Thursday, March 5, 2015

Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, March 5, 2015


Spending WAY too much time on Face Book...


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William R. Barker said...

http://www.nationaljournal.com/twenty-sixteen/hillary-clinton-still-doesn-t-get-it-20150305

A cornered Clinton is a craven Clinton, which is why we should view Hillary Rodham Clinton's latest public relations trick with practiced skepticism.

"I want the public to see my email," she tweeted Wednesday night. "I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible."

If she wants us to see her email, why did she create a secret account stored on a dark server registered at her home?

* AND MORE TELLING...

If she wants us to see her email, why didn't she give State all of her email rather than a self-censored fraction of the correspondence?

(*SMIRK*)

The Associated Press said Wednesday that it was considering legal action over years of stonewalling its requests for government documents covering Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.

* YES... AFTER YEARS... AFTER THIS LATEST SCANDAL... NOW AFTER EVEN THE MOST BLOATED KOOLAID DRINKER IS QUESTIONING WHY THE MEDIA ONLY SEEMS TO BREAK THESE STORIES A*F*T*E*R CRUCIAL ELECTIONS.

The AP has sought her full schedules and calendars and for details on the State Department's decision to grant a special position to a longtime Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, among other documents, the New York Times, reported. The oldest AP request was made in March 2010.

* FIVE... FRIGGIN'... YEARS... (AND NOW THEY'RE "CONSIDERING" LEGAL ACTION.)

"We believe it's critically important that government officials and agencies be held accountable to the voters," said AP's general counsel, Karen Kaiser.

* BUT ONLY AFTER THE ELECTIONS...

(*SNORT*)

March 5, 2015 at 12:43 PM
William R. Barker said...

https://www.facebook.com/wallace.garneau/posts/10206199354131149?comment_id=10206201439863291&offset=0&total_comments=9&notif_t=share_reply

There’s a winter storm afoot, and places like New York City are expected to get hit with several inches of snow Thursday.

It’s hard to imagine that just 30 years ago, government scientists were predicting that global warming would make New York City resemble Daytona Beach, Florida — which does not get snow.

In 1985, the New York Times reported that "federal climate experts have suggested that within a century the greenhouse effect could turn New York City into something with the climate of Daytona Beach, Fla.”

“Beginning in a decade or two, scientists expect the warming of the atmosphere to melt the polar icecaps, raising the level of the seas, flooding coastal areas, eroding the shores and sending salt water far into fresh-water estuaries,” the Times reported. “Storm patterns will change, drying out some areas, swamping others and generally throwing agriculture into turmoil.”

Three decades later, and New York City does not remotely resemble Daytona Beach...

* IN FACT...

It may be that Daytona Beach is becoming more like New York City, as Daytona did get a light dusting of snow in Jan. 2008 and again in Jan. 2010. Snow flurries were also reported in Daytona in 1989 and in 1977.

But federal scientists in the 1980s predicted that trace greenhouse gases, and not just carbon dioxide, were causing the world to warm rapidly, though at the time there was little to no evidence of rapid warming. “In an October 1983 report, the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that the sea level could rise as much as 11 feet by the end of the next century – or as little as 2 feet,” the New York Times reported. “It settled on 5 to 7 feet as the likely range. The higher figure would put substantial pieces of Florida and Louisiana under the waves and flood parts of some coastal cities.”

“Even the lower figure would cut away chunks of shoreline. Experts estimate that a one-foot rise in the ocean could erode 100 to 1,000 feet of sand beach all along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts,” the Times reported.

* AND THE MORAL OF THE STORY...

(*SNICKER*)

March 5, 2015 at 1:16 PM
William R. Barker said...

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/senate-democrats-step-pressure-vote-attorney-general-171233350.html

Senate Democrats on Thursday wrote a formal letter to Republicans urging them to hold a vote to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next U.S. attorney general.

* AND I'M WITH THE DEMS ON THIS!

There is still no date set by the Republican majority for a vote to be held on the Senate floor for Lynch's nomination, despite the Senate judiciary committee's endorsing her a week ago.

* THANKS TO THREE SCUMBAG RINOs ON THE COMMITTEE.

The nomination of Lynch, who is currently the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, New York, to be the nation's top law enforcement official has been pending for 117 days, longer than any other attorney general in the last 30 years.

The letter, circulated by Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Patrick Leahy, urged the Republicans to schedule a floor vote as soon as possible.

"Although a narrow minority of the Senate may want to use Ms. Lynch's floor vote to protest the immigration enforcement priorities announced last year by the administration, there is simply no credible reason for further delay," said the letter, which was addressed to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

* SCHEDULE THE VOTE. VOTE HER NOMINATION DOWN. ANY REPUBLICANS WHO DESERT RANKS... EXPEL THEM FROM THE PARTY.

* IF REPUBLICANS WILL ALLOW SOMEONE LEFT OF HOLDER AND OBAMA HIMSELF TO BECOME THE NEXT AG OF THE U.S. THEN ALL HOPE IS LOST.

March 5, 2015 at 1:23 PM

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