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- Barker's New Year's Eve Newsbites: 12/31/2010
- Happy, Happy, Happy New Year...!!!
- Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, December 30, 2010
- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
- Barker's Newsbites: December 28, 2010
- Happy Birthday, Jesus...!!!
- (*GRITTING MY TEETH*) (*BLOOD PRESSURE RISING*)
- Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, December 23, 2010
- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
- Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, December 22, 2010
- Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., Dec. 18 & 19, 2010
- Please Read Nick Carey's Full Piece
- Barker's Newsbites: Friday, December 17, 2010
- Absolutely Irresponsible; A Pox on Both Their Houses
- Who's Lying?
- Two Californias (by Richard Davis Hanson)
- Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, December 16, 2010
- This "Newsbite" Deserves Its Own Stand-Alone Post!
- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
- Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, December 14, 2010
- Barcelona Travelogue
- What It Means To Be Bill
- Back From Barcelona... (and Milan!)
- Barker's Pre-Vacation Newsbites: Friday, Dec. 3, 2010
- Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010
- As Everyone Who's Anyone Knows...
- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010
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About Me
- William R. Barker
- Pearl River, NY High School Class of '81; Northeastern University, Boston, MA Class of '87.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-01/citigroup-said-to-discuss-hiring-former-white-house-budget-director-orszag.html
Citigroup Inc., recovering from its $45 billion bailout in 2008, is in advanced talks to hire former White House Budget Director Peter Orszag...
(*SNORT*)
* PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN...
(*SMIRK*)
http://www.freep.com/article/20101201/NEWS06/12010378/1318/Conyers-will-pay-for-sons-car-use
U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said he will reimburse the federal government for nonofficial use of his congressional vehicle by his son John Conyers III.
* NOT GOOD ENOUGH! EITHER "DAD" GAVE "SONNY BOY" THE KEYS TO THE CAR AND SO DAD IS ON THE HOOK, OR, SONNY STOLE THE CAR. IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE. EITHER WAY, THERE'S NO WIGGLE ROOM FOR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF A TAXPAYER PAID FOR OFFICIAL VEHICLE.
* MY BROTHER-IN-LAW IS A COP WITH A TAKE HOME OFFICIAL VEHICLE. HE CAN'T LET HIS WIFE OR ME "BORROW" HIS WORK VEHICLE. FOLKS... THIS IS A NO-BRAINER.
The younger Conyers told Detroit police last week that someone stole two laptop computers and 1,000 concert tickets from the 2010 Cadillac Escalade after he parked it near Brush and Congress in downtown Detroit about midnight Nov. 24.
* WHY DO TAXPAYERS PROVIDE CONYERS WITH A 2010 CADILLAC ESCALADE...???
* WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THESE 1,000 CONCERT TICKETS...???
"I have just learned about the inappropriate use of a congressional vehicle by my son over the Thanksgiving holiday," Conyers said in a statement Tuesday. "I am sorry it happened and will make sure that it does not happen again."
* HMM... DOESN'T CONYERS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO KNOW WHERE HIS TAXPAYER PROVIDED CADDY IS...???
Family members are allowed to drive the cars, but only when shuttling representatives to official business, said Kyle Anderson, a spokesman for the House's administrative committee.
* AND EVEN THIS LOOPHOLE WASN'T MET! "REPRESENTATIVE" CONYERS WASN'T BEING "SHUTTLED!" (THE BIG QUESTION NOT BEING RAISED YET IS THIS: WAS "SONNY BOY" USING "DAD'S" CADDY TO ENGAGE IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY WITH REGARD TO THESE 1,000 CONCERT TICKETS.)
John Conyers III, 20, had worked in a $15-an-hour part-time job for his mother, Monica Conyers, a Detroit city councilwoman, before she pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges.
(*SNORT*) FOLKS... YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP!
On Tuesday, Conyers' father, U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., said in a statement that his son used his government-provided vehicle without permission.
* SO... IN OTHER WORDS... HE STOLE IT! (SO WHY HASN'T HE BEEN ARRESTED...?!?!)
* POINT NUMBER TWO: CONYERS DOESN'T HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT TO "LEND" HIS SON THE VEHICLE EVEN HAD HE CLAIMED TO HAVE DONE SO!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113006893.html
The SEC showed "leniency" toward Bank of America in penalizing the firm for securities law violations last year because the financially weakened bank was on taxpayer-backed life support, according to a new watchdog report.
(*SNORT*)
Bank of America won relief from sanctions that could have hurt its investment banking business.
* THE AGE OF OBAMA, FOLKS... (*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
.The inspector general, H. David Kotz, did not find fault with the decision..
* NO... OF COURSE NOT... (*SMIRK*) (*SNORT*) (*SNICKER*)... PLAYING FAVORITES - GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS PICKING WINNERS AND LOSERS AND THE RULE OF LAW SUBJUGATED TO POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY... PAR FOR THE COURSE IN OBAMA'S AMERICA.
In August 2009, the SEC accused Bank of America of concealing nearly $6 billion in bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch employees...
* ENOUGH! ENOUGH! READ THE ARTICLE FOR YOURSELVES - IF YOU'VE GOT A STRONG ENOUGH STOMACH.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-talk-biden-flub-1201-20101130,0,1804944.story
Joe Biden...
* HAS DONE IT AGAIN! (*CHUCKLE*)
[T]he gaffe-prone vice president, strayed from tradition Monday at the swearing-in of Republican Mark Kirk, the new senator from Illinois. Biden, who is president of the Senate, began by instructing Kirk: "Please place your right hand on the Bible."
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*) NO, JOE... YOU RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND... YOU PLACE YOUR LEFT HAND ON THE BIBLE...
* MY POINT IN POSTING THIS? COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE "GENTLE RIBBING" OF "GOOD OL' JOE" IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY VS. WHAT THEY DO TO REPUBLICANS. MANIPULATION OF PUBLIC OPINION IS MANIPULATION OF PUBLIC OPINION - FUNNY OR NOT.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/post-carbon/2010/12/obama_administration_will_ban.html
Obama administration officials will announce Wednesday afternoon they will not allow offshore oil drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico or off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as part of the next five-year drilling plan, according to sources briefed on the plan...
* AMERICA'S PRESIDENT... AMERICA'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND HEAD OF STATE... (*SIGH*)... IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES FACE. IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE.
Karen Harbert, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy, said in a statement, "The Administration is sending a message to America's oil and gas industry: take your capital, technology, and jobs somewhere else."
(*PURSED LIPS*) (*NOD*)
http://www.cnbc.com/id/40454469
The United States would be ready to support the extension of the European Financial Stability Facility via an extra commitment of money from the International Monetary Fund, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday.
* THIS IS INSANE! WE'RE BROKE!
The IMF, whose biggest single shareholder is the United States, has committed 250 billion euros to the EFSF [already].
* FOLKS... WHEN I TELL YOU THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS AN "ENEMY" OF HIS OWN COUNTRY - OUR COUNTRY - THE POINT I'M TRYING TO GET ACROSS IS THAT HIS POLICIES PURPOSEFULLY WEAKEN THE UNITED STATES AND HURT OUR ECONOMY, OUR NATIONAL SECURITY, AND OUR PEOPLE.
U.S. Treasurys' prices fell and the euro strengthened against the dollar on Wednesday after the news that the United States would be prepared to support an enlarged EFSF.
* FOLKS...! THIS IS PURPOSEFUL! IF A FOREIGN POWER WERE ATTACKING THE VALUE OF THE DOLLAR IT WOULD BE CONSIDERED A HOSTILE ACT. BUT THIS IS WHAT OBAMA IS LOOKING FOR... IT'S HIS POLICY - HIS AND BERNANKE'S - TO DEVALUE THE DOLLAR!
Germany, whose leaders have expressed frustration at the market backlash against their plans to solve the euro zone's debt problems, does not want to make the stability fund larger.
* FOLKS... (*SIGH*)... THE GERMANS ARE THE "GOOD EUROPEANS."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4dd95e42-fd6d-11df-a049-00144feab49a.html#axzz16tKNdPwB
Foreign banks were amongst the biggest users of the US Federal Reserve’s emergency credit programs during the financial crisis of 2007-2009, according to data released by the US central bank.
(*SMIRK*) NO SURPRISE THERE! OLIGARCHS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
The biggest cumulative borrower from the Term Auction Facility was Barclays of the UK [which] borrowed a cumulative $232 billion from the TAF through various subsidiaries. Bank of Scotland and RBS of the UK, Societe Generale of France, Dresdner Bank and Bayerische Landesbank of Germany, and Dexia of Belgium were all amongst the top 10 users of TAF.
(*SCOWL*)
The biggest seller of commercial paper to the Fed’s Commercial Paper Funding Facility, which bought up illiquid paper, was UBS of Switzerland followed by the insurer AIG. Five of the top 10 CPFF users were European banks.
* FOLKS... CUTTING THROUGH ALL THE VERBIAGE... BUSH AND OBAMA DIDN'T JUST BAIL OUT AMERICAN OLIGARCHS - THEY BAILED OUT FOREIGN OLIGARCHS.
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