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- Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, March 28, 2013
- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, March 27, 2013
- Barker's Newsibtes: Monday, March 25, 2013
- Stein's Law...
- And I'll Drink to This!
- Barker's Newsbites: Friday, March 22, 2013
- Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, March 21, 2013
- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
- Et Tu Rand Paul...???
- Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
- Just Read It...
- Barker's Newsbites: Monday, March 18, 2013
- Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., March 16 & 17, 2013
- Priceless...
- Barker's Newsbites: Friday, March 15, 2013
- Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, March 14, 2013
- While John Tamny is "disappointed" in Paul Ryan......
- Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
- Barker's Newsbites: Monday, March 11, 2013
- Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., March 9 & 10, 2013
- Time for a Drink...
- Barker's Newsbites: Friday, March 8, 2013
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- William R. Barker
- Pearl River, NY High School Class of '81; Northeastern University, Boston, MA Class of '87.
10 comments:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/25/us-cyprus-parliament-idUSBRE92G03I20130325
* WHAT'S THERE TO SAY...?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324105204578380600325311568.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
* UNDERSTAND, FOLKS, THE RULE OF LAW IS DEAD... THE WESTERN WORLD IS "EVOLVING" INTO... "SOCIALISTIC FASCISM."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21916653
* FOLKS... WE'RE LIVING IN "WONDERLAND."
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/weird/NATL-Irish-Town-Legalizes-Drinking-and-Driving-199867031.html
* GOD BLESS THE IRISH...!!!
The Irish town of Kilgarvan passed a law this winter that allows members of its community to drink and drive.
Proposed by local pub owner and politician Danny Healy-Rae, the motion allows people who live in country areas to have a few beers before they drive home.
Healy-Rae told The New York Times he thinks the measure will help preserve pub culture, lower the risk of suicide and attack isolation in the small town.
Healy-Rae says the law isn’t supposed to apply to everyone. “I am talking about mainly elderly people who live in very remote places who come to town to get a bit of shopping, enjoy a couple of pints and a chat with friends and then drive home at less than 30 miles an hour,” Healy-Rae told The Times. “These are not the ones causing accidents. What is the alternative for them where no public or other transport is available? Staying at home lonely, staring at the four walls?”
* HEALY-RAE FOR PRESIDENT... OF THE UNITED STATES...!!!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/bidens-321665-limo-bill_708940.html
* FOLKS... TELL ME THIS ISN'T TOTALLY FUCKED...
After two items last week on the cost of lodging for Vice President Joe Biden's early February trip to Europe, other news organizations began to investigate further. Wolf Blitzer's show The Situation Room on CNN uncovered a contract apparently also related to the same visit to Paris: [O]n the receipt was $321,665 for a limousine company.
* $321,665 FOR A LIMO COMPANY...??? WHAT DID THEY DO - BUY THE LIMO COMPANY...?!?!
* FOLKS... THIS IS INSANITY! READ THE FULL STORY!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/25/Govt-Spends-More-On-Disability-Than-Food-Stamps-And-Welfare-Combined
In an eye-opening six-month investigation into America’s disability program, Planet Money reporter Chana Joffe-Walt uncovered a “disability industrial complex” fraught with fraud that churns out 14 million checks every month to citizens the government has deemed disabled.
Among Joffe-Walt’s findings are the following facts:
The federal government spends more money each year on cash payments for disabled former workers than it does on food stamps and welfare combined.
America’s two largest disability programs, including health care for disabled workers, costs taxpayers $260 billion a year.
In some parts of the country, such as Hale County, Alabama, one out of every four working-age adults collects a disability check.
SSI is now seven times larger than it was 30 years ago. As of 2011, 33.8% of newly diagnosed disabled workers cited “back pain and other musculoskeletal problems” as their reason for being unable to work. In 1961, the top reason for being disabled was “heart disease, stroke.”
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Less than 1% of people who went on disability at the beginning of 2011 have returned to the workforce.
The report suggests that the much-touted "Welfare to Work" policies of the 1990s that appeared to successfully move welfare recipients off the public dole may have been a mirage. States have figured out that shifting people from welfare to disability frees up substantial funds, as states have to pay the costs of welfare, but the federal government picks up the tab for disability.
“That’s a kind of ugly secret of the American labor market,” said MIT economist David Autor. “Part of the reason our unemployment rates have been low, until recently, is that a lot of people who would have trouble finding jobs are on a different program.” (Disabled workers do not get counted in the unemployment figures.)
Joffe-Walt says "disability has become a de facto welfare program for people without a lot of education or job skills.”
* OH... AND BTW... (READ ON!)
According to Social Security chief actuary Steve Goss, disability insurance program reserves will run out of money in 2016.
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/25/Exclusive-Sasha-Malia-Obama-vacation-in-Bahamas-Atlantis
* I THINK IT'S DISGUSTING. FIRST OF ALL, NEITHER ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE SCHOOL, OR EVEN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SHOULD BE EMULATING THE "SPRING BREAK" TRADITION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS. NO... OBVIOUSLY THE PRESIDENT'S YOUNG DAUGHTERS AREN'T ENGAGING IN THE SORT OF BEHAVIOR ONE THINKS OF WHEN ONE THINKS OF "SPRING BREAK," BUT SENDING CHILDREN ON "SEPARATE VACATIONS"... SEPARATE VACATIONS ABROAD... AT RESORTS...??? NO. I DON'T CARE WHAT KIND OF MONEY YOU HAVE. THIS IS SIMPLY WRONG - AND STUPID PARENTING.
* ALL THIS SAID... LET'S SAY THAT THE OBAMA'S ARE GONNA TREAT THEIR CHILDREN AS IF THEY WERE ROYALTY OR THE CHILDREN OF THE TRULY RICH; AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, SHOULD BARACK OBAMA INSIST ON HIS MINOR CHILDREN "SPRING BREAKING" IN AMERICA IF THEY'RE GONNA BE "SPRING BREAKING" IN THE FIRST PLACE?
* MY FRIENDS, BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA HAVE ONLY CONTEMPT FOR THE VALUES MOST OF US HOLD DEAR.
http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/03/25/alameda-county-administrator-tops-in-pay/
Alameda County (California) supervisors have [pay] County Administrator Susan Muranishi $423,664 a year.
* AND IT SEEMS THEY'LL CONTINUE TO PAY HER THIS SMALL FORTUNE YEARLY... (READ ON...)
For the rest of her life.
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
Muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she’s 63. When retirement day comes, she’ll be getting a lot more than a gold watch. That’s because, according to the county auditor’s office, Muranishi’s annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package — $413,000. She also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year.
* GOVERNMENT BY THE ELECTED AND APPOINTED... FOR THE ELECTED AND APPOINTED.
* DISGUSTING...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324789504578382652912992698.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LatestHeadlines
The U.S. Senate these days seems to conduct most of its business after dark, often after midnight, and no wonder. You wouldn't want voters to know what you were up to either if you were part of Majority Leader Harry Reid's national embarrassment.
Consider last week's fiasco involving the air-traffic control system.
As part of the White House's "Operation Wreak Havoc" response to the sequester spending cuts, the Department of Transportation warned last week that 149 control towers at small, regional airports will close down. Local newspapers are running headlines about the imminent loss of flight service. Next on the list could be furloughs at major airports that would mean flight delays for millions of travelers.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) accounts for only 20% of the Transportation budget but under White House and Congressional sequester math somehow absorbs 60% of the cuts.
Many of the service cutbacks could have been easily avoided by a budget amendment last week sponsored by Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas. He proposed replacing $50 million of FAA sequester cuts with savings from unspent balances, which are a kind of agency slush fund, and by reducing other low-priority spending. Great idea.
How did the vote turn out?
There wasn't one.
Majority Leader Reid blocked the amendment from ever getting to the Senate floor.
Mr. Reid used the same tactics last week to block nearly a dozen other measures to soften the impact of the sequester. Mr. Moran also couldn't get a vote to restore funding for White House tours by cutting $2.5 million for new uniforms for airport screeners.
Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma sponsored seven amendments to save money — including one to provide funding to the National Park Service to keep open the likes of Yosemite and Yellowstone — by cutting programs that even Mr. Obama's budget calls low priorities.
He also proposed freezing new hiring of "non-essential personnel" and to end conferences by the Department of Homeland Security. Coburn got roll-call votes, but nearly every one was defeated by Democrats when Mr. Reid gave the order to his caucus.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Mr. Reid's blocking tactics were supported by President Obama, whose main political goal continues to be to impose as much sequester pain as possible on the public to force Republicans to raise taxes again.
So in the weeks ahead travelers will likely experience the frustration of flight delays, cancellations and closed airports. It won't happen by accident or out of fiscal necessity, but because Washington Democrats refuse to prioritize federal spending.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324789504578381080314785920.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLESecond
Just before 5 a.m. Saturday a weary U.S. Senate passed a budget on a 50-49 vote; Senate Democrats finally had their first budget in four years.
No Republicans voted for it.
Senate sources say eight Democrats asked Majority Leader Harry Reid for a pass to vote "no." Mr. Reid needed all but four Democrats to walk the tax-hike plank. Waivers were given to Kay Hagen of North Carolina, Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana. All four are up for re-election.
* NOW GET THIS, FOLKS... (READ ON!)
Mr. Baucus runs the Senate Finance Committee.
* MEANING... THIS WAS BAUCUS' BUDGET!
(*GUFFAW*)
* MEANING... THE MAN VOTED AGAINST HIS OWN FUCKING BUDGET PROPOSAL...!!!
"Imagine if Republican House committee chairmen had voted against the Ryan budget in the House," says one senior Republican staffer. "The media would have been all over the story about disunity."
The final vote for the $3.7 trillion spending bill with no entitlement reforms to speak of, $100 billion in new "stimulus funding" and more than $1 trillion in tax increases was excruciating for many red and purple state Democrats.
This Democratic tax increase follows the ObamaCare $1 trillion tax hike and $600 billion fiscal cliff tax increase that are already hitting the economy this year.
The White House supported the tax-hike budget with no entitlement reforms.
* NOW... TO COMPARE AND CONTRAST... (READ ON!)
The House budget contains no tax increases and more than twice as much deficit reduction over 10 years.
* AND THE HOUSE BUDGET SUCKED! (WHICH SHOULD TELL YOU HOW FRIGGIN' BAD THE SENATE BUDGET IS!)
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