Americans breath a sigh of relief, Obama does not ski-North Korean ski resort scheduled to open this week

PHOTOS: North Korean ski resort scheduled to open this week - The Oakland Press Media Center: "MASIK PASS, North Korea (AP) North Korea’s latest megaproject, the Masik Pass ski resort is intended to show that North Korea is as civilized and culturally advanced as any other country.
The complex of ski runs, resort chalets and sleigh rides will formally open Thursday, though the main hotels appeared to be little more than shells late last month, while potholes filled the access roads and foundations were still being dug for secondary buildings.

By the estimate of North Korean ski official, Kim Tae Yong, there are only about 5,500 North Korean skiers in the country of 24 million — a skiing population of 0.02 percent.
Even so, Yong displays no doubt that what his country really needs right now is a multimillion-dollar ski resort in the secluded depths of North Korea’s east coast and bristles at the suggestion that Masik will be a playground for the nation’s elite.
This, he says, is his country at work. 
Proof of the great love of the great leader."

How far we have fallen-Dozens of Veterans Arrested at Vietnam War Memorial in NYC

Dozens of Veterans Arrested at Vietnam War Memorial in NYC |:
"Veterans of the Vietnam War were arrested earlier tonight at the New York City memorial after staying on the premises past the curfew time of 10 p.m. Police gave multiple warnings as veterans continued to read from a list of names.
Video from the event shows that not only veterans were loaded into the paddy wagon, but also younger participants in the vigil as well.
The gathering took place in part to protest the twelfth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan.
A similar protest and set of arrests occurred last year at the memorial.  Source: Atlantic Wire"

Whatever happened to simple common sense?

It's 3:12 AM in California. They all gettin' BarryCare NOW?-Health Insurance Marketplace: Please wait

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Still punishing us, Der Fuhrer?-Academy football teams begin second uncertain week because of government shutdown

Academy football teams begin second uncertain week because of government shutdown - ESPN:
"The service academy football teams are preparing to play this weekend's scheduled games while still facing some uncertainty because of the partial government shutdown.

Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk said Monday he and Naval Academy officials were providing more information to the Defense Department that shows the academy will not use government funds to play at Duke on Saturday."

Diversity-A new excuse for each new day! The System is down at the moment | HealthCare.gov

The System is down at the moment | HealthCare.gov
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The Tragedy of Detroit: "It Didn't Have to Be This Way"

Feds say not enough bull in DC. Need fake one, ASAP! Government spends $47k on mechanical bull as a National Guard recruitment tool seven days into shutdown

Government spends $47k on mechanical bull as a National Guard recruitment tool seven days into shutdown | Mail Online:
"About 800,000 federal workers were sent home without pay last week, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
The Defense Department has since recalled most of the 350,000 civilian workers it put on furlough.
Details of the Mechanical Bull Sales order came as Barack Obama announced that Democrats were 'willing to pass, at least, a short-term budget that opens up the government at current funding levels.'"

Remember that Comerica Park ground bacon burger? A California restaurant wants sales of it stopped immediately

ALDS Blog: Remember that Comerica Park ground bacon burger? A California restaurant wants sales of it stopped immediately | Crain's Detroit Business:
"They also want to put a halt on sales of the bovine-swine burger at Comerica Park, citing reputation concerns and market confusion."

Yes, they ARE remaking "Dumb and Dumber 2"-US adults are dumber than the average human

US adults are dumber than the average human | New York Post: "
-The average scores in math range from 246 in Spain to 288 in Japan.
 The US average score was 253, below 18 other countries."

How dare he violate govmn't rules!-Runner Fined $100 At Valley Forge Amid Government Shutdown

Runner Fined $100 At Valley Forge Amid Government Shutdown « CBS Philly:
"A National Park Service spokesman in Washington, D.C., didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment Monday.
The Park Service says 20,000 employees have been furloughed and about 3,000 are providing security and emergency services.
Bell’s lawyer, Jeremy Ibrahim, said Bell was just trying to stay fit, even as Congress debates a national health plan"

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

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"scheduled maintenance"?
This baby is a week old.
Imagine if these morons ran something as complicated our healthcare.......

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

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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: