I apologize that my blog was down yesterday, due to a Google
hiccup, and that their new CAPTCHA took forever to log me back on. I wasn't directly briefed about website problems, which are the fault of the GOP, the Tea Party,
George Bush, Ted Cruz or Global Warming. ~Bob
Obama says
Republicans share some blame for health-care law’s failures
Excerpt: “One of the problems we’ve had is one side of
Capitol Hill is invested in failure,” Obama said at the Wall Street Journal’s
CEO Council meeting in Washington .
“We obviously are going to have to remarket and rebrand, and that will be
challenging in this political environment.” (Obama says the GOP is vested in
the failure of the healthcare law. Since every GOP congressman voted against
it, and every one has voted to repeal it something like 40 times, this is new
how? But it seems to be failing from his incompetence with no help from them.
~Bob)
Poll: Obamacare
support, Obama approval sink to new lows
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57613067/poll-obamacare-support-obama-approval-sink-to-new-lows/
Excerpt: Thirty-seven percent now approve of the job Mr.
Obama is doing as president, down from 46
percent in October --
a nine point drop in just a month. Mr. Obama's disapproval rating is 57 percent
-- the highest level for this president in CBS News Polls. A rocky beginning to
the opening of the new
health insurance exchanges has also taken its toll on how
Americans perceive the Affordable Care Act. Now, approval of the law has
dropped to 31 percent - the lowest number yet recorded in CBS News Polls, and a
drop of 12 points since last
month. Sixty-one percent disapprove (a high for this poll),
including 46 percent who say they disapprove strongly.
Tweet from Leslie @Leslie_V10
Dear @BarackObama
~ Just had my benefits enrollment mtg. Thanks for making what was once
affordable for this single mom NOT affordable. #ACA
Security Fail: Major Hacking Threat With Healthcare.Gov. By
Carol Platt Liebau
Excerpt: This report reveals that Henry Chao, the official
responsible for building Healthcare.gov, was not informed of serious security
risks to the site, including the possibility of identity theft; unauthorized
access; and misrouted data. A CMS memo -- which Chao told congressional staff
he had never seen -- concluded that "the threat and risk potential"
to the healthcare site "is limitless."
Computer Security
Experts Warn Americans to Avoid ObamaCare Website
Excerpt: Clueless IT chief Henry Chao - the guy who claimed
he was kept in the dark about ObamaCare's endless series of half-assed failed
tests by his own team - promised Congress today that the new stuff would be
checked out "in the same exact manner we tested everything else,"
which should have caused lightning flashes, spooky rolls of thunder, demonic
laughter, and the theme song from "The Exorcist" to simultaneously
erupt in the hearing room. An argument could be made that ObamaCare is a threat
to national security because of its vulnerabilities, and the treasure
trove of secure data that hackers can find their way into, once they kick in
the flimsy balsa wood front door of Healthcare.gov. It's patently obvious that
it's a menace to everyone who uses it, and you can bet your bottom dollar that
the already reluctant "young invincibles" aren't going to go anywhere
near the damn thing once the first identity-theft cases make the front pages. (Article
notes linked to IRS and DHS as well…once a hacker is in….Barb)
Obama flubs during
health care conference call with community organizers, claims 'more than 100
MILLION Americans' have enrolled
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509715/Obama-flubs-health-care-conference-community-organizers-More-100-million-Americans-successfully-enrolled.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509715/Obama-flubs-health-care-conference-community-organizers-More-100-million-Americans-successfully-enrolled.html
Excerpt: President Barack Obama told a conference-call
audience of progressive volunteers on Monday evening that 'more than 100
million Americans' – in a nation of less than 314 million – have successfully
signed up for health insurance via the Affordable Care Act.
Krauthammer On
Obamacare: "This Is A Level Of Incompetence That Is Indescribable"
Excerpt: To quote the president, I'm not stupid enough to
not react when I hear the president of the United States say, as we just heard
him say, I was not informed directly that the website would -- now what in
God's sake does that mean, indirectly? The historian Bea Kristol was once asked
if she read a certain book and she said, 'yes, but not personally.' So what
does it mean, he was indirectly told? How was he told? What did he hear?
Private consultants warned of risks before HealthCare.gov’s
Oct. 1 launch. By Juliet Eilperin and Sandhya Somashekhar
Excerpt: The Obama administration brought in a private
consulting team to independently assess how the federal
online health insurance enrollment system was developing, according
to a newly disclosed
document, and in late March received a clear warning that its Oct. 1 launchwas
fraught with risks.
Obama was briefed earlier in year on health website
problems. By Roberta Rampton And Caren Bohan,
Reuters
Excerpt: President Barack Obama,
who has portrayed himself as surprised by technical problems with the government's
new health care website, was briefed earlier this year on a consultant's
report that warned of possible widespread site failures, the White House said
on Tuesday.
Why re-selling
Obamacare won’t be easy. By Juliet Eilperin And Scott Wilson
Excerpt: Seven weeks after HealthCare.gov’s
troubled launch, President Obama is hoping to (re)focus Americans’
attention on both the benefits of his signature health
care law and the Republicans’ effort to undermine it. But this
strategy faces its own set of challenges, which may be hard to overcome even as
the administration makes progress in fixing the online enrollment system.
The end of Obamacare
as we never knew it. By Shikha Dalmia
Excerpt: President Barack Obama finally decided last week to
honor his promise of letting people who like their “junk” insurance policies,
keep them. “Period.” In a rambling, hour-long press conference he said insurers
would now be allowed to restore the plans that he himself had forced them to
cancel because they did not comply with the minimum benefits of the Affordable
Care Act. Whether this will save Democrats from a shellacking next November
remains to be seen. But this might well be the beginning of the end of
Obamacare as we never knew it.
The Insiders: For
Democrats, dark days ahead. By Ed Rogers
Excerpt: Now we are headed into the holiday season, when
families will get together and trade stories of the personal turmoil they’ve
experienced thanks to the president and his Democratic allies. Very few will
share happy tales of satisfaction with Obamacare or anything else the president
is doing right now.
Excerpt: The key question about ObamaCare is: Who’s running
this thing? And that explains why it’s such a disaster — just as confusion over
that very question was the key to understanding why the Bush administration
handled the war in Iraq so badly before the 2007 surge. (Tweet from Ed Morrissey @EdMorrissey: Tinkerbell,
unless you heartless Republicans don't start clapping. Tweet from Melissa Clouthier @MelissaTweets. Magical
health fairies on unicorns.)
Obama hits new low with Dems. By Amie Parnes. The Hill
http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/190844-obama-hits-new-low-with-dems-at-capitol
Excerpt: President Obama’s relationship with congressional
Democrats has worsened to an unprecedented low, Democratic aides say. They are
letting it be known that House and Senate Democrats are increasingly
frustrated, bitter and angry with the White House over ObamaCare’s botched
rollout, and that the president’s mea culpa in a news conference last week
failed to soothe any ill will.
Obamacare Website
Crashes In Front Of Sebelius In Miami
Excerpt: Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human
Services, encountered first hand the famous Obamacare website glitches when the
website crashed in front of her.
Excerpt: New York City police authorities are
investigating a series
of unprovoked physical attacks in public places on people who are Jewish,
in the form of what is called "the knockout game." The way the game
is played, one of a number of young blacks decides to show that he can knock
down some stranger on the streets, preferably with one punch, as they pass by.
Often some other member of the group records the event, so that a video of that
"achievement" is put on the Internet, to be celebrated. The New York authorities
describe a recent series of such attacks and, because Jews have been singled
out in these attacks, are considering prosecuting these assaults as "hate
crimes." (This topic is just growing with time, month by month. A search
shows that several people have been killed due to this 'game". Dr. Sowell
is right, and it is going to get very messy at some point if the police and
media don't start really doing their job. I'm waiting for some targeted victim
to be fast and have his/her own weapon, and a bunch of kids get shot. --Del )
Former NYPD
detective: Media suppressing racial, anti-Semitic elements behind ‘Knockout’
game
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/20/former-nypd-detective-media-suppressing-racial-anti-semitic-elements-behind-knockout-game/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/20/former-nypd-detective-media-suppressing-racial-anti-semitic-elements-behind-knockout-game/
Excerpt: “That was the Bloods and the Crips were involved
with that,” Dietl said. “Also, there was — you had to go shoot somebody. But
this thing, again, it’s being suppressed by the news media. The liberal news
media doesn’t want to say exactly what it is. It’s gangs of black youths
attacking whites. It’s called polar bear hunting. It’s called Jews being
targeted. And that’s exactly what it is. It’s black-on-white crime. That’s
racism.”
Obama's Legacy. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
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Jolt here: http://www.nationalreview.com/newsletters
Excerpt: In the coming years, a solid majority of Americans
outside of committed liberals will begin to acknowledge the hard truth that
Barack Obama has been a failure as a president. It isn't merely that his
signature reform was sold with lies and managed to exacerbate the problems of
the health-care system instead of solving them. What else will be Obama's
legacy? This terrific economy we're enjoying? The out-of-control
domestic-surveillance programs at the NSA? Partisan abuses of the IRS? The national debt more than doubling under Obama's presidency? The
partisan fury in Washington ?
Eight years of ignoring the ticking time bomb of entitlements as the Baby
Boomers begin to retire? This isn't even touching on foreign policy. Yes,
President Obama authorized the bin Laden mission and got U.S. troops out of
Iraq, but the Middle East is a bloody mess, Israel feels besieged and
abandoned, our allies are alienated by our NSA activities, we're spent enormous
amounts of blood and treasure in Afghanistan for inconclusive results, Russia
is on the march, and we appear to be desperately trying to get a deal with the
Iranians that the French think will allow Tehran to pursue a nuclear program.
He has no warm relationships with any other world leader.
‘Out of touch’
unionized public employees strike over 14.5 percent raise
Excerpt: Taxpayers in Will County have offered its public
employees a hefty pay raise and are willing to pick up 90 percent of the cost
for their health insurance, but that’s not good enough for members of
the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Local 1028.
Excerpt: Both rates are reported by the Department of Labor,
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The national underemployment
rate (BLS “U-6” labor
underutilization measure) is far higher than the unemployment rate (BLS “U-3” labor underutilization
measure). The 2012 underemployment rate was 14.7 percent, compared
to the unemployment rate of 8.1 percent. The total unemployed population was
12.5 million in 2012, while the total underemployed population was 23.1 million.
Cut Spending by .
. . Cutting Spending: No more sacred cows for either party —
it’s time to get serious. By Michael Tanner
Excerpt: It is important to understand that a compromise
doesn’t require new taxes. According to the Congressional Budget Office,
revenues will return to their historic average without any new tax hikes. And,
between the new taxes in Obamacare and the fiscal-cliff deal last December,
Democrats have already pushed through more than $2.8 trillion in new taxes over
the next ten years. The basis for any budget compromise must come on the
spending side.
Privatizing energy project enriched bureaucrats, drained
federal coffers. By Luke Rosiak
Excerpt: It started as a plan small-government conservatives
could get behind: spinning off a Department of Energy project into the private
sector, where it would save the government money and prosper, a nimble ship
steered towards access to cutting-edge non-governmental technology by
executives unencumbered by the federal bureaucracy. It didn’t work out that
way. Instead, the United States Enrichment Corp. became a revolving door where
federal bureaucrats left their government jobs for a publicly traded company
that paid them millions of dollars, even as it perennially begged the
government for assistance in deals that tended to add to taxpayer liabilities
and didn't produce any innovative technology on its own.
Excerpt: The easiest way to tell that Obama has run out of
things to do in the Middle East is his
desperate pivot to the peace process. The never-ending peace process, which is
now on its fourth administration and its sixth prime minister, is the gift shop
in the museum of the Middle East . It’s the
place you stop by on the way to the exit because it’s convenient and everyone
back home expects some souvenir peace t-shirts. ... After the collapse of
Obama’s Arab Spring , France
began to set the Western agenda in the Middle East .
Excerpt: Conservative political entities who supported
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker are being subjected to
a secret investigation. Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz has issued a
series of subpoenas to 29 conservative groups, demanding that they submit all
documentation related to the recall campaigns mounted by unions and their
supporters against Walker
in 2011 and 2012. The investigation is being conducted under the auspices
of the state’s John Doe law, which forbids the targets of subpoenas from
revealing the contents of those subpoenas to anyone other than their lawyers. The
effort reeks of political intimidation.
Afghans Demand That U.S.
Excerpt: Months of fraught negotiations and public posturing
over how a long-term American military force could remain in Afghanistan
have suddenly come down to a demand for a single personal gesture: a display of
contrition by President Obama for military mistakes that have hurt Afghans.
(How about a display of contrition for the billions of dollars embezzled and
the Americans murdered by "allies"? ~Bob)
Excerpt: A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car
into one of two buses carrying off-duty soldiers in Egypt's turbulent region of
northern Sinai on Wednesday, killing 11 and wounding 37, security and military
officials said. (Muslims killing Muslims for Allah. ~Bob)
Dozens Killed in Wave
of Attacks in Baghdad
Excerpt: A wave of apparently coordinated bombings at
bakeries and public markets hit the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 37 people and
wounding more than 80, many of them as they rushed to shop in a break during
unusually heavy rainstorms, according to the police, residents and medical
officials. (Muslims killing Muslims. Allah Akbar! ~Bob)
Hundreds of
undocumented immigrants captured at southern Arizona
military post (Fort
Huachuca
Excerpt: How secure are U.S. military installations? You
would think the answer is: very. But, as the News 4 Tucson Investigators
uncovered, one installation, right here in southern Arizona , continues to face potential outside
security risks, and the problem doesn't seem to be getting any better. Fort Huachuca
is only 15 miles north of our state's border with Mexico .
The Obama Collapse: "Have A Positive Experience!"
By Hugh Hewitt
Excerpt: As my conversation with
WellPoint founder Danny Weinberg --the "old
insurance guy" as his website calls him-- pointed out on
Monday's radio show, the systemic, interlocking flaws of the vast Rube Goldberg
scheme cannot help but crash down and into one another over the next two years.
Denny's series of suggested fixes over at www.oldinsuranceguy.com are the
common sense observations of one of the most successful health insurance
executives in America
in the past two decades, but unless he and like-minded, experienced insurance
professionals are empowered quickly, the chaos in health care will grow to
extraordinary levels.
I saw this coming. ~Bob. Excerpt: Last week I read that the
Obama Administration is cracking down on gypsy fortune tellers (I'm not making
this up folks! (http://wildhunt.org/2007/05/shutting-down-psychics.html).
Spurred by crackdowns in Philadelphia and New York City , the
Commerce Department has decided to lower the boom on psychics and fortune
tellers. In New York City
they are proposing that gypsy fortune tellers submit to a DNA test to determine
if they have any gypsy blood in them. In Philadelphia
the new law has already closed down 16 fortune telling businesses and more
closings are expected. The Commerce Department is demanding that all fortune
tellers be licensed but no one in the federal bureaucracy has yet figured out
what questions to pose on a licensing test. Well, I was a bit taken aback about
this and wondered if business had been affected at our local fortune teller up
on Geezer Square
in Sun City , Arizona
RIP: Colonel
Charles Waterhouse USMCR
Great artist and great Marine. Met him twice and have a
signed print of "Ripley at the Bridge." ~Bob
Al Jazeera America Floundering Amid Low Ratings: US
Excerpt: Since its August
20 launch to 40 million US homes Al
Jazeera America 's
TV channel has only averaged 13,000 viewers a day nationwide, equivalent to a
public access channel, reports the New York Post. Al Jazeera, which
is owned and funded by the government of Qatar , bought the channel in
January for $500 million from former US Vice President Al Gore, replacing
his Current TVchannel.
Cheaters for Public
Office. From The Patriot Post
"College students who cheated on a simple task were
more likely to want government jobs, researchers from Harvard
University and the University of Pennsylvania
Steinem Honors
Eugenics. From The Patriot Post
Professional militant feminist Gloria Steinem told the
National Press Club that she's thrilled to be receiving the Medal of Freedom
from Barack Obama, and that the award would be "honoring the work of
Margaret Sanger." It was Sanger, of course, who founded Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, the largest abortion provider in the United States .
Since Roe v. Wade, well over 50 million children have been killed, many of them
by Planned Parenthood. Furthermore, Sanger was a proponent of eugenics, the
forced sterilization and abortions of black and minority children. So Steinem
thinks that Obama, who is half black, will honor that legacy with the Medal of
Freedom? Planned Parenthood has long swept Sanger's true history under the rug,
but some memories aren't as short as they hope.
Teenage poet, Islam
critic, assaulted in Denmark
Excerpt: A young Danish poet of Palestinian descent has been
assaulted and his suspected attacker has been arrested, Danish police said
Tuesday.
Quote
“I always take Scotch whisky at night as a preventive of
toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to
have it.” - Mark Twain
The Chicago Way
Excerpt: But now, Glaxo and colleagues are lobbying against
other tools smokers could use to quit — and the Obama administration is again
walking hand-in-hand with Big Pharma. To head the Food and Drug
Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products — the entity quarterbacking
regulation of e-cigarettes — Obama named former lobbyist Mitch Zeller, whose
consulting clients have included drug companies like GlaxoSmithKline.
Excerpt: Mexican study affirms a 1951 finding by top
American scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) cannot cause global warming.
Applying known scientific values, more eminent scientists are coming forward to
confirm that atmospheric CO2 mixes with clouds and water vapor to cause only
cooling. As such, the credibility of "consensus science" claims about
man-made global warming being caused by CO2 are left in serious doubt.
Worth Watching: Former President George W. Bush
Appears On "The Tonight Show" With Jay Leno
Excerpt: Former President George W. Bush discusses his
refusal to criticize President Obama, his painting hobby, his work with wounded
veterans and more on NBC's The Tonight Show with host Jay Leno.
Former First Lady Laura Bush also makes an appearance.
US May Have Let
'Dozens' of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees
Excerpt: Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers,
including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly
been allowed to move to the United States
as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside
bombs recovered from Iraq
and Afghanistan .
Excerpt: State Department employees at the Benghazi compound knew they were in a death
trap and made a series of radio distress calls to the CIA annex during the
terror assault last year, according to congressional sources familiar with
recent testimony on the attack from five CIA personnel.
Excerpt: At least someone once thought London was the home of carbon finance. Now,
not so much. According to the Financial Times,
JP Morgan has scaled down their carbon trading team, Morgan Stanley traders are
now “part time”, Barclays sold theirs last
year, Deutsche Bank closed the office, and UBS shut its climate change advisory
panel.
Excerpt: “If I don’t have sex every day, I get a headache,”
John F. Kennedy would remark to anyone who would listen, from British Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan to a lowly senatorial aide. Even in the pantheon of
sexual narcissists drawn to politics, Kennedy’s obsessive conquesting remains
the gold standard for bad behavior. Here, a gallery of some (but almost
certainly not all) of his most notable trysts. (From the pics, he had better
taste and success than Bill Clinton. ~Bob)
Excerpt: We’ve all been subjected to the incessant “97% of
scientists agree …global warming…blah blah” meme, which is nothing more than
another statistical fabrication by John Cook and his collection of “anything
for the cause” zealots. As has been previously pointed out on WUWT, when you
look at the methodology used to reach that number, the veracity of the
result falls apart, badly. You see, it turns out that Cook simply
employed his band of “Skeptical Science” (SkS) eco-zealots to rate papers,
rather than letting the authors of the papers rate their own work. The result
was that the “97% consensus” was a survey of the SkS raters’ beliefs and
interpretations, rather than a survey of the authors opinions of their own
science abstracts.
After Four Months,
Black Supremacist Ayo Kimathi Still Employed by DHS
http://lastresistance.com/3736/four-months-black-supremacist-ayo-kimathi-still-employed-dhs/
http://lastresistance.com/3736/four-months-black-supremacist-ayo-kimathi-still-employed-dhs/
Excerpt: About four months ago, the DHS found out that Ayo
Kimathi, one of their employees, was an avowed black supremacist. Kimathi runs
the website “War on
the Horizon,” where he posts a bunch of hilariously inflammatory
“pro-black” news and recommends the assassination of black-skinned traitors
(Uncle Toms) and white people. For some reason, I can’t help but hear Mr. T’s
voice narrating in my head as I read his articles.
Excerpt: Some drivers along a busy Fort Worth street on
Friday were stopped at a police roadblock and directed into a parking lot,
where they were asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath,
saliva and even blood.
President at the Bat?
Funny satire.
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