Thursday, May 3, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, May 3, 2012


Not a great week so far, kids...

(*SIGH*)

I'm "dying" of a head-cold. (Oh, well... I was healthy for this past weekend's wedding - that's the main thing!)

The world is continuing to go to hell under the... er... "leadership" of "The One" and his sidekicks Hillary Clinton, Ben Bernanke, Joe Biden, Leon Panetta, and other assorted bit players.

Let's see... today's Drudge Report in real time (as of approximately 9 a.m. this morning):

President Obama and Madam Clinton are betraying Chen Guangchen...

Things are going from bad to worse in Egypt...

Israel is calling up military reserve units...

Oh, well...

(*SIGH*)

So... who's up for a newsbites theme song?!

4 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/story/2012-05-02/weather-satellites-forecast-storms/54708804/1

[A] new government-sponsored report warns that the USA's ability to track tornadoes, forecast hurricanes and study climate change is about to diminish.

* DIMINISH...? AS IN... er... DECLINE?

The number and capability of weather satellites circling the planet "is beginning a rapid decline" and tight budgets have significantly delayed or eliminated missions to replace them, says a National Research Council analysis out Wednesday.

The number of in-orbit and planned Earth observation missions by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is projected to drop "precipitously" from 23 this year to only six by 2020, the report found.

* DROP PRECIPITOUSLY...? AS IN... er... DECLINE?

That means the number of instruments monitoring Earth's activity is expected to decline from a peak of about 110 last year to fewer than 30 by the end of the decade.

* YEP... NOW THEY'RE USING THE ACTUAL WORD!

* FOLKS... IN ALL SERIOUSNESS... IF YOU DON'T RECOGNIZE THAT AMERICA IS IN A DECLINE THEN YOU'RE WILLFULLY BLIND.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Girls-Subway-Assault-Bronx-Crime-Cell-Phone-Robbery-Police-149984745.html

Police are looking for 12 female suspects wanted for allegedly taunting two teenage girls on a subway before hauling them off by their hair at a Bronx station and stealing one of their phones.

* THERE'S VIDEO TO... er... FILL IN THE BLANKS IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PERPS.

(*SMIRK*)

The 12 suspects are described as ranging in age from 15 to 18 years old. Police released the following descriptions of the suspects' clothing and ages.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

* FOLKS... (*CHUCKLING*)... READ THE... er... DESCRIPTIONS. (AND THEN RE-VIEW THE VIDEO!)

(*SNICKER*)

William R. Barker said...

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/05/02/big-thinking-bold-newt-gingrich-is-america-real-life-captain-kirk/

* JUST READ IT.

(*SHRUG*)

William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/3/russia-threatens-strike-nato-missile-defense-sites/

Russia’s most senior military officer said Thursday that Moscow would preemptively strike and destroy U.S.-led NATO missile defense sites in Eastern Europe if talks with Washington about the developing system continue to stall.

(*SNORT*)

“A decision to use destructive force preemptively will be taken if the situation worsens,” Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov said at an international missile defense conference in Moscow attended by senior U.S. and NATO officials.

* FOLKS... I'M NOT TOO WORRIED... BUT... AS A RHETORICAL "ATTACK" THE RUSSIANS ARE SIMPLY USING OUR OWN LOGIC AGAINST US - DECLARING THAT THEY TOO CAN UNILATERALLY WAGE PREEMPTIVE WAR IF THEY VIEW SUCH AN ATTACK AS IN THEIR OWN VITAL NATIONAL INTEREST. (OR... AS WITH LIBYA... OR BEFORE THAT, THE BALKANS... THEY SIMPLY VIEW IT AS A HUMANITARIAN "MISSION.")

* FOLKS... IN ALL SERIOUSNESS... BETWEEN CLINTON, BUSH, AND OBAMA WE'VE CREATED SOME SCREWED UP PRECEDENTS.

(*SIGH*)

Neither the State Department nor the Pentagon had any immediate comment on the Russian threat Thursday.

* WELL... ACTUALLY... THE RESPONSE SHOULD BE SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF, "TRY IT - WE'LL TURN YOU INTO A CINDER."

(*SHRUG*)

* FOLKS... JUST BECAUSE THE RUSSIAN'S THREAT IS BLUSTER FOR DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULD LET IT PASS.