Hope your Thanksgiving was great. We had our dinner on
Friday, due to family schedules. I baked a blueberry pie (cheated and used no-sugar-added
filling from a farm stand, but made crust from scratch), cornbread from scratch
and made my New England maple cranberry
relish. ~Bob
HealthCare.gov tech
team scrambling to create workaround for site before deadline
Excerpt: Days before the Obama administration’s self-imposed
Nov. 30 deadline for fixing HealthCare.gov, its technology team is
scrambling to build a new part of the Web site as a workaround that would
enable more people to buy health insurance without relying directly on the
site. The new mechanism, EZ App, would permit people who are eligible for
financial help from the government to enroll for coverage without calculating
an exact subsidy amount, which has been a major stumbling block, according to
government and insurance industry officials who spoke on the condition of
anonymity in order to be frank. (Band-aids for the Obamacare website--how
appropriate. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Progressives have already tried to ruin
Thanksgiving by condemning it as a genocidal holiday commemorating European
colonialism or by giving snippy little speeches about consumerism. But
they didn’t have a way to actually get into living rooms to ruin the holiday
until now. Not content that the
price of a whole frozen turkey went up 37% under his economic
policies, Obama decided to completely ruin Thanksgiving dinner by turning it
into an angry debate about ObamaCare.
Obamacare’s Health Insurance Tax Targets Consumers and
Small Businesses. By David R. Burton
Excerpt: Obamacare imposes a new tax on health insurance
premiums, starting in 2014, that will increase individual and small group
health insurance premiums by an additional 2–3 percent. This will have an
adverse impact on consumers and reduce employment but have little impact on
large employers and their employees, because large firms usually self-insure.
The tax is hidden from consumers, and it should be repealed. (I guess I haven't
been paying attention but I did not realize that the new Affordable Care TAX
Act imposes new taxes on the premium that small businesses and individuals will
pay starting in 2014. --MG)
Obama’s New Imperial Decree. By Matthew Vadum
Excerpt: For purely partisan reasons, the Obama administration
cynically unveiled extra-legal plans on the eve of Thanksgiving to unilaterally
delay the launch of a website for small businesses to select plans through
federal health care insurance exchanges. It’s just the latest sleazy political
move by the Community-Organizer-in-Chief to salvage his party’s fading
electoral prospects by delaying at least some of the approaching tens of
millions of health insurance policy cancellations until after the national vote
next November.
Why is President Obama trying to politicize the holidays?.
By Byron York
Excerpt: But the first floor of the Stasi Museum is not about spying. Instead, it is devoted to
the propaganda that East German bureaucrats used to foster socialist
consciousness in an unwilling public. (This practice of trying to insert
politics into holiday celebrations is totally abhorrent, and that would apply
exactly the same way if the GOP were trying any such awful propaganda practice.
It is just one more demonstration of the mindset of the White House and those
who surround Mr. Obama. You would think and hope that even Liberals would
look at this and be repulsed. --Del )
Obama’s Orwellian
Thanksgiving
Excerpt: President Barack Obama and outgoing New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg have both tried to nudge their way
into America ’s
Thanksgiving (or Thanksgivukkah) dinners, with talking points about Obamacare
and gun control, respectively. Not only is introducing contentious political
issues into a family holiday a recipe for unhappiness, but it also reflects the
disturbing Orwellian ambitions of Obama’s big-government liberalism.
Tweet from @DLoesch:
Er, I’m told by kin that
one of my Democrat family members “totally trashed” Obamacare over turkey.
Wal-Mart Black Friday
fight for TV 2013
Why I haven't been in a store on Black Friday in years. ~Bob
Excerpt: It was never just a health care “fix”: A series of
precise, brilliant, secretive, and illegal decisions by Obamacare authors led
to the creation of 50 unbeatable election tools — and to nothing else. As you
read, try to identify a rational explanation besides malevolence. (This is Part
One of a two-part article.)
Tweet from Jim J @anthropocon
Today while you’re bludgeoning someone into letting go of
the last PlayStation 4 don’t forget to tell them how great #Obamacare is.
Worth Reading
Excerpt:
Describing the life-changing experience of being a Marine escapes mere words.
The "givings" - lessons - learned courtesy of Marines
abound. This Thanksgiving early morning, while still horizontal and mulling
over the day ahead, some of those "givings" came to mind
and so a thought to note and post as comment.
Excerpt: The densely populated coastal corridors from Boston toWashington and from San Diego to Berkeley are
where most of America 's
big decisions are made.
They remind us of two quite different Americas : one country along these coasts
and everything else in between.
Excerpt: Morales’ hoax is a blip in the larger pattern of
faked hate crimes. Bigotry is the witch hunt of the modern Salem and progressive witch hunters are just
as careless about facts and evidence. Now as then, the goal is to stamp out an
attitude and a cultural threat, rather than to enforce the law, and that leads
inevitably to the entire tawdry parade of hysterical denunciations and moral panic.
Excerpt: The Islamic Front, a newly formed coalition of
Syrian Islamist groups that cooperate with al Qaeda and is estimated at 45,000
fighters, released its charter on its official Twitter account on Nov. 26.
Although the formation of the Islamic Front has been hailed as a blow to al
Qaeda, the new group embraces jihad and calls for the establishment of an
Islamic state and the imposition of sharia law, both of which are goals of al
Qaeda. The Islamic Front's charter welcomes the "Muhajireen," or
foreign fighters, as "our brothers who supported us in jihad."
Is another Republican
wave building?
Excerpt: President Obama’s poll numbers are at record lows.
The health care law that serves as the cornerstone of his domestic policy
legacy is even more unpopular. And there are few chances to change the
conversation among a skeptical public that isn’t happy with Washington .
Sound familiar? It should: The national political climate
today is starting to resemble 2010, when Republicans won control of the House
of Representatives by riding a wave of voter anger. (2010 voters hate
Obamacare, GOP wins. 2012, voters decide that, despite Obamacare, they trust
Obama, GOP loses. 2014. Voters like Obamacare even less, see they were lied to.
~Bob)
Obama Sends
Thanksgiving Letter to Grateful Nation
Satire
Excerpt: The key sticking point? The White House fact sheet
claims “Iran
has committed to halt progress on its enrichment capacity” with bullet points
laying out the details. On the other hand, the Iranian fact sheet indicates
that their nation can “fully enjoy its right to nuclear energy for peaceful
purposes under the relevant articles of the NPT in conformity with its
obligations therein.”
Putin outflanks his
foes at home, Obama abroad
Excerpt: President Vladimir Putin is
giving proof to the proverb, “Nothing succeeds like success.” Since facing
massive protests last winter, he has stifled nearly all domestic dissent and
implemented widely criticized anti-gay laws as Russia prepares to
host the 2014 Winter
Olympics in Sochi. He has put the brakes on Ukraine signing a
free-trade and political association deal with the European Union,
and persuaded Syria to
allow international inspections of its chemical weapons.
The Knockout Game --- NYT/NPR Say No Big Deal. By Larry Elder
Excerpt: The "knockout game" — and the media
underreporting of it — combines the breakdown of the family with the media's
condescending determination to serve as a public relations bureau for blacks.
The "game" is a dare in which a young man — all the perps appear to
be male people of color, mostly blacks — tries to literally knock out an
innocent bystander with one blow. Both National Public Radio and The New York
Times say these reports of the "knockout game" being widespread are
overblown and do not represent a trend. Really? (Before you scream
"racist," Elders is black. Nothing is more damaging to the back
community than the progressives coddling back thugs. The knockout game is
directed at non-blacks, but most victims of black thugs are black. Blacks make
up 1% of the population, but commit 53% of the murders--and about 85% of the
victims are blacks. ~Bob)
New York chef suffers
broken jaw, nose in likely 'knockout game' attack in Philadelphia
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-york-chef-victim-knockout-game-article-1.1531959
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-york-chef-victim-knockout-game-article-1.1531959
Excerpt: “Ate dinner with friends and on my way back to
hostel got pizza as I walked down the alley I was hit from behind. Nothing was
stolen from me which leads me to believe this was that ‘game.’ I hope I'm the
last person this happens to,” the befuddled chef said.
Police told him they believe he was attacked by a group of
six to eight men, ranging in age from 16 to 21.
Hijab: School
principal, teachers beaten to a pulp in Osun
Excerpt: There was confusion in the ancient town of Ejigbo in Osun State , on Monday, as the principal and some teachers
of Baptist High School
Gunmen slay six
Afghans working for French literacy group
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-afghanistan-literacy-group-ambush-20131127,0,6187838.story#axzz2lrnL9e2d
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-afghanistan-literacy-group-ambush-20131127,0,6187838.story#axzz2lrnL9e2d
Didn't get the "Islam is a religion of peace"
memo. ~Bob
Excerpt: When it comes to the question of America ’s
alleged Islamophobia, there is a consensus in the American media: American
Muslims have been under siege since the 9/11 attacks. ... But with the
annual release of the FBI’s hate crime numbers, statistical proof is once
again available for those who are interested in the real answer as to which
groups are subjected to the most attacks. This year’s numbers, like those of
every other previous year since they began compiling such statistics, are
clear: Jews
remain the No. 1 target of hate crimes in America
Obama's IRS Moves to
Close Down Political Speech of Nonprofits
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/US-IRS-Political-Groups/2013/11/26/id/538880?promo_code=EB8D-1&utm_source=National_Review&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1#ixzz2lvABCY9c
http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/US-IRS-Political-Groups/2013/11/26/id/538880?promo_code=EB8D-1&utm_source=National_Review&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1#ixzz2lvABCY9c
Excerpt: The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury
Department proposed new rules that they said would prohibit such groups from
using "candidate-related political activity" like running
advertisements, registering voters or distributing campaign literature as
activities that qualify them to be tax-exempt "social welfare"
organizations. "This proposed guidance is a first critical step
toward creating clear-cut definitions of political activity by tax-exempt
social welfare organizations," said Mark Mazur, the Treasury's assistant
secretary for tax policy. (DOJ (ha!) and Holder stonewalling; there will be no
investigation; no one can recall anything…x80. “Getting it right”? Yeah, like
they did in 2012. Anybody believe their desire to be “fair”? They have
executive privilege and contempt of law and order. --Barb)
Excerpt: At times, he has advanced this project abetted by
congressional Democrats, as with the health-care law’s investiture of
extraordinary powers in the executive bureaucracy, but he also has advanced it
without legislative assistance — and, more troubling still, in plain violation
of the law. President Obama and his admirers choose to call this “pragmatism,”
but what it is is a mild expression of totalitarianism, under which the
interests of the country are conflated with those of the president’s
administration and his party. Barack Obama is the first president of the
democracy that John Adams warned us about.
The man democrats
fear the most is already under attack by Obama
http://floppingaces.net/2013/11/24/the-man-democrats-fear-the-most-is-already-under-attack-by-obama/
Excerpt: I wrote here that Obama is a sociopath. I wrote here that you’d be an idiot to believe anything Obama
says. …There is nothing a man who lies about his mother’s life and death
won’t lie about.
Obama suspends the
Constitution
Excerpt: The Obama administration proposed a crackdown on
the widespread use of tax-exempt organizations for political campaigning,
seeking to reduce the influential role that the secretive groups have played in
recent elections….So let’s stop fooling ourselves and realize what Obamacare
really is- it is a vehicle to create a totalitarian government that knows
everything about you and will put an end to all opposition to progressives….He
is telling us to our faces that he is going to do in 2014 and 2016 what he did
for the 2012 election- shut down the opposition.
IRS Chief Counsel
Testifies Before House On Tea Party Targeting Scandal, Answers “I Don’t Recall”
A Staggering 80 Times
The latest official called to testify before committee
investigators is an important one: IRS chief counsel William Wilkins. Wilkins
is one of just two political appointees at the IRS, a generous donor to
Democratic candidates and causes, and once represented Jeremiah Wright’s
Trinity United Church of Christ. Evidence of his involvement in the targeting
would spell trouble for the White House and bring renewed focus to a scandal
that has largely receded from public consciousness. (Pure and utter contempt.
--Barb)
Obama Ensures Our
Status As The Laughingstock Of The World Endures
Excerpt: Obama supported fanatical islam when they took
over Libya and Egypt . He had
our country run from Iraq without
ensuring the victories we achieved there would be maintained. He made a deal
with the devil and turned his back on Israel .
Op-Ed: Why
Are America
Excerpt: President Hamid Karzai’s government is considering
bringing back stoning for adultery—and imposing 100 lashes (which is
a death sentence) for unmarried people who have had sexual relations. Thus,
Afghan men can marry female children, keep male children as sex-toys, maintain
four wives, and visit prostitutes from dawn to dawn. But it is a capital crime
if an Afghan man dishonors another Afghan man by having relations with his
female “property;” and, if he has raped the poor wife, she is also to be
stoned.
Obama Calls Saudi
King Amid Tense Relations: Saudi King receives a phone call from U.S. President
Barack Obama, Iran
Excerpt: Saudi Arabia initially
said that the interim deal on Iran 's
nuclear program could be a step towards a comprehensive solution – and hoped it
could lead to the removal of weapons of mass destruction from
the Middle East . Later, however,
a senior advisor to the Saudi royal family said that his
country was deceived by its American ally in the agreements
and will pursue an independent foreign policy in response. The advisor, Nawaf
Obaid, told a think tank meeting in London "we
were lied to, things were hidden from us.
Presidential Poll: Reagan
Best, Obama Worst In Last 100 Years
Excerpt: Rankings released by YouGov/Economist show that
Ronald Reagan is viewed as the greatest president of the last 100 years, while
Obama is viewed as the "biggest failure."… Results showed that
Reagan bested Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and John F. Kennedy (JFK) in a tight
race for the top spot….When it came to ranking presidents viewed to be a
"failure," Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon fared better than
Obama. (JFK wouldn't be up there if he had not been shot. ~Bob)
Kuwaiti Newspaper: Obama
Negotiating With Hezbollah Terrorists
Excerpt: The Obama administration has entered secret talks
with the Hezbollah terrorist group, mediated by Great Britain ,
according to a report in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai, as relayed by the Jerusalem Post Wednesday. …. Thirty
years ago, Hezbollah bombed a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut , killing 241. …The organization is
also dedicated to Israel 's
destruction.
Funniest Video About Israel You Will Ever See…Give The Middle East To The Jews
Say Merry Christmas -
Vocal Carrie Rinderer and the American Christian Life United (ACLU) choir...
'Half-Ton Killer'
Transformed: Mayra Rosales Discusses Life After Murder Acquittal. By David Moye
[Essential news from Kate.]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/18/mayra-rosales_n_4298037.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/18/mayra-rosales_n_4298037.html
Excerpt: In the last 24 months, Mayra Rosales has had two
heavy loads lifted from her. In Jan. 2012, she was acquitted of the 2008 murder
of her nephew, Eliseo, which she allegedly did when she accidentally rolled
over and crushed him under her 1,028-pound frame. Next, she decided to lose as
much of the weight as possible.
George Carlin on
Language
Old, reliably left wing, adult language, but worth revisiting. I agree with
most of it. Too bad he didn't hear about Obama's "Overseas Contingency
Operations," or Carter's "Incomplete Success." ~Bob
Revolutionary War
Quiz
Ten for ten. I had the Bunker Hill
question right, but I'd argue it. ~Bob
Kanye: Obama Failing
Because 'He Ain't Got Those Connections' Like Jews. By Ben Shapiro
Excerpt: This week, rapper Kanye West told a local radio
show that President Obama was having trouble succeeding because he didn’t have
“connections” like those of “Jewish people.”
Excerpt: On Tuesday of this week approximately 150
Mexican Nationals breeched the U.S.
border near San Diego
in what Immigration officials fear was a "feeler" or
"prong" attack in preparation for a much larger invasion force being
planned in the near future. When Border Patrol agents tried to stop the mob the
agents were pelted with rocks and water bottles. Agents tried using pepper
spray on the mob but were unsuccessful. Eventually, border patrol troops
arrived in sufficient force to stop the invaders and drive them back into Mexico .
Excerpt: As President Obama faces a small revolt within his
own party, a Washington Post op-ed is calling for the United States to
end presidential term limits and allow him to run again in 2016. “Barack Obama
should be allowed to stand for re election just as citizens should be allowed
to vote for — or against — him,” writes New York
University Jonathan Zimmerman
professor of history and education. “Anything less diminishes our leaders and
ourselves.” (Oh, like the state legislatures will pass this. ~Bob)
University Jonathan Zimmerman
professor of history and education. “Anything less diminishes our leaders and
ourselves.” (Oh, like the state legislatures will pass this. ~Bob)
Common Core-aligned
lesson plan for third-graders casts Obama as modern messiah
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/28/common-core-aligned-lesson-plan-for-third-graders-casts-obama-as-modern-messiah/#ixzz2m3Y8Y6Ag
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/28/common-core-aligned-lesson-plan-for-third-graders-casts-obama-as-modern-messiah/#ixzz2m3Y8Y6Ag
Excerpt: Another biography of
President Barack Obama is making waves. This one is entitled “Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope.” The author,
Nikki Grimes, paints the 44th president as nothing short of a messianic figure.
The price of
presidential weakness. By Wesley Pruden
Excerpt: But of course it isn't, and Mr. Obama is challenged
now at every turn by friend and foe of the United States who need to see on
what meat the man feeds, and of what stuff his promises and assurances are
made. The mullahs in Tehran , who can't believe
how easy it was to roll the president and his counterparts in Geneva , had no sooner signed the agreement to
preserve the Iranian pursuit of the bomb at a bargain price than the mullahs
began dreaming up new demands. If the mullahs could roll him once, they could
roll him twice.
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: Iran
greeted its nuclear negotiator like a hero when he flew home from Geneva last weekend. It's
chilling. It's not clear what we got out of the deal, but Obama bounded off his
plane at L.A. Tuesday waving a deed to the Brooklyn Bridge
Mike Tyson: Knockout
Perpetrators ‘Evil’
excerpt: Wednesday on “Piers
Morgan Live,” former World Heavyweight boxing champion, Mike Tyson, called perpetrators of the street game
“knockout” evil people. The game being played in cities across the nation has
the objective of punching an unsuspecting person and rendering the victim
unconscious. The victims have been predominantly white and Asian, while the
perpetrators have been overwhelmingly black. (It tells you
something when Tyson speaks out for morality, and Obama and Holder are silent.
~Bob)
NYT, NPR: Reports On
Knockout Game ‘Overblown,’ ‘No Big Deal’
Excerpt: Writing in Real Clear Politics, Larry Elder says the New
York Times (NYT) and National Public Radio (NPR) are ignoring the
black-on-white crime taking place in the "Knockout Game"—that the NYT
and NPR view reports on the game as "overblown" and "no big
deal." …As Breitbart News reported on November 21, the "Knockout
Game" is a game in which teens walk up to an innocent bystander on a
sidewalk or in an alley and try to knock him or her out with one sucker punch.
It has been going on in New Jersey and New York City for some time and has now spread to Chicago , Washington ,
DC, and Philadelphia ,
among other cities.
You are NOT paranoid, if they are really out to
get you! Picking on any firearm with a greater than 5 ammo capacity takes out
every tube fed .22 ever made. That sure as hell makes people safer. Who the
hell thinks up this utter nonsense? --Del
Netanyahu vows to
banish ‘darkness’ of Iran
Excerpt: Riffing on Hanukkah holiday, prime minister says Israel will be a ‘light unto the nations’ in
dealing with Tehran
should diplomacy fail
Excerpt: Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria 's city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles
of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behaviour deemed
"immoral" in the area.
An
Outbreak of Lawlessness: Reid and Obama have their way with the
rules.
Excerpt: If we could make constitutional changes by majority
vote, there would be no Constitution. …Barack Obama may be remembered for
something similar. His violation of the proper limits of executive power has
become breathtaking.
Excerpt: Yet even with the small turnout,
there was a theme amongst Obama’s protesters/supporters (supportesters?):
They didn’t want him to change his political agenda — instead, they
demanded that he assume dictatorial powers so that he could finally implement
the radical plans with which they already agree. The message of the day was: Stop dilly-dallying around, Mr.
President: Ignore the Constitution and just make The Revolution happen, as you
promised!
Navajo Code Talker
Says Redskins Name Not Derogatory
http://joemiller.us/2013/11/navajo-code-talker-says-redskins-name-derogatory/
http://joemiller.us/2013/11/navajo-code-talker-says-redskins-name-derogatory/
Excerpt: A leader of the Navajo Code Talkers who appeared at
a Washington Redskins home football game said Wednesday the team name is a
symbol of loyalty and courage — not a slur as asserted by critics who want it
changed. Roy Hawthorne, 87, of Lupton , Ariz. , was one of four Code Talkers honored for their
service in World War II during the Monday night game against the San Francisco 49ers. (Dumb
Indian doesn't know white liberals know what is best for him. ~Bob)
Keep Calm and Return
Fire
I want tee shirts that say, "Keep Calm and Call a
Fire mission," and "Keep Calm and Call an Air Strike." ~Bob
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