Friday, May 13, 2011

Barker's Newsbites: Friday, May 13, 2011


Apart from this being yet another day of the Age of Obama...

(*SIGH*)

I'm in a pretty good mood!
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William R. Barker said...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110513/ap_on_re_us/us_us_libya

The White House says the U.S. and NATO will continue military operations in Libya as long as Moammar Gadhafi keeps attacking his own people.

* AND CONGRESS WILL CONTINUE TO STAY MUTE. (DISGUSTING... ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING...)

President Barack Obama met with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the White House on Friday.

* AS OPPOSED TO OUR OWN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP - DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.

The White House says in a statement that the two agreed that the NATO-led mission has saved countless lives.

* OH... WELL... AS LONG AS "THE TWO" AGREED THEN FOR GOODNESS SAKE LET'S SIMPLY RIP UP THE CONSTITUTION, SEND CONGRESS HOME, AND ANNOUNCE OBAMA'S ASSUMPTION OF THE ROYAL AUTHORITY DIRECT FROM GOD?!

Representatives from the anti-Gadhafi Libyan Transitional Council are in Washington to meet with U.S. officials at the White House later Friday.

* BECAUSE CONGRESS HAS WITHDRAWN DIPLOMATIC RECOGNITION FROM THE PRESENT - RECOGNIZED - LIBYAN GOVERNMENT AND RECOGNIZED THE LIBYAN TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL AS THE NEW LEGITIMATE RECOGNIZED GOVERNMENT OF LIBYA...???

(*SMIRK*)

The U.S. has been increasing its financial support for the opposition...

* UM-HMM...

...but is not recognizing the Council as Libya's legitimate government.

(*SNORT*)

* FOLKS... THIS GOES BEYOND SIMPLE "POLICY." THIS IS THE RULE OF LAW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. (OR... RATHER... THE RULE OF BREAKING THE RULE OF LAW...) (*SIGH*)

May 13, 2011 at 3:14 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html

Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.

* NOT... (*SIGH*)... MY... (*SIGH*)... AMERICA... (*SIGH*)

In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry.

(*JUST THROWING UP MY HANDS*)

"We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence," David said.

* NOTICE THAT "MODERN" CRACK...?! HMM...??? FOLKS... THESE THREE CRIMINAL JUDGES SHOULD BE IMMEDIATELY IMPEACHED.

"We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest."

* IT'S NOT UP TO YOU TO FIND FAULT WITH THE CONSTITUTION. IT'S UP TO YOU TO UPHOLD IT. AGAIN... THESE THREE JUDGES NEED TO BE MADE EX-JUDGES - FAST!

Justice Robert Rucker, a Gary [Indiana] native, and Justice Brent Dickson, a Hobart [Indiana] native, dissented from the ruling, saying the court's decision runs afoul of the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

"In my view the majority sweeps with far too broad a brush by essentially telling Indiana citizens that government agents may now enter their homes illegally - that is, without the necessity of a warrant, consent or exigent circumstances," Rucker said. "I disagree."

* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... WE'RE TALKING NON-EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES! THIS (MAJORITY) RULING IS INSANE...!!!

Rucker and Dickson suggested if the court had limited its permission for police entry to domestic violence situations they would have supported the ruling.

* AGAIN... EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW LEEWAY... NON-EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES DON'T! IT REALLY IS THAT FRIGG'N SIMPLE!

Dickson said, "The wholesale abrogation of the historic right of a person to reasonably resist unlawful police entry into his dwelling is unwarranted and unnecessarily broad."

* YA THINK...?!?!

This is the second major Indiana Supreme Court ruling this week involving police entry into a home.

On Tuesday, the court said police serving a warrant may enter a home without knocking if officers decide circumstances justify it. Prior to that ruling, police serving a warrant would have to obtain a judge's permission to enter without knocking.

* HAS OBAMA BEEN ELECTED GOVERNOR OF INDIANA...??? SERIOUSLY, FOLKS... INSANITY IS THE ONLY WORD THAT COMES TO MIND.

(*SIGH*)

May 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM
William R. Barker said...

Medicare, the U.S. health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, and the Social Security trust for the disabled and retirees are running out of money sooner than the government had projected.

* GOVERNMENT PROJECTIONS OVER-OPTIMISTIC...??? I'M SHOCKED! SHOCKED I TELL YOU...!!!

While Medicare won’t have sufficient funds to pay full benefits starting in 2024, five years earlier than last year’s estimate...

* SO IN ENGLISH: IN ONE SINGLE YEAR OF THE AGE OF OBAMA WE'VE LOST FIVE YEARS WORTH OF "SUFFICIENT FUNDS...???"

(*SMIRK*)

Social Security’s cash to pay full benefits runs short in 2036, a year sooner than the 2010 projection, the U.S. government said today in an annual report.

* FOLKS... THIS IS THE MOST DISINGENUOUS CRAP I'VE EVER HEARD. SOCIAL SECURITY IS BROKE. IS HAS BEEN SINCE IT WENT UPSIDE DOWN (STARTED PAYING OUT MORE THAN IT'S TAKING IN) LAST YEAR. THERE IS NO "CASH" RESERVE. THERE'S A BOND RESERVE. (AND WHAT ARE BONDS, KIDDIES...? YES! THEY'RE DEBT INSTRUMENTS...!!!)

* FOLKS... ONE MORE TIME: THE MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT. EVERY DIME OF "SURPLUS" SOCIAL SECURITY "CONTRIBUTIONS" FROM YEARS PAST HAS BEEN "BORROWED" AND SPENT. THESE BONDS REPRESENT AN ACCOUNTING ENTRY. THESE BONDS REPRESENT MONEY WE OWN OURSELVES. (AND AGAIN... THE REASON WE "OWE OURSELVES" IS THAT WE'VE "INVESTED" ALL THE PAST "CONTRIBUTIONS" IN SPECIAL PHONEY TREASURY BONDS (THUS THE ACCOUNTING FICTION) THAT MARK THE MONEY BEING SPENT ON GENERAL BUDGET OUTFLOW. (*SNORT*)

May 13, 2011 at 7:05 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MISSISSIPPI_RIVER_FLOODING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-13-16-03-46

In an agonizing trade-off, Army engineers said they will open a key spillway along the bulging Mississippi River as early as Saturday and inundate thousands of homes and farms in Louisiana's Cajun country to avert a potentially bigger disaster in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

* FUCK BATON ROUGE... FUCK NEW ORLEANS...! WHY "SPARE" THE NON-PRODUCTIVE NATURAL VICTIMS OF A NATURAL DISASTER AND INSTEAD OPT TO DESTROY PRODUCTIVE FARMS...?!?!

* FOLKS... THIS IS INSANITY...!!!

With crop prices soaring, farmers along the lower Mississippi had been expecting a big year. But now many are facing ruin, with floodwaters swallowing up corn, cotton, rice and soybean fields.

In far northeastern Louisiana, where Tap Parker and about 50 other farmers filled and stacked massive sandbags along an old levee to no avail. The Mississippi flowed over the top Thursday, and nearly 19 square miles of soybeans and corn, known in the industry as "green gold," was lost. "This was supposed to be our good year. We had a chance to really catch up. Now we're scrambling to break even," said Parker, who has been farming since 1985.

Cotton prices are up 86% from a year ago, and corn - which is feed for livestock, a major ingredient in cereals and soft drinks, and the raw material used to produce ethanol - is up 80%. Soybeans have risen 39%. The increase is attributed, in part, to worldwide demand, crop-damaging weather elsewhere and rising production of ethanol.

* ETHANOL... (*GNASHING MY TEETH*)

More than 1,500 square miles of farmland in Arkansas, which produces about half of the nation's rice, have been swamped over the past few weeks. In Missouri, where a levee was intentionally blown open to ease the flood threat in the town of Cairo, Ill., more than 200 square miles of croplands were submerged, damage that will probably exceed $100 million. More than 2,100 square miles could flood in Mississippi.

When the water level goes down - and that could take many weeks in some places - farmers can expect to find the soil washed away or their fields covered with sand. Some will probably replant on the soggy soil, but they will be behind their normal growing schedule, which could hurt yields. Many farmers have crop insurance, but it won't be enough to cover their losses. And it won't even come close to what they could have expected with a bumper crop.

May 13, 2011 at 7:21 PM

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