So testilies Jay Carney in regards to the Obama Admin request to increase ObamaCare subsidies 107% The cost of subsidies for those seeking government aid through ObamaCare has increased dramatically, critics say – even before a single dollar has been collected. Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah wrote a letter to the administration asking why the president is already requesting 107 percent more than three years ago to pay for
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July 8, 2013
New York state of mind?
There are those who believe that New Yorkers — who have routinely self-abused by keeping Michael Bloomberg around to lord over them like a scolding, stretched-skin midget king surrounded with the very firepower he denies his subjects — have a hankering, and that hankering is for rule by sexual deviants. And both Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner seem ready to step in and fill that wet, hot, yearning void. Which,
July 8, 2013
And speaking of the Second Amendment: “Seventy-two killed resisting gun confiscation in Boston”
And you thought it could never happen here: National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw. Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of
July 8, 2013
More on the Third and Fourth Amendments and modern militarized policing powers
As a complement to Glenn Reynolds’s USA Today column yesterday (featuring the abhorrent behavior of some Nevada law enforcement officers), there’s this excerpt from Radley Balko’s new book, published on Sladon: “‘Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book’: The new warrior cop is out of control”: Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering
July 8, 2013
Good news! Your enormous carbon footprint is the only thing saving the world!
Me, I drive a pair of Jeeps these days, an inline 6-cylinder ’94 Wrangler Sahara that gets about 14-20 MPG, and a V8 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhook that has a tow-capacity of 7400 lbs and logs in 13-22 MPG — and I use a gasoline mower and other gasoline powered tools, as well as pamper with extravagant and delicious CO2 buffets the 5 trees on my property, whose consequent oxygen
July 7, 2013
Sunday night open thread … [Darleen Click]
I’ve been crash-coursing to bring myself up-to-date on HMTL5/CSS3 to help someone with some webcoding so have been a bit neglectful about posting today. Buzz has it that Lone Ranger bombed big time. Meanwhile, the little yellow minions beat everyone like a red-headed stepchild. (aside — grandsons give the movie 4 thumbs up) Latest on the Asiana Airlines crash: Asiana Airlines said Monday that the pilot in control of the
July 7, 2013
Babies are controversial … [Darleen Click]
Well, only when you want to save them A national pro-life organization is outraged after three major American newspapers rejected a pro-life ad as “too controversial.” The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and the LA Times refused to run an advertisement created by Heroic Media. The ad features a hand holding a 20- to 24-week-old baby with the quote, “This child has no voice, which is why it depends on yours.
July 6, 2013
I hope my grandsons don’t see this video [Darleen Click]
They will want one for Christmas … (the only thing missing is laser-shooting eyes)
July 5, 2013
“Pursu’d by agents sinister and cold…” [Darleen Click]
Star Wars by William Shakespeare (pdf) PROLOGUE. Outer space. Enter CHORUS CHORUS It is a period of civil war. The spaceships of the rebels, striking swift From base unseen, have gain’d a vict’ry o’er The cruel Galactic Empire, now adrift. Amidst the battle, rebel spies prevail’d And stole the plans to a space station vast, Whose pow’rful beams will later be unveil’d And crush a planet: ’tis the DEATH STAR
July 5, 2013
Young Marine hero [Darleen Click]
California teen, Christian Lozano, hero BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Christian Lozano was sitting on a Ventura beach last week when he saw a head poking up from the waves. He soon heard a cry for help and knew what he had to do. Lozano ran into the heavy surf, grabbed the 11-year-old girl and the pair made it to shore safely after a few harrowing moments. The 16-year-old Young Marine is