Went for Pre-Transplant Pulmonary Rehab today. Slapped a
mask on me with 100% oxygen and I worked on the treadmill, leg press machine
and did squats holding a heavy ball. Went pretty well. Nice to be able to
exercise without gasping. ~Bob
Good Analysis: The Six Big Takeaways From the
Government Shutdown. By Nate Silver
Silver is a leftie, but his polling was right in 2012 when
so many were wrong. ~Bob
The Nuclear
Option–Both Parties Agree: Taxpayers Foot Bill for Vacationing Bureaucrats
Excerpt: Just when you thought nobody around here could
agree on anything, Democrats and Republicans in Congress come together to
unanimously express their unified and unwavering view of the innocent American
taxpayer: SCREW YOU!
Warning: Enrolling in
Obamacare allows government to link your IP address with your name …social
security number, bank accounts and web surfing habits
http://www.infowars.com/warning-enrolling-in-obamacare-allows-government-to-link-your-ip-address-with-your-name-social-security-number-bank-accounts-and-web-surfing-habits/
Excerpt: We have already established that Healthcare.gov is not a functioning database application that allows people to shop for competing health plans. It is actually a government-run Trojan Horse that suckers people into creating accounts where they hand over: ((Even if you just went on the government site to inquire and gave them any information you are likely already in the database. I love this country but unfortunately I do not believe we can trust our government. Folks, this is not rocket science, connect some dots here -- Please! Obamacare, IRS, NSA, NDAA, Patriot Act, CFPB, DHS, etc., etc. --MM)
http://www.infowars.com/warning-enrolling-in-obamacare-allows-government-to-link-your-ip-address-with-your-name-social-security-number-bank-accounts-and-web-surfing-habits/
Excerpt: We have already established that Healthcare.gov is not a functioning database application that allows people to shop for competing health plans. It is actually a government-run Trojan Horse that suckers people into creating accounts where they hand over: ((Even if you just went on the government site to inquire and gave them any information you are likely already in the database. I love this country but unfortunately I do not believe we can trust our government. Folks, this is not rocket science, connect some dots here -- Please! Obamacare, IRS, NSA, NDAA, Patriot Act, CFPB, DHS, etc., etc. --MM)
Shutdown Austerity:
No Money for Kids’ Cancer Treatments; PBS, NPR Still Get $445 Million
Excerpt: I wrote the other day that I was waiting for
Big Bird to make the headlines amid this government shutdown, lamenting to his
young viewers that due to the Republican-led shutdown, he wouldn’t be able to
be on the TV anymore. Well, he’s made headlines, but not for that reason.
The headline is that he’s still getting paid big bucks while
children’s cancer treatments get halted. You can’t get more “political
leverage” than kids with cancer.
President Obama Says
- Can't Pay Your Mortgage? You're a Deadbeat!
http://eaglerising.com/2175/president-obama-cant-pay-mortgage-youre-deadbeat/
http://eaglerising.com/2175/president-obama-cant-pay-mortgage-youre-deadbeat/
Excerpt: Hey, Middle Class America ! The
President of the United
States of America has a warm message of
comfort and greeting for you. “I say, imagine in your private life, if you
decided that I’m not going to pay my mortgage for a month or two—first of all
you’re not saving money by not paying your mortgage. You’re just a deadbeat.
And you can anticipate that will hurt your credit. “ "If you don't
pay your mortgage, you are just a deadbeat" - Thanks Obama
Obamacare Is No
Laughing Matter, But This Video Is Pretty Darn Funny
http://conservativebyte.com/2013/10/obamacare-laughing-matter-video-pretty-darn-funny/#h2UbjggeEcg4cqQ2.99
http://conservativebyte.com/2013/10/obamacare-laughing-matter-video-pretty-darn-funny/#h2UbjggeEcg4cqQ2.99
New Obamacare Challenge: The Origination Clause. By Randy
Barnett
Excerpt: The Pacific Legal Foundation has filed a motion in
its pending suit against Obamacare asking the judge (1) to rule that, when it
enacted the Senate health care reform bill that includes a “tax” for not
purchasing health insurance, Congress violated the Origination Clause, which
says that all revenue bills must originate in the House; and (2) that
their clients are under no legal obligation to purchase health insurance under
the ruling of the Court.
Important: The Bizarre,
Misguided Campaign to Get Rid of Single-Sex Classrooms: The “Teach Kids, Not
Stereotypes” initiative thinks separating students by gender is equivalent to
racial segregation. By Christina Hoff Sommers
Excerpt: When a group of researchers at Stetson University
compared single-sex and coed classes in a Florida elementary
school, they documented large gains for both boys and
girls in the single-sex classes—but especially boys. Over the four years of the
study, 55 percent of boys in coed classes scored proficient on the Florida
Comprehensive Assessment Test, compared with 85 percent of boys in the all-boys
classes. (Once again, progressives are willing to sacrifice kids so they can
feel good about being for the right things. ~Bob)
Health emergency: On
eve of Obamacare , Britain 's NHS needs political
therapy
Excerpt: As the United States embarks on an overhaul of its health care system, Britain 's
government-run system is showing signs of age. ... In early September, Julie
Bailey was settling into her new home. Weeks before, she had been chased out of
her town after a succession of death threats, the desecration of her mother’s
grave and the collapse of her small business. No, Bailey isn't the star witness
in a mob trial. She's just an average British citizen who became a lightning
rod for exposing failures of the country's vaunted National Health Service after her mother
died while in its care.
Nancy
Pelosi Confronted at Illegal Immigration Rally by Filmmaker
Excerpt:
Megyn Kelly of Fox News interviewed filmmaker Dennis Michael Lynch who captured
video of Nancy Pelosi at an illegal immigration rally hosted by Democrats.
Lynch questions Pelosi about why she is ‘grandstanding’ at the rally, while
World War II veterans have been locked out of their privately funded, open air,
24 hour National Memorial.
How much can you save in taxes by moving to
another state?
Say, California
to Texas ?
Park Service Abuses
Spark New 'Battle of Yorktown '
Excerpt: In the same place where America fought its final battle of
independence, one American businessman is refusing to bow to pressure to close
up shop during the shutdown. His story is just one example of what many view as
the Obama administration's widespread overreach during the government gridlock.
VIDEO: New York Times
Editor: "Krugman's Column is Our Biggest Nightmare"
Excerpt: MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican
congressman, claimed today that a New York Times editor confided in
him that Paul Krugman's column is "their biggest nightmare." Scarborough wouldn't reveal which Times editor
told him that, and he said it was told to him "off the
record." The conversation veered toward Krugman when guest Niall
Ferguson went after Krugman.
Mr. Netanyahu and the
end of days. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: So far Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani's peace ruse is still bearing some fruit. President Obama was
eager to talk with him at the United Nations -- only to be reportedly
rebuffed, until Obama managed to phone him for the first conservation between
heads of state of the two countries since the Iranian storming of the U.S. embassy in
1979. Rouhani has certainly wowed Western elites with his mellifluous voice,
quiet demeanor and denials of wanting a bomb. The media, who ignore the
circumstances of Rouhani's three-decade trajectory to power, gush that he is
suddenly a "moderate" and "Western educated."
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: U.S.
special forces captured al-Qaeda's number-two leader Abu Anas al-Libi on Sunday
in Libya .
They can't hurt us with a response in kind. Al-Qaeda's number-two leader is an
expert in bomb-making, cyber-warfare and chess, and our number-two leader is
Joe Biden.
City probes
publicly-funded mural critics say promotes holy war
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/10/08/city-probes-publicly-funded-mural-critics-say-promotes-holy-war
Excerpt: Critics charge it is a jihadist battle-cry against
the West — an assertion disputed by the artist and at least two Toronto academics.
The Obama Blockade. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: The barricades around the Lincoln Memorial and the
WW2 Memorial, the traffic cones blocking the view of Mt.
Rushmore and the sawhorses around Old Faithful are no Berlin Blockade, but they come out of
the same meanness of spirit and the same motives. The petty harassment extended
to a 24-hour blockade of an inn that had tried to stay open and rangers
arriving to block Old Faithful every time it
erupted. There are few moments that sum up the meanness of spirit of the Obama
Blockade as well as a park ranger angrily telling senior citizens to get back
on the bus and stop taking photos because they are engaging in forbidden
“recreating”.
Democrats to America : We Own the Government!
By Ann Coulter
Excerpt: Contrary to Obama’s
promises, it turns out: You can’t keep your doctor, you can’t keep your insurance
— you can’t even keep your job. In other words, it’s a typical government
program, but this one wrecks your health care. (I'm not always in tune with
Coulter, she goes a bit extreme at times. In this column she lays down a
bunch of facts that are really important. That's three tries at making very
reasonable offers in negotiation, every one of which the Democrats and Mr.
Obama have turned down. The last one is the real attention getter.
The big "concession" the GOP asked for was that everyone live under
the same rules, including all of Congress, their staffs, and various big
businesses (and assumably, unions) as well. That's a
"concession" that I think 9 Americans out of 10 would be very much in
favor of. And it hit the same granite wall of total refusal as everything
else. You really can't say the GOP guys weren't trying, and you really can't
say the Democrats were being even remotely reasonable. But the shutdown is the
Republicans' fault? --Del )
Excerpt: Let's say my wife was going over last month's
household budget, finds that our spending is exceeding our income and begins
looking for places to cut back. In going through the check book she finds
that I've been hitting the ATM up every Friday night for a hundred
bucks. When she asks me about I tell her that my Fridays are my night out
with the boys at the local strip club. She sternly notes that the $400
dollars per month I'm spending on booze and lap dances is nearly 20% of our
income. Well, being open minded, the old girl tells me that, though she
knows I really enjoy those Friday night lap dances, that I'm going to
have to fore go them until our income catches up to our outgo. I am
naturally furious at this notion!
Obamacare site hits
reset button on passwords as contractors scramble
Excerpt: Amid all the attention, bugs, and work happening at
Healthcare.gov in light of the Affordable Care Act, potential registrants
talking to phone support today have been told that all user passwords are being
reset to help address the site's login woes. And the tech supports behind
Healthcare.gov will be asking more users to act in the name of fixing the site,
too. According to registrants speaking with Ars, individuals whose logins never
made it to the site's database will have to re-register using a different
username, as their previously chosen names are now stuck in authentication
limbo.
Obamacare Site Glitches Continue, Expert ‘Embarrassed’ By Programming
Obamacare Site Glitches Continue, Expert ‘Embarrassed’ By Programming
Excerpt: The administration has refused to release the
numbers for how many have signed up and media outlets have struggled to find
people who have actually signed up. ... However, CBS News reports that tech experts see major flaws,
and one online programmer said he would be “ashamed” and “embarrassed” to have
produced the health care website.
Excerpt: Thus, I was not entirely prepared for the new
revelations about the Detroit trustees’ custom
of handing out annual holiday “bonuses” to workers, retirees and the City of Detroit . Between 1985 and
2008, they handed out roughly $1 billion this way. Had they been invested, one
estimate says those funds would be worth almost $2 billion today -- or more
than half the current shortfall in the
funds.
World Health
Organization: 1 in 3 Somalis are Insane. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Do we really need more Somali immigration? Aside
from incidents like Westgate in which Somali terrorists kill non-Muslims,
according to the World Health Organization, most of the country is insane. [Yes, I noticed that in the
library at Los Angeles
City College .
Kate]
Shutdown delays
notice of Social Security Cost-Of-Living Adjustment
Excerpt: Nearly 58 million Social Security recipients are
still getting monthly benefits during the partial government shutdown. But they
will have to wait to find out the size of next year's cost-of-living
adjustment. Social Security was scheduled to announce the annual
raise Oct. 16.
Allen West: 'People
who possess no deep faith are not happy.' By Kevin Derby
Excerpt: “America
has a Judeo-Christian faith heritage and promotes the free exercise of
religion,” West continued. “However, it has been my experience in life that
people who possess no deep faith are not happy. After all, as it says in
Joshua, chapter 24, ‘As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.’
Puerto Rico may be
the next Detroit .
By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Anyone talking statehood for Puerto
Rico really needs to look at these numbers. We have some
messed up states, but Puerto Rico is just Detroit on a larger scale.
VIDEO: CBS News Slams
'Disastrous' Obamacare. By Guy Benson
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2013/10/10/video-cbs-news-slams-disastrous-obamacare-n1720796
Excerpt: The sad reality is that if you think you've easily
signed up for Obamacare, there's a very good chance that you're actually
ensnared in a fraud. "Nothing short of disastrous," indeed. A
new Associated Press poll shows that just seven percent (!) of Americans say the law's roll-out
has "gone well."
Good News: Taliban
Mocking the Shutdown. By Katie Pavlich
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2013/10/10/good-news-taliban-mocking-the-shutdown-n1720851
Excerpt: Well, who didn't see this coming. The Taliban is
mocking the United States
for the government shutdown. "Taliban militants fighting US
troops in Afghanistan
taunted Washington
over the government shutdown on Wednesday, accusing US politicians of
"sucking the blood of their own people."
Unreal: Harry Reid
bashes house bill restoring funding for military death benefits: "It's
clear this legislation is just for show..."
Excerpt: Reid feels it’s more appropriate for an outside foundation, rather than the taxpayers, to pay the
families of those fallen fighting for this country. Via RCP:
Liberal Blog
ThinkProgress Says LA Police Dogs Bite Only Blacks and Latinos.
Excerpt: Via ThinkProgress: A new report on the Los Angeles Sheriff
Department Canine Special Detail finds that the number of minority individuals
bitten by police dogs has dramatically increased between 2004 to 2012. In a
department already plagued by accusations of racial targeting, 100 percent of
dog bite victims in the first six months of 2013 were blacks and Latinos
Even Students at Liberal University
of Colorado Boulder Acknowledge Obama is Responsible for
Shutdown.
Excerpt: An encouraging sign from
the leftward edge of academia: Students at the University of Colorado
– Boulder (CU), a dependably liberal college town, blamed President Obama and
Democrats on Tuesday for the ongoing government shutdown, which is
now in its second week. “He’s [Obama] just being really stubborn, not willing
to negotiate at all, not taking any ideas from anyone else, it’s either his way
or the highway and apparently we got to shut down the government because of
that,” one student told Campus Reform.
Seventeen-Year-Old
Faces Felony Weapons Charge Over Fishing Knife.
Excerpt: Young Cody could get as much as 10 years in prison
and a $10,000 fine, despite having done nothing whatsoever wrong. His hopes of
serving his country by enlisting in the Air Force apparently have been dashed.
But at least his school is safe from rogue fishing knives that might somehow
find their way out of the tackle box, out of his car, and into the school.
Tweet from James
Woods @RealJamesWoods
I don't expect to work again. I think Barack Obama is a
threat to the integrity and future of the Republic. My country first.
Dick Morris: Oklahoma Suit May End
Obamacare. By Lisa Barron
Excerpt: "Why didn't anyone else think of it?" Morris wrote in The Hill. "Unlike
the suit brought by 26 state attorney generals, this suit does not make a
constitutional objection to the Affordable Care Act. Instead, it uses the
language of the law to challenge the elaborate system of subsidies, tax
credits, and individual or employer mandates and fines the act has
spawned." (I think Roberts and the other four are now vested in finding
Obamacare constitutional, regardless. ~Bob)
Immigration
protest a slap in the face to Hispanic veterans. By Silvio Canto, Jr.
Excerpt:
Over the last 28 years that I've lived in Texas , I've come to appreciate the role of Hispanics in the military, including our
youngest son who is in the US Army. Let
me cite two examples that came to mind when I heard about this travesty in Washington .
SOOPERMEXICAN: Dante,
T.S Eliot, Shakespeare, and Breaking Bad.
Excerpt: One of my favorite plays is T.S. Eliot’s ‘Murder in the Cathedral.’ Like the best of any artistic medium, its brilliance wasn’t perfectly manifested to me until I saw it performed, rather than simply upon my reading it. It’s an exquisitely subtle and profound meditation on free will and sin and human nature, how God’s will works despite, between, and throughout human will.
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