Obamacare, Politics, Race Relations

Obamacare Makes Country Music Award Show

Funny bit by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood on the 2013 CMA. “Obamacare, over six people served.”

Some jerks in cyberspace are accusing the audience of being, among other things, racists because they all laughed and got it. Probably because they’ve tried to check out their health care options like I did and got exactly what the parody portrayed.

But to those jerks I’d say, Yeah right!  We would be dancing in the streets celebrating the dawning of government control of our health care if only Barack Obama were white.

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Police On “Wild Ass Chase,” What?

Don’t they believe in probable cause in New Mexico? Do they have their own local version of the 4th Amendment? How “clenching” your butt lead to twelve hours of torture and humiliation is beyond belief. Maybe he felt he needed to protect himself from the cop’s “nightstick” and “tighten up?” Whatever it was, I hope this guy sues everyone involved, wins, and doesn’t have to work another day if he doesn’t want to.

Follow the link to the timeline. X-rays didn’t even stop them.

Link: ‘You Could Never Anticipate This Happening in the United States of America’ | Video | TheBlaze.com.

Politics

How McAuliff Won Virginia

How did McAuliff win, steal, Virginia? You do what Democrats do. In a tight race, you enlist the help, or invent the help, of a third party to siphon off the votes of your opponent. It’s dirty pool, but this is exactly what happened in Virginia. The Democrats/media (and establishment Republicans) spin of the aftermath will undoubtedly be how the Tea Party (which isn’t a party but ordinary Americans) has lost its power because they supported Cuccinelli. The media isn’t calling it a landslide. Not only because it was so close, but because more people voted against McAuliff than voted for him. Much to their (and establishment Republicans), the Tea Party is alive and well.

The RNC didn’t help Cuccinelli. They spent as much on him as the SEIU alone spent on McAuliff, and only one third as much as they spent in the last gubernatorial race in Virginia. And only because the tea party supported him.

Were it not for big Obama bundler Joe Liemandt and his “Libertarian Booster PAC”, the “libertarian” candidate (who isn’t a libertarian) would not have gotten on the ballot. And the 7% of the votes he siphoned off of Cuccinelli gave McAuliff his 3% win. Reported robo calls into conservative districts telling voters that Cuccinelli supported Obamacare and abortion on demand, which smells of the SEIU, just added to the dirty tricks that Republicans have to learn how to overcome.The politics of fair play just don’t work any more.

Establishment republicans need to find their spine and quit trying to be Democrat-Lite. Republicans also better soon embrace their core, as in Tea Party, principles if they really want to avoid the debt iceberg and turn this ship, America, around. Something they appear to have no interest in doing.

Revealed: Obama Campaign Bundler Helping Fund Libertarian in Tight Va. Gubernatorial Race | TheBlaze.com.

Media

2014 Mummers Parade Online

2014 Mummers Parade update from Kristen Hatfield at PHL17

We will be streaming the parade live on our website around 9am on New Year’s Day. It will air locally on PHL17, but we will also have videos of the performances on our website following the parade.

Thanks,

Kristen Hatfield
PHL17 Creative Services Coordinator
5001 Wynnefield Ave
Philadelphia, PA 19131
215-883-3350
[email protected]

UPDATE: 12/25/2013:

Here are the String Band and Fancy Brigade themes for the 2014 SugarHouse Casino Mummers Parade.  You can get more details and updates about the Parade on Steve Highsmith’s Blog.  The live stream of the parade will be available via this link on January 1st at 10am EST.

The String Bands

1. Woodland – “Legend of the Lamp”

2. Fralinger – “The Circus Comes to Clown”

3. Polish American -”It’s SNOW-Time”

4. Avalon – “The Fields Are Alive!”

5. Ferko – “FERKO is TOY-rific”

6. Uptown – “The Pillage People”

7. Original Trilby – “All For Mum And Mum For All”

8. South Philadelphia – “Invasion of Piracy”

9. Greater Overbrook –  “Show Boatin on Broad Street”

10. Aqua – “Aqua Shoots for the Stars”

11. Hegeman – “Hegeman’s Household Havoc”

12. Quaker City  -”California here we MUM”

13. Pennsport – “A Carnival in Venice”

14. Broomall – “Camping is in Tents”

15. Durning – “Wet Side Story”

16. Greater Kensington -”Proud to be A ‘Mum’-Merican”

17. Duffy – “No Strings Attached”

The Fancy Brigades

1. Spartans – “One Nation, Valley of the Drums”

2. Satin Slipper – “Adventure of Enchantment”

3. Golden Crown – “The Legend of Angkor Wat”

4. Saturnalian  – “Twisted Treats and Sinister Sweets”

5. Downtowners – “Beyond Wonderland: A Mad Hatters World”

6. Clevemore – “Oz”

7. S.P.Vikings – “The City of Steam”

8. B. M’s Shooting Stars – “Atlantis Guardians of the Deep”

9. Jokers – “Dead Men Tell No Tales-A Journey Into Blackbeard’s Realm”

10. Avenuers – “Polynesian Adventure”

11. Second Street Shooters – “The Dead Will Rise”

 

Read more: http://phl17.com/2013/12/20/2014-mummers-parade-band-themes/#ixzz2oUn04IiS

Economy, Obamacare, Politics

Obamacare Enrollments First Day, 6, Second Day 248

obamacare_enrollments4 million visits and 6 enrollments on first day. 248 enrollments by day two. To meet goals (and projected cost savings), the enrollment must be 39,000 per day. So far, the vast majority of enrollees in the state exchanges are going to Medicaid. Which means, they are not contributing to cost reduction, but rather government dependence. Which means, higher costs for everyone else, and increased debt.

I remember President Obama saying (I know, he says a lot of things) that he wouldn’t sign the bill if it added one dime to the national debt. If he doesn’t himself call for the repeal of his signature train wreck of a piece of legislation, then you can add this to his list of lies.

 

http://youtu.be/6iFfohhfau8

2008 Election, Media, Obamacare, Politics

The Grand Deception, If You Like . . . You Can Keep . . .

The American people are not deserving of what Obamacare is inflicting on them. It’s not their fault that they believed President Obama when he was running for President and trying to gain public support for the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, and even after it was passed into law. This isn’t anywhere near a “read my lips, no new taxes” moment. This was the Grand Deception.

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It was nothing short of a Grand Deception because the administration knew that millions of Americans would be necessarily kicked off their plans because of the ACA as early as July 20, 2010. Yet, he decided to play “community organizer” on the honesty and integrity of the American people, and snooker them into accepting Obamacare on his words and promise.

Americans let the ACA pass was because they believed President Obama when he said, “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan. Period.” And “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Period.” Which should tell you that for the most part, Americans were happy with the plans they had. And they didn’t have a watchdog media to warn and tell them what was in the law. There was no groundswell of opinion for up-ending the health insurance and health care industries.

Americans believed him because . . . he was the President. He’s still the President, only now they also know what he, democrat operatives in the party, and the media are capable of.

Sad truth is, with him and his acolytes, the end (even lying) justifies the means.

And this “We’re going to work with the employers to lower premiums by $2,500 per family per year.”

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Sales Fall 32%, BM Suspends Volt Production

Barack Motors, aka General Motors, has suspended production of the Chevy Volt for six weeks to pare excess inventory. They are using the the downtime to prep the chevroletvoltx-wide-communityassembly line for building the 2014 Chevrolet Impala starting early next year. Sales for the Volt are down 2.7% YTD. It has shown three consecutive months of decrease compared to LY, ending with the largest decrease in October 2013 of 32% compared to October 2012.

Lesson to learn here is that there is an insufficient market for this product, despite all the good intentions of the Obama administration and the environmentalists. And, that the government can not make a market. The people by their choices makes a market for a product. And this is a product that GM loses money on with every unit it sells.

What’s most amusing is how the greenies report this. For example UPDATE:Plug-In Electric Car Sales For Oct: Volt, Leaf Hold Steady by John Voelcker. His take on the Volt is quite different. You decide whether it is deliberately deceptive or he is mis-informed, when he says . . .

The Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car racked up 2,022 deliveries, which is up 14 percent on September’s number of 1,766. For the 10 months of the year to date, a total of 18,782 Volts has now been delivered–which is 2.7 percent less than last year’s total through October of 19,309.

It “racked up” 2,022 sales. That’s down from October 2012 when it “racked up” 2971 sales. A 32% drop. You’ll also find reporting that supposedly refutes the over-inventory and poor sales performance as contributing to the production suspension. The reason I say “supposedly refutes” the real reason for the suspension is because the slug for the article itself reads to the contrary; http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/08/gm-suspends-chevy-volt-production-over-slow-sales/1#.UnSQGRaYcUt Do you see the “over slow sales?”

Suffice it to say, if the Volt was doing well, they wouldn’t be needing subsidies to sell it, they wouldn’t be losing money on every one they sell, and, they wouldn’t be suspending production. And the taxpayers wouldn’t have lost $9.7 Billion on the GM bailout.

2016 Election, Economy, Obamacare, Politics

“Affordable” Care Act Mandate

In an effort to get to the meat of the penalty that Obamacare will impose on you, in the unlikely event that it would be possible for you to keep your insurance policy that the government (not you) deems unsatisfactory, below you will find the law as is in the Federal Register.

The penalty for not buying a government approved health insurance policy, or not buying an insurance policy at all, begins now at $95 and increases to $695 per year or 2.5% of your income by 2015, after the next presidential election.

The Joint Tax Committee prepared a summary of Obamacare that includes this discussion of the mandate:

The penalty applies to any period the individual does not maintain minimum essential coverage and is determined monthly. The penalty is assessed through the Code and accounted for as an additional amount of Federal tax owed. However, it is not subject to the enforcement provisions of subtitle F of the Code. The use of liens and seizures otherwise authorized for collection of taxes does not apply to the collection of this penalty. Non-compliance with the personal responsibility requirement to have health coverage is not subject to criminal or civil penalties under the Code and interest does not accrue for failure to pay such assessments in a timely manner.

On page 19 of this 19 page law, you will find this:

b)Special rules. Notwithstanding any other provision of law—

(1)Waiver of criminal penalties.In the case of a failure by a taxpayer to timely pay the shared responsibility payment, the taxpayer is not subject to criminal prosecution or penalty for the failure.

(2)Limitations on liens and levies.
If a taxpayer fails to pay the shared responsibility payment imposed by this section and §§1.5000A–1 through1.5000A–4, the Secretary will not file notice of lien on any property of the taxpayer, or levy on any property of the taxpayer for the failure.

The IRS only has the power to deduct whatever penalty you may incur from your tax refund. The Obama administration knows that poor people look forward to receiving their refund check each year, and don’t mind preying on the poor to take it from them. The poor would be wise to consult with their employer on how to not overpay their taxes by completing a new W-4 form so that they will get the maximum in their paycheck and, not expose themselves to government abuse.

Belly up to the counter. Politics are on the menu and Ross is on the grill.