Friday, June 24, 2011

Barker's Newsbites: Friday, June 24, 2011


The movie version...

...and from the album!

Tell me that you don't get a chill up your spin at 1:36 (album) when she sings, "Back in Oh-Hi-Oh where I come from..."

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William R. Barker said...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110624/ap_on_go_co/us_us_libya

The House refused to vote President Barack Obama the authority for U.S. military operations against Libya on Friday...

(*CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

...but stopped short of cutting off funds for the mission...

* EACH AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE HOUSE WHO VOTED TO DENY OBAMA AUTHORITY TO CONTINUE HOSTILITIES BUT WHO REFUSED TO CUT OFF FUNDS SHOULD BE...

(*BITING MY TONGUE SO AS TO NOT RISK BEING ARRESTED*)

In a repudiation of the commander in chief, the House voted overwhelmingly against a resolution that would have favored letting the mission continue for one year... The vote was 295-123, with 70 Democrats abandoning Obama one day after Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had made a last-minute plea in a Capitol Hill meeting.

But shortly after that vote, the House turned back a Republican-led effort to cut off money for military hostilities in the Libyan war.

The vote was 238-180.

* AGAIN... THOSE WHO VOTED NOT TO "AUTHORIZE" MILITARY ACTION YET THEN TURNED AROUND AND REFUSED TO CUT OFF FUNDS... IF EACH WAS TO BE...

(*GRITTING MY TEETH*) (*SHUTTING MY MOUTH*)

* MY CONGRESSWOMAN, DR. NAN HAYWORTH (R-NY-19) VOTED "NAY" ON THE AUTHORIZATION TO CONTINUE THE... er... "NON" HOSTILITIES; SHE ALSO VOTED "YEA" ON DEFUNDING THE CONTINUED UNAUTHORIZED HOSTILITIES. NAN HAYWORTH DID THE RIGHT THING!

(*WIPING MY BROW IN RELIEF*)

June 24, 2011 at 4:18 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/06/24/exclusive_top_us_admiral_admits_we_are_trying_to_kill_qaddafi

The top U.S. admiral involved in the Libya war admitted to a U.S. congressman that NATO forces are trying to kill Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi.

The same admiral also said he anticipated the need for ground troops in Libya after Qaddafi falls, according to the lawmaker.

House Armed Services Committee member Mike Turner (R-OH) told The Cable that U.S. Admiral Samuel Locklear, commander of the NATO Joint Operations Command in Naples, Italy, told him last month that NATO forces are actively targeting and trying to kill Qaddafi, despite the fact that the Obama administration continues to insist that "regime change" is not the goal and is not authorized by the U.N. mandate authorizing the war.

* FOLKS... THE RULE OF LAW IS UNDER ASSAULT WORLDWIDE.

June 24, 2011 at 4:46 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2011/06/23/teen-mob-hits-walgreens-off-the-mag-mile-steals/

Some 50 young people barged into a Walgreens at Michigan and Chicago on the Magnificent Mile on Tuesday afternoon. They took bottled drinks and sandwiches off the shelves, then ran off, CBS 2′s Suzanne Le Mignot reports.

* "YOUNG PEOPLE," HUH?

(*SMIRK*) (*SNICKER*)

A police report says authorities were able to nab three of the thieves.

(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

The Mag Mile earlier this year was hit by similar mobs of young thieves. Attacks on commuters and bicyclists have become violent, and police have stepped up patrols.

* SING IT WITH ME, KIDS: "CHICAGO...! CHICAGO...! THAT TODDLING TOWN! CHICAGO...! CHICAGO...! IT'S A DEMOCRAT TOWN!"

June 24, 2011 at 4:55 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=2221691&spid=

Chicago's new top cop says the accessibility to firearms in America is an extension "of government-sponsored racism" that goes back to the days of slavery and Jim Crow.

* WHEN A MORON SUCH AS THIS CAN RISE THROUGH THE RANKS TO BECOME CHICAGO'S TOP COP... (*PAUSE*)... YOU KNOW THE END IS NEAR.

* FOLKS... JUST READ THE ARTICLE... (*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

June 24, 2011 at 5:25 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-takes-a-recess-in-europe/2011/06/22/AGAqb2hH_story.html?hpid=z11

Hurry! Hurry! Time is running out to get on a couple of super-fine congressional-delegation trips (codels) to Europe over the congressional recess. We understand that seats may still be available.

Did you have a fine time with Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia, on his trip just last month to Dublin, Vienna and Prague?

Then you might want to sign up for his latest - but it leaves after work on Friday, so get packing. This one goes to Rome for the weekend and then on to Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. After that you hit the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, and then it’s on to Moscow, with a stop in Lisbon on the way home.

You’ll be back “by noon on July 3rd,” our invite says, “to allow members to catch afternoon flights back to their districts,” so you can sit in the back of that festooned convertible and wave at the crowds on the Fourth.

* BOTTOM LINE... NONE OF THESE JUNKETS SHOULD BE TAKING PLACE.

Sure, maybe your spouse might find this codel a bit hectic — too many stops in just 10 days. We tend to agree. But remember, this is business class all the way on a military jet. This means you leave your passports and luggage at the Rayburn Building and your bags will await you in your rooms at every stop. This is no-lines travel. Can’t get easier.

The reason for the trip, we’re told, is to “examine the European financial crisis” and check out “foreign operations of the U.S. government.” And what a better time to do that than this weekend, as you wander about the Piazza Navona or dine in Trastevere?

Didn’t do the Burton codel last month? You can still see beautiful Prague in early summer. Just hop on the mil-jet leaving Sunday afternoon with a 10-member (plus spouses and staff) bipartisan delegation to Germany (visiting troops there), and Krakow in Poland, and Budapest, Prague and London.

This one is led by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Reps. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.), Steve Scalise (R-La.), Aaron Schock (Ill.), Mac Thornberry (R-Tex.), Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga..) also on board.

* EIGHT RINOs AND ONE DEM. GREAT. JUST SUPER.

While the Burton codel is in Rome this weekend, Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) are taking a group of top CEOs to Tunisia and Egypt for three days.

* DON'T WE HAVE A STATE DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE A PRESENCE IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND A CIA TO PROVIDE INTELLIGENCE ON SAME? DON'T THESE BASTARDS HAVE OFFICES IN WASHINGTON AND IN THEIR DISTRICTS THAT FOREIGNERS CAN BE INVITED TO FOR PRESENTATIONS? HAVE THESE SENATORS HEARD ABOUT TELECONFERENCING...?!?!

June 24, 2011 at 5:26 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14965429

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - All eight suspects are in custody after a brutal attack in Five Points early Monday morning which left the teenage victim in critical condition, according to Columbia police.

Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said 19-year-old Thyeem Henrey...

* FOLLOW THE LINK AND YOU'LL GET THE PHOTOS OF WHO'S WHO.

...was charged with second degree assault and battery by mob, common law robbery, and criminal conspiracy. He appeared in court Friday afternoon where the judge set bond at $750,000.

The other seven suspects are all juveniles, according to Timmons. Their names cannot be released.

(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

Police Chief Randy Scott said the 18-year-old victim, later identified as Carter Strange, was jogging through a parking lot near the intersection of Blossom Street and Saluda Avenue just after midnight on Monday when the assault happened. "This teenager was minding his own business, trying to make his curfew when he was brutally attacked and robbed," said Scott. (Strange's mother, Vicki, said her son was headed home after visiting a friend slightly past his midnight curfew. "At 12:07 he wasn't home, I called him and said 'Carter where are you?'" recounted Vicki. "He said 'Momma, I'm almost home. I'll be there in just a minute.' At 12:15 I called, but the phone was dead.")

Timmons said surveillance video taken in the area shows four of the suspects running towards Carter, though police only released video of the suspects walking on Harden Street. Investigators believe the suspects assaulted Carter and stole his cell phone before leaving him in the parking lot.

After the assault, Scott said Carter managed to make it a block down the road to Edisto Avenue, where a passerby found him two hours later and called 9-1-1. Carter was taken to a local hospital, where he is still in critical condition. Carter's family told police the beating was so severe he required emergency surgery to remove a brain clot. He's also expected to need reconstructive surgery on his face.

"He did nothing to them," said Vicki. "They didn't know him, they didn't know the kind of person he was, they don't know the kind of man he's grown up to be and they don't know the lives he's touched. But they thought he was so less of a person, they thought this would be okay."

"We got lucky he didn't die," said Vicki. "Next person won't be lucky. If they did this now, what's to stop them from doing it again?"

* FOLKS... OUR COUNTRY ISN'T JUST BEING TAKEN FROM US; WE'RE SURRENDERING IT.

June 24, 2011 at 5:34 PM

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