Saturday, April 13, 2013

Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., April 13 & 14, 2013


Man... my back is still killing me!

Back... neck... depending upon how I sit pain shooting down my right (right... not left!) arm...

Rebuilding the body of a God sure as hell ain't for sissies!

(Mary... come massage my back... HURRY...!!!)

Oh... by the way... The Nephews!

6 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/apr/12/landlord-joe-biden-pocketed-26400-2012-renting-cot/

* THIS STORY COMES OUT EVERY YEAR AT THIS TIME...

* THIS STORY COMES OUT EVERY YEAR AT THIS TIME BECAUSE EVERY YEAR AT THIS TIME JOE BIDEN IS REVEALED AS A SCUMBAG!

Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, took in $26,400 in 2012 by renting a cottage on the property of their Delaware home to the Secret Service, tax records released by the White House revealed.

* YEP. THE BIDENS CHARGE THE SECRET SERVICE FOR THE USE OF A PIECE OF THE BIDEN'S OWN PROPERTY... USED TO HOUSE AGENTS GUARDING THE BIDENS.

* THESE PEOPLE ARE SCUMBAGS.

William R. Barker said...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_GUANTANAMO_HUNGER_STRIKE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-04-13-13-12-49

The U.S. military says guards have clashed with prisoners amid a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, leading officers to move detainees from communal to single cells at Camp 6.

* WHY DO WE STILL HAVE "PRISONERS" AT GITMO?

* SERIOUSLY... IF THEY'RE INDEED TERRORISTS... EXECUTE THEM.

* TRY THEM... CONVICT THEM... EXECUTE THEM.

* OR... RELEASE THEM.

* FRANKLY... IF THEY'RE REALLY TERRORISTS... THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN INTEROGATED AND THEN EXECUTED THE MOMENT WE HAD GOTTEN EVERYTHING "GETTABLE" OUT OF THEM. I BLAME BUSH FOR THIS.

The military accuses detainees of covering surveillance cameras, windows and partitions, preventing guards from observing them during a hunger strike that has dragged on for more than two months. Lawyers have alleged that most of the 166 prisoners are participating.

The U.S. military said in a statement Saturday that detainees used improvised weapons to resist the transfer, leading guards to fire four less-than-lethal rounds.

* RIDICULOUS! THE MOMENT A PRISONER ATTACKS A GUARD THAT GUARD SHOULD KILL THAT PRISONER. PROBLEM SOLVED. INSTEAD THESE INSANE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT PLACE OUR PEOPLE AT RISK OF LIFE AND LIMB! I BLAME OBAMA FOR THIS.

Officials said no guards or detainees were seriously injured.

* NO GUARD SHOULD EVER BE INJURED... PERIOD!

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/death_toll_F46VkaFcmibFMHQMYgr0qJ

* AND YOU DON'T BELIEVE AMERICA HAS BECOME A EUROPEAN STYLE OLIGARCHY...???

The 9/11 Memorial foundation, funded to the tune of $830 million, has begun nickel-and-diming visitors for ticket reservations.

Even though the non-profit has long vowed admission to the sacred site would be free, it is now demanding $2 per ticket for all advance reservations made online or by phone.

* BECAUSE... IT'S EXPENSE TO BUILD AND RUN SAID NON-PROFIT... OR SO THEY SAY THEY'VE DISCOVERED!

“They’re making money off the people that died. It’s disgusting,” said Jim Riches, a retired FDNY deputy chief who lost his firefighter son, Jimmy, on 9/11. “The memorial should be free for everybody to pay their respects. You wouldn’t charge money to get into a cemetery."

The nonprofit claims on its Web site that it “does not receive city, state or federal funding for its operations.” But from 2006 to 2011, it pulled in about $295 million in taxpayer-funded grants for construction.

* LYING SCUMBAGS...

It also reaped more than $430 million in private donations after the tragedy, including pennies raised by millions of patriotic American schoolchildren.

* FUCKING SCUMBAGS...

Construction costs are now pegged at $700 million for the museum and memorial — more than it took to build the Empire State Building.

* THAT'S BECAUSE THE PRIVATE SECTOR... CAPITALISM... BUILT THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING!

The foundation, chaired by Mayor Bloomberg, says the memorial and museum will cost $60 million a year to operate once complete. Security will cost $12 million a year, and another $5 million will go to operating the waterfall tributes.

* RIDICULOUS!

Add that to the nonprofit’s swanky salaries: Ten of the 12 directors raked in more than $200,000 in 2011. Daniels pulled down $336,224 in salary and benefits, and Museum Director Alice Greenwald made $351,171, tax filings show. One former employee, Joan Gerner, got a $300,000 severance after leaving the foundation — on top of her $439,463 salary.

* THESE... SCUMBAGS... SHOULD... BE... EXECUTED...!!!

How the memorial and museum will foot its bills remains unclear. Daniels is mulling a $20 mandatory admission...

“I don’t want the American public to have to pay a dime to pay respects to my son,” said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son, Christian, died in the World Trade Center attacks. “They made . . . a vow that no one would ever be charged for going to the memorial, but money is the bottom line here,” she fumed.

* THEY LIED, SALLY. THEY USUALLY LIE. THEY'RE SCUM AND THEY SHOULD BE KILLED.

Visiting the memorial — a public plaza — will be free, eventually.

* YEAH... EVENTUALLY... (AND I'VE GOT A BRIDGE TO SELL YOU!)

Memorial officials also want federal handouts, and are hoping to revive a Senate bill that would force the National Park Service to shell out $20 million a year.

William R. Barker said...

http://reason.com/blog/2013/04/13/obama-budget-calls-for-privatizing-the-t

President Obama’s proposed 2014 budget includes an item free marketeers can rally behind: “Reducing or eliminating” the federal government’s role in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the nation’s largest publicly owned utility.

(*RISING UP TO APPLAUD THE PRESIDENT*)

Naturally, both of Tennessee’s Republican senators oppose the proposal.

(*RAISING AND TURNING MY MIDDLE FINGERS SOUTHWARD*)

Via Bloomberg News:

“The odd thing is that a bunch of Rs are defending the most liberal, collectivist, state-managed thing ever undertaken in the United States,” said [Mike] McKenna, [a Republican energy lobbyist] whose clients include the Atlanta-based utility Southern Co. (NSC) that could benefit from a sale of the TVA, in an e-mail. “TVA was the brainchild of the near-communists in the Roosevelt administration.”

* WHICH IS TRUE!

Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who opposes government subsidies for energy production, called the proposal “one more bad idea in a budget full of bad ideas,” in a statement. He said the sale might lead to higher energy costs for his constituents without providing much money to the U.S. to pay down the debt.

* AS A TAXPAYER I'D BE HAPPY TO RECOUP "SOME" MONEY!

The idea of selling the TVA has few supporters in Congress, said Representative Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat, in an interview. He and his Republican colleagues most often disagree on the “virtues of government.” That’s not so in this case, he said.

* YEP... CERTAINLY IT'S NOT JUST RINOs SUPPORTING CONTINUED SOCIALISM...

* I FEAR OBAMA KNOWS THIS. I QUESTION HOW SINCERE HIS PROPOSAL IS. THAT SAID... TAKING IT AT FACE VALUE... GOLD STAR TO PRESIDENT OBAMA.

William R. Barker said...

http://reason.com/archives/2013/04/11/checks-threaten-gun-rights#comment

* FOLKS... YOU SHOULD READ THIS BECAUSE IT'S NOT AN ARGUMENT YOU'RE GONNA FIND ARTICULATED IN THE MSM.

* FOLKS... YOU SHOULD ALSO READ THE COMMENTS.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/world/asia/kerry-in-china-seeking-help-on-north-korea.html?partner=MYWAY&ei=5065&_r=1&

Secretary of State John Kerry flew to China on Saturday and sought to elicit China’s help in dealing with an increasingly recalcitrant nuclear armed North Korea by saying that American missile defenses could be cut back if the North abandoned its nuclear program.

* FUCKING KERRY... FUCKING OBAMA...

In a news conference, Mr. Kerry suggested that the United States could remove some newly enhanced missile defenses in the region, though he did not specify which ones. Any eventual cutback would address Chinese concerns about the buildup of American weapons systems in the region.

* FUCK CHINA!

* FOLKS... CAN YOU SPELL A*P*P*E*A*S*E*M*E*N*T...?!?!