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Attkisson: CBS News too “ideologically entrenched” to air stories critical of the Obama administration
If only it was CBS just CBS – Attkisson: CBS News too “ideologically entrenched” to air stories critical of the Obama administration « Hot Air.
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An adult in the legal system finally assists bullied teen
Wow, an adult, what a novel concept.
Reservoir, pee, drain…. Really?
Draining reservoir after urination incident shows tenuous grasp of science | Ars Technica.
Then there are the dead birds.
One question, are their any adults in the room?
Enroll America/HHS Shakedown Street
GAO report: White House directly involved in Enroll America fundraising « Hot Air.
It’s worth noting at this point that HHS regulates these markets in significant ways, especially after the passage of ObamaCare. This wasn’t just a case of working the phones for a charity. This was the Cabinet official with the most impact on these businesses extolling the efforts of a supposedly independent group launched by a close adviser to the President. It doesn’t take much ink to connect those dots, which is why insurers began complaining loudly enough about the pressure for Congress and the media to take notice.
It was a shakedown, pure and simple, to wring more money and assistance out of industry players in order to bypass Congress on funding operations within the executive branch. That should prompt Congress to demand more answers, and perhaps to cut off even more funding to HHS until they get them.
Thuggery. A problem that seems to be going around a lot lately.
Bring on Summer skiing in Scotland
Highlands set for summer skiing after record snowfall | The Times.
Thousands of skiers are expected to head to the Scottish Highlands this Easter weekend to take advantage of sunshine combined with lasting snowfields.
The normally patchy mush on the slopes in late spring has been replaced with metres of snow. Glencoe currently has an average of 6m-deep snow on its upper slopes and is expected to stay open into early summer.
SIX METERS deep? For those of you who have been taught new math and have no idea how to do conversions, that’s 6m * 3.28 feet/m = 19.68 feet! All I can say is it’s a good thing global warming is now referred to as “Climate Change.”
Sissy Boulder Whiner
So Boulder – Debbie Ramirez: Bolder Boulder T-shirt is highly offensive – Boulder Daily Camera.
What is so highly offensive about this t-shirt? It’s the hurtful phrase….
“Sea Level is for Sissies”
Oh the 24 square miles surrounded by reality. I sure am glad I elect not to live my life by looking for reasons to be offended.
And the question of the days is: Can people outside the first 100 registrants purchase a “Sea Level is for Sissies” t-shirt? If so, I’m buying one. As of late, I feel like the Bolder Boulder has become an overpriced event. That said, I’m glad to support them from attacks by the likes of Debbie Ramirez and her ilk.
Added 4/23:
Robert E. Farrell: Lighten up on funny Bolder Boulder shirt
With all the really offensive stuff in the world, we don’t need eople looking to be offended and demanding that they not be offended. If we stop everything that anyone, anywhere finds even remotely offensive, we shut down all culture, social interaction and life. Lighten up!
Well said.
“Shocked and Disappointed”
We’re talking Lake Eldora ski area expansion – Eldora rejects Boulder County’s position on possible expansion – Boulder Daily Camera.
Eldora Mountain Resort’s attorney says ski area officials were “shocked and disappointed” at Boulder County’s suggestion that the resort consider improving its existing facilities, rather than focus on a full-on expansion.
“The county didn’t take the time to discuss and understand the issues,” said Rick Johnson, longtime attorney for Eldora. “We are very concerned with not being treated well or fairly here.”
While I certainly tend to be sympathetic to the ski area’s expansion plans. That said, if they are truly “shocked and disappointed” by the response of the Boulder County Commissioners, then they are dumber than dirt.
Medicare for all
The preferred Boulder Single Payer solution. You’re on the clock: Doctors rush patients out the door.
These days, stories like Eisenstodt’s are increasingly common. Patients — and physicians — say they feel the time crunch as never before as doctors rush through appointments as if on roller skates to see more patients and perform more procedures to make up for flat or declining reimbursements.
It’s not unusual for primary care doctors’ appointments to be scheduled at 15-minute intervals. Some physicians who work for hospitals say they’ve been asked to see patients every 11 minutes.
And the problem may worsen as millions of consumers who gained health coverage through the Affordable Care Act begin to seek care — some of whom may have seen doctors rarely, if at all, and have a slew of untreated problems.
Bring on Single Payer and Medicare. To listen to Boulderites and their fellow Progressive ilk, getting Single Payer will be like Moses parting the Red Sea.
Meteorologist Brad Panovich: ‘Slowest start to U. S. tornado season on record through 4/17 based on inflation adjusted tornado trend’
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Keystone Pipeline and Obama
‘Ridiculous’: Administration punts on Keystone, Obama faces Dem revolt | Fox News.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous that this well over five year long process is continuing for an undetermined amount of time,” Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., said in a statement.
Republican Nebraska Rep. Lee Terry called the decision “shameful,” noting that another spring construction season will come and go without the project.
Funny how the article doesn’t mention that eventually Canada is going to realize they are being played for fools.
As to Obama, no guts, no glory. He has no guts and the only glory he has is in his own mind and the “yes men” or should I say “yes people” that surround him.
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There oughta be a law…
Even with perfect pay parity by gender in most occupations in the labor market, wouldn’t the three factors above (among many possible other ones) contribute to persistent gender pay gaps when comparing salaries nationwide by gender that have nothing to do with employer-based discrimination against women?
But we can still fix it with a law, even if it isn’t “fair”.
A follow up thought is: How much is the last 5 – 10 per cent of “fairness” worth?
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Just imagine a Tea Party member trying to get a fair trial in Boulder
New York Court Struggles To Find Jurors Who Don’t Hate The Occupy Movement | American Glob.
It is the most important question being asked of dozens of New Yorkers lined up as potential jurors for the trial of Cecily McMillan, an Occupy Wall Street activist accused of assaulting a police officer: what do you think of her protest movement?
Unfortunately for those keen on the swift procession of justice, a series of Manhattan residents who presented themselves at the criminal courthouse this week declared that they strongly disagreed with it – and could not promise to be impartial about one of its members.
Like I said, just imagine a Tea Party member trying to get a fair trial in Boulder.
Record-High 60% of Californians Say They Pay Too Much Tax
One would think they only have themselves to blame – Record-High 60% of Californians Say They Pay Too Much Tax.
Oh but it’s not their fault and the solution doesn’t lie with them, it lies with the 1% and corporations….
However, as PPIC Mark Baldassare notes at Fox&Hounds, Californians still believe that the answer is to tax wealthy earners or corporations more–not to reform and broaden the current tax system.
Depressing.
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Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts
Big Government gone wild – Social Security, Treasury target taxpayers for their parents’ decades-old debts – The Washington Post.
A few weeks ago, with no notice, the U.S. government intercepted Mary Grice’s tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of Maryland. Grice had no idea that Uncle Sam had seized her money until some days later, when she got a letter saying that her refund had gone to satisfy an old debt to the government — a very old debt.
When Grice was 4, back in 1960, her father died, leaving her mother with five children to raise. Until the kids turned 18, Sadie Grice got survivor benefits from Social Security to help feed and clothe them.
Now, Social Security claims it overpaid someone in the Grice family — it’s not sure who — in 1977. After 37 years of silence, four years after Sadie Grice died, the government is coming after her daughter. Why the feds chose to take Mary’s money, rather than her surviving siblings’, is a mystery.
Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one Grice got, informing them that because of a debt they never knew about — often a debt incurred by their parents — the government has confiscated their check.
No fraud, no statute of limitations. Big Government overeach, pure and simple.
Cleta on the Cummings case
Cleta on the Cummings case | Power Line.
Today we have learned that, indeed, Rep. Cummings and the Staff deliberately singled out True the Vote and sought – and obtained – information about True the Vote from the IRS potentially in violation of federal law.
From commenter Dave Begley…
In a normal world this would be a bombshell. One political party uses the power of the government to harass, intimidate and potentially destroy its political opponents.
Doesn’t everyone see how dangerous this is?
Dave, it’s only dangerous if Republican’s do it.
No More Lies, Mr. Cummings: Tell America The Truth
Not happening anytime soon – No More Lies, Mr. Cummings: Tell America The Truth.
Washington is reeling as Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) true role in the IRS abuse scandal has come to light. Emails released by the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, of which Cummings is the ranking member, show Cummings and his staff communicating with Lois Lerner while the IRS targeted True the Vote for abuse.
“Today’s committee action reveals what we knew all along. Partisan politics and the weaponization of government against opponents of this administration is real and continues,” said True the Vote president Catherine Engelbrecht. “Elijah Cummings has blocked the IRS abuse investigation all along. We now see clearly that two branches of government have colluded to target and silence private citizens.
There is a story here, a real story and in a United Staes with a media that had any ethics this would be front page news. Unfortunately, we don’t have an MSM with ethics, it’s not rudderless either, it has a rudder that is proudly turned “hard left”.
Here is how True the Vote describes themselves (from the footer of the link)..
True the Vote (TTV) a nonpartisan, voters’rights and election integrity organization focused on preserving election integrity and is operated by citizens for citizens, to inspire and equip volunteers for involvement at every stage of our electoral process. TTV empowers organizations and individuals across the nation to actively protect the rights of legitimate voters, regardless of their political party affiliation. For more information, please visit www.truethevote.org.
Most likely reading the above causes Progressives hair stand on in. But I have to ask, exactly what is wrong with election integrity? Perhaps Progressives don’t take True the Votes’ description at face value? Color me skeptical of that point of view, but even if it is, the damage, specifically in the form of distrust, this has done to our political system and our government institutions by the IRS scandal is much larger then any damage True the Vote could ever inflict. Perhaps this is a mission accomplished moment for Progressives?
“One thing I will say with some certainty, however, is that tortoises had little or nothing to do with it.”
Standoff at Bundy Ranch Ends, With Photo of the Year So Far | Power Line.
I am no expert on the Bundy Ranch issue and have not been following it that closely. There may be good background information from the links in this article. Michael Brown covered this in fairly good detail on his radio show. I will try and find the excerpt and post it later today.
Both sides have issues but there’s no doubt who has the bigger stick. BUT. of the issue isn’t the stoopid tortoises, the government has some explaining to do.
Don’t forget, the IRS has a big stick and they’re in hot water that’s getting hotter everyday.
Good background info: The Saga of Bundy Ranch–Federal Power, Rule of Law and Averting Potential Bloodshed Not an article particularly favorable to the Bundy’s.
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“The result is that the Second Amendment is now ordinary constitutional law.”
Glenn Harlan Reynolds comments on the 2nd amendment becoming “ordinary constitutional law. Regarding the District of Columbia vs. Heller 2nd amendment Supreme Court ruling… “Not a single Justice endorsed the militia-centric, “collective rights” theory…
The Supreme Court’s ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller23 moved the Second Amendment from the domain of scholarly discussion to that of judicial determination. The most interesting thing about Heller is that not a single Justice endorsed the militia-centric, “collective rights” theory that had been so dominant in popular discussion (or, at least, bien-pensant discussion) for several decades. Rather, all Justices agreed that the Second Amendment embodies an individual right, though the majority and the dissent differed significantly on the nature and scope of that right.24
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