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- Justin Bieber MUST STOP SINGING...!!!
- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, November 23, 2011
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- Nan Hayworth (R-NY-19) Can Drive Me Nuts...
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- Will Congresswoman Nan Hayworth (R-NY-19) Go Along?
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- Why I Don't Trust Congresswoman Nan Hayworth (R-NY)
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- Carl David VanDemark, Esq. v. Barker
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- Pearl River, NY High School Class of '81; Northeastern University, Boston, MA Class of '87.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/01/us-finland-greece-idUSTRE7A010N20111101
Euro zone leaders last week agreed to hand Greece a second, 130-billion-euro bailout with 50% write-down on its debt.
* AND THAT WAS TREATED AS THE "GOOD NEWS," FOLKS!
* THINK ABOUT IT... RE-READ THAT SENTENCE ABOUT 50 MORE TIMES AND THEN TELL ME THERE'S ANY HOPE FOR THIS WORLDWIDE PONZI SCHEME WE CALL "THE GLOBAL ECONOMY."
* OH... BUT WAIT... THAT WAS LAST WEEK! THIS WEEK... (READ ON...)
* http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-31/papandreou-says-new-greek-loan-plans-must-be-put-to-referendum.html
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called a referendum and a parliamentary confidence vote, raising the prospect of derailing Europe’s bailout effort and pushing Greece into default.
Stocks and the euro tumbled.
* Hmm... THIS STORY REPORTS THE EURO DOWN 1% TO $1.37... THAT'S A "TUMBLE?"
* FOLKS... THEY'RE PLAYING US FOR FOOLS! IT'S ALL A SCAM FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BIG INTERNATIONAL BANKERS AND OTHER OLIGARCHS.
* NO, FOLKS... I'M NOT RAILING AGAINST "CAPITALISM" - I'M RAILING AGAINST CRONY CAPITALISM... AGAINST GOVERNMENT "MANAGED" CAPITALISM - aka: FASCISM.
* NO, FOLKS... FASCISM DOESN'T REQUIRE GESTAPO AND SS - IT DOESN'T REQUIRE THE MORE OUTWARD SIGNS OF DIRECT TYRANNY - NOPE... FASCISM IS SIMPLY AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM WHERE "PRIVATE ENTERPRISE" IS "ALLOWED" TO REMAIN "PRIVATE" - AS LONG AS BUSINESS OWNERS UNDERSTAND THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY AND HAVE BOTH VETO POWER AND PROACTIVE POWER OVER ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR BUSINESSES AND THE ECONOMY AS A WHOLE.
* FOLKS... IF YOU THINK THE FED AND U.S. TREASURY AREN'T "MANAGING" THE WORLD ECONOMY INTO THE GROUND IN A DOOMED EFFORT TO REACH A "SOFT LANDING," ASK YOURSELVES... WHY ISN'T THE EURO .73-CENTS AS OPPOSED TO $1.37? Hmm...??? WITH ALL THAT'S HAPPENING IN EUROPE... WITH JAPAN STILL DEALING WITH BREACHED NUCLEAR CONTAINMENT STRUCTURE LEAKAGE... WHY IS IT THAT DAY BY DAY THE YEN REACHES NEW HEIGHTS OF VALUE AND THE EURO IS STILL OVER A THIRD MORE VALUABLE THAN THE ONCE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR?
* JEEZUS, FOLKS... WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/67287.html
Ener1 (an "advanced battery" manufacturer) received a $118.5 million grant to expand its manufacturing operations in Indianapolis, Ind., run by a subsidiary EnerDel, which received a visit from Vice President Joe Biden earlier this year.
(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)
* A GRANT! NOT EVEN A LOAN! NOPE... A STRAIGHT GRANT!
NASDAQ pulled the firm from trading Friday for failing to file its most recent quarterly report on time.
(*MORE SARCASTIC CLAPPING*)
The company also let go of its chairman, Charles Gassenheimer, late last month.
(*SNORT*)
* Hmm... I WONDER WHAT THE TIES ARE BETWEEN ENER1 UPPER MANAGEMENT, TOP PRIVATE INVESTORS, AND... THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND/OR THE DNC...
(*SHRUG*)
"So far $55 million of the grant has been paid out to EnerDel," DOE spokesman Damien LaVera said in an email Monday; "Any additional funds received from the government would need to be matched dollar for dollar with their own investment."
* SO IN THEORY... TAXPAYER MAY "ONLY" LOSE A "MERE" $55 MILLION INSTEAD OF THE FULL $118.5 MILLION. (HEY... WHAT DO YOU WANNA BET THAT EVEN IF ENER1 ISN'T GIVEN THE REST OF THE MONEY, RATHER THAN RETURN THE UNSPENT FUNDS TO THE TREASURY, DOE WILL SIMPLY EITHER KEEP THE MONEY FOR INTERNAL EXPENSES OR ELSE ADD IT TO SOME OTHER POLITICALLY CONNECTED COMPANY'S "GRANT?"
Not long after the stimulus bill was passed in 2009, former Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) urged Energy Secretary Steven Chu to support EnerDel's grant application.
* AGAIN, FOLKS... DEMPUBLICANS AND REPUBLICRATS... OTHER THAN BY (LITERALLY) KILLING THE TAXPAYER MONEY SQUANDERING BASTARDS HOW DO WE SAVE THE COUNTRY....???
(*SHRUG*)
* SERIOUS QUESTION, FOLKS!
(*SHRUG*)
http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1922:leaving-iraq&catid=62:texas-straight-talk&Itemid=69
* BY THE HONORABLE CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL (R-TX)
It is not too often I am pleased by the foreign policy announcements from this administration, but last week's announcement that the war in Iraq was in its final stage and all the troops may be home for Christmas did sound promising.
[B]ut, examining the fine print, is there really much here to get excited about? Are all of our men and women really coming home...in this time of economic crisis, are we going to stop hemorrhaging money in Iraq?
Sadly, it doesn't look that way.
* WELL, JEEZ... I COULD HAVE TOLD HIM THAT!
(*SMIRK*)
Some 39,000 American troops will supposedly be headed home by the end of the year. However, the U.S. embassy in Iraq, which is the largest and most expensive in the world, is not being abandoned. Upwards of 17,000 military personnel and private security contractors will remain in Iraq to guard diplomatic personnel, continue training Iraqi forces, maintain "situational awareness" and other functions.
* ONE MORE TIME, KIDS:
Upwards of 17,000 military personnel and private security contractors will remain in Iraq to guard diplomatic personnel, continue training Iraqi forces, maintain "situational awareness" and other functions.
[C]onsidering that a private security contractor costs the U.S. taxpayer about three times as much as a soldier, we're not going to see any real cost savings.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
* OH...! AND BY THE WAY, FOLKS:
[P]lans are already being made to increase the number of troops in surrounding regions.
* SOMETHING I BELIEVE WE'VE ADDRESSED HERE AT NEWSBITES...
(*SIGH*)
* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... OBAMA IS TRYING TO PULL ANOTHER FAST ONE.
(*SHRUG*)
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/political_suicide_qCVtUTzdyDpn6Ndsb070zMhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/political_suicide_qCVtUTzdyDpn6Ndsb070zM
Jon Corzine, the CEO of bankrupt broker-dealer MF Global, saw his reputation tossed from the frying pan right into the regulatory fire yesterday when investigators discovered as much as $700 million in customer funds missing from the firm.
* JON CORZINE... Hmm... AS IN FORMER GOVERNOR (D) OF NEW JERSEY... AS IN THE GUY WHO GOT HIS START WORKING FOR CONTINENTIAL-ILLINOIS BANK IN OF ALL PLACES... CHICAGO. (*SMIRK*) AS IN FOMER CEO OF GOLDMAN SACHS... AS IN FORMER PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTEE OF... er... PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON... AS IN THE DEMOCRAT WHO GOT ELECTED TO THE U.S. SENATE FROM NJ AFTER HAVING SPENT $62 MILLION OF HIS OWN MONEY... (WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO HOW DID HE HAPPEN TO BECOME A BILLIONAIRE IN THE FIRST PLACE...)
* JEEZUS, PEOPLE... IT NEVER FUCKING STOPS...!!!
Officials from two US regulators, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, were looking into whether the loot was diverted to support some of the firm’s own trades.
As if the allegedly missing funds, which happened on Corzine’s watch, are not bad enough, it was learned late yesterday that the $700 million was responsible for capsizing a potential deal between MF Global and rival Interactive Brokers Group that could have saved the firm and the jobs of the company’s 2,870 employees worldwide.
Word of the possibly purloined funds came hours after MF Global was forced to filed for bankruptcy protection after its debt ratings had been downgraded to junk status on the discovery that the firm had $6.3 billion of European sovereign debt on its books - twice as much as its larger Wall Street rivals.
* AGAIN, PEOPLE... SHORT OF VIOLENCE... HOW DO WE STOP THE OLIGARCHS? (BTW... YOU DON'T SUPPOSE OWS IS GONNA TARGET CORZINE, DO YOU?) (*SNICKER*)
MF Global’s Chapter 11 was the eighth-largest bankruptcy filing in US history...
A heavyweight in both Wall Street and Washington circles, Corzine was even considered a potential cabinet member in President Obama’s administration just last summer.
(*SIGH*)
http://www.wwltv.com/news/One-dead-as-many-as-7-others-shot-on-Bourbon-St-132978578.html
* HERE'S THE HEADLINE, FOLKS...
15 Shot, 2 Dead in New Orleans Halloween Shootings
* RACE ISN'T MENTIONED.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
(*SHRUG*)
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/10/31/gunfire-erupts-on-packed-philadelphia-septa-train/
* AGAIN... HERE'S THE HEADLINE, FOLKS...
Gunfire Erupts On Packed Philadelphia SEPTA Train
* READ THE STORY FOR YOURSELF. WATCH THE VIDEO. I'M NOT SAYING THIS IS RACIAL... IT'S WEIRD THOUGH!
* HERE'S MY PROBLEM WITH THESE SORT OF STORIES. THE PRESS IS DELIBERATELY AVOIDING DESCRIBING THE SUSPECTS... IN OTHER WORDS, RATHER THAN IMPARTIALLY COVERING THE NEWS ALL TOO OFTEN WHEN IT COMES TO STORIES LIKE THIS THE NEWS MEDIA SEEMS TO BE "COVERING UP" THE NEWS.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Six-Shot-in-DC-Halloween-Violence-132984568.html?dr
Authorities say at least six people were injured in shootings across Washington on Halloween, including a juvenile who was shot in the head in Georgetown.
D.C. police say the boy was shot amid celebrations in the 2800 block of M Street about 11 p.m. Monday. He was hospitalized in grave condition. Police are preserving the scene for further investigation in the daylight.
Police say a juvenile also was shot on M Street in northeast about 8:30 p.m.
Shortly afterward, officers responded to the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Decatur Street in northwest for a double shooting. Police say a boy was shot in the knee and a woman was shot in the thigh.
Later, a woman was shot in the ankle on Crittenden Street in northwest. A man also was shot in the foot on Southern Avenue in southeast
* OUR NATION'S CAPITAL FOLKS...
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/10/28/obama_administration_ignoring_congress_on_new_north_korea_policy
* FOLKS... YOU'VE GOT TO READ THIS FOR YOURSELVES! THIS IS BIG. AND THIS IS THE FIRST I'M HEARING ABOUT IT.
The Obama administration has now met with the North Koreans twice and appointed two new top envoys for North Korea policy, but it has not yet consulted with Capitol Hill and has no plans to seek confirmation of the two new officials.
* IN SHORT, OBAMA IS SHORT-CIRCUITING THE CONSTITUTION'S ADVISE AND CONSENT CLAUSES. DELIBERATELY.
Glyn Davies, the newly appointed special representative for North Korea policy, attended the Oct. 24 and Oct. 25 talks in Geneva with North Korean government officials, along with his predecessor, outgoing Ambassador Stephen Bosworth. But Davies, who previously served as ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will not have his title of "ambassador" carry over to his new position, because the State Department has no intention of putting him before the Senate for confirmation.
* GET IT, FOLKS? MORE CONTEMPT FOR THE RULE OF LAW.
Clifford Hart is the new special envoy to the (now defunct) Six Party Talks on North Korea's nuclear program, the second-ranking U.S. diplomatic position toward North Korea. He also does not enjoy the title of ambassador, because he was not put before the Senate for confirmation.
(*SMIRK*)
All of the previous top diplomats dealing with the North Korea issue were ambassadors.
* ALL OF THEM...!!!
Not all went through Senate [re]confirmation for their North Korea jobs; some, like Bosworth, were able to keep their ambassador titles from previous gigs if they had reached a certain rank.
* MEANING WE'RE TALKING A LATERAL MOVE - BOSWORTH FOR EXAMPLE HAD ALREADY BEEN CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE TO BE AN AMBASSADOR - AS A CONFIRMED AMBASSADOR HIS "POSTING" COULD CONSTITUTIONALLY BE REASSIGNED AT THE PLEASURE OF THE PRESIDENT.
* HOWEVER...
Davies hasn't reached that level.
* MEANING DAVIES HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED. AGAIN, FOLKS... THIS IS A DELIBERATE VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL SEPARATION OF POWERS. (AND YET... THIS IS THE FIRST THAT EVEN I AM HEARING OF IT!)
* BTW... IN ADDITION TO READING THE PIECE FOR YOURSELVES... READ MY COMMENT POSTED BELOW THE PIECE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION.
http://www.taxpayer.net/search_by_category.php?action=view&proj_id=4938&category=Wastebasket&type=Project
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Agriculture Committee leaders are following that old maxim, asking the “Super Committee” charged with reducing the deficit by at least $1.2 trillion to lock in high levels of farm spending for the next five years at the same time.
President Obama proposed $33 billion worth of savings from agriculture, Republican House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) found $30 billion, and TCS chronicled $90 billion.
* OVER TEN YEARS, I IMAGINE... (*FROWN*)
The bi-partisan leadership of the bi-cameral Agriculture Committees came up with a mere $23 billion over the next 10 years.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Lucas (R-OK) is leading the charge to circle the wagons and protect their sacred cows stating he “would hope that that $23 billion cut would reflect a commitment from leadership in Congress that ag’s done its part for the next five years.” And he goes on to raise the specter of using the Super Committee to “tie down the resources that are available for a farm bill for the next five years.”
* WILL BOEHNER INTERVENE ON THE SIDE OF THE TAXPAYERS? I SURELY DOUBT IT. (*SIGH*)
Trying to get the Super Committee to include the Farm Bill in their package takes some chutzpah and more than a little contempt for the 523 lawmakers not on the Super Committee, as well as the American public.
* AGAIN... SHORT OF VIOLENCE... (*SHRUG*)
The Farm Bill is a massive piece of legislation Congress passes about every five years to create, continue, or modify hundreds of programs relating to agriculture. It covers programs supporting agriculture producers, conservation spending, research, trade, nutrition, and is the vehicle that governs school lunch programs and food stamps.
Any legislation that comes out of the Super Committee will receive little debate and can’t be amended. It’s untouchable; take it or leave it.
(*SIGH*)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204394804577009870759408972.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop
Winding down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was never going to be easy, given the mortgage giants' market dominance and the housing lobby of Realtors, home builders, banks and others arrayed against reform. But if even a Republican House of Representatives can't take a baby step toward a private market after some $142 billion in taxpayers losses, who will?
* AGAIN... (*SIGH*)... AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN LET ME ASK... (*GRITTING MY TEETH*)... IF VIOLENCE ISN'T THE ANSWER - THEN WHAT IS...???
It's a question that House Speaker John Boehner might consider as he reads a letter that Florida Republican Bill Posey and New York Democrat Gary Ackerman are circulating to fellow Members for signatures. The letter supports an amendment to an appropriations bill that recently passed the Senate to increase the mortgage limits that Fannie, Freddie and the Federal Housing Administration can insure to $729,750 from $625,500 in certain markets for two years. California Rep. Gary Miller, the Republican who rivals Barney Frank in protecting Fannie, introduced a similar bill in May.
(*SIGH*)
The Congressmen say raising the limits "will not cost taxpayers one dime" because Fan and Fred can charge more to insure more expensive homes.
(Anyone remember Bill Clinton's 1995 claim that expanding taxpayer-backed mortgages "will not cost the taxpayers one extra cent"?)
(*SMIRK*)
There's talk now that the House and Senate will convene a conference later this week to negotiate the final details on the appropriations bill that includes the loan-limit hike, without the accountability of so much as a floor debate or a hearing. That would confirm that, for all its reform talk, the current House majority is little better than the one that disgraced Republican principles in 2005-2006.
http://townhall.com/columnists/townhallcomstaff/2011/10/31/what_does_andrew_cuomo_have_against_the_americanization_of_immigrants
New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo is hindering the Americanization of new immigrants.
Governor Cuomo recently signed an executive order requiring state agencies to provide government documents in six foreign languages (Spanish, Chinese, Russian, French, French Creole (Haitian) and Italian.
These state bureaus, including the various welfare agencies, will also be required to provide free interpretation and translation services to New Yorkers who do not speak English as their primary language.
* DISGUSTING. WASTEFUL... COUNTERPRODUCTIVE... SICKENING.
This is supposedly designed to assist new immigrants. But, what message is this sending to new Americans?
Official multilingualism is telling them that it is not particularly important for immigrants, or their children, to make the effort to learn good English.
How different from the past, when Andrew Cuomo’s grandparents, Andrea and Immaculata arrived in New York in the 1920s, or when their son, Italian-speaking Mario attended PS 50.and eventually went on to become a master of the English language and Governor of New York from 1982-94.
Andrew Cuomo’s executive order implies that Italian speakers in New York today are apparently less capable of learning good English than his father’s generation was decades ago.
* YEP... (*SIGH*)
In the past, governors of New York, who were proud progressives and liberals like Theodore Roosevelt, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt promoted the Americanization of immigrants not multilingual Balkanization reminiscent of the old world empires that the immigrants had just left.
(*NOD*)
Today, progressive liberals like Andrew Cuomo see the new immigrants not primarily as citizens of a great Republic with equal rights and responsibilities, but as clients of a welfare state.
(*BOWING MY HEAD; HOLDING BACK TEARS*)
The liberals see immigrants and minorities as members of separate racial, ethnic, or linguistic groups who possess specifically designated group rights - in language, employment, etc. - not as individuals with equality under law.
(*NOD*) (*SIGH*)
Obviously, America is a multi-ethnic nation with many ethnic subcultures of which people are understandably proud and attached...but, these subcultures should not be separate “communities” within our nation...
(*NOD*)
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