Well, he did promise to "fundamentally transform the USA"----The Worst Is Yet to Come

Best of the Web Today: The Worst Is Yet to Come - WSJ.com:
"What's not working isn't just the website--the online user interface--but the complicated system that lies behind it.
To say HHS needs to fix the "website" is like saying your car needs repairs to its steering wheel and accelerator when in fact the whole engine is junk."
..But wait. 
If you have to sign up for insurance half a month before your policy becomes effective, then the deadline for an ObamaCare fraud victim whose current policy ends Dec. 31 to avoid a lapse in coverage is around Dec. 15. 
Even in the unlikely event that HHS fulfills the promise to get the federal exchange working by then, some ObamaCare fraud victims will have barely two weeks to purchase insurance.

In the likely event that Sebelius's Nov. 30 pledge turns out to be just another vaporware promise, the number of uninsured Americans will start rising on Jan. 1 as the fraud victims' policies begin to expire.

.....But we are fast approaching the point where the question of the mandate is a tangential one. Among those who are left without coverage by the ObamaCare fraud and debacle, some will become seriously ill or injured, and others will be unable to get care for pre-existing conditions. 

At that point ObamaCare will be not just a technical, political and economic disaster but a humanitarian one as well.

NATION'S POOR AT 49.7M, HIGHER THAN OFFICIAL RATE

News from The Associated Press:
 "WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of poor people in America is 3 million higher than the official count, encompassing 1 in 6 residents due to out-of-pocket medical costs and work-related expenses, according to a revised census measure released Wednesday."

Health and Human Services quietly giving unions Obamacare fix

Health and Human Services quietly giving unions Obamacare fix | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"The Department of Health and Human Services quietly released a final rule last week that includes an intention to exempt some union insurance plans from a substantial new tax known as the reinsurance fee."

But it's FREE-------VENEZUELA'S HEALTH CARE IN COLLAPSE

News from The Associated Press:
"MARACAY, Venezuela (AP) -- Evelina Gonzalez was supposed to undergo cancer surgery in July following chemotherapy but wound up shuttling from hospital to hospital in search of an available operating table. On the crest of her left breast, a mocha-colored tumor doubled in size and now bulges through her white spandex tank top.
Gonzalez is on a list of 31 breast cancer patients waiting to have tumors removed at one of Venezuela's biggest medical facilities, Maracay's Central Hospital. But like legions of the sick across the country, she's been neglected by a health care system doctors say is collapsing after years of deterioration."

Man Seeks Millions After N.M. Police Force Colonoscopy in Drug Search

Man Seeks Millions After N.M. Police Force Colonoscopy in Drug Search - US News and World Report:
"Civil rights attorney says Hispanic officers may have targeted 'white boy' because they 'don't like him living in their community'"

Impressive, even by democrat "standards"-----407 Sourced Examples Of Obama’s Lies, Deceptions, Distortions, Etc.

407 Sourced Examples Of Obama’s Lies, Deceptions, Distortions, Etc. - Downtrend.com:
"An independent journalist has released – into the public domain – a list of 407 examples of President Obama’s lies, deceptions, distortions, stupidity, cronyism and so on."

Fukushima Debris "Island" The Size Of Texas Near US West Coast

Fukushima Debris "Island" The Size Of Texas Near US West Coast | Zero Hedge:
"To be sure, there has been much speculation, much of it unjustified, in the past two years debating when, how substantial and how acute any potential debris from Fukushima would be on the US.
Which is why it was somewhat surprising to see the NOAA come out with its own modeling effort, which shows....... openly confirm that a debris field weighing over 1 million tons, and larger than Texas is now on the verge of hitting the American coastline, just west off the state of California."

Blockbuster video rental chain will shut remaining U.S. stores, including metro Detroit locations

Blockbuster video rental chain will shut remaining U.S. stores, including metro Detroit locations | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Blockbuster LLC, the video-rental company now owned by Dish Network Corp., will close its remaining 300 U.S. stores, ending an era for a retail chain that was once a hallmark of shopping centers across the country."

Chilling-Read it all-------Jill Kelley: How the Government Spied on Me

Jill Kelley: How the Government Spied on Me - WSJ.com:
"It has been a full year since federal agents snooped through the private emails of my husband and me, setting in motion a series of events that ultimately led to the resignations of Central Intelligence Agency Director David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, the commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan.
The anniversary is a somber reminder of the unintended consequences and harsh realities that can result from unrestrained government probing into Americans' personal communications."

Forget the "...if you like you health plan you can keep it..." lie. How 'bout the "...it's gonna save you money..." lie------------49-State Analysis: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 41%

49-State Analysis: Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 41% - Forbes:
"One of the fundamental flaws of the Affordable Care Act is that, despite its name, it makes health insurance more expensive.
Today, the Manhattan Institute released the most comprehensive analysis yet conducted of premiums under Obamacare for people who shop for coverage on their own.
Here’s what we learned.
In the average state, Obamacare will increase underlying premiums by 41 percent. 
As we have long expected, the steepest hikes will be imposed on the healthy, the young, and the male. "

Warming hysterics provide proof they're totally wrong yet don't realize it------Warming Gases Reach Record High

Soooo, there's been no warming even though CO2 is rising but that's OK cuz it's the "ocean's fault" but the oceans won't totally fix things. 
You gotta give us a bunch more of your money..... then things will be really good.......


Warming Gases Reach Record High - The Daily Beast:
"Gases that drive global warming reached record high levels in 2012, with carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide levels increasing more rapidly last year than in its average rise over the past decade, according to a report released Wednesday by the World Meteorological Association.
The rapid increase of these gases has increased warming effects by almost a third since 1990.
It’s not all recent effects, either: since the start of the industrial era in 1750, global average levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by 141 percent.
Although there has been a slowdown in temperature increases in the past few years, scientists warned that people shouldn’t get too comfortable: the oceans have been sucking up the extra heat, but soon that heat will come out into the atmosphere."

Gays now totally boring, ENDA struggle reveals

Gays now totally boring, ENDA struggle reveals | The Daily Caller:
 "With this week’s push for ENDA (the Employment Non-Discrimination Act), another anti-business piece of legislation that allows self-identified cultural victims to sue their employers after they get fired, all the familiar annoying characters have come out of the tastefully-refurbished woodwork.
These include aggrieved LGBTQIAX7@! advocacy groups as well as simpering DNC flacks talking about “marriage equality” and blaming bigoted Republicans for the fact that Chaz Bono hasn’t been elected president. "

Part 2-Detroit mayor's biggest problem? The residents who just don't care

Rochelle Riley: Detroit mayor's biggest problem? The residents who just don't care | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"Detroit’s new mayor may think his biggest problem is a possible bankruptcy, a fleeing tax base or crime.
But he would be wrong.
Its biggest problem was evident all day Tuesday in the basement of the Refuge Cathedral on the city’s east side.
That was where 25-year-old April Stephens sat for 11 hours, waiting for voters.
The church off Gratiot, six miles from downtown, is home to Precinct 109, which Stephens has staffed since she was 16. 
It has only two registered voters. 
And by 7 p.m., neither had showed.
So Stephens spent Election Day like the Maytag repairman in the old commercial, waiting for someone — anyone — to need her."

Obamacare isn't the first ObamaClunker-Our Cash For Obama's Clunkers

Our Cash For Obama's Clunkers - Forbes:

Obama’s Cash for Clunkers trade-in program was a perfect example.  In yet another of his failed promises, President Obama told us that the Car Allowance Rebate System (yes – “CARS”) – the formal name of Cash for Clunkers – would create 70,000 jobs!  That’s right, if you didn’t like your car, you didn’t have to keep it – and in the process we all would be better off.

Even though Obama took $2.85 billion of our cash, according to Brookings, only a paltry 3,676 new jobs were created – at a staggering cost of $1.4 million per job.  Those are clunker-like results by any standard.  Of course, that failure was dwarfed by the Stimulus Bill at nearly a trillion dollars and Obama’s Solyndranomic energy programs that have done just as poorly at astronomically higher price tags.

All of this, of course, was very predictable.  In 1946, Henry Hazlitt, in his tour de force Economics in One Lesson, summarized the questions we face today:

“There is no more persistent and influential faith in the world today than the faith in government spending.  Everywhere government spending is presented as a panacea for all economic ills.  Is private industry partially stagnant?  We can fix it all by government spending.  Is there unemployment?  That is obviously due to ‘insufficient private purchasing power.’ The remedy is just as obvious.  All that is necessary is for government to spend enough to make up the deficiency.”

The problem with that thinking, Hazlitt points out, is that “for every public job created . . . a private job has been destroyed somewhere else . . . All that has happened, at best, is that there has been a diversion of jobs . . . More bridge builders, fewer automobile workers, televisions technicians, clothing workers, farmers.”

Government spending, you see, is at best a net-zero proposition.  To fill up your bucket, government has to empty the buckets of others.  But it is actually worse than that.

There is also the problem of how government wastes our cash.  We must always keep in mind what Milton Friedman told us: “Nobody spends somebody else’s money as wisely as he spends his own.”  The Obama experience has confirmed once again that government wastes like no other.

Drugging our children into a future of perma-fog-----Surge in ADHD diagnoses gets a red flag

Surge in ADHD diagnoses gets a red flag - FRANCE 24:
"Doctors sounded a warning Tuesday over a rise in ADHD diagnoses, saying some children may be needlessly taking powerful drugs intended to correct a poorly understood disorder.

Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the researchers noted treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) had risen massively in recent years, even though its causes are unclear and drugs can have adverse effects.

ADHD is a disorder blamed for severe and frequent bouts of inattention, hyperactivity or impulsivity. Children and young adolescents are those who are most diagnosed with it.

But some experts fear the term ADHD may "medicalise" problems related to a child's personality or maturity level, the effects of poor parenting or other home problems."

Who says a college degree is worthless----Michigan State's Ryan Riess wins World Series of Poker title, $8.4 million

Michigan State's Ryan Riess wins World Series of Poker title, $8.4 million | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

"Substitute religion" for morons.......Ex-Australian PM John Howard sticks it to the greenies

Ex-Australian PM John Howard sticks it to the greenies – Telegraph Blogs:
""Climate change" has become a "substitute religion" for people with a "nakedly political" agenda which has less to do with saving the planet than it does with reining in economic growth and wealth redistribution.
Well we knew this.
But how how nice it is to hear it from the mouth of a statesman as distinguished as former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, whose blistering speech last night at the Global Warming Policy Foundation you can read in full here."

Ya can't fix what the folks don't care to fix......Detroit mayor's biggest problem? The residents who just don't care

Rochelle Riley: Detroit mayor's biggest problem? The residents who just don't care | Detroit Free Press | freep.com:
"The result: Detroit wound up with a city precinct with two people who share an apartment building address.

I’m sure you also want to know why Precinct 109 — and Precinct 105, whose poll is in that same church basement — had full staffs on hand Tuesday.
Precinct 105 has four registered voters, so there were more volunteers at seven than expected voters — six."

How you gonna collect tax on something they can grow in the backyard? ---Colorado Voters Approve 25% Tax on Marijuana

Colorado Voters Approve 25% Tax on Marijuana | CNS News:
"MARIJUANA AND ALCOHOL

COLORADO: Voters approved a 25 percent tax on newly legal recreational marijuana to fund school construction. Opponents argued the tax rate would benefit black market sales.

MAINE: Voters in Portland, Maine's largest city, declared victory on a measure to legalize possession of recreational amounts of marijuana.

MICHIGAN: Voters in Ferndale, Jackson and Lansing approved proposals offering some legal protection to users of small amounts of marijuana.

UTAH: Residents in the small town of Hyde Park are voting on whether to allow beer sales in a proposal that has divided the conservative, mostly Mormon city. Hyde Park is among a handful of dry cities left in the state, and the ordinance would only allow the sale of beer with the alcohol content of 3.2 percent."

More of that "smart diplomacy"......Iran demands right to expand nuclear program

Iran demands right to expand nuclear program | The Daily Caller:
"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also restated the regime’s view of Israel:
“We have said since the very first day (of the Islamic Revolution), and we do say it now and we will say it in the future as well, that we believe the Zionist regime is an illegitimate and bastard regime.”"

Obama's america------‘You Could Never Anticipate This Happening in the United States of America’

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

What began as a simple traffic stop ended in a humiliating and nightmarish ordeal for a New Mexico man. It won’t come as a surprise to most people why the man has now filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

The incident began on Jan. 2 as David Eckert was leaving the local Walmart in Deming, N.M. He reportedly failed to make a complete stop at a stop sign, prompting police to pull him over.

The officers asked him to step out of the vehicle and claim the man appeared to be clenching his buttocks, Eckert’s attorney, Shannon Kennedy, told TheBlaze. It is unclear why police removed him from the vehicle in the first place. However, because the cops believed he was clenching his buttocks, they took it as reason to suspect him of hiding narcotics in his anal cavity.

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Police officers detained Eckert while they sought a search warrant for an anal cavity search.

“What is so strange about this case is they held him with no evidence,” Kennedy said. “They seized him to collect evidence, to go on a fishing expedition on someone’s body.”

Upon securing the warrant, Deming police officers took the man to an emergency room, but hit their first snag when a doctor refused to perform the anal cavity search because he believed it to be “unethical.”

So police tried again at the Gila Regional Medical Center in Silver City, N.M., where doctors agreed to the search.

KOB-TV outlined the disturbing series of events that occurred next, details confirmed by medical records and official documents provided to TheBlaze by Eckert’s attorney:

1. Eckert’s abdominal area was X-rayed; no narcotics were found.

2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.

4. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

5. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

6. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.

7. Doctors then X-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.

8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert’s anus, rectum, colon and large intestines. No narcotics were found.

Education union thuggery! Teacher's union head spreads slur that concerned parent is a neo-Nazi

Teacher's union head investigates whether parent is neo-Nazi | The Daily Caller:
Pennsylvania father is steaming mad after the head of a local teacher’s union suggested he may be a “neo-Nazi” for questioning a school assignment.
Josh Barry, of Camp Hill, Penn., expressed concern after his daughter brought home an assignment analyzing a New York Times article discussing the recent government shutdown. Examiner.com first reported the story.
The assignment asked questions like, “Whom do you hold most responsible for the government shutdown?” and “Do you feel it is principled or irresponsible for politicians to threaten a shutdown?”
Barry thought it was an exercise in indoctrination.

After contacting his daughter’s teacher, Barry heard back from the school’s principal. After a discussion, a friend of Barry’s relayed a voicemail she received from another teacher named Cydnee Cohen.

Cohen, who is also the president of the local chapter of the teacher’s union — the East Pembrook Education Association, which is part of the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) — said on the voicemail, “We’re having some problems with a parent in our school district and on his [Facebook] page you are one of his friends … but I would like to know, some of it seems like he is a neo-Nazi.”

...“You have a teacher who’s an officer in the union who looks at these teachers as hers,” said Barry. “Her method is to go after the concerned parent and discredit and slander them.”
Barry called Cohen’s inquisition a case of “big-time union thuggery on display.”
“She’s been taught to associate people who question authority, who raise their fist in the air who say I believe in the Constitution, or don’t indoctrinate my child, as you’re automatically a Nazi,” he said.

How could anyone expect things will get better when EVERY incumbent is reelected? ----Five new faces will join four re-elected Detroit City Council incumbents

Five new faces will join four re-elected Detroit City Council incumbents | MLive.com:
"DETROIT, MI -- Each member of Detroit City Council who ran for re-election won their race Tuesday, but new faces will make up a majority of the body next year."

Dirty tricks not so important when democrats are the tricksters.......Revealed: Obama Campaign Bundler Helping Fund Libertarian in Tight Va. Gubernatorial Race

Revealed: Obama Campaign Bundler Helping Fund Libertarian in Tight Va. Gubernatorial Race | TheBlaze.com
"A major Democratic Party benefactor and Obama campaign bundler helped pay for professional petition circulators responsible for getting Virginia Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert C. Sarvis on the ballot — a move that could split conservative votes in a tight race.

Campaign finance records show the Libertarian Booster PAC has made the largest independent contribution to Sarvis’ campaign, helping to pay for professional petition circulators who collected signatures necessary to get Sarvis’ name on Tuesday’s statewide ballot.

Austin, Texas, software billionaire Joe Liemandt is the Libertarian Booster PAC’s major benefactor. He’s also a top bundler for President Barack Obama."

Election 2013 Vote Tracker: See Muskegon-area results as they come in, other live updates

Election 2013 Vote Tracker: See Muskegon-area results as they come in, other live updates | MLive.com:

Election 2013 live blog: Poll results as they come in.

Election 2013 live blog: Poll results as they come in.

Obama's "Baghdad Bobs" are jumping the shark----- CNN's boss Zucker: HealthCare.gov backlash a product of racism

Zucker: HealthCare.gov backlash a product of racism | The Daily Caller:
"“You know — this is what we’re going to cover, these are the big stories, keep this stuff in mind as you go about your day and all that stuff,” he continued.
“And according to two sources, CNN sources — on the 9 a.m. editorial call, he said all of this bashing of HealthCare.gov and the Obamacare thing was in the end — come on, take a guess — racist.
That people are just saying Obama couldn’t build a website because he is black and you know, they hate him. That’s the president of CNN.
That’s Jeff Zucker.
That’s his guidance to the troops.”"

Union thugs hire legal thugs to annoy judge-----Detroit union lawyer didn't answer key questions, bankruptcy judge says

Detroit union lawyer didn't answer key questions, bankruptcy judge says | Crain's Detroit Business:
"The judge in Detroit's bankruptcy told the top lawyer for the United Auto Workers that he failed to answer the two most important questions he was asked in a trial on whether the city can remain under court protection.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes today repeatedly tried to force the general counsel for the UAW, Michael Nicholson, to say whether the union had negotiated with the city over proposed cuts to pension benefits and health-care benefits for retirees.

"I want to tell you, sir, this question and the last question were probably the two most important questions you were asked here today," Rhodes told Nicholson, a union witness.

When Nicholson began answering by accusing Detroit's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, of ignoring UAW proposals, Rhodes interrupted him.

"You are not answering the question," the judge said."

Obama'a america------- Parents slam pro-Islam slant in Florida school textbook

Parents slam pro-Islam slant in Florida school textbook - Washington Times:
"The book, “World History,” devotes fully 32 pages — an entire chapter — on “Muslim Civilizations,” including descriptions of the Koran and a listing of the Five Pillars of Islam, The Daily Caller reported.
But noticeably missing is information on any other religion."

Cool. Bring in the feds whenever your boss doesn't like your outfit----Senate Bill Bans Discrimination Against Cross-Dressers

Senate Bill Bans Discrimination Against Cross-Dressers | CNS News:
"The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which will come up for a cloture vote in the Senate today, mandates that employers in the United States permit men to dress as women at work and women to dress as men as long as they otherwise adhere to “reasonable dress or grooming standards.”"