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- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, February 29, 2012
- Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, February 28, 2012
- Obama Channels Woodrow Wilson
- Barker's Newsbites: Monday, February 27, 2012
- What Do You Make of This...???
- Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., Feb. 25 & 26, 2012
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- Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, February 23, 2012
- Barker... vs. Obama... and Pretty Much Everyone El...
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- Pat Buchanan Defends Rick Santorum - And Rightly So!
- Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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- Why...??? (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab)
- Barker's Newsbites: Friday, February 17, 2012
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- The Boehner "Republicans" Strike Again
- Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
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- By Lt. Col.. Daniel L. Davis
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- Yep... That Hillary Clinton Sure Is Doing A FINE J...
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- Who Cares Who Donald Trump Endorses...?!
- A "Must Read" George Will Column (Too long for a n...
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- William R. Barker
- Pearl River, NY High School Class of '81; Northeastern University, Boston, MA Class of '87.
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* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/291860/romney-conservative-immigration-steve-baldwin?pg=3
* FINISHING UP THE NRO EXPOSE ON ROMNEY THAT I STARTED POSTING IN FRIDAY'S COMMENTS/NEWSBITES!
Romney did veto a bill allowing illegal aliens to attend colleges at the in-state tuition rate.
However...
(*SMIRK*) HERE IT COMES...
...his main argument was not that these people were illegal, but rather that Massachusetts couldn’t afford the bill’s $15 million price tag.
(In other words, so long as illegal aliens paid the same rate as out-of-state students, Romney didn’t appear terribly concerned.)
[Indeed,] during a 2008 debate with Rudy Giuliani in St. Petersburg, Florida, Romney argued that federal law required states to educate illegal aliens!
* QUOTING ROMNEY:
If you’re here illegally, you should not be here. We’re not going to give you benefits, other than those required by the law, like health care and education, and that’s the course we’re going to have to pursue.
But that’s not entirely correct. While the Plyler v. Doe Supreme Court decision indeed requires states to provide K–12 education to illegal aliens, states are not required to admit illegal aliens to their higher-education institutions.
* BY THE WAY... THIS IS A RIDICULOUS SUPREME COURT DECISION - UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN MY VIEW. (THOUGH IT MIGHT PASS CONSTITUTIONAL MUSTER IF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WERE PAYING FOR THE EDUCATION... WHICH THEY'RE NOT - AT LEAST NOT SPECIFICALLY.) ROMNEY AND INDEED ALL STATE GOVERNORS ON A NON-PARTISAN BASIS SHOULD BAND TOGETHER TO FIGHT THIS SORT OF INSANITY AND "JUST SAY NO."
* BUT IN ANY CASE... (RETURNING TO ROMNEY'S VIEWS...)
If Governor Romney [had been] serious about saving Massachusetts money by denying illegal aliens lower tuition, then why didn’t he try to ban illegal aliens from enrolling in state colleges altogether? There is no record that he ever did so.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
While federal law requires that states provide emergency health care for illegal aliens...
* AGAIN, FOLKS... BLATANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. AGAIN... IF THE FEDS TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR PAYING FOR THIS INSANE MANDATE THAT MIGHT PROVIDE A LOOPHOLE, BUT SINCE THEY DON'T... (*SHRUG*)
...RomneyCare created a program called the Health Safety Net Fund, which provides medical treatment for illegals, whether it be urgent or routine.
(*SMIRK*) (*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
The Romney campaign has claimed that the regulations allowing this practice arose long after Romney left office. But the original legislation creating the Health Safety Net Fund states otherwise.
* AS I OFTEN NOTE... (*PAUSE*)... ROMNEY IS A LYING SACK OF SHIT.
[A]s the Los Angeles Times reported in October 2011..."Massachusetts officials involved in crafting the health-care law said there was broad understanding when Romney signed it that at least some people who would benefit would be in the country illegally."
(*SHRUG*)
In Romney’s speeches, one of his most common stock phrases is, “we have to turn off the magnet of extraordinary government benefits.” But Romney’s own landmark legislative achievement, RomneyCare, provided millions of dollars in taxpayer-subsidized benefits for illegal aliens.
(*NOD*)
The Romney campaign desperately wants voters to believe that he has a long history as a law-and-order conservative on immigration issues. But the reality is that Romney’s record on immigration is convoluted and deceptive, as it is on nearly every other issue. This confirms what most people already know: Romney lacks a consistent worldview. Consequently, no one has any idea what Romney might do as president regarding immigration policy. His record suggests, however, that Romney will employ contradictory policies resulting in a very unsatisfactory record. Basically, George W. Bush 2.0.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17163322
Two Nato officers have been killed in the interior ministry in the Afghan capital Kabul...
* AND BY "NATO" THEY MEAN AMERICAN.
Afghan security officials said those killed were an American colonel and major.
* AIN'T U.S. FOREIGN POLICY UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA AND SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON SIMPLY INSPIRING... (*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Gen. Allen said he condemned the attack...
* OH... HE "CONDEMNS" IT, HUH? (*SIGH*) GOD HELP THIS ONCE GREAT NATION. GOD HELP US IF OBAMA ISN'T DEFEATED COME NOVEMBER.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/26/us-afghanistan-shooting-suspect-idUSL4E8DQ03N20120226
Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when a grenade was thrown at their base in northern Afghanistan...
* THE BUCK STOPS AT OBAMA'S DESK.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
* I'VE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS THAT WE SHOULD BE LARGELY OUT OF AFGHANISTAN. OBAMA HAS LET THE BLEEDING (BOTH LITERAL AND FINANCIAL) FOR FAR TOO LONG. AND, FOLKS... YOU KNOW THE REASON HE DIDN'T WAS POLITICAL, NOT STRATEGIC. HE WASN'T WILLING TO TAKE THE POLITICAL HIT. SO INSTEAD... OUR SOLDIERS CONTINUE TO BE WOUNDED AND KILLED WHILE GOD ONLY KNOWS HOW MANY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS CONTINUE TO BE THROWN DOWN A BOTTOMLESS PIT.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_TUNISIA_US?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-02-25-07-14-42
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday warned of backsliding in the democratic transformations under way in the Mideast and North Africa...
* YEAH...?!?! YA THINK...?!?! (FUCKING MORON...)
...and appealed for countries in the region to fulfill the promise of reform offered by the Arab Spring.
* NO, FOLKS... THIS AIN'T A "STORY" FROM THE ONION. THIS IS WHAT U.S. FOREIGN POLICY HAS BECOME UNDER THE IDIOT TWINS OBAMA AND CLINTON.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD IN DISGUST*)
Her comments came amid concerns that transitions in Egypt and elsewhere are faltering...
* "FALTERING," HUH?
(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)
* FOLKS... CLEARLY THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM.
(*BITING MY LIP*)
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120225/METRO01/202250346/Fight-shower-cited-slaying-9-month-old-boy?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
Detroit — A fight over a seat at a baby shower triggered the killing of a 9-month-old boy, according to the victim's grandmother.
Delric Miller IV died Monday as he slept on the couch in his home on the 8400 block of Greenview Avenue. Police said someone fired at the house with an AK-47-type assault rifle about 4:30 a.m., leaving behind 37 shells. One of the rounds hit the baby, who was pronounced dead at Sinai-Grace Hospital.
Delric Miller IV died Monday as he slept on the couch in his home on the 8400 block of Greenview Avenue. Police said someone fired at the house with an AK-47-type assault rifle about 4:30 a.m., leaving behind 37 shells. One of the rounds hit the baby, who was pronounced dead at Sinai-Grace Hospital.
Delric's grandmother, Cynthia Wilkins, said she believes the shooting was retaliation for a skirmish Sunday at a baby shower at Club Celebrity on Plymouth Rd. in Detroit.
"The shower was overbooked, and there was an argument because there weren't enough seats," said Wilkins. Her daughter, Diamond Salter, attended the shower, which was thrown by a friend, Wilkins said.
"A woman got mad because she couldn't find a seat, so she started knocking tables down, and it escalated from there," Wilkins said. "My daughter and her friends left the club, but (a group of men and women) followed them to a gas station, and there was a fight with one of the guys who was at the shower with my daughter. Then, they followed them to the house.
"I think they came back the next day and shot up the house," said Wilkins, who sobbed as she recounted the events. "They went to the shower to celebrate life; instead, a life was destroyed."
* FOLKS... (*SIGH*)... DETROIT IS NOT AMERICA. LARGE PARTS OF PHILADELPHIA AND LOS ANGELES AND MIAMI ARE NOT AMERICA. LARGE SEGMENTS OF OUR BORDER WITH MEXICO - INCLUDING FEDERAL PARKS - ARE NO LONGER AMERICA IN THE SENSE OF SAFE, "AMERICAN" TERRITORY.
* FOLKS... DEMOGRAPHICS IS DESTINY. WITHIN THIS COUNTRY CERTAIN AREAS ARE GOING FROM FIRST WORLD TO SECOND WORLD TO THIRD WORLD CONDITIONS AND THE TREND IS ONLY ACCELERATING.
* I KNOW MANY OF YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR THIS... BUT IT'S TRUE.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/26/world/mexico-cruise-robbery/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
Twenty-two Carnival Cruise Lines passengers were robbed of valuables and their passports during a shore excursion in the Mexico seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta...
* PUERTO VALLARTA, FOLKS... (REMEMBER "THE LOVE BOAT"?)
The robbery comes two weeks after the U.S. State Department issued a travel warning to Americans to avoid all but essential travel to all or parts of 14 Mexican states, including the state of Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta is the sixth-largest city in Jalisco.
The State Department also warned travelers to use caution in visiting part of Baja California, Colima and Morelos.
(A number of cruise lines dropped Mazatlan from itineraries last year following a spike in violence.)
more than 47,500 people were killed in drug-related violence in Mexico between December 2006 and September 2011, according to the State Department. While most of those murdered were involved in criminal activity, innocent people were also caught in the crossfire, the State Department said.
* HEY, FOLKS... I KNOW THAT WHAT I'M ABOUT TO NOTE COULD SERVE AS THE DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF "POLITICALLY INCORRECT," BUT...
(*PAUSE*)
* DOES ANYONE SUPPOSE THAT PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH MEXICO IS THAT IT'S POPULATED AND RUN BY... er... MEXICANS...???
* HEY... FOLKS... AS "MEXICAN CULTURE" REMAKES ITSELF ACROSS BROADER AND BROADER SWATHS OF THE UNITED STATES WHAT DOES LOGIC TELL YOU WILL BE THE RESULT?
(*SMIRK*) (*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/green-company-gets-390m-subsidies-lays-125/394051
A123 Systems, an electric car battery company once touted as a stimulus "success story" by former Gov. Jennifer Granhom, D-Mich., has laid off 125 employees since receiving $390 million in government subsidies - but is still handing out big pay raises to company executives.
(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)
* O-BAM-A! O-BAM-A! O-BAM-A!
"[T]he company has laid off 125 employees and had a net loss of $172 million through the first three quarters of 2011," the Mackinac Center for Public Policy reports, observing that the company's primary customer, Fisker Automotive, is also struggling financially. "Yet, this month A123’s Compensation Committee approved a $30,000 raise for [Chief Financial Officer David] Prystash...
* FOLKS... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP! THIS IS OBAMANOMICS!
* ONE BRIGHT SPOT, THOUGH... (READ ON...)
Fisker Automotive announced the U.S. Energy Department had cut off what was left of its $528.7 million loan it had previously received."
* ON THE OTHER HAND... THIS DOESN'T BRING BACK THE $390 MILLION IN TAXPAYER DOLLARS GIVEN TO A123 SYSTEMS, DOES IT?!
(*SMIRK*)
This month has seen significant pay boosts for other A123 executives, as well:
Robert Johnson, vice president of the energy solutions group, got a 20.7% pay increase going from $331,250 to $400,000, while Jason Forcier, vice president of the automotive solutions group, saw his pay increase from $331,250 to $350,000.
(*MORE SARCASTIC CLAPPING WHILE SHOUTING OUT "O-BAM-A! O-BAM-A!"*)
Prystash’s raise was 8.5%, going from $350,000 to $380,000.
(*SMIRK*)
"It looks like they are trying to pad their top people’s wallets in case something really bad happens," Paul Chesser, associate fellow for the National Legal & Policy Center, suggested.
* UMM... YEAH! IT SURE AS HELL DOES!
The Department of Energy gave the battery company $249.1 million in grant money, while the Michigan government provided A123 with another $141 million in tax credits and subsidies, according to the Mackinac Center.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
* AIN'T SOCIALISTIC CRONY CAPITALISM GRAND, FOLKS?!
* OH, YEAH... THOSE DEMOCRATS... ALWAYS "LOOKING OUT FOR THE... er... NOT SO LITTLE GUY."
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