Remember those Obamacare waivers to companies and organizations that cannot afford the Goverment sponsored healthcare plan?
Well, those waivers jumped from 229 to 729. This month.
Now, if this healthcare plan is great and wonderful, why are these waivers growing?????
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin takes another look at this problem. Titled: Waivers for Favors: Obamacare’s Escape Hatch
Posted in Abortion, Corruption, Death Panels, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Life, Taxes
Tagged Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Marxism, Spending, Unconstitutional
Ahem, does any of our tax money go to the kids education??????
And why, pray tell, is the NEA donating to unions? The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate???
$1,758,000 for political influence? $100,00 to MediaMatters?
That’s just a few. Oh, there’s more. Why is a government agency doling out our tax money for political purposes?
Posted in Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Education, Ethics
Tagged Incompetence, Spending
This is the sickest thing I have ever read in my life. An alleged “doctor” butchering, excuse me, murdering – I mean – performing (so-called) abortions. A “supposed” human being did this.
Kermit Gosnell. You …. Well, forget it, I have no words that others haven’t said about you, to you, already.
Michelle Malkin has an excellent writeup on this “person” and everything about him, his actions, his facility, practices and what not. Including the entire Grand Jury Report. One portion I give here (and Ms. Malkin does also):
“It is not our job to say who should be fired or demoted. We believe, however, that anyone responsible for permitting Gosnell to operate as he did should face strong disciplinary action up to and including termination. This includes not only the people who failed to do the inspecting, the prosecuting, and the protecting, but also those at the top who obviously tolerated, or even encouraged, the inaction. The Department of State literally licensed Gosnell’s criminally dangerous behavior. DOH gave its stamp of approval to his facility. These agencies do not deserve the public’s trust. The fate of Karnamaya Mongar and countless babies with severed spinal cords is proof that people at those departments were not doing their jobs. Those charged with protecting the public must do better.”
Go read Michelle’s column on this (How Mass Murder Gets a Pass), and – if you can stomach it – read that Grand Jury Report as well.
I need to take a shower after reading this as well.
May God have mercy on this creature named Gosnell. But I don’t know about that.
I want to know what our two Senators, Cardin and Mikulski, have to say about this.
Or, am I going to hear nothing but the sound of crickets?
Posted in Abortion, Condolences, Corruption, Death Panels, Ethics, Life, Rule of Law
Tagged Cardin, Healthcare, Mikulski, Politics, Violence
MSNBC ends contract with Olbermann.
While I never watched him by switching to that channel, I have seen snippets of his rants.
I’m not only surprised that he lasted this long, but also surprised he hasn’t given himself a heart attack.
And the Left calls us nasty. Sheesh. Look in a mirror.
(And, no, I haven’t, and won’t watch the video at the link.)
UPDATE: More, if you’re interested. And that’s it, I really don’t care.
But have they gone far enough? No.
I notice one thing they have touched on yet, our funds to the IMF. You know, the International Monetary Fund?
And what happened to all the money we sent their way in the not so distant past?
And another thing, how many items make up all of the unfunded liabilities? When is there going to be an accounting, and reductions/eliminations, in that area? Hhhmmm?
Posted in Constitution, Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, National Security, Politics, Sovereignty, Taxes, Theft
Tagged Control, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Marxism, Spending, Unconstitutional, Violence
27 of 50 States Now Challenging Constitutionality of Obamacare in Court
I’d say that’s a sign. A really big sign. Question is:
Is SCOTUS, Federal courts, Congress and 1600 paying attention now? I mean, given that the House passed their bill to repeal Obamacare today, it would seem to me even if Sen. Reid STILL refuses to deal with this on the Senate side – there’s going to be hell to pay.
REPEAL !!!!!
Posted in Abortion, Constitution, Corruption, Death Panels, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Life, Rights, Taxes
Tagged Control, Fraud, Healthcare, Incompetence, Marxism, Spending, Unconstitutional
So much for conservative voices of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Seems a Philadelphia radio station doesn’t want to be known having a “national” impact but just a “local” one. Too bad, Philly listeners. Guess your media source doesn’t want you to hear anything but their point of view.
Time to change the station on your radios.
Posted in Corruption, Freedom of Speech, Speech
Tagged Control, Freedom, Politics, Transparency, Truth
UPDATEx2: Well, time to eat some crow. After some more serious troubleshooting, the only remaining thing to try was to power off everything. Computer, satellite box, PVR, flatscreen and AV receiver. Switching back on after 10 full minutes brought everything fully functional again. I apologize to any I have offended, particularly DirecTV and/or Hauppage, the maker of the PVR.
At least I learned something more over the past couple days. Unfortunately, I cannot say for 100% certainty just where (in which electronics) the fault lay at the time – which is the answer I would have preferred to find. Maybe another time.
Since I have calmed down some, I have been troubleshooting as best I can for awhile this evening. I am not yet convinced if there is a hardware fault in either the receiver box component output or the component input to the HD PVR.
At that, I will be calling DirecTV tomorrow to find out if there is anything they can do to troubleshoot the receiver.
Until then, I will hold my tongue and at least apologize for my hasty post.
Frankly, I am more than just peeved about this. I promise I will keep my worst curses where no one can hear them.
For any readers here that are technically aware, the suppliers of HDTV signals have now switched off the component video connections. On Blu-Ray players and, as I found out just recently, DirecTV HD satellite receiver boxes …….
This means they have rendered my legally purchased hardware/software package (Hauppage HD PVR model 1212) useless.
$199 down the drain. Just because they can do it. Just to force us to purchase/lease their equipment. To make us pay subscription fees.
Okay, who do I send the bill to? DirecTV? Who?
Anybody else notice this happen to themselves? Speak up, please.
Posted in Abuse of Police Powers, Corruption, Deficit, Economy, Ethics, Theft
Tagged Analog Hole, Control, controversy, EFF, Fraud, Politics, Spending
Here’s a guest on the MSNBC Ed Show, a talk radio consultant Holland Cooke, to talk about the Rush Limbaugh billboard in Tucson – wondering if Loughner could have driven that highway, saw that billboard, and if it had an impact on his decision to …….
Well, you know.
And now I know, at last, just what MSNBC truly stands for:
Mostly
Stupid
Nitwits
Broadcasting
Crap
Gasp! What? On a Jumbotron?
Was this a memorial proceeding or wasn’t it?
UPDATE: According to comments in the articles referred within the GatewayPundit blogsite, it may well be the picture has captured a video image that is also displaying closed captioning. If anyone can corroborate that, please feel free to speak up.
Even so, for anyone that had managed to watch/partake in the service, I would also like to hear from those who heard this firsthand.
TUCSON – Thousands of people flooded into Tucson’s McKale Memorial Center to hear President Barack Obama speak this evening. The center is now full, and people are being directed to go to the U of A football stadium to watch the event on a Jumbotron screen.
If you have a Flickr (Yahoo) account, try this as a commenter claims there may be better information here. I tried, but I get a message that I cannot view the picture(s).
http://preview.tinyurl.com/4llpbnn
Oh Good Lord. Contrivances.
At last, a commenter explains it:
I am a closed captioner and I was working that evening and captioned this event for one of our clients. (There are many stations that ran this live, so I doubt I was actually producing the captions seen in the shot.) But I try to use [APPLAUSE] when cameras aren’t showing an audience reaction, as the shot of Obama above demonstrates. It’s not always successful because captioners usually work off of an audio feed that isn’t time-delayed. Our video is not, so knowing whether the camera will cut away or not is guesswork. But you want the deaf or hard-of-hearing to know why the speaker is no longer speaking, if you can. That’s what this is. It’s descriptive, not proscriptive.
Daniel McAndrew 