklyn postal worker, believes that banks serve a "social purpose" and argues that the return of big profits and bonuses should be welcomed as proof the economy is recovering. Speaking to The Sunday Times, he argued: "We're very important. We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital. Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth.