F*#k Lying POS Obama Daily Selections
From MM: http://maddmedic.wordpress.com/
More Clusterf#&k from Obamacare
Leftist Disaster Update: Thousands Of Doctors Dropped By Insurer After Obamacare Funding Cuts
Thousands Of Doctors Dropped By Insurer After Obamacare Funding Cuts – News Max
UnitedHealth Group has dropped thousands of doctors from its networks in recent weeks, leaving many elderly patients unsure whether they need to switch plans to continue seeing their doctors,the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
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The insurer said in October that underfunding of Medicare Advantage plans for the elderly could not be fully offset by the company’s other healthcare business.
The company also reported spending more healthcare premiums on medical claims in the third quarter, due mainly to government cuts to payments for Medicare Advantage services.
“Medicare Advantage, an alternative to traditional Medicare, combines hospital and doctor coverage and often includes prescription drugs and perks like gym memberships,” the Journal explained. “Enrollment has more than doubled since 2004 to 13 million in 2012, which represents about 27 percent of Americans on Medicare.
“The federal government pays private insurers a per-capita fee to manage the benefits. The rate is currently about 12 percent more than the average Medicare patient spends annually. The Obama administration plans to cut those extra payments to insurers by about $150 billion over the next 10 years to help pay” for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
Some experts told the Journal that they expect enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans to decline sharply if that occurs.
The Journal report said that doctors in at least 10 states were notified of being laid off the plans, some citing “significant changes and pressures in the healthcare environment.” According to the notices, the terminations can be appealed within 30 days.
Tyler Mason, a UnitedHealth spokesperson, was not immediately available for comment when reached by Reuters.
At least two state medical societies are seeking temporary restraining orders against UnitedHealth and other state attorney generals are investigating the firm.
Attorneys in Connecticut, acting on behalf of the Hartford and Fairfield County Medical Associations, filed suit Friday after UnitedHealth dropped doctors serving the popular Medicare program, The Courant reported.
Other states expressed similar anger over the changes. In Rhode Island, the state’s attorney general and health department director on Friday sent letters to UnitedHealth’s New England CEO, asking him to reinstate doctors until a full plan for such a transition could be put in place, Rhode Island Public Radio reported.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin and Health Department director Michael Fine told United Health that they are concerned the continuity of care will be lost in the shakeup. They also noted that UnitedHealth has not notified customers of the changes, leaving that up to doctors.
But the insurer told the WSJ that its provider networks were always changing and that it expected its Medicare Advantage network to be 85 percent to 90 percent of its current size by the end of 2014.
UnitedHealth is participating in about a dozen new state insurance markets that launched on October 1 to offer subsidized health coverage under Obamacare. The insurer had said previously it planned to withdraw from some markets in 2014 because of the government funding cuts.
From The Daley Gator: http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/
See the Difference?
Christian Holidays Versus Muslim Holidays
According to liberals, Christianity and Islam are equivalent — except that Islam is better, because those who don’t like it as a result of the tens of thousands of lethal acts of terror Muslims have perpetrated since 9/11 are racists.
See if you can find a difference between Christian Christmas and Muslim Ashura:
The difference? Liberals don’t try to suppress the celebration of Muslim holidays.
On a tip from Sean C.
From MB: http://moonbattery.com/
Police in America: Out of Control
Who’s to Blame for Battlefield America? Is It Militarized Police or the Militarized Culture?
“It felt like I was in a big video game. It didn’t even faze me, shooting back. It was just natural instinct. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!”— Sgt. Sinque Swales, reflecting on a firefight in Iraq
It’s hard to pinpoint what exactly is responsible for the growing spate of police shootings, brutality and overreach that have come to dominate the news lately, whether it’s due to militarized police, the growing presence of military veterans in law enforcement, the fact that we are a society predisposed to warfare, indoctrinated through video games, reality TV shows, violent action movies and a series of endless wars that have, for younger generations, become life as they know it—or all of the above.
Whatever the reason, not a week goes by without more reports of hair-raising incidents by militarized police imbued with a take-no-prisoners attitude and a battlefield approach to the communities in which they serve.
The latest comes out of New Mexico, where cops pulled David Eckert over for allegedly failing to yield to a stop sign at a Wal-Mart parking lot. Suspecting that Eckert was carrying drugs because his “posture [was] erect” and “he kept his legs together,” the officers forced Eckert to undergo an anal cavity search, three enemas, and a colonoscopy. No drugs were found.
In Iowa, police shot a teenager who had stolen his father’s work truck in a fit of anger and led cops on a wild car chase that ended on a college campus. When 19-year-old Tyler Comstock refused orders to turn off the car despite having stopped, revving the engine instead, police officer Adam McPherson fired six shots into the truck, two of which hit Comstock. Members of the community are demanding to know why less lethal force was not used, especially after a police dispatcher suggested the officers call off the chase.
Read the entire articleat Lew Rockwell: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/john-w-whitehead/whos-to-blame-for-battlefield-america/
Bowing to islam Again.
NORWEGIAN TV ANCHORWOMAN DISCHARGED FOR WEARING A CROSS AFTER MUSLIMS COMPLAINED: “A NECKLACE WITH A CROSS INSULTS ISLAM”
More of that interfaith dialogue, mutual respect and tolerance the Muslims are always berating us with.
Norwegian TV anchorwoman discharged for wearing a Cross Pravoslavie, Oslo, November 13, 2013)thanks to Filip)
Can a chain with a cross be a reason for dismissal from one’s office? Apparently so, if you live in Norway and are a staff member of NRK, a state TV-and-radio broadcasting company, reports La Republica. Siv Kristin Saellmann—a popular TV news anchorwoman in Norway—was suspended from her job for appearing on the air with a Cross (1.4 centimetres long) on her necklace.Some viewers – mainly members of a local Muslim community – protested against this, claiming that “a necklace with a Cross insults Islam” and “this symbol does not guarantee impartiality of the TV channel”.
The journalist, one of the best known and the most popular on the Norwegian public television, was suspended and prohibited from hosting her programs, “lest she should be a source of discord and crimes”.
From Atlas Shrugs: http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
Lost Your Insurance? LOSER!
From The Daley Gator: http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/
This Is The Kind of Person Who Will Be Deciding Your “Health” Care
Are Americans SURE They Want Dr. Ezekiel HIMMLER Emmanuel’s Architecture In Their Healthcare?
14ThursdayNov 2013
Posted by The MAD Jewess in Communism
Are Americans SURE They Want Dr. Ezekiel HIMMLER Emmanuel’s Architecture In Their Healthcare?
Now is the time to stop this ‘law’. NOW.
Ezekiel Emmanuel, Dr of Death was exposed by a righteous man in this video (below) in 2009. We posted it here after Hussein got elected the first time: DR. EVIL Ezekiel Emmanuel: “HYPOCRATIC”
You better watch this. If we all do not repeal this law, ASAP-Don’t cry when you die. You didn’t have to croak. I won’t sign up to die and NO American should. It’s better to just go out naturally than take part in genocide.
Talk about DIE QUICKLY!!
From The Mad Jewess: http://themadjewess.com/
The Classic Nasty Liberal. And Getting Worse by the Minute.
Martin Bashir~MSNBC: ‘P*ss’ and ‘Sh*t’ in Palin’s Mouth. Uh, Feminists? Hello?
15FridayNov 2013
Posted by The MAD Jewess in Sarah Palin
Martin Bashir~MSNBC: ‘P*ss’ and ‘Sh*t’ in Palin’s Mouth. Uh, Feminists? Hello?
This made me want to puke. What can I expect from a loud-mouthed Commie piece of sh*t.. This is what leftists think about, 24/7…urine and feces. They are depraved pigs.
I am not a Palin fan. I rarely follow anything she does. For no other reason than.. I just don’t. Bashir is beyond the pail.. Disgusting talk. How in the hell does MSNBC allow their hosts to talk like this? This is absolutely filthy. But, just take one look at Bashir and you have an ugly, little, pussy, Aladdin-looking crumb. Go back to your country and just get the hell out of here, you vomitous gasbag.
MSNBC host Martin Bashir suggested Friday that someone should defecate and/or urinate in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s mouth.
Where are the feminists? Probably on their knees, worshiping Obama their bitchy girlfriend.
Another opinion on filthy MSNBC: Martin Bashir wants Sarah Palin to be defecated and urinated on
More: MSNBC’s Martin Bashir suggests someone defecate in Sarah Palin’smouth and urinate in her eyes
From The Mad Jewess: http://themadjewess.com/
Mad Jewess Has Fat Bastard Christie Everywhere!
From The Mad Jewess: http://themadjewess.com/
Got Insurance? Great! Now We Can Screw The Night Away!
New and Improved ObamaCare Ad
Our moonbat rulers must have gotten word that the public did not much like the Let’s Get Physical entry in the Got Insurance? ad campaign for ObamaCare, because a new and improved version has been released:
Now it panders to both sluts and freakazoids, two key components of Obama’s base. This ought to turn the slide in Obama’s popularity right around.
Compliments of Matt L.
From MB: http://moonbattery.com/
Gay “Marriage” Is Not about Marriage at All…It is about Destroying the Family
Obama: Blasphemous Parodies of Marriages Exemplify American Values
With this I could rest my case against the degenerate moonbats comprising the federal kakistocracy:
President Barack Obama issued a statement [Tuesday] congratulating Hawaii for legalizing same-sex marriage, a move he said “exemplifies the values we hold dear as a nation.”
Imagine explaining to the heroes who lost their lives through the generations in defense of America that this is what they died for:
Homosexual marriage does more than corrode the concept of matrimony, thereby undermining the family, which is the keystone of civilization. With homosexual marriage comes homosexual adoption. With homosexual adoption comes this and this and this.
Obama himself — the very personification of left-wing radicalism — officially opposed homosexual marriage until only last year. He was insincere, of course, but knew that the American public would not have tolerated a president opposed to the sanctity of marriage.
That gives an idea of how quickly the Left is destroying the moral fiber that unlike sodomy really does define us as a nation.
On a tip from Clingtomyguns.
From MB: http://moonbattery.com/
Over 65? You are a Burden to The State
Do Your Duty, Senior Citizens!
After all, Obama can grant or bestow coverage by decree, but he can’t actually provide an infinite supply of medical care, even when the insurance industry has been destroyed and healthcare becomes “free” under single payer.
Compliments of Red State.
From MB: http://moonbattery.com/
The Housing Debacle Wasn’t Enough…Now Liberal Loonies Want to Give Car Loans to People Who Can’t Pay Them
Coming Next: Race-Based Car Loans
America under liberal rule is a racist tyranny. Think that is hyperbole? Then talk to a car dealerabout this:
[T]he new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB] is ginning up a campaign to use “disparate impact” analysis to charge racism in auto lending. That’s the theory that looks at statistics to prove bias without evidence of specific discriminatory intent. Never mind the financial or other circumstances of the borrowers beyond their race.
That is, car dealers must provide a proportionately equivalent number of car loans, at the same interest rate, to all racial groups, regardless of whether members of these groups are equally likely to repay the loan. Essentially, if Customer X has money in the bank and has never missed a day of work in his life, and Customer Y is living on welfare and just got out of jail, they must be regarded as equal credit risks if Customer Y is lucky enough to be black.
Obviously, there are plenty of blacks who are good credit risks. Equally obviously, there are many who are not. You would have to spend your entire life sealed in a windowless room with no access to the outside world except a TV tuned to PBS not to know that there are cultural differences that make blacks as a group significantly less likely to repay their loans than whites.
To achieve the liberal conception of equality, these differences must be papered over by forcing car dealers to make bad loans, effectively subsidizing cars for those who don’t pay their bills at the expense of those of us who do pay our bills, because we will end up having to pay more to make up the loss.
If all of this sounds familiar, you could be thinking of the Community Reinvestment Act, spawned by Carter but doubled down on by Clinton and Obama, by which the federal government forced banks to make mortgage loans on a racial basis lest they be accused of “redlining.” This was a primary cause of the 2008 economic crash.
Patrice Ficklin, head of the bureau’s Office of Fair Lending and Equal Opportunity, revealed that “we have found substantial and statistically significant disparities between the interest rates paid by African American, Hispanic, and Asian car buyers when compared to the interest rates paid by white car buyers with similar credit scores and other factors.
Really. Can we see some evidence of this?
No, we cannot.
[The CFPB] hasn’t published its research in detail and has instead proceeded to mount a political pressure campaign to remove dealer discretion in setting loan terms. “Guidance” from the agency sent to banks in March included advice on how to avoid running afoul of anti-discrimination laws in auto lending.
Message received. The banks that provide financing for the dealers began warning dealers to improve compliance or risk having flat fees imposed. In other words, the dealers’ profits on loans would be capped.
Knuckle under to intimidation and regard black skin as the ultimate qualification for a loan, or your profits will be capped. I didn’t think I would live to see things done this way in America.
CFPB chief Richard Cordray responded to a question on the bureau’s methodology this week at the Senate Banking Committee. “I want to be a little careful about talking about what we have found, because this is an ongoing investigatory effort where we’re working with the Justice Department.
That would be the Department of Social Justice run by Eric Holder, who has been clear that he sees it as his duty to advance the interests of what he calls “my people” at the expense of whites. This is why the Injustice Department refuses to prosecute civil rights violations if the victims are white, even in outrageously blatant instances of voter intimidation. For thorough documentation of this, refer to Injustice by former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams.
Cordray continues:
“So the order of the day on those things is confidentiality unless or until you get to the point of taking some sort of public action, and so I want to be a little careful about not breaching that.”
“Careful” is an interesting way for Mr. Cordray to describe what he’s doing. It sounds like he wants to proceed with sentencing before anyone knows whether there will even be a trial.
What do we need trials for? Our rulers already know which race is guilty.
Good Ole American Public School
Pay Attention to Who Is Teaching Your Kids
If this story doesn’t get the point across, nothing will:
A former Los Angeles elementary school teacher charged with blindfolding students and [feeding] them cookies laced with his semen has agreed to plead no contest to all charges, an attorney for some of the victims said Thursday.
According to the plea deal, Mark Berndt will get 25 years. Fortunately his brand of perversion hasn’t been reclassified by liberal authorities as “normal” yet.
Berndt taught at the South Los Angeles school [Miramonte Elementary School] for more than 30 years.
Here’s what happened first after his teaching methods became known:
Berndt was fired and the Los Angeles Unified School District then paid him $40,000 to drop his appeal, which officials said was the most immediate way to ensure he wouldn’t be a threat to other children.
Sometimes you can’t help but feel nostalgic for days not long gone by, when a rope and a strong branch would have accomplished this objective much more effectively, at a substantially lower cost to the parents of the children he defiled.
But then, cost isn’t an issue for the parents, because the lawsuits are predictably flying:
[Sixty-three] cases have been settled for a total of $29.5 million, and 71 are pending.
It’s wonderful that so many parents and their lawyers will cash in thanks to our system of jackpot justice. But the long-term effect will be to motivate educrats to look the other way rather than investigate when they suspect something sick is going on. This could be why previous complaints regarding Berndt’s behavior were ignored.
Reportedly, Berndt fed children semen both on cookies and by spoon. He also let cockroaches crawl on their faces. But hey, that’s just who he is sexually. Let’s not be judgmental.
You can’t just turn your kids over to the government for half their waking hours and assume everything will turn out okay. Stay engaged.
On a tip from Rob Banks.
From MB: http://moonbattery.com/
An Orwellian Saga
How’s This for Orwellian?
When people say something is Orwellian, they often mean that it is calling itself the opposite of what it really is in order to mask tyranny. Examples include the Ministry of Love (consisting of torture chambers), the Ministry of Truth (tasked with generating lies), the Affordable Care Act (which is driving the cost of healthcare insurance into the stratosphere), the Justice Department (run by Eric Holder), et cetera. Another example was actually bankrolled by the George Orwell Memorial Fund:
[T]he George Orwell Annual Lecture was given by Tariq Ramadan, a Muslim Brotherhood Islamist stooge who misrepresents his affiliations, on a properly Orwellian topic. ‘Democratising the Middle East: A New Role for the West’
When Tariq Ramadan talks about “democratizing”, he really means allowing a fundamentally undemocratic Islamist group, the Muslim Brotherhood, to take over, in pursuit of its agenda of Islamizing, not Democratizing, the Middle East.
That is, he is being Orwellian. Who better to deliver the lecture, given that Obama is busy explaining how he will provide us with more choice by eliminating our healthcare options?
On a tip from R F.
From MB: http://moonbattery.com/
Large Families are Evil, Let’s Kill Some More Babies, and MSNBC hates Jesus.
Feminists Fear the Republican Uterus
“Feminism is the theory; lesbianism is the practice.”
– Ti-Grace Atkinson, 1971
“The political economy of socialist feminism establishes that, in contemporary society, women suffer a special form of exploitation and oppression.”
– Allison Jaggar, 1988
“Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice.”
– Andrea Dworkin, 1989
Professional athletes can spawn with multiple baby mamas, and feminists have no word of complaint. Gay men hiring surrogates to breed children for them? Lesbians raising adopted child sex-change experiments? No problem, say the Womyn’s Studies majors. In response to the general plague of divorce and fatherlessness, the poverty-inducing epidemic of illegitimacy that replicates underclass misery, the collective reaction of the Official Women’s Movement is . . . crickets chirping.
However, let a normal couple of married Christians give birth to more than the standard 1.7 children, and they become the targets of seething rage and resentment from the feminist Left. You saw this attitude exemplified in the hysterical reaction to Sarah Palin who, by giving birth to five children, was made the object of fathomless hatred. “For many liberal women, Palin threatens their sexual identity, which is bound up with their politics,” as James Taranto observed.
It is this same feminist fanaticism that explains the hateful campaign against the Duggar family and their TV show, “19 Kids and Counting.” Dana Pico at First Street Journal remarks:
The Duggars are the “stars” of the TLC network reality series, 19 Kids and Counting. Predictably, our friends on the left hate them: see Jezebel and Jenna Karvunidis and Bitch Magazine (check out the comments!) and, of course! Amanda Marcotte. It’s pretty simple: if your choices aren’t their choices, then your choices are wrong, illegitimate, and societally harmful. It’s not like they are actually killing anyone, and the Duggars are self-supporting, taxpaying Americans; they aren’t on welfare.
RH Reality Check thinks that it’s horrible, horrible! that Mr Duggar referenced the Holocaust, and you know, I agree: Holocaust references by pro-life groups are inappropriate. After all, the Holocaust killed only six million people, and is nowhere in our abortuaries’ league when it comes to dealing out death.
It is shocking how fanatically devoted some people are to the “right” of abortion. Doug Hagin at Daley Gator explains:
I used to try to talk sense to pro-abortion people on message boards. . . . I found out they too believe it is a baby, and they revel in the “right” to destroy it. To them, a woman is not whole unless she can have her baby executed in the womb. How depraved are they? Well, consider many of the regularly compared unborn babies to parasites, and cancerous tumors, yes really.
Such unspeakable hatred toward human life is rooted in a radical ideology that views the culture and institutions of traditional morality and family life as part of an oppressive bourgeois capitalist system which they — the feminists — must destroy.
It is not just marriage and motherhood, but also religion, patriotism and all notions of virtue, honor and decency associated with those concepts which are the targets of cultural destruction by feminists and the larger radical movement to which feminists belong. You might think there is some reasonable limit to what feminists would endorse in pursuit of this agenda, but hate is irrational and radicalism knows no limit. So when a Canadian provincial government publishes “Children’s Sexual Behaviours: A Parent’s Guide,” which tells parents that it is “natural and healthy” for young children to “touch the ‘private parts’ of familiar adults” and to look at “nude pictures on the Internet, videos, magazines,” we get the expected reaction from feminists: Crickets chirping.
Why the silence? Because the Left is willing to “normalize pedophilia” as part of its “ongoing effort to rid the world of Judeo/Christian influences,” as Matt Ross says. The failure to understand the Left’s revolutionary ambitions leads to a sonambulant indifference to the Left’s declarations of its beliefs, its methods and its purposes.
“Childlike innocence is an invention of the bourgeoisie of early capitalism.”
– Olaf Stüben, German pedophile activist, 1981
While advocating the perverse, abnormal and deviant as “rights,” the Left simultaneously attacks the wholesome and decent, so a married Christian couple like the Duggars must be stigmatized as part of the Left’s larger project, which one of their leaders described as “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
Every day brings new headlines heralding the Left’s success at destroying the moral foundation of our nation’s culture.
Why Did a Public University Pay
Dan Savage to Talk About Sex?
That’s a good question: Why would the University of Oregon bring anotorious anti-Christian speaker like Dan Savage to campus?
Why not bring the Duggar family to campus instead?
MSNBC Guest: Abortionists Are
“Doing Wonderful, Important Work”
MSNBC would never say the Duggars are “doing wonderful, important work,” because the Duggars are Christians and MSNBC hates Jesus.
From The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/
I Wish Liberals Had a Brain
Idiot Liberal Sees Feel-Good Story, Decides We Need Moral Improvement
Make A Wish Foundation Gives
5-Year-Old Leukemia Survivor
His Dream: Being Batman for a Day
Awww! You would think everyone’s natural sympathy would overwhelm their critical capacity, but fear not: Idiot Liberal™ is here!
Catherine @shaketiniHappy for #SFBatKid, but can’t help but wonder if this would happen for a kid who isn’t white. Let’s put energy into solving societal ills
My #MakeAWish is that #SFBatkid charges people $5 per picture and then donates the money to Philippine Relief efforts.
@thedapperdiner the teabaggers are mad and I’m all lol. Sadly, I don’t have time to engage anyone.
SquatchPride69 @AceofSpadesHQyup — they love “The masses,” they hate actual people @AtlasCoached
Robert Stacy McCain @rsmccain@AceofSpadesHQ Also, there’s always been something with white liberals and The Problems of Distant Brown People. @AtlasCoached
It’s an attitude once riotously spoofed in a Saturday Night Live sketch, “Fondue Forks for Namibia.” There is a fascination with the exotic that I’ve sometimes called xenophilia: A preference for distant people and foreign cultures, as if one’s own nation or community — one’s family, friends and neighbors — were unworthy of interest or respect. (Xenophilia’s obverse is oikophobia, fear of the familiar.)
This is the secular liberal’s version of Christian missionary zeal, and it has been a cliché at least since Randall Jarrell mocked it in Pictures from an Institution, published in 1954.
Speaking of doing something to help children, how about not killing them in the womb? Isn’t that a way to help the world? And then raising them up to be hard-working and responsible, so that they can support themselves and maybe — just maybe — do a little something useful with their lives. Because you know, I’ve got six kids of my own.
My oldest worked her way through college, graduated summa cum laudeand is now teaching the children of Haitian immigrants at a Christian school. So maybe you could say I’ve done my share, indirectly at least, for the whole “solving societal ills” thing.
But it’s never enough for liberals. Their hearts are so overflowing with compassion for the downtrodden and oppressed that they must constantly lecture the rest of us about our moral inferiority.
See all of the Twitter comments on Stacy’s post.
From The Other McCain: http://theothermccain.com/
Are People Finally Getting Tired of Political Correctness?
Merely a Hunch
By David Warren
My hunch began with specific persons who, in the past, had patiently mouthed politically-correct platitudes, but were now omitting this requirement of a quiet life. Self-conscious at first, they may grow bolder. They make passing remarks that are “racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, Islamophobic,” & so forth. And this not because they are especially bigoted, but rather because they no longer wish to be told what to say. Men, & women, in their different but mutually resonant ways, suffer sudden & strange recollections. Little masculine qualities re-emerge in the men, little feminine qualities in the women, after lifetimes of suppression. This could potentially disturb the peace.
Read the entire article at: http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/
O’Bummer Cares Nothing About Anything Except Political Gain for Himself
Obama Supporters “Stunned” Over His Refusal To Attend 150th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address…
He obviously has better things to do, like avoid taking credit for the Obamacare disaster.
Via RCP:
GETTYSBURG – He almost was not asked to speak.
In October 1863, President Abraham Lincoln received the same plain envelope that was sent to hundreds of people, requesting attendance at a dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery here.
Col. Clark E. Carr, a confidante of several U.S. presidents and a member of the commission that organized the event, later admitted that commissioners scrambled to send a more personal invitation after Lincoln indicated he would attend.
Asking Lincoln to deliver a “few appropriate thoughts,” Carr said, was “an afterthought.”
You see, the dedication’s real headliner was Edward Everett. A former secretary of state, U.S. senator, Massachusetts governor and Harvard president whose nationwide tour helped to save Mount Vernon as a national shrine, Everett was considered the great orator of his time.
When Lincoln arrived, Gettysburg remained raw from the horrific battle that raged here for three days just five months earlier. More than 70,000 Confederate troops engaged 83,000 Federal troops around this crossroads town; the battle claimed more than 50,000 souls and 3,000 horses, and it changed the course of the war in the Union’s favor.
The bones of dead horses still were strewn over surrounding farmlands; vultures hovered over the landscape, and unburied coffins stood stacked in town.
Lincoln had plenty of justifiable, honorable reasons to beg off from the ceremony: His ten-year-old son, Tad, lay sick with a fever in the White House; the war was going poorly out West; he was locked in a budget showdown with Congress, and his re-election bid looked grim against a general he fired for incompetence a year earlier. [...]
In 2008, Barack Obama rolled out his presidential campaign in Springfield, Ill., where Lincoln announced his own presidential candidacy. Throughout that year’s campaign, Obama’s staff embraced similarities between the two men as part of his persona; he allowed them to encourage lofty comparisons – and, after he won the election, he recreated Lincoln’s 1861 train trip to Washington as part of his own inaugural spectacle.
He even took the oath of office on Lincoln’s Bible – twice.
Lincoln brought the country to a revival at an unlikely time with his address. He gave new meaning to the definition of sacrifice in service to the country, for the purpose of the preserving the country.
Lincoln was asked to speak here only as an afterthought. The request for Obama to speak has been sought for more than a year.
It would be an occasion for him to honor a crucial time in our past, to create a historical bridge to today.
His dismissal of the request shows a man so detached from the duty of history, from the men who served in the White House before him, that it is unspeakable in its audacity.
Ask almost any person in this historic town; even his most ardent supporters here are stunned.
Obama long ago veered away from any affinity he may have believed he had with Lincoln, which gives credibility to the criticism that his connection to Lincoln was always a political calculation rather than a true bond.
From WZ: http://weaselzippers.us/
But…It’s For The “Common Good”
NY Times Op-Ed Writer Shocked When Her Liberal Friends Turn On Her After She Criticizes Obamacare…
Did she really expect them to turn on Dear Leader?
Daring to Complain About Obamacare – NYT
THE Anthem Blue Cross representative who answered my call told me that there was a silver lining in the cancellation of my individual P.P.O. policy and the $5,400 annual increase that I would have to pay for the Affordable Care Act-compliant option: now if I have Stage 4 cancer or need a sex-change operation, I’d be covered regardless of pre-existing conditions. Never mind that the new provider network would eliminate coverage for my and my son’s long-term doctors and hospitals.
The Anthem rep cheerily explained that despite the company’s — I paraphrase — draconian rates and limited network, my benefits, which also include maternity coverage (handy for a 46-year-old), would “be actually much richer.”
I, of course, would be actually much poorer. And it was this aspect of the bum deal that, to my surprise, turned out to be a very unpopular thing to gripe about.
“Obamacare or Kafkacare?” I posted on Facebook as soon as I hung up with Anthem. I vented about the call and wrote that the president should be protecting the middle class, not making our lives substantially harder. For extra sympathy, I may have thrown in the fact that I’m a single mom. (O.K., I did.)
Then I sat back and waited for the love to pour in. Or at least the “like.” Lots of likes. After all, I have 1,037 Facebook friends. Surely, they’d commiserate.
Except that they didn’t.
Instead, aside from my friend David, who attempted to cheer me up with, “My dad, who never turns down a bargain, would take the sex change just because it’s free,” my respondents implied — in posts that, to my annoyance, kept getting more “likes” — that it was beyond uncool to be whining about myself when the less fortunate would finally have insurance.
“The nation has been better off,” wrote one friend. “Over 33 million people who did not have insurance are now going to get it.” That’s all fine and good for “the nation,” but what about my $5,400 rate hike (after-tax dollars, I wanted to add, but dared not in this group of previously closeted Mother Teresas)? Another friend wrote, “Yes, I’m paying an extra 200 a month, but I’m okay with doing that so that others who need it can have health care.”
I was shocked. Who knew my friends were such humanitarians? Has Obamacare made it un-P.C. to be concerned by a serious burden on my family’s well-being?
The heated reactions even moved offline. Frustrated, I observed to one friend who was covered through her work that when an issue didn’t affect people directly, they became “theoretically generous.” Ask them to donate several thousand dollars so that the less fortunate can have medical insurance — which is exactly what President Obama is asking me to do — and I’ll bet they’d change their tune about “ending inequality” and “creating fairness” and “doing what’s good for the country.”
From WZ: http://weaselzippers.us/
Demonrat Senator Thinks There Should be no Time Limit on How Late You Can Rip a Baby out of the Womb
Dem Sen. Patty Murray Calls Ban On Late-Term Abortions “Extreme”…
Sucking a baby from the womb and tossing it in the trash, nah, nothing extreme about that.
Via CNS News:
Sen. Patty Murray (D- Wash.) criticized the proposed Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act on Thursday, calling it “unconstitutional” three times while speaking on the Senate floor. “So we’re here today to make one thing abundantly clear and that is that this extreme, unconstitutional abortion ban is an absolute non-starter,” Murray said.
Murray continued, “The truth is the drumbeat of politically driven, extremist and unconstitutional laws continues to get louder. And apparently some of our colleagues on the other side of this aisle want to make some noise about this so that their adoring audience of right wing radio-hosts and activists are satisfied.”
“Women who continue to believe that their healthcare decisions are theirs alone are not going anywhere,” Murray said. “And by the way, the Constitution is not going anywhere and therefore this bill is not going anywhere.”
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This is How islam Handles Women: Kills Them. Unless They Comply and Submit.
Pakistani Schools Banned From Buying Malala Yousafzai’s Book Over Its “Anti-Islam” Content…
Apparently opposing the Taliban’s caveman-like views on women qualifies as “anti-Islam” in Pakistan.
Via AFP:
Pakistani private schools have been barred from buying a book written by global education icon Malala Yousafzai due to its “anti-Pakistan and anti-Islam content”, a top official said Sunday.
“Yes we have banned Malala’s book (I am Malala) because it carries the content which is against our country’s ideology and Islamic values,” Kashif Mirza, chief of All Pakistan Private Schools Federation, said.
“We are not against Malala. She is our daughter and she is herself confused about her book and her father has asked the publisher to remove the paragraphs about Salman Rushdie and write Peace Be Upon Him after the name of our Holy Prophet (Muhammad),” Mirza said.
British novelist Rushdie became the target of an Iranian fatwa, or religious edict, calling for his murder for allegedly blaspheming Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in his book The Satanic Verses.
Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan also, where it carries the death penalty.
Mirza said that that some 152,000 private schools across Pakistan stood in solidarity with Malala after she was shot by the Taliban in northwestern Swat valley last year, but the views she had expressed in her autobiography were not “acceptable”.
“No school will buy I am Malala for its library or any other co-curricular activity on the campus,” Mirza said.
He denied any threat or pressure by any militant group on his federation to ban the book. Taliban militants had threatened to attack Pakistani book shops selling Malala’s book.
Co-written with British journalist Christina Lamb, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban tells of the 16-year-old’s terror as two gunmen boarded her school bus on October 9, 2012 and shot her in the head.
The book describes Malala’s life under the Taliban’s brutal rule in northwest Pakistan’s Swat valley in the mid-2000s, hints at her ambition to enter Pakistani politics, and even describes her father’s brief flirtation with Islamic fundamentalism as a youngster.
The book describes public floggings by the Taliban, their ban on television, dancing and music, and the family’s decision to flee Swat along with nearly one million others in 2009 amid heavy fighting between the militants and Pakistani troops.
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You Better Be.
Is It Wrong To Be ‘Anti-Government’?
By Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.com
November 15, 2013
It is natural for a society to search for explanations and motivations in the wake of a man-made tragedy. It is also somewhat natural for people to be driven by their personal biases when looking for someone or something to blame. In recent years, however, our country has been carefully conditioned to view almost every criminal event from an ideological perspective.
The mainstream media now places far more emphasis on the political affiliations and philosophies of “madmen” than it does on their personal disorders and psychosis. The media’s goal, or mission, if you will, is to associate every dark deed whether real or engineered to the political enemies of the establishment, and to make the actions of each individual the collective shame of an entire group of people…
The establishment desires to acclimate Americans to the idea that being anti-government is wrong; that it is a despicable philosophy embracing social deviance, aimless violence, isolation and zealotry. Looking beyond the mainstream position, my question is, is it really such a bad thing to be anti-government today?
Read it all at Lew Rockwell: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/brandon-smith/why-is-it-wrong-to-be-anti-government/