Saturday, August 13, 2011

Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., August 13 & 14, 2011


Raise your hand if you've heard the tune "Sleepwalk."

(*PAUSE*) (*TAPPING MY FOOT*)

O.K., time's up!

You have, you know; you just may not know the tune's title!

Anyway... here ya go!

Enjoy!

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William R. Barker said...

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Federal-judge-throws-out-Obama-drilling-rules-1927203.php

A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land.

* SO TO RECAP: THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PLANS TO ENCOURAGE EMPLOYMENT BY... SLOWING DOWN OIL AND GAS DRILLING ON FEDERAL LANDS...???

(*HEADACHE*)

U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favor of a petroleum industry group, the Western Energy Alliance, in its lawsuit against the federal government, including Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The ruling reinstates Bush-era expedited oil and gas drilling under provisions called categorical exclusions on federal lands nationwide...

(*SINCERE CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

The government argued that oil and gas companies had no case because they didn't show how the new rules, implemented by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service last year, had created delays and added to the cost of drilling.

Freudenthal rejected that argument.

(*STANDING OVATION*)

"Western Energy has demonstrated through its members recognizable injury," she said. "Those injuries are supported by the administrative record."

* SO IN OTHER WORDS... OBAMA'S INTERIOR SECRETARY AND HIS LAWYERS WERE FULL OF SHIT.

(*SMIRK*)

* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND TWO THINGS: 1) THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ANTI-BUSINESS - AND THUS ANTI-EMPLOYMENT; 2) THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ANTI-DOMESTIC ENERGY PRODUCTION - A SPECIFIC FORM OF ANTI-EMPLOYMENT POLICY AS WELL AS A COST BURDEN UPON USERS OF ENERGY - MEANING... EVERYONE...!!!

August 13, 2011 at 12:02 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61218.html

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the health care reform law’s requirement that nearly all Americans buy insurance is unconstitutional...

* WELL, DUH! AS IF THERE'S ANYONE WHO'S ACTUALLY READ THE CONSTITUTION WHO DIDN'T KNOW THAT OBAMACARE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

(*SNICKER*)

The 2-1 ruling marks the first time a judge appointed by a Democrat has voted to strike down the mandate. Judge Frank Hull, who was nominated by former President Bill Clinton, joined Chief Judge Joel Dubina, who was appointed by George H.W. Bush, to strike down the mandate.

* AND THIS OUTTA TELL YOU FOLKS SOMETHING AS WELL! THE FACT THAT UP TILL THIS POINT DEM JUDGES HAD BEEN BACKING CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL LEGISLATION IN DEFIANCE OF ANY CLEAR READING OF THE CONSTITUTION IS A NATIONAL OUTRATGE; SHAME ON THOSE PARTISANS IN BLACK ROBES!

The panel partially upheld a ruling issued in January by Judge Roger Vinson, who struck down the entire health reform law. However, the 11th Circuit said that the rest of the legislation can stand even if the mandate is unconstitutional.

* THE THING IS... WITHOUT ENFORCED FUNDING VIA THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL INDIVIDUAL MANDATE THE WHOLE FINANCIAL HOUSE OF CARDS OBAMA AND THE DEMS BUILD COLLAPSES IMMEDIATELY INSTEAD OF OVER TIME.

(*SHRUG*)

“We have not found any generally applicable, judicially enforceable limiting principle that would permit us to uphold the mandate without obliterating the boundaries inherent in the system of enumerated congressional powers,” Dubina and Hull wrote in an expansive, 200-page ruling.

* EXACTLY RIGHT!

“‘Uniqueness’ is not a constitutional principle in any antecedent Supreme Court decision.”

* AND EVEN IF THERE WAS SUPREME COURT ANTECEDENT... TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.

August 13, 2011 at 12:16 PM
William R. Barker said...

* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45460

* BY PATRICK J. BUCHANAN

At the Iowa State Fair last August, black thugs beat a white man so savagely he was hospitalized. Police only began to look into the possibility of a racial attack and hate crime after fair-goers said the thugs were calling it "Beat Whitey Night."

* AND IT'S ONLY GOTTEN WORSE - FAR WORSE - SINCE THEN.

After Memorial Day, Chicago cops had to close a beach when a flash mob formed, attacked people and knocked cyclists off bikes.

(The media almost never identify the race of the thugs. Their reticence would disappear were a white mob in some Southern city to be caught beating up on black shoppers at a mall.)

In Miami Beach, there were beatings and shootings that same weekend. In D.C., flash mobs of black youths have turned up a half-dozen times in stores to loot clothes and merchandise and flee.

(*SIGH*)

"You've damaged your own race," said Mayor Michael Nutter to the black youths of Philadelphia whose flash mobs have been beating and robbing shoppers in the fashionable district of downtown.

(Nutter is African-American and the first leader to speak out about the racial character of the flash mobs attacking people in one American city after another.)

A half-century after the long hot summers of the 1960s and two decades after the worst riot in U.S. history since the New York draft riots of 1863 -- the Los Angeles riot of 1992, in which blacks and Hispanics attacked Koreans and whites - the "next time" may have arrived.

In America, millions of fatherless young seek out in gangs the familial ties they never knew. Those gangs are now almost always formed on the basis of ethnicity or race.

* AND NOW WITH "FLASH MOBS" WE'RE GETTING "INSTANT GANGS."

But the flash mob scourge hitting U.S. cities has been eclipsed by the pillaging and burning of London and other British cities in the worst violence visited on that nation and its capital since Goering's Luftwaffe executed the "Blitz." Thousands of hoodlums, thugs and criminals have firebombed buildings, looted stores and stripped, beaten and robbed people for no reason other than that they were white. Overwhelmed cops virtually surrendered the city for three days. By the fourth night, the rampage had taken on a multiethnic caste as Asians and white trash appeared to join in the festival of criminality. Asian and black store owners, too, are victims. In Birmingham, three Pakistani men defending their neighborhood were run over and killed by a truck reportedly driven by a black rioter.

* YA THINK IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, FOLKS? IT CAN. IT HAS IN THE PAST... IT CAN HAPPEN AGAIN. YOU THINK WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN PHILLY, MIAMI, DETROIT, NEW YORK, AND AT THE FRIGG'N WISCONSIN STATE FAIR IS BAD... WAIT TILL IT'S THOUSANDS INSTEAD OF DOZENS OR EVEN HUNDREDS!

* To be continued...

August 13, 2011 at 1:15 PM
William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Page 2 of 2)

In Europe, the harbinger of the new century came a half-decade ago when North African youths in the Paris banlieues went on a days-long rampage of firebombing cars and attacking police and firemen, many of whom drove off and let the fires burn out.

* REMEMBER THAT? I DO. THE FRENCH SHOULD HAVE SHOT THE ANIMALS! THEY DIDN'T. A LESSON WAS THUS TAUGHT; THE WRONG LESSON AS IT TURNED OUT.

This week, it was London's turn. And when the fires burn out, we shall hear anew the old liberal litany about poverty, despair, inequality and unemployment, the excuses that long ago ceased to persuade.

* WHICH IS OF COURSE BULLSHIT!

[P]overty existed in far greater measure during the Depression. Yet our parents and grandparents did not form mobs to burn, beat and loot.

(*NOD*)

The West is in decline because the character of its people is in decline.

In Europe, Christianity is dead. The moral code it gave men to live righteously is regarded with mockery.

The London riots were the work of moral barbarians with no loyalty to the people in whose midst they live and no love for the society to which they give nothing, only take. What were the British thinking when they threw open their doors to mass immigration from the Third World?

* AND WHAT ARE WE DOING ALLOWING MANY NEIGHBORHOODS HERE IN AMERICA - AND NOT JUST IN CITIES BUT ALSO IN DEPRESSED RURAL AREAS - TO DESCEND TO THE LEVEL OF WHAT YOU MIGHT SEE IN A THIRD-WORLD NATION... WHAT YOU'LL DEFINITELY SEE IN A SECOND WORLD NATION?!

But with no common faith or culture to hold the nation together, Britain is coming apart.

* AND ELSEWHERE IN EUROPE:

Multiculturalism has "utterly failed," said Germany's Angela Merkel, only to be echoed by Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron.

* AND HERE...? IN AMERICA...?

Is multiculturalism a success here?

(*SIGH*)

* UNFORTUNATELY I BELIEVE WE ALL KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.

August 13, 2011 at 1:16 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/09700746-c681-11e0-bb50-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1V2PLf3in

Pakistan allowed Chinese military engineers to photograph and take samples from the top-secret stealth helicopter that US special forces left behind when they killed Osama bin Laden, the Financial Times has learnt.

* EXACTLY HOW MANY AMERICAN TAXPAYER DOLLARS HAVE GONE TO PAKISTAN OVER THE LAST YEAR...? HOW'BOUT 2010? 2009? I COULD GO BACK FURTHER TO THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, BUT OBAMA IS THE PRESIDENT AND OBAMA'S BEEN THE PRESIDENT SINCE JANUARY 2009.

President Barack Obama's national security council had been discussing this incident and trying to decide how to respond, said the situation “doesn't make us happy”, but the administration had little recourse.

(*SMIRK*)

* BTW... SINCE OBAMA TOOK CREDIT FOR THE "SUCCESSFUL" RAID... ISN'T HE THEN BY HIS OWN CLAIM LIABLE FOR THE BLAME FOR ALLOWING THIS HIGHLY CLASSIFIED TECHNOLOGY TO FALL INTO ENEMY HANDS?

August 14, 2011 at 10:05 PM

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