Obama NBC licker Chuck Todd: The way politics are today, there would still be slavery under the GOP (Video)

"Liberals say the damn-est things. Up-Chuck Todd is such a tool its hilarious. Little history lesson Up-Chuck, Lincoln was able to abolish slavery because the Democrats held the minority in congress and the Senate. Having control of both Houses, well, you know the outcome. So while the Republican's were abolishing slavery, the Democraps were attending KKK meetings". MC

Judge ousted in Fort Hood shooting case amid beard debacle

Oh wait. Did I call the Fort Hood shooting that lead to the death of 13 people terrorism? I’m sorry. It’s been deemed ‘workplace violence’ by the Obama regime so the government gets out of paying the families of the victims benefits they would receive if this was rightly classified as a terrorist attack. Now, the judge who ordered terrorist Nidal Hassan’s beard be forcibly shaved has been ousted by the Obama regime. 'Fire Andrea Mitchell.com'

FORT WORTH, Texas The U.S. military's highest court ousted the judge in the Fort Hood shooting case Monday and threw out his order to have the suspect's beard forcibly shaved before his court-martial.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that Col. Gregory Gross didn't appear impartial while presiding over the case of Maj. Nidal Hasan, who faces the death penalty if convicted in the 2009 shootings on the Texas Army post that killed 13 people and wounded more than two dozen others.


But the court said it was not ruling on whether the judge's order violated Hasan's religious rights. Hasan has argued that his beard is a requirement of his Muslim faith, although facial hair violates Army regulations.

"Should the next military judge find it necessary to address (Hasan's) beard, such issues should be addressed and litigated anew," judges wrote in the ruling.

Hasan appealed after Gross ordered that he must be clean-shaven or be forcibly shaved before his court-martial, a military trial.


The court-martial had been set to begin three months ago, but has been on hold pending the appeals.

In a statement issued Monday night, Fort Hood officials said proceedings in the case will resume after a new judge is appointed by the Army's highest legal branch. That indicates Army prosecutors will not appeal this ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.


An Army appeals court had upheld the shaving requirement in October. But on Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces said the command, not the judge, was responsible for enforcing grooming standards. The ruling said that was one example of how Gross did not appear impartial in the case.



Gross had repeatedly said Hasan's beard was a disruption to the court proceedings, but the military appeals court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to show that his beard interfered with the hearings.


Gross found Hasan in contempt of court at six previous pretrial hearings because he was not clean-shaven, then sent him to a nearby trailer to watch the proceedings on a closed-circuit television. The appeals court's ruling also vacated the contempt of court convictions.


At a June hearing, lead defense attorney Lt. Col. Kris Poppe said the judge showed a bias against Hasan when he asked defense attorneys to clean up a court restroom after Gross found a medical waste bag, adult diaper and what appeared to be feces on the floor after a previous hearing. Hasan, who is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by police the day of the shootings, has to wear adult diapers - but the mess in the restroom that day was mud from a guard's boots, Poppe said.


"In light of these rulings, and the military judge's accusations regarding the latrine, it could reasonably appear to an objective observer that the military judge had allowed the proceedings to become a duel of wills between himself and (Hasan) rather than an adjudication of the serious offenses with which (Hasan) is charged," judges wrote in the ruling.

If Obama "Honors" Kate Middleton's Pregnancy The Way He Honors Everyone Else...

"I am sure he will also be delivering the baby". MC

He worked himself into the bios of every former president going back to Calvin Coolidge.

Obama recently "honored" Rosa Parks

and Neil Armstrong when he died

 Why would this be different?

Jobs At The New York Times Going Down The Toilet Reports New York Times

The New York Times is cutting jobs in their news room.

What a shame.

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer group of journalists progressive political activists…

New York Times Seeks Buyouts From 30 in Newsroom

Aiming to cut costs in an increasingly troubled advertising environment, The New York Times announced on Monday morning that it would offer buyout packages to newsroom employees. While the primary goal of the buyout program is to trim managers and other nonunion employees from its books, the company is offering employees represented by the Newspaper Guild the chance to volunteer for buyout packages as well.
In a letter to the staff, Jill Abramson, executive editor of The Times, said she was seeking 30 managers who are not union members to accept buyout packages. She stressed that the paper had been reducing as many newsroom expenses as possible, like leases on foreign and national bureaus. But the hiring The Times has done in recent years to help make it more competitive online has restored the newsroom to the same size it was in 2003 — about 1,150 people.
“There is no getting around the hard news that the size of the newsroom staff must be reduced,” Ms. Abramson said in the letter.
Employees have until Jan. 24 to accept a severance package.

Too bad the deadline comes after Obama’s second beatification. You know everyone wants to go.