What The CIA 'Mistakenly' Deleted Makes You Wonder What The Obama Admin Is Doing Here

What The CIA 'Mistakenly' Deleted Makes You Wonder What The Obama Admin Is Doing Here:

"It looks like Hillary Clinton’s “home-brew” email server isn’t the only thing that calls into question the Obama administration’s handling of highly sensitive, classified information. What was just revealed about Barack Obama’s CIA is another head-scratcher, if not a heart-stopper."

Why Doctors Are Still Faxing after $30 Billion in Subsidies for Digital Records

Why Doctors Are Still Faxing after $30 Billion in Subsidies for Digital Records | Foundation for Economic Education:
An exposé in Mother Jones provides a fascinating look at how President Obama's "common sense" plan to digitalize medical records turned into an expensive fiasco.

After nearly $30 billion in stimulus money to subsidize electronic health records (EHR), many doctors think using computer software is more hassle than it's worth, and most are still faxing and mailing physical paper records. 

Something is deeply wrong here.

It turns out that having digital copies of records is only useful if they can be sent to other machines and read by them. 

And that is precisely what the stimulus failed to accomplish.

Instead, it spawned a mess of incompatible systems throughout the medical industry that couldn't easily communicate with each other. 

The government's digital health records plan created an electronic Tower of Babel in healthcare. 

Mother Jones singles out health software contractor Epic as a particular roadblock to progress, with crony connections to Obama administration that made it uniquely situated to scoop up the subsidies, but not necessarily to serve clients and patients. 

Epic was shovel ready for this stimulus windfall. 

Faulkner's company was one of the few software vendors back then offering an all-in-one package covering a hospital's record keeping needs. 

...Meanwhile, Faulkner — Epic's CEO and a major Democratic donor — landed a spot in 2009 on the Obama administration's Health IT Policy Committee, which helped shape the regulations guiding health care software and pushed to rapidly implement EHR in hospitals without first figuring out how to trade records between different systems.

...Fax, by contrast, is still free. 

And that is what hospitals and doctors are using.

...Eventually, kicking and screaming, the healthcare records industry will be dragged into the 21st century, but the government's crony regulations and subsidies haven't helped. 

And worse still, doctors' biggest paperwork burdens no longer come from patient records but from Obamacare — in some cases doubling doctors' administrative workloads..."

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History for May 19

History for May 19 - On-This-Day.com:
Johns Hopkins 1795 - entrepreneur, philanthropist, mosted noted for the creation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Ho Chi Minh (Nguyen Sinh Cung) 1890 - North Vietnamese Communist revolutionary, prime minister and president, Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) 1925 - African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist


Francis Scobee (Francis Richard "Dick" Scobee) 1939 - Astronaut, killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, Pete Townshend 1945 - Musician (The Who), David Helfgott 1947 - Concert pianist


1536 - Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after she was convicted of adultery.


1921 - The U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants.


1926 - Benito Mussolini announced that democracy was deceased. Rome became a fascist state.






1935 - T.E. Lawrence "Lawrence of Arabia" died from injuries in a motorcycle crash in England.


1943 - Winston Churchill told the U.S. Congress that his country was pledging their full support in the war against Japan.


1958 - Canada and the U.S. formally established the North American Air Defense Command.


1974 - Erno Rubik invented the puzzle what would later become known as the Rubik's Cube.


1992 - In Massapequa, NY, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by Amy Fisher. Fisher was her husband Joey's teen-age lover.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

http://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2016/05/may-18-2016-toilet-gate-by-tammy.html

Toilet Gate

By Tammy Derouin

We have created a dictatorial king.  I’m not sure which title the executive prefers, dictator or king, but either way, he wears his usurped title proudly and unapologetically. We have allowed an individual and his agenda to fundamentally transform our country.  The United States of America is no longer a pillar of strength or a haven of freedom. 

We, the people, witnessed the transformation from freedom to enslavement, which was promised.  No, he didn’t promote enslavement as he campaigned.  Who would vote for someone who promised to take away all of their freedom?  Instead, he played up the perceived benefits of enslavement; the upside of living in prison, while carefully omitting the pain and suffering.

The current executive and his regime have done everything in their power to destroy our country.  They have embraced every opportunity to weaken our defenses, strengthen our enemies, target the citizens and undermine or simply disregard the U.S. Constitution.  They are destroying the balance of power which was put into place to prevent the rise of tyranny in the United States. 

The scandalous behavior of this administration continues.  The quest to create unrest is endless.  If an opportunity doesn’t present itself, one must be created.  The latest attempt is Toilet Gate....

They gave 'em $80 million by MISTAKE?!-----Auto insurers could lose tax break after Michigan revenue estimates drop

Auto insurers could lose tax break after Michigan revenue estimates drop | MLive.com:
LANSING, MI -- Declining revenue estimates could prompt lawmakers to eliminate an $80 million tax credit they accidentally awarded to auto insurers.
...With the state looking at a slightly smaller pot as lawmakers from the FY 2017 budget, House Appropriations Chairman Al Pscholka, R-Stevensville, said one thing to do is cut the unintentional tax break.
"I think this creates a real incentive for folks to understand we just can't have a corporate $80 million handout giveaway.
And that needs to get fixed.
So I think it puts a little more urgency to that," Pscholka said.
A tax break the legislature inadvertently gave to auto insurance companies in 2012 is on the chopping block this budget cycle, something auto insurers claim will cause prices to customers to spike by $40 per car..."

Good golly, this is just a simple lawn service company and look at all the rules!-----Lawn, plow service to pay $38K back wages, damages for overtime violations

Lawn, plow service to pay $38K back wages, damages for overtime violations | MLive.com
"...Under a court-supervised consent judgment, H & H Lawn Service and Snowplowing and its owner, Darrell Hinken, must pay 11 employees $38,000 in back wages and damages, according to a news release from the Department of Labor.

"...H&H understands its legal obligations under the FLSA and only reached an agreement with the DOL after being charged excessive legal fees by another law firm...he disputed the government's complaint and fought it as long as he could afford to. "I spent $160,000 fighting this, then ran out of money," Hinken said.

"I work hard for my employees," he said.

An investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division found Hinken and his company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime and recordkeeping provisions in these way, according to the government:

• Misclassified some employees as independent contractors, then failed to pay them overtime when they worked more than 40 hours in a week.
• Paid some employees a flat salary without regard to how many hours they worked. This led to overtime violations when they worked more than 40 hours per week.
• Banked overtime hours for some employees to be paid out in future work weeks at straight time, rather than paying overtime in the pay period during which the hours were worked.
• Failed to keep required payroll records.

...The company has agreed to abide by the Fair Labor Standards Act in the future and specificially to:

• Notify employees in writing if they are claiming an overtime exemption for them, and why.
• Provide Wage and Hour Division fact sheets to all employees,  describing the definition of an employee as opposed to an independent contractor, among other topics.
• Retain a certified public accounting firm to do an annual payroll audit to  determine compliance with the law..."

Dr. Keith Ablow: Transgender Extremism Is the Biggest Issue in America | TheBlaze.com

Dr. Keith Ablow: Transgender Extremism Is the Biggest Issue in America | TheBlaze.com:

"Why is this happening? It is happening because many Americans are now seeing clearly for the first time that the assertions of a tiny percentage of the population that they are locked in the wrong bodies could end up dictating that all female Americans must accept using bathrooms alongside people with male anatomy (and vice-versa). This includes our children.

The assertions of transgender Americans that they are locked in the wrong bodies is in no way, in my opinion, proven scientifically. No researcher has ever demonstrated convincingly—not one time—that a single transgender individual shows any irrefutable physiological evidence, whatsoever, of being the gender opposite to their DNA and anatomy."

Don Surber: The Electoral College likely won't matter

Don Surber: The Electoral College likely won't matter:
"...The points made by Harry Enten:

1. The chance of an Electoral College and popular vote split is small.

2. Without looking at all the states, we don’t know how to interpret state polls.

3. We don’t have a lot of state polls.

His bottom line?

You’re going to hear a lot about the Electoral College this cycle. At various points, one state or another will be declared pivotal. But stay calm, especially with so long to go until Election Day. It’s too early to take any poll too seriously. We’ll have plenty of time to get into the weeds of different Electoral College scenarios in the months to come. For now, if you’re interested in whether Trump or Clinton is likely to be our next president, I’d pay attention to the average of national polls...

With this information, what should a candidate do?
First throw away the old playbook of campaigning only in the purple states. 
That playbook was based on a false assumption, which Harry Enten skewered.
Which means you now campaign in all 50 states. 
Sure? 
Why not?.."

Inside Venezuela's crisis-hit hospitals where 7 babies die a day

Inside Venezuela's crisis-hit hospitals where 7 babies die a day | Daily Mail Online:
No electricity, no antibiotics, no beds, no soap: 

A devastating look inside Venezuela's crisis-hit hospitals where 7 babies die a day, bleeding patients lie strewn on the floor, and doctors try to operate without tools

• President Nicolas Maduro claims Venezuela has the best healthcare in the world after Cuba 
• But death rates are soaring and hospitals are filthy as supplies run low and electricity is shut off 
• The nation is in economic crisis after price of oil - their main monetary reserve - plummeted 
• Images taken by the New York Times show patients lying on the floor covered in blood and babies dying

Lunch video-----The Blue Angels-F4 Phantom

Noon-toon

Little Sisters Win: Supreme Court Tells Lower Courts to Protect Them From HHS Mandate | LifeNews.com

Little Sisters Win: Supreme Court Tells Lower Courts to Protect Them From HHS Mandate | LifeNews.com:

"The Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion today in the case involving the Little Sisters of the Poor, which have been fighting to not be forced to pay for abortion-causing drugs for their employees."

Millennials Embrace Socialism, But Do They Know What It Is?

Millennials Embrace Socialism, But Do They Know What It Is? - Jonah Goldberg:
"Socialism is having a moment.
...Various polls show that millennials have a more favorable view of socialism than of capitalism.
And millennials generally are the only age group that views socialism more favorably than unfavorably.
Some conservatives aren't surprised.
Schools have been force-feeding left-wing propaganda to kids like it was feed for geese at a foie gras factory.
...Writing in The Federalist, Emily Ekins and Joy Pullmann note that many of these young people think socialism is federally mandated niceness.
A 2014 Reason-Rupe survey asked millennials to define socialism.
They had in mind a more generous safety net, more kindness and, as one put it, more "being together."
...Given a choice between a government-managed economy and a free-market economy, millennials overwhelmingly chose the latter.
It seems young people realize that putting bureaucrats in charge of Uber wouldn't work too well.
Still, it boggles the mind that anyone can see the folly of having the government take over Amazon or Facebook but be blind to the problems of having the government run health care..."

Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test

Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test - Slashdot
HughPickens.com writes:
Jackie Calmes writes in the NYT that all over the country, employers say they see a disturbing downside of tighter labor markets as they try to rebuild from the worst recession since the Depression: the struggle to find workers who can pass a pre-employment drug test. 

The hurdle partly stems from the growing ubiquity of drug testing, at corporations with big human resources departments, in industries like trucking where testing is mandated by federal law for safety reasons, and increasingly at smaller companies. But data suggests employers' difficulties also reflect an increase in the use of drugs, especially marijuana -- employers' main gripe -- and also heroin and other opioid drugs much in the news. Data on the scope of the problem is sketchy because figures on job applicants who test positive for drugs miss the many people who simply skip tests they cannot pass. But Quest Diagnostics, which has compiled employer-testing data since 1988, documented a 10% increase in one year in the percentage of American workers who tested positive for illicit drugs -- up to 4.7 percent in 2014 from 4.3 percent in 2013..."

Prof making $121,563 demands tuition increase: ‘Why are prices so low?’

Prof making $121,563 demands tuition increase: ‘Why are prices so low?’ | EAGnews.org: "MADISON, Wis. – While families across Wisconsin work and struggle to fund their children’s college education, one professor at the University of Wisconsin says tuition far is too low.
UW-Madison English Professor Caroline Levine made $121,563 in 2014-15, and presumably takes in even more now.
And she’s clearly not happy with that salary.
She announced in an op-ed recently published in the Madison Capital Times that she will be leaving the university for a job at another school, where she will be making 50 percent more.
Levine objects to Gov. Scott Walker’s tuition freeze, which has prohibited UW leaders from passing on the exorbitant cost of administrative and faculty compensation to struggling students and their families.
“Businesses charge market rates for their products and services,” Levine wrote, according to RightWisconsin.com.
 “Top-tier private colleges and universities right now are charging $44,000 or more in tuition each year, more than three times the rate of in-state tuition for an education at the UW-Madison, ranked in the top 50 universities around the world.
“Why are prices so low? 
Because politicians have put a cap on tuition.”
How interesting to hear a UW professor suggest that the university system should operate like a business. 
Not long ago UW faculty members screamed just the opposite when the Board of Regents made changes to job-protecting tenure rights, giving chancellors more power to move tenured professors out the door if the subjects they teach are no long part of the curriculum..."
Read on!

‘Who Does President Barack Obama Think He Is?’: Evangelist Franklin Graham Issues Blistering Reaction to Transgender Bathroom Directive | TheBlaze.com

‘Who Does President Barack Obama Think He Is?’: Evangelist Franklin Graham Issues Blistering Reaction to Transgender Bathroom Directive | TheBlaze.com:

"Evangelist Franklin Graham issued a strong rebuke of the Obama administration’s recent decision to direct public schools to permit transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds their gender identity, asking whether Obama believes he’s “the sultan of Washington.”

“Who does President Barack Obama think he is? The sultan of Washington?” Graham wrote on his Facebook page. “Does he think he can just make a ‘decree’ and we will bow down and simply obey?”

Gender pronoun insanity: New York City promises to FINE people for not using 'ze' or 'hir'

Gender pronoun insanity: New York City promises to FINE people for not using 'ze' or 'hir' - The College Fix:
"...a brazen and flagrantly unconstitutional attack on free speech by New York City’s social engineers.
Almost certainly unbeknownst to the average New Yorker – a demographic not known for overweening politeness (I know, I married one) – the New York City Commission on Human Rights is demanding that employers, landlords, professionals and “all businesses” (in Volokh’s reading) ask people their preferred gender pronoun from their first interaction..."

AM Fruitcake

History for May 18

History for May 18 - On-This-Day.com
Frank Capra 1897 - Film director ("It's a Wonderful Life"), Perry Como 1912 - Singer, television personality, Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyla) 1920


Dwayne Hickman 1934 - Actor, Reggie Jackson 1946 - Baseball player, Tina Fey 1970 - Actress, comedian ("30 Rock," "Saturday Night Live")


1642 - Montreal, Canada, was founded.


1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed emperor by the French Senate.


1917 - The U.S. Congress passed the Selective Service act, which called up soldiers to fight in World War I.


1934 - The U.S. Congress approved an act, known as the "Lindberg Act," that called for the death penalty in interstate kidnapping cases.


1951 - The United Nations moved its headquarters to New York City.


1953 - The first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound, Jacqueline Cochran, piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.


1980 - Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. 57 people were killed and 3 billion in damage was done.


1983 - The U.S. Senate revised immigration laws and gave millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program.

White House Refuses to Let Obama Adviser Ben Rhodes Testify After His Stunningly Candid Remarks on Iran Deal | TheBlaze.com

White House Refuses to Let Obama Adviser Ben Rhodes Testify After His Stunningly Candid Remarks on Iran Deal | TheBlaze.com:

"Controversially candid Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes will not have to testify before Congress regarding the Iran nuclear deal, the White House announced Monday.

Rhodes was initially called to testify at a Tuesday hearing on “White House Narratives on the Iran Nuclear Deal” by House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) after Rhodes gave a remarkably blunt interview to the New York Times Magazine on the Iran deal. However, Fox News reported that Chaffetz received a letter from White House counsel W. Neil Eggleston Monday, which explicitly said the Obama advisor would not attend."

High School Bans Flags, Including Old Glory, in Effort to Not Offend Students — but Officials Were in for Quite a Surprise | Video | TheBlaze.com

High School Bans Flags, Including Old Glory, in Effort to Not Offend Students — but Officials Were in for Quite a Surprise | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"I don’t see how you can pull someone’s right to walk in graduation because they were being patriotic,” Bogart said.

One veteran even showed up at the high school to stand in solidarity with the students. “We’re all proud of this flag,” he told KKCO. “Thousands of people have died for this flag. I think we should be behind the kids.”"

Millennial Students Feel ‘Pressure’ to Support Clinton, Even Though They Don’t Trust Her | Video | TheBlaze.com

Millennial Students Feel ‘Pressure’ to Support Clinton, Even Though They Don’t Trust Her | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Millennial students at George Washington University are feeling “pressure” to support Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman, but when asked if they trust her, they simply say, “Next question.”

“I just think that, yeah, there’s a lot of feminist pressure to vote for Hillary,” one woman told Campus Reform, a conservative news site focused on higher-education. Another added, “It’s a pretty good conspiracy.”