Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Barker's Newsbites: Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Last start today; just got in from food shopping; worked this morning as well.
Glancing over Drudge it seems the world is spinning out of control.
(Pushing the cart up and down the isles of ShopRite grocery shopping and trying to absorb the prices... I know the world is spinning out of control!)
($2.49 for a 6 oz. box of Stove Top Stuffing? Really...???)
So any and all of you who consider yourself at least moderately well informed... do any of you deny that Barack Hussein Obama is totally incompetent?
Oh, well... what's it matter? November's election results will tell the tale.
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https://za.news.yahoo.com/obama-announce-ramped-efforts-beat-ebola-040815217.html
U.S. lawmakers called for a government-funded "war" to contain West Africa's deadly Ebola epidemic before it threatens more countries, building on an American pledge to send 3,000 military engineers and medical personnel to combat the virus.
* WHAT U.S. LAWMAKERS...?!?!
* THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CAN'T COME CLOSE TO PAYING IT'S OWN DAILY OPERATING EXPENSES NOW - WHO IS SUPPOSEDLY SUPPORTING MORE SPENDING AND MORE DEBT FOR WHAT AMOUNTS TO MORE FOREIGN AID?
* WHY CAN'T CHINA PAY? WHY CAN'T THE OPEN NATIONS PAY? WHY CAN'T EUROPE AND CANADA AND AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND PAY? WHY CAN'T JAPAN PAY?
* WHAT DO U.S. MILITARY ENGINEERS HAVE TO DO WITH BATTLING EBOLA...?!?!
* AS FOR OUR MEDICAL PERSONNEL... DON'T WE NEED THEM TO CARE FOR THE TROOPS OBAMA KEEPS COMMITTING ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR SHOOTING WARS...?!?!
"Here's the hard truth. In West Africa, Ebola is now an epidemic, the likes" of which have not been seen before, President Barack Obama said during a meeting with top U.S. public health officials.
* IN... WEST... AFRICA...!!! (MEANWHILE, WITH THIS LATEST CRISIS, SHOULD WE NOW... NOW... NOW... START SECURING OUR BORDERS...??? USE OUR TROOPS TO SECURE OUR BORDERS IF NECESSARY...?!?!
"We need to declare a war on Ebola," Senator Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, said during a congressional hearing on the U.S. response to the outbreak.
* YES! FROM THE SAFETY OF GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES! (BTW - RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'VE EVER HEARD OF "JERRY MORAN.")
Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, said the country should view the threat of Ebola "as seriously as we take ISIS," referring to the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq.
* IS THERE AN INNOCULATION? LET OL' LAMAR GO OVER TO WEST AFRICA AND EMPTY BED-PANS! LET HIS WIFE GO... HIS KIDS GO...
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
Acknowledging that the epidemic represented a national security crisis, U.S. administration officials said the focus of the military deployment would be on Liberia, where the threat of chaos is greatest.
* WHAT ARE OUR TROOPS GONNA DO - SHOOT LIBERIAN RIOTERS...?
The disease has also hit hard in Sierra Leone and Guinea, and has turned up in Nigeria and Senegal.
* SO... WE SENT TROOPS TO LIBERIA... SIERRA LEONE, GUINEA, NIGERIA, AND SENEGAL WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO... DO WHAT...???
Under the plan, engineers, medical personnel and other service members would build 17 treatment centers with 100 beds each...
* WHY CAN'T THE LIBERIANS... THE ALL THESE FOREIGNERS... BUILD THEIR OWN TREATMENT CENTERS? ABSENT THAT... WHAT OF THE REST OF THE SO-CALLED "FIRST WORLD?" WHY MUST THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO VOLUNTEERED TO WEAR THE UNIFORM TO PROTECT THE COUNTRY BE ALLOWED TO DO JUST THAT RATHER THAN ORDERED INTO A SITUATION THAT HAS A MEDICAL - NOT A MILITARY - SOLUTION?!
Officials said the Defense Department had sought to reallocate $500 million in funds from fiscal 2014 to help cover the costs of the humanitarian mission.
* WHAT $500 IN "FUNDS?" MONOPOLY MONEY? BECAUSE, FOLKS... REMEMBER... WE'RE RUNNING A DEFICIT LARGER THAN THAT - JUST THIS YEAR ALONE! (WE'RE GONNA END UP BORROWING FROM CHINA OR THE ARABS IN OUR OURSELVES (THE GREATEST CON OF ALL!) IN ORDER TO "WAGE WAR" ON EBOLA IN... WEST AFRICA... MEANWHILE... WASN'T IT JUST THE OTHER DAY - LITERALLY - WHY WE WERE BEING TOLD THE MILITARY WAS DESPERATE FOR FUNDS... THAT EXISTING CUTS HAD PUT US ALL IN DANGER?!
* FOLKS... THE LUNATICS ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM!
The virus has killed nearly 2,500 people out of 4,985 cases in West Africa.
* AND...???
United Nations officials said on Tuesday they would need a $1 billion response to contain the outbreak to tens of thousands of cases.
* ASK C*H*I*N*A...!!! ASK SWITZERLAND...!!! ASK EUROPE...!!!
* I DON'T MIND US HELPING... BUT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, ALREADY!
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://online.wsj.com/articles/nevada-gets-musked-1410821915
Charles Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the other day described Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk as a "genius." Maybe he was alluding to the Tesla CEO's cunning ploy to mine subsidies from Nevada taxpayers.
Last week the Silver State's legislature unanimously approved $1.3 billion in tax breaks for Tesla to build a $5 billion lithium battery factory in Reno that will supply its electric-car plant in Fremont, California. "We have changed the trajectory of this state, perhaps forever," declared Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, who wagers that the "Gigafactory" will grow the state's economy by $100 billion, or about 80%, over 20 years. Will he take that bet to Vegas?
* HERE'S MY VIEW: STATE GOVERNMENTS (LEGISLATURES... GOVERNORS...) SHOULDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO PLAY THIS GAME OF SELECTIVE TAX BREAKS. IT'S TARGETED BRIBERY - PURE AND SIMPLE. INDEED, I'D FAVOR A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BANNING THE PACTICE AS INTERFERENCE WITH FREE AND FAIR TRADE/COMMERCE.
Politicians bribing businesses to locate in their state is an old if unfortunate story. Tennessee this year offered Volkswagen $274 million to expand its Chattanooga plant. Last year Washington awarded long-time employer Boeing $8.7 billion over 16 years to build its new 777X jetliner in Puget Sound.
* OVER 16 YEARS...
* AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING, FOLKS; WHY SHOULD A LEGISLATURE OR GOVERNOR LIMITED TO A ONE YEAR, TWO YEAR, THREE YEAR, FOUR YEAR, WHATEVER TERM BE ABLE TO LOCK IN A BRIBE FOR BEYOND THE TIME PERIOD OF THEIR OWN INSTITUTION'S "RULE?"
But the Tesla giveaway is in a category of its own, coming in an unproven market for a company that has never recorded an annual profit (based on generally accepted accounting principles), notwithstanding various subsidies. Nevada's gift is 15 times larger than any incentive package the state has awarded and among the richest nationwide.
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
Mr. Musk handled it like a private Sotheby's auction, launching a secret bidding war among southwestern states with a price floor of $500 million. Tesla also wanted to be exempt from states' dealer laws that prevent car companies from selling directly to consumers. Such dealer laws are bad policy, but it must be nice to carve out an exemption that doesn't apply to Ford and GM.
Tesla will be exempt from property taxes for 10 years and sales taxes for 20 years at a cost of $1.1 billion to taxpayers. Tesla will also get $195 million in transferable tax credits that it can sell to other businesses. Since Nevada has no personal or corporate income tax, Tesla will effectively operate tax-free in the state.
* AND AS I EXPLAINED ABOVE, THIS MEANS NEITHER THIS YEARS VOTERS NOR THE NEXT ELECTION'S VOTERS NOR THE ELECTION AFTER THA VOTERS NOW... (WELL... YOU GET THE IDEA)... HAVE A VOTE. (YET THEY'LL BE THE ONES PAYING!)
Tesla will also receive a 10% to 30% electricity discount over eight years. The NV Energy public utility will pay for this discount by charging other customers $1.84 more on average per year.
* HOW... IS... THIS... LEGAL...?!?!
Mr. Musk claims the factory will generate all the renewable energy it needs, but the utility discount will pay for back-up power from the grid because renewables provide intermittent energy. By being connected to the grid, Tesla will also be able to exploit Nevada's "net-metering" regulations to sell its excess renewable power back to the utility at the retail price, which can be up to 50% higher than wholesale. So Tesla can buy electricity at a discount, and then sell it for a premium.
(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)
* AND THIS IS A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR AND (I BELIEVE) A DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATURE "WORKING TOGETHER." GOD HELP NEVADA!
Tesla will also get a 30% federal tax credit for building its own renewable generation, which will help wipe out its future federal tax liability, assuming it has any.
(Tax credits and carry-forward losses have already absolved the company from paying federal income tax since at least 2008.)
Last year Tesla paid a mere $2.5 million in corporate income taxes — zip to Uncle Sam, $178,000 to the states and $2.35 million to foreign governments.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/go-time-illegals-rushing-border-fearing-u.s.-crackdown/article/2553459
The summer lull in illegal border crossings from Mexico is about to give way to a rush of even more immigrants in a frenzy of fear that Washington is about to shut the door, according to several Hispanic leaders.
In Honduras, for example, U.S. threats coupled with those from local leaders warning about the dangers of crossing the border have instead re-energized children and adults to run fast to America and pay inflated fees to “coyotes” to get them there.
* GREAT WORK, OBAMA!
“As I am speaking, hundreds of children are trying to leave Honduras,” said Jose Guadalupe Ruelas, a Honduran leader who advocates for children. “When people in Honduras hear that the U.S. is going to get stricter with immigration rules and laws then people think to themselves, ‘Now is the time for me to go,’” he said through an interpreter.
* LET HONDURANS FIX HONDURAS!
Ruelas and several other Hispanic leaders met in Washington on Tuesday after spending a week in Latin nations responsible for sending over 50,000 children across the U.S. border this year. Officials expect another 145,000 next year.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
It is funny how nobody is addressing the biolab, its funding sources, the LACK OF RESPONSE in the beginning, allowing flights from infected nations...
William, Obama and friends, in my opinion, blatantly and OPENLY set ALL OF THIS UP. For the campaigns. And that the American people don't care, won't care...well...let's put it this way: if they aren't speaking out NOW? It's pretty clear they just don't really care one bit. They deserve what they get. Sadly, the rest of us have to endure it, but...I'm out of sympathy for elective ignorance. I no longer trust my fellow countrymen. They are unworthy of my trust.
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