Friday, March 22, 2013

Barker's Newsbites: Friday, March 22, 2013


Still no update on "da Fetch."

Growing kinda concerned...

(For those wondering, "da Fetch" is the BEST FRIGGIN' DOG in the whole wide world and as of last night he was undergoing tests at the animal hospital where they're trying to figure out what the hell's wrong with him.)

Do me a favor, folks... say a pray for "da Fetch." (The BIG GUY will know for whom you're praying for...)

4 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.wistv.com/story/21766096/mother-13-month-old-child-shot-in-brunswick

* MORE IN "BLACKITY, BLACK, BLACK NEWS" AS MY FRIEND "HE WHOSE NAME DARE NOT BE MENTIONED" WOULD PUT IT:

Officers from the Brunswick (Georgia) Police Department responded to the area of London Street and Ellis Street in regards to a medical emergency at approximately 9:16 a.m. March 21. When officers arrived, they discovered that a mother and her infant son were both victims of gun shots.

According to authorities, the mother sustained a non-life threatening gunshot wound and was transported to the Southeast Georgia Health System for treatment.

The 13-month-old male infant was found dead at the scene.

* REPEAT:

The 13-month-old male infant was found dead at the scene.

Authorities say the shooting occurred while the mother was walking her child in a stroller. Police say the two children confronted the mother and child, got into some sort of altercation and shot them multiple times.

Brunswick Police are now searching for two black male suspects.

* HERE'S THE THING, FOLKS... THIS LINE ("TWO BLACK MALES SUSPECTS") IS MISSING FROM EVERY SINGLE OTHER NEWS SOURCING ON THIS MURDER THAT I'VE FOUND VIA GOOGLE - INCLUDING THE STORY DRUDGE CHOSE TO LINK TO!

The gunman is approximately 5'7" tall, slender build, with curly hair, possibly between the ages of 13 and 15 years old, wearing a red shirt. His accomplice is short in stature, possibly between the ages of 10 and 12 years old, wearing a black shirt.

* OH... AND GET THIS: WATCH THE VIDEO ATTACHED TO THIS STORY. THE NEWS REPORT ATTACHED TO THIS STORY. THAT LINE... "TWO BLACK MALES SUSPECTS"... IT'S MISSING FROM THE TV REPORTING! YEP... THE NEWS ANCHOR DESCRIBES THE COLOR OF THE SHIRTS, BUT NOT COLOR OF THE BOYS!

(*SNORT*)

Police say both suspects fled on foot east on London Street. Police, SWAT team, K-9 officers, and a helicopter are now looking for the suspects over a 100 block area.

According to police, the motive is unknown.

Anyone with information is asked to call Brunswick Police at 912.554.3645. There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

* FOLKS... AGAIN... MY POINT ISN'T TO THROW THE QUESTION OF RACE WHERE IT DOESN'T BELONG; MY POINT IS TO "OUT" THE INSANITY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS THAT LEADS TO "REPORTING" WHICH DELIBERATELY CENSORS RACE EVEN AS RACE IS A DESCRIPTION OF SUSPECTS WHOM THE POLICE ARE ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR!

William R. Barker said...

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/biden-pays-45938865-hotel-bill_708795.html

* 136 HOTEL ROOMS...?!?!

* FOLKS... THIS IS THE REAL STORY! WHY IN GOD'S NAME DOES THE VP HAVE AN ENTOURAGE OF THIS SIZE...?!?!

* THE OTHER QUESTION: WHY DOESN'T THE VP STAY AT OUR EMBASSY IN LONDON? OR... THE U.S. AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE? OR... AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE? OR... AT THE NEAREST U.S./NATO MILITARY BASE...?!?!

* OH... IT GETS "BETTER" (READ ON!)

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/bidens-one-night-paris-hotel-tab-58500050_708799.html

* HEY, FOLKS... REMEMBER WHEN AMERICA WAS A REPUBLIC AND POLITICIANS WERE CITIZENS... NOT ROYALTY?

* THIS SHIT IS SICKENING.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/old_bureaucrats_never_die_fhPB2Fnk3BGVvWP0O7Qs5O

With the country facing a nearly $17 trillion — and rising — national debt, it’s somehow comforting to know that we still have enough money to pay $876 a year in federal survivor’s benefits to two children of Civil War veterans.

That war ended in 1865.

Another 10 Americans are receiving benefits relating to the Spanish-American War, costing taxpayers about $50,000 a year for a conflict waged 115 years ago and helped get Teddy Roosevelt elected vice president . . . in 1900.

The character of these “legacy” programs changes a bit (and grows more costly) as their birth grows less distant. For example, we’re still supporting a New Deal-era agency — the Rural Utilities Service, part of the Agriculture Department — originally set up as the Rural Electrification Administration back in the Dust Bowl year of 1935. The goal then was bring the wonders of Edison’s invention of the light bulb to the benighted hinterlands. Mission accomplished, decades ago — yet the RUS still employs nearly a thousand bureaucrats; its budget this year is $578 million.

* EMPLOYS NEARLY A THOUSAND BUREAUCRATS...

And back in the Carter administration, when the feds finally deregulated the airline industry, they kept their teeth in aviation’s backside by establishing the Essential Air Service program, which subsidizes commercial air travel for some 163 rural communities, so folks can fly from Decatur, Ill., to Chicago (a three-hour drive), and suburban Maryland to Baltimore. The cost now? More than $200 million a year.

* I... DON'T... WANT... TO... SUBSIDIZE... THIS...!!!

According to a recent AP report, Vietnam War benefits now top $22 billion a year. Incredibly, the Veterans Administration now includes some forms of heart disease as a qualifying condition for benefits (as long as you blame the defoliant Agent Orange). Yet heart disease is the leading cause of death of all adults over 60, which most Vietnam vets are.

* CONNECT THE DOTS...

(*SIGH*)

Government programs — even well-intentioned ones — never die; instead, they experience self-sustaining mission creep.

Consider another New Deal artifact, disability payments, added [to Social Security's plate] in 1956 to cover work-ending illnesses and accidents. The cost of these payments has skyrocketed, rising 5.6% a year over the past two decades — even as the number of American manual-labor jobs has plummeted. The annual cost now exceeds $124 billion.

The average age of persons who start receiving disability benefits? Forty-nine.

(It’s impossible not to look at the numbers and see a whole lot of people opting for “early retirement” courtesy of Uncle Sam. Yet reform of the program isn’t even on the horizon.)

* BTW, AS REGULAR READERS KNOW... IT'S GONE ESPECIALLY CRAZY SINCE THE DEMS TOOK OVER BOTH HOUSES IN 2007 FOLLOWED BY OBAM'S ELECTION IN 2008.

Once entrenched in the federal budget, there’s generally only three ways for entitlements to go: up, up and away.

Normally, that’s also true of “temporary taxes,” sold to the public as one-off solutions to transient problems, but which rarely vanish.

* SEE: COUMO - "TEMPORARY WEALTH TAX SURCHARGE" (NOW SET TO BE COME PERMANENT...)

Once in a while, sanity prevails. Another Spanish-American War relic, the “temporary” 3% federal luxury tax on long-distance telephone service, was finally put to sleep in 2006, a mere 108 years after the war ended. In the absence of a national income tax, this levy was designed to soak the rich (the only people who could afford phones back then) — and naturally wound up soaking everybody for more than a century.

Ending the tax was estimated to “cost” the Treasury around $46 billion, but don’t worry — that 3% excise tax still applies to your local phone service. "Remember the Maine!"

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/343701/ten-charged-vote-fraud-milwaukee-john-fund

Milwaukee (Wisconsin) County prosecutors have charged ten people with voter fraud in the 2012 election, including two “double voters” and two felons who were ineligible to vote.

The indictments show that Milwaukee law enforcement is taking seriously the systemic problem of voter fraud in the city.

In 2008, an investigative unit of the Milwaukee Police Department issued a 67-page report on what it called an “illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome of [the 2004] election in the state of Wisconsin.” John Kerry won the state by less than 12,000 votes in the presidential race that year. The police report found that between 4,600 and 5,300 more votes were counted in Milwaukee than the number of voters recorded as having cast ballots. Absentee ballots were cast by people living elsewhere; ineligible felons not only voted but worked at the polls; transient college students cast improper votes; and homeless voters possibly voted more than once.

The prosecutions announced in Milwaukee yesterday follow that pattern...

* FOLKS... I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE A FLAMING LEFTY WHO VOTES "THE WRONG WAY" EVERY TIME. I DON'T WANT YOUR VOTED CANCELLED BY AN ILLEGALLY CAST VOTE!