Fort Hood Victims List
Fort Hood Victims List: The following is a list of victims of the shooting Thursday at Fort Hood slaughter that left 13 dead and 38 wounded, of whom 30 were hospitalized. The list is compiled from various media reports around the country. Authorities have not released the names of victims until Friday at noon.
Dead:
Grant Michael Cahill, 62, of Cameron – before Spokane, Washington, – was a medical assistant who was working at the post of civilian contractors
Sgt. Justin M. Crow, 32, of Plymouth, Ind.
Reservist John Gaffaney, 56, of Serra Messa, California
SPC. Jason Dean Hunt, 22, of Tipton, Oklahoma
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel, Wisconsin
PFC. Nemelka Aaron Thomas, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, was killed.
PFC. Michael Pearson, 21, of Bolingbrook, Illinois
Russell Seager, 51, of Racine, Wisconsin
PVT. Francheska Velez, 21, of Chicago. She was pregnant.
Military medical assistant Juanita Warman, 55, of Pittsburgh,
SPC. Kham Xiong, 23, of St. Paul, Minnesota
Injured:
Eclectic officer Chris Birmingham, Alabama, was shot three.
Sgt. Patrick Blue III, 23, of Belcourt, ND, was beaten in the face by bullet fragments during the attack,
Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake, Wisconsin, was shot in the stomach.
Bono Keara Torkelson, 21, of Ostego, Missouri, was shot in the shoulder again on the left.
Alan Carroll, 20, of Bridgewater, New Jersey, was shot three.
U.S. Army Reserve Dorothy “Dorita” Carskadon of Rockford, Ill., was seriously wounded.
Sgt. Joy Clark, 27, of Des Moines suffered a gunshot wound
SPC. Matthew Cook, 30, of Binghamton, New York, was shot in the abdomen
Sgt. Chad Davis, of Eufaula, Ala., was injured.
PVT. Joey Foster, 21, of Ogden, Utah, was shot in the hip
Cpl. Nathan Hewitt, 26, of West Lafayette, Indiana
Justin Johnson, 21, of Punta Gorda, Fla., was shot in the chest and leg.
Staff. Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, Richmond County, North Carolina, was shot several times.
Shawn Manning, 33 years before Redman, Oregon, was shot six times
Army 2nd Lt. Brandy Mason, of Monessen, was wounded.
Reserve SPC. Grant Moxon, 23, of Lodi, Wis., was shot in the leg.
Sgt. Kimberly Munley, 34, of Killeen is the police officer in Fort Hood, in civilian was shot several times by the suspect.
Royal Warrant Officer Christopher Elmore County, Alabama, was shot three.
Major Randy Royer, of Dothan, Alabama, was shot.
PVT. Raymundo “Ray” Saucedo, 26, of Greenville, Mich., had a bullet grazed his arm.
George Stratton III, 18, of Post Falls, Idaho, was shot in the shoulder.
Patrick Zeigler, 28, Orange County, Fla., was seriously injured.
Oliver Williamson, Elinor Ostrom
Two American economists, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, who study economic governance and the way decisions are made outside the markets, were awarded Monday with the Nobel Prize in economics.
Ms. Ostrom, who teaches at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., is the first woman to win the prize, which previously had been awarded to 62 men since it was launched in 1969.
The judges cited Ms. Ostrom’s “analysis of economic governance, especially the commons,” the way in which natural resources are managed as shared resources.
Her work challenged the view that when people share a finite resource, they’ll end up destroying it. Such “a tragedy of the commons” argues that resources that are important for the common good need to be highly regulated, or privatized.
It’s an area of research that she said was relevant to questions about global warming, and suggests that decisions by individuals can help solve the problem even as governments work to reach an international agreement.
“Based on numerous studies of user-managed fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes, and groundwater basins, [Ms.] Ostrom concludes that the outcomes are, more often than not, better than predicted by standard theories,” the Nobel judges noted.
That’s because over time, people often develop institutions, social networks and ways of interacting that solves the problem. Lobstermen in Maine, for example, have come to informally regulate, and restrict entry to, the areas where they work. Where these “lobster gangs” are prevalent, there are more lobsters.
On a larger scale, these social networks don’t always work as well, notes Yale University environmental economist Matthew Kotchen — there are fewer lobsters, for example, further away from Maine harbors. What’s important, he says, is that Ms. Ostrom’s work points out the importance of the networks that many economists had ignored, in part, because they couldn’t come up with elegant models to describe how they worked.
“Just because you don’t know how to model them doesn’t’ mean you can ignore them,” he said.
Ms. Ostrom, 76 years old, who was interviewed by phone during the public announcement in Stockholm, described the prize as “an immense surprise.” Her University of California at Los Angeles Ph.D. is in political science, but she said she considers herself a political economist.
Mr. Williamson, 77, who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley and earned his Ph.D. at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie-Mellon University, was cited for “for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm” — the reason some economic decisions are made at arm’s length in markets and others are made inside a corporation.
Mr. Williamson’s work stems from time he spent in the late 1960s working in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, and noticing that there was little attention to the internal workings of companies.
“The way economists used to think of the firm was as a black box that transfer inputs into outputs, and they didn’t look inside,” explained Mr. Williamson, who was woken up by the call from the Nobel committee at 3:30 in the morning. “We opened up the black box.”
What he found was that many economic decisions that standard theory said would be more efficiently left to the market place were actually better left within a firm.
“Competitive markets work relatively well because buyers and sellers can turn to other trading partners in case of dissent,” the Nobel judges said. “But when market competition is limited, firms are better suited for conflict resolution than markets.”
The economics prize is one of six Nobel prizes not created in Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel’s 1896 will, and officially known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2009.
The two economists will share a 10-million kronor prize — $1.42 million, €980,000. Ms. Ostrom said she hopes to devote the proceeds to supporting research and graduate students.
Source: online.wsj.com
120909, March on Washington
Thousands of people marched in downtown Washington Saturday to protest what they call out-of-control government spending. The conservative activists from around the country are seeking to continue their momentum in shaping the national debate on everything from health care to White House staffing.
The line of protesters stretched several blocks, with people chanting “enough, enough” and “we the people.” Others were waving U.S. flags and holding signs reading “Go Green Recycle Congress,” “I’m Not Your ATM” and “Obamacare makes me sick.”
Some men were dressed in colonial costumes with tri-colored hats, and the protesters planned to march to the U.S. Capitol.
The event came on the heels of antitax gatherings, dubbed tea parties, in April, and a series of congressional town-hall meetings nationwide last month that elicited angry criticism of health-care proposals favored by President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies.
“I can’t figure out to save me what [Mr. Obama and the Democrats] are trying to accomplish, unless they want socialism,” 73-year-old Joseph Wright, a retired paper-mill worker, said this week. Mr. Wright rode from Tallahassee, Fla., to Washington on one of the many chartered buses bringing in demonstrators from states as far-flung as Massachusetts and Arkansas.
Saturday’s rally came just a few months after Mr. Obama’s victory seemed to have left the conservative movement in disarray. But in recent weeks, critics of the administration’s programs and spending have succeeded in putting Mr. Obama on the defensive, threatening his health-care drive, prompting parents to boycott a routine presidential speech to schoolchildren and forcing the resignation of a White House adviser with a left-leaning past.
While the movement has gotten considerable attention, it is unclear just how broad it is.
White House officials on Friday professed to know nothing of the planned demonstrations. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs queried reporters about the planners and their issues. “I don’t know who the group is,” he said with a shrug.
Other Democrats suggested the protesters are embittered, fringe conservatives fueled by radio and TV talk-show hosts. “There’s a lot of energy, but it’s negative energy,” said Democratic strategist John Lapp. “At the end of the day, Republicans are left with bomb-throwing, screaming, frothing and a lot of opposition.”
For their part, Republican leaders have been grappling with whether to embrace or distance themselves from the mounting protests. Most of Saturday’s scheduled speakers are little-known activists. But Sen. Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) and Reps. Mike Pence (R., Ind.), Tom Price (R., Ga.) and Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) will address the crowd, as will former Texas Rep. Dick Armey, now president of FreedomWorks, a Washington-based group advocating smaller government and lower taxes that took the lead in organizing the event.
The 54 riders on the Tallahassee bus provided a window into the new conservative energy. On the road, they listened to reminiscences of President Ronald Reagan’s life, including his battle against Soviet-style communism. It is a fight they say must now be waged at home, against an administration and Congress that is inserting government deeply into banking, car making and, perhaps, health care.
“There really should be a smaller role for the federal government, and a larger role for the state government and local governments,” said one rider, Mary Mangan, 24, who owns a baby-sitting company in Tallahassee. “Keep it simple. Keep it constitutional.”
Forty-four of the riders identified themselves as Republicans, with eight independents and two Libertarians. The average age was 56 years old. Fifty-one said they voted for Republican John McCain in his White House bid last year, though several said they did so to support his running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. The remaining three riders said they voted for Libertarian Bob Barr.
In interviews, they gave an almost uniform diagnosis of the country’s problems: The Obama administration and congressional Democrats are spending too much money on programs that insert government too far into people’s lives. And Washington, they say, ignores or vilifies those who object.
“This is not about being anti-Obama, even though I personally dislike his policies,” said Constance Campbell, 58, a retired state administrator who organized the Tallahassee bus. “It’s about a feeling of powerlessness in We the People.”
Source: online.wsj.com
