Good news! More than one way to “skin a cat”…

Posted on July 11, 2012 by ChrisA

….or stop Obamacare. This is called the sinking under it’s own weight strategy.

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Liberal Logic…

Posted on July 10, 2012 by ChrisA
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Obama campaign threatens donors: ‘We could lose if this continues’

Posted on July 9, 2012 by ChrisA

Oh my.

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Narcissism: Barack Obama

Posted on July 9, 2012 by ChrisA

From Wikipedia, Narcissism:  …”narcissism” usually is used to describe some kind of problem in a person or group’s relationships with self and others. In everyday speech, “narcissism” often means egoism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness

Narcism: ‘I,’ ‘Me’—Obama Uses First-Person Pronoun 117 Times in 1 Speech

I’m assuming this is using a teleprompter, which tells me that:

  • The President doesn’t see any issue with using “I” and “Me” repetitively in a speec
  • Neither do his handlers and/or speechwriters

Seriously, to me the obvious implication is that President Obama has surrounded himself with minions who are at least as narcisstic as he is, if not more.

It bothers me because I have this same problem. Many e-mails I write have too many “I’s” and “Me’s” in them. YET, without ANYONE telling me, at least directly that there was an issue, I figured it out on my own. Every e-mail I send is screened for an overabundance of “I’s” and “Me’s”. Yet Barack Obama and his minion handlers have a blind spot where they can not see this as a problem. As you can see, this paragraph most likely has too many “I’s” in it.  😉

Of course, it’s not like Romney is a saint in this regard either…

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney also frequently used the first-person pronoun in his most recent speech that has been posted in its entirety on C-SPAN. Speaking in Salem, Va., on Jun 26, Romney used the first-person pronouns “I” and “me” a combined 55 times in a speech that lasted about 18 minutes and 13 seconds.

News to candidates, it’s not all about you.

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Too funny: Depiction of 8.2 percent unemployment

Posted on July 6, 2012 by ChrisA
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“Probably something to do with massive unemployment and overhanging debt. Just at a guess.”

Posted on July 3, 2012 by ChrisA

Glenn Reynolds commenting on Young voters cool on Obama.

Just wait until they see their premiums under Obamacare. And they complain about health insurance being expensive now, all the while doing the smart phone gig.

In Wisconsin, Gruber reported that people purchasing insurance for themselves on the individual market would see, on average, premium increases of 30 percent by 2016, relative to what would have happened in the absence of Obamacare. In Minnesota, the law would increase premiums by 29 percent over the same period. Colorado was the least worst off, with premiums under the law rising by only 19 percent.

Why the lower increase in Colorado? My educated guess is because Colorado has already implemented many Obamacare mandates, including maternity coverage so their base rates are already much higher than a state like Wisconsin. Young people notice this!

Then there’s Community rating…

Many of the people who go uninsured are young people. The young are just entering the work force, and therefore typically have below-average incomes. In addition, the young are healthy, and have much less use for expensive health insurance.

Obamacare forces insurers to charge their eldest beneficiaries no more than 3 times what they charge their youngest ones: a policy known as “community rating.” This, despite the fact that these older beneficiaries typically have six times the health expenditures that younger people face. The net effect of this “community rating” provision is the redistribution of insurance costs from the old to the young. (cmphassis added – Ed)

 Wow, no surprise there’s a definite lack of enthusiasm with regards to Obamacare and the politicians who brought it to us.

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Every now and then that 1% comes in handy…

Posted on July 3, 2012 by ChrisA

US election: Barack Obama begs donors for more as Mitt Romney rakes it in

Guess the hands that fed the President are tired of being bitten. Of course, President Obama didn’t really mean the part of the 1% show donate money to his cause.

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John Hinderaker: “But the administration is behaving with respect to Obamacare as it did with regard to Fast and Furious: when uncomfortable questions are asked, its first impulse is to lie.”

Posted on July 1, 2012 by ChrisA

Of course we’re talking the “mandate is a tax” issue.

Video at the above link where:

Here, White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew ran in circles for five minutes, trying not to admit that Obamacare was upheld solely on the ground that it is a tax:

Chris Wallace:

Mr. Lew: If it walks, looks and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.

C’mon the Obama administration needs to embrace that it’s a tax. Of course, that causes other problems doesn’t it?

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Rupert Murdoch meet Greta Van Susteren

Posted on July 1, 2012 by ChrisA

Rupurt Murdoch on Scientology: Scientologists ‘creepy, maybe even evil’

Meet one of your star employees, Greta Van Susteren.

Van Susteren is a member and large-scale donor to the Church of Scientology, which teaches that souls of murdered space aliens from 75 million years ago are now attached to Earthlings’ bodies, and that for a fee the Church can have these cumbersome parasites removed. The top accountant at Van Susteren’s law firm is the mother of Scientology chief David Miscavige. It is widely rumored that during her time at CNN Van Susteren pressured network executives to kill an investigation into Applied Scholastics, an “educational organization” that operates under at least half a dozen different names and is apparently controlled by the Church of Scientology.

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Althouse: A physician’s epiphany:

Posted on July 1, 2012 by ChrisA

The physician concludes…

Instead of a professional, I am an employee.
Instead of a citizen, I am a serf.
And the serf game is an easy one; its rules are old and easily learned. Bow and scrape, basically. Get yours.

Read the whole thing.

I’ve got to start practicing.

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Ed Morrissey: “I recall a time when Democrats regularly lionized whistleblowers … during the Bush administration, of course. “

Posted on July 1, 2012 by ChrisA

‘Now not so much


These days, in the Obama era, Democrats and the media seem a lot less admiring of whistleblowers, oddly enough. Imagine for a moment that Rowley had been assigned a new boss at the FBI after her whistleblowing, one that had told others that the agency needed to “get whatever dirt we can” on her to “take her down,” and especially if that boss had previously said in the presence of at least one witness that the FBI needed to “f**k” said whistleblower. Can you imagine the media meltdown that would have occurred? Well, you’re going to have to be satisfied with imagining it, but Senator Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa want answers as to why two Operation Fast and Furious whistleblowers got assigned to work for a man who said exactly that about them:.

Another interesting tidbit…

These days, in the Obama era, Democrats and the media seem a lot less admiring of whistleblowers, oddly enough. Imagine for a moment that Rowley had been assigned a new boss at the FBI after her whistleblowing, one that had told others that the agency needed to “get whatever dirt we can” on her to “take her down,” and especially if that boss had previously said in the presence of at least one witness that the FBI needed to “f**k” said whistleblower. Can you imagine the media meltdown that would have occurred? Well, you’re going to have to be satisfied with imagining it, but Senator Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa want answers as to why two Operation Fast and Furious whistleblowers got assigned to work for a man who said exactly that about them:

(emphassis added – Ed)

Yea, neither can I.

Ed asks the questions all inquiring minds want to know…

So when will the media fall back in love with whistleblowers?


and the answer is…

I’ll go out on a limb and predict it will be when a Republican gets elected President. May that day come soon.


That’s a pretty damn safe limb to go out on in my opinion.

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Houston Police: Amateur Hour

Posted on July 1, 2012 by ChrisA

Pedestrian thrown in jail for 12 hours for holding up sign warning drivers about police speed trap

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20 new taxes thanks to Obamacare

Posted on June 30, 2012 by ChrisA
  1. Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,961-1,971
  2. Codification of the “economic substance doctrine” – Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 108-113
  3. “Black liquor” tax hike – Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 105
  4. Tax on Innovator Drug Companies – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,971-1,980
  5. Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike – Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,004
  6. Tax on Indoor Tanning Services – Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,397-2,399
  7. Medicine Cabinet Tax – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,957-1,959
  8. HSA Withdrawal Tax Hike – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,959
  9. Employer Reporting of Insurance on W-2 – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,957
  10. Surtax on Investment Income ($123 billion/Jan. 2013) – Bill: Reconciliation Act; Page: 87-93
  11. Hike in Medicare Payroll Tax – Bill: PPACA, Reconciliation Act; Page: 2000-2003; 87-93
  12. Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,980-1,986
  13. Raise “Haircut” for Medical Itemized Deduction from 7.5% to 10% of AGI – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,994-1,995
  14. Flexible Spending Account Cap – aka “Special Needs Kids Tax” – Bill: PPACA; Page: 2,388-2,389
  15. Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,994
  16. $500,000 Annual Executive Compensation Limit for Health Insurance Executives – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,995-2,000
  17. Individual Mandate Excise Tax – Bill: PPACA; Page: 317-337
  18. Employer Mandate Tax – Bill: PPACA; Page: 345-346
  19. Tax on Health Insurers – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,986-1,993
  20. Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans – Bill: PPACA; Page: 1,941-1,956

Total tax hikes > $500 billion!

More detailed information over at American Tax Forums.

No number or amount of additional taxation would change the minds of the progressive movement that drink at the single payer trough, which of course is where all of this is heading.

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Tax Increase

Posted on June 29, 2012 by ChrisA

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“it’s constitutional. B****es.” “TAKE THAT MOTHER******S!!”

Posted on June 29, 2012 by ChrisA

From the Democratic National Committee. Followup here.

Wow.

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Adrian Murray: “Let me get this straight… “

Posted on June 28, 2012 by ChrisA

So let me get this straight: Just so some people with a preexisting condition aren’t denied insurance coverage and some lazy ass college students too useless to take reponsibility for their own lives can continue to leech off their parents, I have to be forced to move my employees from a tailored insurance plan that we provide to them for free onto a government plan subsidized by the $2,000 per employee fine that I now have to pay because the government passed a 2,700 page bill creating hundreds of new agencies and countless new bureaucracies and regulations laced with sanctions and fines resulting in a government takeover of one fifth of the largest economy in the world? All for preexisting conditions and parental coverage of 26 year olds? Surely there was an easier way.

Surely. (no link due to being Facebook post)

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Thomas Sowell on government involvement in healthcare…

Posted on June 28, 2012 by ChrisA

’nuff said.

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Bobcat

Posted on June 26, 2012 by ChrisA

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France ‘ready to share budget sovereignty’

Posted on June 26, 2012 by ChrisA

Sounds like they need OPM!

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Charlotte we have a problem

Posted on June 26, 2012 by ChrisA

So say the Democrats. Democrats Cancel Speedway Event at Charlotte Convention

The move comes as party planners are grappling with a fundraising deficit of roughly $27 million, according to two people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss internal party politics. With a party ban on direct contributions from corporations, the host committee has raised less than $10 million, well short of its $36.6 million goal, said one of the people.

Sensing a definite lack of enthusiasm.

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