And then there were three: My coughing is getting worse on
the treadmill. I think I'm no longer top of the list. Met a black Marine from Louisiana
Throw the Rascals Out? By Thomas Sowell
Excerpt: Polls indicate that the public is so disgusted with
Washington
politicians of both parties that a surprisingly large proportion of the people
would like to get rid of the whole lot of them. It is certainly understandable
that the voters would like to "throw the rascals out." But there is
no point in throwing the rascals out, if we are just going to get a new set of
rascals to replace them.
In other words, we need to think about what there is about
current political practices that repeatedly bring to power such a
counterproductive set of people.
Pro-Obamacare
Congressional Staffer Shocked as It Triples her Premium. By Daniel
Greenfield
Excerpt: Welcome to ObamaCare. If you like your
plan, you’ll probably lose it. If you hate your plan, you’ll probably learn to
miss it because what you end up with will be much worse
The Great Medicaid Swindle. By Nick Gillespie
Excerpt: On Monday, the same day President Obama gave a
poorly received speech defending the glitchy Obamacare rollout, there was
another unfortunate development in health-care reform: Ohio expanded Medicaid. ... This is bad
news. Medicaid, the nation’s health care program for low-income citizens and
those with certain disabilities, is expensive. States are not required to
participate in the program, but all do, though eligibility requirements differ
from state to state. In 2011, states devoted nearly 24 percent (PDF) of total spending to Medicaid—the single largest state
expense—despite the fact that there’s little evidence that it actually improves
the health outcomes of its beneficiaries.
Medicaid could be the
next headache for Obamacare
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/medicaid-could-be-the-next-headache-for-obamacare-98760.html?hp=l6
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/medicaid-could-be-the-next-headache-for-obamacare-98760.html?hp=l6
Excerpt: On Nov. 1, the health law’s malfunctioning
enrollment system is supposed to send reams of data to states so they can begin
placing thousands of people into Medicaid. But state officials say that
transfer system has barely been tested and could be vulnerable to technical
failures like those that have crippled the broader Obamacare sign-up process.
The White House Made Sure Millions Would
Lose Their Insurance While They Lied About It
http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/10/white-house-made-sure-millions-lose-insurance-lied/
http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/10/white-house-made-sure-millions-lose-insurance-lied/
Excerpt: Last
night I had the exquisite pleasure of listening to NPR explain that the people
who were losing the insurance they wanted to keep and who would be forced to
pay more for less, were only a few million of the insured. It was taken for
granted, by NPR, that a few million robbed of their insurance and extra money
every month was no big deal. Who cares about them, right? They’re just the eggs
that we break to make the Obamacare omelet.
Obama admin. knew
millions could not keep their health insurance. By Lisa Myers and
Hannah Rappleye, NBC News
Excerpt: President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable
Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to
keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation
letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama
administration has known that for at least three years.
Dear Health-Insurance
Companies. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: You had better be ready to fund a massive
advertising campaign laying out how you're only following the law on dropping
people's existing coverage. Because trust me when I say that the Democrats will
scapegoat you morning, noon, and night for the next year over the problems
with Obamacare. It doesn't matter that the problems of Obamacare aren't
actually your fault. Control of the House and Senate are at stake. The Democratic
party's image could take a crippling blow. They could become known as the party
that took away your old coverage that you were okay with, jacked up your
premiums, forced you into a plan with a huge deductible, forced you away from
the doctor you liked, and told you all along that they were helping you. You
are already an old reliable villain in Democratic party advertising, and
liberals are desperately hunting for a new scapegoat.
Policy cancellations,
higher premiums add to frustration over Obamacare. CBS
Excerpt: That includes 56-year-old Dianne Barrette. Last
month, she received a letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield informing her as of
January 2014, she would lose her current plan. Barrette pays $54 a month. The
new plan she's being offered would run $591 a month -- 10 times more than what
she currently pays. Barrette said, "What I have right now is what I am
happy with and I just want to know why I can't keep what I have. Why do I have
to be forced into something else?"
This Looks REALLY
Bad! Insurance Companies Say an Obamacare Delay Due To Website Problems Could
Cause Rates To Skyrocket
Excerpt: The problem, according to the industry, is that an
extended enrollment period could skew their calculations for 2015 premiums.
Here’s why. Right now, insurers need to submit 2015 rates to the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services between April 1 and April 30, 2014. If
the enrollment period ends in March, as currently scheduled, insurers will know
exactly what their customer base looks like as they make projections about
their 2015 rates.
Valerie Jarrett:
Obamacare doesn’t force you off your plan; your insurance company does, by
complying with Obamacare!
Excerpt: It was a lie and an obvious one, but the
administration, much of the media, and Obamacare supporters happily acted as if
it were true and happily smeared those who suggested otherwise. Tonight, the
president’s right-hand woman tries the lie again, even as it’s demonstrably
unraveling before the nation’s eyes.
Obama administration
warned about health care website
Excerpt: The Obama administration was given stark warnings
just one month before that the federal healthcare site was not ready to go
live, according to a confidential report obtained by CNN. The caution, from the
main contractor CGI, warned of a number of open risks and issues for the HealthCare.gov web
site even as company executives were testifying publicly that the project had
achieved key milestones. (Tweet from @allahpundit:
So this drops just 14 hours or so before Sebelius appears on the Hill, huh?)
http://washingtonexaminer.com/heres-why-obama-said-people-could-keep-their-insurance/article/2538146
Excerpt: When Obama took office and made health care his top
priority, he understood that one of his main tasks was to convince Americans
that he had a plan that could improve the health care system for those who it
wasn’t currently working well for (such as those with pre-existing conditions)
while leaving it untouched for those who were satisfied. ... “And that means
that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you
like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like
your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period.
No one will take it away. No matter what,” Obama said. Obama knew that a lot of
people would lose their coverage. .... A Congressional Budget Office report
issued on March 20, 2010 (three days before Obama signed the health care bill
into law) predicted that 8 million would lose employer or
individual market coverage.
Tweet from Philip Klein @philipaklein
In other words, Ds knew that in order to pass HC, they had
to lie about how it would affect current coverage.
ObamaCare’s Liberal Greed. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: Oliver Stone made Gordon Gekko and his famous quote
“Greed is Good” into everything that was wrong with capitalism. A quarter of a
century later, liberal politicians like Obama and Bill de Blasio are still
running against Gordon Gekko while pocketing his contributions and doing
special favors for him. Their class warfare is as nakedly greedy as Gordon
Gekko shouting into a brick of a cell phone.
Obamacare Horror Stories. By Daniel Horowitz
Excerpt: I am a 62 year old woman who has an individual
policy with BCBS of North Carolina. My premiums are $249.50 per month. I bought
the policy when I retired and moved to NC to be closer to my aging parents. The
policy is a high deductible one with a $2700 deductible, $5000 out of pocket
maximum. BCBS has told me my plan is no longer offered due to Obamacare and
that my new plan will cost $600.55 per month and has a required an out of
pocket maximum of $6350. I have been trying for three weeks to see what
Obamacare offers without success.
Some health insurance
gets pricier as Obamacare rolls out
Excerpt: Thousands of Californians are discovering what Obamacare will cost them — and many don't
like what they see. ... Although recent criticism of the healthcare law has
focused on website glitches and early enrollment snags, experts say sharp price
increases for individual policies have the greatest potential to erode public
support for President Obama's signature legislation.
Obama's Promise Updated
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: Forbes named Michael Jackson as the highest earning
dead celebrity last year. Elvis was second again. The list didn't include the
ObamaCare website designer, who made six hundred million last year, because he
won't be dead until the president tracks him down.
Good Column: Is Obama Still President? His
cadences soar on, through scandal after fiasco after disaster. By Victor Davis
Hanson
Excerpt: We are currently learning whether the United States
really needs a president. Barack Obama has become a mere figurehead, who gives
speeches few listen to any more, issues threats that scare fewer, and makes
promises that almost no one believes he will keep. Yet America
continues on, despite the fact that the foreign and domestic policies of Barack
Obama are unraveling, in a manner unusual even for star-crossed presidential
second terms.
Historic End Game “A
Collapse To End All Collapses”
Excerpt: With the world continuing to face great
uncertainty, today a man who has been involved in the financial markets for 50
years, and whose business partner is billionaire Eric Sprott, told King World
News that “we are now in a historic end game.” He also spoke warned about the
West experiencing “a collapse to end all collapses,” and also discussed what
this all means for key markets such as gold and silver. Below is what John
Embry had to say in this powerful interview.
House tries blocking
‘illegal’ IRS checks; Harry Reid says system working ‘fine’
Excerpt: The House of Representatives repeatedly has passed
an IRSbill that could save U.S.
taxpayers up to $24.4 billion over the next 10 years — but Harry Reid’s
Democratic Senate will not hear it. (Reid is still there because the
Tea Party nominated the most unelectable candidate. Congratulations. ~Bob)
Hatred – The Mothers
Milk of the Left
Excerpt: In the wake of all of these outrages which honest
evaluation places totally at their feet, liberals have used them as an
opportunity to get “on stage” and parrot the attack de jour on conservatives or
merely make one up. It’s anything for a shot of “ink.”
Tweets from Black Conservative @blackconser2012
Whites not racially organizing while everyone else does
(NAACP, La Raza, 80-20 Initiative, USINPAC) is like coming to a gun fight w/ a
knife. -- "Between 1976 and 2005, blacks averaged 13 percent of the US population but
committed 59 percent of felony homicides." Source: DOJ
New Data Shows Carbon
Emissions Falling As Shale Gas Debate Is Rising
Excerpt: By all accounts, the level of carbon dioxide
emissions is declining in the United States, namely because of the transition
from coal to natural gas used for electric generation as well as the fact that
economic output here has suffered since the Great Recession of 2008. Meantime,
warmer winters have also helped.
Polio outbreak in
northeast Syria
Excerpt: Twenty-two children in Deir al-Zor province
bordering Iraq became
paralyzed on October 17 and WHO's regional laboratory in Tunis has isolated the wild polio virus in
samples taken from 10 victims. Results on the other 12 are expected within
days.
Excerpt: Ten men stopped the van as it entered the city of Sirte from the airport.
The cash delivery had been flown 300 miles (500km) from the capital, Tripoli . "The robbery
is a catastrophe for the whole of Libya ," Abdel-Fattah Mohammed,
head of Sirte council, told Reuters. (More fruit of Obama's unauthorized,
lead-from-behind war. ~Bob.)
Barack Obama: Giving
Our Military the Finger Since ’08
http://clashdaily.com/2013/10/barack-obama-giving-military-finger-since-08/
http://clashdaily.com/2013/10/barack-obama-giving-military-finger-since-08/
Excerpt: In my estimation, there has never been a Commander
in Chief in all of American history who has demonstrated such utter and blatant
disdain for our military as Barack Hussein Obama. His hyper-condescension and
gross disregard for our nation’s fighting forces (and their rich and time
honored traditions) is beyond appalling.
Federal agents'
pre-dawn raid on reporter's home raises questions
Excerpt: The Washington Times said Friday it is preparing legal action to fight what it called an
unwarranted intrusion on the First Amendment. “While we appreciate law
enforcement’s right to investigate legitimate concerns, there is no reason for
agents to use an unrelated gun case to seize the First Amendment
protected materials of a reporter,” Times Editor John Solomon said…. It’s
about the federal government trying to intimidate an American journalist.
Good Column: Oh, Buck Up!
Excerpt: At any rate, as I said, the “collapse” Ferfal
describes is exactly the same I experienced, only harder and faster. Like me,
he’s bemused by Americans who think when the economy collapses we go back to
either the stone age or frontier days. That’s not what either of us has
experienced. Things just get dirtier, shabbier, and more unreliable. The
niceties of civilization peel away. But we are not suddenly living in a Mad Max
world. We’re just living in our old houses with bars in the windows, three
different kind of alarms and a way of shutting out doors so that burglars have
to break in through three levels which gives you time to get the gun from the
closet.
Senate intelligence chair says she is 'totally opposed' to
spying on friendly nations, as Obama finds himself staring down his own party
in Congress. By David Martosko,
U.s. Political Editor
Excerpt: The U.S. Senate's top foreign intelligence official
said Monday in a scathing statement that she is 'totally opposed' to
spying of the sort that has gotten the Obama administration into hot water this
week. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who chairs the powerful Senate
Intelligence Committee, seemed miffed at the idea that she and her colleagues
were out of the loop when the president's men conducted surveillance on foreign
leaders in Europe and Latin America . (For
Zero, it's durned if you do and durned if you don't. He claims he didn't
know NSA was wiretapping his allies, but Bild am Sonntag says they have clear
evidence he knew. Now if he tries to dig himself out of that hole, he still has
to face an angry Dianne Feinstein, a fellow Democrat and, get this, Intelligence
Chair in the Senate, who may actually have some principles when it comes to
dealing with allies. Or could it have something to do with upcoming elections
and a primeval fear of being caught supporting a lame rat--er, duck caught with
his webbed foot in the cookie jar? Or perhaps Dianne is running
interference for her friend Hillary's candidacy. Either way, you lose,
Zero! It couldn't be happening to a nicer guy. --Don Hank)
Military Kids Show
Their Respect For Marine Corps & The Flag On Playground
http://conservativevideos.com/2013/10/military-kids-show-respect-marine-corps-flag-playground/
http://conservativevideos.com/2013/10/military-kids-show-respect-marine-corps-flag-playground/
Excerpt: One of the great traditions I miss from living on a
military installation was hearing the bugle playing “Colors” over the post PA
system at the end of the day, normally around 1700 hours (5pm). We taught our
daughters, Aubrey and Austen, that when the music came on to show respect and stop.
If you’ve ever been on a military installation you know that traffic stops, the
entire base comes to a standstill. It’s the right thing to do to pay respect as
the flag is
lowered. There’s something about tradition that progressive socialists do not
like, whether it’s regard, respect or honor. I wish we could teach all our
children — and adults for that matter — this level of respect for our unique
symbol known worldwide as the embodiment of liberty and freedom, the American Flag.
The NFL Sees Green in
Pink. By Rick Jensen
Excerpt: Most of us expect about 90 percent of our
charitable contributions to go toward funding any charitable cause to which we
give. How do you feel about the NFL donating only 8 percent of Pink gear sales
toward cancer research? (Pulmonary Fibrosis kills more people than breast
cancer, but breast cancer gets 80 times as much in research funding. ~Bob)
Good Column: It's not arrogance, just stupidity. By
Wesley Pruden
Excerpt: The Germans are in a frenzy over the disclosure
that the National Security Agency (NSA) tapped Angela Merkel's private telephone,
along with the telephones of three dozen other world leaders. It's an embarrassment
of the second magnitude, but all Barack Obama knows about it is what he reads
in the newspapers. ... President Obama wants no grown-ups around him, only the
adulation of groupies. (Well, he doesn't speak Austrian. ~Bob)
Excerpt: As you all might recall, former Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez died a couple of years ago, having succumbed to an otherwise
treatable form of testicular cancer, but not if you choose to undergo treatment
from socialized medicine in Cuba .
You remember Hugo; he's the one that suckered Barack Obama into a full lip kiss
at Obama's initial appearance at an Organization of American States meeting
back in 2009. Well, before Chavez died he hand picked his successor, Nicolas
Meduro. Sadly, Meduro's brand of communism/socialism isn't doing any better
than when Chavez was running the country. The country continues to be plagued
with commodity shortages, utility outages, crumbling infrastructure and
starving people, this despite huge oil reserves that would seemingly finance a
healthy and productive society.
Al-Qaeda fighters
imprison 60 Syrians, take over court and bribe people with free food and petrol
as they try to turn the country into an Islamic state
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477377/Al-Qaeda-imprisons-60-Syrians-try-turn-country-Islamic-state.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2477377/Al-Qaeda-imprisons-60-Syrians-try-turn-country-Islamic-state.html
Excerpt: ISIS also picks
fights with rival rebel groups, attacking them then ruthlessly taking control
of their territories. Another activist Mohannad, who spoke in Turkey after leaving Syria
the previous day told the Times: 'If ISIS have
a problem with you, they say you are a kaffir [infidel] and they kill you. None
of the other brigades would do this.'
Beleaguered Syrian
Christians fear future, increasingly targeted by jihadis
Excerpt: “When you bring a Christian and make him choose
between Assad and the Islamic State in Iraq
and the Levant, the answer is clear,” said Hilal Khashan, a political scientist
professor at the American University of Beirut ,
referring to the al-Qaida branch fighting alongside the rebels. “It doesn’t
need much thinking.” The rebels have targeted other Syrian minorities,
particularly Alawites, the Shiite offshoot sect to which Assad belongs and
which is his main support base.
Black Man Goes on
Shooting Spree Targeting Only White People
http://lastresistance.com/3278/black-man-goes-shooting-spree-targeting-white-people/
http://lastresistance.com/3278/black-man-goes-shooting-spree-targeting-white-people/
Excerpt: Here’s another story that won’t make national
headlines anywhere. And it probably won’t be investigated
as a “hate crime,” even though race had everything do with the attack. Lakim
Faust is a black man who went on a shooting spree, armed with 100 rounds of
ammo. He only went after the white folk according to a local CBS
affiliate:
Excerpt: If the races were reversed, this would be a major
national news story. Two black gangbangers, aged only 13 and 14, nearly killed
a white man in another random hate crime mob attack in the Detroit area. The local media is censoring
the race of the perpetrators.
Tweet from Lewis Shupe @presidentdiary
"The problem with Robin Hood robbing the rich in Sherwood Forest is that pretty soon the rich stop riding
through the forest." Arthur Laffer
The
Civilized Savage. By Daniel Greenfield
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-civilized-savage.html
Excerpt: The civilized man is bound by interdependent social compacts that control his survival. The savage does not depend on a social compact for his survival. He depends on himself. Even when his survival derives from the same system as that of the civilized man, he feels no sense of obligation toward that system. He exploits it, the way that he would exploit a honeycomb in the forest or kill the last mammoth without worrying what will happen when it is gone.
Excerpt: The civilized man is bound by interdependent social compacts that control his survival. The savage does not depend on a social compact for his survival. He depends on himself. Even when his survival derives from the same system as that of the civilized man, he feels no sense of obligation toward that system. He exploits it, the way that he would exploit a honeycomb in the forest or kill the last mammoth without worrying what will happen when it is gone.
Bare Naked Islam
Readers: Please help impede terror-linked CAIR'S efforts to get out best
counter-terrorism trainers from a seminar for law enforcement officers:
ACTION REQUESTED: Send a POLITE email to
CLEET Executive Director Steve Emmons requesting CLEET to ignore Muslim
Brotherhood front group CAIR’s demand that the above counter-terrorism trainers
be dropped. Here is a good link you can use to provide information about CAIR
in your email: CAIR profile Email: steve.emmons@cleet.state.ok.us If you want to piss off
CAIR, please include the following in the cc line: asoltani@cair.com, info@ok.cair.com
Shocking Video – CNN
Anchor Reveals Obama Administration Officials Threaten Journalists Who Make
Obama Look Bad
Excerpt: During last night’s CNN broadcast, Mrs. Costello
admitted Barack Obama’s media team has immense influence with mainstream news
agencies. She says if you make Obama look bad, you could lose your job.
Blood-Libel
Anti-Semitism in Hungary
Excerpt:
Recent surveys have shown that anti-Semitism in Hungary
has increased to such an extent that it is almost at the highest level of any
European country. The country appears to have forgotten that 565,000 Hungarian
Jews, over half of the Jewish population, were deported by Hungarian police in
only an eight-week period and then murdered
in the death camps in the Holocaust. The Hungarians acted in this way when only
about 150 Nazis, under Adolf Eichmann, were present in the country.
Has Kasich Stumbled
on a Winning GOP Strategy? By Walter Russell Mead
Excerpt: Don’t look now, but the Republican governor of an
electorally important state is making a name for himself with a vocal defense
of the poor and the safety net they depend on.
Muslim rapists try
and bury 13-year old victim alive in Pakistan
Excerpt: A teenage girl dug herself out of shallow grave
after she was raped by two men and buried alive. The 13-year-old was snatched
while walking to Koran lessons from her local village in Punjab
and raped by the men in an isolated area.
Tweet from Jimmie @jimmiebjr
Being a conservative means accepting sometimes two of your
friends will, without warning, just start slapping the snot out of each other.
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