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.

Which state has the best college basketball?

Tom Crean has reinvigorated the Indiana fan base and has the Hoosiers headed back to their spot among college basketball’s elite. But in a basketball mad state, Crean’s team has a lot of competition from schools with a lot of winning tradition. Is Indiana the best state for college hoops, or are North Carolina and Kentucky still the two at the top

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Family Guy Lois Griffin Sexy, Marge Simpson

People who watch “Family Guy” are used to a strong case of the random and bizarre. This week is no different, as we’re treated to a seemingly appropro of nothing Superfriends intro credits and two seemingly unrelated storylines (Quagmire discovers internet porn, finally; and Peter falls in love with a Kathy Ireland cutout from the 90s). But after Lois has a health scare, we get to the kosher meat at the heart of the show: Lois is Jewish, which of course has predictably zany effects on her bizarre family.
After viewing the episode, titled “Family Goy,” it occurs to me that the seemingly out of place intro is actually a perfect callback to the role that Jewish comic book writers had on the industry. Many comic book heroes – Superman and Spiderman among them — were created by Red Sea pedestrians, as an outgrowth of outsider status. And in today’s TV cartoon families, Jewish identity is a theme that’s played for both semi-serious inquiry as well as laughs. Both the Simpsons and South Park devoted episodes to finding out what it means to be Jewish: now it’s time for Judaism to get the Griffin treatment,

For people who think that the concept of “spoilers” applies to Family Guy, you’ll want to end your reading of this piece here and go directly to Hulu to view the episode. Everyone else, continue after the jump.
Predictably, there are broad stroke trappings of Jewishness that the Griffins embrace and lampoon – Peter’s Star of David plus chest hair, plus his insistence that people call him by his Hebrew name (“chcchchchchch”); Lois puts on a Passover seder; Stewie chants a brachah (blessing) over holiday candles; and Ben Stein plays a monotonous rabbi. Plus, the characters make their regular quota of Star Wars and Indiana Jones jokes. But there are deeper moments

Their friend Max notes that “becoming Jewish doesn’t happen overnight. It’s a process that involves spiritual education and good works.” This is of course lost on the intellectually stunted Peter, who exasperated, echoes generations of kids forced to go to Hebrew school: “Leave it to a Jew to take all the fun out of being a Jew.” Later, Peter, newly convinced that his family needs to remain Catholic, explains that “we believe in the Easter Bunny – he died for our sins in that helicopter crash,” which comments on the chasm between a holiday’s actual meaning and the commercialized, materialistic versions that pervades people’s cultural and religious literacy.

At the end of the day (or in this case, the episode), Jesus saves, explaining to Peter that Judaism and Catholicism are “two sides of the same coin.” When Brian tries to include Islam is also in that same spiritual family, as part, Jesus cuts him off: “Let’s not muddy things up here.” By the episode’s end, Peter is confused. Which religion should he be? he asks Jesus. Well, at least that moment I won’t spoil.
Source: blog.beliefnet.com

H1n1 Vaccine Risks, Swine Flu

A national campaign to inoculate tens of millions of Americans against H1N1 influenza began Monday, with health care workers in Indiana and Tennessee targeted as the first recipients, federal health authorities said.
“I think the world has watched history unfold,” Dr. Judy Monroe, Indiana’s state health commissioner, told reporters at Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis.

Earlier Monday, the hospital received a shipment of 52 boxes — each containing 100 pre-filled sprayers.

“This first 5,200 doses that came to Marion County is really just the tip of the iceberg,” Monroe said.

Health Director Virginia Caine said the shipment will be split among the county’s hospitals.

A similar scene unfolded at LeBonheur Children’s Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee, where three children have died from H1N1, sometimes referred to as swine flu.

Jennilyn Utkov, a spokeswoman for LeBonheur, said the hospital received about 100 doses. By noon, the supply had been depleted.

The vaccines shipped to both sites and to a few other places around the nation are the first of some 195 million doses the U.S. government has purchased from five vaccine manufacturers, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Dr. Jay Butler told reporters at the Indianapolis event. That number includes both spray and injectable forms.

Butler, who heads the agency’s 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Task Force, has promised there will be enough for anyone who wants it.

Do you have questions about the H1N1 virus? Let us know! We’ll have answers tonight.
Source: ac360.blogs.cnn.com

Mike Huckabee

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee cruised to a victory in a (very) early 2012 straw poll today at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC.
Huckabee received 28 percent of the vote while former Govs. Mitt Romney (Mass.) and Sarah Palin (Alaska) as well as Gov. Tim Pawlenty (Minn.) received roughly 12 percent of the vote. Indiana Rep. Mike Pence took 11 percent.

All but Palin addressed the crowd over the three-day gathering of social conservatives. Palin was in Alaska to welcome her son, Track, back from a year-long deployment in Iraq. (The Fix somehow missed this point in an earlier analysis in which we surmised that Palin’s absence was evidence that she was far from a sure-thing to run in 2012. We still believe that to be true but her decision not to attend the Summit is entirely unrelated to her 2012 plans — or lack thereof.)

Before too much is read into the straw poll results, remember two things: first, just over 500 total people cast ballots, and, second, we are still more than two years removed from the first votes of the 2012 election.

What should we take from the vote? That Huckabee is extremely popular among the most socially conservative of voters who view the former governor as one of them, a part of the movement. No surprise there.

But, as 2008 showed, Huckabee must find a way to expand from that base if he hopes to the nominee in 2012. Huckabee used his strength among social conservatives to win the Iowa caucuses last year but was unable to follow it up with a win in any other early state.
Source: voices.washingtonpost.com

Orson Indiana

Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton both starred in long-lasting hit comedies in the 1990s (Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond). On Fox’s short-lived Back to You, they teamed up as news anchors, forming a kind of sitcom-star supergroup. Now they’re debuting back-to-back sitcoms on ABC, a symmetry that demands comparison. When two sitcoms stars once united are now divided—only one can be the winner!

Who is it? Sorry, Kelsey.

Grammer’s Hank, in which he plays a fired CEO forced to downsize his life and move back to the suburbs to lead a middle-class existence, is bad in so many ways it’s hardly worth going into detail on them all: implausibility (Hank is the only unsuccessful CEO in America not to move on with a healthy golden parachute), cliched sassy-kid characters, a predictable setup-joke-setup-joke rhythm and a protagonist who is neither sympathetic (though he’s meant to be) nor flawed in any interesting way.

But a big problem is simply this: Kelsey Grammer is again playing a Kelsey Grammer character—a pompous stuffed shirt whom life is destined to un-stuff. And every time he takes another stab at it, the returns diminish. Back to You was a funnier sitcom than Hank, but its premise was still largely, “What if Frasier Crane was a news anchor who had to take a less-prestigious job?” And Hank’s is, to too great an extent, “What if Frasier Crane was a disgraced CEO?” Frasier was a funny, likeable character who would sometimes get taken down a peg, and we’d all laugh; when the premise has already taken him down several pegs, he—or, in this case, Hank—ends up constantly crabby and a little depressing.

Besides which: Frasier was a character in TV for 20 years. Enough. Grammer seems to be a talented enough actor that he could take a role that went against type—and a successful enough producer that he could develop a role like that for himself. It’s time to give Frasier a rest.

Heaton, on the other hand, again plays a sitcom mom on ABC’s The Middle, but one sufficiently different from Raymond’s Debra that you can quickly embrace her in the new role. The Middle employs another canny strategy to avoid distractingly reminding you of Raymond: it instead distracting reminds you of Malcolm in the Middle (right down to the title), which, however, at least has the advantage of being a classic sitcom that Heaton did not appear in.

The Middle is not yet good enough (I’ve only seen the pilot) to put on my must-watch list for this season. But it’s good enough that it could yet make it on that list, and—always a positive sign—it’s far, far better than its premise led me to expect. Heaton stars as Frankie Heck, a car saleswoman and overburdened mother of three living in Orson, Indiana. Geographically, Indiana is the “middle” of the title, though it also has overtones of hitting middle age in the middle class. Like Malcolm in the Middle—which was also about a family barely getting by financially—there are lots of scenes of chaos and the sense of a household held together by scotch tape and nervous energy. (When the family’s teen daughter complains about a laundry disaster, Frankie scolds, “I told you—you can’t put wet things in the dryer anymore!,” a line that could have come straight out of Lois’ mouth.)

Also as on Malcolm, each kid has a distinguishing quirk (the sullen-jock teenage son, the awkward 13-year-old daughter and an obsessive-compulsive youngest son) and an affably clueless hubby (Neil Flynn, the former janitor from Scrubs). None of this is going to seem new under the sun, in Indiana or anywhere else, but in the pilot it comes together with zest and a likeable craziness. Emphasis on the likeable—unlike the characters in the sour Hank, for all Heck family’s stress and eccentricity, you can easily and clearly see how they function as a family.

The Middle has its drawbacks. The parallels to Malcolm really are overwhelming (the younger son is like the second coming of Erik Per Sullivan), and are only dispelled by the parallels to Roseanne. Flynn’s character, Mike, sometimes crosses the line from being lunkheaded to seeming like a clueless jerk. And the pilot works way too hard to hammer its theme home (if you’re making a show about how hard it is to balance work and raising kids, you shouldn’t need to have the protagonist say, flat-out, how hard it is to balance work and raising kids).

But I laughed a lot more at The Middle than I expected to going in, whereas I expected little from Hank and got even less. Patricia Heaton, you have won this round.
Source: tunedin.blogs.time.com

General Motors raising output at 3 factories (AP)

General Motors Co. will go to 24-hour operations at factories in Kansas, Michigan and Indiana to handle an expected increase in demand and to make up for production lost from a large-scale factory consolidation announced earlier in the year.

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Stakes are high for Mass. gov on Kennedy successor (AP)

AP – For Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, picking a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy isn’t just about finding the best person to represent the state in Washington.

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Consumer Credit Counseling Service

Starting September 22, Consumer Credit Counsling Service (CCCS) will be providing free counseling services to the public out of Indiana Tech office space in Huntington. CCCS hopes that access to financial counseling will lead to greater quality of life for recipients.

The CCCS is a non-profit community service founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1965, committed to helping people gain control of their finances.