The Single, Greatest Mystery of the Obama Presidency

Forget the birth certificate, his 17 year old mother (at the time of conception) or who exactly the father of Barack Obama was.

Forget the name Barry Soetoro, forget his missing passport, and forget where he got the money to go to Columbia and Harvard. All of these mysteries are interesting but not particularly useful to the 300 million of us who currently inhabit the United States.

The single greatest mystery of Barack Obama is this. How could a newly anointed President completely ignore the greatest economic collapse of the last 80 years, and rather than prosecute bankers and restore confidence- he sets about the business of implementing government run healthcare with a bill that nobody read?

How?

It is a mystery for the ages. I have mulled it over extensively. Either Obama was a complete idiot or he was bought and paid for by the nation's banking interests. In a malicious sense, perhaps he was even trying to bring about the complete and utter collapse of the United States in a Cloward- Piven sort of way. If that is true- then he is a most sinister man.

In 2008, this country was in complete collapse. Our people were completely in debt up to their eyeballs. The bankers had completely corrupted the banking system and the entire mess was on the verge of imploding, the stock market (DJIA) was at 6300.

Is that the time to bring about some sort of nationalized health care system that will cause an already heavily indebted people to go into debt even further? Does that make any sense to anyone?

Of course not.

I have absolutely no sympathy nor compassion for Obama and his army of largesse seeking sycophants. This is exactly what happens when you ignore a huge problem and create a new problem instead. Obama is getting exactly what he deserves.

Eventually, the ACA will be completely abandoned. That may occur about the time Obama leaves office and yields to history. I don't think history will be very kind to Barack Obama and I am encouraged that we only have 3 years left on this rudderless, leaderless administration.

Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money

A guaranteed income would reduce the humiliations of the current welfare system while promoting individual responsibility.

The Swiss are set to vote on whether their country should introduce a basic national income of 2,500 Swiss Francs ($2,800) a month for every adult, regardless of their salary or net worth. A date for the vote has yet to be announced.

Without the Swiss proposal being attached to drastic welfare reforms the plan is, I think, unfeasible. However, that the particular proposal in Switzerland is not ideal does not mean that libertarians should shy away from proposing something similar. Being morally comfortable with some degree of government wealth redistribution might be contrary to anarchism, but it is not contrary to libertarianism, and were libertarians to argue for replacing the current welfare system with a basic national income we would be better positioned to not only highlight the fact that libertarianism is not the heartless and selfish philosophy it is commonly portrayed as, it would allow for a more humane and effective way to deliver welfare than the current system on offer.
In discussions about welfare it is astonishing how often the current system is portrayed as humane, just, or charitable. However, one of the tragedies of the current welfare system is that it strips welfare recipients of their dignity while treating many of them like children, and functions on the underlying assumption that somehow being poor means you are incapable of making good decisions.
Many welfare recipients are required to undergo drug tests, despite the fact that many Americans take illegal drugs while still being good parents and holding down a job. If employed professionals are able to fulfil their duties at work while also maintaining a recreational drug habit, why should welfare recipients be treated differently? In fact, in the last year welfare recipients in Utah were found to test positive for illegal drugs at rates less than the national average, and in Arizona 87,000 screenings between 2009 and 2012 yielded one positive test result.
Perhaps the best example of the demeaning nature of the current welfare system is the SNAP program, otherwise known as food stamps, which works by giving recipients a card that can only be used to buy a selection of government-approved goods. Alcohol, tobacco, pet food, and vitamins are only some of the products that those on food stamps cannot buy because the powers that be have determined that they know what is the best lifestyle for food stamp recipients.
Instead of treating those who, often through no fault of their own, have fallen on hard times like children who are incapable of making the right choices about the food they eat or the drugs they may or may not choose to take, why not just give them cash? Doing so would not only cut down on the huge administrative costs of America’s welfare programs, it would also promote personal responsibility and abolish much of the humiliation and stripped dignity associated with the current welfare system.
Although a basic or guaranteed income would have to be financed through taxation it has been proposed by a number of classical liberals and libertarians.
One of the most prominent proponents of the negative income tax, which guarantees a basic income, was Milton Friedman, the nobel-prize winning economist and free-market advocate. Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek express support for a “minimum income for everyone” in the third volume of Law, Legislation, and Liberty. The American radical Thomas Paine proposed a national income in this pamphlet Agrarian Justice, and libertarian author Charles Murray has also argued in favor of a guaranteed income.
Of course libertarians, who are in favor of less government spending, may be concerned that were a basic income to be implemented that it would cost more than the current welfare system. However, it is worth considering that, as Peter Ferrara pointed out in Forbes, the Census Bureau estimates that our total welfare spending is four times the amount that would be needed to lift all Americans currently living in poverty above the poverty line by giving them cash.
In 2008, Charles Murray wrote that a guaranteed income for all American adults over the age of 21 who are not in prison of $10,000 a year that would replace all current welfare programs as well as agricultural subsidies and corporate welfare would be cheaper than maintaining the current welfare system in the coming decades.
It is important to point out that under Murray’s proposal, which is outlined fully in his book In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State, after someone’s total annual income reached $25,000 a 20 percent surtax tax would be imposed on “incremental earned income,” capped at $5,000 once someone earns $50,000 a year. Murray’s plans also requires that $3,000 of the $10,000 grant be spent on health insurance.
Of course giving every non-incarcerated American over the age of 21 $10,000 (or the current poverty line of $11,490) a year with Murray’s surtax plan in place of all corporate welfare and the entirety of the welfare state (including Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare) would not be cheap, but it would be more efficient, because it is a simple cash transfer, and would be easier to fund were other libertarian budget proposals considered, such as cuts to defense spending.
Those who are not fans of Murray’s guaranteed income may be more open to Milton Friedman’s negative income tax, which would not guarantee a set income for every adult, but would provide payments to Americans based on how much below a certain threshold they earned. Like Murray’s guaranteed income, Friedman’s negative income tax would be financed through wealth redistribution.
Some libertarians may not be fans of a guaranteed or basic income because such a system would, they argue, disincentivize work. Murray believes that his surtax scheme would incentivize work after someone began earning over $25,000. Friedman wrote that the negative income tax “reduces the incentives of those helped to help themselves, but it does not eliminate that incentive entirely, as a system of supplementing incomes up to some fixed minimum would. An extra dollar earned always means more money available for expenditure.”
It remains to be seen if the Swiss will vote for a guaranteed national income. Over the weekend, Swiss voters rejected another radical economic proposal, which would have capped pay at a company at 12 times the wage of the lowest paid employee.
Whatever the outcome of the Swiss referendum, libertarians in the U.S. and elsewhere should support the idea of a basic income  as a replacement for the current welfare systems on offer. The welfare system in the U.S. is an ineffective and expensive mess, but it is unlikely that the majority of the American public are going to be persuaded to support the outright abolition of the welfare state any time soon. Rather than make the principled argument against the redistribution of wealth, libertarians would do better if they were to argue for a welfare system that promotes personal responsibility, reduces the humiliations associated with the current system, and reduces administrative waste in government.

The Myth of Live-and-Let-Live Liberalism

In Washington, D.C., the city’s department of health wants to subject people seeking a tattoo or body piercing to a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before they can go through with it. That’s just one of the regulations in a 66-page proposal of new rules for the tattoo and piercing industry.
Reasonable people may differ on the wisdom of these proposals, but as someone whose interest in such establishments begins and ends with keeping my daughter away from them, I can’t get too worked up either way, save to say D.C. has bigger problems to worry about.

What did catch my eye was this line from the write-up in the metro section of the Washington Post: “The body art rules are the latest product of a city government that has occasionally struggled to reconcile its socially liberal sensibilities with a zeal for regulation.”
 I find such statements hilarious.
There is a notion out there that being “socially liberal” means you’re a libertarian at heart, a live-and-let-live sort of person who says “whatever floats your boat” a lot.
Alleged proof for this amusing myth (or pernicious lie; take your pick) comes in the form of liberal support for gay marriage and abortion rights, and opposition to a few things that smack of what some people call “traditional values.”
The evidence disproving this adorable story of live-and-let-live liberalism comes in the form of pretty much everything else liberals say, do, and believe.
Social liberalism is the foremost, predominant, and in many instances sole impulse for zealous regulation in this country, particularly in big cities. I love it when liberals complain about a ridiculous bit of PC nanny-statism coming out of New York, L.A., Chicago, D.C., Seattle, etc. — “What will they do next?”
Uh, sorry to tell you, but you are “they.” Outside of a Law and Order script — or an equally implausible MSNBC diatribe about who ruined Detroit — conservatives have as much influence on big-city liberalism as the Knights of Malta do.
Seriously, who else do people think are behind efforts to ban big sodas or sue hairdressers for charging women more than men? Who harasses little kids for making toy guns out of sticks, Pop Tarts, or their own fingers? Who wants to regulate the air you breathe, the food you eat, and the beverages you drink? Who wants to control your thermostat? Take your guns? Your cigarettes? Heck, your candy cigarettes? Who’s in favor of speech codes on campuses and “hate crime” laws everywhere? Who’s in favor of free speech when it comes to taxpayer-subsidized “art” and pornography (so long as you use a condom, if liberals get their way) but then bang their spoons on their high chairs for strict regulations when it comes to political speech? Who loves meddling, finger-wagging billionaires like Michael Bloomberg when they use state power and taxpayer money to herd, bully, and nudge people but thinks billionaires like the Koch brothers who want to shrink government are the root of all tyranny?
At the national level, who bypassed Congress to empower the EPA to regulate the atmosphere? Oh, and who pushed Obamacare on a country that didn’t want it? Who defends bending the entire country — including religious institutions — into a national health-care scheme dedicated to the proposition of live and let live so long as you live the way the Department of Health and Human Services says you should?
Did legislative and bureaucratic gremlins sneak into government buildings at night and pass all of these rules and regulations while the social-liberal free-thinkers were off not judging people and refusing to harsh anybody’s mellow?
Sure, today’s liberalism does carry within it some genetic lineage to the classical liberalism — i.e., libertarianism — of J. S. Mill and John Locke. But genetic ties are overrated. After all, humans share half of our genes with bananas. (Look it up.)
Social liberalism — better understood as progressivism — is a worldview that seeks to use the state to support its preferred values and culture. That isn’t libertarianism. Support for abortion rights does not make you a libertarian; it makes you someone who wants very lax regulations on abortion for ideological reasons. Which is why socially liberal bureaucrats in D.C. want to make you wait 24 hours to get a tattoo of a baby on your arm, but there’s no waiting to have an abortion. 

Re-Branding Obamacare

How the mighty (in their own minds) have fallen! The signature accomplishment of Obama's tenure was to enact some form of universal healthcare, the "Holy Grail" of Democrats and progressives for the last century. Originally dubbed "Obamacare" in derision, Obama came to embrace the name: "Because I do care", and, after all, it is all about him! Now, Obama wants to "re-brand" the (Un)Affordable Healthcare Act, as if giving it a new name somehow would change any of its odious attributes. I'm thinking he should take a page from the "Geico gecko" campaign, although, I'm not sure that the "Obamacare Weasel" has quite the same cachet. Next time you see roadkill, for example, just think of it as a "random alternative to life". Hey! That's pretty good! Maybe Obama could re-brand "Random Alternative to Life Panels" in Obamacare?

So, in Obama's mind, the way to fix a bad law, that caused millions more to lose their affordable insurance than to gain it, is with more words, by re-branding it, and by delaying it for a year? That presents several problems:

A) if all these plans Obama would allow people to keep are, as the liberals keep telling us, "faux" insurance, substandard and inadequate policies, how is it doing anyone a kindness to keep these people in them another year?

B) if the law, as enacted, will cause millions of people to lose their healthcare plans and millions upon millions more to see their costs doubling and tripling over what they have now, how is merely delaying a bad plan for a year any more than just a band-aid upon a life threatening condition? Why not go for a cure, instead?

C) The Big "C", Obama has no Constitutional right or authority to randomly rewrite portions of the law all by himself. Obama assumes for himself the powers of the worst kind of banana republic, tinhorn dictator when he attempts to do so. All of the liberals who bleated that conservatives should accede to Obamacare because it's "the law of the land, passed by Congress, signed by the President and affirmed by the Supreme Court", should at least have the shame to admit that every change Obama makes in the law illegally, goes against both the spirit and the letter of the law they claimed to uphold.

But getting back to the re-branding. The Geico gecko tells us us that 'Fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance'. If the Obamacare Keystone Kops can ever get the website functional, and there's any truth in advertising: "Fifteen hours and triple your premiums can put all your personal information at risk from hackers".

Operators are standing by.

Why Did Obama Lie About Health Care?

At this point, everyone understands that President Obama and his fellow Democrats (including most if not all of the Democratic Senators who are up for re-election next year) lied when they told us that if we like our health care plan, we can keep it. That was only one of a number of lies that were used to sell Obamacare: the average family will save $2,500 annually; if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, Obamacare will mitigate the budget deficit, and so on. But why? What was the end toward which this epic deception was the means?
At National Review, Andy McCarthy puts on his federal prosecutor hat. If Obama and his accomplices were in the private sector, they would be imprisoned for perpetrating a scheme to defraud. We are beginning to understand what the fraud was–the systematic pattern of lies–but what was the scheme? What was the point of the fraud?
Andy’s answer is one you have heard before: to “transition” the nation into a system of fully socialized medicine. But he makes a clear, brief and persuasive case, drawing on Obama’s own oft-stated political beliefs and the irresistible inferences that can be drawn from Obamacare’s structure, including, but not limited to, the fact that the law’s famous exchanges are intentionally designed to fail.

I would add this point: Obama and the Congressional Democrats knew that before long, their lies would be exposed. The Obama administration predicted in a regulatory filing in June 2010 that more than one-half of all employer-sponsored group plans would terminate by the end of 2013 (now pushed back by the administration to 2014). They obviously didn’t think that no one would notice. Likewise, most Democrats, let alone Republicans, can add and subtract. So as soon as Obamacare was fully implemented, people would see that health insurance under the new regime costs more, not less, than they had paid previously. (Actually, any fool would have seen this from the beginning if he paid attention.) The Democrats must have known that when their lies were exposed, the blowback would be severe, exactly as every Ponzi schemer knows the day will come when his pyramid collapses and he goes to jail.

The Democrats put off the day of reckoning by delaying the implementation of Obamacare by three years when they passed the law in 2010. They have bought more time since by postponing various aspects of the law–most recently yesterday, when they deferred the date for 2015 enrollment in the exchanges until after the midterm election. But still, these are only delaying tactics: the administration’s lies were destined to be exposed, and the consequences could only be severe. The Democrats did not run this risk in order to gain a small prize. It is reasonable to believe that the only goal that would have been deemed worth such an enormous political risk is the holy grail of statism: socialized medicine.

Virus alert!

The NSA has put viruses on 50-thousand computers, according to one report.
NRC, a news site or something in the Netherlands, reports that Edward Snowden’s documents said that the NSA put malware on 50-thousand computers worldwide. Floor Boon — that’s the reporter’s name; and if you can’t trust Floor Boon, who can you trust? — writes that the NSA has complete control over the malware:

The malware can be controlled remotely and be turned on and off at will. The “implants” act as digital ‘sleeper cells’ that can be activated with a single push of a button. According to the Washington Post, the NSA has been carrying out this type of cyber operation since 1998.

Now, who would the NSA target?
Well, I don’t think I have anything to worry about. It’s not like the NSA would put any malware on my computer or anything.
Sure, I’m a conservative, and don’t think much of them stepping on the liberties of Americans, but they wouldn’t use that as an excuse to FLUINEUGFPSE. DSFLJIE. JDJF JDIFO UEWRFDPR GDW9E7TS HEG0&RE% 51 62 61 6D 61 20 63 61 6E 20 6B 69 73 73 20 6D 79 20 61 73 73 21 101010

The Name Game

Opened the paper and found that the big hospital across the river  in Florida reports fifty-six births from between  October 25 and November 12.  60%, thirty-three, are born to parents who’ve eschewed those tired old conventions and mores about marriage BEFORE children.  Six new mommies had seven children between them without even bothering to remember who the baby daddy is.

Let’s just take the plunge together, shall we?

Jeffery J. & Amber L. tag a daughter with Payton Kamora.  Ain’t a ‘kamora’ one of those fish with the sucker on its head?  Oh, that’s a ‘remora’, you say?  Okay, that makes it ALL better.

Billy B. & Menka(!) J. triple up on a son, little Javarian Raikhai Lee.

Kane & Tiffany K. produce a son, Avin Wolf.  Manly name, “Wolf”.  Daughter’s gonna be named “Shih-tzu”.

Another triple shows up when Marcus N. & Melodie D. tag their daughter with Kynslie Zaniya Marie.

Donovan D. & Megan P. like the letter “C” so their son, like de daddy, get’s two of ‘em.  We meet little Caden Chase.

D’Anthony G. & Entoria(!) R. name a daughter for a clan of profligate drunken woman-abusers and one of the women they used so we meet little Kennadee Monroe.

Hilario V. & Jennifer G. apostrophicate a daughter, little J’Lynn Dalice.

Michael & Latisha(!) T. contrive two names for their daughter, little Aiya Lenae.

Another apostrophe finds a home as David R. ‘n’ Brandi (with an “i”!) L. present little Ad’ve Gracyn.

Tossing another apostrophe into nominative service, Templeton(!) G.  & Brittany G. (not the same surnames)  do their daughter as Ma’Kyla Rose.

Kurt C. & Destini(with an “i”!) present their daughter, little Eden Khalyse.

Justin N. & Railey(!) M. tag a daughter with Raylynn, “‘Cuz she’s, like, BOTH of us, yaknow?”

Miss Syrita M.  has to work overtime to come up with suitable names for twins because there’s no baby daddy around to help her.  We meet little girl Ar’manii Rose and little boy A’Vonte D’Quan.  Hillary’s ‘village’?  It’ll be raising these two.

Gregory D. & Ty’esha(!) G. show us what true nominative innovation can do with their son, little Ty’Rahji Ther’Nell.

Miss Brittney J.  has a baby girl and a place to show that she’s unique, just like everybody else.  Meet little Aniya McKell.

Christopher & Leslie H. know that the proper use of punctuation in a name shows that they and their son are people of distinction, so he starts out as Jeffery J’Quinton.

Miss Eboni(!) Y. shows that she is truly a woman of taste and sophistication by the way she names her daughter, little Bhailee Evonne.

Zachary & Jessi L. triple up on their son, little Colby Ray Vic.

Preston ‘n’ Lacey M. tag their daughter with Paisley.  Continuing in this vein, can we expect future offspring to be Plaid and Houndstooth?

Damon & Natalie Y. present their little son, Dayne (needs an extra letter, don’tcha think, Hon?) Justus, because it’s just us, yaknow?

Devonte(!) G. & Kiara(! – like ‘tiara’, ‘cept with a ‘k) M.do a son up with Lyric Marcel.

David ‘n’ Kate G. tag their daughter with Emma Aleksandra, because ‘ks’ is sooo much more sophisticated than ‘x’, yahknow!

Don’t you just feel so much better about the future of our country now?  I will finish savoring my morning coffee.

Obama Administration Failures

I could do a very long list – but I’ll stick with the short version.
1. Energy Policy – “Stimulus” money funneled to various “Green” companies, such as Solyndra, have been a huge waste. The various “Green” technologies just can’t compete on a cost-effective basis.
2. Foreign Policy – The “Russian Reset”. The Middle East – especially Benghazi. Israel. Venezuela. North Korea. Conclusion: Rhetoric alone doesn’t work.
3. Taxation – The current IRS scandal.
4. Health Care – Well, former Speaker Pelosi, you got the Prez’s stuff passed, and a large chunk of us now know what’s in it, and we don’t like it at all. And it’s a tax! The Supremes said so!
5. Trust – We, the People, have had our noses rubbed in the reasons that we should not trust the Administration. Some of us have actually paid attention.

It is time to step up and be the Boss

Firing employees is never pleasant, even when they deserve it. As one boss told me years ago, anyone can pass out raises, the reason we pay you to be a manager is to do the unpleasant stuff.

It is no secret and undeniable that President Obama was lacking in executive experience when he was elected to office. Even his most ardent supporters have to agree. That lack of experience is evident in his failure to hold those under him accountable for failure.  The complete disaster of the ObamaCare website is inexcusable. If Obama's underlings filed to inform him the website was not ready, as he claims, they should be fired. Even if Sebelius did tell Obama, she should be canned anyway. This roll-out surpasses even the New Coke debacle as the worst product launch in history.

It is often said the Government is the landing place for those who cannot make it in the private sector. Make no doubt, if the CEO of a company had made the promises of Obama, he would be in jail for fraud (see Bernie Madoff). If any executive had performed like Sebelius, she would have been fired already.

Scandal? What Scandal?

Bob: "Did you hear about the Obama administration scandal?

Jim: "You mean the Mexican gun running?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean SEAL Team 6?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the State Dept. lying about Benghazi?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean voter fraud?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the military not getting their votes counted?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean that 3 or 4 of Obama's GAY friends were mysteriously MURDERED when they came forward with claims he was gay too?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The NSA monitoring our phone calls, emails and everything else?"
Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the drones in our own country without the benefit of the law?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "Giving 123 Technologies $300 Million and right after it declared bankruptcy and was sold to the Chinese?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "You mean the president arming the Muslim Brotherhood?"

Bob: "No the other one:.

Jim: "The IRS targeting conservatives?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The DOJ spying on the press?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "Sebelius shaking down health insurance executives?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "Giving SOLYNDRA $500 MILLION DOLLARS and 3 months later they declared bankruptcy and then the Chinese bought it?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The president's ordering the release of nearly 10,000 illegal immigrants  from jails and prisons, and falsely blaming the sequester?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The president's threat to impose gun control by Executive Order in order to bypass Congress?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The president's repeated violation of the law requiring him to submit a budget no later than the first Monday in February?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The 2012 vote where 115% of all registered voters in some counties voted 100% for Obama?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The president's unconstitutional recess appointments in an attempt to circumvent the Senate's advise-and-consent role?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "The State Department interfering with an Inspector General investigation on departmental sexual misconduct?"

Bob: "No, the other one."

Jim: "Clinton, the IRS, Clapper and Holder all lying to Congress?"

Bob: "No, the other  one."

Jim: "I give up! ... Oh wait, I think I got it! You mean that 65 million low-information voters who don't pay taxes and get free stuff from taxpayers and stuck us again with the most pandering, corrupt administration in American history?

Bob: "THAT'S THE ONE!"

A Modest Proposal

I was watching a news story about the president’s plummeting popularity and trustworthiness numbers, when the reporter attributed the president’s lack of credibility, in large part to the failings of the Obamacare website, particularly in regards to its security. They showed a clip of congressional hearings where one congress critter asked four men directly responsible for security at the Healthcare.gov site, point blank, if the site would be secure by Dec 1st. To a man, they all answered “No”.

Now the White House insists that Healthcare.gov is secure. Hmm... Given the track record of this administration, that could hinge on what your definition of “is” is, or “secure”. But I had an idea. Here is the opportunity for Obama and the Democrats to show true leadership. Having exempted themselves from all the wonderfulness that is Obamacare, there’s no real reason for them to go to the Healthcare.gov website, right? So, here’s the deal. President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and all the Democrats that voted for this catastrophe , er, boon (doggle) to mankind, should all personally open an account at Healthcare.gov and enter all the private information required of John and Jane Doe, average Americans. Like that guy from Life Lock who bought mobile billboards with his real Social Security number on them, because he was confident in the security of his own system. If the White House “insists” that the site is secure, then the President and Congress Critters who voted for it won’t mind at all personally inputting their own Social Security numbers, bank accounts and whatever else in the way of personal or otherwise private information required of them, would they?

And, of course, they should sit down and do this personally, and not delegate it to some paid staffer. Mr. and Mrs. America don’t have paid personal staff to do this sort of thing for them. The President and Congress should lead by example here.

Anyone care to wager that if the President and Congress were personally required, or shamed into going on this site, that they would make sure it is a darn sight more secure than it is for you and me?

So, make the darn site more secure, or scrap it.

Does the Thug Regime worry about you?

See how many of these categories you fit into:

1. Those that talk about "individual liberties"

2. Those that advocate for states’ rights

3. Those that want "to make the world a better place"

4. "The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule"

5. Those that are interested in "defeating the Communists"

6. Those that believe "that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations"

7. Anyone that holds a "political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful, or undesirable"

8. Anyone that possesses an "intolerance toward other religions"

9. Those that "take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals"

10. "Anti-Gay"

11. "Anti-Immigrant"

12. "Anti-Muslim"

13. "The Patriot Movement"

14. "Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians"

15. Members of the Family Research Council

16. Members of the American Family Association

17. Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States "are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the ‘North American Union’"

18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol

19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform

20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition

21. Members of the Christian Action Network

22. Anyone that is "opposed to the New World Order"

23. Anyone that is engaged in "conspiracy theorizing"

24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21

25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps

26. Anyone that "fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations"

27. The militia movement

28. The sovereign citizen movement

29. Those that "don’t think they should have to pay taxes"

30. Anyone that "complains about bias"

31. Anyone that "believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia"

32. Anyone that "is frustrated with mainstream ideologies"

33. Anyone that "visits extremist websites/blogs"

34. Anyone that "establishes website/blog to display extremist views"

35. Anyone that "attends rallies for extremist causes"

36. Anyone that "exhibits extreme religious intolerance"

37. Anyone that "is personally connected with a grievance"

38. Anyone that "suddenly acquires weapons"

39. Anyone that "organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology"

40. "Militia or unorganized militia"

41. "General right-wing extremist"

42. Citizens that have "bumper stickers" that are patriotic or anti-U.N.

43. Those that refer to an "Army of God"

44. Those that are "fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)"

45. Those that are "anti-global"

46. Those that are "suspicious of centralized federal authority"

47. Those that are "reverent of individual liberty"

48. Those that "believe in conspiracy theories"

49. Those that have "a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack"

50. Those that possess "a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism"

51. Those that would "impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)"

52. Those that would "insert religion into the political sphere"

53. Anyone that would "seek to politicize religion"

54. Those that have "supported political movements for autonomy"

55. Anyone that is "anti-abortion"

56. Anyone that is "anti-Catholic"

57. Anyone that is "anti-nuclear"

58. "Rightwing extremists"

59. "Returning veterans"

60. Those concerned about "illegal immigration"

61. Those that "believe in the right to bear arms"

62. Anyone that is engaged in "ammunition stockpiling"

63. Anyone that exhibits "fear of Communist regimes"

64. "Anti-abortion activists"

65. Those that are against illegal immigration

66. Those that talk about "the New World Order" in a "derogatory" manner

67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations

68. Those that are opposed "to the collection of federal income taxes"

69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr

70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag ("Don’t Tread On Me")

71. Those that believe in "end times" prophecies

72. Evangelical Christians

Now, do remember that these terms are interpreted by paranoid statists.  Think that maybe we shouldn't get all chummy with the Muslim Brotherhood?  You're #8(intolerant toward other religions!) and #12(anti-Muslim!), not to mention #36(exhibiting extreme religious intolerance!). 

Have more than a couple of boxes of ammunition?  Do you own a gun at all?  Then you're 26(you fear impending gun control or weapons confiscations(not that they'd ever do that, right?)!), 27(in a "militia movement"(whether you actually are or not)!), 38(you've "suddenly" acquired weapons), 50(a "survivalist"), 61(you "believe in the right to bear arms?"  What a whackjob!), and--no matter how sparse your ammo cabinet may be--you're most definitely 62(engaged in "ammunition stockpiling").

Think America is a sovereign country, with the right to make her own laws and decide who comes in and who doesn't?  WHOA.  There's pretty much half of those points.  If you believe in God, particularly the Christian God, there's the other half.  And if you fit in even ONE of these categories, however far they have to reach to put you there, you are considered a "potential terrorist."

If you're an actual Constitutional American, the American government is scared shitless of you. 

Repeat:

If you're an actual Constitutional American, the American government is scared shitless of you. 

Let that sink in for a while.

As for me, I took this as a "How American Are You?" quiz, which someone who knows how to make online quizzes should totally do.  I disregarded those categories that the Thug Regime would put me in by association, and just checked those that I proudly fit into.  My score?

45 out of 72.  Not bad.  And I definitely fit into 34(Anyone that "establishes website/blog to display extremist views"). 

Guess I'll see y'all in Gitmo.

obamacare Odds And Ends

And The Lies Just Keep On Coming
Following up on his infamous "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan" lie, obama offered up this whopper:

“In the first month alone, we’ve seen more than 100 million Americans already successfully successfully enroll in the new insurance plans.”

Of course, I'm sure his media lapdogs will parrot the usual excuses: 'he misspoke'; 'it was a typo in his speech copy'; 'the teleprompter made a mistake'; or, my personal favorite, 'he made an inaccurate promise.'


Coverage For All - Except Those Who Really Need It

Under obamacare, men are required to buy maternity insurance. I know there's quite a bit of gender confusion out there these days, but as far as I know men (or at least people with male parts) still can't get pregnant. So I'm not sure how beneficial this particular coverage is for about half the population.

But wait! It gets better worse more confusing.

...it's not only men who are forced to buy maternity coverage they are physically incapable of using. So are women in the stage of life between childbearing age and Medicare eligibility.

Second, under-30s are exempt. That's right, the geniuses who wrote ObamaCare are forcing everyone to buy maternity care except the age cohort that includes women at peak fertility.

Flashback: ‘When it’s working and everybody is really happy with it, the Republicans will stop calling it Obamacare’

The failed president said this just over a month ago.

“My suspicion is what is going to happen is when it’s working and everybody is really happy with it, Republicans are going to stop calling it ‘Obamacare,’” the president said Tuesday in an interview with New York’s WABC TV station.

Well, guess who’s stopped calling it ObamaCare?

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 president didn’t say “Obamacare” once during his nearly hourlong news conference last week, while he referred to the “Affordable Care Act” a dozen times. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi went so far as to correct David Gregory on “Meet the Press” Sunday on the proper terminology. And White House talking points distributed to Democrats and obtained by POLITICO repeatedly refer to the Affordable Care Act in suggested sound bites, not Obamacare.

Since ObamaCare is now synonymous with failure and disaster, even Obama doesn’t want to call it ObamaCare.


There's so much, much more out there. Pundits haven't had this much to write about since the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky days. The difference is that l'affair Monica didn't destroy a healthcare system that made life better for millions of Americans.

That's not funny. That's sad...

Obamamath

The Smertest Presdent Evah can count better than you. He can count better than math people. He can count better than Math itself.
On a conference call, he told those who managed to actually get in to the call that over 100-million people had signed up for Obamacare.
Now, I know you heard reports the number enrolled was only 106,185 … but that’s using Old Math. With Obamamath, it’s over 100,000,000.
Obamamath also explains how the jobs rate improved suddenly right before the election. There was no fraud involved; it was Obamamath!
It also explains how Obama’s poll numbers are so high. Obamamath!
But — and here’s the good news — you and I can utilize the new science of Obamamath.

• When I have to pay my credit card bill, I can write a check for $10 and pay off a $1000 debt. Obamamath!
• When I sell my car, I can get a lot for it because it gets 5,394 miles per gallon. Obamamath!
• This Website? It gets 7,327,463 hits … per hour! Obamamath!
• And, yes, ladies, I am VERY well-endowed. Using Obamamath.

There are new worlds open to us all with Obamamath.
Things are so much easier when you make up your own facts.

Time to Get Our I Told You Sos Together

Well, we knew that one day Obama’s being an awful president would catch up with him, and from the look of the polls, the huge Obamacare flop has finally done it. So I think it’s time we start to get all our “I told you so”s together to throw in everyone’s faces.
I TOLD YOU SO…
…that there was nothing in Obama’s background to suggest he would be even a marginally competent leader.
…that, if anything, Obama’s background of writing a bunch of memoirs while having no accomplishments suggested he was overly arrogant while lacking any useful skills.
…that his statements like the “bitter clingers” speech showed he was very dismissive of the average man and didn’t sympathize with this country’s problems at all.
…that having arrogant idiots with no business experience pass a law none of them read changing a large section of our economy would be a huge disaster.
…that the incompetent big government — know for its incompetence — would handle health care incompetently.
…that nothing Obama has done will help the economy, but actually hurt the average American and job creators.
…that electing someone so useless and incompetent like Obama is a silly indulgence that will do more to hurt race relations than help.
…that the reason the left kept calling the Tea Party racist, extremist, and violent is because the left had no substantive response to the Tea Party’s arguments.
…that you shouldn’t trust the government and the moron politicians and bureaucrats in it with anything important.
…that when I am proven right on all this, I will be insufferable.

The TopTen reasons I Didn't Sign Up For obamacare

The number of signups on HealthCare.gov has been pretty disappointing for the Obama Administration. Sure, the website has had problems, but what else could be keeping people from signing up? Could these be the…
10. There was no app for that
9. Still waiting on my free Obamaphone
8. Link was from a Nigerian prince
7. Got suspicious when it asked for payment in doubloons
6. They used Comic Sans
5. Couldn’t remember my underwear size when they asked
4. No cats
3. Website made by Canadians
2. Panda Cam came back online
1. Obama didn’t

How do you keep a plan that is no longer offered?

Does anyone else think that none of this Obamacare crap is a surprise to the administration?  Well, maybe the website disaster blindsided them, but not the plan cancellations.  And I don't buy, for one second, that they think any insurance corporation can magically turn back on plans that they discontinued to comply with the law.

The minute the law passed, insurance companies went to work trying to figure out "what was in it", so they could continue to operate as a profitable business in compliance with the law.  Countless resources and man hours have been spent getting ready for implementation mandates.  Insurance companies didn't cancel plans because they wanted to.  They canceled plans because they had to.

And now, with one fairy dust sprinkled speech, the president thinks the insurance companies can get in their time machines and re-visit 2009, and ignore the 8,736 meetings they have had about the changes in the law, and dismiss the millions of dollars, forests of paper, and months of guidance they have given to their customers - and offer the 'old' plans...but just until the end of next year.

Read that as "until after the mid-term elections".

There was a point of no return on much of the Obamacare-related changes to the health and insurance industries.  A benchmark that we blew by sometime in 2010.  There is no going back as long as this law stands.  There is never any going back in terms of costs, employment changes and medical personnel lost in the sucking black hole of Obamacare.

BEST Al-Øbama FACTS

1. Every now and then, Obama opens his eyes and the world springs into existence.
2. When a tree falls in the forest, Obama hears it.
3. Obama can clap with one hand.
4. Prometheus was punished for plagiarizing Obama.
5. Obama can make a journey of a thousand miles without a single step.
6. Socks worn by Obama are used for climbing walls in Spiderman movies.
7. Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race when she learned Obama's true name.
8. "Obama" is the very first word in the English language to be a verb, adjective, noun, pronoun, adverb, interjection, superlative and pronad. (Pronad is a new category made specifically for the word "Obama" so its power can be fully realized).
9. When Obama squints dreamily into the distance, he can see next week's lottery winning numbers. But he never plays because that would mean poverty of ambition.
10. Obama can calculate your guilt just by looking at the numbers in your checkbook.
11. A microphone into which Obama has spoken, heals asbestos-related disorders and colorectal cancer by direct application.
12. Every time Obama talks about change, a baby diaper becomes clean and a homeless person's cup fills up with nickels.
13. Every time Obama talks about "hope," coma patients regain consciousness and chant "We are the ones we've been waiting for."
14. Obama's famous stare once converted 15 Islamic fundamentalists into secular progressives, all of whom are currently employed by Countrywide Home Loans.
15. Obama is 50% typical White person.
16. Obama's real mother was young John Kerry who reproduces asexually when coming into contact with foreign Marxists.
17. Obama often says "uh" in his speeches in order to irritate Bill O'Reilley who hangs onto his every word.
18. Obama always overpays his taxes because he believes that the government will find a better use for his money than he ever could.
19. When Obama rids the world of nuclear weapons, the red button in his office will control the thermostats in American homes.
20. Obama brings change to the world every time he closes his eyes and imagines that Twin Towers never existed.
21. After a hearty meal Obama has been known to send off a tiny ripple of hope. This tiny ripple of hope in Chicago can cause change throughout the world.
22. When Obama relaxes at home with his family he switches to a British accent.
23. Obama's wife is a Klingon.
24. Obama's children are named Child 1 and Child 2 respectively.
25. Our universe is held together by the force of Michelle Obama's benevolent willpower, but her patience is running thin.
26. Michelle Obama has saved humanity from destruction many times and is slightly annoyed that we haven't returned the favor.
27. Monica Lewinsky owns "I Barack for Obama" bumper sticker.
28. Everything Obama touches begins to vote Democrat.
29. More dead people voted for Obama than for any other Democrat candidate in the history of Chicago politics.
30. The tingle that crawled up Chris Matthews' leg has taken control of his brain and is reporting a full preparedness to take over the world.
31. Obama can make things disappear just like David Copperfield can, but he hates taking things away from the community.
32. US Mail Service published Obama's resume on a new first class stamp.
33. In the movies, Obama's part is played by Robert Redford.
34. Obama can inflate a hot air balloon in one blow. He does it for the children.
35. Obama used to spell his name as Ubama but changed it to avoid confusion with Usama bin Laden.
36. When Obama fixes his gaze on the clouds, he is reading his next great line from the big teleprompter in the sky, which is unseen to ordinary humans.
37. One time the Republicans paid a voodoo priest to reprogram the teleprompter, and then Obama delivered the speech by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick instead of his own. But courageous journalist Bob Woodward uncovered the plot, forcing the Republicans to resign. As a result, Obama became even more popular with the downtrodden who didn't know that it was Gov. Patrick's speech.
38. Obama wrote "Stairway to Heaven" and many other songs popular among the downtrodden.
39. Obama's love for the downtrodden heats up the planet's atmosphere by 5.8 degrees Fahrenheit, while his loathing of George W. Bush cools it down by the same amount. That's why the scientists have been unable to detect any significant variations in average global temperatures.
40. The main point of Al Gore's book "Earth in the Balance" is that a disastrous climate change can be averted if we all help keep Obama emotionally balanced.
41. Obama visited Benjamin Franklin in a dream and told him how to live his life serving the community, but all that Franklin could remember was, how to fly a kite.
42. Scientists discovered that a constant repetition of the words "hope" and "change" increases the size of penis in male patients by up to three inches.
43. Any sentence containing the name "Obama" and ending in a question mark has been determined to be racist.  The only exceptions are rhetorical sentences such as "Is there any way that Obama could be more perfect?"
44. Obama smokes so you don't have to.
45. Obama's cigarettes have been registered at the EPA as a renewable power source contributing 5,000 Megawatts of electricity to the national power grid every time he takes a draw.
46. The "smoke" that comes out of Obama's mouth contains rare gases that help replenish the ozone layer and neutralize the industrial funny jokesution.
47. Obama once downed a Fox News satellite simply by clicking on a universal TV remote in his living room. Obama then reprogrammed the remaining satellites to broadcast reruns of Keith Olbermann's show, thus expanding the consciousness of the average American TV viewer and raising awareness by 19%.
48. When Obama speaks about universal healthcare, the risk of cardiovascular diseases decreases by 58 percent, and the risk of cancer decreases by 60 percent.
49. Obama knows that his healthcare plan is going to work because he personally tested it in a leper colony, where he healed everyone by shaking hands and kissing babies.
50. In Portland, Oregon, Obama fed a multitude of 75 thousand with five government subsidy forms and two rolls of red tape.
51. An unkind word about Obama's family serves as a passkey to the hottest rings of Hell.
52. When Obama smiles, somewhere in America a door opens to an abortion clinic.
53. When Obama claps his hands, a child is born in a Third World country.
54. When Obama stomps his foot, a sweatshop closes in Asia, with thousands of children in the streets demanding that the United States send them financial aid, food, and medicine.

Obama's "Fix" Totally Illegal, But You Knew That

There is a wrinkle you might not have thought of, though.
First, Jonathan Adler notes that Obama is not purporting to change the law. He can't. Or, he daren't. What he's doing is saying he won't enforce the law -- the law still says that the old policies are illegal. Obama's just saying he'll give insurers a pass, and won't enforce the law against them.
Presumably, he also won't enforce the law against citizens buying these Illegal Policies, either.
But here's the wrinkle-- why on earth would an insurance company conduct an illegal action just because a lawless President swears it's okay? Adler thinks it through:

Yet even if state commissioners approve the plans, they will still be illegal under federal law. Given this fact, why would any insurance company agree to renew such a plan? It’s nice that regulators may forbear enforcing the relevant regulatory requirements, but this is not the only source of potential legal jeopardy. So, for instance, what happens when there’s a legal dispute under one of these policies? Say, for instance, an insurance company denies payment for something that is not covered under the policy but that would have been covered under the PPACA and the insured sues? Would an insurance company really want to have to defend this decision in court? After all, this would place the insurance company in the position of seeking judicial enforcement of an illegal insurance policy.

As has been noted by many, Obama's best-case scenario here is he pretends insurance companies are free to offer the old policies, but, because they don't wish to break the law, they refuse to do so. Then Obama is in a win-win position: He can claim this isn't due to his own actions (I gave insurers the Secret Wink to break the law!) and yet keeps as many people as possible in the expensive, hidden-subsidy exchanges, to subsidize the sick and keep Obamacare afloat.
This is worthless, a pure political piece-of-shit deception. Obama is, get this, lying again.
The only way to even have a chance to get these policies offered is if they're officially legal, like legal legal, not illegal, but I'll ignore it for now "legal."

Obama's Rules by Executive Fiat, "Allows" Change to ACA

I'm not a law student nor do I need to be to be highly disturbed by Obama's executive decision today.

Let me get this right: Obama is telling individual state insurance commissioners to ignore new federal law passed by Congress and signed by His Highness into place three years ago. Doesn't Congress, for cripe's sake, have to vote and approve a change like this? (of course they are required to)

Who gave him authority to, just on a whim, ignore any federal law? Why in God's name is the press not picking up on this today?

Are too many Americans today just to flat-out illiterate to see King Obama's blatant executive overreach and just how dangerous and unconstitutional it is?

It makes me think that we need more literate immigrants versed in what America truly stands for to save this country. 

How to Tell If Someone Is an Idiot

The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization announced last week that the rise in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere accelerated to a record high in 2012. Carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas, was responsible for 80% of the jump, pushing concentrations to levels not seen in at least 800,000 years.

So... 800,000 years ago, the atmosphere had exactly as much CO2 as it does now.

And it's all the fault of human industrial activity.

You know... like the human industrial activity we had 800,000 years ago.

Idiots.

Today's Numbers: The Bad, and the Ugly

HHS released the enrollment numbers for the federally run health-care exchange and most of the state-run exchanges today, the first comprehensive set of data that had been released so far. Bearing in mind that it’s the first month of enrollment, and we still don’t know much about the customers, here are a few thoughts on what they show us:
80 percent (or more) of the people who’ve gotten insurance so far have done so through Medicaid: About 400,000 people who’ve entered the exchanges have been determined eligible for Medicaid, while about 100,000 have selected an insurance plan for which they’re eligible (obviously these two statistics are not strictly comparable, but HHS juxtaposed them and Nancy Pelosi added them together). Hundreds of thousands of more people are set to enroll in Medicaid beyond the 400,000 group, too, because a number of states are rolling the beneficiaries of their existing free or heavily subsidized insurance programs for low-income individuals onto the Medicaid-expansion rolls — meaning the proportion is, currently, much higher even than 80 percent. This matters because, in short, Medicaid is a poorly run single-payer plan that does very little to improve health-care outcomes, but does lots of damage to government budgets. There’s a reason why House Democrats didn’t propose expanding it to much higher income levels than the law eventually did, and it looks like much more of Obamacare will be the Medicaid expansion than we thought.

Al-Øbama

You 0bama supporters.  How can you NOT know what a bald-faced liar he is?  This whole 0bamacare fiasco?  He knew!  He knew it was coming, and he openly lied to you … with premeditation!  Are you comfortable with that?  That’s OK with you as long as he’s pursuing an agenda you like?  Really?  And just when does a lying president become a problem?  Only when the agenda is one you disagree with?  Oh now, how convenient is that?  Just how loud are you going to scream when there’s a president you don’t like lying through his teeth?  Do you really think you can have it both ways?
Keep your insurance policy?  Sure didn’t turn out that way, did it?  Well in case you haven’t been paying attention – and assuming you’re even capable of paying attention – let me ‘splain what happened here.  From the get-go 0bama and his henchmen know with absolutely certainty that people would not be able to keep their insurance plans … even if they liked them.  They knew this because they wrote the law to make this so.  So there were these meetings in the White House … now listen up, 0bama myrmidons … you just might find this interesting … so there were meetings in the White House about crafting the message for the people to sell 0bamacare.  The people in these meetings KNEW that policies were going to be cancelled.  But they didn’t want to send that message to the great unwashed.  So they made a conscious decision to lie.  The president was going to say “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.”  He wasn’t just going to say it once … he was going to say it over and over, dozens of times.  When the truth came out they would think of some cover story.
And just what was that cover story?  They decided to tell the people that 0bama didn’t really say what everyone heard him say?  He didn’t say you could keep your policy.  He said you could keep it if it wasn’t changed!  So not only did they craft a lie … and then lie … but then he lied about crafting a lie, lied about delivering the lie, and then lied about the lie about how he lied! Now that’s pretty good when you can get away with that level of dishonesty.  But he’s 0bama .. he’s “sort of a God.”  We were told that he actually had to step DOWN into the Oval Office … such was the lofty perch he occupied.  He’s a liar, but he’s your liar, right?
Now they’re talking about 0bama making some changes to the law to make things better for the people who have lost their policies!  Maybe he can change the law to give add in some subsidies for these 0bamacare victims right now so they can go out and buy new policies!  But 0bama has a slight problem there – or does he?  0bama can’t change the law.  The congress has to change the law.  But really that doesn’t bother 0bama.  Remember what his transition team chairman, Valerie Jarrett, said days before his inauguration?  “We will be ready to RULE from day one.”  Not lead.  RULE!  0bama never had an intention to be a leader.  Ruler was his dream.  Rulers can change laws on a whim.  Leaders have to convince the legislative branch to change the laws.  So 0bama will just deem (remember that word?) that the law has been changed and that people who have lost their insurance policies can now get some nifty new government benefits!  Hey!  We don’t want them voting against Democrats next year, do we?
Do you really want a ruler?  Is that were we are now?  The United States no longer has a leader, a president.  Now we have a ruler.  Happy with that?   What laws will he change next?  What will his next illegal Executive Order be?
What about the loyal opposition?  What about the Republicans?  Why don’t they go to court – file a lawsuit – when 0bama steps out of bounds with his unilateral changes to our laws?  Well first, they’re gutless.  They know how the game would be played.  0bama would illegally grant subsidies to people for insurance .. .people who are not entitled to them under the law.  The GOP files for an injunction.  Immediately 0bama’s dog washers start screaming that the evil Republicans don’t want people to have health insurance.  They want them to get sick and die.  The New York Times immediately picks up on that .. followed by the rest of the liberal media.  Republicans merely trying to defend the rule of law are painted as evil bastards trying to deny people health care ... and 0bama smiles.
Just how bad an idea was Barak 0bama?
We’re just now finding out.

Prretty Much Nails It

I got this in an email from a friend...we can't find a source to credit, but here it is...

Whoever wrote it pretty much nailed it...

March 21, 2010 to October 1, 2013 is
3 years, 6 months, 10 days.

December 7, 1941 to May 8, 1945 is
3 years, 5 months, 1 day.

What this means is that in the time we were attacked at Pearl Harbor to the day Germany surrendered is not enough time for this federal government to build a working website.

Mobilization of millions, building tens of thousands of tanks, planes, jeeps, subs, cruisers, destroyers, torpedoes, millions upon millions of guns, bombs, ammo, etc. Turning the tide in North Africa, Invading Italy, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Race to Berlin - all while we were also fighting the Japanese in the Pacific!

….and they can't build a health care website.

News From The Future?

Yesterday out of curiosity, my wife tried to open the healthcare.gov website, and got a big surprise.  Unfortunately due to yet another odd "glitch" on the site, our computer started emitting sparks, and after a minute of some strange flashing and weird graphics, the thing completely rebooted.  Now all my files, bookmarks, and emails are gone, but the really odd thing is, somehow the thing now functions as a time machine.  I couldn't resist exploring, and I noted some news items from the future.  Here's some examples…

 From The Grand Prince, Augustus Emanuel, Principality of Chicago:

21 Obamatober, 2097:  The violent crime rate in Chicago has declined dramatically in the last two years.  Random gun violence has fallen by almost 40% this year alone.

A statement by Chief of Police Romulus Emanuel III said:  "We're seeing a major reduction in violent crime here.  There's nobody in the city left to shoot.  Almost everybody in the city has been shot at least once, and most of them are in the hospital.  The rest are hiding.  Chicago's gun control efforts are finally paying off."

And this, from the Right Honorable Minister of Political Correctness:

5 Obamber, 2053:   The MPC hereby issues the following edict:   Effective immediately, when referring to our Great Leader, all persons are required to reference him by his full title:  Pharaoh Obama, Our People's Celestial, Heavenly Utterer of Truth and Excellence.   The common acronym which has heretofore been used for this title is considered disrespectful and it's use is hereby forbidden.

And, also by the MPC, Sports Division, the following:

18 Baracky, 2085:  Today the Obamaville "Persons of First Nation Status", formerly referred to as the Washington Redskins, (before the Great Rectification) defeated the Dallas "Bovine Caregivers" to claim the NFC Championship.  Next week's contest between the New York "Non Carbon-Emitting Sail Planes" and the Kansas City "Designated Leaders of First Nation Persons" will decide the AFC Champions.  Super Bowl CXIX will be held on the 3rd of Michelluary.  Attendance at designated viewing stations is mandatory.

And, finally, this, from the Exalted Minister of Global Climate Apocalypse Mitigation:

11 Obamuary, 2177:  Today the MGCAM, Al Gore VII, the Great Great Great Great Grandson of the legendary Al Gore, made the following statement:  

"While it is true that the Earth's weather for the last 165 years has been perfectly normal, it is a matter of settled science that this fact statistically proves the certainty that any day now we may all be destroyed by a 1200 foot rise of the oceans, followed by asphyxiation due to a sudden 800% rise in CO2.  Abandon all hope.  All persons are hereby directed to cooperate with emergency measures to be announced by the Department of Relocation beginning next week sometime.  Failure to comply will be deemed an act of Terrorism."

...and then suddenly I woke up, drenched in a cold sweat.  I remembered that I felt awful when I went to sleep last night, and realized that all this was just a very bad dream.  I learned one thing from it:  never, ever, buy clams from some guy parked on the corner in a pickup truck.  Then again, I'm not completely sure it was a dream.  When I turned on my computer this morning, my desktop picture of our grandkids had mysteriously disappeared, and this is what I found in it's place:

Know Thy Enemy: Obamacare

A lot of people have questions about Obamacare and it’s lovely, bureaucrat-made website, so I sent my crack research team to find out all they could about Obamacare. Here’s what they found:
FUN FACTS ABOUT OBAMACARE
* Obamacare is made by the combination of “Obama” and “care,” two things that don’t go together at all.
* Obamacare came about when the American people were complaining about jobs and the economy, because Obama’s contempt for the concerns of the average man knows no bounds.
* Obamacare was expected to be just what the economy and health care needed: Thousands of pages of regulations written by lawyers.
* Obamacare passed without a single Republican vote, as all Republicans were opposed to Obama’s ideas since they’re racist against idiots.
* We had to pass Obamacare to find out what’s in it, sort of like you had to put that weird goop you found on the bathroom floor in your mouth to find out what it’s composed of.
* Only one person is said to have actually read all of Obamacare, and legend says it broke his brain and drove him mad. He’s still vice president, though.
* It is said that Satan himself inserted a passage in the Obamacare bill that will cause the destruction of man, but we probably don’t need to worry about it since Obama will inevitably screw up the implementation.
* Obamacare was made because people complained about not having health insurance, and its solution is to fine people for not getting insurance. That’s like a dog whining because it’s hungry and your solution is to hit it with a stick until he finds food… except that solution costs no money and somehow Obamacare is raising everyone’s rates.
* Forcing people to buy something — the central part of Obamacare — was declared “legal as a tax.” The British also tried to use that line on the colonists to poor results.
* Obamacare is Obama’s signature accomplishment, much like the reanimated monster was Dr. Frankenstein’s.
* The actual name of the legislation is not Obamacare, but the Affordable Care Act, named in the same playful manner as how the bald stooge is called “Curly.”
* Not to imply that Obamacare is as capable or helpful as any of the three stooges.
* If you have a preexisting condition, Obamacare will be a big help to you… unless you’re preexisting condition is “middle class taxpayer.” Then hoo boy, are you in for it.
* The main prey of Obamacare are paychecks, freedoms, and health care plans people like.
* To protect your health care plan from Obamacare, make sure you don’t like it.
* Obamacare is expected to have a number of negative effects on the country such as an increase in health insurance premiums, reduction in hiring, and more Obama speeches.
* Obamacare allows people to stay on their parents’ health insurance up to the age of 26. It will also mandates PBS kids shows like Sesame Street to be aimed to those ages as well, as now there’s a segment of Big Bird kicking a meth addiction.
* Obama and the Democrats have been generous with Obamacare waivers to protect favored groups from the wrath of their legislation. In the future, there is expected to be two groups: Those with Obamacare waivers and the dead.
* Some people are upset now as they were misled when Obama misspoke 582 times about people being able to keep their health care plans they like. The White House wants to assure those people that Obama is an idiot whose mindless jabbering should never be taken to mean anything.
* Sarah Palin spread misinformation about “death panels” being in Obamacare, when in fact life and death decisions will be made by single faceless bureaucrats with no panels involved at all.
* The main weakness of Obamacare is that it’s a failure at absolutely everything it tries to accomplish.
* To sign up for Obamacare, you have to use the healthcare.gov website which is constantly crashing and not even marginally functional. It’s what known as the “most well thought out part of Obamacare.”
* The key to making Obamacare possibly solvent is getting lots of healthy, young people to sign up. Hopefully they’re all hipsters who will find the healthcare.gov website imitating the speed of a 1200 baud modem to be really “retro.”
* If you find yourself surrounded by Obamacare, get a group of six or more to try and overwhelm it. It can’t process that many people at once.
* So far Obama has held no one accountable for the healthcare.gov’s huge failure, but firing people for massive incompetence would be kind of hypocritical for him.
* Plus, in 2012, we didn’t hold him accountable, so maybe he learned that from us.
* In a battle between Aquaman and Obamacare, the Justice League would cut Aquaman’s hours so they don’t have to get him health insurance. Having a water-based superhero on full time seems kind of excessive, anyway.
* The Obamacare mascot is Doc, the Obamacare bear. He’s rabid and has mauled five people so far.
* Being mauled by a rabid bear is a preexisting condition covered by Obamacare, though.
* There’s a lot of fraud out there associated with Obamacare. If who you’re dealing with is marginally competent, then he obviously has no actual association with Obamacare as is trying to defraud you.
* As you can never get rid of entitlements, expect Obamacare to be around as long as our country lasts. So a year or two longer.

 

The Accomplishments of Barack Hussein Obama

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. First President to have a social security number belonging to another man, from a state he has never lived in. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States. First President to violate the War Powers Act. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.* First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. including those with criminal convictions. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign. First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN). First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal). First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists. First President to hide his medical, educational and travel records. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours. First President to go on 17 lavish vacations, including date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers. First President to have 22 personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.* First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.* First President to repeat the Quran word for word and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences." Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.* First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs. Arizona).

Obamacare and his friends. Under this regime we are not all equal

The Obama administration sneaked in a rule that would let some labor unions off the hook for an ObamaCare tax.

After publicly rejecting the unions’ request for an exemption, the Department of Health and Human Services last week quietly gave the unions a pass on what would have been a massive tax hit.

The tax, known as the reinsurance fee, requires self-insured organizations, such as unions and some large companies, to pay $63 for each covered member and an additional $63 for each additional family member on a health plan.

The fee was expected to raise $25 billion over three years, with the funds going to insurance companies to offset the cost of covering pre-existing conditions and other mandatory benefits.

Sparing unions that expense will go a long way toward repairing President Obama’s strained relationship with labor.

The unions, originally key supporters of the president’s health-insurance law, have increasingly bucked ObamaCare as it threatens their finances and the generous policies enjoyed by some of their members.

Buried in the new rules is a proposal to exempt “certain self-insured, self-administered plans” from the fee in 2015 and 2016.

That description applies to many union plans, according to experts.