Monthly Archives: October 2013

Obamacare: Not banging down the door to sign up in SC

Bummer, doesn’t sound like Obamacare is winning any popularity contests… Only 2 People Attend ‘Obamacare and You!’ Event in South Carolina | The Weekly Standard. Last night, the organization formerly known as President Obama’s reelection campaign, Organizing for Action, held … Continue reading

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Hard to believe: No Good Options for Obama

No Good Options for Obama by Scott Rasmussen on Creators.com – A Syndicate Of Talent. The apparent dilemma… So, the president is stuck with an impossible dilemma. If he tries to make the shutdown as painless as possible for the … Continue reading

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Obamacare: Why create an account to see pricing?

Obamacare marketplace could get partial rebuild. “No one would design a shopping site” on which people were required to input a large amount of personal data before being shown what’s offered, Wu said, noting that most visitors to both the … Continue reading

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Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website

Canadian officials fired IT firm behind troubled Obamacare website | WashingtonExaminer.com. Canadian provincial health officials last year fired the parent company of CGI Federal, the prime contractor for the problem-plagued Obamacare health exchange websites, the Washington Examiner has learned. CGI … Continue reading

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How You Keep Things From Going Wrong… Test. Test. Test.

Healthcare.gov – No Good Excuses Exist for the Failure of Obamacare’s Expensive Website. Test. Test. Test. Of course, programmers are responsible for testing their own code as far as possible. But programmers are usually the worst people to test their … Continue reading

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I thought I was getting free healthcare…

by forcing other people to pay for it. I just realized I AM the other people.

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Blogging returning to “normal”

Drove my daughter to Minneapolis/St. Paul for her new job and just got back last night. Should be getting back in the grove quickly. I expected healthcare.gov to be fixed by now!

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Dear MSM…

Do your effing job: No healthcare questions at Obama presser – POLITICO.com. As Glenn Reynolds notes over at Instapundit… If the press covered Obama the way they’d cover a GOP President who did this kind of thing, he’d be toast. … Continue reading

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Widespread fraud reported in Social Security Administration’s Disability Program

Nothing to see here. It’s those damn Republicans trying slashing and threatening programs for the poor, especially women and chldren – Widespread fraud reported in Social Security Administration’s Disability Program | Fox News.

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Beyond pettiness to sewing the seeds of their own destruction

Instapundit » Blog Archive » TURNING KIDS INTO HOSTAGES: ‘All about power and leverage’ — feds shut down major roadway, block a…. The National Park Service also closed the Foothills Parkway, a major thoroughfare in the county. The closure came … Continue reading

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BIAS BASH: Is media unfairly blaming GOP for slimdown? | Fox News Video

BIAS BASH: Is media unfairly blaming GOP for slimdown? | Fox News Video. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comHere’s the simple minded Democratic monologue that’s getting so so tiring, in Cal Thomas’ words… It’s always this way isn’t it over … Continue reading

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Obamacare: Sweeping historic laws need 70% of the vote

Tom Sullivan’s “Money” Commentary: Obama’s Big #ObamaCare Mistake – Tom Sullivan Radio Show. (video @ link).  

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Obamacare glitches: why they might help end government shutdown

Obamacare glitches: why they might help end government shutdown – CSMonitor.com. The problems with the main Obamacare website – Healthcare.gov – appear to be more than just glitches And perhaps even more ominously for the Obama administration, some consumers are … Continue reading

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The Real Dysfunction: A $17 Trillion National Debt

The Real Dysfunction: A $17 Trillion National Debt | Cato @ Liberty. We’ve become so used to these unfathomable levels of deficits and debt—and to the once-rare concept of trillions of dollars—that we forget how new all this debt is. … Continue reading

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Subdivision Roads: No on 5C (part 2)

From the FIRM website.

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Subdivision Roads: Vote ‘NO’ on 5C

From the Boulder County Fairness in Road Maintenance website. I’ll try to get a better version of the graph. In 1995 the County Commision chose to divert revenue that had been allocated to the Road Fund in previous years. Oh, … Continue reading

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“I Want People to Have Health Care. I Just Didn’t Realize I Would be the One Who Was Going to Pay for It.”

I wish I could say I’m surprised… “I Want People to Have Health Care. I Just Didn’t Realize I Would be the One Who Was Going to Pay for It.” | FrontPage Magazine. Hate to break it to you…. Most … Continue reading

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Meanwhile inside the castle walls

Screen shots from Drudge .

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Obama pettiness: The Amber Alert website is down

How tone deaf can an administration be? The potential of this backfiring on them grows every single hour.

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U.S. expected to be largest producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2013

What a gift to the Obama administration – U.S. expected to be largest producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons in 2013 – Today in Energy – U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Too damn bad they aren’t more appreciative.

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