Friday, March 23, 2012
Barker's Newsbites: Friday, March 23, 2012
Frigg'n meglomaniac, Santorum...
(*SIGH*)
Here's the context:
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday said Republicans should give President Barack Obama another term if Santorum isn’t the GOP nominee...
Here's what the dumb bastard actually said:
“If they’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate for the future.”
Unfrigg'nbelievable!
This isn't 2008! Romney isn't McCain!
Obama's victory in '08 has served as the wake up call to America. In the national election of 2010 Americans demonstrated that they had heard the wake up call loud and clear by voting to return the House of Representatives to Republican hands.
(Unfortunately the Boehner Republicans have largely squandered the opportunity handed them by the American People over the past 14 months, but that's beside the current point...)
Obama's election served as the most nasty medicine possible in terms of laying the groundwork for "patient" America's recovery. The logic of electing Obama was that the short-term pain his policies would lead to would shock the American People into turning course and returning to responsible, limited, constitutional government.
Again... it "worked" in the sense that after two years of Obama, "We The People" threw Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats out of power in the House...
(*SHRUG*)
On the other hand, the Democrats retained the Senate and over the past 14 months Obama and Reid have continued to wreak havoc upon the American economy, American national security interests, and the very Rule of Law this nation was founded upon.
To even consider voting for an Obama second term - let alone suggesting others vote for Obama over Mitt Romney should Romney win the GOP nomination - that goes beyond mere pique and loss of self-control; Santorum's words are the the words of someone who clearly puts himself above the interests of America!
I've told you all along, people, Santorum is...
(*SHRUG*)
Well... I'll leave the descriptive language to others. Let's just say that I've never trusted Santorum and Santorum's intemperate and frankly indefensible statement of yesterday highlights the man's lack of character and lack of control.
We're in trouble, folks. You know my view of Romney. You know my view of Santorum. You know my view of Gingrich.
Gingrich is my candidate. But short of a miracle... Newt Gingrich isn't going to be the GOP presidential nominee nor the next president of the United States.
May God have mercy upon this once greatest People of the once greatest nation on earth.
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120323/D9TLT6VG0.html
The U.S. intelligence community will now be able to store information about Americans with no ties to terrorism for up to five years under new Obama administration guidelines.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
The new rules replace guidelines issued in 2008 and have privacy advocates concerned about the potential for data-mining information on innocent Americans.
"It is a vast expansion of the government's surveillance authority," Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said of the five-year retention period. "The government put in strong safeguards at the NCTC for the data that would be collected on U.S. citizens for intelligence purposes, these new guidelines undercut the Federal Privacy Act."
"The fact that this data can be retained for five years on U.S. citizens for whom there's no evidence of criminal conduct is very disturbing, Total Information Awareness appears to be reconstructing itself," Rotenberg said, referring to the Defense Department's post-9/11 data-mining research program that was killed in 2003 because of privacy concerns.
* KILLED BY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DUE TO PRIVACY CONCERNS... RESURRECTED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND TO HELL WITH PRIVACY CONCERNS.
* FOLKS... JUST IMAGINE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT DICK CHENEY AS OPPOSED TO OBAMA, BIDEN, AND HOLDER.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
* BUT WHAT THE HELL, RIGHT? I MEAN... THE PRESIDENT NOW SUPPOSEDLY HAS THE POWER TO SIMPLY DECLARE (DEEM!) AN AMERICAN CITIZEN AN "ENEMY COMBATANT" AND STRIP HIM OR HER OF ALL CIVIL RIGHTS AND EVEN ORDER HIS OR HER ASSASSINATION... WHAT'S A LITTLE "DATA MINING" COMPARED TO THAT?!
* WE'RE LOSING OUR FUCKING COUNTRY, PEOPLE. PERIOD. THE END.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/22/police-to-ignore-california-law-requiring-authorities-to-impound-vehicles/
The Los Angeles Police Department will soon start ignoring California state law, which requires police to impound the vehicles of unlicensed drivers for 30 days.
* AS I KEEP SAYING, FOLKS... AMERICA IS NO LONGER A NATION OF LAWS.
The majority of unlicensed motorists in Los Angeles are immigrants who are in the country illegally and have low-income jobs. The LAPD says the state's impound law is unfair because it limits their ability to get to their jobs and imposes a steep fine to get their car
* FIRST AND FOREMOST, IT'S NOT THE LAPD's JOB TO DECIDE WHICH LAWS TO ENFORCE AND WHICH LAWS TO IGNORE. THIS IS NOT "POLICE DISCRETION," THIS IS REBELLION.
* SECOND OF ALL... WE DON'T WANT ILLEGAL ALIENS "GOING TO THEIR JOBS" THAT THEY SHOULDN'T BE HOLDING SINCE THEY'RE... er... ILLEGAL ALIENS!
* FOLKS... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS UP!
As long as drivers can produce some form of I.D., proof of insurance and vehicle registration, they'll be allowed to keep their car. Police Chief Charlie Beck insists that it's simply leveling the playing field.
* POLICE CHIEF BECK SHOULD BE ARRESTED BY THE STATE POLICE. CHIEF BECK SHOULD BE FIRED.
Opponents of Beck's decision are furious and refer to studies showing unlicensed drivers are among the most dangerous on the road. Indeed, a 2011 AAA study titled "Unlicensed to Kill" finds they are five times more likely to be involved in fatal crashes and more likely to flee the scene of a crime.
* AGAIN... THAT'S ALL FINE AND DANDY, BUT THE LOGIC OF THE LAW IS BESIDES THE POINT. THE POINT IS THAT THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IS BEING ASSAULTED AND THIS BECK IS DOING THE ASSAULTING...!!!
Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley wrote Chief Beck, saying his policy would be "invalid" in light of state law, which states a vehicle "shall be impounded."
* AGAIN... BECK SHOULD BE NOT ONLY FIRED, BUT ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY OR WHATEVER CHARGE WOULD BEST FIT THIS REFUSAL TO ABIDE BY STATE LAW.
The L.A. Police Commission voted in favor of the new policy 4-1 last month.
* THE L.A. POLICE COMMISSION HAS NO MORE RIGHT TO "AUTHORIZE" BECK TO VIOLATE STATE LAW THAN BECK HAS TO ACTUALLY VIOLATE STATE LAW...!!!
The city attorney has also sided with Beck's decision.
* NOR IS THE CITY ATTORNEY OF L.A. EMPOWERED TO OVERRULE STATE LAW...!!!
* FOLKS... THIS IS INSANITY. THIS IS A TOTAL BREAKDOWN OF THE RULE OF LAW LED BY THE POLICE CHIEF OF L.A.! IT'S YET ANOTHER SYMPTOM THAT OUR NATION IS COLLAPSING FROM WITHIN.
http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/54-state-of-affairs/1356-meese-rightly-moves-to-protect-our-votes
The political Right is right about vote fraud. The Left has left all decency in the rear-view mirror.
* I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU FOLKS TO READ THE PIECE - OR NOT.
* OBVIOUSLY IF I DIDN'T BELIEVE THE ANALYSIS WAS CORRECT I WOULDN'T SUGGEST YOU READ IT.
(*SHRUG*)
http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/54-state-of-affairs/1357-pew-research-republicans-more-knowledgeable-than-democrats
So Republicans are more knowledgeable than Democrats...
(*GRIN*)
According to whom? None other than the Pew Research Center, a Left-of-center organization.
Moreover, Pew’s latest survey only reaffirms previous surveys demonstrating the same result.
In fact, the results weren’t even close.
In a scientific survey of 1,168 adults conducted during September and October of last year, respondents were asked not only multiple-choice questions, but also queries using maps, photographs and symbols. Among other subjects, participants identified international leaders, cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, nations on a world map, the current unemployment and poverty rates and war casualty totals.
In a 2010 Pew survey, Republicans outperformed Democrats on 10 of 12 questions, with one tie and Democrats outperforming Republicans on just 1 of the 12.
In the latest survey, however, Republicans outperformed Democrats on every single one of 19 questions.
(*HUGE FRIGG'N GRIN*)
Those Pew results are confirmed by some surprising other sources.
According to a New York Times headline dated April 14, 2010, “Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier and More Educated.” Shattering widespread myths, that survey revealed that Tea Party supporters were more likely to possess a college degree than their counterparts (23% to 15%), and also more likely to have completed post-graduate studies (14% to 10%). Tea Partiers were also more likely to have completed “some college” by a 33% to 28% margin, and substantially less likely to have not completed high school than non-supporters (3% versus 12%), or to possess only a high school degree (26% versus 35%).
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/story/2012-03-22/repeal-obamacare/53715118/1
It's time to scrap the Affordable Care Act and try again.
* AMEN!
One thing hasn't changed: There continues to be bipartisan agreement that the U.S. health care system is riddled with overuse, underuse, and misuse of therapies; senseless inefficiencies; and inadequate opportunities for affordable insurance. The U.S. needs real health care reform.
* TRUE...
But the ACA (ObamaCare) is a dramatic step in the wrong direction.
* YEP!
* BTW... THE AUTHOR OF THIS PIECE: DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN, FORMER DIRECTOR OF THE CBO.
It's bad economics.
Americans will be unable to enjoy quality health care or insurance, or anything else, without adequate incomes. At a time when growth is anemic, it is senseless to festoon the businesses small and large with $500 billion in new taxes and 10,000 pages of burdensome regulations that will cost firms $12 billion to comply.
It's bad federal budget policy.
The national debt threatens a Greek-style financial crisis. It makes no sense to fuel the spending fire with a new entitlement program, expand a sub-par Medicaid system, and rob $500 billion from Medicare without any fundamental reforms that will make it sustainable for future seniors. (Don't get your hopes up about the Independent Payment Advisory Board's ability to restrain Medicare costs. In practice, it can't do anything but cut reimbursements to doctors and hospitals and reduce access for seniors.)
It's bad health policy.
The ACA breaks the president's promise that if you like your insurance you can keep it. Mandates are forcing employers to change policies, and the ACA's subsidy system encourages employers to stop offering insurance altogether. On top of that, the ACA mandates and taxes have already increased the cost of insurance for everyone. Experts ranging from the CBO to the administration's chief actuary agree that the ACA did not bend the cost curve.
* AND, FOLKS... YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THAT OBAMA KNEW THIS EVEN AS HE WAS LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
It's unfair.
Identical American families will have different access to thousands of dollars of federal aid based on employers' insurance decisions. It is also immoral to force young citizens into the insurance system to pay the health costs of those older and sicker than them, only to inherit the debt this law will create in their advancing years.
(*NOD*)
It is time for real reform that focuses on the cost and quality of care, reforms the safety-net programs to survive to the next generation of seniors and low-income Americans, and uses market forces to expand affordable insurance options.
http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=5197&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Mica (R-FL) introduced H.R. 4239 yesterday; a “clean” extension to the nation’s surface transportation program.
(*SMIRK*)
While lawmakers are supposedly dancing to the drumbeat of slashing deficits and cutting wasteful spending, there is nothing “clean” about this bill: it only dirties the hands of Congress which continues to refuse to make tough fiscal decisions.
* U.S. ARMY STAFF SGT. ROBERT BALES KILLED INNOCENT PEOPLE... BUT WHAT IF HE HAD KILLED PEOPLE WHO DESERVE KILLING?
* JUST PONDERING PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS ALOUD, FOLKS... NOTHING TO CALL THE SECRET SERVICE OR FBI ABOUT!
Similar to the last nine extensions of the expired transportation bill...
* YEP. YOU READ THAT RIGHT! THE LAST NINE EXTENSIONS... (*SIGH*)
...under this extension spending levels would remain unchanged from the nation’s Highway Trust Fund...
* YEP. NO CUTS.
...the dedicated account for roads and transit supported primarily by gas taxes.
Unfortunately, the Highway Trust Fund brings in far less in revenues than the current “burn rate” of spending. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that if outlays are kept at current rates, the Highway Trust Fund’s balance will fall to zero by the middle of 2013.
* THERE'S THAT DAMN "MATH" AGAIN!
Instead of taking the issue head on, the House’s extension would ignore the Highway Trust Fund for another three months, driving the transportation program toward an increasingly steep cliff.
* WHICH BRINGS US BACK TO SGT. BALES...
(*SHRUG*)
While common sense solutions are readily apparent — cut spending or find new revenue — this extension proposal came only after the House couldn’t come to agreement on a disastrous five-year bill that sought to make increased highway spending dependent on royalty and lease revenues from expanded offshore energy production.
* WHICH - BY THE WAY - THE HOUSE HAD AMPLE REASON NOT TO AGREE TO! (JUST IN CASE THE WORD "DISASTROUS" DIDN'T CLICK WITH YOU!) HERE'S WHY:
Not only would this make the Highway Trust Fund rely on speculative revenues, but it breaks the user-pay principle that has guided transportation spending over the last five decades.
The [Democrat-controlled] Senate’s equally terrible bill (adopted last week but stalled in the House) is no better: the $109 billion, two-year proposal is filled with a smorgasbord of budget gimmicks that would siphon off ten years of largely general fund revenues to pay for only two years worth of Highway Trust Fund spending.
* I MEAN... JUST IMAGINE... BOTH REID AND MCCONNELL ARE ASSASSINATED SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP TAKING CREDIT THREATENING TO KILL "TANDEM TEAMS" OF SCUMBAG REPUBLICANS AND SCUMBAG DEMOCRATS EACH DAY UNTIL CONGRESS GETS IT ACT TOGETHER. WOULD THAT REALLY BE SO TERRIBLE...???
(AGAIN... NO NEED TO REPORT THIS NEWSBITE - I'M JUST THINKING OUT LOUD... I'M NOT THREATENING ANYONE OR CALLING FOR VIOLENCE!)
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