Small Businesses Get Sobering Dose Of Reality as Health Insurers Reveal Their Rates For 2015

Small Businesses Get Sobering Dose Of Reality as Health Insurers Reveal Their Rates For 2015: "Despite repeated assurances from the Obama administration that this would not be the case and that lowering costs was a fundamental tenet of the plan at its passing, it seems that in practice it is not working out this way.

In fact, it’s working out in precisely the opposite way: Not only are rates increasing, but they are increasing at extremely high levels."

Illegally gun toting, drunk, hypocrite. Typical liberal "leader"-------- Anti-gun Missouri Dem. arrested with 9mm pistol, refuses breathalyzer test

Anti-gun Missouri Dem. arrested with 9mm pistol, refuses breathalyzer test - National Policy & Issues | Examiner.com:
"Earlier this week, Missouri state Senator Jamilah Nasheed, a Democrat who has sponsored several anti-gun bills, was arrested while protesting in front of the Ferguson Police Department, The Blaze reported Tuesday.
What made the arrest interesting is that Nasheed was carrying a 9mm handgun with extra ammunition.
Authorities also said Nasheed “smelled strongly of intoxicants." 
But Nasheed refused to take a breathalyzer test and maintains she was not intoxicated."

Serial killer suspect got 5 years prison in plea deal

Serial killer suspect got 5 years prison in plea deal « Watchdog.org:
"An Austin man who has confessed to the murder of at least seven Indiana women, according to police, had been arrested and convicted for sexually assaulting a Texas woman in 2008.
However, Darren Vann served just five years in prison after Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg’s office agreed to a plea deal with Vann.
Vann was classified as a “low risk” offender when he was released from state prison in July 2013, despite the fact that his victim testified he had strangled her.

Strangulation is considered a red flag for eventual homicide both by law enforcement and by academics, who have established it as “an important risk factor” for homicides against women.
Vann was initially charged with aggravated sexual assault, a first-degree felony carrying a penalty of five to 99 years in prison.
He was accused of oral and vaginal penetration, strangulation and making death threats, each of those fitting the crime’s definition.
Yet Lehmberg’s office allowed Vann to plea to a second-degree felony, sexual assault, which resulted in the five-year sentence.
The Austin Police Department announced Mondaythat it would review cold homicide cases after reports that Vann told police in Gary, Indiana, that his crimes stretch back 20 years.
Vann reportedly has moved back and forth between Indiana and Austin. Vann’s case generated nationwide coverage after police found the bodies of seven women in abandoned buildings there.
The 2008 warrant for Vann’s arrest, first published by the Austin American Statesman, describes a brutal stranger rape in Vann’s own apartment and unmistakable DNA evidence."

ANOTHER Democrat Refuses To Say If They Voted For Obama | The Daily Caller

ANOTHER Democrat Refuses To Say If They Voted For Obama | The Daily Caller:

"Move over, Alison Lundergan Grimes. Get out of the way, Michelle Nunn. Natalie Tennant? hop aside. Another Democrat has joined the party and refused to say if they voted for President Barack Obama.
Incumbent Sen. Mark Begich refused to answer the question from an America Rising tracker as he entered a school for a campaign event. "

You lib or con?

It's the culture, stupid!-----Muslim Burial Practices Blamed for Spread of Ebola Virus

Muslim Burial Practices Blamed for Spread of Ebola Virus | The Gateway Pundit

Islam requires family members to personally wash the corpses of loved ones from head to toe. This practice is putting more Africans at risk to catch the disease that is spread by body fluids.
Investors.com reported:

Islam isn’t just at the heart of the terror threat posed by the Islamic State. The religion is also contributing to the other major crisis plaguing the globe: the spread of Ebola.

Washington and its media stenographers won’t tell you this, lest they look intolerant, but Islamic burial rituals are a key reason why health officials can’t contain the spread of the deadly disease in West Africa.

Many of the victims of Ebola in the three hot-spot nations there — Sierra Leone and Guinea, as well as neighboring Liberia — are Muslim. Roughly 73% of Sierra Leone’s and about 85% of Guinea’s people are Muslim. Islam, moreover, is practiced by more than 13% of Liberians.

When Muslims die, family members don’t turn to a funeral home or crematorium to take care of the body. In Islam, death is handled much differently.

Relatives personally wash the corpses of loved ones from head to toe. Often, several family members participate in this posthumous bathing ritual, known as Ghusl.

Before scrubbing the skin with soap and water, family members press down on the abdomen to excrete fluids still in the body. A mixture of camphor and water is used for a final washing. Then, family members dry off the body and shroud it in white linens.

Again, washing the bodies of the dead in this way is considered a collective duty for Muslims, especially in Muslim nations. Failure to do so is believed to leave the deceased “impure” and jeopardizes the faithful’s ascension into Paradise (unless he died in jihad; then no Ghusl is required).

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History for October 22

History for October 22 - On-This-Day.com
Franz Liszt 1811, Sarah Bernhardt 1844, Curly Howard 1903 


Annette Funicello 1942, Catherine Deneuve 1943, Jeff Goldblum 1952 


1797 - Andre-Jacques Garnerin made the first recorded parachute jump. He made the jump from about 3,000 feet. 


1907 - The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money from many New York banks. 


1962 - U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island. 


1979 - The ousted Shah of Iran, Mohammad Riza Pahlavi was allowed into the U.S. for medical treatment. 


1998 - Pakistan's carpet weaving industry announced that they would begin to phase out child labor. 


1999 - China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied Western definitions of civil liberties. 

Mike Brown's Blood Found On Darren Wilson's Gun

Mike Brown's Blood Found On Darren Wilson's Gun:

"What federal investigators reportedly revealed to the Times could, indeed, mean there will be no civil rights case brought against the Ferguson police officer. It could also mean that the grand jury considering charges against officer Wilson could find that an indictment is not warranted."

Europe Must Drop the Euro, Germany Abandon Mercantilism

Europe Must Drop the Euro, Germany Abandon Mercantilism - Peter Morici - Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary - Page 1:
"Europe faces yet another recession, and the prospect is shaking global financial markets.
To eliminate the persistent threat of collapse, Europe must drop the euro, and Germany must abandon mercantilism.
When the euro was adopted in 1999, domestic prices, the face values for bonds and loans, and bank accounts were translated into euros according to prevailing exchange rates for national currencies at the time.
Initially, the single currency posed few significant problems.
Over time, however, differences in labor market policies and geographic conditions that are difficult for governments to alter caused productivity to grow more rapidly in Germany and other northern economies.
Also, Germany and northern states pursued mercantilist, exported-driven growth strategies.
Prices for many goods made in Italy and other southern economies became too high to be competitive in the north. 
Those countries imported more than they exported and financed the resulting trade deficits by borrowing from the north.
In Spain, a property boom permitted homeowners to run up large mortgages, and banks borrowed heavily from the north to finance those.
In Italy and Greece, governments spent and borrowed heavily through bond financing to prop up employment."

Ted Cruz Educates CNN Obama Cheerleader Candy Crowley on Ebola Travel Ban

Ted Cruz Educates CNN Obama Cheerleader Candy Crowley on Ebola Travel Ban:

"As you can see from the interview below, Crowley continues to read from Obama’s teleprompter, but Ted Cruz will have nothing of it.

At one point, Crowley even reminds her viewers that Obama can’t be blamed because “he’s not a doctor.”

Democrats at it AGAIN!!------Bill Proposes Adding Wind Industry to 'Right to Farm' Act

Bill Proposes Adding Wind Industry to 'Right to Farm' Act [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"Wind turbines could be erected without regard for some local laws under recently introduced legislation.
House Bill 5886 would amend Michigan’s Right to Farm Act to include wind production. If enacted, it would allow wind turbines to be constructed on agricultural land with no zoning or building permits of any kind.
Enacted in 1981, the Right to Farm Act was meant to protect farmers from nuisance lawsuits.
Under the Act, farmers who follow the Generally Accepted Agricultural and Management Practices (GAAMP) are protected from lawsuits over noise, dust, odors and so on that result from normal farm operations. House Bill 5886 would add wind energy production in with farming activities, such as harvesting and storage of farm products.
The measure was introduced on Oct. 2 by Rep. Jeff Irwin, D-Ann Arbor, and Rep. Jon Switalski, D-Warren, and assigned to the House Energy and Technology Committee."

This is How Thieves Get ‘Punished’ in Obama’s Upside-Down America

This is How Thieves Get ‘Punished’ in Obama’s Upside-Down America:

"But, when big government grows to gargantuan levels by promising something for nothing, this type of attitude can get out of control. In the case of two thieves, their entitlement attitude, belief that they are entitled to whatever they choose to steal, is rewarded with lucrative contracts."

Ebola Czar Misses Second White House Meeting | The Daily Caller

Ebola Czar Misses Second White House Meeting | The Daily Caller:

"New Ebola czar Ron Klain was not in attendance at a White House meeting of the Ebola response team on Saturday night, the second powwow he’s missed since the appointment was announced on Friday.
After a day of golfing, President Barack Obama convened a meeting with the task force to apprise him of any developments in the treatment of the two domestic Ebola cases and to discuss emergency preparedness nationwide, according to a White House pool report. "

Monica on the Steyn Team?-----Me and My Little Black Dress

Me and My Little Black Dress :: SteynOnline:

Here we are a gazillion years later, and 2018 is almost upon us. 

Ed Driscoll asks "Is Mark Steyn's PR firm accepting new clients?"

"Because seriously, I don't know how they do it.

The week that After America came out in 2011, the Dow Jones dropped 512 points on Thursday, and S&P shorted America's credit rating on Friday...

Today, The [Un]documented Mark Steyn, an anthology of his columns, hits the streets; its introduction is titled "Me and My Little Black Dress..."

Apparently to tie in with his book's launch, somehow Mark's PR people managed to convince Lewinsky to join Twitter on the very same day The [Un]documented Mark Steyn debuts.

Thanks, Monica!"

Christian Chapel Owners Were Reportedly Threatened With Jail Time and Fines For Refusing to Marry Gays — and Now They’re Fighting Back | TheBlaze.com

Christian Chapel Owners Were Reportedly Threatened With Jail Time and Fines For Refusing to Marry Gays — and Now They’re Fighting Back | TheBlaze.com:

"Two ordained ministers have filed a federal lawsuit and are seeking a restraining order to prevent local officials from forcing them to marry same-sex couples, saying they have been threatened with fines and possible jail time over their refusal.
Donald and Evelyn Knapp, owners of Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, are being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal firm, claiming that city officials told them that they are required to conduct gay marriages under a nondiscrimination ordinance."

State bans purchase of most SUVs but governor, family still chauffeured in them

State bans purchase of most SUVs but governor, family still chauffeured in them « Watchdog.org:
"Last year, the Colorado Department of Personnel & Administration, in an attempt to improve the state fleet’s environmental friendliness, issued a policy that prevents most departments from buying all-wheel-drive sports utility vehicles.
Yet, Gov. John Hickenlooper and his family are still chauffeured around in two SUVs, which according to government figures get about 22 miles a gallon highway and 16 mpg in city driving in the six cylinder version.
.....But Gregory Golyansky, president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, said the governor should be setting an example if he and his cabinet are pushing for green vehicles.
“This governor is a proponent of all kinds of green fantasies,” he said.
“If they are so useful, the government wouldn’t have to require departments to buy them.”"

19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy

19 Very Surprising Facts About The Messed Up State Of The U.S. Economy

#2 The number of part-time workers in America has increased by 54 percent since the last recession began in December 2007.  Meanwhile, the number of full-time jobs has dropped by more than a million over that same time period.

#4 The jobs gained during this "recovery" pay an average of 23 percent less than the jobs that were lost during the last recession.

#5 The number of unemployed workers that have completely given up looking for work is twice as high now as it was when the last recession began in December 2007.

U.S. Congress examining deal between NSA official, ex-agency chief

U.S. Congress examining deal between NSA official, ex-agency chief | Reuters:
"A Senate committee and an outspoken U.S. Congressman are seeking further information about a deal under which a top National Security Agency official is being permitted to work part-time for a private company run by the spy agency's former director.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested a copy of an "internal review" which NSA said last week it had opened into an arrangement under which Patrick Dowd, the spy agency's chief technical officer is being allowed up to 20 hours per week for IronNet Cybersecurity Inc, a congressional official said.
IronNet is a venture created by retired Gen. Keith Alexander, who stepped down as NSA director in March.
Under the arrangement, which Reuters first reported on Friday, IronNet, not NSA, will pay for the time Dowd spent working for the firm.
It could not be determined whether Dowd has actually begun working for Alexander.
The arrangement, which current and former officials said was approved by top NSA managers, has raised questions about the blurring of lines between government and business."

Moron uncovered cuz he always got away with it before----Udall Asks For Do-Over In Awkward Interview

Udall Asks For Do-Over In Awkward Interview | The Daily Caller:
"“The three most influential books in my life,” Udall repeated. “Profiles in Courage,” he began before stalling for several seconds.
“Let me think. We can play this over, right? Let me re-tape this.”"

What Does Beck Say Is ‘More Dangerous to the Republic of Texas’ Right Now Than Ebola? | Video | TheBlaze.com

What Does Beck Say Is ‘More Dangerous to the Republic of Texas’ Right Now Than Ebola? | Video | TheBlaze.com:

“This is more dangerous to the republic of Texas than Ebola is. This is more dangerous than anything I’ve ever seen,” Beck said. “This is not about equal rights. … This is about shutting people down.”

When Dogs Attack: 11 Steps That Could Keep You Alive

When Dogs Attack: 11 Steps That Could Keep You Alive | Ready Nutrition

A simple accident....right?-------"Anti-Petrodollar" CEO Of French Energy Giant Total Dies In Freak Plane Crash In Moscow

"Anti-Petrodollar" CEO Of French Energy Giant Total Dies In Freak Plane Crash In Moscow | Zero Hedge:
"Three months ago, the CEO of Total, Christophe de Margerie, dared utter the phrase heard around the petrodollar world, "There is no reason to pay for oil in dollars,"  as we noted here. 
Today, RT reports the dreadful news that he was killed in a business jet crash at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow after the aircraft hit a snow-plough on take-off. 
The airport issued a statement confirming "a criminal investigation has been opened into the violation of safety regulations," adding that along with 3 crewmembers on the plane, the snow-plough driver was also killed."