Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Productive day so far; one ride this morning and upon returning home I designed and ordered new business cards!
Oh... and lunch! Rare Boar's Head Roast Beef on Arthur Avenue Bread with Stilton Cheese and also English Coastal Cheddar! (And, yeah... plenty of Hellmann's!)
And now for a bit of blogging before heading off to the gym for my cardio!
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/20/obama-limousine-jordan-diesel-petrol
One of the limousines in Barack Obama's fleet has broken after reports that it was mistakenly filled with the wrong fuel at the start of the U.S. president's visit to Israel.
* FOLKS... YA CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP...
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/288993-reps-andrews-young-to-be-investigated-by-house-ethics-panel
The House Ethics Committee announced on Tuesday that it has launched a formal investigation into allegations that a House Democratic leader (Rep. Robert Andrews D-NJ) used campaign funds to take family trips.
The allegations against Andrews are significant.
In 2012, the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) released a report that charged Andrews with tapping tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to pay for a 2011 trip to a wedding in Scotland and multiple jaunts to Los Angeles with his daughters.
* I DON'T REMEMBER THIS FROM 2012... DO ANY OF YOU...???
The OCE is an outside panel made up of former lawmakers and legal experts. It referred the case to the House Ethics Committee last year, citing “substantial reason to believe that he improperly used congressional campaign and Leadership PAC funds for personal use.”
* LAST YEAR...??? (DIDN'T MAKE MUCH OF A SPLASH...)
Andrews has argued the trips were political because the groom in the Scotland wedding and his daughters were volunteer campaign aides.
* OK. TAKE THIS GUY OUT AND SHOT HIM.
* SERIOUSLY... THE MOMENT HE SAID THIS HE WASN'T THROWN OUT BY HIS OWN PARTY - LET ALONE HIS BIPARTISAN HOUSE COLLEAGUES...?!?! WHAT KIND OF FUCKING THIRD WORLD SHITHOLE ARE THESE CORRUPT BASTARDS RUNNING...?!?!
The Ethics Committee on Tuesday also announced the creation of a separate investigative subcommittee to look into charges that Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) allegedly violated House ethics rules by not appropriately disclosing expenses and travel costs.
* ABOUT DAMN TIME! EVERYONE KNOWS DON YOUNG IS "OUR" CHARLIE RANGEL!
* STILL... IN FAIRNESS TO YOUNG... (READ ON...)
The investigation comes on the heels of the Justice Department’s lengthy investigation into whether Young accepted gifts from the oil industry in exchange for political favors. Young has pointed to the department’s refusal to prosecute those allegations as proof of his innocence.
(*SHRUG*)
Separately, the committee cleared Young of wrongdoing for donations made in 2011 to the Don Young Legal Expense Fund that were suspected of exceeding the contribution limit. Young asked the Ethics panel to look into the matter when he first heard of the allegations.
* CLEARED...
(*SHRUG*)
* OH...! OH...! OH...! BACK TO THE FUCKING DEMOCRATS... (YOU'RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS ONE, FOLKS...!!! KEEP READING...!!!)
Months after the Ethics Committee announced that it was conducting an initial investigation of Andrews, Pelosi selected him as a co-chairman of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
* ONE... MORE... TIME...
Months after the Ethics Committee announced that it was conducting an initial investigation of Andrews, Pelosi selected him as a co-chairman of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
(*MOUTH...JUST...OPEN*)
Democratic leaders have not commented on the investigation.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
* FOLKS... VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY ANSWER! I'M TELLING YOU!
Last month, former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) pleaded guilty to using $750,000 in campaign funds to pay for living expenses. Jackson received a sentence of 46 to 57 months in prison.
* AND HAS HE SPENT ONE DAY IN JAIL YET...??? HMM...???
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/20/department-ed-creates-new-six-figure-gig-while-wielding-sequester-axe/
School officials on reservations across Minnesota have begun making painful cuts to the current budget in anticipation of sequester cuts, adding students to classrooms, slashing course offerings and leaving vacant jobs unfilled, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. At least one reservation is considering shortening the school year to save money.
But in Washington DC, education funding cuts did not stop the appointment this month of a former elementary school teacher and aide to Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY...
(CHARLES RANGEL...)
...to the job of executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans.
* THE NEWLY CREATED JOB!
David Johns was given the newly created job, where he will be “asked to identify evidence-based best practices to improve African-American student achievement from cradle to career,” according to the Department of Education.
* AGAIN... VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY ANSWER.
* THERE'S SUPPOSEDLY A GOVERNMENT SEQUESTER... BUT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CAN SIMPLY CREATE NEW HIGHLY PAID POSITIONS TO AWARD FRIENDS OF FRIENDS WITH...???
Johns’ salary in the new job is $123,758, according to a department official.
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
* AND OF COURSE, FOLKS, HE'S GONNA HAVE AN OFFICE... GONNA HAVE CLERICAL HELP... PROBABLY HE'LL GET A "DEPUTY DIRECTOR"... GOD ALOME KNOWS WHAT THE FINAL PRICE TAG WILL BE FOR CREATING THIS NEWEST "DIRECTORSHIP."
The selective austerity shown by the Department of Education and other federal agencies shows the Obama administration is trying to emphasize the budget cuts' effect on the public, said Kyle Olson, founder of the Michigan-based education watchdog Education Action Group.
"It seems like there's no rhyme or reason for the cuts that they're making," Olson said. "They are trying to maximize the public effect -- the pain -- in order to make their point. But the fact of the matter is, the sequester is not a cut, it is a reduction in the rate of growth. The choices they're making are absurd."
http://www.france24.com/en/20130319-afghan-spokesman-labels-nato-war-aimless-unwise
Afghanistan's presidential spokesman on Tuesday described the NATO-led military operation in the country as "aimless and unwise", in the latest government broadside against the coalition.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-03-20/why-you-should-be-terrified-what-just-happened-cyprus
[E]very sensible investor in the world should be absolutely horrified by what was proposed in Cyprus.
* EVERY PERSON... FORGET "INVESTOR"... EVEN FORGET "SENSIBLE."
[P]oliticians proposed stealing savings deposits from the people in order to fund a bank bailout.
You can dress this idea up however you like - calling it a “levy” or “tax” - but taking someone’s personal property without their permission is theft plain and simple.
(*NOD*)
* ap•pro•pri•ate -- Verb: Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.
* GOT IT...???
The idea was amended to focus on punishing the wealthy (those with over 100,000 euros in deposits) leaving those with less than 20,000 euros in deposits unscathed. The Cyprus parliament voted against this proposal, but the mere fact it was EVEN suggested (and that Germany and the IMF wanted to take 40% of deposits) should leave everyone terrified.
* IT TERRIFIES ME... (*SHRUG*)
Again... political leaders proposed simply TAKING money from the people to fund a bank bailout… not the people as in the public’s balance sheet for a sovereign nation, but actual savings deposits sitting in banks.
* YEP!
The fact this idea was even brought up indicates that the political and financial elite are growing truly desperate.
(*NOD*)
Declaring a bank holiday so people cannot get their money out and then trying to simply TAKE their money is STEALING. This violates the very basis of personal property at its core.
* TO BAD THE RULE OF LAW NO LONGER TRULY EXISTS...
(*SHRUG*)
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