Saturday, August 16, 2014

What I learned from the media this week

By Dan Barber

A problem with our society

A rush to judgment caused by prejudice causes undue pain for every American. Another young man is dead and another mother, family and friends are in mourning. Every American should be in mourning. We need to take a break from our differences and stop blaming each other for those differences and come together to try and find answers to the root cause of our prejudice so future pain for all of us can be avoided. People with legitimate concerns try to bring those concerns to the attention of the country with peaceful protest as others with nothing but criminal contempt of the community drown out everything.

Mob Rule

Allowing the unions and disingenuous elected officials or inept senior managers and political appointees to run our government can only lead to corruption of the system.
It's a known fact that this business model allows the "soldiers" of a mob family to be paid for "no-show" jobs. Obama is using his administration to further award his loyal supporters in the various government departments. This is why there are management problems at the Veterans Administration, Internal Revenue Service, Health and Human Services, Environmental Protection Administration, State Department, etc. According to this article the Obama administration wants to create more "no-show" jobs by expanding this business model, "The agency’s telework system has served as a model for the Obama administration, which has sought to attract talent by extending similar programs to many corners of the government."

Someone needs to buy some more paper shredders?

I wonder if the Office of Management and Budget director is briefing Obama on a Martha's Vineyard golf course that the wheels on his administration is about to come off? "The top members of the House and Senate oversight committees have come out in support of the inspectors general who raised concerns last week about timely access to agency records during investigations."

Legislating from the bench see (Bringing Trumped up Charges) below

It would be nice if we could get politics out of judicial selections, unfortunately the separations of our judicial and legislative branches of our government are forever blurred. It's a constant issue when a law is passed by any state or federal legislation that is unpopular with a vocal group then all that group has to do is find a sympathetic judge to overturn or stall enforcement of that law, ergo... legislating from the bench... Politics 101.

It’s good work if you can get it

Federal agencies spend millions on union business... Business model established by organized crime to award loyal "soldiers."

Moronic idea speaks for itself

Study: 'Cash for Clunkers' an even bigger lemon than thought... Duh.

Excuses are like belly buttons… everyone has one

Wow... am I missing something? Wasn't this woman the Secretary of State? This is typical political BS from a former lawyer and a failed author with a serious sociopathic personality disorder and a habitual liar. I believe the DNC should put their money on another candidate in 2016. Hillary should go back to investing in commodities... she was once very successful, according to her, at doing that when she turned a $1k investment into $100k in a very short period of time.

Where have all the promises gone?

"Don't do stupid s---." I'm sure that many Obama supporters are wondering how in the world they could have done stupid s--- when they voted for this moron. The world is on fire, Obama's most ardent supporters, African-Americans still face an unemployment rate twice that of Whites. Wealthy people are getting richer... just ask Hillary. I'll bet that even when Obama is old and long retired from politics and pulling down millions a year for speaking engagements he will look back on the ruin he caused and say "who cares, what difference it makes?"

How not to become a successful leader

Covering thy behind with assumption and deflection of blame is the hallmark of the Obama administration and his liberal pundits. Decisions made in 2003 were made at the time with the knowledge available then... I don't believe the Bush administration employed star-gazers or fortune-tellers to predict the future. Fast forward to now... Obama's troubles in the Middle East are predictably caused by ignorance and failure to learn from history on behalf of his administration. Even Obama stated that Iraq was an American success story... no need to stay, leave the Iraqi's on their own. No, I don't believe we are "paying for Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq" we are paying for Obama's failure as a leader and his many golf/DNC fundraisers and family vacations.

‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall’

The president apparently has to order all mirrors removed from the White House, because as with the rest of Americans he no longer likes his own image as his "optics" are completely distorted. For someone who has been touted to own a giant intellect he has only proven that he is in fact very small minded.

Let’s all go to the beach

California Coastal Commission should do what the federal court says it can do, take the property (roadway), through purchase at fair market value, to allow access through eminent domain. This is a process where the government can take private property for the public good. Anyone who restricts public access could and should face this risk regardless of political connections.

Can I see your ID?

Isn't this a conundrum for the Obama administration? People are required to prove citizenship to receive health coverage, but Obama and his pundits don't want people to have the same requirement to vote?

White House wasn’t responsible

Wow, an Inspector General report allowed to be made public when it favors or clears the White House or Obama's political appointees of wrong doing! This is why the Obama administration is a huge failure.

Legitimacy test failure

The Washington Post is trying to give Aaron Blake, a political blogger, cover for a non-story about what the Republicans should or shouldn't do when it comes to the oversight of Obama and his administration. According to an article in the Washington Examiner, http://washingtonexaminer.com/sheila-jackson-lee-the-washington-posts-aaron-blake-and-the-impeachment-farce/article/2551536, points out that Blake's charges against the Republican's plan is a farce.

A part-time presidency

Let's see, since taking office in 2009 Obama has rented a home on Martha's Vineyard each year. Every Christmas he and his family also vacations in Hawaii. His wife and her entourage of friends and family vacations separately in Hawaii, Communist China and Europe. According to records Obama has taken 15 vacations in 6 years for 2.5 vacations each year. He has also played 135 rounds of golf. We don't know how many rounds of golf he has played while on official fact-finding, Hamburger chomping, beer tasting, DNC fund-raising trips, etc. Congratulations to Obama supporters... you've picked a WINNER! NOT...

Connect the dots

When senior civil service managers and political appointees demonstrate inept management or nepotism, We the People suffer the consequences. I would bet the farm that if investigators tried to find out what the connections were between the "contractors" and the people who hired them, that information would be "classified."


Who can we trust?

This article is rich... I never have to read "fake news" sites to discover the stupid s--- that politicians of any ideology perform to cheat the people of honest representation. The problem with "real news" sites is they often employ biased hacks who are "fake journalists." The real threat to We the People are dishonest or inept politicians who mis-lead or lie to stay in power.

Who is regulating the regulators?

This is very confusing... why does a "regulator" who should be a senior government employee require a fund-raising dinner in the first place. Isn't the job of a "regulator" to regulate or enforce the rules of law as set forth by our government? Isn't the monthly cut of income tax taken from every working or retired American enough to run that agency? Also, this is another example of why we currently pay way too much to cable TV monopolies.

Learning something new 5 years later

I finally discovered why my official request to use a specific software product that would have reduced my work-load by at least 25% went unanswered! In 2009 I updated my command's closed-circuit television (cctv) system. Even after extensive research and getting approval on each step of the purchase and installation of the cctv system, I was constantly rebuffed on using the proprietary software to program the cctv directly from my desktop computer. I was forced to work around the problem by doing all of the programming of training/informational videos from a lap-top computer. Thank goodness I retired from the government last year! The American taxpayers should sue this woman to recoup the lost tax dollars she caused in her position.

Those darn foreign journalists

Example of greed's triumph over political ideology.

Bringing Trumped up Charges

Liberals claim the media is not biased. Here is an example of media bias. The Washington Post headline gives the impression that Perry is a serious crook. What the headline doesn't say is Perry was trying to get Rosemary Lehmberg a democrat and the district attorney for Travis County, which includes Austin, the state capital, to step down after she was arrested last year for drunken driving. The article did state in the body, "Lehmberg pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated — an open bottle of vodka was found in her car — and was sentenced to 45 days in jail." Another hint at biased reporting stated that "...Perry has been crisscrossing the country to promote Texas’s economic climate and to poach businesses from other states..." The word poach in this usage means to trespass on another's territory to illegally take, in this case, business, ergo to create jobs for this governor's state. What do you want to bet the liberal media will take this to the spin cycle to paint all conservatives in a bad light?

Someone needs a vacation from vacation

All those darn U.S. and world disasters keep interfering in Obama's vacation. The article mentions "first lady Michelle Obama sped past reporters on a bike path in Manuel F. Correllus State Forest, a roughly 5,000-acre (2,000-hectare) reserve. The president, biking next to his older daughter, Malia, and wearing sunglasses and black workout clothes, followed." Is it possible that Michelle is becoming embarrassed to be seen with her husband?"


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