The Blog was down again. If you get this notice, it means
Google has logged me out of G-mail and, in what I'm sure they call another
improvement, blocked access to my blog until I get on the computer and log back
in. Until I do, I have no way of knowing--sorry. No need to tell me--as soon as
I log on, I know, before I see your e-mail. And, BTW G-mail's new compose
window and hard-to-read CAPTCHA still suck. ~Bob
Surprise! Health-care enrollment on Web plagued by
bugs
Excerpt: The enrollment records for a significant portion of
the Americans who have chosen health plans through
the online federal
insurance marketplace contain errors — generated by the
computer system — that mean they might not get the coverage they’re expecting
next month. (Remind people frequently that almost every Democrat in Congress,
and no Republican, voted for this disaster. ~Bob)
Republican doctors
running for Congress amid ObamaCare rollout fiasco
Excerpt: Eleven Republican doctors are running for the
Senate, hoping that voters will see their medical expertise as an asset amid
the administration’s botched rollout of ObamaCare.
Excerpt: Just one more presidential speech; one more
Thanksgiving dinner-table push; one more Twitter campaign. Then America would
love it. It has never happened. A new
poll from Gallup
may help to show why, suggesting as it does that those who are
familiar with Obamacare are much more likely to oppose it than those
who are not.
Subject: Sneaky, Despicable, Illegal code hidden from view
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOk0vOup4yA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOk0vOup4yA
Legalized Prostitutes
At Nevada’s Bunny Ranch Back Obamacare
http://lasvegas.cbslocal.com/2013/12/02/legalized-prostitutes-at-nevadas-bunny-ranch-back-obamacare/
In the same biz. ~Bob
Obamacare and Its
Cronies: “Collaboration” between insurers and the
administration, or revolving-door economics? By Andrew Stiles
Excerpt: Despite the myriad problems with Obamacare’s
rollout, health-insurance companies are not tempering their support for the
controversial law. The industry is even gearing
up for an expensive “PR blitz” to enroll people in the exchanges,
which should come as no surprise.
In the words of former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle,
insurance companies are “not necessarily unbiased.
New Obamacare
Headache: Is Your Enrollment Real?
Excerpt: Bob Shlora of Alpharetta ,
Ga.
The "Fixed"
Website. By Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt
Excerpt: They can't be honest with us. They don't trust us
with the truth, or they fear how the public will react with the truth. So they
tell us everything's working fine, and hope not enough people notice.
Attention, White House staffers: This is not Syria , some far-off land that
people will eventually forget about. This isn't Benghazi ; the country won't eventually move
on and forget about your lies. This is not "Fast and Furious;" most
Americans can't just shrug that it doesn't affect them. This is not the IRS
abuse scandal, which you can blame on some low-level employees in a Cincinnati office, or GSA employees spending taxpayer
dollars on luxury hotels in Las Vegas .
This isn't Solyndra. This isn't wiretapping AP telephone lines or preparing a
conspiracy charge against Fox News's James Rosen. This isn't even the NSA
domestic-surveillance scandal, a revelation that really aggravates people but
that fades from the headlines over time. No, this is the health care of
millions of people that you're botching, after years and years of assuring the
public that you can handle this and that they'll love the results of your
efforts, hammered through Congress on party-line votes. It's infuriating to be
on the receiving end of the lie, but the irony is that it's only the shortest
of short-term solutions for the person telling the lie. Their impossible
promises and lies and excuses always end with some variation of "and in the
very near future, you're going to have an easier time, paying less money, to
get better health care, we promise!" The "very near
future" then arrives, and lo and behold, their vision hasn't come to
fruition. Because it can't come to fruition, at least not the way they're doing
it.
Good Article: Fire Your Team, Mr. President: A White
House shake-up can't stop with a sacrificial lamb. Obama needs to change the
people around him to change how he governs.
Excerpt: President Obama needs to fire himself. Not
literally, of course, but practically: He needs to shake up his team so
thoroughly that the new blood imposes change on how he manages the federal
bureaucracy and leads. A series of self-inflicted wounds during his fifth year
in office, capped by the botched launch of the Affordable Care Act, have
Americans questioning the president's competence and credibility. (Media
guy, not a conservative writer. ~Bob)
Uh oh: Healthcare.gov's Back End Flaws, Data Security
Problems Worse Than Expected. By Guy Benson
Excerpt: The White House's second premature
victory lap of
the Obamacare saga looks even more ill-advised upon further review. As the
administration crows about attracting one million
visitors to Healthcare.gov yesterday, new questions about the
website's security functions and end-to-end efficacy have arisen.
Worth Reading
Government awards
more contracts to company that created glitchy ObamaCare website
CGI Federal Inc, the company that created large parts of the
error-plagued ObamaCare exchange website, which it says it is scrambling to
fix, has recently been awarded several other government contracts. Since the
ObamaCare exchange website launched on Oct. 1, government officials have
signed at least five different agreements with CGI totaling $7 million,
according to USASpending.gov, a government website that lists government
contracts. The contracts were for computer and software development at the
Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Commerce, and the
Environmental Protection Agency.
What Was the Biggest
Lie of the Year? Vote Here!
I voted for "you can keep your plan." ~Bob
*****
Excerpt: What do low-income whites in England and ghetto blacks in the United States
have in common? It cannot be simply low incomes, because children from other
groups in the same low-income brackets outperform whites in England and outperform blacks in America . What
low-income whites in England
and ghetto blacks in the United
States have in common is a generations-long
indoctrination in victimhood. The political left in both countries has, for
more than half a century, maintained a steady and loud drumbeat of claims that
the deck is stacked against those at the bottom.
The World’s New
Outlaws: With America
Excerpt: The American custodianship of the postwar world for
the last 70 years is receding. Give it its due: The American super-presence
ensured the destruction of Axis fascism, led to the eventual defeat of
Soviet-led global Communism, and spearheaded the effort to thwart the ability
of radical Islam to
disrupt global commerce in general and Western life in particular.
Excerpt: THE FACT
sheet distributed by the Obama administration about the nuclear
agreement with Iran
is notable for
its omissions. ... What the White House didn’t report is that
the text
of the accord makes several major concessions to Tehran on the terms of a planned second-stage
agreement. Though White House officials and Secretary of State John F. Kerry
repeatedly said that Iran ’s
assertion of a “right to enrich” uranium would not be recognized in an interim
deal, the text says the “comprehensive solution” will “involve a mutually
defined enrichment program with mutually agreed parameters.” In other words,
the United States
and its partners have already agreed that Iranian enrichment activity will
continue indefinitely.
Judge declares Detroit
Excerpt: Detroit
will become the largest city in U.S. history to
declare bankruptcy after a federal judge ruled Tuesday
the city had met the legal criteria to win protection from its creditors. ...
Orr will be able to consider pension cuts as part of his final proposal, Rhodes ruled. But Rhodes
said he would only allow the cuts if the final reorganization is fair,
the Detroit
Free Press reported. (And now the real fun starts, as the city manager
starts to look at how to handle income and outgo from here on out, which means
some very hard time conversations with the city unions and retirees. The fact
is that Detroit 's
income cannot pay all its running expenses and financial obligations, much less
start paying off any of its massive debt. So where those income dollars go has
to be very carefully thought out, and they will not be going to the full
pension amounts for the retirees, nor probably to the full salaries of current
employees. How the financial manager will walk this tightrope remains to be
seen, but we know for sure it's going to make a whole lot of people not just unhappy,
but more like foaming at the mouth screaming furious, and possibly on the edge
of violence. Since there are other cities not far behind Detroit
on the track to bankruptcy, what goes on in Detroit will be closely watched by the
managers of those cities. This promises to be like watching the games in the
Roman coliseum, complete with lots of blood on the sand. --Del )
National digest:
Group seeks ‘legal personhood’ for chimps
A new class of Democrat voters. First chumps, now chimps.
~Bob
Economists propose
tax break to ease the burden for struggling two-worker families
Excerpt: Put yourself in the shoes of a store clerk and his
family this holiday season. Say you earn $11 an hour, which is a bit less than
the national average for retail salesmen. And say that’s not enough to feed,
clothe and house your spouse and children to your satisfaction, so your wife
decides to take a job in the same store, full time. How much of her earnings do
you think will make it to your joint bank account at the end of the month? The
answer: about one-quarter, or about $3 an hour.
Long but Important: What Created the Federal
Deficits?
Excerpt: In a new study published by the Mercatus Center
at George Mason
University , Charles P. Blahous, a Mercatus Center
Excerpt: A proposed offshore wind development is generating
a lot of discussion in New Jersey .
Developers and environmentalists hope to cash in on hundreds of millions in
government subsidies while businesses and ratepayers fear offshore wind will
result in electricity rate hikes. So far, the 25 megawatt (MW) Fishermen’s
Atlantic City Windfarm (FACW) project, three miles off the New Jersey coast, has been denied approval
by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) for being too expensive and
risky for residents, though FACW continues to work towards an acceptable
resolution. A closer look at the proposal shows just how unsustainable wind
projects are without the crutch of public subsidies and government mandates.
NFL banned a Daniel
Defense Super Bowl ad about guns — This man’s response is EPIC
What the West Needs
to Know about Islam
This is an hour and a half documentary about Islam,
extremely well done. Most of the really critical teaching is done in the first
half hour, and I really recommend viewing it to anyone who really wants to
understand a lot of the critical basics about the religion. It will explain
that anyone who is what we might call a fundamentalist in Islam must be a
deadly enemy to everyone who is not a Muslim. Not every Muslim buys into
this fundamentalism, and they can be and often are just fine people. One
real problem is that if one is a fundamentalist living among or just dealing
with non-Muslims then the doctrine of taqiyya says they can and should lie
like a rug to further their aims. They become masters of propaganda, and
sadly, all the PC people are just falling all over themselves to accept it. The
politicians jump on the bandwagon as well, often from a misguided idealism
about how religious freedom has always been a hallmark of America . I
don't believe every Muslim is a lying, dangerous enemy of everything Western,
and I am confident that plenty of Muslims are fine people and good Americans. But
that doesn't change the fact that radical Islam is not some tiny fraction of
the religion, and that radical Islam is damn dangerous, and has to be taken
very seriously. --Del
It just keeps getting
worse.
Thanksgiving weekend, we learned that the Obama
Administration released an Iranian nuclear scientist as a gesture of "good
faith" towards Iran .
We released a scientist who can help Iran build a nuclear bomb. Yet we
still don't have Pastor Saeed, a U.S. citizen in jail for his
Christian faith who presents no possible threat to anyone. Iran keeps its
centrifuges, it keeps enriching uranium, and it regains a key nuclear
scientist. What does America
get? It's time for Congress to step up. Already a bipartisan group of Senators
is pushing for new sanctions against Iran . Today I'm leading an ACLJ
delegation to Europe to meet with key foreign
leaders. We can't back down. Pastor Saeed's life is at stake. Millions of lives
are at stake.
Jay Sekulow, ACLJ Chief Counsel
Quote
In Los Angeles ,
it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally
right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? --Liam Neeson
Maaloula: Islamist
rebels abduct 12 nuns from the St Thecla Orthodox monastery
Excerpt: Islamist rebels have kidnapped a group of nuns from
the Greek Orthodox monastery of St Thecla (Mar Taqla) in Maaloula (north of Damascus ). Mgr Mario
Zenari, the Vatican nuncio in Damascus ,
confirmed the information after speaking with the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate.
Through the Vatican diplomat, the latter
"calls on all Catholics to pray for the women. (If our "allies"
keep this crap up. maybe we should give Assad back his gas. ~Bob)
The real "War on Women" is in Islam. ~Bob
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: The NSA spied on the porn habits of U.S. radical
Muslims to learn about their personal secrets. We're such idiots. If instead,
we'd spied on the Porn Hub website they used and learned how it handles ten
million hits an hour, Obamacare would be a success story by now.
White House Youth
Your Government: Now Paying Shrinks $3,000 For Every Veterans Gun They Confiscate
http://www.mrconservative.com/2013/04/12024-gov-shrinks-getting-paid-3k-take-vets-guns/
Excerpt: Dr. X reveals that, when veterans come to the VA for help, they’re often treated by ultra-liberal interns and residents who think of them as baby-killers; the VA actively seizes guns from any veterans treated for mental health issues, not matter how minor or stable the problem; veterans who refuse to give up their weapons are institutionalized; and psychiatrists get a $3,000 incentive whenever a veteran loses his guns. ( Could we work a deal with shrinks and turn this into a "Cash for Clunkers" program for Vets? Shrink could keep $1,000 and vet would get $2, 000 to upgrade his old 22 single shot. --MM)
The
Trial of the Muslim Meat-Cleaver Murderers of 25 Year Old British
Soldier Lee Rigby on the Day-time Street in London: Police officer tells
the court she could see a black man running towards her waving a meat cleaver
in a chopping motion and 'shouting something' By Tom Whitehead
Excerpt:
The [female police] officer told how she and two other officers arrived at the
scene and stopped suddenly before Adebolajo charged at the vehicle. She could
not get her handgun out of her leg holster but the officer in the rear of the
car opened his door and shot the suspect just as he reached them. Footage shows
the force of the shot threw Adebolajo several feet to the ground.
Questions about
Bengazi
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10311469/Jeremy-Browne-Ban-Muslim-women-from-wearing-veils-in-schools-and-public-places.html
He added: “I am instinctively uneasy about restricting the freedom of individuals to observe the religion of their choice. That would apply to Christian minorities in the Middle East just as much as religious minorities here inBritain
He added: “I am instinctively uneasy about restricting the freedom of individuals to observe the religion of their choice. That would apply to Christian minorities in the Middle East just as much as religious minorities here in
Damascus blast kills
four as rebels take Christian town
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Dec-03/239752-damascus-blast-kills-four-as-rebels-take-christian-town.ashx?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMideast%20Brief&utm_campaign=Mideast%20Brief%2012-3-2013#axzz2mJyJ0XuM
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Dec-03/239752-damascus-blast-kills-four-as-rebels-take-christian-town.ashx?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMideast%20Brief&utm_campaign=Mideast%20Brief%2012-3-2013#axzz2mJyJ0XuM
Excerpt: North of the capital, rebels exchanged fire with
government troops outside Maalula, a day after opposition forces captured the
Christian hamlet in the strategic Qalamoun region.
The small town is renowned as a symbol of the long Christian presence in Syria and is famous for the fact that many
residents still speak the ancient language Aramaic, which Jesus Christ is
believed to have spoken.
Clustered Criminals
Habituate Homicide
Excerpt: Nearly 50% of all gun homicides involve only 4% of
inner city gangsters. This is common, but not widely publicized, knowledge. It’s
a fact deliberately underemphasized by the Brady Campaign, Mayors Against
Illegal Guns, the Law
Center
Obama’s Post-American World. By Daniel Greenfield
Excerpt: What do the riots in the Ukraine ,
Iran throwing its weight
around in the Persian Gulf and China ’s new air defense zone all
have in common? Barack Obama and his Post-American world. Nations exercise
power within spheres of influence. As the American sphere of influence
shrinks to nothing; Iran , China and Russia are using the opportunity to
expand their own spheres of influence.
Ousting Assad may be only the beginning. By David Ignatius
Excerpt: As al-Qaeda grows more powerful in Syria — seeking
“complete control over the liberated areas,” according to a new Syrian rebel
intelligence report — moderate opposition leaders are voicing new interest in a
political settlement of the grinding civil war. But a peace agreement may just
be a prelude to a new war against the terrorists.
Is global warming
helping al-Qaida?
Excerpt: Has global warming helped al-Qaida’s recruiting? At
least one expert says that Islamic fundamentalist groups feed upon people’s
frustrations and fears in a warmer climate to turn them against the West. (I
now call them the GWL--Global Warming Lunatics. ~Bob
Excerpt: Violent gun crime has dropped dramatically in the
past two decades, but the majority of Americans think it’s more of a problem
now than ever, according to a Pew
Research Center
President Obama
Awards Himself the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Satire
Excerpt: Driven by her budding
entrepreneurial instincts, an 11-year-old Oregon girl wanted to help her
dad pay for her braces by selling mistletoe over the holidays, but she got
tangled up in red tape instead.
Excerpt: Yet a Fox News review of reports by the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and analyses prepared by leading
research institutions -- including the Arms Control Association, the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, and the Federation of American Scientists
-- shows that the vast majority of Iran 's enrichment capability came
online during the Obama administration.
This study exposes
the level of corruption in the US
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/03/this-study-exposes-the-level-of-corruption-in-the-us-government/#ixzz2mSQFPztg
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/03/this-study-exposes-the-level-of-corruption-in-the-us-government/#ixzz2mSQFPztg
Excerpt: If you thought America ’s government was corrupt, a
new report suggests you may be on to something. Transparency
International published its annual Corruption Perception Index,
which measures the levels of public sector corruption in 177 of the world’s
territories and countries. America did
not fare too well.
#WHYouth is an actual thing that the White House is doing
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/03/whyouth-is-an-actual-thing-that-the-white-house-is-doing/
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/03/whyouth-is-an-actual-thing-that-the-white-house-is-doing/
Excerpt:
Yes, now we have the White
House Youth. Either these geniuses are actively inviting comparisons with the
Hitler Youth, or nobody in that building knows any better. Which likelihood is
more depressing?
Obama and the Suspension of Disbelief. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: As the first non-white president, Obama’s
trajectory was not just seen as positive for the United States ,
but also his potential failure was feared as a collective setback. Obama brilliantly threaded the
racial needle, serially reestablishing his fides as a minority candidate by
weighing in unnecessarily in the Professor Gates psychodrama and the Trayvon
Martin case, while offering soaring boilerplate about a racially blind and
united America .
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