Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, June 8, 2011


I'm still in a country kinda mood, folks!

(*WINK*)
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William R. Barker said...

http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-Stockton-mans-door

Kenneth Wright [of Stockton, CA.] does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.

"I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers," Wright said.

Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.

"He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there," Wright said.

According to Wright, officers also woke his three young children ages 3, 7, and 11 and put them in a Stockton police patrol car with him. Officers then searched his house.

As it turned out, the person law enforcement was looking for was not there - Wright's estranged wife.

"They put me in handcuffs in that hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing my kids," Wright said.

Wright said he later went to the mayor and Stockton Police Department, but the City of Stockton had nothing to do with Wright's search warrant.

The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans.

(*BLOOD SHOOTING OUT OF MY EARS, EYES, NOSE, AND MOUTH*)

* THE DEPT. OF... EDUCATION...?!?!

* CALLING IN S.W.A.T....?!?!

* FOR A DEFAULTED STUDENT LOAN...?!?!

"They busted down my door for this," Wright said. "It wasn't even me."

According to the Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General, the case can't be discussed publicly until it is closed, but a spokesperson did confirm that the department did issue the search warrant at Wright's home. (The Office of the Inspector General has a law enforcement branch of federal agents that carry out search warrants and investigations.)

Stockton Police Department said it was asked by federal agents to provide one officer and one patrol car just for a police presence when carrying out the search warrant.

Stockton police did not participate in breaking Wright's door, handcuffing him, or searching his home.

"All I want is an apology for me and my kids and for them to get me a new door," Wright said.

* AND I CAN PRETTY MUCH GUARANTEE THAT NO ONE WILL BE FIRED OVER THIS OUTRAGE.

* WELCOME TO THE AGE OF OBAMA...

June 8, 2011 at 9:55 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.suntimes.com/5807701-417/police-supt.-garry-mccarthy-vows-to-hunt-down-flash-mob-suspects

Acting Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy vowed Monday to hunt down every last thug responsible for so-called “flash mob” incidents over the weekend and throw the book at them...

* OH, YEAH... GOODY... TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS DEDICATED TO TRIALS AND THEN WHAT... $40,000... $50,000... $60,000 A YEAR PER SCUMBAG ON INCARCERATION?

Speaking as five teens made their first appearances in court in connection with a string of five robberies - four within a ten-minute span - in Streeterville Saturday, McCarthy said police had made “in excess of 20 arrests” connected to flash mobs over the weekend.

* YEAH... BUT NONE OF THE BASTARDS WAS TAKEN OUT! NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT BULLETS AREN'T FREE NOR IS THE TIME OF THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, BUT FOR CHRIST'S SAKE... THESE ANIMALS NEED TO BE TAKEN OUT PERMANENTLY!

* FOLKS... READ THE FULL ARTICLE. EVEN BETTER, READ A FEW DIFFERENT ARTICLES ON WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN DOWNTOWN CHICAGO - THE AREA YOU'D MOST LIKELY BE IN IF BUSINESS OR PLEASURE BROUGHT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TO THE WINDY CITY.

June 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576363984173620692.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

* BY MARTIN FELDSTEIN, CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS UNDER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN.

* 'NOUGH SAID...

(*NOD*)

The policies of the Obama administration have led to the weak condition of the American economy. Growth during the coming year will be subpar at best, leaving high or rising levels of unemployment and underemployment.

* NOTHING WE DIDN'T KNOW. (*SHRUG*)

The drop in GDP growth to just 1.8% in the first quarter of 2011, from 3.1% in the final quarter of last year, understates the extent of the decline. Two-thirds of that 1.8% went into business inventories rather than sales to consumers or other final buyers.

This means that final sales growth was at an annual rate of just 0.6% and the actual quarterly increase was just 0.15% - dangerously close to no rise at all.

The picture is even gloomier if we look in more detail. Estimates of monthly GDP indicate that the only growth in the first quarter of 2011 was from February to March. After a temporary rise in March, the economy began sliding again in April, with declines in real wages, in durable-goods orders and manufacturing production, in existing home sales, and in real per-capita disposable incomes.

(*SIGH*)

ObamaCare alone will cost more than $1 trillion in its first 10 years.

The national debt has jumped to 69% of GDP this year, from 40% in 2008. It is projected by the Congressional Budget Office to reach more than 85% by the end of the decade, and to keep rising after that.

(*MIGRAINE HEADACHE*)

[Obams's] Treasury [led by Tim "The Tax Cheat" Geithner] repeats the slogan that "a strong dollar is good for America" while watching the real value of the dollar fall by 7% over the past year, and while urging the Chinese to allow the dollar to fall more quickly relative to the yuan. The lack of a consistent dollar policy adds to the uncertainty that limits business investment and hiring.

(*NOD*)

The economy will continue to suffer until there is a coherent and favorable economic policy. That means bringing long-term deficits under control without raising marginal tax rates—by cutting government outlays and by limiting the tax expenditures that substitute for direct government spending. It means lower tax rates on businesses and individuals to spur entrepreneurship and investment. And it means reforming Social Security and Medicare to protect the living standards of future retirees while limiting the cost to future taxpayers.

All of these things are doable. But the Obama administration has not done them and shows no inclination to do them in the future.

June 8, 2011 at 11:37 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/06/08/coal-regs-would-kill-jobs-boost-energy-bills

Two new EPA pollution regulations will slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and electric rates will skyrocket 11% to over 23%, according to a new study based on government data.

* FOLKS... (*SIGH*)

“Many of these severe impacts would hit families living in states already facing serious economic challenges,” said Steve Miller, president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. “Because of these impacts, EPA should make major changes to the proposed regulations before they are finalized,” he said.

* UM... YEAH...!!!

Overall, the rules aimed at making the air cleaner could cost the coal-fired power plant industry $180 billion, warns a trade group.

(*SNORT*) MAKING THE AIR "CLEANER." TO WHAT EXTENT? AT WHAT COST BENEFIT? AND BTW... HAS IT DAWNED ON THE EPA THAT CHINA IS BUILDING NEW COAL FIRED ELECTRIC PLANTS DAILY AND INDIA AS WELL CONTINUES TO INDUSTRIALIZE ALONE WITH MUCH OF THE REST OF THE WORLD?

* MY POINT IS THAT IN THE REAL WORLD... MISGUIDED AND QUITE FRANKLY RADICAL SCHEMES SUCH AS THIS LATEST IDIOCY WILL LOSE THIS NATION HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS WHILE AT THE SAME TIME FURTHER DECREASING OUR AMERICAN STANDARDS OF LIVING THROUGH FORCED SELF-RATIONING AND AT THE END OF THE DAY... NO REAL ENVIRONMENTAL "PROGRESS" WILL HAVE BEEN MADE.

Referring to the analysis of the EPA regulations from National Economic Research Associates, Miller said they would be the most expensive rules ever imposed on power plants.

* OH... AND BTW...

Coal-fired energy plants currently fuel about half of the nation’s energy supply.

June 8, 2011 at 5:08 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/world/middleeast/09intel.html?_r=1&hp

The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen...

* UNDECLARED WAR #4 FOLKS.

The American campaign in Yemen is led by the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command, and is closely coordinated with the Central Intelligence Agency. Teams of American military and intelligence operatives have a command post in Sana, the Yemeni capital...

(*SHRUG*)

The extent of America’s war in Yemen has been among the Obama administration’s most closely guarded secrets...

* NOW REMIND ME... WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION ARE "SECRET WARS" AUTHORIZED...?

June 8, 2011 at 11:03 PM

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