38 Test Answers That Are 100% Wrong But Totally Genius At The Same Time | Distractify
Monday, December 16, 2013
You'll get what we allow you to get!-------------------If You Like Your Checking Account, You Can Keep Your Checking Account
If You Like Your Checking Account, You Can Keep Your Checking Account | National Review Online
Looks like the government may have found a way to pay down all that debt:
Shannon Bruner of Indianola logged on to her checking account Monday morning, and found she was almost 800 dollars in the negative.
“The first thing I thought was, ‘I got screwed,’” she said.The Bruners enrolled for insurance on the Washington Healthplanfinder website, last October. They say they selected the bill pay date to be December 24th. Instead the Washington Healthplanfinder drafted the 835 dollar premium Monday.
But don’t worry, the government is in full compliance with its requirement to give them advance notice of the early seizure:
Washington Healthplanfinder emailed the Bruners a few days ago telling them to log in to view their invoice, something they couldn’t do because the website has been down. The Bruners haven’t been able to get through on the helpline either. They finally contacted Healthplanfinder administrators by posting a message on their Facebook page.
Read the "if"s and cry for those who need their first job-----------George F. Will: Raise the minimum wage? It’s iffy.
George F. Will: Raise the minimum wage? It’s iffy. - The Washington Post:"Liberals’ love of recycling extends to their ideas, one of which illustrates the miniaturization of Barack Obama’s presidency.
He fervently favors a minor measure that would have mostly small, mostly injurious effects on a small number of people.
Nevertheless, raising the minimum hourly wage for the 23rd time since 1938, from today’s $7.25 to $10.10, is a nifty idea, if:"
Which state has the worst drivers?
Which state has the worst drivers? | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:"For its worst drivers rankings, the website compiles data on fatality rates per 100 million miles traveled, citations for failure to obey traffic signals and seat belt laws, DUI infractions, and tickets for speeding and careless driving.
It collects data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the National Motorists Association and MADD.
And the winner is - drumroll, please - Louisiana."
Hollywood celebrity hypocrites of 2013
Hollywood celebrity hypocrites of 2013 | Fox News:"I'm annoyed that so many Hollywood celebrities hate the system that made them rich.
Actor/comedian Russell Brand told the BBC he wants "a socialist, egalitarian system based on the massive redistribution of wealth."
Director George Lucas got rich not just from movies but also by selling Star Wars merchandise.
Yet he says he believes in democracy but "not capitalist democracy.""
13 Year Old Arrested After Burping In Class
13 Year Old Arrested After Burping In Class // Mr. Conservative:"It’s hard to envision a 13 year old doing something bad enough to get arrested for.
That didn’t stop New Mexico police from arresting a 7th grader for burping during gym class.
You read that right.
The unnamed boy was arrested after he “burped audibly” in gym class in which the school viewed as, “interfering with public education.”"
Hey kids, you're gonna love this little surprise from your friends at Medicaid------Expanded Medicaid’s fine print holds surprise: ‘payback’ from estate after death
Expanded Medicaid’s fine print holds surprise: ‘payback’ from estate after death | Local News | The Seattle Times:"It was the fine print.
As fine print is wont to do, it had buried itself in a long form — Balhorn’s application for free health insurance through the expanded state Medicaid program.
As the paperwork lay on the dining-room table in Port Townsend, Prins began reading.
She was shocked: If you’re 55 or over, Medicaid can come back after you’re dead and bill your estate for ordinary health-care expenses."
ATF Used Mentally Disabled and Felons to Run Storefront Stings
Controversies - ATF Used Mentally Disabled and Felons to Run Storefront Stings - AllGov - News"As part of its undercover operations, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) repeatedly used mentally disabled people, and in at least one instance a convicted felon.
Further, ATF arrested some of the mentally disabled individuals lured into the stings."
READ THIS and be afraid. Very afraid---------IRS Targeting, Round Two
Kim Strassel: IRS Targeting, Round Two - WSJ.com
What the proposed Treasury/IRS regulation would do is to re-categorize all these efforts as "political activity"—thereby making it all but impossible for tea party groups to qualify for 501(c)(4) status. Say an outfit's primary purpose is educating voters on our unsustainable debt, which it does mainly with a guide explaining the problem and politicians' voting records. Under the new rule, that guide is now "political activity" (rather than "social welfare"), which likely loses the group tax-exempt status.
President Obama keeps claiming that he had no knowledge of the Internal Revenue Service's abusive muzzling of conservative groups. That line is hard to swallow given that his Treasury and IRS are back at it—this time in broad daylight.
In the media blackout of Thanksgiving week, the Treasury Department dumped a new proposal to govern the political activity of 501(c)(4) groups. The administration claims this rule is needed to clarify confusing tax laws. Hardly. The rule is the IRS's new targeting program—only this time systematic, more effective, and with the force of law.
That this rule was meant to crack down on the White House's political opponents was never in doubt. What is new is the growing concern by House Ways and Means Committee investigators that the regulation was reverse-engineered—designed to isolate and shut down the same tea party groups victimized in the first targeting round. Treasury appears to have combed through those tea party applications, compiled all the groups' main activities, and then restricted those activities in the new rule.
Here's how it works.
To get or keep tax-exempt status, 501(c)(4) organizations must devote a majority of their work to their "primary" social-welfare purpose. Most tea party groups were set up with a primary purpose of educating Americans on pressing problems—the size of government, the erosion of the Constitution—and did so mainly via nonpartisan voter guides, speakers forums, pamphlets or voter-registration drives."The committee has reviewed thousands of tax exempt applications," says House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp. "The new regulation so closely mirrors the abused tea-party group applications, it leads me to question if this new proposed regulation is simply another form of targeting."
To get or keep tax-exempt status, 501(c)(4) organizations must devote a majority of their work to their "primary" social-welfare purpose. Most tea party groups were set up with a primary purpose of educating Americans on pressing problems—the size of government, the erosion of the Constitution—and did so mainly via nonpartisan voter guides, speakers forums, pamphlets or voter-registration drives."The committee has reviewed thousands of tax exempt applications," says House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp. "The new regulation so closely mirrors the abused tea-party group applications, it leads me to question if this new proposed regulation is simply another form of targeting."
What the proposed Treasury/IRS regulation would do is to re-categorize all these efforts as "political activity"—thereby making it all but impossible for tea party groups to qualify for 501(c)(4) status. Say an outfit's primary purpose is educating voters on our unsustainable debt, which it does mainly with a guide explaining the problem and politicians' voting records. Under the new rule, that guide is now "political activity" (rather than "social welfare"), which likely loses the group tax-exempt status.
The rule, in other words, is not designed to provide helpful "guidance" on allowable activities. It was designed, rather, as Mr. Camp explains, "to put tea party groups out of business."
What makes this targeting more obvious is that the Obama Treasury rule only applies to 501(c)(4) groups. The ultra-liberal League of Women Voters Education Fund is registered as a 501(c)(3)—one of those "charities" supposedly held to the strictest IRS standards on politicking. Yet it brags on its website that it holds "candidate debates and forums," and that its "educational activities" include "understanding candidate views and ballot initiatives."
The League will continue to be able to do its voter guides and registrations and candidate forums. Yet under this new rule, any conservative social-welfare organization that attempts to do the same will likely lose its tax-exempt status. Nor does the new rule apply the biggest spenders of all in politics—unions, which are registered as 501(c)(5)s. The only category muzzled is the one recently flooded by conservative groups that Democrats fear in the 2014 election.
Consider the timing. This "proposed guidance"—while technically pending public comment—puts conservative groups on immediate notice that it could be enforced at any moment. It is clearly designed to have a chilling effect on any group gearing up for next year's midterms, just as the first round of targeting was designed to dampen conservative participation in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Democrats are daily directing government against their political opponents—via Congress, the SEC, the FEC. Yet IRS Acting Commissioner Danny Werfel wants Americans to think this latest IRS rule is just about providing "clarity." And the White House continues to insist that it was unaware of the previous targeting.
The political insult is that President Obama is using his new targeting rule to wiggle out of liability for the last round. The same president who in May was "outraged" by the IRS's actions now says it was all just some confusion over tax law (which his new rule fixes). He told Chris Matthews last week that the media had hyped what was a few poor IRS souls in Cincinnati who were "trying to streamline what is a difficult law to interpret . . . And they've got a list, and suddenly everybody's outraged."
Everybody was outraged to discover the IRS was secretly targeting the president's political opponents. They might be more outraged that the White House is now using the IRS to do the same thing in the brazen light of day.
They've created a monster that WILL bankrupt us all----------------What every investor has to prepare for this week
And what do you bet that you and me will be the last to know.What every investor has to prepare for this week:
"This week, the Federal Reserve will announce its plans for the future of quantitative easing, its $85 billion monthly bond-buying program.
And traders are warning that if the Fed announces a reduction, or "tapering," of asset purchases, the market reaction could be negative and violent"
No mention of the race of the perps or the victim.... we know what that means-------New Jersey man, 30, killed by carjackers after mall shopping trip with wife
New Jersey man, 30, killed by carjackers after mall shopping trip with wife | Detroit Free Press | freep.com"SHORT HILLS, N.J. – Authorities say a man leaving a northern New Jersey mall after shopping with his wife was shot and later pronounced dead.
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray says the shooting happened around 9 p.m. Sunday at The Mall at Short Hills when two men confronted a couple returning to their vehicle on the second floor of a parking deck.
Murray says the husband, a 30-year-old Hudson County resident, was shot in the head before the men took off in his silver 2012 Range Rover.
She didn’t immediately know how many times the man had been shot.
A statement from the prosecutor’s office later Sunday said that the man was pronounced dead at Morristown Medical Center at 11:45 p.m.
Police are searching for the couple’s SUV, which has New Jersey license plates."
WeMOG Today 1:30 Jenison
Hello Hikers
We will be hiking Grand River Park in Jenison on Monday Dec.
16 at 1:30 p.m.
Bring water and snack if you desire.
Directions:
Muskegon folks take I-96 to Coopersville/Eastmanville exit. Go south/left on
68th Ave through Allendale to Filmore and turn left. Continue on Filmore
through the 4 way stop and signal light and you will then see a flashing
light telling you that there are curves ahead. Just after the curves is
28th Ave on your left (Grand River Park).
Turn left and follow to the park.
Grand Rapids
folks take I-196 west to Jenison/Badwin
St exit. Go to second signal light (Cottonwood) and turn right.
Cottonwood
becomes Filmore and follow that to 28th Ave. on right (Grand River Park) and turn right and follow to
the Park.
If
anyone wishes to put out a ski or snow shoe on Monday also, please do.
I forgot to put out a car pool for Muskegon folks, for the
Hike on Monday Dec 16.
Meet at the Park and Ride on Hile Rd at US31 (big flag) at
12:45
Enjoy the Holidays!
Why don't we know about this hero and why would the media hide this from America? -------------------Armed Guard Saved Students' Lives in Arapahoe School Shooting
Armed Guard Saved Students' Lives in Arapahoe School Shooting
As the investigation into the shooting at Arapahoe High School continues, law enforcement officials stress that the presence of an armed guard in the school "was the key factor in preventing more deaths and injuries."
On December 13th, 18-year-old Karl Halverson Pierson brought a legally purchased shotgun into Arapahoe High with the intention of confronting librarian and debate coach Tracy Murphy.
Inside the school, Pierson fired multiple rounds—one critically wounding a fellow student, another ending his own life.
According to The Christian Science Monitor, the school's armed guard began running toward the sound of the shooter as soon as the first shots were fired. Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said that as a result of the guard's action, "the heavily-armed shooter realized he was about to be confronted by an armed officer and took his own life."
On December 21, 2012, the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre responded to the heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary by stressing the need for armed guards in America's schools. Said LaPierre, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun."
Fortunately, there was a good guy with a gun in Arapahoe High School on December 13th.
TREASON----------------White House delayed enacting rules ahead of 2012 election to avoid controversy
White House delayed enacting rules ahead of 2012 election to avoid controversy - The Washington PostThe White House systematically delayed enacting a series of rules on the environment, worker safety and health care to prevent them from becoming points of contention before the 2012 election, according to documents and interviews with current and former administration officials.
Some agency officials were instructed to hold off submitting proposals to the White House for up to a year to ensure that they would not be issued before voters went to the polls....
Chase's Calendar of Events Today-- 12-16-2013
Chase's Calendar of Events:
Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
The Battle of the Bulge began in 1944.
“Dragnet” premiered on television on this date in 1951.
Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party in 1773.
The Battle of the Bulge began in 1944.
“Dragnet” premiered on television on this date in 1951.
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Sad. His name came instantly to mind----------Verse for Sunday
Verse for Sunday | The Volokh Conspiracyby Eugene Kontorovich
"Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
–Sir John Harington, Epigrams (1603)."
JAIL TIME??!!!!! Cuz they won't make a cake?!!!!!!! -----Colorado baker faces jail time for refusal to bake same-sex wedding cakes
My gosh!Linda Ronstadt told her audience she didn't want conservatives in the audience.
Should she go to jail?
Too?
Colorado baker faces jail time for refusal to bake same-sex wedding cakes - BizPac Review:
"A baker who declined to make a wedding cake last year for a same-sex couple because it violated his religious beliefs could face jail time if he does it again, a Colorado administrative law judge warned last week.
When Charlie Craig and David Mullins visited Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., in July 2012 and requested a wedding cake, store owner Jack Phillips said he would be happy to bake a birthday cake, a shower cake — anything but a wedding cake, according to Breitbart News."
8 minutes of video brilliance-2016 Update with Dinesh D'Souza
2016 Update with Dinesh D'Souza - The Federalist Papers:"The bad news is that there are those within our country that seek to undermine this exceptionalism and “take us down a notch.”
What’s worse is that one of those people happens to be the President of the United States.
When I directed 2016: Obama’s America over a year ago, I prayed that I would be wrong.
The damage that I predicted Obama would do to our country could never be worth an “I told you so.”
Unfortunately, I wasn’t wrong.
Wielding a weaponized national debt and a disdain for our standing in the world, President Obama draws us nearer and nearer to the dystopia that I warned against in 2016."
Obama's apparatchiks stole the government to ensure continuation of the regime----The most transparently hypocritical administration in history
And his loyal propagandists in the MSM do as they're told.Blog: The most transparently hypocritical administration in history:
"For example, because rules involving the coverage mandates were delayed until December 2012, insurers had to scramble to design policies.
It wasn't until spring that the policies were ready for review by state insurance commissions, which meant all that information had to be squeezed into the websites in a short period of time.
When the entire government is put into service to re-elect the president, bad things are bound to happen."
For them, it's "Anything 'cep Christ-No mas"-----------Obama sent out really ridiculous Christmas cards this year
Obama sent out really ridiculous Christmas cards this year | Rare:"The White House Christmas card is literally a pop-up card of the White House.
“Open the card and a tasteful pop-up image of the White House appears – along with images of the First Family’s pups, Sunny and Bo,” the New York Post writes.
“As we gather around this season, may the warmth and joy of the holidays fill your home,” the card reads.
You think it can't happen here? ------Peripheral Europe's New Normal: 50 Applicants For One Minimum Wage Job
Peripheral Europe's New Normal: 50 Applicants For One Minimum Wage Job | Zero Hedge
While it is arguable whether two instances of the same event are sufficient to indicate a pattern, when it comes to Europe under the New (feudal) Normal we are willing to make a generalizing extrapolation.
Recall a week ago when we reported that hours after unleashing a campaign to hire 400 employees for its brand new megastore in the Mediterranean city Valencia, Ikea's servers in Spain promptly crashed after the company got at least 20,000 applicants (and possibly many more that would have registered had the system not experienced its Obamacare moment).
The punchline here, of course, is not the dilapidated server infrastructure of Ikea - in a world in which nobody spends any growth CapEx any more that is to be expected - but that there were 20,000 applicants for what were effectively 400 minimum wage jobs, or, said otherwise: 50 candidates for each job.
Hardly a ringing endorsement of the mythical recovery that Spain's premier Rajoy fabulates in people's minds on a daily basis.
Needless to say, the 2% "success rate" of applicants means it is three times harder to get a minimum wage job in this European country than to get into Harvard.
Today, we find the same 2% number in action once again, as if by magic, only this time relating to minimum wage job applicants in that other European basket case - Greece.
While it is arguable whether two instances of the same event are sufficient to indicate a pattern, when it comes to Europe under the New (feudal) Normal we are willing to make a generalizing extrapolation.Recall a week ago when we reported that hours after unleashing a campaign to hire 400 employees for its brand new megastore in the Mediterranean city Valencia, Ikea's servers in Spain promptly crashed after the company got at least 20,000 applicants (and possibly many more that would have registered had the system not experienced its Obamacare moment).
The punchline here, of course, is not the dilapidated server infrastructure of Ikea - in a world in which nobody spends any growth CapEx any more that is to be expected - but that there were 20,000 applicants for what were effectively 400 minimum wage jobs, or, said otherwise: 50 candidates for each job.
Hardly a ringing endorsement of the mythical recovery that Spain's premier Rajoy fabulates in people's minds on a daily basis.
Needless to say, the 2% "success rate" of applicants means it is three times harder to get a minimum wage job in this European country than to get into Harvard.
Today, we find the same 2% number in action once again, as if by magic, only this time relating to minimum wage job applicants in that other European basket case - Greece.
From Keep Talking Greece
More than 18,000 candidates for 390 job vacancies at €580 grossMore than 18,000 candidates sent their CVs to OTE after Greece’s biggest Telecommunication Company announced 390 job vacancies for salespersons. What if the salary is the minimum wage of just 580 euro gross per month. i.e. some 480 euro net. With more than 1,3 million people without job, unemployment rate at 27.4% and businesses closing down one after the other, people have not much chances and options.At the same time, Greek media report that OTE is estimated to send to “voluntary retirement” more than 2,000 employees, personnel from the “old guard” that was hired on permanent status.
390/18,000 = 2.2%, or rounded down, the same success rate as in Spain.
Which brings us to what is emerging as Europe's magic number, namely, 1 in 50, or what an unemployed person's chances are of getting a minimum wage job. Aka, welcome to the reekovery.
Muslim campaigners protest sale of alcohol in popular East London area | Mail Online
Muslim campaigners protest sale of alcohol in popular East London area | Mail OnlineMuslim protestors demand restaurants and shops stop selling 'evil' alcohol warning them they face 40 lashes if they carry on
- -Dozens of men and women gathered on Brick Lane for protest
- -Delayed as English Defence League members staged counter-protest
- -Among protestors was Anjem Choudhary, former leader of Al-Muhajiroun
- -Organisers said protest was held yesterday to coincide with large numbers of office workers expected to be celebrating Christmas in the area
Dozens of Muslim protestors gathered to demand that businesses stop selling alcohol in a popular East London area yesterday.
The group, led by former Al-Muhajiroun leader Anjem Choudary, warned restaurants and shops in the Brick Lane area that they face 40 lashes if they continue to sell the product, which is banned under Sharia Law.
Around 60 men and women in burkhas handed over warning letters to Muslim-owned businesses in the area after the protest was initially delayed by a small number of English Defence League members staging a counter-protest.
Why shouldn't we ask "Is college worth it?" Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College
Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College - Reason.com
"If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit," says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs.
"There is a real disconnect in the way that we educate vis-a-vis the opportunities that are available. You have - right now - about 3 million jobs that can't be filled," he says, talking about openings in traditional trades ranging from construction to welding to plumbing. "Jobs that typically parents' don't sit down with their kids and say, 'Look, if all goes well, this is what you are going to do.'"
Rowe, who once sang for the Baltimore Opera and worked as an on-air pitchman for QVC, worries that traditional K-12 education demonizes blue-collar fields that pay well and are begging for workers while insisting that everyone get a college degree. He stesses that he's "got nothing against college" but believes it's a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction regardless of interest or ability.
Proof there is no sexism in the worker's paradise! Meebee we could send some of our american feminists to advise............ The women behind the throne in North Korea's 'empire of horror'
The women behind the throne in North Korea's 'empire of horror' - Telegraph:
"Now Jang, Mr Kim’s uncle and one of North Korea’s most powerful men, has been erased.
The reclusive communist state confirmed his execution on Thursday.
The 30-year-old Mr Kim, it appeared, was demonstrating in no uncertain terms who really ran the show.
But another tantalising suggestion is crystallising.
Was Jang’s death by firing squad a sign that the real power behind the throne lies with the two women in Mr Kim’s life?
"The final decision on Jang Song-thaek was made by Kim Jong-un and Jang’s wife, Kim Kyung-hui," said Lee Yun-keol, the head of the North Korea Strategic Information Service Centre, based in Seoul.
"Jang was chosen as a prey by his wife and nephew to maintain the Kim dynasty regime.""
"Now Jang, Mr Kim’s uncle and one of North Korea’s most powerful men, has been erased.
The reclusive communist state confirmed his execution on Thursday.
The 30-year-old Mr Kim, it appeared, was demonstrating in no uncertain terms who really ran the show.
But another tantalising suggestion is crystallising.
Was Jang’s death by firing squad a sign that the real power behind the throne lies with the two women in Mr Kim’s life?
"The final decision on Jang Song-thaek was made by Kim Jong-un and Jang’s wife, Kim Kyung-hui," said Lee Yun-keol, the head of the North Korea Strategic Information Service Centre, based in Seoul.
"Jang was chosen as a prey by his wife and nephew to maintain the Kim dynasty regime.""
Monster murderer gets political make-over by Denver newspaper----Denver Post Stealth Edits Out ‘Socialist’ from Profile of Arapahoe School Shooter
The scumbag was left wing lunatic who hated republicans.Seemed to fit in well with the faculty........
Denver Post Stealth Edits Out ‘Socialist’ from Profile of Arapahoe School Shooter | Mediaite:
In a profile on the shooter in the Denver Postwhich focused on his “strong political beliefs,” several of Pierson’s classmates offered their impressions of the shooter. One of the shooter’s classmates described him as a “very opinionated socialist.” Shortly after that post was published, however, that description was edited out. The current copy simply describes him as “very opinionated.”
The gunman’s parents divorced in late 2011, according to court records. The divorce was finalized in August 2012.Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with the gunman, described him as a very opinionated Socialist.“He was exuberant I guess,” Conrad said. “A lot of people picked on him, but it didn’t seem to bother him.”
The new copy, however, edits out the specific political beliefs that Pierson reportedly held so “strongly.”
“Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with Pierson, described him as very opinionated.”
The edited post did not remove a passage which notes how Pierson described himself as a “Keynesian” who regularly attacked the free market philosophies of economist Adam Smith.
Wouldn't a ban on SUVs prevent this type of tragedy? Teen hit by SUV;pushed into brick pillar
If it saves just one life......
Teen hit by SUV;pushed into brick pillar | WOOD TV8:
"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - A teenager is recovering at a Grand Rapids hospital after a SUV backed into him, pushed him into a pillar and the pillar came crashing down onto him."
The bigger the lie.......FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY… Al Gore Predicted the North Pole Will Be Ice Free in 5 Years
"FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY—
Al Gore predicted the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years.
Gore made the prediction to a German audience in 2008.
He told them that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.”"
Lunatics still getting funding and publicity----The End of the Arctic? Ocean Could be Ice Free by 2015
The End of the Arctic? Ocean Could be Ice Free by 2015 - The Daily Beast:
"Secretary Hagel promised in his November 22 announcement that the US military would also work to “preserve the Arctic environment.”
That goal will be impossible to achieve if temperatures keep rising, say scientists.
The physical momentum of global warming—rooted in the fact that carbon dioxide [CO2] lingers in the atmosphere for many years after being emitted—insures that Arctic and global temperatures will rise for decades to come, even if humanity reduces annual emissions of greenhouse gases.
Thus scientists regard further melting of the Arctic as inevitable.
The only disputes are over how much and how fast.
“We are going to get into a ghastly situation for the planet at some point and whether it is happening next year or it is going to take a few decades is the only question,”
Wadhams testified to Parliament in 2012.
Although Wadhams stands alone in projecting an ice-free Arctic as soon as 2015, other scientists agree that the day is coming fast"
"Secretary Hagel promised in his November 22 announcement that the US military would also work to “preserve the Arctic environment.”
That goal will be impossible to achieve if temperatures keep rising, say scientists.
The physical momentum of global warming—rooted in the fact that carbon dioxide [CO2] lingers in the atmosphere for many years after being emitted—insures that Arctic and global temperatures will rise for decades to come, even if humanity reduces annual emissions of greenhouse gases.
Thus scientists regard further melting of the Arctic as inevitable.
The only disputes are over how much and how fast.
“We are going to get into a ghastly situation for the planet at some point and whether it is happening next year or it is going to take a few decades is the only question,”
Wadhams testified to Parliament in 2012.
Although Wadhams stands alone in projecting an ice-free Arctic as soon as 2015, other scientists agree that the day is coming fast"
Odd geezer still tryin' to get "health insurance" from Obamacare "experts"
This is the first time I was aware we were supposed to contact the insurance company about payment.Odd that the professional chatter didn't have the phone number of Michigan BCBS, as there are ONLY 3 insurance providers in the entire state of Michigan who are part of Obamacare.
Then again, not so surprising.....
We are SOOOOO screwed!
My chat today:
Sunday, 12-15-2013
Thanks for contacting us. My name is PGSUT0944. To protect
your privacy, please don't provide any personal information, like Social
Security Number, or any other sensitive medical or personal information.
[10:16:51 am]: PGSUT0944
Hello, my name is Amanda, how may I help you today?
[10:18:57 am]: james
I just spent 10 minutes on chat trying a simple answer.
Please help. Need BCBS phone # Michigan. The phone # the other chat professional gave is for
Florida. I live in Michigan
[10:20:01 am]: PGSUT0944
Thank you. One moment please while I look that up.
[10:21:59 am]: PGSUT0944
Was your plan the Blue Cross Blue Sheild?
[10:22:45 am]: james
yes
[10:22:59 am]: PGSUT0944
Thank you. One moment please.
[10:25:46 am]: PGSUT0944
Thank you for your patience. I am still researching that
information.
[10:27:05 am]: PGSUT0944
This may take a little bit, my computer isn't pulling up the
number so, I am contacting someone else to look it up.
[10:28:09 am]: james
I'm still here...
[10:29:36 am]: PGSUT0944
Thank you for your patience.
[10:30:50 am]: PGSUT0944
We do not have the number for Michigan Blue Cross Blue
Shield but, if you call your State Department of Insurance, they can give you
the number. Their number is (877) 999-6442.
[10:32:26 am]: james
I thought I was to pay the federal government, not the local
insurance company. Obamacare is to bill me. Right?
[10:33:04 am]: PGSUT0944
No, payment goes through the insurance company.
[10:35:06 am]: PGSUT0944
Your insurance company is supposed to tell you how to make
the payment but, since you haven't received materials, you would need to
contact them.
[10:35:20 am]: james
thank you
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Obama's propagandists in the MSM have done a masterful job minimizing this real problem----CBS Notices 'Another Problem' With ObamaCare – Higher Deductibles; ABC, NBC Omit
Waddya bet Obama's "answer" is a special government agency to "fix" the problem. "Blue Ribbon" committee!
CBS Notices 'Another Problem' With ObamaCare – Higher Deductibles; ABC, NBC Omit | NewsBusters:
"Scism and Martin detailed how the report from HealthPocket Inc., "a company that compares health-insurance plans for consumers", analyzed the health care plans in 34 out of the 36 states that haven't set up their own exchanges under the controversial health care law.
The report also underlined that the $5081 average cost is "42% higher than the average deductible of $3,589 for an individually purchased plan in 2013 before much of the federal law took effect."
The Wall Street Journal correspondents also noted how "'cost-sharing' subsidies to help pay deductibles are available to people who earn up to 2.5 times the poverty level....[but] the cost-sharing subsidies for deductibles don't apply to the bronze policies.""
Holy crapoli! The DOE has 104,179 EMPLOYEES?!!!! IG: Personal Information Stolen from 104,179 after Energy Department Cyber Attack
And they've accomplished what......IG: Personal Information Stolen from 104,179 after Energy Department Cyber Attack | Washington Free Beacon:
"Hackers were able to obtain personal information from 104,179 Department of Energy employees and contractors during an attack this summer, according to the Inspector General."
Something is seriously wrong with the Secret Service..... or maybe it's someone else.........Nelson Mandela memorial security scandal: 'There were no checks'
Nelson Mandela memorial security scandal: 'There were no checks' | WashingtonExaminer.com:"It's becoming increasingly clear that when President Obama arrived at the Nelson Mandela memorial service in Johannesburg, South Africa Tuesday, he stepped into an atmosphere so chaotic, disorganized, and unsafe that under any other circumstances the White House and Secret Service might well have insisted the president not appear.
FNB Stadium, where the memorial was held, seats 95,000 people.
Even with a steady rain and thousands of empty seats in uncovered areas, there were tens of thousands of people in the area with the president.
It appears most of them got in without going through any security.
"There were no security checks upon entry to the stadium," a local South African activist wrote Friday in a letter to the Johannesburg Star newspaper.
"I walked freely to my seat without passing through metal detectors, being searched or any other check."
The stadium's main entrance was "completely unattended," a reporter for a Washington, D.C., television station told Politico.
"There were no workers performing bag checks or pat-downs — there were no magnetometers to walk through, no metal detector wands being used — anywhere.""
State would demolish Joe Louis under plan for new hockey arena
State would demolish Joe Louis under plan for new hockey arena | Crain's Detroit Business:"The state will pay to demolish Joe Louis Arena after the Detroit Red Wings move into a new facility sometime in 2017 or 2018.
The hockey team has played at the city-owned arena since 1979.
News of the arena’s fate was disclosed Friday afternoon during a Downtown Development Authority special meeting to approve sending to the city council a concession management agreement between the DDA and Olympia Development of Michigan for a new $650 million arena and entertainment district at I-75 and Woodward Avenue.
ODM is the real estate arm of the Ilitch family, who own the Detroit Red Wings."
Still waitin' for the guy who would've been Trayvon's Dad to speak out-------New details in U-M student killing: Startled by thieves, Paul DeWolf was shot in seconds
Guess who are the murderers and guess who is the dead medical student.
Is there racism in this country?
You bet there is!
And it's driven by racist politicians who brainwash black youths into believing white success is stolen from black people.
That turns into hate, folks.
New details in U-M student killing: Startled by thieves, Paul DeWolf was shot in seconds | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Paul DeWolf was asleep late that Tuesday night, scheduled to work the next morning at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital.
The sound of the door opening to his basement room in the Phi Rho Sigma house near the University of Michigan campus startled him.
Three men crept in and shut the door.
DeWolf, 25, lifted his head and asked what was going on.
One of the intruders pointed a gun and ordered him not to move.
At some point, DeWolf got out of bed and groped for something on his dresser.
The man with the gun tried to hit DeWolf with the weapon and it went off.
The popular University of Michigan medical student was shot in the neck and killed."
Is there racism in this country?
You bet there is!
And it's driven by racist politicians who brainwash black youths into believing white success is stolen from black people.
That turns into hate, folks.
New details in U-M student killing: Startled by thieves, Paul DeWolf was shot in seconds | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Paul DeWolf was asleep late that Tuesday night, scheduled to work the next morning at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital.
The sound of the door opening to his basement room in the Phi Rho Sigma house near the University of Michigan campus startled him.
Three men crept in and shut the door.
DeWolf, 25, lifted his head and asked what was going on.
One of the intruders pointed a gun and ordered him not to move.
At some point, DeWolf got out of bed and groped for something on his dresser.
The man with the gun tried to hit DeWolf with the weapon and it went off.
That this is even a question is a disgrace-----Should state hold back 3rd-graders who can't read well?
Hold 'em back?That'll make 'em feel bad.
No, we MUST promote them to the next grade where they don't teach reading.
That's what we've been doin'.
Don't want no body feelin' bad......
Should state hold back 3rd-graders who can't read well? | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"If Michigan lawmakers follow Florida’s lead by holding back third-graders with poor reading skills, the state would join a fast-growing movement across the country.
But can Michigan replicate Florida, where the 10-year-old policy has resulted in short-term gains?"
History for December 15
History for December 15 - On-This-Day.com:1981 - The U.S. Congress passed $200 billion spending bill. At the time it was the largest in U.S. history
1791 - In the U.S., the first ten amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, went into effect following ratification by the state of Virginia.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Junk science kills people! Study Linking GMOs to Tumors in Rats Retracted
Study Linking GMOs to Tumors in Rats Retracted | The Volokh ConspiracyThe Volokh Conspiracy:"In September 2012, Food & Chemical Toxicology published a peer-reviewed study purporting to show that rats fed genetically modified corn had a higher incidence of tumors than those that were not.
This was significant, as this study was the first to find evidence of an adverse health effect in any mammal species from the consumption of GM foods.
The study immediately faced a wave of criticism from scientists and experts in the field, who noted the paper’s many methodological failings.
In response to such criticism, Food & Chemical Toxicology retracted the paper on November 28, after the paper’s authors refused to withdraw it on their own.
The authors are now threatening suit against the journal, and anti-GMO activists are organizing a boycott, but the editors are standing their ground."
Big Education attending to the IMPORTANT issues----Houston school board votes to ban 'offensive' mascots
Houston school board votes to ban 'offensive' mascots | Fox News:"While the new policy does not refer to specific nicknames or types of mascot, the school district has said that three campuses — the Lamar High School Redskins, Hamilton Middle School Indians and Welch Middle School Warriors — would be affected.
A fourth school, Westbury High, might have to drop the use of Rebel, even though connections to the Confederacy were eliminated more than two decades ago."
The city's bankrupt. The state broke. And we're borrowing/taxing for new hockey arena?????? Proposed hockey arena district on DDA agenda today
These democrat, economic fascists are taxing the poor (property taxes) and guaranteeing less money for schools so their business cronies can get rich!
When are the PEOPLE gonna get it?
Proposed hockey arena district on DDA agenda today | Crain's Detroit Business:
"The state’s Michigan Strategic Fund in July approved the sale of $450 million in 30-year tax-exempt private activity bonds to pay for construction of the arena itself.
Another $200 million would be private-sector investment in ancillary construction, such as residential, office and retail space around the arena.
The state bonds will be repaid by the DDA and county property tax capture, $231 million in school taxes within the DDA district that the Legislature in December 2012 approved for the project’s use, and $11.5 million paid annually by Olympia.
The state reimburses the schools for the diverted money, the DDA has said.
Wayne County last month approved an inter-government agreement with the DDA that allocates 1.5 mills of new county property tax capture in the expanded district to repayment of the arena bonds, said Bryce Kelley, director of the Wayne County Economic Development Growth Engine.
When are the PEOPLE gonna get it?
Proposed hockey arena district on DDA agenda today | Crain's Detroit Business:
"The state’s Michigan Strategic Fund in July approved the sale of $450 million in 30-year tax-exempt private activity bonds to pay for construction of the arena itself.Another $200 million would be private-sector investment in ancillary construction, such as residential, office and retail space around the arena.
The state bonds will be repaid by the DDA and county property tax capture, $231 million in school taxes within the DDA district that the Legislature in December 2012 approved for the project’s use, and $11.5 million paid annually by Olympia.
The state reimburses the schools for the diverted money, the DDA has said.
Wayne County last month approved an inter-government agreement with the DDA that allocates 1.5 mills of new county property tax capture in the expanded district to repayment of the arena bonds, said Bryce Kelley, director of the Wayne County Economic Development Growth Engine.
Tiny Vermont Gets $208 Million to Build Disastrous Obamacare Exchange; Where Are the Press Watchdogs?
Tiny Vermont Gets $208 Million to Build Disastrous Obamacare Exchange; Where Are the Press Watchdogs? | NewsBusters:"In mid-November, Americans for Tax Reform compiled a list of federal spending on state Obamacare exchanges totaling a breathtaking $4.5 billion.
One number on the list stands out from the rest — and it's not California's, though its $910 million amout is awful, disproportionate, and surely highly wasteful (before considering scalability concerns, the fixed costs of building a web site should be close to the same regardless of a state's population).
The big eye-catcher is tiny Vermont's staggering $208 million.
The nation's second-least populous state (626,000 as of 2012) has 0.2 percent of the U.S. population, but has received 4.6 percent of grants from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "
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