Guest Post: What makes Obamacare so messy
Excerpt: On Thursday, he passed a new law at a press
conference. George III never did that. But, having ordered America ’s insurance companies to
comply with Obamacare, the president announced that he is now ordering them not
to comply with Obamacare. The legislative branch (as it’s still quaintly known)
passed a law purporting to grandfather your existing health plan. The
regulatory bureaucracy then interpreted the law so as to un-grandfather your
health plan. So His Most Excellent Majesty has commanded that your health plan
be de-un-grandfathered. That seems likely to work. The insurance industry had
three years to prepare for the introduction of Obamacare. Now the King has
given them six weeks to de-introduce Obamacare.
If schadenfreude had
calories, I'd weigh 300 pounds
Excerpt: As Obamacare continues its spectacular public
impersonation of the LZ Hindenburg, dropping flaming wreckage across the
politico-economic landscape, I am still just utterly gobsmacked at the dazed
bafflement on the face of the true believers in government. "How could
this be going so spectacularly wrong?" goes the hand-wringing lament.
How could it not? Seriously! You think a bunch of people can sit down
and... Lux Fiat! ...re-write
the rules for how 15% of the economy works in one fell swoop, in what amounts
to a giant bong-fueled bull session, and have nothing go wrong? You might as
well try to change the spark plugs on your car while the engine's running.
Obama’s health-law
fix sends insurers, officials scrambling
Excerpt: State regulators across the country said they were
blindsided by President Obama’s decision to change a
key health-law provision and spent Friday scrambling to make sense of it. Some
said they were unsure whether their state laws would allow them to do what the
president suggested. A day after Obama tried to quell anxiety over millions of canceled insurance policies, only a handful of
state regulators said they would adopt the president’s fix. Many others said they needed
more time to decide what to do because of the complex logistics and
far-reaching impact on consumers.
Excerpt: You may remember that when Health Savings Accounts
were introduced there was almost universal outrage among liberals about the
horrendous burden cost-sharing places on all but “the healthy and
wealthy.” A press
release issued by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)
within a week of the Ways and Means committee approving an HSA bill in 2003
said – "This legislation would lead many employers to move away from
providing low-deductible comprehensive insurance, noted Edwin Park, a senior
health policy analyst at the Center and the report’s lead author. Policies with
deductibles of $1,000 or more, higher co-payments for medical services, and
coverage for a narrower array of health services could well become the norm for
employer-sponsored coverage, with employers expecting their workers to pay
uncovered costs out of their tax-favored Health Savings Security Accounts, Park
stated." ... So it comes as something as a shock that today these exact
same people are raving about how wonderful the coverage is in ObamaCare’s
insurance exchanges. Organizing for Action, Barack Obama’s official grassroots
operation emblazons on its website ― “Better Coverage, Lower Costs!”
Obama’s ‘5 Percent’ Con Job: It’s a 100
percent lie, according to the White House’s own figures. By Andrew C. McCarthy
Excerpt: The president well knew that, in implementing the
“grandfathering” provision, his administration wrote regulations so narrow that
tens of millions of existing plans would be eliminated. Congressional Democrats
knew this, too: When Republicans endeavored in 2010 to enact legislation that
would have broadened the regulation into a meaningful safe harbor, Democrats
closed ranks and voted down the proposal – including Democrats such as
Senator Mary Landrieu, who now pretends to be a crusader in the cause of
letting Americans keep their insurance.
Obamacare vs. the Dutiful: Hard-working
Americans might wonder, “Why bother?” By Charles C. W. Cooke
Excerpt: Among those whom the president has explicitly
deemed to be losing out “through no fault of their own” are illegal immigrants
who were brought here as children, federal workers who were furloughed during
the recent government shutdown, and “homeowners facing foreclosure.” Oddly
enough, however, he has yet to mention the millions of responsible and
admirable Americans who for years purchased health insurance on the individual
market and who are now being thrown off their plans — through no fault of their own, of course, but by him and his
central political achievement.
Right-wing, racist, Tea Party nut Howard Dean On
Obamacare Website: "I'm Not Convinced It's Going To Be Fixed"
Excerpt: And I'm not convinced it's going to be fixed -- you
know, I've seen a lot of tech rollouts. We don't do those well in this country.
My rule for them is -- and no matter what -- electronic medical records or the
tax department, it takes twice as long, costs twice as much and often you have
to do it twice.
Excerpt: And yet, as the dry-runs continued to produce red flags—over and over—the president remained in
his steely cocoon. If this were the presidency of George
W. Bush or Ronald Reagan, the obvious theories would abound:
the chief executive is disengaged. Or incurious. Or worse. But since Obama is
none of the above, what gives? This much is clear, after speaking with both
past and present senior administration officials: no one was really in
charge, so no one knew for sure how bad the overall picture was. What’s more,
and—perhaps most telling—no one wanted to even hint to the president that this
techno-savvy administration possibly had a website stuck in, say, 1995. “People
don’t like to tell him bad news,” says an ex-White House staffer. “Part of it
is the no-drama culture.”
More Video Released
Amid Obamacare Fraud Allegations
http://conservativevideos.com/2013/11/video-released-amid-obamacare-fraud-allegations/
http://conservativevideos.com/2013/11/video-released-amid-obamacare-fraud-allegations/
Excerpt: In the summer of this year, Obama told Democratic
members of Congress who were concerned that the ObamaCare rollout was going to
be a mess, that there was no reason to worry. “We are on the right side of
these issues and the right side of history in terms of providing health care to
Americans.” Now the right side of history is starting to look like the left
side of history.
At least one of the Democrats, Congresswoman Carol
Shea-Porter, decided that she had been on the wrong side of history and voted
for the “You Can Keep Your Plan” Act.
President Obama
Actually Meant, 'If You Like Your Insurance Plan, Too Bad.' By Sally Pipes
Obamacare: So, what
could go wrong next? by David Nather, Politico
Excerpt: The stumble-filled debut of President Barack
Obama’s health care law is drawing new attention to the other risks that have
been on the radar screen of health care wonks for months. Think health
insurance plans sinking under the weight of sick customers, newly insured
people being stunned that they still have to spend on health care, and possibly
another wave of canceled policies — right before the 2014 elections.
Dem. Senator: ‘We All
Knew’ Obama Was Lying
On Sunday, appearing on ABC’s This Week with
fill-in host Martha Raddatz, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
(D-NY) admitted that Democrats knew full
well that Americans would be booted from their health insurance
plans as an effect of Obamacare implementation. When asked whether Democrats
were misled by President Obama about whether Americans would be able to keep
their plans in the individual insurance market, Gillibrand answered: “He
should’ve just been specific. No, we all knew.”
From a blog reader
Mr. Obama has alleged he was not told the O'Care Web site
did not work and that he is terribly upset. Why hasn't he fired any of the
people who let him down? In what fantasy world does a CEO let his name become
attached to a major project, doesn't know it isn't going to work and then
doesn't even replace the subordinates who let him down? --TH
Excerpt: When his pet businesses did not like elements of
the Affordable Care Act, Obama simply exempted them. When employers objected
that their mandate would unduly hamper job creation, the president simply
ignored the settled law and exempted them. Now, when millions have lost their
coverage, the president is said to be ready to again reinterpret settled law
and no longer demand that private insurance plans conform to the ACA statute,
at least for a year.
Excerpt: Referring to a section of the gargantuan Obamacare
law which discusses “the president’s own commissioned and non-commissioned
officer corps,” Gohmert drew attention to the notion that under the pretext of
a “national emergency,” such individuals could be
used to impose some form of medical martial law….Combined with the continued
DHS arms build up along with the federal agency’s hiring of armed guards with “Top
Secret” security clearances, Gohmert characterized the issue as
“very disturbing”
Here is an article from last year, before the election. What
is important is what the doctor says about how it will affect the way he can
practice medicine. All of that is just as true now as when he said it. Two of
my own physicians have said pretty much the very same things about how their
practices will be affected. And saving money by cutting the payments for
Medicare by 27% will make doctors a lot less enthusiastic about having Medicare
patients. One of my doctors said that every doctor is going to have to
calculate the maximum fraction of Medicare patients he can afford to have in
his practice before it makes his cash flow go negative. This is going to make
things rough for the Boomers as more of them hit 65 and go into Medicare and
try to find doctors to accept them. Things are just really starting to go
downhill. The next six months are going to be more and more
"educational" for Americans. --Del
Good Column: The ignorant omniscience of President
Obama. By Mary Katharine Ham
Excerpt: He knows everything. And yet he seems to know
nothing. He’s passionate about the details of domestic policy but wasn’t privy
to the details of his own legacy law. He’s an academic with a command of every
issue at once but seemingly only finds out what his administration is doing in
news reports. He’s so brilliant every normal endeavor he’s tried has bored him,
but he couldn’t bother to entertain himself with more than one monthly meeting
on the make-or-break program of his presidency. He’s the captain of the Culture
of Competency who has overseen the most incompetent rollout of an entitlement
program in history. (The lady does a nice job on his recent TV announcements
about the mess that is Obamacare. Personally, I did a very simple analysis of
the man over four years ago. All you have to understand is that he has a
tremendous combination of two flaws, which are arrogance and ignorance.
He IS what in business we call the most dangerous guy around. Someone
who has absolutely no idea how much he does not know that he desperately needs
to know to do his job, but who is utterly certain that he knows everything he
ever needs to know. What's fascinating is that 5 years into it, with all kinds
of messes on his watch that would tell almost any person that they don't know
what they need to know, his attitudes have not changed one bit. He is still
as cocksure as ever, when something really hits the fan, all he has to do is
call in the TV cameras, offer some excuses, and make a pronouncement about how
things are fixed or will be shortly. Then all the media heads smile and tell America
that things are looking up, his disciples feel that wonderful calm of knowing
all is well after all, and the rest of us want to beat our heads against the
walls and scream. How many times do you have to catch someone in blatant lies
before you stop giving them any credence at all? But some realities don't go
away. They have stonewalled the Fast and Furious gun insanity so long that it's
out of most people's minds, and are doing the same for the IRS scandal. They
are riding the wave of Climate Change propaganda and acceptance by so many,
despite the arguments against it, and especially against the policies they
want to adopt because of it. Only the devotion of some people to the memory of
the four murdered Americans in Benghazi
keeps that alive at all. There are the massive effects of Obamacare,
starting with the people who are in very serious health dangers because of the
cancellation of their plans, and then progressing to the many millions of
Americans whose plans are cancelled and the choices they have no almost always
involve much higher costs with somewhat less coverage. These situations will
not change, and in fact only get worse with time as everyone gets their bad
news, and it turns out that possibly enough people will not enroll to make
the financial situation really untenable. So by next Spring we are going to
have millions upon millions of Americans very upset, with a lot more money
going out to insurance that contains less coverage and a higher deductible. That
pain will not lessen with time. So then will come next November...... and that
will be interesting. Meanwhile, enjoy the article. --Del )
Health care
deductibles a shock to Michigan
Excerpt: Six weeks after the troubled rollout of the
Michigan Health Insurance Marketplace, the Obama administration may be facing a
new challenge: consumer anger at high deductibles in plans that were supposed
to be the most affordable. In southeast Michigan ,
deductibles in most of the 14 bronze plans listed on the marketplace — those
with lower premiums — top $5,000 for a single person and $10,000-$12,000 for a
family. Insurance won’t kick in until those out-of-pocket costs are met. (So
they have to pay $12k out of pocket. They get free birth control and abortion
is covered. ~Bob.)
Can Democrats avoid a
circular firing squad on Obamacare? The early signs aren’t promising. By Chris
Cillizza And Sean Sullivan
Excerpt: Democrats have met the political enemy heading into
the 2014 midterms — and it is them. All of that movement came within hours of a
Thursday news conference by President Obama that was clearly aimed at calming
the building political storm, particularly within his own party. Obama and his
team had clearly hoped that allowing people to keep their insurance plans
through 2014 if they so chose would keep Democratic defections on the “Keep
Your Health Plan Act” in the House to a minimum and end — or at least sap
political energy from — efforts by Democratic senators to amend the law. It did
neither.
Hitler finds out
Obamacare will not let him keep his doctor
And another great satire. ~Bob
SNL Parody Has Obama
Guzzling Anti-Depressants
Excerpt: The current troubles of the Obama presidency can be
read back into its beginnings. Rule by personal charisma has met its proper
fate. The spell has been broken, and the magician stands exposed. We need no
pollsters to tell us of the loss of faith in Mr. Obama's policies—and, more
significantly, in the man himself. Charisma is like that. Crowds come together
and they project their needs onto an imagined redeemer. The redeemer leaves the
crowd to its imagination: For as long as the charismatic moment lasts—a year,
an era—the redeemer is above and beyond judgment. He glides through crises, he
knits together groups of varied, often clashing, interests. Always there is
that magical moment, and its beauty, as a reference point.
Feds try to eliminate
housing for the deaf -- at complex built for hearing-impaired
Excerpt: A 2005 federal study found that the U.S. had
virtually no affordable housing for the deaf. So the federal government helped
build Apache ASL Trails, a 75-unit apartment building in Tempe , Ariz.
Excerpt: Obama does better with Democrats but Clinton still bests him.
Almost half -- 49 percent -- of Democrats say Clinton was a better president while 37
percent think Obama is doing better in the White House.
Negative Effects of
Minimum Wage Increase
Excerpt: After comparing historical changes in unemployment
rates among workers of varied educational attainments to changes in the minimum
wage, Davies estimates that the new increase in New Jersey's minimum wage will
cause the following to happen: Increase unemployment among workers without a
high school education (by approximately 2 percentage points); Increase
unemployment among workers without high school diplomas in general (by
approximately 1 percentage point); And have no effect on unemployment among
college-educated workers. Davies found no evidence that suggests that an
increase in the minimum wage will improve income equality in New Jersey .
Why Walking to Work
Can be More Polluting Than Driving to Work. By Richard B. McKenzie
Excerpt: Which is more polluting—driving a mile to work or
walking that mile? The easy answer is, of course, driving. Cars have tailpipes;
people don't. Far more energy is needed to push a 3,000-pound car along the
road than is needed to move a 150- to 250-pound body along a sidewalk. Walking seems like the green
thing to do. But appearances can be deceiving, making easy answers dead wrong.
That's the case here when the calories expended in walking are replaced.
What That Sneaky Fee
on Your Phone Bill Means. By John Leo
Excerpt: When you pay your monthly
phone bill, you’re not only paying for your own service, you’re paying
for someone’s free cellphone service, too. This week
the FCC proposed millions of dollars in fines against
providers of free government-paid cell phone service, probably the first time
many Americans have heard of the program, let alone the fraud, duplicate
payments, waste and other violations the fines are supposed to address.
Socialism in Action: Doctors Say Venezuela
Excerpt: Driving the crisis in health care are the same
forces that have left Venezuelans scrambling to find toilet paper, milk and
automobile parts. Economists blame government mismanagement and currency
controls set by the late President Hugo Chavez for inflation pushing 50 percent
annually. The government controls the dollars needed to buy medical supplies
and has simply not made enough available. (The joys of a single payer system.
~Bob)
THOUSANDS of elderly
people dying due to hip replacement postcode lottery
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-hip-replacement-thousands-elderly-2799924
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-hip-replacement-thousands-elderly-2799924
Excerpt: Thousands of elderly people are dying due to a
“postcode lottery” of care after they break a hip, claim specialists. The death
rate from the problem is up to 13 per cent in some hospitals – more than six
times the two per cent rate in the best ones, a study shows. (The joys of a
single payer system. ~Bob)
Police probe into
Co-op bank chief Reverend Paul Flowers caught buying crystal meth and cocaine
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509042/Police-probe-Co-op-bank-chief-caught-buying-crystal-meth-cocaine.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2509042/Police-probe-Co-op-bank-chief-caught-buying-crystal-meth-cocaine.html
Excerpt: Police last night launched an investigation into
Labour’s favourite banker after he was caught buying crystal meth and crack
cocaine. ... Flowers was £132,000-a-year chairman of the ‘ethical’ bank, which
has lent £34million to Labour over two decades.
Holder: l'll stay
attorney general 'well into 2014'
Excerpt: Holder told The Washington Post that
he plans to stay in his job "well into 2014." “I've made the
determination — I'm not sure I've ever said this publicly — but I'm going to
certainly stay in this job well into 2014," he said. "If you had
asked me that six months ago, I'm not sure I would have given you that answer.
JFK: Lifetime NRA
Member, Second Amendment Defender. By Awr Hawkins
Excerpt: With the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's
(JFK) assassination drawing near, various aspects of his life and presidency
are being recounted. Among these, two aspects that are not getting the
attention they deserve are his lifetime membership in the NRA and his defense
of the Second Amendment.
Syrian Rebel Leader
Dies After Government Attack
Excerpt: A Syrian rebel leader who brought together one of
the most effective and organized factions fighting President Bashar al-Assad in
the country’s civil war has died of wounds suffered Thursday in a government
attack on a meeting of rebel leaders outside Aleppo, his followers said on
Monday. His death was seen as a serious blow to the rebels amid a gathering
government offensive as diplomats pursue efforts to convene international peace
talks.
Excerpt: Israel
has secretly held a suspected al-Qaeda biological weapons expert since 2010, it
has been revealed. A military court placed Samir Abdul Latif al-Baraq in
"administrative detention", which allows indefinite detention without
charge or trial, after he was arrested in July 2010.
Excerpt: Thus, the Jewish state of Israel and the Islamic state of Saudi Arabia , certainly not friends in normal
times, find themselves planning to join forces if necessary to stop Iran from
crossing the nuclear arms finish line. According to a November 17, 2013 article
in the British newspaper Sunday Times, Saudi
Arabia has agreed to “give the go-ahead for Israeli
planes to use its airspace in the event of an attack on Iran .” The
Saudis are also reported to be willing to assist the Israelis by making drones,
rescue helicopters, and tanker planes available for the Israelis’ use.
Al-Qaeda’s Jihad Supported by Muslim Brotherhood. By Raymond Ibrahim
Excerpt: Many are aware that the current al-Qaeda leader,
the Egyptian Ayman Zawahiri is a former Brotherhood member (read here); yet few know that the original al-Qaeda leader,
the Saudi (and “Wahhabi”) Osama bin Laden was also a Brotherhood member. While
Zawahiri made as much clear in a recent video, more
interestingly, he indicated that the Brotherhood also supported bin Laden’s
jihad.
Kennedy Family Rules. By Lloyd Billingsley
Excerpt: Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel, is the sister of
Rushton Skakel, father of Michael Skakel. In 2002 Michael Skakel was sentenced
to 20 years to life for murdering his neighbor Martha Moxley with a golf club
in Greenwich , Connecticut
Excerpt: The first chapter of the Community Organizer's
Handbook outlines the first step in addressing a problem....form a committee,
fund it, spend two years walking around the problem, then when no solutions
have been found, form a subcommittee. Barack Hussein Obama (will we someday
look back and recoil at hearing that name?) has taken that approach to a whole
new level when he became President. Obama seems to have lifted entire sections
of Hitler's "Mein Kamph" and Karl Marx' "The Communist
Manifesto" in order to establish a huge group of Czars to circumvent
Congress and dictate governance from the Executive Branch.
Who's Mirroring Jim
Crow? from The Patriot Post
‘Free as the Wind’: The True Cost of Wind Energy. By Steve
Maley
Excerpt: Green activists preach about renewable energy
sources, using words like ‘holistic’ and ‘sustainable’. Wind energy is one of
their favorites; nothing is as free as the wind, n’est-ce pas?
If we truly consider the holistic environmental impact of
wind turbines on the environment and the economy, it’s not a pretty picture.
Nor is it sustainable.
Excerpt: They did not find anything. On Wednesday, a man
went on his own to the police station, maybe overcome by remorse, and admitted
committing the mischief: it was the imam himself.
Halt deportation and
pass KIDS Act as steps to immigration reform
Excerpt: The prospect of delivering a comprehensive
immigration bill to President Obama’s desk this year is coming to a halt. With the political will waning, broad reform will
have to wait until 2014 or beyond. … Executive action to stop deportations and
the KIDS Act or DREAM-like bill can still pass as first steps to comprehensive
immigration reform.
Scientists in Alaska Warn About Spread of Fukushima
Excerpt: For years the mainstream media looked the other way
as Fukushima has
been irradiating the planet, but there have been clear indications that this
nuclear disaster is already having an effect, even on the other end of the
world. This week it was reported that scientists in Alaska are
raising concerns about the possibility of Fukushima radiation contaminating the
local food supply….The data they will need is not only past data but current
data, and if no one is sampling anything then we won’t really know it, will we?
Potentially Fatal
‘Knockout’ Game Targeting Strangers May Be Spreading
Excerpt: A terrifying new ‘game’ that’s already caused
deaths in Syracuse , St.
Louis and New
Jersey is sweeping the nation, and it preys upon
unsuspecting people walking the streets, anywhere. A recent report from New
York-based CBS 2 shed light on the growing trend, displaying
unsettling footage of teens participating in this game – which goes by the name
‘Knockout’ – and involves randomly targeting passersby, with the ultimate goal
being to knock them out with one punch as they walk by. One victim shown in the
footage was 46-year-old Ralph Santiago of Hoboken , N.J.
US hired Afghan
contractor with ties to terror groups, inspector general says
Excerpt: The U.S. Department of Defense reportedly hired an
Afghan company with terrorist ties to do work on a NATO facility last year,
according to the top official overseeing reconstruction efforts in the war-torn
nation. The Army Times reports Special Inspector General for Afghanistan
Reconstruction John Sopko cited the contract with Zurmat Material Testing
Laboratory in a Nov. 8 letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel as part of a
larger pattern resulting in $150 million of Pentagon payments to various
concerns with insurgent ties. (Per article, firm supplied “bomb-making
materials” to terrorists in area. --Barb)
Excerpt: Following bombshell documents released by Storyleak
and Infowars last Tuesday uncovering Seattle’s expansive $2.6 million Homeland
Security funded mesh network surveillance grid, new documents hidden deep
inside the 2012 proposal request (# DIT-2996) give even greater detail into the
government’s ability to track and database virtually any person
I SAY WE REPEAL HER: Texas A&M Law Prof Says It’s Time to Repeal Second Amendment
Excerpt: A full-time professor on the faculty of the
newly-minted Texas A&M University School of Law called for the repeal and
replacement of the Second Amendment on Friday.
Obama Refuses to
Speak to Netanyahu: In latest twist in public US-Israel relations fallout,
Obama has been forwarding all of Netanyahu's calls to John Kerry.
Excerpt: US President Barack Obama has refused to
answer phone calls from Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "more
than once," according to Kuwaiti news source Al-Jarida. In a
deliberate snub, Netanyahu's calls have instead been forwarded to US Secretary
of State John Kerry. An American source told Al-Jarida that
Jewish American politicians have been keen to fix the situation, which has
steadily been deteriorating over the past month, and are attempting to set up
a meeting between the two world leaders at the White House.
The Afghan Taliban took credit for yesterday's suicide
attack in the capital of Kabul
that targeted the site of an upcoming meeting of Afghan leaders who will vote
on the Bilateral Security Agreement. ... "A martyr attack hit the
heavily-guarded military convoy of the puppets [Afghan security personnel] in Kabul city, the capital of
the country later on Saturday, killing as many as 32 puppets and wounding
several others," the Taliban statement said.
Army veteran banned
from Old Navy store over teen employee in Marine uniform
Excerpt: Army veteran Aaron Bennett says he was banned from
an Old
Navy store in Jacksonville ,
Florida
Excerpt: Now a
report, released by the estate of late Rep. Bill Young, says that the Benghazi
An Incurious Or Willfully Ignorant President. By Derek
Hunter
Excerpt: When President Obama stepped in front of the
cameras Thursday to magically waive a wand and arbitrarily change his signature
accomplishment, he couldn’t help but lie to the American people…again. But
lying about the accomplishments of his administration isn’t a compulsion; it’s
a requirement.
A Sailor’s
Dying Wish
Excerpt: After signing my Pop, EM2 Bud Cloud (circa
Pearl Harbor) up for hospice care, the consolation prize I’d given him (for
agreeing it was OK to die) was a trip to “visit the Navy in San Diego.” I
emailed my friend and former Marine sergeant, Mrs. Mandy McCammon, who’s
currently serving as a Navy Public Affairs Officer, at midnight on 28
May. I asked Mandy if she had enough pull on any of the bases in San Diego to get me access
for the day so I could give Bud, who served on USS
Dewey (DD-349), a windshield tour.
2 LDS sister
missionaries attacked in Kosovo
Excerpt: Fox 13 News has learned two sister missionaries
were beaten by Albanians, who are also tied to plotting a terrorist attack. The
LDS Church
Obama can’t get your
guns, so he’s going to take away your ammunition
The Homeland Security Department wants to buy more than 1.6
billion rounds of ammunition in the next four or five years. It says it needs
them — roughly the equivalent of five bullets for every person in the United States — for law
enforcement agents in training and on duty. Enough bullets for a 20 year war.
CDC's Secret Security
Force, Not Very Secret, But Definitely Scary
Excerpt: But it is something the media does not cover much,
likely because of the concern it would cause if the citizenry knew
that- yes the CDC believes it has the authority to put a gun to your head
and force you to take that shot of experimental H7N9 vaccine. And, oh by the
way, they just did order 600 million syringes to give every person in the USA two
shots. (CDC already forcing healthcare workers throughout country to take flu
shots (some with option to wear masks if MD-certified allergy or
religious--signed by minister--reason); otherwise, terminated to get near 100%
vaccinated goal to avoid facility fines of over 6-digit-figures. Same methods
used on school systems to establish nationalization of “education” programs a
la Common Core, using carrot/stick funds/withholding of funds. Money talks. Using
capitalism to defeat capitalism. Same methods being used on farmers to “order”
what should be produced, replacing balancing mechanism of free market system
(i.e. corn overuse for ethanol). COMMAND ECONOMY, ordering what the State
wants. --Barb)
Excerpt: The Wall Street Journal reported last Wednesday
that another 3,000 Americans have turned in their American passports and
renounced their American citizenship. The Journal further reports that this is
a 30 percent increase over last year and represents a growing trend since 2009.
The Journal wished to concentrate on the "wealth factor", the rich
deserting the ever increasing taxes on the wealthy. However, Numbers USA and
other organizations cite the exodus of the middle class as well. Departing
citizens cited oppressive government and the growing government intrusion into
their personal lives. The Middle Class seemed particularly abused by higher
local, state and federal taxes on the working man to pay for a growing
dependent class and a corrupt hierarchy of government employees feeding
unceasingly at the public trough.
Two Small Children
Among Four Christians Slain in Plateau
State , Nigeria
Excerpt: Gunmen who killed four family members in their home
in Plateau state this month, including 2-year-old and 4-year-old boys, were
likely Muslim herdsmen, church leaders said.
TJ Joseph, Christian
teacher accused of blasphemy (and mutilated) is fully acquitted
Excerpt: Kerala
Court hands down acquittal on appeal. In 2010,
Islamic extremists accused the teacher of having offended Muhammad. While
denying any responsibility, a group of strangers cut off his hand and part of
his right arm. After being suspended and then fired by the school authorities,
today the teacher was offered his job again.
CIA personnel asked
to sign additional non-disclosure form after Benghazi
excerpt: At least five CIA personnel, including government
contractors, were asked to sign a second non-disclosure agreement after
the Benghazi terrorist
attack, Fox News has learned. ... But they felt the request for a second
non-disclosure agreement after the terrorist attack was odd and not standard
practice because their original NDA's were still in effect, and only some in
the group were undergoing contract modifications that might require a new NDA.
Sen. Coburn: Obama’s
DHS Nominee Plagiarized 23 Times
Excerpt: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
ranking member Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has found that President Barack Obama’s
nominee to be the secretary of the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) ,Jeh Johnson, plagiarized 23 times in his written questionnaire
provided to the committee before his confirmation hearing. The Associated
Press reported on Thursday
that Coburn “said he was concerned that Johnson's written answers to customary
prehearing questions used the same language in 23 instances as several other
Obama administration nominees"
Obama’s choice for Fed chair: Hurting savers is good policy
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/14/obamas-choice-for-fed-chair-hurting-savers-is-good-policy/#ixzz2klzbPHBo
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/14/obamas-choice-for-fed-chair-hurting-savers-is-good-policy/#ixzz2klzbPHBo
Excerpt: During her confirmation hearing Thursday, Janet
Yellen, President Obama’s nominee to become chairman of the Federal Reserve,
said she will pursue policies that hurt people who try to build up wealth,
claiming that impoverishing savers serves the collective good of society….Yellen
avoided hard questioning from a Senate Banking Committee staffed mostly by
believers in the Keynesian economics to which she subscribes.
Watch this high
school senior’s epic takedown of Common Core [VIDEO]
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/14/watch-this-high-school-seniors-epic-takedown-of-common-core-video/#ixzz2klxC0O2B
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/14/watch-this-high-school-seniors-epic-takedown-of-common-core-video/#ixzz2klxC0O2B
Excerpt: A Tennessee high
school senior is receiving widespread attention for an eloquent speech he made
against Common Core at a school board meeting. Ethan Young, a senior at Farragut High School in Knox County , Tenn.
EPA scales back
ethanol mandate to avert ‘blendwall’
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/15/epa-scales-back-ethanol-mandate/#ixzz2klvNLGFq
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/15/epa-scales-back-ethanol-mandate/#ixzz2klvNLGFq
Excerpt: While we are pleased that EPA has taken steps to
avoid the blendwall in 2014, we remain concerned that the proposed rule leaves
open the possibility that the biofuel mandates will exceed the maximum amount
of ethanol that can be safely added to our gasoline supply,” said Charles
Drevna, president of the American Fuels & Petrochemical Manufacturers. ... Furthermore,
the ever increasing ethanol mandate has been blamed for driving up food and
fuel prices, as about 40 percent of the country’s corn supply is diverted to
ethanol production. (Check out the article mentioning increased nitrogen
fertilizer use/pollution and “blue baby syndrome.” Scary, but such “side
effects” are reaped from a command economy, where those dictating rules do not
truly understand cause/effect or supply/demand or care about the damage/stress
they produce on the land, the people or the animals, food supply or
cars/trucks.
Quiz: How Millennial
Are You?
Burqa-donning teens
attack, rob woman 9 months pregnant
http://q13fox.com/2013/11/12/burka-wearing-teens-attack-rob-pregnant-woman-for-her-cell-phone/#ixzz2l1b8dVN5
http://q13fox.com/2013/11/12/burka-wearing-teens-attack-rob-pregnant-woman-for-her-cell-phone/#ixzz2l1b8dVN5
Excerpt: A woman who was nine months pregnant was attacked
and rob by two teenagers wearing burqas last Tuesday in North
Seattle . Now, police are asking for help finding the attackers.
Charges in alleged
attack of Muslim cabdriver Mohamed Salim are dropped
Excerpt: After reviewing cellphone records and other
evidence in the alleged attack, which some Muslim groups termed a hate crime,
prosecutors said they did not believe Mohamed A. Salim’s account.
9 Mind-Blowing Facts
About Obama’s Unemployment Crisis
Excerpt: There are 102 million Americans of working age who
don’t have a job. This number represents 58.3% of working age Americans, the
highest percentage since 2000. This means that for fifty straight months, there
has been sub 59% participation in the job market.
Important: D.C. awash in contracts, lobbying wealth
Obama's one Percenters. ~Bob Excerpt: The avalanche of cash
that made Washington
rich in the last decade has transformed the culture of a once staid capital and
created a new wave of well-heeled insiders. The winners in the new Washington are not just
the former senators, party consiglieri and four-star generals who have always
profited from their connections. Now they are also the former bureaucrats,
accountants and staff officers for whom unimagined riches are suddenly
possible. They are the entrepreneurs attracted to the capital by its aura of
prosperity and its super-educated workforce. They are the lawyers, lobbyists
and executives who work for companies that barely had a presence in Washington before the
boom.
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