Friday, July 3, 2015

Long Holiday Weekend Newsbites: Fri. 7/3 Thru Sun. 7/5


My Poops is home! She's got Friday off for Independence Day! Woo-hoo!

She's been busy all mornin'... washing my clothes... putting away my newly washed and dried clothes... making and serving me coffee...

(*HUGE FRIGGIN' GRIN*)

GOOD POOPS...!!!

(*STANDING OVATION*)

Ahh... but don't fret, folks... I DO appreciate ALL the Poops does for me... so... NOT only am I gonna take her to lunch... BUT... I'm gonna let her order off of the ADULT menu!

(*GUFFAW*)

Oh, Lord... I do crack myself up...

(*STILL LAUGHING*)

(*THINKING ABOUT SHARING THIS POST WITH THE POOPS*)

(*REJECTING THE IDEA OUT OF HAND - AT LEAST TILL IT'S POSTED*)

Anyway... AFTER lunch... I'm gonna take the Poops with me on a ride... an airport pick-up; one of my regulars...

(*SMILING WINK*)

THEN... we're taking our nieces out to dinner tonight. Italian. They love it! (Ages 14 & 15 respectively.)

Then... tomorrow... bbqing with friends...

Sunday... more bbqing with DIFFERENT friends...

Life is good!


6 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/03/oregon-launches-program-to-tax-drivers-by-mile/

David Hastings is a rare American. This long-time hybrid car owner from Oregon wants to pay higher taxes for roads and bridges and says the current 30 cents per gallon state gas tax barely affects him.

* SO LET OL' DAVE SEND EXTRA MONEY TO OREGON - AND WASHINGTON - EVERY APRIL 15TH!

"I've been free-loading on the highways for 20 years driving electric cars or hybrid cars, getting at least 40 miles to the gallon. So I haven't been paying my share," Hastings said.

(*ROLLING MY EYES*)

Now, Hastings will pay more thanks to OReGO -- the first pay-by-the-mile program in the U.S.

(*SIGH*)

* EVERYONE IN OREGON WILL PAY MORE... EVERYONE WHO OWNS AND DRIVES A VEHICLE... EVERYONE WHO COMMUTES BY PERSONAL VEHICLE...

Oregon’s Department of Transportation has been working on it for 15 years as a way to eventually replace the gas tax, which has been flat due to an influx of high mileage vehicles and people driving less.

Right now the program is voluntary and being capped at 5,000 participants, but an ODOT official told Fox News the ultimate goal is to make it mandatory and change the way states pay for roads - forever.

"We're trying to make up for a growing deficit, really, because inflation's eating away at our ability to buy asphalt and rebar and the things we need to maintain the roads," said Tom Fuller of the Oregon Department of Transportation.

* Er... NO MENTION OF HOW A FAIRLY LARGE PERCENTAGE OF GAS TAXES ARE "RE-DIRECTED" TO MASS TRANSIT AND OTHER FAVORED STATE PROJECTS. AS NOTED IN A STAND-ALONE (OR PERHAPS IT WAS SIMPLY A NEWSBITE) THE OTHER DAY, THERE'D BE PLENTY OF MONEY FOR THE ROADS IF THESE BASTARD POLITICIANS DIDN'T KEEP RAIDING THE TILL!

According to a national usage fee alliance, 28 states are in various stages of following down the same road. However, there are also privacy concerns. Two of the three OReGO systems track and store a car’s every move.

"To put a GPS monitor in everybody's car, the government already knows too much about us as it is," Jeff Kruse, a Republican lawmaker told Fox News.

* TO ME, THAT'S A SECONDARY ISSUE. TO ME THE MORE IMPORTANT ISSUE IS THAT THIS METHOD DIRECTLY ACTS AS A "STICK" AGAINST THAT MOST AMERICAN OF VALUES... BEING FREE! BEING FREE TO ROAM! BEING FREE TO RANGE FAR AND WIDE!

* FOLKS... DON'T LET 'EM FOOL YA. THIS ISN'T JUST ABOUT REVENUE. IT'S ABOUT "THEM" TRYING TO LIMIT YOUR FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT. THEY'RE "NUDGING" YOU NOT TO ENJOY THE FREEDOM THAT THE MOTOR VEHICLE HAS HISTORICALLY AFFORDED AMERICANS!

Others are raising questions about the cost. Getting the gas tax is cheap, but OReGO vendors will eat up 40 cents of every dollar collected, and for those not used to paying any gas tax, it could be a whole new sticker shock – every month.

* 40% MIDDLEMAN CUT! YOU'VE GOTTA BE FRIGGIN' KIDDING ME...?!?! FOLKS... THIS IS SICKER - AND MORE BLATANT - THAN EVEN I'D IMAGINED!

Jeff Allen, of “Drive Oregon,” supports the one and a half cent per mile usage fee - to a point.

* ...OF WHICH THE MIDDLEMAN GETS 40%...?!?! AGAIN... HOW FRIGGIN' COW-LIKE ARE THE AMERICAN SHEEPLE...?!?!

"We need to be subsidizing and incentivizing electric cars and not putting more taxes or fees on them, not discouraging people from buying them in any way," Allen said.

* NO. WE DON'T NEED TO SUBSIDIZE ELECTRIC CARS! USE YOUR OWN MONEY AND INVEST WITH IT!

William R. Barker said...

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/07/02/illegal-aliens-disrupt-ann-coulter-book-signing-author-fires-back/

Political commentator and author Ann Coulter was signing copies of her new book Adios America: The Left’s Plan to Turn our Country into a Third World Hellhole at a Barnes and Noble Tuesday night when the calm was shattered by protesters inside the store.

As dozens of fans waited their turn to have a book signed, several people rose from the tables in the adjacent Starbucks and began bellowing slogans:

“Undocumented, unafraid!” they yelled. “Ain’t no power like the power of the people ’cause the power of the people don’t stop!”

The protesters inside the store, unfurled a large banner reading “Adios, Ann Coulter,” and brandished Mexican and anarchist flags. Some approached the front of the line and attempted to confront Coulter, but were rebuffed by security guards.

* YEP. OBAMA'S AMERICA. FOLKS... BUY GUNS... GET TRAINING... STOCK UP ON AMMO...

“Go back to Europe, Ann Coulter!” one particularly vocal man screamed. “When our communities are under attack, what do we do? Fight back!”

* WHERE DO THESE FRIGGIN' MORONS THINK THE WORD "HI-SPANIC"... "SPANIC"... COMES FROM?

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

The guests waiting in line, including some young children, mostly ignored the protesters. Some defiantly held up copies of their signed books.

The furor did not seem to faze Coulter, who cheerfully signed books and posed for photographs with her fans.

After getting escorted out of the store by security, the protesters reconvened outside the entrance, shouting “Shame on you!” to those who walked out holding a copy of Coulter’s book. At one point, the group ripped up a copy of the book, littering the space outside the store with paper.

* REMIND YOU OF ANY PREVIOUS "POLITICAL MOVEMENT" FOLKS...???

(*SNORT*)

“Don’t have kids! Don’t have kids!” one of the protesters screamed at an older couple exiting the store.

(*ROLLING MY EYES*)

William R. Barker said...

http://time.com/3945033/buzz-aldrin-spacex-commercial-space-travel/

* BY BUZZ ALDRIN

* OH... AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHO BUZZ ALDRIN IS...

(*ROLLING MY EYES*)

The recent failure of the commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is a near-term setback. But getting that vehicle back in the air means something more for the tomorrows to come. It means getting down to business concerning the future of America’s space program.

I was witness to the Falcon 9’s failed flight on June 28. Sitting there at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, I had a front-row seat to the mishap. However disappointing is the loss of the SpaceX booster and destruction of the Dragon-carrying cargo ship headed for the International Space Station (ISS), it is a teachable moment. I think it punctuates the need for providing more appropriate budgetary funding for commercial space activities.

* "MORE APPROPRIATE?" LET ME GUESS... YOU MEAN... er... "MORE."

(*CHUCKLE*)

* WHY CAN'T MOST PEOPLE JUST FORTHRIGHTLY SAY WHAT THEY MEAN...???

U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration has helped shape the use of commercial space operators that provide to NASA cargo and crew services for reaching low Earth orbit.

* WE ALL KNOW THAT'S BULLSHIT.

(*SNORT*)

* I GET IT... FLATTER THE MAN... TRY AND GET HIM ONBOARD... (BUT ADMIT IT... YOU'RE EMPLOYING BULLSHIT IN THE EFFORT.)

(*WINK*)

Furthermore, the groundwork has been laid for the next administration’s potential commitment to further encourage commercial space activities that can spur into reality America’s pathway to placing humans on Mars.

* AH... "THE GROUNDWORK..."

(*SIGH*)

* FOLKS... OBAMA HAS DECIMATED THE SPACE PROGRAM. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ONE AGREES OR DISAGREES WITH THE PRESIDENT'S ACTIONS IN THIS REGARD THEY ARE WHAT THEY ARE.

NASA’s commercial crew and cargo program is our only U.S. option to get astronauts and supplies to the ISS.

* YEP...

William R. Barker said...

http://www.10news.com/news/poway-mayor-explains-why-city-had-to-dump-550000-gallons-of-water-

The mayor of Poway, CA., is defending the city's decision to dump more than 500,000 gallons of what appeared to be perfectly good drinking water.

* Er... "THE MORON OF POWAY, CALIFORNIA..."

"It was a perfect storm of conservation and heat," said Poway Mayor Steve Vaus.

Vaus said Poway residents conserved so much water that the water just sat in the Blue Crystal Reservoir. Heat eventually got to it and there was a chemical imbalance of Chloramine. Because of state regulations, Vaus told 10News the water was not safe to drink.

* QUESTION: PUTTING "STATE REGULATIONS ASIDE," WAS THE WATER SAFE TO DRINK? (I BET IT WAS!) AND IF NOT... WHY COULDN'T IT BEEN MADE SAFE TO DRINK? AND IF NOT... WHY NOT USE IT FOR OTHER PURPOSES - SUCH AS INDUSTRIAL OR FARMING USAGE?

* FRIGGIN' CALIFORNIA...

(*SIGH*)

William R. Barker said...

* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/04/man-arrested-in-connection-with-san-francisco-killing-had-been-deported-several/

The man arrested in connection with the seemingly random killing of a woman who was out for a stroll with her father along the San Francisco waterfront is an illegal immigrant who previously had been deported five times, federal immigration officials say.

* MORE BLOOD ON OBAMA'S HANDS...

Further, Immigration and Customs Enforcement says San Francisco had him in their custody earlier this year but failed to notify ICE when he was released.

* MORE BLOOD ON THE HANDS OF CITY AUTHORITIES...

"DHS records indicate ICE lodged an immigration detainer on the subject at that time, requesting notification prior to his release so ICE officers could make arrangements to take custody. The detainer was not honored," ICE said in a statement Friday afternoon.

* SO... SHOULDN'T SOMEONE GO TO JAIL...??? IS "NOT HONORING" A FEDERAL DETAINER ORDER NOT A CRIME - A FEDERAL OFFENSE?

Kathryn Steinle was killed Wednesday evening at Pier 14 - one of the busiest tourist destinations in the city.

Police said Thursday they arrested Francisco Sanchez in the shooting an hour after it occurred.

On Friday, ICE revealed their records indicate the individual has been previously deported five times, most recently in 2009, and is from Mexico.

* I URGE ALL OF YOU TO BUY OR BORROW A COPY OF ANNE COULTER'S "ADIOS AMERICA." IT'S THE REAL DEAL - I CAN ATTEST TO THAT.

"His criminal history includes seven prior felony convictions, four involving narcotics charges," ICE said in a statement.

* FRANKLY... FOR NON-CITIZENS... WE NEED TO INSTITUTE A THIRD-STRIKE RULE - THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE EXECUTED.

ICE briefly had him in their custody in March after he had served his latest sentence for "felony re-entry," but turned him over to San Francisco Sheriff's Department on an outstanding drug warrant. At this time, ICE issued the detainer - effectively asking that he be turned back over to ICE when San Francisco was finished with him.

But ICE was not notified.

* AGAIN... SHOULDN'T SOMEONE BE CHARGED WITH A FEDERAL OFFENSE...?

The incident is sure to renew criticism of San Francisco's sanctuary city policies.

* ARIZONA TRIES TO MIRROR AND ENFORCE FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS WHICH ARE ON THE BOOKS... THEY GET SUED BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION... BUT... er... "SANCTUARY CITIES" DON'T INFRINGE UPON FEDERAL AUTHORITY RE: IMMIGRATION POLICY? (HOW'S THAT WORK...?)

* TO BE CONTINUED...

William R. Barker said...

* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)

"Here's a jurisdiction that's not even honoring our detainer for someone who clearly is an egregious offender," an ICE official told FoxNews.com.

* AN UNNAMED ICE OFFICIAL TOLD FOX NEWS...

(*SIGH*)

ICE has since lodged another immigration detainer against the individual, though it's unclear whether San Francisco will cooperate.

* AGAIN... FOLKS... THE RULE OF LAW NO LONGER EXISTS IN AMERICA; THE LAW IS WHATEVER OBAMA SAYS IT IS.

An attorney for the San Francisco Sheriff's Department told the Associated Press it had no authority to honor the prior immigration hold when it released the suspect.

* Er... DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO ANYONE... ANYONE AT ALL...???

Freya Horne said Friday that federal detention orders are not a "legal basis" to hold someone, so Francisco Sanchez was released April 15.

* UH-HUH... (I DO BELIEVE THAT STATEMENT REQUIRES A BIT MORE EXPLANATION IN DEPTH...)

Police Sgt. Michael Andraychak earlier said witnesses snapped photos of Sanchez immediately after Wednesday's shooting and the images helped police make the arrest.

Liz Sullivan told the San Francisco Chronicle that her 32-year-old daughter turned to her father after she was shot and said she didn't feel well before collapsing.

"She just kept saying, 'Dad, help me, help me,'" Sullivan said. Her father reportedly tried to do CPR before she was rushed to the hospital.

* IF I WERE THE DAD... IF YOU WERE THE DAD OR MOM... WHAT WOULD YOUR RESPONSE BE? (I KNOW WHAT MINE WOULD BE!)

The immigration detainer issued against the suspect earlier this year would have initiated the process of removing him from the U.S. once again.

* "THE PROCESS." WHAT A SICK F--KING JOKE...

"ICE places detainers on aliens arrested on criminal charges to ensure dangerous criminals are not released from prisons or jails into our communities," ICE said in the statement. "The agency remains committed to working collaboratively with its law enforcement partners to ensure the public's safety."

* THE "AGENCY" MAY BE COMMITTED... BUT THE AGENCY'S OBAMA APPOINTED HEADS CERTAINLY AREN'T. (WHO THE "F" DO THESE PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE FOOLING...?!?!)

The tragedy also surfaced late Friday in the 2016 presidential race. GOP candidate Donald Trump, who has been under fire for controversial remarks describing some Mexican illegal immigrants ‎as criminals, said in a statement that the "senseless and totally preventable act of violence committed by an illegal immigrant is yet another example of why we must secure our border immediately."

* AND WE MUST THROW THOSE WHO INTERFERE WITH THIS (MEANING LOCAL AUTHORITIES WHO IGNORE FEDERAL DETENTION ORDERS) IN JAIL!