Well, they endorsed him, the useful idiots. ~Bob. Excerpt:
What we don't understand is their reluctance to give that failure more than lip
service. Many of the Americans who heard their president say Thursday that
"we fumbled the rollout of this health care law" would have been pleased
to hear him add: So we're admitting
it. This law is a bust. We're starting over.
Excerpt: The Republicans had a vote to try to cancel that
regulation so you couldn’t be cancelled, to grandfather everybody in. You know
what the vote was? Straight party line. Every Democrat voted to keep the
rule that cancels your insurance.
Four States Reject
Obamacare "Fix"
Excerpt: Arkansas , Vermont , Washington and Rhode Island have
rejected the changes.
Excerpt: But if Obama learned
anything while being a community organizer in Chicago and picketing banks to implement the
community reinvestment act that was the linchpin for the financial disaster of 2008, it was that the
public might not understand all the complex nuances of politics; they do
understand when political screw ups touch their everyday existence.
Congressmen Will
Receive Obamacare Subsidy Even Though They Don’t Qualify Under The Law
http://lastresistance.com/3712/congressmen-will-receive-obamacare-subsidy-even-though-dont-qualify-law/
http://lastresistance.com/3712/congressmen-will-receive-obamacare-subsidy-even-though-dont-qualify-law/
Excerpt: Under the OPM deal arranged in August, the average
member of Congress who makes $174,000 a year will be able to keep his
approximately $10,000 health insurance subsidy, like he used to get under
his old plan, before Obamacare. Congressional staffers who buy through the
exchange will also get to keep the subsidies they were receiving.
How ObamaCare Rips
Off the Young
Excerpt: When ObamaCare is under attack, its defenders
retreat to several well-worn claims. Among them is a provision that compels
insurance companies to allow parents to keep their "children" ages 21
to 26 on their family policies. Yet this part of the Affordable Care Act was
not engineered in response to any noticeable interest group. Instead, political
considerations are responsible for the provision -- which is an unnecessary and
a deceptive ripoff of the "young healthies," says Carl Schramm,
president and chief executive officer of the Kauffman Foundation. One
consideration is that young adults facing chronic unemployment commonly return
to their parents' home. The Obama administration sought to avoid a potential
political storm by providing a benefit normally connected to holding a job for
one of its most reliable support groups. Another consideration is that
ObamaCare's financing won't work unless "young healthies" (or their
parents) pay through the nose for coverage under parental plans or via the
individual mandate. The 18 to 26 age group is the lowest user of care, the
least costly to cover and the most profitable of all health-insurance coverage.
Yet the group faces extraordinarily high ObamaCare rates. A Manhattan Institute
analysis of Health and Human Services numbers notes that a 27-year-old male
will pay 99 percent higher premiums under ObamaCare than he would under
previously prevailing market rates.
Excerpt: But then, after Obama mentioned her story, Sanford started having
problems. Sanford said she received another
letter informing her the Washington
state health exchange had miscalculated her eligibility for a tax credit. In
other words, her monthly insurance bill had shot up from $198 a month (she had
initially said $169 a month to the White House but she switched plans) to $280
a month for the same "gold" plan offered by the state exchange. Sanford said she was
frustrated with the state's error. But she decided to purchase the new plan and
thought everything was fine. It wasn't fine. (Psalm 146/3: Put not your trust
in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
~Bob)
Last month's
Obamacare success story is this month's disaster
This woman was recognized by Mr. Obama himself as a great
success story of Obamacare, back in October. But this month she is transformed
into a total loser. Fascinating. --Del
Obamacare closes tax
deduction for Americans affected by losing existing health plans
Excerpt: Millions of Americans facing higher out-of-pocket costs
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after losing their existing health insurance will
also be damaged by what is effectively a tax hike imposed under Obamacare.
Before President Obama’s health reform law went into effect, Americans could
deduct out-of-pocket medical costs if they amounted to at least 7.5 percent of
the individual’s annual income…. But now under Obamacare, Americans can
only deduct out-of-pocket medical costs if they amount to 10 percent of the
individual’s income
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after losing their existing health insurance will
also be damaged by what is effectively a tax hike imposed under Obamacare.
Before President Obama’s health reform law went into effect, Americans could
deduct out-of-pocket medical costs if they amounted to at least 7.5 percent of
the individual’s annual income…. But now under Obamacare, Americans can
only deduct out-of-pocket medical costs if they amount to 10 percent of the
individual’s income
.
Suddenly, It's OK to
Talk About Repealing ObamaCare
Excerpt: Not too long ago, Republicans pushing to kill
ObamaCare were called extremists, obsessives and traitors. Now even liberals
are discussing the possibility of repeal. We've reached an important turning
point. Back in May, nobody batted an eye when Bill Maher blasted the GOP's
efforts to repeal ObamaCare. "At some point," he said,
"obstruction becomes, I don't know, treason?" What a difference a few
million canceled health plans and a crash-prone website make. (I would not have
thought this possible, but now it at least can be mentioned. We can only hope
this idea goes on a roll. --Del )
Now Romney's Ahead! Botched ACA Rollout Hammers
Obama; Job Disapproval Reaches a Career High
Excerpt: And perhaps adding insult to injury, registered
voters divide numerically in Mitt Romney’s favor, 49-45 percent, if they had a
mulligan for the 2012 presidential election. While the difference between the
two is within the poll’s error margin, Obama’s support is 6 points below his
actual showing a year ago. (Now they tell us. Dear America : This is what we were
warning you about, but you wouldn't listen. -- Jim Geraghty)
Another ObamaCare
Cost: Feds gave $4.4B to states for exchange websites
Excerpt: The Obama administration gave states roughly $4.4
billion in taxpayer dollars to set up their own ObamaCare websites, according
to a new analysis, in the latest revelation about the faucet of federal
spending switched on by the 2010 passage of the health care law. ("Some of
the states even took federal money, then decided to let the federal site handle
enrollment." So it was just another Obama slush fund. --Ace of Spades
blog.)
CMS Official: We
Still Haven't Built '30 to 40 Percent' of Obamacare's Web Apparatus, Including
Payment Systems
Excerpt: HENRY CHAO: I think it's, uh, just an
approximation, we're probably sitting somewhere between 60 and 70 percent
because we still have to build... GARDNER :
Wait, 60 or 70 percent that needs to be built, still? CHAO: Because we
still have to build the payment systems to make payments to insurers in
January.
Taking 'Obama' out of health care. By Reid J. Epstein, Politico
Excerpt: President Barack Obama and loyal Democrats once
embraced the term Obamacare to sell the American people on health care reform. Not
anymore. With the president’s approval ratings at record lows, a broken website
and Obama under fire for his pledge that people could keep their plans, the
“Affordable Care Act” has returned.
The Lawlessness of the ‘Fix’:
Insurance companies would be insane to offer plans that failed to comply with
the ACA. By Andrew C. McCarthy
Excerpt: Barack Obama could not have been more unequivocal.
The telecommunications companies had to be punished for violating the letter of
federal law. He didn’t want to hear about how President Bush told them it was
okay. One laughs now remembering how Obama’s base, the anti-anti-terrorist Left
and its lawyer legions, used to call Bush the “imperial president” and thunder
for his impeachment. Bush couldn’t hold a candle to our incumbent Caligula. He
had no idea, for example, that presidents can just “waive” inconvenient parts
of congressional statutes, like FISA.
NY not planning to
reoffer canceled health plans
Excerpt: New York
is not planning to reoffer canceled health-insurance policies that don't meet
the requirements of the federal Affordable Care Act. (They can't put the
toothpaste back in the tube. ~Bob)
A Practicing Physician’s Prescription For A Healthcare Fix.
By Dr.
Elaina George
Excerpt: For all of the desperate attempts at distraction,
demonization and outright lies about Obamacare the truth remains – having
health insurance does notequal getting quality healthcare.
It is true that there are problems with the health insurance industry. If anyone had bothered to ask independent private physicians why they no longer take Medicare/Medicaid, or why many are opting out of insurance and moving towards a cash only practice in increasing numbers, they would tell you that they stopped because the game is rigged.
It is true that there are problems with the health insurance industry. If anyone had bothered to ask independent private physicians why they no longer take Medicare/Medicaid, or why many are opting out of insurance and moving towards a cash only practice in increasing numbers, they would tell you that they stopped because the game is rigged.
Flashback--2007
Hillarycare Ad: 'Lets You Keep Your Coverage If You Like It'
Excerpt: But Hillary
Clinton’s 2008 plan, laid out in an advertisement that aired in early
presidential primary states in 2007, promised Americans they could “keep your
coverage if you like it.” The ad also claimed the plan would provide
“affordable choices if you don’t” and “covers every American”—echoing
the claims of Obamacare.
Breaking: Supreme Court refuses to block Texas
Twee4t from Pam Besteder @pambesteder
Just had a CHILLING thought. What if the MUTE button was
never created? I'd have 2 manually turn DOWN the volume when O comes on TV!
Excerpt: A friend recently sent me a link to an inspiring
video about an upbeat young black man who was born without arms. It showed him
going to work -- unlike the record number of people living on government payments for "disabilities" that are far
less serious, if not fictitious. ... What would happen if Americans in general,
or blacks in particular, started celebrating people like this armless young
man, instead of trying to make heroes out of hoodlums?
Good column: Obama’s Noble Lies: Stop worrying whether
the president’s statements conform to ossified standards of
truth. By Victor Davis Hanson
Excerpt: What is the common denominator of the Obama
administration’s serial scandals — the Justice Department’s spying on AP, the
IRS targeting of conservative groups, the NSA surveillance, the lies about
Benghazi and the ACA — and much of the White House damage-control
rhetoric? In a word: the advancement of postmodern notions of justice at the
expense of traditional truth. By the 1980s, in law schools, university
social-science departments, and the humanities in general, the old relativist
idea of Plato’s noble lies was given a new French facelift.
Scary: Lavabit Founder Ladar Levison Plots The Route.
By Stella Paul
Excerpt: The California Endowment, a private foundation
spending millions on ads aimed at enrolling young adults and Hispanics in
Obamacare, now also has granted $500,000 to educate TV writers and producers on
Obamacare, and suggest ways to weave its many splendors into fictional
prime-time shows. "We know from research that when people watch entertainment
television, even if they know it's fiction, they tend to believe that the
factual stuff is actually factual," said grant recipient Martin Kaplan of
the University of Southern California 's Norman Lear
Center
Reuters: Pentagon's
Doctored Ledgers Conceal Billions in 'Epic Waste'
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/pentagon-waste-theft-fraud/2013/11/18/id/537248?promo_code=14FD4-1
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/pentagon-waste-theft-fraud/2013/11/18/id/537248?promo_code=14FD4-1
Excerpt: Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her
career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense's accounts.
Every month until she retired in 2011, she says, the day came when the Navy
would start dumping numbers on the Cleveland ,
Ohio
Treasury Forced to
Issue $1T in New Debt in First 6 Weeks of FY14
We are going down. If you haven't read: "The West and
the Tyranny of Public Debt"
Women in combat zone alongside men: wrong on so many
levels. By Michele Hickford
http://allenbwest.com/2013/11/women-combat-zone-alongside-men-wrong-many-levels/#E0kJLeOqTeg961cf.99
Excerpt: I shoot. I can do 50 man-style push-ups in one
set. But I’m 4’10’ and weigh 95 pounds. There’s no way in hell I could
fireman-carry a wounded 180-pound male soldier off the battlefield. I
absolutely do not believe standards should be “relaxed” to allow pipsqueaks
like me to qualify in the name of equality and fairness. If I can’t do
everything the average male soldier can do in combat, I shouldn’t be in combat.
Simple as that.
Source: 4 female
Marines will graduate enlisted infantry training this week
Excerpt: Four women will graduate this week from the Marine Corps’
enlisted infantry training course, Marine Corps Times has learned. ...
Throughout the training, female students were held to the same standards as
men, Marine officials said.
Caught On Video:
Off-Duty Cop Nearly Beaten To Death In Front Of His Wife – How Spectators React
Is Almost Equally Disturbing
Excerpt: An off-duty New York Police Department officer was
severely beaten over the weekend while his wife watched helplessly. What’s
more, spectators taunted and laughed — and no one seems to come to the
man’s immediate aid as his attacker continued to beat him while he lay unconscious. Sgt. Mohammed Deen, an 18-year veteran
with the NYPD, was attacked by Hayden Holder in Queens South Richmond
Hill neighborhood Sunday, according to WABC-TV.
Pakistan
Virginia state Sen.
R. Creigh Deeds stabbed in home; adult son, Gus Deeds, fatally shot
Excerpt: Virginia state
Sen. R. Creigh Deeds (D-Bath) was stabbed multiple times early Tuesday in an
assault at his house in Bath County , west of Charlottesville ,
Virginia
Excerpt: The benefits of free international trade are often
diffuse and hard to see, while the benefits of shielding specific groups from
foreign competition are often immediate and visible. This illusion fuels the
common perception that free trade is detrimental to the American economy. It
also tips the scales in favor of special interests seeking protection from
foreign competition. As a result, the federal government currently imposes
thousands of tariffs, quotas, and other barriers to trade. However well
intended, restrictions on foreign trade harm the very people they aim to
protect: American consumers and producers. Trade restrictions limit the choices
of what Americans can buy; they also drive up the prices of everything from
clothing and groceries to the materials manufacturers use to make everyday
products. Moreover, it is lower-income Americans who generally bear a
disproportionate share of these costs. (Unfortunately, Progressives despite
their empty pieties, don't care about low income Americans. They care about
getting votes, thus power and money, from economically ignorant voters., ~Bob)
California Department
of Justice agents sweep Fresno, Clovis
Excerpt: The sign in the window warned burglars that the
homeowner owned a handgun and would use it in self-defense. The state agents
knocking on the door were there to confiscate the weapon. The agents are part
of the California Department of Justice's Armed Prohibited Persons System
(APPS), a program that takes firearms from people barred from owning them. The
law says that group can include ex-felons and people deemed to be mentally
unstable. Often arriving in SUVs and dressed in black tactical uniforms, the
teams regularly sweep through California
cities with a list of names and addresses.
Obama's Soft Stance
on Iran Might Force Israel
Excerpt: But they already sparked a fierce public rift
between the government of Israel
and the Obama administration, the likes of which have not been seen in
U.S.-Israeli relations in many years. Fueling the disagreement are deep
concerns in Jerusalem – and other capitals in
the Middle East, as well as in Paris
– that the Obama administration is willing to settle for a shortsighted, poor
interim deal that will cause existing, crippling sanctions to crumble. That
would enable Iran
to stay on the brink of nuclear weapons production, and enable President Obama
to defer the crisis to the next administration. (Only thing left is for Obama
to channel Jesse Jackson and call Tel Aviv "Hymietown." ~Bob)
Tweet from Benjamin Netanyahu @netanyahu
It would be a great mistake to capitulate before Iran
when they have all the reasons right now to respond to the pressure.
Quotes
"When you disarm [the people]
you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice
or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred against
you." "When the people are entrusted with the care of any privilege
or liberty, being less disposed to encroach upon it, they will of necessity
take better care of it; and being unable to take it away themselves, will
prevent others from doing so." "A republic should take great care not
to entrust with an important administration one who has been gravely
offended." - Niccoló Machiavelli, The Prince. 1537.
Putting NSA spying in
perspective. By James A. Lyons
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/17/lyons-putting-nsa-spying-in-perspective/#ixzz2l0ONyk5F
Obama delivers
Gettysburg Address on YouTube, leaves out ‘under God’
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/19/obama-delivers-gettysburg-address-on-youtube-leaves-out-under-god/#ixzz2l6n3Vv19
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/19/obama-delivers-gettysburg-address-on-youtube-leaves-out-under-god/#ixzz2l6n3Vv19
Excerpt: Historians do believe that Lincoln honed
the address in later drafts after he delivered it, but there is little disagreement
about whether Lincoln uttered the words
“under God” when he spoke at Gettysburg .
“Every stenographic report, good, bad and indifferent, says ‘that the nation
shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom,’” wrote historian William E. Barton. “There was no
common source from which all the reporters could have obtained those words but
from Lincoln ’s
own lips at the time of delivery.”
Suicide bombings kill
23 near Iran embassy in Beirut
Excerpt: Two suicide bombings rocked Iran 's embassy compound in Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at
least 23 people including an Iranian cultural attaché and hurling bodies and
burning wreckage across a debris-strewn street. (Muslims slaughtering Muslims
for Allah. Thus has to always been, so shall it always be in the Religion of
Death. ~bob)
Somali African Union
Beledweyne base hit by bomb attack
Excerpt: At least 19 people have been killed in a suicide
attack on an African Union base in the Somali town of Beledweyne
near Ethiopia 's
border, officials say.
Barack Obama, Derelict. By Ed
Lasky
Excerpt: Let's take Barack Obama at his word -- a stretch
certainly for anyone who would lie
about his own mother's death to score partisan points will lie
about...well, anything. But let's put the most positive spin on what President
Obama has been conveying to his fellow Americans. One can try to be optimistic
even in these perilous times -- it is one of the great traits of being
American.
Martin Bashir: Gee,
I'm Awfully Sorry I Said Someone Should Defecate In Sarah Palin's Mouth
Excerpt: Leftist politics, I maintain, are not a politics at
all, but a psychological response to one's shortcomings and feelings of
failure. Leftist politics are, simply put, a way of getting even with a world
that's done one wrong -- and most people carrying about such grievances against
a world that's done one wrong are psychologically broken. These fairytale
"politics" give them an avenue to vent their rages and turmoils about
their failures and inadequacies in a way that is deemed, incorrectly, to be
socially acceptable and even high-minded. (Imagine the uproar if a conservative
TV pundit said this about Michelle Obama or Nancy Pelosi? ~Bob)
Excerpt: JFK was not killed by some miasma of right-wing
hatred, by a confederacy of Cuban exiles, CIA agents and Sicilian mafia bosses.
The directions in which the JFK conspiracy theories point reveal what they are
trying to hide. John F. Kennedy was not murdered by a miasma of hatred on the
right, but on the left. Before liberals became leftists, leftists had a
propensity for killing liberals.
Excerpt: Congress tells us that one-half (6.2 percent) of
the Social Security tax is paid by employees and that the other half is paid by
employers, for a total of 12.4 percent. Similarly, we are told that a Medicare
tax of 1.45 percent is levied on employees and that another 1.45 percent is
levied on employers. The truth of the matter is that the burden of both taxes
is borne by employees. In other words, we pay both the employee and the
so-called employer share. You say, “Williams, that’s nonsense! Just look at
what it says on my pay stub.” OK, let’s look at it.
Obama building
'compliant officer class.' By F. Michael Maloof
Excerpt: The extraordinarily large
number of senior military officials being relieved of duty under the Obama
administration – nine generals and flag officers this year alone and close to
200 senior officers over the last five years – is part of the creation of a
“compliant officer class,” according to a U.S. Army intelligence official. (The
more I hear of this, the less sleep I get. --Del. I approach WND with caution. Their hair
is always on fire, they indulge in a lot of speculation and put the worst spin
possible for the left on things. Which doesn't mean they are always wrong.
~Bob)
Gitmo good life: U.S.
Excerpt: Thanks to a multimillion-dollar federal contract, Guantanamo Bay
prisoners can enroll in seminars to learn all about basic landscaping and
pruning, calligraphy and Microsoft PowerPoint
while the U.S.
figures out what to do with them. Prisoners also can get in touch with their
artistic sides.
The News in Zingers.
By Argus Hamilton
Excerpt: The White House reports that Secret Service agents
were caught sending out graphic texts to women online while on duty at the
White House. Everyone is stunned. This is the first evidence we've seen that
somebody at the White House knows how to use a computer.
French hostage
escapes Nigerian jihadist captors at prayer time
Excerpt: This may be why jihadist kidnappers so often try to
convert their captives to Islam. If Collump had been a Muslim, he would have
been praying at the same time, and would not have noticed the unlocked door.
But why didn't Allah notice and prevent the escape of the Infidel hostage? He
is indeed the "best of schemers" (Qur'an 3:54).
WELFARE ABUSE: 32
years old Austin , TX
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13
" For even when we were with you, we would give you this command: If anyone
is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among
you walk in idleness, not busy at work, but busybodies. Now such persons
we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and
to earn their own living." But I suspect this could be fake. ~Bob
Horrifying New
"Knockout Game" Trend Responsible for 7 Deaths
Excerpt: A horrifying and deadly new trend called the
“Knockout Game” is sweeping the country. The “players,” who are usually teens,
target a stranger on the street and try to knock the person out with one punch!
So far, at least seven deaths have been linked to the game.
Boy, 9, found hanged
'was bullied for being white'
Excerpt: A boy of nine who was found hanged is believed to
have killed himself after he was ‘bullied for being white’ by an Asian gang at
school. ("Asian" is British media PC speak for Muslim. ~Bob)
Kanye West: Obama
used me
Nothing personal, Kayne. He uses everybody. ~Bob
Bay Area Democrats
tiring of Obama, resulting in slashed ticket prices for upcoming DNC fundraiser
This week only! Lies and broken promises half off! ~Bob.
Excerpt: The Democratic National Committee is so desperate to get donors to
attend its shindigs that it’s slashed ticket prices for a high-dollar
fundraiser in San Francisco
next week in half. The committee announced the reduced ticket prices in a donor
email Monday as a result of the lackluster ticket sales for the fundraiser thus
far.
Excerpt: Firstly, it is clear to me that the supremacist
ideology peddled by these international terrorists is the thin end of a
spectacularly ugly wedge. I see less serious manifestations of this ideology
all the time as the Director of British Muslims for Secular Democracy, as well
as excuses being made for it.
Republican, so will be a national story and his party will
be mentioned in every article. Obama used coke too, they say, but no story
there. ~Bob
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