Thursday, October 03, 2013

7:18 am-My new desktop photo!


Everyone gets a "13th month" pension check.....right.....

Detroit bankruptcy judge lets union seek opinion on 13th pension check | Crain's Detroit Business:
"U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes today agreed with the union that an administrative law judge should be free to issue an opinion about the so-called 13th-check policy, which the city said cost it $1.92 billion from 1985 to 2008."
At least, everyone will be able to contribute to a 13th month check.....

Answering phones and making websites work is too haaaarrrrd......

News from The Associated Press:
"Overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for health insurance under the nation's historic health care overhaul."

IT’S COME TO THIS: Democrats Pay Union Members to Protest World War II Vets.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » IT’S COME TO THIS: Democrats Pay Union Members to Protest World War II Vets. 

You can’t make this stuff up: World War II veterans come to Washington to see their monument, and the Obama administration tries to block them by putting up barricades.
When that blunder starts getting media attention, the administration doubles down by paying union members $15 to march around, waving signs and protesting–as though that were a sure-fire way to generate sympathy for the nonessential federal employees who are getting the day off.
Is it possible that the Democrats could be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory?

And does that perhaps have something to do with Obama’s backing down on his vow not to talk with Congressional Republicans?
Obama has now invited Congressional leaders to the White House for talks on ending the spending impasse.

Their messaging hasn’t been especially great."

Wednesday, October 02, 2013

Seven stupid things the gov’t spent money on during shutdown

Seven stupid things the gov’t spent money on during shutdown | The Daily Caller:

Networks Embrace ‘Catastrophic’ Warnings of Latest IPCC Report

Networks Embrace ‘Catastrophic’ Warnings of Latest IPCC Report | Media Research Center:
"“Evening News” took a different tack, airing a story about oyster farming and complaints that climate change is ruining a man’s business.
But in Ben Tracy’s story, which mentioned the IPCC’s latest report, he said that oceans have absorbed much of the heat caused by CO2 and that ocean temperatures have risen only slightly.
Then he made a claim that Principal Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville called “totally misleading and irresponsible.”

“Had all that heat gone into the atmosphere, air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees [showed 212 degrees onscreen],” Tracy warned.

Spencer told the MRC’s Business and Media Institute, “The oceans have warmed by an average of less than 0.1 deg. C (only the SURFACE by about 0.5 deg.) since the 1950s, and since that is so much water mass, the absorbed heat equivalent to 0.1 deg. IF RELEASED ALL AT ONCE IN THE ATMOSPHERE [it] would, indeed, be hundreds of degrees.
But this is physically impossible. 
It is a meaningless statistic. "

Tesla Model S fire stokes electric car fears

Tesla Model S fire stokes electric car fears | The Car Tech blog - CNET Reviews

Belgian killed by euthanasia after a botched sex change operation

Belgian killed by euthanasia after a botched sex change operation - Telegraph:
"Mr Verhelst had hormone therapy in 2009, followed by a mastectomy and surgery to construct a penis in 2012.
But "none of these operations worked as desired"."

Obama's ACORN Pals Cashing In on Obamacare Enrollment

The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : Obama's ACORN Pals Cashing In on Obamacare Enrollment:
"President Obama’s old friends in the ACORN crime syndicate have decided to get a piece of the big-money Obamacare action.
United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 100 in New Orleans, which is run by ACORN founder Wade Rathke, announced on its Facebook page that it’s gearing up “to do mass enrollment and help navigate people into the marketplaces in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas under the Affordable Care Act!”
Be afraid."

Attacked by Muslims, Christianity is going extinct in Middle East

Attacked by Muslims, Christianity is going extinct in Middle East |:
"Two days ago, at least 42 students in Yobe State College of Agriculture in Nigeria were killed by yet another violent Islamic jihadist group, the Boko Haram. That’s just the latest news about Muslim jihadists which the mainstream media ain’t telling you.

The fact of the matter is that Muslims are persecuting and killing Christians across the world, especially in the Middle East — the birthplace of Christianity.

And yet, what we hear from Obama (who says he’s Christian), Pope Francis, Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby, Evangelical leaders, and U.S. Christians is . . . crickets."

H-1B Obamacare Illinois Bombshell | Adam Andrzejewski

H-1B Obamacare Illinois Bombshell | Adam Andrzejewski:
Billions of dollars of IT contracts are wrapped inside the implementation of Obamacare, with federal tax dollars paying up to 90 percent of the cost for upgrading state Medicaid Management Information Systems (MMIS).
These awards are some of the largest in state history.
Two weeks ago, Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn became national news for circumventing a three-year procurement process on up to $190 million in no-bid IT contracts
Last week, we found that one of the largest bid-contract awards outsources state jobs to H-1B contractors from India. 
The Democratic governor awards $71.4 million contract to an outsourcing firm billing up to $256,160 per year per position -- plus $200,000 taxpayer financed "slush fund" for travel.

Well, after 12 tries I got here but.......

....the little dropdown boxes don't work.
All my previous entries dropped.
The left and Barry Hussein are telling us this just like Apple.
With Barry as Steve.
I'm thinkin' not.

Tom Clancy Dead: Celebrated Thriller Author Dies At Age 66

Tom Clancy Dead: Celebrated Thriller Author Dies At Age 66 - Business Insider:
Dang!
First Vince Flynn.
Now Tom.
RIP sir.

How could they have "lots"? 10:19EST-Still waiting.......-Health Insurance Marketplace: Please wait

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How could the fine folks have "lots of visitors...." when no one can even get on the site?

Politichicks.tvRacists and Extremists and Teabaggers--Oh My!

Politichicks.tvRacists and Extremists and Teabaggers--Oh My! - Politichicks.tv
I remember the very first time in my life when I was called a racist. (Mind you, I am no spring chicken either.) 
It was in 2008 during campaign season when it became official that Barack Obama would face John McCain in the fight for the office of the President. 
I was having coffee with my friend Jackie who early on appeared to be leaning on the fence regarding which candidate would get her vote. Apparently she had listened to a few of Obama’s speeches and to my dismay, she was suddenly part of a movement that would sweep the nation and elect then-Senator Barack Obama as president. 
She knew nothing about him, couldn’t name one of his accomplishments and had no knowledge of his voting record during the short time that he was in office. 
Her only defense was that she “liked what he said” and that she was tired of the “rich” Republicans and their “disregard for the poor”. 
I remember asking her what she knew of him and what experience he may have had that would qualify him for the job. 
It seemed that the more I pressed her, the more defensive she became. 
I reminded her that Hitler gave good speeches and history will tell you what happens when you follow a man who only tells you what you want to hear. 
Unfortunately, that must have been the straw that broke the camel’s back because the next words out of my friend’s mouth were accusations that I was a racist, merely because I didn’t like her candidate! 

You Really Ought to Go Home

NSA soon to run our schools?-Utah parents charged with vetting Common Core tests being sworn to secrecy

Utah parents charged with vetting Common Core tests being sworn to secrecy - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.:
"SALT LAKE CITY – Leave it to government bureaucrats to think that government transparency efforts should somehow be shrouded in secrecy.
That’s exactly what’s happening in Utah, where state education officials are asking members of a parent review committee tasked with scrutinizing the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests “to sign a nondisclosure agreement that could muzzle them from discussing the test questions with other parents,” reports The Salt Lake Tribune."

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NOT!-Open for business: Michigan's health insurance exchange

Open for business: Michigan's health insurance exchange | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Without further adieu, click here to begin the online health insurance application process that federal officials say will only take about 30 minutes to complete."
And federal officials NEVER lie......
Think about it.
Old people aren't calling-Medicare
Poor people aren't using their Obamaphones-Medicaid
Veterans got VA
The employed got employer insurance.
How many are left that need to call on the first two days? 
And this simple website never even got started.
Wait til they try to replace your hip, kidney, treat your kid for cancer.....
Just wait........ 

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