Sunday, November 14, 2010

Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., Nov. 13 & 14, 2010


O.K, so I'm heading for Spain - not Mexico - but as we say in America...

Potato...

Potaaato!

By the way... my stepmother just loved Engelbert Humperdinck...

I've gotta hand it to the guy... 74 years old and still going strong...
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William R. Barker said...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40135092

There might not have been a second round of quantitative easing, if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke shopped at Walmart.

A new pricing survey of products sold at Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, showed a 0.6% price increase in just the last two months, according to MKM Partners.

At that rate, prices would be close to 4% higher a year from now, double the Fed’s mandate.

* THE SIX KEY WORDS BEING THIS UNDERSTATEMENT: "AT THIS RATE, PRICES WOULD BE..."

* FOLKS. IT ALL WE HAD TO WORRY ABOUT WAS 4% INFLATION I'D BE JUMPING FOR JOY! I'M GUESSING BY SUMMER OF NEXT YEAR (ONE YEAR BEYOND MY "HISTORIC" INFLATION PREDICTION) WE'LL SEE PRICES OF FOOD, ENERGY, AND CLOTHING UP AT LEAST 10%-15%, PERHAPS UP 20%...)

* FOLKS... CONSIDER... YESTERDAY I PAID $2.65/GAL. FOR GAS IN JERSEY. JUST A FEW SHORT MONTHS AGO I WAS PAING WHAT... $2.25... SOMETHING LIKE THAT? ANYWAY... LET'S SAY GAS GOES UP TO $3.25... $3.50/GAL. - DO THE MATH TO FIGURE OUT THE PERCENTAGE INCREASE!

Prices of cotton, silver wheat, soybeans, corn are all up big this year. Cotton futures are up the most, climbing 90% so far in 2010.

The price of silver is up 63%.

China’s CPI surged 4.4% in October, according to figures released Thursday, higher than economists’ expected and up from a 3.6% annual reading in the month prior.

* THE WORLD IS IN FOR... er... A WORLD OF HURT.

November 14, 2010 at 11:33 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-13/khalid-sheikh-mohammed-9-11-mastermind-unlikely-to-have-trial-post-says.html

The accused "mastermind" of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, may remain behind bars without trial indefinitely...according to the Washington Post.

* BUT PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID...

(*SMIRK*)

The Obama administration has concluded it can’t go ahead with its original plan to have the trial in federal court in New York because of opposition from lawmakers and local officials, the Post said.

* OH, PLEASE! DON'T BLAME NEW YORK! OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT! THE TRIAL COULD BE HELD WHEREVER PRESIDENT OBAMA ORDERED IT TO BE HELD. PERIOD!

Obama administration officials said Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators can be held under laws of war...

* BUT... BUT... BUT... PRISONERS OF "WAR" DON'T GET CIVILIAN TRIALS...!!!

* OBAMA IS SO FULL OF SHIT... SO TWO-FACED...

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD IN DISGUST*)

November 14, 2010 at 8:35 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/11/13/MNIG1GBD0C.DTL&tsp=1

Latinos now make up a majority of California's public school students, cracking the 50% barrier for the first time in the state's history, according to data released Friday by the state Department of Education.

Almost 50.4% of the state's students in the 2009-10 school year identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino...

In comparison, 27% of California's 6.2 million students identified themselves as white, 9% as Asian and 7% as black. Students calling themselves Filipino, Pacific Islander, Native American or other total almost 7%.

In 2009, Latinos made up 37% of the state's population, a number that continues to increase, according to the California Department of Finance.

* WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS ARE ILLEGAL ALIENS? WELL... (KEEP READING!)

[A]lmost 40% of adult Latinos in California are ineligible to vote, said Lisa Garcia Bedolla, an associate professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education.

* HMM... "INELIGIBLE FOR VOTE," HUH?

(*SMIRK*)

November 14, 2010 at 8:35 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Uu_tI0hTw

* CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO...!!!

* THEN HEAD ON OVER TO http://www.hhs.gov/ociio/regulations/approved_applications_for_waiver.html

* FOLKS... COM'ON...

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

November 14, 2010 at 8:36 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/12/news/economy/postal_service/index.htm?section=money_topstorieshttp://money.cnn.com/2010/11/12/news/economy/postal_service/index.htm?section=money_topstories

The U.S. Postal Service more than doubled its losses in fiscal year 2010, despite cutting billions of dollars in expenses and trimming its staff.

The Postal Service said its net loss totaled $8.5 billion in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. That compares to a loss of $3.8 billion the prior year.

* MEANING THEY'VE LOST $12.3 BILLON ALL TOGETHER OVER JUST THE PAST TWO YEARS ALONG.

* GREAT. (*SMIRK*)

November 14, 2010 at 8:36 PM

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