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Tri-Mess: More From The FON (Friends of Neil)

About once a week or so, the former regional transit agency known as TriMess gets caught in another lie, or at least, in some form of deception. Last week brought us Jeff Gianola's news segments in which long-time FON Neil McFarlane tried to brush aside the fact that TriMet managers are among the best-compensated of any transit agency in the country.

In interviews conducted, appropriately enough, on an immobile bus, McFarlane claimed that TriMet's one of the best transit agencies in the country, and you have to pay managers big money to retain them. At the same time, he whined that the health insurance and other benefits that they have to pay drivers and mechanics are bleeding the agency dry (though, yeah, he sorta found a million dollars to give pay boosts to himself and 69 of his very bestest managers, and kinda hid that from the public). But hey, none of that matters, because drivers and mechanics.

It's like the Barky administration in there: we gotta stop giving tours to kids because sequester.

This week, the latest is that they've ticked off a federal judge by playing hide-the-salami with evidence in a case in which they're defendants. One of their bus drivers made an illegal left turn and ran over five people; two of whom died. And when asked for documents during the discovery process, they decided that electronic documents must not count. So the judge clarified things for them: not only do electronic documents count, but Neil McFarlane, as head of the agency, now has to submit a sworn affadavit that all materials have been turned over.

In a court hearing last month, the judge also took TriMet officials to task for constantly grumbling about requests for evidence during the phase of the lawsuit known as discovery. 

"I'd just say that if one of TriMet's buses takes a left turn and kills somebody, badly injures three others, then they probably should buckle up and expect some discovery without too much complaining," Mosman said, according to a court transcript.

McFarlane got off too easily. The weasel should be jailed. No offense intended to weasels, who are in no way culpable.

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A Shift In The Winds

2014's looking bleaker all the time for Democratics, according to a new Rasmussen poll of 1000 likely voters:

With growing questions about Benghazi and actions taken by the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department, Democrats' noticeable edge over Republicans in voter trust in the area of government ethics and corruption has disappeared.

Just a month ago, Democratics were eight points ahead of evil, greedy Republicans in the voter trust department, but now they've lost that - and Republicans are slightly ahead of them. It's almost as though some of those folks have begun to notice that Democratics are, well, Democratics. Keep up the good work, Team Barky!

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"Not As Bad As Nixon"

Barky's gone from "Hope'n'Change" to an all-new slogan: "Not as bad as Nixon". He may not be able to make even that stick; nobody died in Watergate. Even the Left's calling for him to fire his BFF, Eric Holder, now. He can't blame Bush, and he's fast losing traction on his "blame Republicans" strategery. 

Times are bad for the erstwhile Messiah. Even the folks who helped to write and bulldoze through his fantastic Obamacare law are now predicting a train-wreck on that front, and it's not only unlikely that he won't regain the House next year; he very conceivably could lose the Senate as well. And amid the flap over his AP spying operation, it emerges that he targeted others as well (FOX News, unsurprisingly, among them). These revelations have perturbed even those who once considered him their ally. When Keith Olbermann starts griping about him, and Holder, he's got a real problem.

The president said press freedoms must be balanced against the protection of U.S. personnel overseas.

Wait, what? Isn't this the same guy who just last year asserted that he has the authority to order the execution of U.S. citizens without due process? And given the Benghazi coverups, exactly when did this guy start becoming concerned with "the protection of U.S. personnel overseas"?

As Ricky used to say to Lucy: "You've got some 'splainin' to do!"

Well, nothing a few more rounds of golf can't fix. 

We Don't Care

Well, they're finally being open and upfront about it: rules and laws don't matter to the Barky administration.

Shillary Clinton's long-time deputy chief of staff, Huma whoever, not only was permitted to moonlight while she was collecting some $135,000 in her critically important role as Shillary's aide, she didn't bother to report the additional income on government disclosure forms because - it's just a stupid rule, and it doesn't apply to her. It's irrelevant.

And a Barky aide, Dan Pfeiffer, claims that IRS targeting of certain groups is likewise irrelevant.

In the matter of the Benghazi murders, Dan reiterated that who edited the "talking points" is irrelevant.

And as for questions regarding Barky's whereabouts during the Benghazi murders, Dan says that they're not only irrelevant, but offensive. So there's that. Mustn't offend, you know. We're only talking about four murders, here. Nothing to see; move along.

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Clean And Green, Barky's All Over it

The Green Mountain Energy Wind Farm

We've discussed the aerial Cuisinarts here many times before, but hey. Even the Associated Press is picking up on these "sustainable" power sources:

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) -- Wind farms in this corner of Wyoming have killed more than four dozen golden eagles since 2009, one of the deadliest places in the country of its kind.

But so far, the companies operating industrial-sized turbines here and elsewhere that are killing eagles and other protected birds have yet to be fined or prosecuted - even though every death is a criminal violation.

Many times more bats, both insectivorous and pollinating, are killed by the sudden drop in air pressure, which causes their lungs to explode; eagles and other raptors, by contrast, are generally victims of blade-strikes.

"What it boils down to is this: If you electrocute an eagle, that is bad, but if you chop it to pieces, that is OK," said Tim Eicher, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enforcement agent based in Cody.

It's a double standard that some Republicans in Congress said Tuesday they would examine after an Associated Press investigation revealed that the Obama administration has shielded the wind power industry from liability and helped keep the scope of the deaths secret.

It sure hasn't been an especially good week for Barky, whose legacy is increasingly looking as though it'll be remembered as the most scandal-plagued administration in the history of the country. They go after power companies if an eagle is harmed by power lines, but "clean, green, sustainable" windmill companies get a total pass. Funny how that works. Double standards: it's the Chicago Way.

 

 

Benghazi And Media

A pretty good take on the media lack of coverage, the Barky administration's efforts at damage control, and the blogosphere, right here.

There He Goes Again

Joke Biden, the gaffemeister-in-chief, has announced that we need to give the millions of illegal aliens in our country amnesty in order to bestow upon them the dignity and respect that they deserve.

“Because not doing that, it’s hard to make the case in my view, to six hundred million people in the hemisphere, that we genuinely respect you all,” Biden said. “When we do not show respect for 11 million people here in America who hail from the very countries we talk about respecting."

Once again, he drags out the tired refrain about "undocumented" men, women and children being able to "come out of the shadows". He must figure that if that phrase is repeated often enough, then the rest of us will eventually buy it.

Dem. Rep. Claims Republicans "Politicize" Benghazi

In another example of the way Democratics twist things to suit their equally twisted mind-set, Rep. Cummings of Maryland lambasted Republicans in general and Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), for what he believes was the congressman using the Benghazi attack for his own political gain.

As is so often the case, Mediaite gets it wrong: Cummings doesn't believe it; he merely claims it. There's a difference, and it's a particularly ironic one in view of the fact that Barky and his administration deliberately lied to the American people for personal political gain.

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Cover of The Second Amendment

Gun murder rates have dropped by nearly half in the USA since the mid-1990's, along with other crimes, yet thanks to mainstream media, more than half of Americans believe that gun crimes have risen.

Gun crime has plunged in the United States since its peak in the middle of the 1990s, including gun killings, assaults, robberies and other crimes, two new studies of government data show.

Yet few Americans are aware of the dramatic drop, and more than half believe gun crime has risen, according to a newly released survey by the Pew Research Center.

The drop in gun murders, which peaked during the Clinton administration before declining under the reviled (by Leftists) Bush administration, occurred despite the fact that the USA has more guns per capita than any other nation on the planet. Further, running contrary to the image painted by the Left:

Though violence has dropped, the United States still has a higher murder rate than most other developed countries, though not the highest in the world, the Pew study noted.

Key words: most, not the highest. Such data conflict with the desire of folks like Oregon state senator Ginny Burdick and other Leftists to eviscerate, or better yet, to eliminate entirely, the Second Amendment rights of U.S. citizens. Thus, their approach is to peddle a different narrative in the hope that nobody will notice. They routinely call, for example, for "civil discourse" - which to the Left has but one meaning: see things my way. Yet they're the first to engage in ad-hominem attacks and derogatory terminology; labeling opponents "extremists" or "tea-baggers" or gracing them with other terms of endearment.

They call for "sensible" gun-control measures, which translated means that anyone who disagrees with them is an "extremist" - when in point of fact, the Second Amendment clearly states that the rights of citizens to own and bear arms shall not be infringed. The wording is unambiguous; in order to undermine it, they appeal to "sensible, common-sense" infringement - as if those who disagree with them lack common sense, and are therefore dangerous "extremists".

No, the real extremists are to be found, in virtually every case, among the Left. How else can they claim, with a straight face, that "nobody needs more than six bullets to go hunting"? That's not what they're after - yet. But since the Second Amendment doesn't refer to hunting, they're simply taking baby steps, under a false flag, to eviscerate it by convincing their gullible base otherwise.

And as the majority of "journalists" are Leftists, they play right along with intentional distortion and deception.

Finding Out What's In It

When Nanny Pelosi famously stated that they had to pass Obamacare so that Americans can find out what's in it, she was inadvertently prescient. We're finding out what's in it, we don't like it, and Democratics are now running scared; distancing themselves as much as possible from what Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. two weeks ago described as a train wreck. 

Barky's lies have begun to catch up to him: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Not under Obamacare. "It'll bend the cost curve down." No, it doesn't. "It'll provide coverage for all Americans." No, it doesn't. "It'll create jobs." In what alternate universe? Employers are cutting full-time jobs to part-time; underemploying millions.

How bad is it? Bad enough that Baucus subsequently decided against mounting a reelection effort - and he helped write the thing. Even Harry Reid calls it a train wreck. And New York Senator Ron Wyden has expressed concerns:

While Obama and his administration say they are working nonstop on reform, analysts believe a poor performance could make the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act a big enough campaign issue in 2014 to jeopardize Democratic control of the Senate - particularly if insurance costs rise sharply.

"There is reason to be very concerned about what's going to happen with young people. If their (insurance) premiums shoot up, I can tell you, that is going to wash into the United States Senate in a hurry," said Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat.

With this comment, Wyden joins Democrats Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, and Max Baucus, who themselves recently expressed concern about Obamacare.

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