Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, July 13, 2010


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William R. Barker said...

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/Suffer-These-Crimes-in-Oakland-Dont-Call-the-Cops-98266509.html

Chief Anthony Batts listed exactly 44 situations that his officers will no longer respond to and they include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism. He says if you live and Oakland [California] and one of the above happens to you, you need to let police know on-line.

* CHIEF BATTS SHOULD BE SUMMARILY FIRED FOR CAUSE.

(*SHRUG*)

* SERIOUSLY... IT'S THAT SIMPLE...

July 13, 2010 at 4:54 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38034

Rather than work with Arizona to secure the border and send the illegals home, the Obamaites are taking Mexico's side against Arizona, and against the faithful execution of U.S. law.

In a shocking and telling episode in the Rose Garden, Obama stood by mute as Felipe Calderon attacked the Arizona law as "discriminatory." The next day, Democrats in Congress, with Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano joining in, cheered the Mexican president's slander that Arizona introduced "racial profiling to law enforcement." There was a time when such an insult to a state of our union, on U.S. soil by a foreign ruler, would have produced a diplomatic crisis...

* THAT TIME IS LONG PAST. WE NOW LIVE IN THE AGE OF OBAMA... (*SIGH*)

Unlike San Francisco and other towns that declare themselves to be "sanctuary cities" and refuse to cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities, Arizona is not challenging or usurping U.S. law, but trying to assist the U.S. government in enforcing the immigration laws. Why is Arizona under attack for simply trying to help enforce our immigration laws? Because the Obama administration cannot, will not or does not even wish to see those laws enforced.

Unlike San Francisco and other towns that declare themselves to be "sanctuary cities" and refuse to cooperate with U.S. immigration authorities, Arizona is not challenging or usurping U.S. law, but trying to assist the U.S. government in enforcing the immigration laws.

Why is Arizona under attack for simply trying to help enforce our immigration laws? Because the Obama administration cannot, will not or does not even wish to see those laws enforced.

Though we have 15 million Americans unemployed, near 10% of our workforce, with a higher share of African-Americans jobless, we have 8 million illegal aliens holding jobs. (And last year the administration handed out over a million green cards and work visas to foreigners to come and take jobs that would have gone to American citizens.)

[A]s one watches Obama and Congress take the side of a foreign leader attacking an American state, and the government refuse to do its duty and defend the borders or send the illegals back home, [a] question arises: In this ongoing invasion of the United States that has brought 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens into our midst, whose side is the government on? Ours or theirs?

July 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.northjersey.com/news/071210_NJ_top_court_rules_police_must_explain_DWI_test_laws_in_native_language.html

Police in New Jersey must explain the state's implied consent law to motorists in a language that they understand, the [NJ] state Supreme Court ruled on Monday.

In a 4-3 decision, the court overturned a conviction for refusing to take an alcohol breath test because the man, who spoke only Spanish, did not understand the consequences.

* OK. BILL'S SOLUTION: IMPEACH, CONVICT AND THROW OFF THE BENCH ALL FOUR IDIOTS WHO CAME UP WITH THIS DECISION.

The court found that a Plainfield police officer failed to inform German Marquez, who is from El Salvador, in Spanish that he would automatically lose his driver's license for seven months if he refused the test.

Police had responded to a two-car accident in 2007. The officer initially asked in English for Marquez to show his license. When the officer repeated the request in Spanish, Marquez complied.

After reading Marquez a statement in English explaining the consequences of refusing the breath test, Marquez shook his head and pointed to his eye, which the officer considered uncooperative. As a result, he was charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing to take a breath test.

Marquez said he didn't understand what police were reading to him and that he had taken his driver's license exam in Spanish.

* ONE MORE TIME... (*SIGH*)... ON THE FACE OF IT THIS IS INSANE. WE SPEAK ENGLISH HERE. STATES SHOULD MAKE ENGLISH THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE AND END THIS ASININE - AND EXPENSIVE - PRACTICE.

Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for the Attorney General's office, said prosecutors strongly disagree with the legal rationale of the majority opinion. "There are over 150 different languages spoken in New Jersey, according to statistics gathered by the courts," Aseltine said. "This ruling effectively provides an immunity claim in a prosecution for violating the refusal statute for any drunk driver who speaks a language that the officer is unable to identify or translate."

July 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/White-House_-Google-violate-lobbying-pledge-97103794.html

Maybe a $150 billion company with 21,000 employees and 20% profit margins doesn't count as "big business" or a "special interest" if it talks about "changing the world from the bottom up, not from the top down," as President Obama put it.

Maybe a millionaire who spends his days leaning on policymakers to benefit his company isn't a lobbyist if he calls himself an "Internet evangelist."

Or maybe Google's cozy relationship with the White House - exposed more clearly by e-mails recently made public through the Freedom of Information Act - is just one more instance of the administration's actions contradicting Obama's reformer rhetoric about battling the special interests and freeing Washington from lobbyist influence.

* WANNA BET THIS IS ANOTHER STORY THAT WON'T BE GETTING MUCH PLAY IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA? (*SIGH*)

Google trailed only Goldman Sachs and Microsoft as a source of funds for Obama in 2008, providing $803,000 - 40 times what Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain raised from the company.

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt was a fundraiser and adviser for Obama's campaign.

[President] Obama speaks a lot about battling the special interests. But, evidently, his friends don't count.

July 13, 2010 at 5:40 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100713/ap_on_bi_ge/us_republicans_budget

Republicans in the Senate are backing a plan to shave $20 billion from President Barack Obama's budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

The cuts amount to about a 2% percent trim from the $1.13 trillion requested by Obama for agency budgets annually funded by Congress.

* IN CONTRAST...

Senate Budget Committee Democrats have proposed a $4 billion cut.

* I'M FOR THE $20 BILLION CUT.

* PLEASE NOTE THOUGH...

The proposal would still provide for a $10 billion increase over current spending.

* FRIGG'N POLITICIANS...!

July 13, 2010 at 10:26 PM

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