As predicted, less on Syria
September is Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month
Must Read: Dear Corporate America. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: I haven't written to you in a while. At least not since my television broke down, my toaster developed a taste for human flesh and my phone company ran away with my phone number to Mexico
The Uninsured Crisis under ObamaCare
Excerpt: Proponents of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) hoped it would achieve near-universal coverage. Yet, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the ACA will cover less than half of the uninsured. A decade from now (2023), long after the ACA is fully implemented, the CBO estimates it will only cover about 25 million people who would otherwise be uninsured, leaving 31 million people uninsured. Following are some of the reasons why ObamaCare will not solve the uninsured crisis.
Unfortunate Effects of Medicaid in Pharmaceutical Spending
Excerpt: The generic drug market has typically been viewed at the wholesale level as a competitive market with price approaching marginal costs. However, the large presence of third party payers as final purchasers (e.g., Medicaid) may distort prices at the retail level relative to what a standard model of price competition would predict, say Abby Alpert, Mark Duggan and Judith K. Hellerstein, researchers with the National Bureau of Economic Research.
News Flash? Report warns of growing debt in the US
Excerpt: But starting in 2016, the office projected, deficits will rise again as more baby boomers begin drawing from Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid’s long-term care benefits.
By 2023, the annual deficit would rise to an estimated 3.5 percent of the gross domestic product, which is just beyond the level that many economists consider sustainable in a growing economy. By 2038, it would be 6.5 percent. (Who knew? Okay, the guy who wrote The Coming Collapse of the American Republic, but who else? http://tiny.cc/g02s4 ~Bob.
Friend: Navy Yard Shooter Liberal, Supported Obama
http://visiontoamerica.com/15890/friend-navy-yard-shooter-liberal-supported-obama/
http://visiontoamerica.com/15890/friend-navy-yard-shooter-liberal-supported-obama/
Excerpt: Ritrovato went on to explain that two of them had a close relationship based in part on their differences, specifically race and politics. Alexis was black, Ritrovato is white. Ritrovato described himself as conservative and Alexis is “more of a liberal type” who supported Barack Obama.
My grovelling apology to Herr Schauble. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Excerpt: I apologise for mentioning that unemployment is 27.8pc in Greece, 26.3pc in Spain, 17.3pc in Cyprus, and 16.5pc in Portugal, or for pointing that it would be far worse had it not been for a mass exodus of EMU refugees. Nor was is proper to mention that Greek youth unemployment in 62.9pc. These are trivial details.
Excerpt: Management knew what was happening, but failed to correct it and even suppressed any discussion of the problems. Again, what should be done? Enter Don Berwick. Dr. Berwick was brought in to chair another committee — the National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England
[Canuck Bashing:] The Last Phobia. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt: As it turns out, [David] Brooks, like yours truly, was born in Toronto. I think we can all agree that the only thing worse than a Canadian is a self-loathing Canadian: It’s bad enough that the first Canadian president of America [Ted Cruz]has to run around pretending he’ll be the first Hispanic president, but it’s outrageous that the New York Times’s only Canuck columnist should be the Roy Cohn of Canadians.
More Americans Than Ever Consider Themselves "Lower Class: By Chris tine Rouselle
Excerpt: Despite promises of "hope and change" by our current president, more Americans than ever before now consider themselves to be "lower class." According to the General Social Survey, 8.4 percent of Americans now consider themselves to be "lower class," the highest percentage since the survey began in 1972. The majority of Americans have typically referred to themselves as "middle" or "working" class
Aaron Alexis and the War on Standards.
Excerpt: According to reports, Alexis was arrested in Seattle
"You are married to Four Wives Each, Each of Whom Comes with 70 VIrgins, and Each Virgin Comes with 70 Servant Girls. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Your first thought might be of all the kits, cats, sacks and wives on the road to St. Ives. But it also has the air of a surreal version of the Home Shopping Network. “You don’t just get 70 virgins..."
Students Take Field Trip to Mosque, Receive Koran. By Todd Starnes
Excerpt: A Tennessee high school has decided to revise its field trip policy after a group of freshmen were taken to an Islamic mosque where they were given copies of the Koran and while a student who opted out of the trip was given a worksheet that alleged Muslims treated their conquered people better than the United States Chris tian church or a Jewish synagogue.
Excerpt: What motivates the Sunni-Shi'ite jihad? Shhhh! To ask such questions is "Islamophobic"!
Does the Qur’an Teach Hate? By Robert Spencer
Excerpt: On September 11, 2013, a public information officer for Palm Beach County , Florida
Excerpt: Did you ever wonder how folks get picked to sit up on the podium, behind Obama, when he mounts that teleprompter program and begins to read it? Well, that little trick was revealed during Obama's 2012 campaign. It seems the way it works is Obama's handlers show up well before the speech, takes a look at the crowd and begins culling a nice mix of old and young, Black, White, Asian and Hispanic, and most adoring, then leads them to those podium seats to complete scene as the Anointed One prepares to speak. I was a bit amused to read that Obama's handlers had a bit of trouble filling those seats up on the stage on his last tour.
Abbott sworn in as Australia
Excerpt: Tony Abbott was sworn in as Australia
State Dept security chief nominee Gregory Starr once shot himself in foot
The perfect Obama nominee. ~Bob
Government shutdown moves closer to reality
Excerpt: The threat of a government shutdown intensified Tuesday as House Republican leaders moved toward stripping funding from President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative and setting up a stalemate with the Democratic Senate. (The media will convince the public it is the Republicans’ fault, though of course either side could avoid it by giving in to the other. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: After a year of a stagnant economy, scandals, legislative failure, declining public approval, worries about the ObamaCare rollout, and the Syria
This is a moment that defines courage; the direction of our country is not good: Lawmakers can prove their backbone by defunding Obamacare. By Ben Carson
Excerpt: Our divided government Johns Hopkins University
US ranks 17 in measure of economic freedom
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/17/us-ranks-17-in-measure-of-economic-freedom/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/17/us-ranks-17-in-measure-of-economic-freedom/
Excerpt: The United States
Illinois’s Medicaid Scandal: A tale of questionable dealings and taxpayer risk . By Jillian Kay Melchior
Excerpt: Bollywood performers, a Boston boat cruise with an open bar, gifts of cigars and wine — the vendor working on Illinois ’s expensive new Medicaid information-technology system entertains public officials in style, according to sources in the Illinois Illinois
Excerpt: Pensions 31% funded Moody's downgraded Chicago Debt 3 Notches (just 4 steps above junk) City debt on negative watch Pension Liability is $61,000 Per Household ($23,000 Per Capita)
The Price of Politics: Debt and deficits impoverish us in ways we can only begin to measure. By Kevin D. Williamson
Excerpt: That’s the best-case scenario. The more realistic outcome is that each of those measures of debt and spending as a share of GDP will in fact be considerably worse, because our GDP will grow more slowly. We have entered the realm of the vicious circle: Debt and deficits will slow down economic growth, and slower economic growth will make our debt and deficits worse.
Student Indoctrination. By Walter E. Williams
Excerpt: The new college academic year has begun, and unfortunately, so has student indoctrination. Let's look at some of it.
What a Dark-Age Ideology Can Do. By Elise Cooper
Excerpt: DeMille emphasizes the ruthlessness of the African and Muslim nations: he says, in writing about the revolution, "Men like that are taking over the world...what the hell has gone wrong[?]" In explaining it, DeMille noted, "They just shot three hundred members of the royal family. I wanted to write how Marxists typically tried to kill and eliminate the aristocracy. The brutality against the ruling class was a knee-jerk reaction, which unraveled that society. The violence can be a history lesson for today when all this cruelty is being inflicted on the Coptic Chris tians in Egypt and Syria
Quote from The Patriot Post
Comedian Jay Leno: "USA Today had a big front-page feature on the new health care law, and said that the opposition to ObamaCare is at an all-time high. In fact, it's gotten so bad the president's now calling it BidenCare.
Excerpt: The 60-spot is getting unusually rave reviews on YouTube, where the top comment calls it "hands down the best political ad I've seen."
Tweet from Tom Price @RepTomPrice
Remarkable. Despite presiding over the worst econ recovery since Great Depression, POTUS still touts his failed 2009 stimulus package
Excerpt: The House Ways and Means Committee says that, despite the IRS’s promises to destroy the donor lists it demanded from tea-party and other conservative groups, it has discovered those lists in the case files it has reviewed in the course of its investigation into the targeting scandal.
Excerpt: On Tuesday, an international panel of scientists and scholars released a report contradicting the findings of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), often considered the authority on the matter. The panel, called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) cites thousands of peer-reviewed articles that the IPCC reportedly ignores and found “no empirical evidence . . . to substantiate the claim that 2 [degrees Celsius] of warming presents a threat to planetary ecologies or environments,” one finding of the IPCC’s work. They also found no evidence that “a warming will be more economically costly than an equivalent cooling,” another tenet of the IPCC.
Obama Rodeo Clown Performs Again While Crowd Wears 1st Amendment Shirts. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Not so long ago the nation was cast into a terrible state of dread when a clown in an Obama mask performed in a rodeo. Many people had troubling telling apart the clown from the real Obama. Some thought the clown would do a better job of negotiating with Putin.
Why congressional Democrats are turning on Obama: GOP obstructionism? Now it's liberals who are clashing with the president. By Harold Maass
Must be racists like Republicans who oppose his policies. ~Bob
Watch what happens when NYers find out Obamacare is hazardous to their health
http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/09/18/watch-americans-agree-obamacare-is-hazardous-to-their-health/
Excerpt: Despite the looming Oct. 1 launch of the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces, Americans continue to discover that Obamcare is actually hazardous to their health, as demonstrated by a new video.
Walgreen Moves 120,000 Employees To Private Health Care Exchange
Excerpt: The pharmacy chain will join 17 other large employers on the Aon Hewitt Corporate Health Exchange as part of a growing movement to offer employees fixed dollar amounts to purchase their own plans on such exchanges. (If you like your plan—and you’re a member of Congress—you can keep it. ~Bob
IRS officials thought Obama wanted crackdown on tea party groups, worried about negative press
Excerpt: IRS employees were “acutely” aware in 2010 that President Obama wanted to crack down on conservative organizations and were egged into targeting tea party groups by press reports mocking the emerging movement, according to an interim report being circulated Tuesday by House investigators.
“The mill wheels of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.” ~Bob
Warning: Our Government is a Threat to Public Safety. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: Have you noticed the common thread among several mass killings and homeland security incidents lately? Time and again, it's the control freaks in Washington who have fallen down on their jobs, allowing crazies, creeps and criminals to roam free and wreak havoc while ignoring rampant red flags. Let's review:
Here We Go: House to Vote on Temprary Budget That Defunds Obamacare. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: Conservatives wanted a continuing resolution (CR) that defunds Obamacare, and now they'll get one (via National Review): Speaker John Boehner huddled with House Republicans this morning at the Capitol. According to several sources in the closed-door meeting, the speaker confirmed his plan to bring a continuing resolution to the floor that funds the government and defunds Obamacare
The Great Oil Conspiracy: How the U.S.
At the end of World War II , U.S. Germany United States
More Murders in 18 Days Than Yearly Total of Eight States. By Chris tine Rousselle
Excerpt: Chicago Chicago
Obama: Losing the Room. By Maureen O'Dowd
Excerpt: With a shrinking circle of trust inside the White House, Obama is having trouble establishing trust outside with once reliable factions: grass-roots Democrats and liberals in Congress. As Peter Baker wrote in The Times, the president is finding himself increasingly “frustrated” by the defiance of Democrats who are despairing of his passive, reactive leadership.
Biofuels fraud cheated victim of $100 million, feds say. By Dan Human
Excerpt: Prosecutors allege that E-biofuels actually wasn’t producing biofuel. Instead, it was purchasing fuel and selling it to customers as its own product for a profit. E-biofuels also fraudulently collected on about $35 million in federal tax breaks reserved for biofuel producers, according to charging documents.
As Budget Fight Looms, Obama Sees Defiance
Excerpt: In recent weeks, disgruntled Democrats, particularly liberals, have bolted from the White House on issues like National Security Agency surveillance policies, a planned military strike on Syria
Excerpt: It is hard to think of any election in recent times in Europe which has mattered more to more people than the one that takes place in Germany on Sunday. This election, however, is important not just for Germans, who will naturally be the people most directly affected by the outcome. In some respects the result will be just as closely watched across the whole of the eurozone in which Germany is the dominant economy – and in particular by the arc of southern European nations which have been compelled to enact austerity budgets since 2009 to comply with northern notions of fiscal rectitude.
Too funny: Surviving Whole Foods
Excerpt: Whole Foods is like Vegas. You go there to feel good but you leave broke, disoriented, and with the newfound knowledge that you have a vaginal disease.
Quiz: Which Founding Father Are You?
Apparently, I’m James Madison. Could do worse. ~Bob
Old, but new to me: Starbucks charged rescuers for water
Excerpt: A branch of the coffee chain Starbucks charged New York
Excerpt: How bad was Barack Obama’s timing yesterday on his speech attacking Republicans for “hurting” Americans while the Navy Yard shooting was still under way? All of the major networks — including MSNBC — cut away from the speech after Obama finished his remarks on the shooting, which means that most missed the partisan attack that followed, except for the flabbergasted reporters.
This Is What Personal Responsibility – And Justice – Look Like In Action
Excerpt: “Dude, she’s rich! She’s eating at a restaurant,” the suspect says. “I didn’t break her nose. I snatched her purse. It was sitting on the table. I swear to God I wouldn’t hit her.”
'Obama Express' Grocery Store Caught In Food Stamp Trafficking
Excerpt: After Obama's election in 2009 a small grocery store/convenience store in Florida Baltimore , Maryland Maryland
Excerpt: Another slave trade, however, the Islamic one, remains a mysterious aspect in the history of the black diaspora. Fourteen centuries old, this version of slavery spread throughout Africa, the Middle East, Europe, India and China Sudan and Mauritania
NYT Shines Spotlight on Obamacare’s “Revolving Door.” By Walter Russell Mead
Excerpt: In 2006, President Obama gave a speech condemning the culture of lobbying in DC, holding up as an example a closed-door deal the then-reigning GOP made with a clutch of health care lobbyists. Seven years later, the front page of the NYT has a big story about “dozens” of former administration officials moving into lobbying positions:
Party Politics. By Mark Steyn
Excerpt: Out there, in a ramshackle outpost somewhere on the fringes of the map, brave Americans abandoned by their government are dying on a rooftop. But here in the metropolis the dazzling klieg-light luster of Mia Farrow and Jill Abramson plunges all else into shadow. If you're not looking at the world through Mia Farrow's blue-tinted glasses, if you're in Beijing or Moscow, Ankara or Canberra, it's the shadow that everyone sees, very clearly — the sepulchral Habsburgian twilight of a dimming power enjoying its last waltz.
Excerpt: Poland has pulled a destructive stunt worthy of Argentina
Food-Stamp Surfer: ‘I Just Stepped In Line’
Excerpt: At 29, Greenslate is an able-bodied man with no dependents who receives $200 a month in CalFresh, as food stamps are known here. He and his band practice for several hours a day. He qualifies for aid because he has little to no income, until an album by his band — Rattlife — hits it big.
Liberals Fear They Will Run Out Of Victims: Washington
Excerpt: And now it’s time to expand the categories and start the ugly affirmative action lawsuits.: 'The galloping injustice of “lookism” has not escaped psychologists, economists, sociologists, and legal scholars. Stanford law professor Deborah L. Rhode’s 2010 book, “The Beauty Bias,” lamented “the injustice of appearance in life and law,” while University of Texas, Austin economist Daniel Hamermesh’s 2011 “Beauty Pays,” recently out in paperback, traced the concrete benefits of attractiveness, including a $230,000 lifetime earnings advantage over the unattractive.'
Collecting the mountains of welfare cash Americans don't collect. http://moonbattery.com/?p=36701
Excerpt: From Los Angeles County
That is just in one county. 'Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich announced the latest figures from the Department of Public Social Services, which showed more than $376 million in CalWORKs benefits and food stamps combined have been distributed through July to illegal alien parents for their native-born children.' [Good old CalWORKS. I couldn't get onto that because I didn't have an illegitimate child. The CalWORKS employees got $11 an hour to 'work' at Los Angeles City College
Gallop Poll: Americans Wake Up to Reality, Majority Now Think Russia
Excerpt: More Americans view Russia as unfriendly or an enemy of the United States
3/4 Sentenced on Terror Charges in United Kingdom
Excerpt: Muslims make up less than 5 percent of the UK
Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy: Libya is not allowing U.S. law enforcement into the country to arrest individuals connected with the Benghazi
Excerpt: Kennedy explained ever since the events of September 11, 2012 the country has taken a “serious turn for the worse.” Journalists, according to Kennedy, still have access to the country but the Libyan government’s authority is so diminished it is incapable of allowing the United States
Muslim Brotherhood official, former Clinton Foundation employee arrested in Cairo
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/18/muslim-brotherhood-official-former-clinton-foundation-employee-arrested-in/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29#ixzz2fHD7srCx
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/18/muslim-brotherhood-official-former-clinton-foundation-employee-arrested-in/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29#ixzz2fHD7srCx
Excerpt: A senior Muslim Brotherhood official who, until recently, had been employed by the William J. Clinton Foundation was arrested in Cairo
http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-eyes-of-big-medicine-electronic-medical-records/…Yet as Dr. Excerpt: Adam Sharp notes, EMRs are a “dirty word” to many doctors because EMRs are cumbersome, hinder doctors’ ability to practice, and are too expensive. In the New York Times, Dr. Pauline Chen described how EMRs are impairing doctors’ ability to interact with patients. Many young doctors in training are so busy filling out obligatory electronic forms, they are now spending only 8 minutes per patient each day.
A few items below sent me from WND. They always have their hair on fire and are ready to push any conspiracy theory. Doesn’t mean they are always wrong, but read with skepticism. ~Bob
http://www.wnd.com/2013/09/benghazi-facility-unlike-any-other-in-recent-history/#vGqYhxXlxJg7Ei9B.99
Excerpt: According to the Middle Eastern security sources who have spoken to WND, arming efforts at the U.S. facility shifted focus to aiding the insurgency targeting President Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria
'We Have The Bad Guys In The Halls Of Power': Erick Stakelbeck reveals Muslim Brotherhood's quiet invasion of America
EXCERPT: We have the bad guys, the Brotherhood, in the halls of power and in our lawmakers’ ears.” Over the course of the interview, Stakelbeck discusses the Brotherhood, which was was formed in Egypt in 1928, later cooperated with Nazi Germany to extend the slaughtering of Jews, and gave rise to both al-Qaida and Hamas, the terror organization that calls itself the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Now, Stakelbeck points out, the Brotherhood is extending its branches throughout Europe and the United States
Obama Gives Jihadist Thug A Promotion
Excerpt: Muslim Brotherhood operatives have direct access to the White House. They include Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC); Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA); and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships
The Roots of Obama’s Indecision. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Obama was firing commanders for the same reason that he was unable to make wartime decisions. He had become infamous for dithering over every conflict, demanding a countless stream of alternative plans, poring over everything, postponing a decision, and then like a student diving into a report at the last minute, making an abrupt and often disastrous final decision.
Can you hear me now?
From the Left!: Obama’s style on Syria
Excerpt: Style points? Seriously? Style points? That’s what President Obama thinks the criticism of his zigzag Syria
Syrian regime gives Russia
Excerpt: The Syrian regime has handed Russia new materials implicating rebels in a chemical attack outside Damascus
Dangerous Times: Putin the Peacemaker vs. Obama the Warmonger. By James Lewis
Excerpt: President Obama has now sabotaged four decades of stability in the Middle East . First he pulled down the biggest pillar of peace, the Mubarak regime in Egypt ; then he bombed Libya into the Dark Ages; and now he has paraded “My Army” and “My Navy” against the Assad regime in Syria
The Syria
Excerpt: President Obama claimed in his Tuesday night address last week that the Russian initiative "has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons in the hands of [Syrian] President Assad." In less than forty-eight hours, the administration turned from advocating what Secretary Kerry called" unbelievably limited" military strikes, to a diplomatic alternative that is literally "unbelievable."
Russian Patriarch to Obama: Syria’s Christians Nearing ‘Extermination.’ The leader of Russia Chris tians begs the president not to give aid to Syrian jihadis.
Excerpt: While many were fixated on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent letter to the American people, another letter from another Russian leader — this one directly addressed to the U.S. United States Syria Chris tians, especially in the context of a larger civilizational struggle. (US Chris tians. Why do you think POTUS has such an amazing smile, per Politico. –Barb)
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