Dan McCall, a young graphic artist, was interviewed on the Glenn Beck show last night. He’s in trouble with the government for this t-shirt which says the NSA is the only part of government that actually listens.
With the help of consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, he is suing the NSA for violating his First Amendment rights.
If you wanted to throw something at the TV watching Megyn Kelly's interviews with Zeke Emanuel, you'll love what he said in 2008--his audacious views and rationing beliefs were all out there, and he was Obama's main advisor on this death trap called PPACA. Oh yes, and he claims it's Fox News and Republicans' fault. Sorry, Zeke, but as you blame, your own words point 3 fingers back to you and the advice he got from you.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203706604574374463280098676
It’s not a failed “roll out;” it’s a terrible law.
If she believed that “the majority of Americans with coverage continually say they are happy with the coverage they have” then why did she vote to change it? For the small percentage that didn’t have insurance, wouldn’t buy it, or didn’t need it? So everyone would have equally poor insurance?
http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-obamacare-2014-elections-democrats-senate-2013-11
And she’s lost her insurance that was working very well for her. Thank you, President Obama.
“Right now, most people getting cancellations bought plans in the individual market. Wait until the other shoe drops in 2014 and millions more people who had coverage through their job lose it. The truth about Obamacare will become so painfully obvious that even the White House lie machine won’t be able to cover it up.” Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. governor of New York
Just a follow up on Jimmy Kimmel's China comment. Last night Glenn Beck interviewed Pastor Bob Fu, a former Communist and atheist from China, and now a Christian. He and his wife left China to save the life of their unborn child. We've all heard of the one child policy, but he said Chinese women have to carry a "birth permit" which records their periods, insertion of birth control device, etc., because they need government permission to conceive, even for the first child. The document he showed to the camera sort of looked like a passport with the woman’s photo, and stamps, and notes. Pastor Fu and his wife hadn't obtained the proper permit and could not get medical assistance. So even 8 and 9 month old babies can be aborted against their parents' wishes. So if ABC or Jimmy Kimmel want a come back to the racism charges, let them do some investigative reporting and tell the truth about the Chinese government continuing to kill its own citizens.
It’s just not good to read “conundrum,” “new regulations,” “administrative and technical challenges,” “impede innovation,” and “contentious issue” all in the same article about HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Not after the sloppy, struggling, and insecure roll out of Obamacare. The Omnibus Final Rule.
There are a few hot button words for me in the JAMA September 18, 2013 article, “The HIPAA Conundrum in the Era of Mobile Health and Communications.”
"Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult…. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontentment led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.”
Obama loves to call your current health insurance "substandard." But insurance, like banks, is very highly regulated--by the government, and especially the state governments. And those regulations benefit the big guys who spend millions on lobbying the most. That's the same for all industries whether insurance, banking, agriculture, entertainment, toys, snack food or academia. The regulations are specifically written (many drafted by the industry itself) to keep the little guy from being competition. So the next time he tells you that, throw something at the TV and don't forget to vote in the next election.
Insurance agents are required to have extensive training, and continuing education. They have to have back ground checks and finger printing. Obama's navigators? Nothing.
Undercover video of navigator guiding a citizen to sign up with Obamacare. Not only have so-called “Obamacare navigators” not been properly vetted by Enroll America, but they are actively encouraging consumers to lie to the IRS in order to get more money in Obamacare subsidies and in fact themselves are admitting to defrauding the government. And what makes this even worse is that Enroll America, ostensibly a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, seems to be sharing information with Battleground Texas, which is described by its regional field director as “a grassroots organization dedicated to turning Texas blue.”
I was sitting in the doctor's office and CNN was on, so I watched the story of comedian Jimmy Kimmel allowing a kid to say that the solution to the debt problem with China was to kill the Chinese. So then came the "I'm sorry if anyone was offended" apology from Kimmel and ABC, but that's not enough. There are calls for his firing. Really? "Comedians" call for the death of Tea Party members and Republicans, and no one is fired and they label anyone who doesn't like Obama's policies a racist, a homophobe and a misogynist.
Then the news show brought on a Chinese American who felt compelled to review America's record with minorities, like how Asians were treated in the 19th and 20th century. From her accent, I guessed she was born in China, but was probably forced to give up her native language of Cantonese or one of the Wu language groups and flee for her life when Mao was killing 70 million or so of his own citizens. If China is upset, tough.
We know our President routinely ignores our laws, or works around them, parses his words carefully, or just blatantly lies, like he did about "you can keep your doctor, period." However, it was also illegal for the U.S. to interfere in Kenya's constitution to promote abortion. An investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), into the Obama Administration’s use of $18 million in taxpayer funds to provide funding for a group pushing legalized abortion in Kenya finds the administration broke the law. Guttmacher Institute (Planned Parenthood) did a happy dance and reports the same kind of “unsafe, illegal” abortion statistics that they did in the United States to get our 1973 law passed. (That was later proved to be a complete fabrication.) The administration stonewalled the investigation. This was in 2010, but worthy of remembering when making your list. Democrats like to say about Obamacare, "It's the law," well, so was DOMA, and he ignored it. So is sending guns to Mexico. So is spying on American citizens without a warrant. So is interfering with our “free” press. So is killing American citizens suspected of terrorism without a trial. So is lobbying for abortion in other countries.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/12/16/obamas-push-to-legalize-abortion-in-kenya-broke-u-s-law/
I’ve seen this a few times on the internet and thought it was worth another look. I have no attribution.
Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."
The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."
She was right -- our generation didn't have the 'green thing' in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over.
So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings.
Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.
But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.
But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?
Please forward this on to another old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person...
We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...especially from a tattooed, multiple pierced smartass who can't make change without the cash register telling them how much.
According to data released by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the three major carriers in the D.C. exchange only signed up a few each; a fourth signed up no one.
Care First, Blue Cross Blue Shield: two enrollees from Oct. 1, 2013, through Oct. 30, 2013.
Kaiser Permanente: three enrollees from Oct. 1, 2013, through Oct. 31, 2013.
United Healthcare: no enrollment data from the exchange as of Nov. 4, 2013.
Aetna: No enrollment data as of Oct. 24, 2013.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have posted the amount of grant money given to the D.C. exchange. The total from these publicly-released figures are $133,573,928: $72,985,333 for an "Establishment Grant Level Two Application Summary," with an "Administrative Supplement Award Amount" of $16,969,089; $8,200,716 and $34,418,790 awarded separately for an "Establishment Grant Level One Application Summary;" and $1 million for s "State Planning Grant."
This means that the cost to the American taxpayers per enrollee in D.C. has been $26,714,785.60 each.
There is nothing government can do cheaper than private industry, but there are a few things it must do according to the Constitution. Health care isn’t one of them.
http://www.advent2.com/Projects/Touchstones
Entire video takes 21.5 minutes
Sept. 15, 2009: "But I want you all to know, I will not rest until anybody who's looking for a job can find one -- and I'm not talking about just any job, but good jobs that give every American decent wages and decent benefits and a fair shot at the American Dream. (Applause.) That's what I'm fighting for every single day. (Applause.)" President Obama, talking to auto workers in Lordstown, OH, campaigning on all his "successes" in just a few months (ARRA, cash for clunkers, green energy, health insurance pending legislation), none of which have panned out.
November 9, 2013: The President plays his 150th round of golf and the U.S. labor force participation rate fell from 63.2 percent to 62.8 percent, the lowest that it has been since 1978, 11 million more than when he took office. Almost 5 years after the recession officially ended, nearly 50 million Americans are living in poverty, based on a line set by the government. Huge numbers have been added to the SNAP program which is riddled with fraud. The WH is swirling in scandal as more rights are stolen from the American people, and the President has been proven to be a pathological liar in his promotion of his signature legislation for which not one Republican voted and only squeaked through the Senate by one vote.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/06/news/economy/labor-force-participation/index.html
Your heart may be in the right place, but your hand is in my purse. Studies show that marriage of the parents is the #1 way to reduce childhood poverty in the U.S.A. With married parents, a child has only about 8% chance of being raised in poverty. A better house, or a better education doesn't do it. Lunch programs from USDA distributed by church volunteers doesn't make a dent. Social justice workshops and summits don't either, except maybe to tamp down a little liberal guilt if the Bible falls open to Matthew 25. You address guns, cuts in food stamps for illegals, hunger, obesity, education. Where is your concern about marriage, the number one solution?
"Nobody tells a dying guy to shut up" is the personal testimony of Dave Chilcoat, who battled ALS the last 3 years of his life but continued to witness the love of Jesus to the end. When he learned he had this terrible disease, he started an on line journal recording both his physical struggles and his spiritual victories, writing the final entry in Aug. 2006. His wife, Beth, edited the journal and published it in 2009. It is in the church library at Upper Arlington Lutheran Church (Columbus, OH), and I read it in one sitting Friday--his description of the disease, his pain, and his tears is crushing, but his joy in the Lord is inspiring and faith building. His selection of appropriate scripture is outstanding. Dave and Beth came to Columbus, OH, to establish Young Life when they were a young married couple with a baby in 1970. After 10 years he went to law school and was a lawyer for 23 years. See her web site for ordering information. http://bethchilcoat.com/
Until I read this book about Dave's three years battling ALS, I had forgotten I had three "A taste of Columbus" recipe books by Dave and Beth. I have III (1987),IV, (1991) and V (2000), received after Marylyn Doncevic, the original owner and wife of Paul Doncevic, died. These are wonderful recipes from Columbus area restaurants, and the books are illustrated by David's mother, whom you also get to know in his book.
To allow Americans to reclaim control of their own health care and benefit from competition in a free market for insurance and health care, Congress should repeal the Obamacare statute and enact patient-centered, market-based reforms based on five principles:
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) moves health care in the wrong direction. It puts government, not patients, in charge of individual health care decisions. Moreover, it fails to meet the promises laid out by President Barack Obama. With each passing day, it becomes clearer that Obamacare will not reduce premiums for average American families, bend the cost curve in health care spending, or bring down the deficit. For these reasons, among others, Obamacare must be repealed.
However, a return to the status quo before Obamacare is not the final step. Policymakers should pursue reforms based on five basic principles. Adopting such reforms would move American health care in the right direction: toward a patient-centered, market-based health care system.
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