2013 Marine Corps
Birthday Message: "Enduring Fortitude, Unfailing Valor"
They showed this at the local birthday ball last Saturday. Worth seeing. Includes Col.
Barney Barnum (MOH) and Norm Hatch, whose team of combat photographers got the
Academy Award for filming on Tarawa . Both were
at our table at the 2012 MCHF Awards dinner. http://www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2012/04/marine-corps-heritage-foundation-2012.html
~Bob
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Leave the television on CNN, MSNBC or your local
news and between weather and sports, you’ll hear these lies peddled by Obama,
his advisors and assorted Democratic Party figures reciting the same talking
points about the Wild, Wild West where Bad Apple plans roamed the frontier And
every word of it is a lie. The people losing their plans didn’t have
substandard plans. They had a wide variety of plans from light to
bulletproof.
Ex-MSNBC Anchor
Screwed By Obamacare. By John Nolte
Excerpt: Dylan
Ratigan, a left-wing, one-time MSNBC anchor, tweeted out his apparent
frustration upon learning that ObamaCare not only cost him the health plan he
liked, but his new one will cost $430 a month more. Ratigan closed his tweet
with, "Thnx Mr. President!": (Stories like this give me a frisson of schadenfreude. ~Bob)
Does ObamaCare
Discourage Marriage?
Excerpt: Just as there are penalties in the tax code for
couples who get married, financial penalties in the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (ACA) also discourage couples from "tying the
knot," says Devon M. Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center
Health co-ops,
created to foster competition and lower insurance costs, are in danger
Excerpt: When the new health-care law was being cobbled
together, Congress decided to establish a network of nonprofit insurance
companies aimed at bringing competition to the marketplace, long dominated by
major insurers. But these co-ops, started as a great hope for lowering
insurance costs, are already in danger. ... Their failure would leave taxpayers
potentially on the hook for nearly $1 billion in defaulted loans and rob
the marketplace of the kind of competition they were supposed to create. (Like
Green Energy, another progressive rat hole for your tax dollars. ~Bob)
Ten Reasons ObamaCare Will Fail. By Steven Plaut
Excerpt: There is a fundamental difference between
economists and lawyers (or legal scholars) when it comes to resolving complex
social and economic problems. Economists believe that human behavior and the
functioning of institutions are based upon incentives. Lawyers and legal types
believe that one can resolve complex problems by passing laws and imposing
regulations. The latter think one can legislate away the problem.
ObamaCare: Designed for Failure. By Charles E. Moore
Excerpt: You must understand, no matter what President
Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid say, that ObamaCare was designed for
failure, not just for itself but all the insurance companies
involved. When a poison pill is ingested into the system, the body
starts to die, killing off the healthy organs and itself in the process...
leaving a void for something far worse to take its place. It has been the
progressive's dream since 1912 to introduce national healthcare and control
one-sixth of the nation's economy.
Excerpt: Unions haven’t been able
to get special Obamacare subsidies like Members of Congress and their staffs did,
but they may not go away empty-handed. The Obama Administration has indicated
it will propose a new regulation that could give many unions a break from one of Obamacare’s new fees. This one hits
health plans with a $63 per person charge next year.
Obama's Obamacare Lies Were Chronicled From the Beginning.
By David Limbaugh
Excerpt: Don't you believe that President Obama's lies that
people could keep their health insurance plans and doctors were his only lies
about Obamacare or that these and the other lies were not demonstrably false
when he uttered them.
Real Stories Expose Obama’s Lies. By Reince Priebus
Excerpt: Last week, the RNC launched GOP.com/TellUs, where those
impacted by ObamaCare can share their stories and even upload pictures of
letters canceling their coverage, pink slips from employers, or screenshots of healthcare.gov glitches. Responses have
come pouring in from people who have been hurt by ObamaCare and by the
president’s lies.
Quotes from Jonah
Goldberg
"To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, you'd have to have a heart
of stone not to laugh at the unraveling of Obamacare." "Whenever
I go on a college campus these days I try to hammer home this point: Your
professors are liberal, your textbooks are liberal, your administrators are
liberal, Hollywood is liberal, the music industry is liberal, the publishing
business is liberal, the mainstream media is liberal, your high-school teachers
were liberal . . . and yet you somehow believe you're sticking it to the man by
being . . . liberal!"
Excerpt: A South Carolina man was diagnosed with cancer and
his old insurance was providing him with the doctors and treatment he needed,
but that insurance has been cancelled because Obamacare regulations. His new
options are so expensive that he’s decided to give up and “let nature take its
course” rather than put his family under the financial strain of paying for the
new insurance that Obamacare requires. ... He voted for Obama in the last election, believing in his promise
of more affordable health care.
John D. ‘Bud’ Hawk,
World War II veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 89
Excerpt: John D. “Bud” Hawk, an Army sergeant who received
the Medal of Honor for his heroism during a battle of the Normandy
campaign that led to the Allied liberation of France
in World War II, died Nov. 4 at his home in Bremerton , Wash.
Don’t Forget the Other Entitlement Monsters. By Bruce Thornton
Excerpt: The continuing attention devoted to the blunders,
incompetence, and lies surrounding the Obamacare rollout is much deserved. But
we shouldn’t forget that the President’s health-care monstrosity is merely the
latest and biggest of scores of government entitlement programs suffering from
the same flawed progressive assumption––that government “experts” armed with
coercive power alone can solve problems better left to the states, civil
society, and the free market. In reality, such programs relentlessly
metastasize, increasing as well fraud, waste, abuse, and costs.
Excerpt: A deal that would give Iran
limited relief from economic sanctions in exchange for a temporary freeze of
some of its nuclear activities was near completion late Thursday, and Secretary
of State John F. Kerry was preparing to fly to Geneva Friday morning for a likely
announcement. (They will pretend to play. ~Bob)
Kerry leaves for
Geneva; Netanyahu talks tough on Iran
Excerpt: "I understand the Iranians are walking around
very satisfied in Geneva ,
as well they should be," said Netanyahu, visibly angered. "Iran got the
deal of the century and the international community got a bad deal,"
Netanyahu said. He added that Israel
"is not obliged by this agreement" and that it will do
"everything it needs to defend itself and defend the security of its
people."
The Real Reasons We Have a Public Pension Crisis. By Caleb O. Brown
Excerpt: Wall Street greed isn't to blame for the public
pension crisis. Fund officials are in a frantic search for high returns, having
been led to a desperate state by politicians.
Excerpt: Despite a prolonged slide in domestic sugar prices,
U.S.
candy makers are expanding production in other countries as federal price
supports and a global glut of the sweet stuff give an ever-greater advantage to
foreign rivals, says the Wall Street Journal. A 50 percent drop in U.S.
sugar prices in the last two years hasn't been enough to eliminate problems
from a longtime price gap between domestic and foreign sugar.
Another Costly EPA
Rule
Excerpt: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released
a revised proposed rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power
facilities. This is the most recent component of the president's "Climate
Action Plan," and follows two prior greenhouse gas rules that regulated
the fuel economy of heavy-duty trucks and cars. Though this rule is not
considered "economically significant," it will be devastating to new
coal construction, say Catrina Rorke, director of energy and environmental
policy, and Sam Batkins, director of regulatory policy, at the American Action
Forum. The limits on coal are based on estimates of emissions from facilities
employing partial carbon capture and storage (CCS). The CCS requirement for new
coal is a controversial red line for the industry.
Pakistani Taliban
Pick Hard-Liner as Leader, Imperiling Proposed Peace Talks
Excerpt: Mr. Fazlullah is best known for ordering public
beatings, executions and beheadings, and delivering thunderous radio broadcasts
— in which he denounced polio vaccinations, among other topics — that earned
him the nickname “Mullah Radio” in some circles.
Saudi nuclear weapons
'on order' from Pakistan
Excerpt: Saudi
Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear
weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety
of sources have told BBC Newsnight. While the kingdom's quest has often been
set in the context of countering Iran 's atomic programme, it is now
possible that the Saudis might be able to deploy such devices more quickly than
the Islamic republic.
Excerpt: “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan apologized
Friday for what CBS News is now acknowledging was a flawed report last month about
the Benghazi
attacks.
Excerpt: During my 22-year Air Force career I served two
tours in Korea and three
one-year tours in Vietnam .
While in Vietnam
I don't ever remember any reporter coming up to me to ask why I'm fighting
there. Of course, with the media explosion of today we often see troops
interviewed in the Middle East and are almost
always asked if they believe the war is justified. Sometimes a troop will echo
a justification for the war that he heard from a military or political leader. Often
though, there is a hesitation before he or she just generally answers that
their "fighting for their country".
Promise breakers:
Congressional lawmakers shirk shutdown pledge, keep paychecks
Excerpt: Nearly half of Congress promised
to share federal workers’ pain during the partial government shutdown by
forsaking pay — but now that the shutdown is over and employees got paid, many
lawmakers say they deserve their own checks.
Excerpt: The principal of a French lycée in Qatar hurriedly
left his job and the country in a deal struck by diplomats after being accused
of having anti-Muslim attitudes and told he faced imprisonment.
Two Muslim Women
Attack Jewish Man in Montreal
Excerpt: In Canada ,
a simple question by a Jewish man regarding a new controversial law in Quebec turned into a
verbal and physical attack.
Iranian TV airs
animated strike on Tel Aviv, Dimona
Excerpt: Iranian state television aired a computer-animated
video that showed an imagined Iranian missile strike on Israeli cities
including Tel Aviv and Dimona, malls and IDF bases.
Excerpt: The government thinks you’re stupid, or at least
ignorant. This isn’t just an indictment of the current government or an
indictment of government itself. It’s simply a statement of fact. At its core,
the government exists to do certain things that people aren’t equipped to do on
their own. The list of those things has gotten longer and longer over the
years.
US Eyes Anti-Piracy
Effort Along West Africa
Coast
Excerpt: The U.S.
and some of its allies are considering plans to increase anti-piracy operations
along Africa 's west coast, spurred on by
concerns that money from the attacks is funding a Nigerian-based insurgent
group that is linked to one of al-Qaida's most dangerous affiliates. (But if
they can't just hang the pirates when they find them (as was SOP back in the
day), it won't work out anywhere nearly as efficiently. Maybe the pirates will
be stupid enough to resist. That would be better, really. --Del )
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Obamacare makes me sick.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the alleged market filled with "bad apple" insurance policies. Someone should point out to Dear Leader that insurance is a heavily regulated industry. Indeed, every state has its own regulatory scheme. Secretary Sebelius might have mentioned this to her boss, as she was once Insurance Commissioner of Kansas.
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