Saturday, April 16, 2011

Weekend Newsbites: Sat, & Sun., April 16 & 17, 2011


They don't write 'em - or sing 'em - like this anymore!
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William R. Barker said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42607397/ns/travel-news/

The FAA and the controllers union - with assistance from NASA and the Mitre Corp., among others - has come up with 12 recommendations for tackling sleep-inducing fatigue among controllers. Among those recommendations is that the FAA change its policies to give controllers on midnight shifts as much as two hours to sleep plus a half-hour to wake up.

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* FOLKS...

(*JUST LAUGHING*)

(*LAUGHTER TURNING INTO HYSTERIA*)

(*APPROACHING COMPLETE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN*)

April 16, 2011 at 9:29 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/15/tsa.screeners.complain/

Don't like the way airport screeners are doing their job? You might not want to complain too much while standing in line.

[C]omplaining about airport security is one "indicator" Transportation Security Administration officers consider when looking for possible criminals and terrorists, CNN has learned exclusively.

"Expressing your contempt about airport procedures - that's a First Amendment-protected right," said Michael German, a former FBI agent who now works as legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.

* YA THINK...!

"It's circular reasoning where, you know, I'm going to ask someone to surrender their rights; if they refuse, that's evidence that I need to take their rights away from them. And it's simply inappropriate," he said.

* "INAPPROPRIATE...?" I BELIEVE THE WORD YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IS ORWELLIAN!

* FOLKS... WE'RE LOSING OUR COUNTRY.

April 16, 2011 at 10:09 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=4459&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS

While most agencies scramble to figure out what [budget "compromise"] bill means for them, the Pentagon once again proves its exceptionalism by winning its own legislation...

[TCS] scoured the defense report, and found it resembles the continuing resolution [aka: the budget "compromise"] in one important respect: The CR was rife with budgetary gimmicks to achieve its $40 billion sticker "savings," and there’s yet more where DOD is concerned.

Most important to remember is that the bill's $513 billion base budget topline is a $5 billion increase over 2010, not a cut as some have claimed.

An increase is always more, not less, no matter how you slice it.

* HEY! NOW REMIND ME... WHO ELSE HAS BEEN SAYING THIS ALL ALONG...?!?! (*SMIRK*) (*SNORT*) (*SNICKER*)

As for all the "cuts," too many are ascribed to the infamous “unobligated balances” and “spending ahead of need” bromides that have populated defense spending bills for decades.

* IN OTHER WORDS... SCAMS.

Other cuts fall upon programs that DOD already marked for death, such as the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.

(*SMIRK*)

[M]any heavily-trimmed accounts also enjoyed additions, some of them major. For example, lawmakers cut $2.4 billion from the Air Force research account but added another $1.6 billion, including $600 million for military space programs, resulting in a net savings of just $700 million.

* CUTE...!

Finally, lots of funds were simply moved into the $157.8 billion war spending account, such as the entire $215 million budget for the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization.

* FOLKS... YOU GET THE IDEA. ANYWAY... AS I'VE BEEN SAYING... AND AS TCS NOTES... "AN INCREASE IS ALWAYS MORE, NOT LESS, NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT." IF ONLY MY CONGRESSWOMAN - NAN HAYWORTH - COULD GET THAT SIMPLE CONCEPT THROUGH HER HEAD.

April 17, 2011 at 10:41 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/world/africa/17rebels.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1303052508-Zpmh+30Sv6aRZeCcG1aYMA

The Obama administration has begun seeking a country, most likely in Africa, that might be willing to provide shelter to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi...

* SO MUCH FOR HOLDING QADDAFI ACCOUNTABLE. SO MUCH FOR JUSTICE.

* FOLKS... WILL OBAMA SUPPORTERS NEVER TIRE OF THE LIES UPON LIES UPON LIES...?

The intense search for a country to accept Colonel Qaddafi has been conducted quietly by the United States...

(*SIGH*)

* I'D EXCLAIM "UNFRIGG'NBELIEVEABLE," BUT WE KNOW IT'S NOT... IT'S TOTALLY IN KEEPING WITH OBAMA's RECORD.

* I LITERALLY GET SICK TO MY STOMACH READING ABOUT OBAMA's DECEPTIONS.

* FOLKS... READ THE ARTICLE. WHAT OBAMA IS DOING IS ATTEMPTING TO CONSPIRE - ALONG WITH OUR "ALLIES," AND ULTIMATELY ALONG WITH QADDAFI - TO GAIN QADDAFI A "SHELTER" WHERE HE WOULD BE IMMUNE FROM FACING THE JUSTICE THAT OBAMA HAS DECLARED TIME AND AGAIN HE MUST FACE!

April 17, 2011 at 11:09 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704204604576268881682315782.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Republican leaders have assured the White House they are prepared to lift the debt...

* GEITHNER THE TAX CHEAT HAD BETTER BE LYING...

In interviews aired on the Sunday talk shows, Mr. Geithner said House Speaker John Boehner and other senior Republicans told President Barack Obama in discussions last week that they were aware of the risk of a credit default and were open to lifting the limit even in the absence of a comprehensive deal to slash the country's debt load.

* AGAIN... GEITHNER THE TAX CHEAT HAD BETTER EITHER BE LYING OR EXAGGERATING TO SUCH AN EXTENT THAT "LIE" IS THE VALID DESCRIPTIVE.

The Treasury Department says the U.S. will exceed the current limit, now set at $14.3 trillion, by mid-May and could default on its debt in early July if no action is taken to raise the ceiling.

* YET MORE LIES. (FOLKS... WE'VE GONE OVER THIS...)

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.), whose cost-cutting budget blueprint passed the House Friday, said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that Republicans want "financial controls" and "cuts in spending" in order to agree to a lifting of the debt limit.

* AND HE'D BETTER EQUATE THE WORD "WANT" WITH THE BACKBONE TO NOT CAVE WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE!

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn, one of the Group of Six senators from both parties who are trying to craft a budget compromise, said on Fox News Sunday that he would vote against lifting the debt ceiling unless there was "absolute certainty that we have made critical changes necessary to put the country back on track."

* MY FELLOW CONSERVATIVES... (*PAUSE*)... COBURN VOTED WITH "THE GOOD GUYS" TO REJECT THE BUDGET "COMPROMISE." LET'S HOPE HIS COURAGE AND INTEGRITY DOESN'T DESERT HIM HERE.

Sen. Rand Paul signaled a compromise on spending cuts in Congress was possible. The tea-party backed Republican from Kentucky has vowed to oppose raising the debt ceiling unless it comes along with an agreement on budget cuts. "Conservatives have to accept some cuts to military spending, while liberals must accept some cuts to domestic welfare," he said on CNN.

* RAND PAUL IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT; WE NEED TO CUT MILITARY SPENDING AS WELL AS SOCIAL WELFARE SPENDING.

April 17, 2011 at 4:41 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/264650/uncle-sam-s-books-would-land-ceos-jail-deroy-murdock

Imagine that Uncle Sam suddenly morphed into Samuel Smith, CEO of Federal Enterprises, Inc., a conglomerate with 2.8 million employees in 2009, $2.2 trillion in revenues in 2010, and a proposed budget of $3.7 trillion for 2012. If this private company were run the way Washington works, newspaper headlines soon would scream: “Mr. Smith Goes To Attica!”

Washington’s routine accounting methods would trigger indictments against similarly behaved business executives. In fact, people have been convicted for operating as Washington has for decades.

Consider the Obama administration and the previous Democratic Congress’s mishandling of $500 billion in Medicare funds.

If Republicans proposed to reduce Medicare’s cotton-ball budget by 1%, Democrats would scream, “Dachau!”

And yet Democrats, of all people, swiped half a trillion dollars from Medicare to finance ObamaCare. Democrats also claim that this sum will underwrite Medicare benefits.

Which is it?

Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) grilled Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius about this before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. He wondered how, in essence, the Obama administration could move $500 billion from its left pocket (Medicare) to its far-left pocket (ObamaCare) and somehow finance $1 trillion worth of Medicare and Obamacare.

“Your law cuts $500 billion in Medicare,” Shimkus reminded Sebelius at a March 3 hearing. “Then you’re also using the same $500 billion to say you’re funding health-care ["reform"]. Your own actuary says you can’t do both.”

“So,” the eight-term congressman continued, “are you using it [the $500 billion] to save Medicare, or are you using it to fund health-care reform? Which one?”

Secretary Sebelius confessed: “Both.”

“So, you’re double-counting,” Shimkus replied.

As any college business major knows, such double counting would earn a big, fat "F" on an accounting final. Far worse, this is illegal. Such graft transformed Bernard Ebbers from WorldCom’s CEO into federal prisoner No. 56022-054. He is at Oakdale Penitentiary in Louisiana, serving 25 years for fraud, conspiracy, and filing false statements.

As Washington struggles to cap a giant geyser of red ink, it should stop practicing accounting that, in business, would be considered criminal.

* FOLKS... READ THE FULL PIECE. IT'S VERY INSTRUCTIVE.

April 17, 2011 at 9:19 PM

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