Obama Spent $634 Million to Build Broken Healthcare.gov Website | FrontPage Magazine:
"But the fact that Healthcare.gov can’t do the one job it was built to do isn’t the most infuriating part of this debacle – it’s that we, the taxpayers, seem to have forked up more than $634 million of the federal purse to build the digital equivalent of a rock.
The exact cost to build Healthcare.gov, according to U.S. government records, appears to have been $634,320,919, which we paid to a company you probably never heard of: CGI Federal.
The company originally won the contract back in 2011, but at that time, the cost was expected to run “up to” $93.7 million – still a chunk of change, but nothing near where it ended up."
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do? - Small Dead Animals
Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do? - Small Dead Animals:
"Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?
Marathon Pundit;
It what looks like a spiteful move, the NPS even removed handles from water spigots along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal where bikers and joggers exercise as well as along the Great Allegheny Passage, just to ensure people don't get any water from them.
Instead of saving money, the NPS is expending additional resources to go out of its way to close such locations and to make people miserable."
"Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?
Marathon Pundit;
It what looks like a spiteful move, the NPS even removed handles from water spigots along the Chesapeake and Ohio canal where bikers and joggers exercise as well as along the Great Allegheny Passage, just to ensure people don't get any water from them.
Instead of saving money, the NPS is expending additional resources to go out of its way to close such locations and to make people miserable."
Coming soon "Non-Physician Surgery"?-California's Brown Signs Bill Permitting Non-Physician Abortions
California's Brown Signs Bill Permitting Non-Physician Abortions:"In a statement, Gov. Brown boasted that AB 154 was one of seven bills signed Tuesday "to support the health and well-being of women in California."
It's FREE!-Muskegon waives utility fees for new downtown farmers market as construction continues
Muskegon waives utility fees for new downtown farmers market as construction continues | MLive.com"MUSKEGON, MI – The Muskegon City Commission does not only support the relocation of the famers market to the downtown, but it is willing to put city money behind that support.
The commission voted unanimously at its Tuesday, Oct. 8 meeting to waive the sewer and water connection fees for the new Muskegon Farmers Market currently being constructed at 1 Market St. in the downtown.
In effect, the city’s waiver of the utility connection fees is a $30,100 contribution to the $3.8 million private sector project. "
"Tax credit nation"-Sader Power plans job fair to hire 220 solar panel assemblers
Sader Power plans job fair to hire 220 solar panel assemblers | Crain's Detroit Business:"According to Sader's website, a 3 kilowatt solar array will cost $7,500 to install.
With a 30 percent tax credit, the installation costs can drop to $5,500, the company said."
5:17 AM EST-Got this far and the system refuses to move.
System locked.
No explanation of how I sign an "electronic signature" so I just typed in my name.
It don't like that......
No explanation of how I sign an "electronic signature" so I just typed in my name.
It don't like that......
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
NSA to the rescue? Map: Where Do the Divorced Women Live in Town?
Map: Where Do the Divorced Women Live in Town? - Newscruncher - Greendale, WI Patch:"Map: Where Do the Divorced Women Live in Town?
The map below shows the number of divorced women across your neighborhood as reported by the 2011 American Community Survey."
Butts trump boobs! Turkey Cracks Down on Cleavage
Turkey Cracks Down on Cleavage - Bloomberg:"Celik's words were as follows: “We don’t intervene against anyone, but this is too much. It is unacceptable,” according to Hurriyet Daily News. "
Garbage in=raw sewage out-Exchanges Will Raise U.S. Health-Care Costs
Exchanges Will Raise U.S. Health-Care Costs - Bloomberg:"The health exchanges won’t resemble any other marketplace.
Over time, rather than encourage insurance providers to offer ever more attractive and affordable policies, the exchanges are poised to push up the cost not only of insurance but also of health care itself.
That means, if the history of U.S. health-care policy is any guide, the exchanges’ very “success” will have the effect of limiting access to care for the 30 million people who are estimated to remain uninsured.
Why are things set to go so badly?
Because the architects of the health-care exchanges have relied on three crucial assumptions, all of which are probably wrong.
Propaganda arm of democrat party, liberal MSM, redefines "civility"-The Top 8 Nastiest Liberal Media Quotes Blaming the GOP for the Shutdown
The Top 8 Nastiest Liberal Media Quotes Blaming the GOP for the Shutdown | NewsBusters:"The liberal media have taken sides in the government shutdown debate and not surprisingly holds only one party to blame - the GOP.
In the last week liberal anchors, reporters and writers have depicted fiscal conservatives in terms usually reserved for terrorists as they’ve hyperbolically charged that Republicans were being run by a “suicide caucus” that is holding America “hostage.”
Kenya standards in America, how nice.......How Obamacare's Exchanges Turned Into A 'Third World Experience'
How Obamacare's Exchanges Turned Into A 'Third World Experience' - Forbes:"One week into the launch of Obamacare, however, it’s not a joke: it’s literally easier to blog from the Kenyan border than to sign up for insurance on Obamacare’s federal exchange."
"Shocker", schools broke again!-County school business leader warns of financial storm brewing
County school business leader warns of financial storm brewing:"MUSKEGON, MI (Oct. 8, 2013) By 2016, all eleven public school districts in Muskegon County will be operating in the red.
Marios Demetriou, Deputy Superintendent of the Muskegon Area Intermediate School District (MAISD), shared this prediction with over 50 school leaders and board members during the Muskegon County School Boards Alliance meeting last night. Demetriou said,
“There is a hurricane coming.
We better start boarding up our houses before we are blown away.”"
Mainstream Media as Iran’s PR Flacks
Hassan Rouhani | Benjamin Netanyahu | Mainstream Media Bias:"One of the problems with President Hassan Rouhani’s charm offensive is that he has a record.
It’s a record that shows that he excuses the death penalty for protesters, defends Iran for its sponsorship of terror and boasts that he duped the West ten years ago.
All of this is a matter of public record. And one doesn’t need to read Barry Rubin or Michael Ledeen or Reuel Marc Gerecht to get all this. If you read about him in the New York Times prior to May 2013, the image that emerged of Hassan Rouhani is one of the ultimate regime insider, not a reformer by any stretch.
So how does Rouhani become a “moderate?”
Probably by one of the great PR campaigns.
Unfortunately it isn’t one that Iran paid for; rather it is one that is being run in America’s mainstream media."
Tax cancer metastasizes-How Much Do You Really Pay In Taxes?
A Consumer Guide To Taxes: How Much Do You Really Pay In Taxes?:"This study calculates how much additional money middle- income workers must earn to purchase various goods and services--a new car, a computer, or a year's college tuition for their children--after all taxes are fully taken into account.
For instance, a wage earner in an average-tax state must earn $17,038 to purchase a $10,000 car."
Why are only "conservatives" interested? -Conservatives Demand Info on Obamacare Rollout Failure
Conservatives Demand Info on Obamacare Rollout Failure | Washington Free Beacon:"Conservative critics of Obamacare want to know how many people have actually purchased insurance through the president’s signature legislation following the glitch-ridden rollout of the Obamacare website last week."
Where is the MSM?
Liberals?
Regular Americans?
Does NO ONE care?
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?
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."
"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."
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
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."
"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"
"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"
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