Sunday, November 30, 2014

NYT Scumbags Michael D. Shear and Julia Preston



Unfriggin'believable...

Take a look at how these scumbags at the NYT attempt to provide cover for Obama unconstitutional actions!

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Months before President Obama took executive action last week to reshape the nation’s immigration system, Jeh C. Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, quietly convened a small group of advisers to explore the legal limits of the president’s powers.

* HMM... SOUNDS TO ME KINDA LIKE THE ACCUSED ACTING AS THEIR OWN JUDGE AND JURY!

(*GUFFAW*)

Working in secrecy...

* WHAT ELSE IS NEW...?!?!

* FOLKS... I COULDN'T MAKE THIS $HIT UP EVEN IF I WERE OF A MIND TO!

...Mr. Johnson’s team...

* NAMES...???

...huddled for hours daily under orders to use “our legal authorities to the fullest extent” on a new deportations policy, a senior administration official said.

* "OUR" LEGAL AUTHORITIES...

(*SNORT*)

In five White House meetings over the summer, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Obama, both lawyers...

* WASN'T OBAMA A LAWYER WHEN HE SAID POINT BLANK (ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS!) THAT PRESIDENTS DON'T HAVE SUCH POWERS? THAT HE WASN'T AN EMPEROR?

...pored over proposed changes, eventually concluding that the president had the authority to enact changes that could affect millions of people and significantly alter the way immigration laws are enforced.

* WOW... WHAT A SURPRISE!

(*SNORTING WHILE SHAKING MY HEAD*)

* FOLKS... JUST THE OTHER DAY (CAPTURED ON VIDEO) OUR EMPER... er... PRESIDENT ADMITTED THAT HE C*H*A*N*G*E*D THE LAW!

“I don’t think he wanted to be in the position of taking executive action,” Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy group, said of Mr. Obama.

* WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU EXPECT... er... ALI NOORANI... EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF A GROUP WHICH ADVOCATES AMNESTY... TO SAY?

“It was not the way he wanted to fix the system.”

* "THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT," DEFENSE...??? REALLY...?!?!

Nonetheless, “at the end of the day, he felt this was the only option he had.”

* YES... OF COURSE... "NONETHELESS..."

(*SMIRK*)

The decision has infuriated Republicans...

* JUST REPUBLICANS? REALLY...???

...just as they take full control of Capitol Hill — “We will not stand idle as the president undermines the rule of law in our country,” Speaker John A. Boehner pledged this month — although it remains unclear how the new Congress will react.

* UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S THE TRUTH! BOEHNER, MCCONNELL, AND THE GOP ESTABLISHMENT CAN'T BE TRUSTED.

Republicans have raised the possibility of suing the president, and a handful of conservatives have called for impeachment or a government shutdown. But the party is struggling to respond to Mr. Obama without alienating Hispanic voters, who will be critical to victory in 2016.

* THE PARTY... THE PARTIES - PLURAL - SHOULD BE STRUGGLING OVER FULFILLING THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE REPUBLIC, AND THE VERY RULE OF LAW!

Mr. Johnson’s efforts, along with Mr. Obama’s rising frustration with Mr. Boehner and an advocacy community that relentlessly pressured the White House, led to the president’s prime-time address to the nation on Nov. 20, when he said he would shield as many as five million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow many of them to work legally.

* HE SIMPLY DOESN'T HAVE THIS AUTHORITY.

As 2014 began, the president and his aides were hopeful...

* AHH... AIN'T THAT GRAND! IT'S GOOD TO BE "HOPEFUL."

* "GOOD" PEOPLE ARE "HOPEFUL" PEOPLE!

...that Republicans in the House might pass an immigration bill that Mr. Obama could support.

* NOTICE, FOLKS... NOT CRITIQUE ABOUT DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE NOT PASSING A BILL REPUBLICANS COULD SUPPORT! (IT'S ALWAYS A ONE WAY STREET WITH THE NYT.)

The president was in regular touch with Mr. Boehner and his top lieutenants...

* WHAT A GREAT GUY! ALWAYS WILLING TO GO THAT EXTRA MILE!

(*SNICKER*)

...who told him they recognized the need to increase border security, improve the legal immigration system and find a way to deal with the 11 million undocumented people living in the United States.

* NOTE: "RECOGNIZED." (NOT... "WE PLEDGE TO FIX IT.")

(*SPITTING ON THE GROUND*)

Each time Mr. Boehner arrived at the White House for an event, the president would pull him aside and ask about immigration, according to White House and Republican aides. Mr. Boehner urged patience, saying there was a “narrow path” to get something done, despite opposition in his party from what Republican aides call the “boxcars crowd,” a reference to conservative members who favor deportation for most of the 11 million.

* FOLKS... EVEN I DON'T CALL FOR DEPORTATION OF MOST THE 11 MILLION! SERIOUSLY... WHO - EXACTLY - ARE THESE CLOWNS THE NYT REFERS TO BASED UPON BOEHNER'S BULL? (WHERE ARE THE EDITORS?! WHERE ARE THE FACT-CHECKERS?!)

The Senate had already passed a comprehensive bill that Republicans did not believe would pass in the House.

* WHY NOT...? I THOUGHT THAT "COOPERATION" WAS THE RULE OF THE DAY? WHY WEREN'T THE SENATE DEMOCRATS COOPERATING WITH REPUBLICANS...???

Several House Republicans were quietly drafting separate legislation to boost border security...

* SUCH LEGISLATION WAS PASSED - AND FUNDED - YEARS AGO! NEITHER THE BUSH NOR OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONS IMPLEMENTED PAST BORDER SECURITY LAWS FULLY!

Mr. Obama told Mr. Boehner that he would not attack Republicans on immigration, even though he would have to press for legislation “every now and then,” a senior White House official said. The president understood, the official said, that “what they were trying to do was hard.”

But immigration activists were already impatient. Some of the president’s biggest allies had gone public with demands that Mr. Obama stop the record number of deportations they said were tearing apart their families. The president’s response was the same: “Until Congress passes a new law, then I am constrained in terms of what I am able to do,” he told Jose Diaz-Balart in an interview on Univision on March 6.

* OUR LAWYER PRESIDENT'S RESPONSE... CORRECT...?

His allies were not convinced. Richard Trumka, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., accused Mr. Obama of having “deported over a thousand people a day.” Janet Murguía, the head of N.C.L.R., a Latino organization also known as the National Council of La Raza, called him the “deporter in chief.” Protesters held hunger strikes and sit-ins in front of the White House and taunted him with chants: “Obama, Obama, don’t deport my mama.”

By spring, as the Congressional Hispanic Caucus was on the verge of adopting a resolution condemning his deportations, Mr. Obama called his staff together in the Oval Office and said he wanted to meet with the activists and the Latino members of Congress face to face. The meetings did not go well. In mid-March in the Roosevelt Room, the president urged activists to stop attacking him and keep the pressure on Republicans to pass immigration legislation. “It’s too early to give up,” he said. He berated Ms. Murguía for the “deporter in chief” comment and told them that Mr. Johnson, his new secretary of Homeland Security, would conduct a review to see if deportations could be enforced in a “more humane” way.

* THE KEY WORD BEING "ENFORCED."

(*PURSED LIPS*)

The activists made clear they wanted more.

Angelica Salas, from the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, reminded Mr. Obama that his administration had deported two million people. “People are coming to us in total distress and pain,” she told him. Lorella Praeli, who represented young immigrants known as Dreamers, warned him that her coalition would “make sure everyone knows you have the power to do something about these deportations.”

* FOLKS... ABOUT THAT PHONY 2,000,000 FIGURE... THAT INCLUDED ILLEGALS CAUGHT AT THE BORDER WHO WERE IMMEDIATELY SENT BACK ACROSS THE BORDER. THIS IS A NEW WAY... AN "OBAMA WAY"... OF RECORD KEEPING THAT OBVIOUSLY INFLATES THE "DEPORTATION" STATS.

Deepak Bhargava, executive director of the Center for Community Change and a participant at the meeting, recalled that Mr. Obama doubted the advocates’ deportation figures and did not take the criticism easily. “The president often was irritated and gave it back,” he said.

In the meantime, Mr. Johnson’s review of the president’s legal authority was supposed to help resolve the issue. But his first attempt in May was rejected, White House officials said, because in the president’s view, he did not go far enough. The effort only sought to sharpen the guidance for immigration agents, but did not provide work permits or directly shield anyone from deportation.

* BECAUSE SUCH ACTIONS WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

* C*L*E*A*R*L*Y UNCONSTITUTIONAL...!!!

And yet, with Republicans still struggling to move forward, the president’s Democratic allies on Capitol Hill reminded him that even Mr. Johnson’s modest proposals would probably derail any hopes for legislation.

Mr. Obama told Mr. Johnson to keep working.

The president announced that he would delay the results of the review until the end of the summer, hoping to give Mr. Boehner a last chance for action. But in early June, Representative Eric Cantor, then the majority leader in the House, lost his Republican primary in Virginia after being accused of being soft on immigration. Soon a surge of unaccompanied children across the border with Mexico created a sense of crisis about the need for more security and weeks of Republican outrage.

At a White House event for the Professional Golfers Association, Mr. Obama pulled Mr. Boehner aside. Mr. Boehner told the president that the path for action in the House “had narrowed almost to the vanishing point,” according to aides for both men. White House officials said the president was frustrated with the Republicans. But he was also coming to the realization that he could not rely on Congress to act.

On June 30, the president called Mr. Boehner to tell him he was about to declare the legislative effort dead. In the White House Rose Garden, Mr. Obama then announced he would “fix as much of our immigration system as I can on my own, without Congress,” and would act by the end of the summer.

He instructed Mr. Johnson to undertake a much broader examination of his executive authority.

* OBVIOUSLY WITH THE CLEAR UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN BOTH MEN BEING THAT THE CONSTITUTION WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO BLOCK OBAMA FROM DOING WHAT HE WANTED TO DO.

* FOLK... CLEARLY AT THIS POINT THE MESSAGE WAS CLEAR. IN PLAIN ENGLISH WHAT OBAMA WAS ASKING FOR WAS A FIG-LEAF TO OFFER SOME FALSE JUSTIFICATION FOR HIM BREAKING HIS OATH TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION.

The secretary and his team concluded Mr. Obama could not grant protections to seven million or more immigrants who might have qualified under the comprehensive bill passed by the Senate in 2013, as advocates had demanded. After consulting with Mr. Obama, they identified initiatives that could include five million.

* "AFTER CONSULTING WITH OBAMA."

* SUDDENLY IT WAS OBAMA PLAYING THE ROLE OF CONSULTANT!

(*RUEFUL CHUCKLE*)

* AGAIN, FOLKS... YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS $HIT UP...!!!

The secretary took a hands-on approach, officials said. Sitting at his office computer, Mr. Johnson wrote final versions of most of the directives issued on Nov. 20 setting up the controversial programs.

But there was another delay: Democratic senators who were up for re-election in 2014 told the White House that an announcement by the president could be so politically damaging in their states that it would destroy their chances to hold control of the Senate. On Nov. 4, most of those Democrats lost anyway.

* THIS IS THE NYT WAY OF "REPORTING" THAT OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS DELIBERATELY HID THEIR LEGAL ARGUMENTS FROM "WE THE PEOPLE" TILL AFTER THE ELECTION.

* FOLKS... WHETHER YOU'RE A LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE, DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN, DIDN'T OBAMA OWE US A PRE-ELECTION CHOICE BASED UPON HIS ACTUAL CONSTITUTIONAL ARGUMENTS...???

For immigration advocates, it has been a long-awaited victory.

* FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE... OUR CONSTITUTION... AND OUR RULE OF LAW... YET ANOTHER DEFEAT.

Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., Nov. 29 & 30, 2014


Picked up the tree yesterday...

Found Made in America Christmas Cards... $7 for a 34-pack at Odd Lots! While there, also picked up a 200-ft. roll of Christmas wrapping paper - also Made in America!

Since we had no Thanksgiving leftovers, last night's dinner was "Bill's Hot Pastrami Reubens," only instead of being served open-faced on rye or pumpernickel bread, I serve mine "hero style" on Cuban bread! (I only ate HALF of mine... therefore... I have today's lunch pre-made!)

A fair amount of Facebooking yesterday but no newsbiting; I'll try and make amends today!

Anyway... off to it!


Friday, November 28, 2014

Barker's Newsbites: Friday, November 28, 2014


So... happy post-Thanksgiving! How'd everyone's Turkey Day go?!

Ours went splendidly! A truly succulent bird served with all the fixings; courtesy of the kind, gracious, and extremely hospitable Marianne Barry of Pearl River, New York!

(Colleen... Kenny... Amanda... Kevin... thank you for sharing your day with us...)

Two words in closing: A*P*P*L*E P*I*E...!!!

(So, good, Marianne... SO friggin' good...)

As for today... well... Mary's already up and decorating the house for Christmas!

Me...? I'm helping... by staying out of her way...

(*HUGE FRIGGIN' GRIN*)

Anyway... on to Newsbites!


Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Now Obama Incentivizes Hiring Illegals OVER Americans!



Yep... ya can't make this $hit up, folks...

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Under the president’s [unconstitutional] new amnesty, businesses will have a $3,000-per-employee incentive to hire illegal immigrants over native-born workers because of a quirk of ObamaCare.

* ARE... YOU... FRIGGIN'... KIDDING... ME...?!?!

President Obama’s [unconstitutional] temporary amnesty, which lasts three years, declares up to 5 million illegal immigrants to be lawfully in the country and eligible for work permits, but it still deems them ineligible for public benefits such as buying insurance on ObamaCare's health exchanges.

(The loophole was confirmed by congressional aides...)

* OH... AND IT GETS WORSE...

Under the Affordable Care Act, that means businesses who hire them won’t have to pay a penalty for not providing them health coverage — making them $3,000 more attractive than a similar native-born worker, whom the business by law would have to cover.

* FOLKS... AGAIN... DON'T BE SIDE-TRACKED BY FURGUSON AND WHATEVER THE NEWEST MEDIA FOCUS IS ON; THIS SUPPOSED "EXECUTIVE ORDER" MUST BE OVERTURNED BY CONGRESS! IT MUST BE! IF NOT, WE'RE A DICTATORSHIP! IF NOT, NO PRESIDENT WILL EVER AGAIN BE SIMPLY "CHIEF EXECUTIVE" - BUT RATHER HE/SHE WILL BE KING/QUEEN IN ALL BUT NAME.

* UPON THEIR SEATING, THE NEW CONGRESS MUST... M*U*S*T... PASS A JOINT RESOLUTION DECLARING OBAMA'S ILLEGAL ORDER NULL AND VOID AND INSTRUCTING ALL FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND CONTRACTORS THAT THEY ARE FORBIDDEN TO FOLLOW THE ILLEGAL OBAMA ORDER.

“If it is true that the president’s actions give employers a $3,000 incentive to hire those who came here illegally, he has added insult to injury,” said Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican.

* THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! THEN STOP IT! STOP OBAMA! YOU'RE THE CONGRESS! THE CONSTITUTION GIVES CONGRESS SOLE POWER TO DECIDE MATTERS OF NATURALIZATION!

Brian Rogers, a spokesman for Senator John McCain, said Tuesday the solution to the loophole is to get rid of ObamaCare's employer mandate, “which would eliminate the incentive to hire people who are ineligible for ObamaCare subsidies.” Mr. Rogers said the Republican majority that takes control of Congress next year should vote on that proposal.

* NO, JACKASS... THE SOLUTION IS FOR CONGRESS - BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE IN A JOINT RESOLUTION - TO DECLARE OBAMA'S "TEMPORARY AMNESTY" NULL AND VOID AND TO INSTRUCT ALL FEDERAL WORKERS AND CONTRACTORS TO IGNORE THE ILLEGAL "ORDER."

* ANYWAY... RETURNING TO THIS "OBAMA BONUS" TO ILLEGALS...

Some employers have already taken notice, and Dennis Michael Lynch, a documentary filmmaker, raised the issue on political strategist Dick Morris’s radio show in Philadelphia over the weekend.

“The dimensions of this problem are enormous. One wonders if any of Obama’s crew spotted it during the run-up to his executive order. It is hard to imagine former President Clinton failing to notice such a conflict between his two major programs,” Mr. Morris said in an op-ed Tuesday in The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper.

* SERIOUSLY, FOLKS... OBAMA IS A MORON. THINK ABOUT HOW OFTEN HE SCREWS UP. WHY... BETWEEN HIM AND BIDEN...

(*SIGH*)

The Obama administration has [illegally] delayed the employer mandate penalty for some businesses, but it is slated to take full effect in a year.

* AGAIN, FOLKS... CHECK YOUR CONSTITUTION; THE PRESIDENT CAN'T SIMPLY "RE-WRITE" EXISTING LAW ON THE FLY!