Feds spend near a $ BILLION on advertising-Now stuff starts to make sense.........Ad agencies could face cash-flow issues if government shutdown lingers

Ad agencies could face cash-flow issues if government shutdown lingers | Crain's Detroit Business:
"The federal government, which is number 50 in the Ad Age DataCenter's 100 Leading National Advertisers ranking, spent $826.8 million on total advertising and promotions in 2012, and more than half of that amount went to measured media. "

Hoodies hijack history AND Homecoming.......Parents upset after Trayvon Martin day planned during homecoming week

Parents upset after Trayvon Martin day planned during homecoming week | The Joe Pags Show:
"Parents were upset after Carrick High School approved a plan to have a Trayvon Martin theme day during the school’s homecoming.
The homecoming committee, and school voted and approved the theme which is part of school spirit week.
Parents were upset that kids were being encouraged to wear hoodies to school during the Wednesday theme."

Shockingly mum about black children's reedin', ritin', and nummers pandemic-Liberals Fabricate Outrage Over "Redskins"

Liberals Fabricate Outrage Over "Redskins" | RealClearPolitics:
"The epicenter of the anti-Redskins resistance is editors of liberal Web sites and magazines like Slate and Mother Jones who have decided to banish the word from their football coverage, such as it is.
Needless to say, if you get your gridiron news from Mother Jones, you probably care more about the team’s labor practices and its carbon footprint than the performance of its positional units on any given Sunday."

Primal rage!-Insurance premium increases shock Charlotte consumers

Insurance premium increases shock Charlotte consumers | CharlotteObserver.com:
"One of them is George Schwab of Charlotte, who pays $228 a month for his family’s $10,000 deductible plan from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.

In a Sept. 23 letter, Blue Cross notified him that his current plan doesn’t meet benefit requirements outlined in the Affordable Care Act and suggested a comparable plan for $1,208 a month – $980 more than he now pays.

“I’m 62 and retired,” Schwab said. “This creates a tremendous financial burden for our family.

“The President told the American people numerous times that… ‘If you like your coverage, you can keep it,’” Schwab said. “How can we keep it if it has been eliminated? How can we keep it if the premium has been increased 430 percent in one year?”"

We have hit the iceberg, yet the crew is offering a dessert special on the emergency loudspeakers(Pt. 2)-Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors About Social Security Checks?

Why Is Obama Needlessly Scaring Seniors About Social Security Checks?:
"And on top of all that, the future of Medicare is still in jeopardy.
As Heritage expert Alyene Senger says,
“Rather than implementing the structural reform desperately needed in Medicare, Obamacare’s provisions threaten current seniors’ ability to access care and leave Medicare in jeopardy for future generations.”
There is a real threat to our seniors’ personal health care decisions and their savings."
Doesn't ANYONE realize that Medicare and Medicaid are both BROKE?

Iran: Peace-Dripping Nuclear Lamb

Blazing Cat Fur: Iran: Peace-Dripping Nuclear Lamb:
"Iran: Peace-Dripping Nuclear Lamb
They ignore the words of the Ayatollah Khamenei, who defined statesmanship as fraud and deceit hidden in smiles, and then sent Rouhani off to negotiate with the West.
There are people who actually think that the Iranians, who spent so much on their nuclear bomb project, will actually give it up and abandon their dream of controlling the Arab oil fields, the Arabian Peninsula, the Persian Gulf, then on from there."

ObamaCare Czars eyeing Brit template-Easyjet plane takes off leaving 29 passengers stranded at Spanish airport

Easyjet plane takes off leaving 29 passengers stranded at Spanish airport | Mail Online: "
-Group, who had checked in on time, were steps away from boarding
-But a crew member appeared and pulled a security ribbon across their path
-Minutes later passengers saw half-empty plane pulled away from the stand
-They were then stuck for 20 minutes in walkway as they shouted for help

The angry passengers tried to get back into the airport departure area but found themselves trapped, locked out by security doors.

 They were stuck for around 20 minutes until they managed to raise the alarm by shouting and banging on the doors.

Two staff closing a nearby perfume shop heard them and called for a cleaner who managed to unlock them, quickly followed by an easyJet rep.

Blackout Britain? National Grid warns risk of power shortages this winter is highest in decade

Blackout Britain? National Grid warns risk of power shortages this winter is highest in decade | Mail Online:

• -UK's electricity safety 'cushion' is just 5 per cent - half last year's figure
• -The electricity margins are difference between peak demand and supply
• -Comes after fall in coal-based power plants in operation across UK
• -But Grid insists supplies are enough to see UK through the winter

Gulf states to introduce medical testing on travellers to 'detect' gay people and stop them from entering the country

Gulf states to introduce medical testing on travellers to 'detect' gay people and stop them from entering the country | Mail Online:
"It’s illegal to be gay in 78 countries, with lesbianism banned in 49.
Five countries mete out the death penalty to gay people – Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and Mauritania."

So Women ARE Using the Government to Supplant Men

So Women ARE Using the Government to Supplant Men

"We usually have a lull in September and October," Gwynn says. 

"For us to peak at the end of the month in September, and this week in general, it makes no sense for us to have a growth like this. 

Half of the new members are single moms, so we're thinking that it's tied directly to the government shutdown, since (the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children), that help more than 9 million moms, have been stalled. 

It would make no sense for growth otherwise."

1. This just disgusts me.
2. Men who vote democrat are not men.
3. I don't want to hear anything ever again about single moms being noble or heroic
4. I don't want to hear about "independent women" when I have to pay more taxes to support them
5. This video should be going viral."

Analysis: IT experts question moron's lack of any redeeming tech skills in Obamacare website

Analysis: IT experts question architecture of Obamacare website | Reuters:
"Days after the launch of the federal government's Obamacare website, millions of Americans looking for information on new health insurance plans were still locked out of the system even though its designers scrambled to add capacity.

Government officials blame the persistent glitches on an overwhelming crush of users - 8.6 million unique visitors by Friday - trying to visit the HealthCare.gov website this week.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw development of the site, declined to make any of its IT experts available for interviews.
CGI Group Inc, the Canadian contractor that built HealthCare.gov, is "declining to comment at this time," said spokeswoman Linda Odorisio.

Five outside technology experts interviewed by Reuters, however, say they believe flaws in system architecture, not traffic alone, contributed to the problems."

6:52 AM Tue. Morning-Health Insurance Marketplace: Please wait

Health Insurance Marketplace: Please wait:
"scheduled maintenance"?
This baby is a week old.
Imagine if these morons ran something as complicated our healthcare.......

Expecting the "Unexpected"........Error....

7:55 PM

Washington isn't working

Washington isn't working: Column:
"There are two Americas, all right.
There's one that works -- where new and creative things happen, where mistakes are corrected, and where excellence is rewarded.
Then there's Washington, where everything is pretty much the opposite.
That has been particularly evident over the past week or so.
One America can launch rockets. 
The other America can't even launch a website."

Long Island Middle School Bans Footballs, Other Recreational Items

Long Island Middle School Bans Footballs, Other Recreational Items « CBS New York:
"officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might hurt someone on school grounds.
...They were just informed that during recess, football is out and Nerf ball is in.
Hard soccer balls have been banned, along with baseballs and lacrosse balls, rough games of tag, or cartwheels unless supervised by a coach."

The (Needed) Revolution Emerging in Higher Education

The (Needed) Revolution Emerging in Higher Education | Zero Hedge:
"Doing well in college—earning high test scores and grades—has no measurable correlation with being an effective worker or manager. 
This is incontrovertible evidence that the entire higher education system is detached from the real economy: Excelling in higher education has no discernible correlation to real-world skills or performance."

Million dollar moron-Dominic Raiola Spews Hate Speech At Wisconsin Band Members

Dominic Raiola Spews Hate Speech At Wisconsin Band Members | Tom Melton's NFL Draft Blog

What year is it? Oh, it’s 2013? 
Good to know, because Detroit Lions center Dominic Raiola set us back a few years today before and after the Lions began their game against the Green Bay Packers.

.....According to a Wisconsin tuba player, Raiola and his teammates were engaged in their pregame warm-ups on the field near the goal line when he turned around and called him and the other tubas “Fat mother f**kers” and told them that “they sucked.”

...As the band was preparing to play the National Anthem another band member told me Raiola was yelling at him, saying such things such as “Hey fat guy, you want a hot dog?” 

When this band member did not acknowledge him, he continued to yell at other band members within earshot of him until the band began to play. 

A third band member told me Raiola was calling a band member near him a “fat fu**” prior to their pregame performance as well.

Obamacare: “I Was Laughing At Boehner… Until The Mail Came Today”

Obamacare: “I Was Laughing At Boehner… Until The Mail Came Today” | The Gateway Pundit:

(SJ Mercury News) Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.

Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.

Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.

These “independents” were like totally floored. For people in Middle Class Land, that’s real money that could have been used for other things, and really hurts during the Obama economy malaise.

“I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today,” Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare.

“I really don’t like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family’s pocket each year, that’s otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy.”

Granted, both families make more than the cutoff for receiving a “subsidy”. Yet, Covered California states that just 570,000 of the 1.9 million who will get insurance through the Government Exchange will be eligible for subsidies. And someone has to pay for all those extra costs built into O-care plans. People like the ones mentioned in the story.

Make NO mistake, Barry's soldiers ARE getting away with this-Shutdown meltdown: Elderly residents kicked out of private Lake Mead homes; 60 families affected

Shutdown meltdown: Elderly residents kicked out of private Lake Mead homes; 60 families affected | Twitchy:

Free Government Healthcare-Law 'does not prohibit' sex-selection abortions, DPP warns

Law 'does not prohibit' sex-selection abortions, DPP warns - Telegraph:
"The British Medical Association (BMA) updated its guidance in the wake of an investigation by the Telegraph to advise doctors that "there may be circumstances, in which termination of pregnancy on grounds of fetal sex would be lawful".
The disclosure is expected to spark fury among dozens of MPs who have criticised the medical establishment for seeking to redefine abortion laws.
Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, today publishes a detailed memorandum explaining the controversial decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute two doctors who agreed to arrange illegal abortions based on the sex of an unborn baby."

My search for a ACA HealthCare Navigator.......

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[10:23:10 am]: Welcome! You're now connected to Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat. Thanks for contacting us. My name is Tori. To protect your privacy, please don't provide any personal information, like Social Security Number, or any other sensitive medical or personal information.

[10:23:19 am]: Tori

Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace call center, my name is Tori, how may I help you?

[10:24:05 am]: james

How do I find a navigator?

[10:24:36 am]: Tori

I can help you with that if you don't mind me asking what state are you in?

[10:25:00 am]: james

MI

[10:25:12 am]: Tori

Thank you. One moment please while I look that up.

[10:26:48 am]: Tori

And what is the zip code you live in?

[10:27:48 am]: james

49441

[10:31:04 am]: james

I just need a phone number or a website.

[10:31:25 am]: Tori

Michigan Consumers For HealthcareNAV 734-272-2583

[10:32:29 am]: james

That's 200 miles from here. Isn't there a closer location?

[10:34:23 am]: Tori

The zip code areas I have are, 48210, 48310, 48430, 48906. I apologize.

[10:35:07 am]: james

do you have a website?

[10:35:28 am]: Tori

Thank you. One moment please while I look that up.

[10:36:45 am]: Tori

Which zip code do you want an website for?

[10:36:58 am]: james

49441

[10:37:55 am]: Tori

I don't have one in that area, out of the area codes i gave you what is the closes?

[10:39:30 am]: Tori

Are you still there?

[10:40:09 am]: james

yes

[10:42:53 am]: Tori

Are you still there?

[10:43:29 am]: james

yes

[10:44:34 am]: Tori

Unfortunately I do not have an website for that zipcode. I apologize.

[10:44:44 am]: james

My current health insurance does not comply with new rules so it expires in less than 3 months!

[10:45:27 am]: Tori

So are you looking to apply for the Marketplace?

[10:45:36 am]: james

yes

[10:46:02 am]: Tori

Have you made an account online?

[10:46:18 am]: james

yes. is there another option?

[10:47:13 am]: Tori

You can apply by phone or mail

[10:47:50 am]: james

Please give me the phone number and address. Thanks.

[10:48:50 am]: Tori

Unfortunately I can only give you the telephone number and that is 1-800-318-2596

[10:49:09 am]: james

thank you

[10:49:18 am]: Tori

Do you have any other questions that I can help you with?

[10:49:36 am]: james

no thank you

[10:49:46 am]: Tori

Thank you for contacting Health Insurance Marketplace Live Chat. We are here to help you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Read it and creep-This Is What Keeps Retailers Up At Night

This Is What Keeps Retailers Up At Night | Zero Hedge:
"However, we have anecdotal signals from trade industry data (pace of dining out has stalled and anyone but the highest earners are seeing consumer comfort plunge) and from-the-horse's mouth we have CEO comments.
Here is what is on the US retailers' mind..."

Vee haff vaaz to mak u kumpli-The List: Unnecessarily Shut Down by Obama to Inflict Public Pain

The List: Unnecessarily Shut Down by Obama to Inflict Public Pain

Now they tell us-Obamacare's winners and losers in Bay Area

Obamacare's winners and losers in Bay Area - San Jose Mercury News:
"In California, 1.9 million people buy plans on the open market, according to officials with Covered California, the state's new health insurance exchange.
And many of them are steaming mad.

"There's going to be a number of people surprised" by their bills, said Jonathan Wu, a co-founder of ValuePenguin, a consumer finance website.
"The upper-middle class are the people who are essentially being asked to foot the bill, and that's true across the country."

Covered California spokesman Dana Howard maintained that in public presentations the exchange has always made clear that there will be winners and losers under Obamacare."

Oops, it's baacck......Monday Oct. 7. 7:28 am-Isn't everyone asleep in most of the country?

I'll add updates as they tumble out of Barry Hussein's website:

8:40 AM

7:28 AM

"Downstream Error"-America's healthcare?

Well, I was able to  set my password and log in.
Maybe everyone in California is up and clambering for government health care expertise?(4:15AM in Pelosiville)?
Here's where Barry's site took me:

Amazing Civil War photographs created by colorist bring the era's heroes and characters to life in full color for the first time

Amazing Civil War photographs created by colorist bring the era's heroes and characters to life in full color for the first time | Mail Online:
"The Civil War in COLOR for the first time: Painstakingly remastered images of a divided America that recreate era in amazing detail.
Two professional colorists have combined their skills with photographs and fascination with the American Civil War to create a remarkable series of color photographs from the era.

Quota pimps make it to the Big court-Supreme Court term begins amid government shutdown; Michigan case on racial preferences on agenda

Supreme Court term begins amid government shutdown; Michigan case on racial preferences on agenda | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Among other top cases already set for review:

Michigan is fighting to preserve a constitutional amendment that bans the use of racial preferences in education after a federal appeals court ruled that the constitutional ban is itself discriminatory.
This case, unlike last term's look at a University of Texas admissions plan, does not involve the viability of affirmative action, but rather whether opponents of racial preferences can enshrine that ban in the state constitution."

Power to the People!-Americans cross Obama's parkway barriers

Americans cross Obama's parkway barriers | The Daily Caller:
 "Many Americans crossed the barriers that were set this weekend by President Barack Obama’s deputies to block public access to the Potomac River from Virginia’s George Washington Memorial Parkway.

In many quiet acts of civil disobedience, Americans removed car barriers and cut police tape, or walked across barriers after parking on grass verges or in adjacent suburbs."