Fourth of July
Must Watch! ~Bob
Must Read: You Also Can't Keep Your Doctor: I had
great cancer doctors and health insurance. My plan was cancelled. Now I worry
how long I'll live. By Edie Littlefield Sundby
Excerpt: My grievance is not political; all my energies are
directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics.
For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer,
with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a
determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My
affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective
Dec. 31. My choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange
and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside
the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting
over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits.
Excerpt: Consider the editorial in Monday’s Wall Street
Journal. If you are inclined to believe Barack Obama’s claim that people losing
their insurance are giving up skimpy coverage for much better benefits, read
the editorial again, and again, and again. ... Here is my prediction: the kind
of coverage this woman had will never again be seen in the individual market in
this country.
Medicare Chief
Marilyn Tavenner testifies before Senate on HealthCare.gov troubles
Excerpt: An administration official overseeing the federal
online health insurance marketplace encouraged Americans to log on to the Web
site despite its well-publicized technical problems and try to shop for
coverage. Testifying Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Marilyn Tavenner said her agency,
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), plans to release
information next week about who enrolled through the state and federal
exchanges. She said the target for the end of November is 800,000 enrollments.
HHS: Expect outages
at HealthCare.gov
Excerpt: Federal health officials said that consumers can
expect further outages at ObamaCare's troubled enrollment portal as the site
undergoes repairs in the next four weeks. A spokeswoman for the Department
of Health and Human Services (HHS) downplayed the site's semi-regular
breakdowns, widely interpreted as a sign of the deep technical problems facing
repair teams.
The Chicago Way
Excerpt: Quality Software Services Inc., the company that
built the data hub for Healthcare.gov, won its huge contract after its parent,
UnitedHealth Group, enlisted two so-called super-lobbyists. These men are
Democratic power-brokers: They have raised significant amounts of funds for
Democratic causes and campaigns, and they maintain lots of friends in high
places.
The Next Big Obamacare Scandal. By Joseph Klein
Excerpt: President Barack Obama is doubling down on his
Obamacare lies. He is now trying to erase retroactively his point-blank
assurance to the American people that “if you like your health-care plan, you
will be able to keep your health-care plan, period.” Drawing on his golfing
experience, he is insisting on a mulligan as millions of Americans are losing
the health insurance policies they have chosen because of Obamacare mandates.
The White House Fable Factory. By Michelle Malkin
Excerpt: Now that true horror stories of Obamacare’s
wrecking ball are finally reaching the public, the White House doesn’t like
“anecdotes.” Live by tale-telling; die by tale-telling.
ObamaCare Cancelled Your Health Insurance. Now, Send Us Your Letter.
Bill Maher shuts down
Wasserman Schultz: ‘Come on. . . that is a lie’
Excerpt: “It was a bad week for the president, let’s be
honest here,” Maher said on HBO’s “Real Time Friday. “We’re not like them, we
don’t live in the bubble. It was a bad week. It looks like he [the president]
told a lie. I think he kinda did,” he said before throwing out his question. “Is
a lie justified if it’s for something good?” he asked. “And if he hadn’t told
that lie, could Obamacare have been passed?”
Excerpt: Six days ago, a North Carolina man named Justin
Hadley logged on to HealthCare.gov to evaluate his
insurance options after his current provider canceled his plan -- one of an
estimated 16 million Americans who
could face such a predicament thanks to Obamacare. Once on the website, Hadley
discovered a security breach that exposed the personal information of a total
stranger. That man, Tom Dougall of South
Carolina , had visited the problem-plagued website in
early October to shop for insurance. Even though he opted not to sign up,
Hadley was presented with Dougall's private eligibility letter.
Strategic Move
Exempts Health Law From Broader U.S.
Excerpt: The Affordable Care Act is the biggest new health
care program in decades, but the Obama administration has ruled that neither
the federal insurance exchange nor the federal subsidies paid to insurance
companies on behalf of low-income people are “federal health care programs.” The
surprise decision, disclosed last week, exempts subsidized health insurance
from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other financial
arrangements in federal health programs, stripping law enforcement of a
powerful tool used to fight fraud in other health care programs, like Medicare.
President Obama's ACA message evolves again. By Reid J. Epstein, Politico
Excerpt: For years since the Affordable Care Act’s passage,
President Barack Obama’s mantra has been that if people like their health insurance
plans, they can keep them. That line now includes a significant asterisk.
Our future: Venezuelan health care system collapsing
Excerpt: The Associated Press ran a surprisingly scathing look
at the current state of health care in Venezuela, In a word, the whole system,
and especially the parts run by the government as part of a 1999 constitutional
mandate to provide “free” universal health care, is collapsing:
Top Hospitals Opt Out
of Obamacare
Excerpt: The Obama Administration has
been claiming that insurance companies will be competing for your
dollars under the Affordable Care Act, but apparently they haven't
surveyed the nation's top hospitals. Americans who sign up for Obamacare will
be getting a big surprise if they expect to access premium health care that may
have been previously covered under their personal policies. Most of the
top hospitals will accept insurance from just one or two companies operating
under Obamacare.
Tweet from David Higgins @dhiggins63
If websites' the ONLY thing wrong with Obamacare, then the
only thing wrong with selling BAD-FOOD is a delivery truck that's too small!
Barack Obama says that what he'd said was you could keep your plan 'if it hasn’t changed since the law passed'
Even leftist apologist PolitiFact calls it a lie. ~Bob. Excerpt:
According to Obama, "What we said was you can keep (your plan) if it
hasn’t changed since the law passed." But we found at least 37 times since
Obama’s inauguration where he or a top administration official made a variation
of the pledge that if you like your plan, you can keep it, and we never found
an instance in which he offered the caveat that it only applies to plans that
hadn’t changed after the law’s passage. And seven of those 37 cases came after
the release of the HHS regulations that defined the "grandfathering"
process, when the impact would be clear. ... Obama is ignoring the overwhelming
majority of times he addressed the issue, where most people would have heard
it. We rate his
claim Pants on Fire.
They fixed the
website!
Sebelius: ‘Possible’
for felon to become an ObamaCare navigator
http://thehill.com//thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/189432-sebelius-%E2%80%98possible%E2%80%99-for-a-felon-to-become-an#ixzz2jtk6Stoc
http://thehill.com//thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/189432-sebelius-%E2%80%98possible%E2%80%99-for-a-felon-to-become-an#ixzz2jtk6Stoc
Excerpt: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius told a congressional panel on Wednesday that it was
“possible” for an ObamaCare navigator to have been convicted of a
felony….“Isn’t it true that there is no federal requirement for a navigator to
undergo a criminal background check, even though they will receive sensitive
personal information for people they help sign up for the Affordable Care Act?”
“That is true,” Sebelius responded. (Gotta support the Obama base. ~Bob)
Obamacare Definition
going around the net
Remember when Nancy Pelosi said about Obamacare: “We have to
pass it, to find out what’s in it.” A physician called into the radio show and
said: "That's the definition of a stool sample." That pretty well
sums up Obamacare.
Winners and losers from Election Night 2013. By Chris Cillizza
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/11/06/winners-and-losers-from-election-night-2013/?wpisrc=nl_pmpol
Excerpt: The election is over. But the spin over what it all
means and the sifting of election data have only just begun!
Suspected Bomb Blasts
Hit Northern Chinese
City
Excerpt: Around half a dozen small “suspected homemade
bombs” detonated near a Communist Party office in the coal-dusted
Chinese city of Taiyuan
early on Wednesday, Nov. 6, according to state newswire Xinhua. The official
news agency said that one person had been killed and eight others
injured, one seriously. (Muslims attacking Communists. Pass the popcorn. ~Bob)
Excerpt: Twenty years ago, New York ’s long nightmare ended with a
Giuliani victory over Mayor Dinkins. Now the nightmare returns as former
Dinkins staffer and terrorist supporter Bill de Blasio will begin wrecking the
city where Dinkins and his Democratic predecessors left off. (We better start
now: "No bailout for NY!" ~Bob)
The Big Apple's Turn Left. By Jonah
Goldberg
Excerpt: But if De Blasio's remarkable rise proves anything,
it's that the rules can change. A liberal's crazy liberal, De Blasio still
waxes nostalgic about the noble struggle of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, for
whom he raised money in the 1980s. He violated the ban on travel to Cuba for
his honeymoon with his formerly gay wife, and he often talks as if he's handing
out literature in Union Square for the former left-wing New Party, for which he
used to work. For conservative pundits, he's the Austin Powers of pre-Rudolph
Giuliani urban liberalism, a near perfect throwback thawed out for our
amusement. Social justice is his bag, baby.
John Kerry and Saudi Women Driving. By Jamie Glazov
Excerpt: For the Left, all cultures are equal, but some
cultures are more equal than others. For instance, in the world of the Left,
the West never has a right to say what is right or wrong — when dealing with an
adversary culture and regime, that is. If it’s Israel , you can start shooting
right away.
The most important
article you will read: What to do after a defensive shooting
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/30/the-most-important-article-you-will-read-what-to-do-after-a-defensive-shooting/#ixzz2jsToi8uk
http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/30/the-most-important-article-you-will-read-what-to-do-after-a-defensive-shooting/#ixzz2jsToi8uk
‘Moderate’ Muslims at Norway ‘peace conference’ endorse
stoning for gays and adulterers. By Barry Duke
Excerpt: AFTER overwhelmingly agreeing by a show of hands
that they were “normal” Sunni Muslims and not radicals or extremists, delegates
to a “peace conference” in Norway earlier this year indicated their full
support for the death penalty for adulterers and gays. This vote, says the
Chairman of a Norwegian organisation Islam Net, Fahad Ullah Qureshi, is
indicative of the fact that ALL Muslims hold the view that the Koran is correct
when it prescribes stoning, not just radical preachers.
http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/11/south-africa-corruption-rape-murder-normal/
Excerpt: “Not long ago, I thought I was going to get raped
and murdered by the police.” What? She was on her way home to her acreage in a
farming community outside Johannesburg
when she approached a four-way stop. “This intersection is known for
carjackings,” she said. “No one stops. You just slow down enough to make sure
you are not going to hit anyone, and keep going. “You know what happens to
people who get carjacked?” she asked.
Obama Secret Service Agent: “It’s Worse Than People Know…
and I’m Not Trying to Scare You Either.” By Mac Slavo
Excerpt: For all the disagreements I had with Clinton,
Carter and Bush there were always limits… there was that line you just didn’t
cross… We cross it seemingly every day. We’re lost in the scandals…The Jamie
Dimon shakedown at Chase… the HHS scandal.. Kathleen Sebelius shaking down the
health care industry for money… the IRS… it’s to the point where these scandals
in and of themselves would be huge back-breaking scandals [but] are just lost
in the scandal fog of this administration…
Racial justice at the
Justice Department? Not on this watch. By Colin Flaherty
Excerpt: It would be so easy for Attorney General Holder to
make the ornery Christian Adams eat crow. Instead, Holder seems determined to
prove him right.
Surprising support for
the NRA
VOTER FRAUD (Virtual
State of the Union 2013)
Pentagon’s Must-Read
News Compilation Fades Away
Excerpt: The Defense Department’s Early Bird news
service — which drove debates at the Pentagon, and its senior leaders to
frustration, with its compilation of articles on military operations, budget
politics and weapons programs — was declared dead on Friday.
Routine traffic stop
results in nightmare 14-hour anal cavity search at hospital for male driver who
'failed to halt at stop sign'
Excerpt: A New
Mexico man stopped for rolling through a stop sign
earlier this year was subjected to a nightmarish 14-hour anal cavity search
after police became suspicious that he was hiding drugs. David Eckert says
he was subjected to three enemas, two rectal searches, two x-rays and even a
colonoscopy - all in pursuit of non-existent narcotics. (OK, I am a Law &
Order guy, generally very supportive of law enforcement. This story makes me
hope that a jury bankrupts the city of Deming
and maybe the officers and doctors personally as well. It doesn't get any
crazier than this. When you read the sequence of events, what you are seeing is
the cops getting progressively more anxious to prove this man must have drugs. When
the simple check doesn't reveal any, you go up a step to the X-ray. When that
doesn't show anything (which should have been enough for them to back off right
then), you go to repeated enemas. Even though by that time you should know you
are really wrong and really doing the wrong thing, then you just keep going all
the way into the colonoscopy. That's idiocy in action, and it should be
recognized and appropriately rewarded. I can't imagine the utter, total,
prolonged humiliation that the man went through. I can only hope he becomes
independently wealthy out of this, and has the satisfaction of getting multiple
humbling apologies from the mayor down to the nurses in the OR. --Del )
Excerpt: Of all the miracles our creator gifted us it is
love that is the most wondrous. Love is like spun gold that mutually binds us
to the hearts of our loved ones. A single strand has no value, but
collectively, their value is beyond measure. And how precious and how gracious
do these golden threads tie us together without ever strangling us, allowing
our hearts to soar to great heights, limited only by our own hopes and dreams.
Think of a tiny and fragile bird. Once God immortalizes them with the yet
unborn, with the first stirrings of the embryo, the mother bird will fly
about selecting and collecting a single bit of straw to build a nest. They will
toil all of their daylight hours building a strong nest for the birth and
nurturing of their coming young. When finally completed they will have built a
nest, a warm sanctuary for the blossoming of the new life. And all the while
both parent and young will have weaved a wondrous strand of gold, of love,
around each of their tiny hearts.
Excerpt: Last week's column, “Is There a Way Out?”,
generated quite a few responses, some a bit angry. Some people were offended by
my reference to Social Security and Medicare as entitlements or handouts. They
said that they worked for 45 years and paid into Social Security and Medicare
and how dare I refer to the money they now receive as an entitlement. These
people have been duped by Congress and shouldn't be held totally accountable
for such a belief. Let's examine the plethora of congressional Social Security
lies.
Fracking poses 'low'
risk to public health, says UK
Excerpt: More bad news for anti-fracking activists.
Experts at Public Health England
are seeking public comment on a draft report that shows a “low” risk of adverse health
problems due to the extraction of shale gas - natural gas found within shale
formations.
Pictured with the man
who shot him dead moments later: RAF policeman grins alongside rogue Afghan
policeman who opened fire on him and comrade
Excerpt: An unwitting British soldier who posed for a
photograph with a rogue Afghan policeman was shot dead by him seconds later. Corporal
Brent McCarthy, 25, is pictured with a member of the Afghan Uniformed Police
just moments before the shooting.
Islamic University
Dean Supports Stoning
Excerpt: The rector of the Islamic University of Rotterdam
(IUR) values stoning as an appropriate punishment, NRC Handelsblad newspaper
reported Thursday. The Lower House is demanding clarification from Integration
Minister Lodewijk Asscher. The rector, Ahmet Akgündüz, has written a pamphlet
on the demonstrations this summer in Turkey . He calls opponents of
Turkish Premier Erdogan “enemies of Islam.” The demonstrations were the work of
“people with a Western lifestyle.” In addition, he is said to characterise
stoning as “one of the prescribed punishments within Islam.”
Excerpt: The bodies of 30 Christian civilians, including
women and children, killed by Islamist militias, have been found in two
separate mass graves, in the city of Sadad .
The number of Christian civilians confirmed dead in this small town halfway
between Homs and Damascus has reached 45. Many are injured and
several are missing.
The GPU Festival
should make all progressives uncomfortable. So why are our MPs sharing its
platform?
Excerpt: al-Razi works for the Council of Ex-Muslims. Imagine that in
the year 2013 a conference in London
featured speakers that had in the past said that a certain group of people
deserve to be killed. Imagine that other speakers had proudly stated their
supremacist, extremist and bigoted views that were entirely at odds with every
value of a liberal secular society which aspires to equality and seeks to
overcome prejudice and hatefulness.
Black Tea Party Group
Pushes Grayson Sponsors To Cut Support
Excerpt: Fighting back against the crude stereotype of Tea
Partiers drawn by Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL), a
black Tea Party group based in South Central Los Angeles has launched
a campaign against Grayson’s corporate sponsors. The South Central Los Angeles
Tea Party called
on donors to Grayson on Monday to cut support after Grayson compared
the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan in a mailer.
Impeachment
Gaining Attention In Congress
Excerpt: Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, recently handed out
copies of a book that has been described by its authors as the “articles of
impeachment” for Barack Obama, and suggested that special investigations, and
possibly prosecutions, are needed over Fast and Furious, Benghazi and
other Obama scandals. But Stockman is not the only member of Congress to
discuss impeachment in response to the actions of Obama and his administration.
A total of 15 members have discussed this idea recently. (Article notes per Sen. Cruz, “…Have to have the votes in the
Senate.” (They will never have the votes in the senate, as impeachment would
create riots. A failed effort would help Obama as it did Clinton . ~Bob)
Environmental
Scientist Steward: EPA Ruling May Kill Coal Business
A controversial Supreme Court decision on the EPA regulation
of greenhouse gases could help kill the coal business, says scientist Leighton
Steward, chairman of the non-profit environmental group Plants Need C02.
Shades of Solyndra:
Team Obama mum as another green energy firm went bust
Excerpt: Failing to heed the lessons of the Solyndra debacle, Energy Department officials kept quiet
about their knowledge that a government-backed electric car charger
company was sliding toward bankruptcy and putting taxpayer money at risk, the
agency’s chief watchdog has found. Inspector General Greg Friedman admonished department
officials for failing to disclose during an audit this summer what they knew
about San Francisco-based Ecotality’s financials troubles and the possibility that
the firm might not meet the terms of its taxpayer funding. The company received
$100 million in aid from the 2009 stimulus.
Health Staffs Get Flu
Shots to Avoid Penalty
Excerpt: For the first time this year, hospitals are being
asked to report health-care personnel vaccination rates to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. And under a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services quality-reporting program, those that don't comply face penalties that
could reduce their payments starting next fall.
Personal
Preparation for Grid Ex II
Excerpt: Isn’t it interesting that the TV series,Revolution, has so
accurately depicted the bedlam that would follow a catastrophic loss of power.
The biggest threats to survival will be a lack of food and water, roving
gangsters in search of resources, disease resulting from a lack of sanitation,
trying to escape the war zones of America
Excerpt: Officials with MidAmerican Energy and Alliant
Energy confirmed to the Des Moines Register they will be involved in GridEx II
on Nov. 12 and 13. …The scenario calls for a “prolonged blackout,” that
will highlight timely vulnerabilities and issues facing the electrical utility
industry. The exercise will reportedly involve thousands of utility workers,
business executives, anti-terrorism experts and government officials from
the United States , Canada and Mexico .
Obama-tied firm won
plum $100K ‘Let’s Move’ logo gig, bid-free
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/6/obama-tied-firm-won-plum-100k-lets-move-logo-gig/#ixzz2jtgKdeYz
Excerpt: A marketing firm with close ties to President Obama and his political campaigns was given the lucrative job of designing Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” anti-obesity logo without having to go through the government contract bidding route. Judicial Watch reported the firm, Shepardson, Stern & Kaminsky, was awarded the $100,000 job, in violation of federal contracting rules. (Per article, FLOTUS’ pet project “too important” to delay to observe law and competitive bidding. -Barb)
Excerpt: A marketing firm with close ties to President Obama and his political campaigns was given the lucrative job of designing Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” anti-obesity logo without having to go through the government contract bidding route. Judicial Watch reported the firm, Shepardson, Stern & Kaminsky, was awarded the $100,000 job, in violation of federal contracting rules. (Per article, FLOTUS’ pet project “too important” to delay to observe law and competitive bidding. -Barb)
The media’s Hillary
bandwagon loses a wheel
Excerpt: Now comes liberal New York Times columnist Frank Bruni to
say that, gadzooks, she’s slipping in the polls. An NBC/Wall Street Journal
survey found that Clinton ’s
favorability rating had slipped from 56 to 46 percent, while her unfavorable
rose from 29 to 33 percent.
7 first-class
passengers give up seats to Marines returning from Afghanistan
Excerpt: Fourteen Marines on their way home from serving in Afghanistan were upgraded to first class on
their flight from Chicago to San Diego . The Marines learned that American
Airlines - which has a policy to upgrade servicemen and women in uniform
whenever possible - had six empty seats in first class for the group. That gesture
was followed by seven first-class passengers who jumped out of their seats for
the other Marines so they could sit together.
Broke, Fed-Up Detroit
Excerpt: "What we have in common is much more powerful
than what divides us," Mike Duggan said last night after being elected as Detroit 's new mayor.
Duggan—a former hospital chief who will be the predominately
black city's first white mayor in 40 years—beat Wayne County Sheriff Benny
Napoleon to take charge of a broke city suffering from high rates of crime and
unemployment, as well as poor public services, USA Today reports.
The city is $18 billion in debt and awaiting the outcome of a historic bankruptcy filing.
(First White mayor in 40 years, elected as a "Fix It" guy. Amazing,
but it shows people can get so fed up that they start really thinking about how
to vote instead of doing the automatic vote thing. Good for them, and best
wishes/good luck to the new Mayor. --Del )
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