Obama’s Dream, Our Nightmare; A new budget, more spending, and a heap of debt

I try and stay away from all this political talk, especially after the last few weeks of constant blogging, but enough is enough. I step away for a week only to find that this situation has gotten worse, that even with all the scandals, even with all this wasteful spending that Republicans like John McCain and Judd Gregg can’t even support out of the spirit of bipartisanship, politics in the United States have continued its downward slide into the socialist gutter. NEWSFLASH, you can’t spend money you don’t have, no bank would lend you the money knowing that it won’t give it back, so why is this same flawed mentally being used on a grander scale? Mind-boggling…

This from the Wall Street Journal…

On Tuesday, he left the impression that we need merely end “tax breaks for the wealthiest 2% of Americans,” and he promised that households earning less than $250,000 won’t see their taxes increased by “one single dime”… This is going to be some trick. Even the most basic inspection of the IRS income tax statistics shows that raising taxes on the salaries, dividends and capital gains of those making more than $250,000 can’t possibly raise enough revenue to fund Mr. Obama’s new spending ambitions.

Consider the IRS data for 2006, the most recent year that such tax data are available and a good year for the economy and “the wealthiest 2%.” Roughly 3.8 million filers had adjusted gross incomes above $200,000 in 2006. (That’s about 7% of all returns; the data aren’t broken down at the $250,000 point.) These people paid about $522 billion in income taxes, or roughly 62% of all federal individual income receipts. The richest 1% — about 1.65 million filers making above $388,806 — paid some $408 billion, or 39.9% of all income tax revenues, while earning about 22% of all reported U.S. income…

Fast forward to this year (and 2010) when the Wall Street meltdown and recession are going to mean far few taxpayers earning more than $500,000. Profits are plunging, businesses are cutting or eliminating dividends, hedge funds are rolling up, and, most of all, capital nationwide is on strike. Raising taxes now will thus yield far less revenue than it would have in 2006.

Mr. Obama is of course counting on an economic recovery. And he’s also assuming along with the new liberal economic consensus that taxes don’t matter to growth or job creation. The truth, though, is that they do. Small- and medium-sized businesses are the nation’s primary employers, and lower individual tax rates have induced thousands of them to shift from filing under the corporate tax system to the individual system, often as limited liability companies or Subchapter S corporations. The Tax Foundation calculates that merely restoring the higher, Clinton-era tax rates on the top two brackets would hit 45% to 55% of small-business income, depending on how inclusively “small business” is defined. These owners will find a way to declare less taxable income.

This article is also being covered by Allahpundit at Hot Air, but that isn’t all. Ed Morrissey is covering an article by ABC’s Jack Tapper, probably one of the more respected journalists in this now left-leaning “propaganda machine” which called itself the MSM, which discusses the slew of new tax hikes being proposed by Obama to meet the unattainable demands of his administrations spending…

1) On people making more than $250,000.

$338 billion – Bush tax cuts expire
$179 billlion – eliminate itemized deduction
$118 billion – capital gains tax hike

Total: $636 billion/10 years

2) Businesses:

$17 billion – Reinstate Superfund taxes
$24 billion – tax carried-interest as income
$5 billion – codify “economic substance doctrine”
$61 billion – repeal LIFO
$210 billion – international enforcement, reform deferral, other tax reform
$4 billion – information reporting for rental payments
$5.3 billion – excise tax on Gulf of Mexico oil and gas
$3.4 billion – repeal expensing of tangible drilling costs
$62 million – repeal deduction for tertiary injectants
$49 million – repeal passive loss exception for working interests in oil and natural gas properties
$13 billion – repeal manufacturing tax deduction for oil and natural gas companies
$1 billion – increase to 7 years geological and geophysical amortization period for independent producers
$882 million – eliminate advanced earned income tax credit

Total: $353 billion/10 years

What does all this mean? As I have stated before, by over taxing America’s wealthy, you scare off business and jobs. Why would a company want to pay heavy taxes to employ uneducated union workers in America, when they can hire uneducated non-union workers in other countries, like China, for a fraction of the cost? Why would they want to set up factories on American soil and have to pay heavy taxes which they wouldn’t incur in other countries, like Ireland or even Canada? It is called the fragmentation of the production process, and while certain costs are incurred by doing this, many see it as being more cost effective, especially when the government has taken such a hostile stand against capitalism. One has to wonder whether or not these people have taken a class in economics, whether they have ventured out of their “socialist cliques”, their “elitist clubs”, and see how the world actually operates. All this talk of spreading the wealth, making sure everyone gets “an equal slice of the pie”, leads to shrinking said pie, and reducing the overall amount that people get… It isn’t just me that thinks this…

Michelle Malkin herself has taken part in anti-stimulus protests, rallying her readers and those concerned with the amount of spending this administration has already signed on for. Go on her site, take a look at some of the stories, especially this one which outlines much of the wasteful spending, ACTUALLY EDUCATE YOURSELF on what is going on because you won’t hear about this from CNN, the news station which would rather discuss their love for Michelle Obama than actual news (since when did she become a legitimate topic for Showbiz Tonight?). It is getting downright disturbing…

Spending on this level can’t even be justified, especially when it is simply Democrats paying back those who helped get them into office… Old Chicago politics is now the new “Hope and Change” way of Washington…

Street Fighter IV and Online Gaming; Next-Generation, Same Problems

This isn’t a regular post, not my regular politically charged or socially themed, so if you are looking for the latest information on the latest ACORN scandal, or more Joe Biden gaffe coverage, Michelle Malkin has everything you are looking for. If you still want to read…

I will admit that I was one of the “lucky” ones who had pre-reserved a copy of the Collector’s Edition of Street Fighter IV for the Playstation 3. I have been an avid gamer for years, especially Street Fighter, and the release of this new title was a “must have” for me. One of my fondest childhood memories is waiting in the car outside of the Toys “R” Us in the West End of Ottawa with my mother and brothers as my father ran inside to pick up Super Street Fighter II for the Super Nintendo. I can remember the hours my twin and I spent battling in versus mode, perfecting strategies and practicing moves. I spent many more hours playing the dozens of sequels with friends and family members, even spending a fair bit of my earlier years at the University of Ottawa in the games room playing its Street Fighter games. My love for this series was the reason I had gotten a Sega Dreamcast a few years back, it was the only console with Street Fighter III Third Strike and Capcom vs SNK. I just love Street Fighter, simple as that, and anyone who knows me can testify to that.

I can’t count the hours I have spent over the years practicing combos for Ken Masters, Ryu’s rival and a consistent member of the Street Fighter roster, and I don’t see that changing with the release of this new game. I have already spent a few practicing jump-in combos, standing combos, trying my best to work in his “target combo” (the stand MP,HP from SFIII has returned, now under a “proper” name), but I will admit that my skills aren’t up to par with some of the more persistent fighters online. Already I have been beaten by a few “professionals”, but I have been lucky enough to bump into a few again and school them, most recently this morning with an over aggressive Cammy White player who couldn’t find a way around a player who would block pop-up attacks. I can go on about the kind of fighters you will find, but let’s try addressing two issues in particular which have begun to bother me; Professional fighters and working against online issues.

Kotaku reported the other day that a British boy had set a Guinness World Record for most consecutive wins in the game with 108 victories. While this does sound impressive to the uninformed, it doesn’t mean much to someone who has spent serious time around the series, especially in the arcades. After a day of economics classes, I would blow off steam in the University’s games room on both human and computer opponents. These expert street fighter players do seem intimidating with their combo skills, the way they seem to use even the most awkward characters effectively, but if you paid enough attention, you would see they weren’t as impressive as once thought. Anyone who has played a fighting game knows that certain strategies will not work against computer opponents, although they are extreme effective against humans, and vice versa. Standing over a pool table, holding my cue, I could see that after scaring off other students, these professionals would be put to shame by a computer opponent with relative ease…

It isn’t simply computer opponents though. My success in the arcade was due to not having any real “arcade experience”, that I have brought in an “foreign” strategy, something they hadn’t seen before. Taking my quarter and my pride, I would pick characters they hadn’t seen other players use, characters they thought inferior, and yet I would win, at least for a while. Take Capcom vs SNK 2, one of the more popular titles in the games room. When I first started playing, most other players would use Hoahmaru, Hibiki, Rugal Bernstein, M. Bison and/or Ryu, each character only being used in a particular way, using only certain moves and strategies which were similar to other players. Watching these repetitive mirror matches really sucked the fun out of the game, with each fighter trying to out do his opponent with the same plan of attack, resulting in a victory to whoever could pull off the moves the fastest. My pick of Sagat, Ken, Terry Bogard and/ or Iori Yagami seemed to confuse my opponents, and not having fought these characters or my strategy before, many were taken down with relative ease. My success with the “poking” strategy, as well as combos I had perfected with the home version, worked so well that in the following weeks and months, my opponents would adopt my strategy, switching their roster of characters to match my better ones. Even then, switching one of my characters with another would offset them, confusing them enough for me to win a few fights. While I was laughed at, my use of Balrog against some of the better players in the games room proved effective as the boxer’s reach extended far beyond that of Sagat’s. They laughed until they began getting frustrated and confused…

SFIV online right now is very much the same thing, seeing as the majority of fighters will pick Sagat or Akuma, abusing a single plan of attack with relative success. While I was first taken back by this, spending sometime in the game’s training mode, facing off against a computer Akuma had revealed to me an “Akilies Heel” to the “Raging Demon’s” attacks (a hint for those being bogged down by his multi-hitting Shakunetsu Hadoken, remember “rock, paper, scissors” of the Hadoken, Shoryuken and Tatsumaki Senpukyaku). Sagat is another matter, but strategies against him vary depending on whether your opponent is aggressive or defensive. You will see the occasional fighter picking an “odd ball” character, someone like the Sumo Wrestler Edmund Honda, but the majority of the online ranking battles are done with only a handful of the game’s twenty-five characters. I find this rather disgusting, but then again, as new strategies are discovered, some people will choose different characters to adapt to the changing online competition, which allows for more variety in who you fight.

Another problem I am seeing is the simple abuse of the game being online. Having played games over the internet for years, I know a lot of the tricks myself, having seen many of my opponents use them against me. I call recall my days playing Counter-Strike online with my friends, fighting opponents who would “teleport” around the map, striking in ways we couldn’t defend against. I could swear to God that I had unloaded an entire clip on an opponent who was running in place, only to find that he vanished as I mysteriously died. You see the same thing in SFIV since the Playstation Network (PSN) doesn’t weed out those with bad connections. Over the PSN, you will find many of these fighters using their slow speed and your fast one to their advantage. The idea is that when your connection sends signals to them, telling their system what your character is doing, their system sends information back at a much slower rate, giving them an unfair advantage. Your opponent jumps, and the game freezes, and by the time it unfreezes, you have just been dealt serious damage, unable to even block the undetectable assault. It isn’t even that hard to do yourself, especially if you are sharing an internet connection with a computer using a peer-to-peer (P2P) program, giving you that “winning edge” through abusing lag. I have had the displeasure of fighting a few of these fighters already, and I will say it really sucks the fun out of the game. You feel more like a training dummy, and I didn’t drop serious money on a game to go through that. Just like in the days of Counter-Strike, when some of these cheaters would use slower modems to maintain this advantage, it is almost as if they know exactly what they are doing, not caring that it isn’t a fair fight. If I wanted to feel that used, I would have been an Obama campaign worker…

It isn’t just that though, some players will cheat you out of a hard earned win by quitting out of a fight right before you can claim victory. This morning I was fighting a Gouken player in a best of five, and while he was a bit frustrating in the first round, by the time the second round was over, I had nailed down his strategy and begun to easily turn the tables on him. Nearing the end of the third round, with already two in the bag, onto my third win and victory, I see that he stops fighting. At fifteen percent health I assumed he was taking the “samurai” way out, letting me finish him since he had realized I was too much. Well I was in for a surprise when I found out he was taking the cowards way out by quitting the match before my win. This has happened a few times already, one fighter quit after being decimated in the first round of a best of three, while another had run off when he saw that even using Akuma wasn’t enough to fight me. It is understandable if it is a drop in connection, or if there is understandable circumstances (I had bailed when fighting two of the “lag masters” mentioned above this morning), but this was done to preserve their battle ranking. Pathetic, and it is downright disgusting when you yourself aren’t playing this game. When you see enough of these players, it gets to the point when one’s ranking is meaningless. Who knows how many of those high ranking players crawled their way up the ladder by using such dishonourable means. Downright pathetic…

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Aside from these issues, I could discuss the fact that the game doesn’t allow you the ability to have a rematch. Almost as bad as Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe where some fighters would run around, get their quick win and run off. I have been beaten by players who I didn’t feel were my equal, but without the ability for a rematch in ranked battle, it becomes one frustration after another. It would have been nice to have that chance to take another swing, even at the cost of ranking, just to make sure it wasn’t simply dumb luck that did you in. Many a time already I have been bested by players who simply lucked out, having a moment of lag which has given them the time to defend against my attack, damage which has been stolen from me by an unstable connection. I was beaten by a Gen player simply because of a “lag burst” which had turned my hard practiced Shoryureppa into a simple Shoryuken. Not having landed that Super Combo cost me momentum, turning the tide of the fight due to a missed attack, resulting in me losing the match. Dumb luck is all it was…

And to those players reading this, trying to figure out why they do lose those “nail-biters”, why sometimes things never go right when they spend hours practicing only to keep losing, that a lot of it has to do with luck. It is true that no matter how good you are, there is always someone better, but sometimes it is just simple chance. Anyone who remembers Golden Eye 007 for the Nintendo 64, and Perfect Dark which followed shortly after, sometimes the match was decided by where you spawned, what weapons you were closest too, what areas could be properly defended, etc This was even more important if you were playing “Licensed to Kill” mode, where one shot is it, especially since an assault rifle is far more effective then a semi-automatic pistol. Sure there is a fair bit of skill involved, but in my long experience in gaming, even with all the practice, even with your fingers moving around the control pad faster than your opponent, sometimes a lucky shot, a missed attack, running out of ammo at a crucial moment, a game glitch, or another unforeseen circumstance leads you to defeat. Luck does play a significant part in whether you win or lose, and those who deny it are either inexperienced or simply lying to themselves. I could go on and on about the errors in some of these games, but I am sure we all have our stories…

I know it can be a hassle, and I know that sometimes the game is more frustrating than fun, but remember that you aren’t the only one going through it… And after all, it is only a game right?

Quick Post; Keeping up with Obama

My friend Kirk spent last night live-blogging the President’s press conference, and the outcome was rather hilarious. Give it a read if you are looking for a less than serious take on all this bullshit…

I have to say I haven’t blogged in a while because even I am getting sick of the same old corruption. Michelle Malkin followed the build up to the so-called “Regan-esk” or “Churchill-esk” speech, depending on which Democratic pundit you were forced to watch. All this media bias is sickening, so much so that I can’t even turn on CNN to hear about the crash of an Turkey Airlines plane in Amsterdam without hearing how “extraordinary” it is to like in the “Age of Obama”. Weren’t planes supposed to stop crashing with him elected now? I am sure I heard something about that from MSNBC…

If it isn’t Helen Thomas’ racist remarks about Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, it is George Stephanopoulos fawning over all the “hope” Obama “inspires”. It is hard to deal with this on a daily basis, especially if you aren’t a soulless politician. No wonder I stepped away from politics in university, I couldn’t stomach the filth which called themselves teachers and students…

I think after my constant blogging about this for the last little while, that even I deserve time off. Urgh… Disgusting…

UPDATE: Even Hot Air was covering that speech last night. I don’t see Obama as the love child of a Jesus, Lincoln, FDR, Regan and now Churchill orgy, but then again I don’t work at CNN or MSNBC. I would like to know the exact moment when they went from “fair and balanced” news stations to propaganda outlets, I really would… Pathetic…

Steven Crowder’s Challenge; Mohammed’s lifestyle versus the rest

I found this video on Hot Air while I was looking for something to write about. It has been a week since my last blog entry, and while I have updated a few entries in the meantime, I felt I should at least get out there and put something up. As you can see, it is in the same “spirit” as the previous one…

Now I have to give Steven Crowder credit, if I was the one in his position, I wouldn’t have been so polite about it. Even the ancient Egyptians waiting till 14 before marriage, which is understandable seeing how the average life expectancy was about 30 (correct me if I’m wrong, but I am pretty sure I’m not). As Wiki Islam points out, Mohammed’s marriage to Aisha was clearly an act of pedophilia, something which is still practiced in many part of the Muslim world. Add in all the talk about Jews and Christians being no one’s friend, Muslims who are friends with them aren’t Muslims, those who don’t convert should be killed, etc and you definitely don’t have the “religion of peace”.

While that is a bold statement, it is about time someone says it. It seems these days that people are willing to appease these people, the same people who have prayed for our deaths, celebrated terrorist attacks, and continue to push their backward beliefs down our throats. I have met many good Muslims, and while I’m not going to simply judge a person on their faith alone, I’m sick and tired of turning on the television or opening up my email to find a story about murders and bombings done in the name of Mohammed. Sooner or later, we might just have to enact the “Golden Rule” (Matthew 7:12) in a way Jesus never intended…

They better figure out that this is all getting on our very last nerve, and if they want a fight, there are more of us then them, and we carry bigger sticks…

UPDATE: I will also like to say that this isn’t even the half of it. My last post covered it, but I would like to once again address this concept of “honour killings”. If it isn’t the beating of women as commanded by Mohammed, it is the brutal killing of them. Mark Steyn of Atlas Shrugs put out an article about the most recent incident, as well as countless more. I recommend you go through that list, mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and fiancees all killed by family members because of their “dishonour”. Give it a look, especially if you think what I am saying is extreme since you obviously need a douse of brutal and disturbing reality…

Once again, some cultures just aren’t worth preserving, especially one which allows this kind of brutality towards women…

UPDATE: While a little off topic, I think it is necessary to make a mention of it. To Helen Thomas and other mentally deranged reporters, there is no “moral equivalence” to their acts of terrorism. Dropping bombs on military targets is not the same as blowing up a crowded market of civilians, nor is water-boarding the same as beheading and otherwise mutilating a family member for “dishonouring” you. Thomas should be sent to the Middle East and see how they treat women, especially ones as unstable as her…

What a disgusting display of ignorance and anti-American bias… Pathetic…

UPDATE: What did I say about Islam being shoved down our throats? As Zomblog reports, these new advertisements on public transportation in San Francisco is just the start. And who is funding this? Why if it isn’t CAIR, the Hamas-linked organization trying to convert the ignorant in America. I don’t see Christians, Jews, Buddhists, etc doing this do you? You don’t see Catholics demanding submission to my faith through such aggressive means do you? Disgusting…

A nod to Michelle Malkin for this one…

UPDATE: If the advertisements on public transportation weren’t enough, here is another reason to question the “political correct” view on Islam. This from CBS…

“He was an A student,” says Samatar. “He has everything to hope for to attend any Ivy League school that he wanted to. Why he would do it is a mystery to us.”

Some 20 vanished last year – all American citizens – an exodus the FBI has noticed for a troubling reason.

“A man from Minneapolis became what we believe to be the first U.S. citizen to carry out a terrorist suicide bombing,” said agency director Robert Mueller.

The October attack by 27-year-old Shirwa Ahmed killed 30 near Mogadishu, and there is alarm that the skills acquired abroad could be brought back to America.

Found this while looking over Hot Air. I can testify to my own experience with this sort of thing, seeing as the mosque near my high school was being used to recruit terrorists, as was the case with Momin Khawaja. It doesn’t surprise me that Somali Muslims would be recruited at mosques for the civil war in Somalia, especially after the Khawaja incident, but it is upsetting that even after all this, nothing is being done. If a religious organization is being used as an arm for paramilitary groups, then they should have their rights suspended and people should be arrested. End of story…

“Religion of peace” my ass…

Cultural Inequality; Honour Killings in Western Lands

Michelle Malkin has a new post up about an honour killing in Buffalo. This is the story from the Buffalo News…

Prominent Orchard Park man charged with beheading his wife
By Gene Warner
News Staff Reporter

Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.

Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.

“He came to the police station at 6:20 p.m. [Thursday] and told us that she was dead,” Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said late this morning.

Muzzammil Hassan told police that his wife was at his business, Bridges TV, on Thorn Avenue in the village. Officers went to that location and discovered her body.

Muzzammil Hassan is the founder and chief executive officer of Bridges TV, which he launched in 2004, amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light.

The killing apparently occurred some time late Thursday afternoon. Detectives still are looking for the murder weapon.

“Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible,” Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said today.

Authorities say Aasiya Hassan recently had filed for divorce from her husband.

“She had an order of protection that had him out of the home as of Friday the 6th [of February],” Benz said.

Muzzammil Hassan was arraigned before Village Justice Deborah Chimes and sent to the Erie County Holding Center.

As Daniel Pipes reported, Muzzammil is the founder of BridgesTV, a station directed at Muslim viewers. The station, as Pipes has been reporting, is used to push Muslim propaganda (such as fictional growth rates, and anti-Israeli/antisemetic stories and discussions) through CAIR approved programing, so it would seem Muzzammil is a real hard-liner in the Muslim Community, not simply a “religiously misguided” American. It doesn’t surprise me that a man who seems to have made a living aggressively preaching his extreme beliefs, would resort to this, especially with the crowd he keeps, but my question is whether or not this is the culmination of a long line of abuses. Could this have been prevented if the police knew of his brutal nature? Were there police reports of domestic violence? We will see when we learn more…

This isn’t the first, and it won’t be the last, and I for one am getting sick of it. If it isn’t the Aqsa Parvez murder in 2007 which took place in Toronto, Canada, or the Morsal Obeidi murder in Germany just last year, it is countless more untold stories the world over. Some cultures are just backwards, simple as that. You can’t tell me that anyone who accepts these practices belongs in our country. These people are indoctrinated from a very young age, and have most likely been witness to this behaviour in the past. This kind of barbarism should be rooted out and severely punished. Those who advocate it, like mosque officials and Muslim community leaders, are just as guilty, if not more so…

Downright disgusting and pathetic… This kind of behaviour doesn’t belong on our shores…

UPDATE: NewsBusters.org’s Matthew Balan is now posting his thoughts on this story…

The Muslim founder of BridgesTV, a cable network whose slogan is “connecting people through understanding” and which tried to “improve the image of Muslims in the United States,” was arrested on Thursday, for allegedly killing his estranged wife in a manner normally associated with Islamist terrorists — chopping off her head…

…BridgesTV might have had the aim of trying to improve the image of Muslims, but over two years ago, Steve Stalinsky of MEMRI outlined in the now-defunct New York Sun that the network featured Wahhabi anti-Christian and anti-Jewish sermons from Saudi TV broadcasts, including English subtitles. Stalinsky also noted that Donald Conover, one of the main hosts on the network, discussed “the power of the ‘Jewish lobby’” and urged Muslims to vote for Democrats during an interview with a Saudi newspaper in 2006…

I do agree that these actions have done nothing but cement the belief that many of these people are simply barbaric, no different from those who are seen beheading hostages in Middle East. The problem is not all Muslims are like this, not all wish “death to the infidels”. I have had the pleasure of knowing many who simply want to live as we do, to choose what they want to wear when they go out, who they can be friends with, who they want to date and marry, without having to strictly abide to the teachings of their faith. With that said, it would be nice for those moderates to make their voices heard instead of staying silent when incidents like these occur…

If you don’t speak up, the rest of us will think you don’t exist. Your inability to take action gives these people power, and because of that, we will continue to see beheadings and other displays of barbarity…

UPDATE: I was doing a little digging into this story and found a blog post from Refugee Resettlement Watch. According to a report by Trina Hoaks, Aasiya Hassan had filed for divorce from her husband. This “dishonour” would be enough for a radical like Muzzamil to do this. Disturbing…

I will update with more when it becomes available…

UPDATE: For those looking for a more complete look at this incident, JihadWatch.org has the story up already. Give it a look, this is the website which specializes in documenting stories about radical Islam which the MSM won’t touch.

A “hat tip” to The Sheikh Down for the link to JihadWatch.org’s story.

UPDATE: This from Yahoo News…

“He came to the police station at 6:20 pm (Thursday) and told us that she was dead,” Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz told the newspaper.

Police reportedly went to Bridges TV, which Hassan founded in 2004, and discovered her body….

…Benz said Hassan’s wife, 37, had filed for divorce January 6, and that police had responded to numerous domestic violence calls at the couple’s home, according to CNN.

He reportedly had two children, age four and six, with his wife, and two other children, age 17 and 18, from a previous marriage.

I really don’t know what to say about his state of mind, but going to the police as he did shows regret, not something that would help if his lawyer went with an insanity defense. My guess, second-degree murder, 15 to 20 years, if not more due to the brutal nature of the crime. Disturbing, especially since he did this to the mother of his children… What was he thinking?

And NO, I won’t “be respectful and have an open mind”, you don’t try and “understand” derangement like this. It is wrong any way you look at it, and I don’t want to get anymore comments stating that I have to be more respectful of these extreme beliefs…

Anyone who thinks that way should get their head examined… Pathetic…