Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, November 14, 2012


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William R. Barker said...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/14/petraeus-agrees-to-testify-on-libya-before-congressional-committees/

Former CIA Director David Petraeus has [once again] agreed to testify about the Libya terror attack before the House and Senate intelligence committees...

(*THUMBS UP*)

Petraeus had originally been scheduled to testify this Thursday on the burgeoning controversy over the deadly Sept. 11 attack. That appearance was scuttled, though, after the director abruptly resigned over an extramarital affair.

* NO, FOLKS... I DOUBT IT WAS ONLY ABOUT AN EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIR.

The logistics of Petraeus' appearance are still being worked out. But a source close to Petraeus said the former four-star general has contacted the CIA, as well as committees in both the House and Senate, to offer his testimony as the former CIA director. Fox News has learned he is expected to speak off-site to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Friday about his Libya report.

* WILL THIS BE A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE HEARING...???

The House side is still being worked out.

* SAME QUESTION! PUBLIC OR PRIVATE?

While Petraeus prepares to give his side, lawmakers have begun to openly question when Petraeus first knew about the investigation that uncovered his affair -- and whether it impacted his statements to Congress on Sept. 14 about the Libya terror attack.

Petraeus briefed lawmakers that day that the attack was akin to a flash mob, and some top lawmakers noted to Fox News he seemed "wedded" to the administration's narrative that it was a demonstration spun out of control. The briefing appeared to conflict with one from the FBI and National Counter-terrorism Center a day earlier in which officials said the intelligence supported an Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda-affiliated attack.

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told Fox News he now questions whether Petraeus' statements -- which were in conflict with both the FBI briefing and available raw intelligence -- were in any way impacted by the knowledge the FBI was investigating his affair with Broadwell.

King questioned whether the investigation "consciously or subconsciously" affected his statements to Congress.

* FOLKS... (*SIGH*)... REGARDLESS OF WHAT PATRAEUS SAYS OR DOESN'T SAY, THE OBAMA TEAM HAS ALREADY MET IT'S OBJECTIVE - PATRAEUS HAS BEEN DISCREDITED.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

November 14, 2012 at 11:08 AM
William R. Barker said...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/budget-deficit-rises-120-billion-october-190237736--business.html

The U.S. budget deficit rose in October, the first month of fiscal year 2013...

(*SARCASTIC APPLAUSE*)

The Treasury said on Tuesday the October deficit was $120 billion, larger than economist forecasts for a $114 billion gap and up from $98 billion in October of 2011.

* FOLKS... YOU'RE READING THIS, RIGHT...? NOT ONLY IS DEFICIT SPENDING UP... IT'S UP BEYOND LAST YEAR'S OCTOBER NUMBER! THESE BASTARDS JUST KEEP DOUBLING DOWN!

Growth in expenditures outpaced rising receipts...

* YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS... RIGHT? IT MEANS EVEN WHEN "GROWTH" (SUCH AS IT IS) INCREASES FEDERAL REVENUES, THESE BASTARDS INCREASE SPENDING EVEN HIGHER AND DEEPEN DEFICIT SPENDING AND OUR NATIONAL DEBT EVEN DEEPER...!!!

* BY THE WAY, FOLKS... NOTE THE SOURCE... YAHOO CANADA! REUTERS VIA YAHOO CANADA TO BE PRECISE!

Outlays grew to $304 billion from around $262 billion in the same month last year...

(*SHRUG*)

* AND OBAMA ACTUALLY WANTED TO SPEND MORE! THIS IS THE SITUATION WITH THE RINOs IN THE HOUSE "RESTRAINING" THE DEMOCRATS SOMEWHAT!

The United States had reported a budget surplus for September, the final month of the 2012 fiscal year, but the tiny bump in revenues did not prevent the country's deficit from exceeding $1 trillion for the fourth year in a row. The 2012 budget gap was $1.089 trillion, smaller than last year's deficit of $1.297 trillion largely because of higher corporate income tax receipts and less spending.

* BUT... NOW... WE'RE... BACK... TO... MORE... SPENDING...!!!

* FOLKS... AGAIN... BOTTOM LINE... EVEN WHEN WE GET REVENUE GROWTH, THE DEFAULT SETTING FOR GOVERNMENT IS TO SPEND (AND THUS BORROW) BEYOND "NEW" REVENUES GENERATED.

* WE'RE FUCKED.

November 14, 2012 at 11:21 AM
William R. Barker said...

* THREE-PARTER... (Part 1 of 3)

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/obama-win-is-constitutions-loss/

* SORRY FOR THE SOURCING... BUT WHERE THIS ARTICLE IS APPEARING DOESN'T TAKE AWAY FROM IT'S TRUTH OR THE AUTHOR'S REPUTATION.

On Sept. 12, 2001, President George W. Bush assured us: “We will not allow this enemy to win the war by changing our way of life or restricting our freedoms.”

The enemy has certainly tried, but it was President Bush, following the advice of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, who began the extensive attack on our individual liberties through the Patriot Act, which passed on Oct. 26, 2001.

* I AGREE.

* THE PATRIOT ACT ISN'T A SIMPLE PIECE OF LEGISLATION; IT'S MORE OF A HODGE-PODGE. MOST OF IT WAS PROPER AND NECESSARY... BUT NOT ALL OF IT.

* BOTTOM LINE... AS I'VE ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGED (AND RANTED ABOUT)... BUSH STARTED US ON THE PRESENT PATH.

Then, President Barack Obama went far beyond his predecessor’s administration to become the most destructive uprooter of our Constitution in our nation’s history.

* YEP!

* TO BE CONTINUED...

November 14, 2012 at 11:46 AM
William R. Barker said...

* CONTINUING... (Part 2 of 3)

Growing up as a student at Boston Latin School, one of whose alumni was Samuel Adams, a firebrand of our American Revolution, I read American history with excitement. I learned how we always overcame grimly looming threats to our self-governing republic to become a beacon to the world. But never did I even imagine that an American president, without insuring due process in a court of law, would – as Obama does – use a kill list to target suspected terrorists for assassination.

So far this list has also included three American citizens.

* I FEEL HENTOFF'S PAIN. UNFORTUNATELY... MOST AMERICANS DON'T.

Obama has taken advantage of ever-advancing digital technology, using bottomless databases that keep track of those Americans he considers persons of subversive interest. During the presidential debates, did you hear anything about our vanishing privacy?

* LITTLE OR NOTHING. (*SHRUG*) I THINK THERE MAY HAVE BEEN ONE RELATED QUESTION DURING ONE OF THE DEBATES... AND ROMNEY ENDED UP APPLAUDING OBAMA'S NON-ANSWER.

The secrecy with which Obama discards the Constitution to rule over us is evident in his dictatorial use of the “state secrets” privilege, which actually prevents judges from even hearing cases brought by citizens who claim their fundamental constitutional rights have been expunged by the president’s censors.

I now share with you, fellow American citizens, this chilling description of the essence of four more years of our maximum leader:

In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post, Kurt Volker shows what that portion of the electorate who cared enough to vote gave us and the rest of the world. This is what America has now come to stand for:

“What do we want to be as a nation? A country with a permanent kill list? A country where people go to the office, launch a few kill shots (from pilotless drones) and get home in time for dinner?

“A country that instructs workers in high-tech operations centers to kill human beings on the far side of the planet because some government agency determined that those individuals are terrorists?” (“What the U.S. risks by relying on drones,” Kurt Volker, The Washington Post, Oct. 26).

A country also where its president makes the final choice for his faceless killers to rub out their targets.

* INCLUDING... AMERICAN... CITIZENS...

* THIS IS THE RUB, FOLKS! THIS IS THE LINE THAT'S BEEN CROSSED! WHEN ANY AMERICAN CITIZEN CAN HAVE HIS OR HER RIGHTS SECRETLY STRIPPED... THAN WE NO LONGER LIVE UNDER THE RULE OF LAW... WE NO LONGER LIVE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

* TO BE CONTINUED...

November 14, 2012 at 11:47 AM
William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 3 of 3)

Obama is once more exultantly justifying anything he chooses to do from now on, because “We won!”

The fateful questions for the future of this nation are why did he win, and will his re-election show the victorious way for future presidents to come?

Many Americans’ choice to discard the Declaration of Independence reveals an alarming ignorance of their history, including why their country is – or is supposed to be – unique among all other nations in the world.

(*NOD*)

The depth of this ignorance explains why throughout the long, fiercely divisive presidential and congressional campaigns, there were hardly any references to Obama’s persistent contempt for the Constitution.

* THE SAD TRUTH IS THAT DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS MAINLY SHARE THE SAME CONTEMPT FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW... ACCORDING, OF COURSE, TO WHO IS IN THE DRIVERS SEAT. BUT EVEN WHEN WE HAVE A PRESIDENT OBAMA SHREDDING THE CONSTITUTION... DOUBLING DOWN ON A PRESIDENT BUSH'S PRIOR SHREDDING OF THE CONSTITUTION... A CANDIDATE ROMNEY BASICALLY ANNOUNCED THAT HE TOO WOULD BE A SHREDDER OF THE CONSTITUTION IF ELECTED!

How grotesque it was for Obama to say in September – as he presented his beliefs for maintaining the principles of America’s rule of law while strengthening national security – that in going after American citizens involved with al-Qaida: “They are subject to the protections of the Constitution and due process” (“Death from afar,” The Economist, Nov. 3).

Had I been there looking at him, how could I not have burst out laughing?

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

How can we specifically get our country back?

* TARGETED VIOLENCE. THAT'S THE ONLY SCENARIO I SEE AS HAVING THE GHOST OF A CHANCE.

Whether you’re elderly or not, keep in mind that ObamaCare could soon be coming after you full force – as it decides whether it costs his government too much to keep you alive!

In January 2003, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke about the balance between liberty and security. “The security side is going to outweigh the other” – unless “people come forward and say we are proud to be living in a land that has been more free, and we want to keep it that way” (my book, “The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance,” Seven Stories Press, 2003).

Next week: How many of us are ready to rebel against this new King George III?

November 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM
William R. Barker said...

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

http://pinellaspark.wtsp.com/news/news/151640-man-tasered-police-calls-it-brutal

Pinellas Park, Florida -- Daniel Jensen wasn't running from the law, he was trying to protect his home from burning up. Yet, Pinellas Park Police tasered him in the process.

* AMERICA 2012 MY FRIENDS!

Jensen and his attorney say it's an excessive use of force.

Jensen was still shaken and visibly emotional as he retold what happened last Thursday evening. He said being tasered by police has not only impacted him, but it also impacted his children, who saw it all happen.

"All I remember is laying in water, being electrocuted for saving my home," said Jensen.

The 42-year-old father of two recalls his wife waking him around 6 in the evening, saying there's a big fire at his neighbor's house."I could hear it, I could feel it," he explained.He ran outside and grabbed a fire extinguisher. He sprayed it until it was empty. "I was calling for my daughter and getting no response. I came out, grabbed the hose and sprayed her room until I heard she was out. I was always taught to help when you can; help is what I tried to do," said Jensen.

He said he then took the garden hose and started watering down his fence and the back corner of his rooftop, trying to prevent the fire from spreading to his property. But with each attempt, Daniel said Pinellas Park Police kept pulling him back... even though firefighters were not in sight. "They kept telling me, 'Let it go, that's what insurance is for.' That's not acceptable to me," said Jensen.

* AND IT'S SURE AS HELL NOT ACCEPTABLE TO ME!

* TO BE CONTINUED...

November 14, 2012 at 6:08 PM
William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)

Captain Sanfield Forseth with the Pinellas Park Police Department said officers could have charged him with obstruction for not listening to an officer's orders.

* I SAY FIRE CAPTAIN FORSETH. ANYONE THAT DENSE SHOULDN'T BE A COP.

"I wasn't doing that. What I was doing was what any home owner would do to protect a family and home," said Jensen.

* SOUNDS LIKE IT TO ME!

Captain Forseth said the department will not be charging him.

* AND THIS SOUNDS LIKE CONFIRMATION OF JENSEN'S STORY TO ME!

When Jensen saw the fire jump on to his back roof, he again grabbed the hose. That's when he said - unknown to him - a police officer pulled out a taser and fired it at his back.

* THIS POLICE OFFICER SHOULD BE FIRED; PERHAPS EVEN CHARGED WITH ASSAULT IF JENSEN'S STORY IS ESSENTIALLY ACCURATE.

"As I went to grab the hose, I hear an officer on this side. There was a boat here; he was just behind it. He said, 'Hit him, hit him! Take him down, tase him!'" explained Jensen. "I didn't know they were talking to me, or about me. I was concerned about putting water on the fire, and the next thing you know I'm being tased."

Jensen said a Sergeant ordered an officer to tase him, but the officer never warned him as department policy requires.

* LISTEN... THESE COPS REALLY FUCKED UP IF JENSEN'S STORY IS ACCURATE.

After tasing Jensen, he said several officers picked him up, carried him to the front yard, threw him on the ground and handcuffed him.They should have more tolerance with the public, to exhaust all options before firing electricity into somebody, handcuff them instead of tasering them." Jensen said about the experience as he fights through tears, "It was horrible. I was laying in a puddle of water being electrocuted here by the people that are supposed to protect us. I'm trying to protect my family, my neighbor, and they bring harm to me. I don't understand."

Captain Forseth with the Pinellas Park Police Department said they exhausted all other options, and that their goal was to keep Daniel and the officers safe from the fire.

* HOW IN GOD'S NAME IS TRYING TO SAVE ONE'S OWN HOUSE A CRIME...?!?!

Jensen and his attorney Heidi Imhof are considering legal action against the Pinellas Park Police Department. Four days later, burns on Daniel Jensen's body still mark where the stun gun's probes hit him. He says they tasered him for doing what any father and husband would do protect his family's home from an out-of-control grease fire.

November 14, 2012 at 6:09 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/nov/14/reid-takes-social-security-off-table/

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will not allow changes in Social Security to be part of the negotiations to avoid a federal budget fiscal cliff, further narrowing the opportunities for savings that could be tapped to close the deficit.

* AMERICA WOULD BE BETTER OFF IF HARRY REID WERE... er.... SOMEHOW OUT OF THE PICTURE.

(*WINK*)

Republicans have insisted that big entitlement programs such as Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid be part of the end-of-year negotiations to head off tax-rate increases and the $110 billion in automatic spending cuts.

* IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, FOLKS... AS BAD AS THE REPUBLICANS ARE... THEY'RE NOT THE ONES UNWILLING TO DISCUSS REFORM. THE NATION IS ILL-SERVED BY DEMOCRAT CONTROL OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

Mr. Reid said Democrats have already made changes to Medicare as part of President Obama's health law, and said Social Security is solvent for the time being...

* THAT... IS... A... LIE.

* SOCIAL SECURITY IS RUNNING A DEFICIT AND HAS BEEN RUNNING A DEFICIT FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW.

On Tuesday, opening the lame-duck session of Congress, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the GOP is willing to strike a deal that would involve the government collecting more money — but only if Democrats are willing to see limits to entitlement spending.

* AGAIN, FOLKS... A STARK CHOICE IS BEING PRESENTED... ONE WHICH WAS PRESENTED PRIOR TO THE ELECTION BUT NOT ACKNOWLEDGED AS SUCH BY MOST OF THE MEDIA. UNLESS YOU SIMPLY DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU'RE READING HERE YOU MUST ADMIT THAT THIS... THESE REID TACTICS... ARE WHAT OBSTRUCTIONISM IS ALL ABOUT.

November 14, 2012 at 6:21 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/general-demoted-extravagant-trips-article-1.1201284

Gen. William “Kip” Ward, the one-time head of the U.S. Africa Command, was demoted Tuesday and ordered to repay $82,000 he blew on extravagant trips and other unauthorized expenses.

* MAKES YA PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!

The penalty will dock the 63-year-old Ward about $30,000 a year in pension pay — although he’ll still pull down about $208,000 annually.

(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

Ward’s indiscretions included a stayover at a $750-a-night Bermuda hotel, two nights at the Waldorf Astoria and other lengthy stays at lavish inns.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

He and wife Joyce also accepted dinner and Broadway show tickets — one offer included a backstage meeting with Oscar winner Denzel Washington — from a government contractor, officials said.

* NICE...

Ward, in a statement issued by a spokesman, said he was “not perfect ... (but) has never been motivated by personal gain.”

* THREE WORDS: 1) PIECE... 2) OF... 3) SHIT...

Ward, who started in the Army infantry 41 years ago, became head of the Department of Defense Africa Command on Oct. 1, 2007.

* THANK YOU ROBERT GATES!

November 14, 2012 at 6:30 PM
William R. Barker said...

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

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333346/camp-bastion-afghanistan-we-need-answers-michelle-malkin

While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton boozes it up in Australia...

* ALONG WITH PANETTA! DON'T FORGET, THEY'RE THERE TOGETHER!

...and the Pentagon grapples with more floozy eruptions, outraged military families are still waiting for answers about the forgotten 9/14 attack on Camp Bastion.

* I COVERED IT.

Muckrakers and distraction engineers are having a front-page field day with the so-called sex scandal. But for surviving relatives and colleagues of heroic Marine Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Raible and Sargent Bradley Atwell, it’s the national-security scandal at Afghanistan’s Camp Bastion that deserves headline coverage.

* FOLKS... YOU'RE BEING PLAYED... YOU'VE BEEN PLAYED AND IT CONTINUES!

There’s been a virtual blackout of the alarming story in the national press.

* YEP...

As I reported last month, the meticulously coordinated siege by 15 Taliban infiltrators - dressed in American combat fatigues and armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and other weapons - resulted not only in two deaths, but also in the most devastating loss of U.S. airpower since Vietnam. Six Harrier jets were destroyed; three refueling stations were wiped out; six hangars were damaged.

* HELL, FOLKS, EVEN I HAD "MOVED ON" TILL READING THIS ARTICLE (AND POSTING THIS NEWSBITES) BROUGHT THE MATTER BACK TO THE FORE!

The attack came exactly six months after a failed suicide attack targeting defense secretary Leon Panetta and three days after the deadly attack on our consulate in Benghazi.

* YEP...

Yet, on Tuesday afternoon, White House press secretary Jay Carney announced that President Obama is standing by beleaguered Marine General John Allen.

* THE GUY WHO WAS IN CHARGE WHEN THE MOST DEVASTATING LOSS OF U.S. AIRPOWER SINCE VIETNAM TOOK PLACE...

(*SMIRK*)

He’s [also] the four-star general and lead U.S. commander in Afghanistan who is now entangled in former CIA Director David Petraeus’s sexcapades soap opera.

Allen reportedly exchanged hundreds of “flirtatious” e-mails with Petraeus family friend and married Florida socialite Jill Kelley. Kelley is the alleged “other other woman” who told the FBI she was harassed by alleged Petraeus mistress and biographer Paula Broadwell.

* AMERICA 2012, FOLKS...

(*SIGH*)

* TO BE CONTINUED...

November 14, 2012 at 6:55 PM
William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)

Petraeus stepped down, but Obama “has faith in General Allen, believes he’s doing and has done an excellent job” overseeing security in Afghanistan, Carney said.

* JEEZUS... WHAT WOULD A LOUSY JOB LOOK LIKE...?!?!

Are families of our Marines at Camp Bastion happy with Allen and the Obama administration?

Donella Raible, widow of Lieutenant Colonel Raible, was blunt. “I’m not,” she told me Tuesday afternoon by phone. “I’m mortified. It shows the corruption in the whole Washington/Arlington culture.”

* YEP.

Mrs. Raible, who is now raising three children (ages eleven, nine, and two) on her own, said: “I couldn’t sleep at night if I were [Obama]. If they’re happy with things in Afghanistan, they should come look at the faces of those left behind.”

* SADDEST OF ALL... THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T GIVE A SHIT. THEY SIMPLY DON'T. THEY'LL MOUTH PATRIOTIC DRIVEL, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ENSURING OUR TROOPS AREN'T MISUSED AND ABUSED BY THE SCUM IN WASHINGTON AND THEIR UNIFORMED BUTT BOYS... FORGETABOUTIT!

If not for the heroism of Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Raible, Sargent Bradley, and their fellow brothers-in-arms, the entire Harrier squadron and a barracks full of sleeping Marines could have been lost.

* AND CHANCES ARE... EVEN THIS WOULDN'T HAVE REGISTERED TO THE AVERAGE AMERICAN.

Another Camp Bastion Marine wife and mother of two told me: “My husband survived, and I am so grateful, but I am also heartbroken for those who died. . . . There is no excuse for this. We are the United States of America and supposed to be the bada** of all bada**es, and we are constantly made out to be fools and caught off guard. . . . I blame this administration for these recent preventable losses of life.”

Deborah Hatheway, aunt of Sargent Atwell, said the family received a standard-issue condolence letter from the White House last week. “That means nothing,” Hatheway told me. “This was not supposed to happen.” She blasted the “negligence, irresponsibility, incompetence, and plain ignorance” that led to her nephew’s murder, and she believes the failures in Benghazi are tied to the fate of the fallen at Camp Bastion.

(*PURSED LIPS*)

Off the record, several family members of Camp Bastion Marines have voiced persistent concerns about security in what was touted as one of the safest places to be in Afghanistan. “It is not a matter of if, but when” the compound is attacked again, one told me.

Another relayed how a few weeks before the 9/14 attack, razor wire on the perimeter kept disappearing - but Marine sentries were barred from firing on suspected thieves to avoid causing civilian casualties.

* YOU JUST READ THAT, RIGHT?!

Others wondered why security hadn’t been stepped up given the public threat by the Taliban on September 10 to kill Prince Harry, who was stationed at Camp Bastion.

“And after the incident with Panetta, the security should have been so tight there that even a suicide mouse couldn’t get through,” Hatheway told me. “How could they let this happen? Someone has to speak up.”

* I'M DOING WHAT I CAN BY PASSING THIS ALONG...

Obama’s military leaders were asleep on the job - or sleeping with others instead of doing their jobs.

Who will answer for this deadly disgrace?

* NO ONE. ONLY THE DEAD. AND OF COURSE THE SOON TO BE DEAD. MORE AMERICANS WILL DIE AND BE FOREVER MAIMED FOR NO REASON IN THE DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, AND YEARS TO COME. THIS IS THE NEW AMERICA, FOLKS. DISGUSTING.

November 14, 2012 at 6:56 PM

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