Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Barker's Newsbites: Wednesday, April 24, 2013


Well, folks... here's the headline:

Tamerlan Tsarnaev Got Massachusetts Welfare Benefits 

Beautiful, huh...

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Boston Herald has learned.

State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, [had been recently] receiving "benefits" along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter.

(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)

The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits.

In addition, both of Tsarnaev’s parents received benefits, and accused [thus] bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were recipients through their parents when they were younger, according to the state.

2 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/295877-official-no-furloughs-for-office-implementing-obamacare

Republicans have accused the Obama administration of politicizing the sequester by targeting highly visible programs like airport security and White House tours.

* WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING...

The office implementing most of President Obama's healthcare law is not furloughing its workers as a result of sequestration, its director said Wednesday.

(*SHRUG*)

William R. Barker said...

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/24/kerry_calls_for_a_special_relationship_with_china

For decades, the United States has reserved the term "special relationship" for two countries, Britain and Israel, but Secretary of State John Kerry called for a new "special relationship" with China during his recent trip to Asia.

* WELL, FOLKS... (*SHRUG*)

* LISTEN... THE OLIGARCHY - BOTH DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN - LOVE CHINA. THEY PUT MONEY AND POWER BEFORE PATRIOTISM, PRINCIPLE, OR THE GOOD OF AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. BUT IT'S THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION... SECSTATE KERRY... WHO HAVE NOW CROSSED YET ANOTHER LINE.

* CHINA IS OUR ENEMY, NOT OUR FRIEND. THE MOST "POLITIC" DESCRIPTION OF OUR RELATIONSHIP IS COMPETITORS... RIVALS.

Robert Zarate, policy director at the Foreign Policy Initiative, told The Cable that Kerry may not have realized that he was diluting the exclusivity of the term "special relationship"...

(*ROLLING MY EYES*) NO. KERRY MAY NOT BE THE SHARPEST KNIFE IN THE DRAW... BUT HE'S NOT THAT DUMB.

"By using that term ‘special relationship' to describe his hopes for the U.S.-China relationship's future, I think Secretary Kerry is, consciously or not, expressing the Obama administration's strong desire to accommodate China's great-power rise -- but, as America's allies and partners in Asia will tell you privately, that's a very, very problematic desire," Zarate said.

* FOLKS... WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THAT ENEMY IS RUNNING THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT! (AND THE SENATE!)