Posts Made By: Dave Snope

This isn't a joke. She thinks "dependence on government" equates to "independence from tyranny".

“Next week, when we celebrate Independence Day we’ll also be observing health independence,” Pelosi told reporters today,explaining that “this week marks one year since the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. It captures the spirit of our founders,” she added, citing the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence.”So, we’ve had Social Security, Medicare, and now health independence, so that’s something our members will take home to celebrate over this Independence Day.”

I got a letter this week from my insurance company saying they will no longer offer coverage in 2014 because of ObamaCare's preexisting conditions rules. The spirit of our founders, my @$%^$#.

Better have the NSA wiretap this guy to make sure he is in full compliance with the rabbit police.

My USDA rabbit license requirement has taken another ridiculous twist. I just received an 8 page letter from the USDA, telling me that by July 29 I need to have in place a written disaster plan, detailing all the steps I would take to help get my rabbit through a disaster, such as a tornado, fire, flood, etc. They not only want to know how I will protect my rabbit during a disaster, but also what I will do after the disaster, to make sure my rabbit gets cared for properly. I am not kidding–before the end of July I need to have this written rabbit disaster plan in place, or I am breaking the law.

In his email message, Hahne also explained the timeline via which he must comply: 1) the new regulation became effective Jan. 30, 2012; 2) the written plan must be completed by July 29, 2013; 3) Hahne and his wife, Brenda, must be trained to implement the plan as written; and 4) the written plan must be available for review by USDA inspectors by Sept. 28, 2013.


http://bobmccarty.com/2013/06/28/usda-tells-magician-to-write-disaster-plan-for-his-rabbit/

Dear Leader couldn't be more condescending to the 3rd world. He sounds exactly like a paternalistic elitist Euro bureaucrat: I'll give you stuff that you don't want or need because I know what's good for you.

Nevermind that the planet has been cooling since 2002, or that the southern hemi never really showed much warming anyway. Never mind that access to modern abundant cheap electricity is the single most important technology that extends the lifespan and health and wealth of nations. Don't give evil cars and A/C to the natives because coddled American liberals feel guilt about industialization. They'll make more tornados, even though there are less; They'll make less snow, or more snow; more rain, or more drought. It's too confusing for 3rd worlders, they never understand. Just don't give them air conditioners.

“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over — unless we find new ways of producing energy.”

The (June Jobs) report, however, also provides clear evidence that the the nation is splitting into two; only 47% of Americans have a full-time job and those who don't are finding it increasingly out of reach.

Of the 144 million Americans employed last month, only 116 million were working full-time. Friday's report showed that 58.7% of the civilian adult population of 245 million was working last month. Only 47% of Americans, however, had a full-time job.

The market's positive reaction to Friday's report is another sign of how far our economic expectations have fallen. If today the same proportion of Americans worked as just a decade ago, there would be almost 9 million more people working. Just in the last year, almost 2 million Americans have left the labor force. With a majority of the population not holding a full-time job, it isn't surprising that economic growth has been so weak.

In June, the number of Americans who wanted to work full-time, but were forced into part-time jobs because of the economy, jumped 352,000 to over 8 million.

The Jobs' Report is increasingly measuring only a part of the American economy. While Friday's report was better than expected, it only measures those who are working or actively looking for work. There is a growing number of Americans slipping through the cracks of the job market.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/05/only-47-americans-have-full-time-job


June 2008 - 5.6% unemployment under Bush
June 2013 - 7.6% unemployment under Obama

June 2008 - 38M people living in poverty under Bush
June 2013 - 50M people living in poverty under Obama

June 2008 - 30M people on food stamps under Bush
June 2013 - 48M people on food stamps under Obama

July 5, 2008 - $9.8T National Debt under Bush
July 5, 2013 - $16.9T National Debt under Obama

Happy Dependence Day!

They've been incredibly foul, offensive, grotesque, and child-abusive in their demonstrations to support the 'right' of killing of babies after 5 months. Now they are collecting feces for slinging at someone or something.

DPS officers have thus far discovered one jar suspected to contain urine, 18 jars suspected to contain feces, and three bottles suspected to contain paint. All of these items – as well as significant quantities of feminine hygiene products, glitter and confetti possessed by individuals

http://m.ketknbc.com/w/main/story/95609804/

Obama promised us that the rates would go down. Like magic, against the laws of macroeconomics, against the laws of human behavior, but following the rules of radicals everywhere.

INDIANAPOLIS – As a result of the federal Affordable Care Act, individual health insurance rates in Indiana will increase by an average of 72% in 2014 according to Logan Harrison, Chief Deputy Commissioner at the Indiana Department of Insurance. Small group rates will increase by 8%.

Harrison commented, “This new data regrettably confirms the negative impact of the Affordable Care Act on the insurance market in Indiana. The Affordable Care Act requires many Hoosiers to purchase more comprehensive and more expensive health insurance than they may want or need. These rates call into question just how affordable health insurance will really be for many Hoosiers.”

Harrison noted that the State’s actuary predicted this substantial rate increase in 2010, after passage of the Affordable Care Act. He also mentioned that other states being highlighted as benefitting from the Affordable Care Act have already seen exorbitant health insurance rate increases in past years as a result of similar failed policy initiatives. Many of these states have more onerous insurance market regulations than even under the Affordable Care Act.


http://nwigazette.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/health-insurance-rates-to-skyrocket-in-indiana-says-dept-of-insurance/

Mark Steyn lays it down on Detroit:

With bankruptcy temporarily struck down, we’re told that “innovation hubs” and “enterprise zones” are the answer. Seriously? In my book After America, I observe that the physical decay of Detroit — the vacant and derelict lots for block after block after block — is as nothing compared to the decay of the city’s human capital. Forty-seven percent of adults are functionally illiterate, which is about the same rate as the Central African Republic, which at least has the excuse that it was ruled throughout the Seventies by a cannibal emperor. Why would any genuine innovator open a business in a Detroit “innovation hub”? Whom would you employ? The illiterates include a recent president of the school board, Otis Mathis, which doesn’t bode well for the potential work force a decade hence.

Given their respective starting points, one has to conclude that Detroit’s Democratic party makes a far more comprehensive wrecking crew than Emperor Bokassa ever did. No bombs, no invasions, no civil war, just “liberal” “progressive” politics day in, day out. Americans sigh and say, “Oh, well, Detroit’s an ‘outlier.’” It’s an outlier only in the sense that it happened here first. The same malign alliance between a corrupt political class, rapacious public-sector unions, and an ever more swollen army of welfare dependents has been adopted in the formally Golden State of California, and in large part by the Obama administration, whose priorities — “health” “care” “reform,” “immigration” “reform” — are determined by the same elite/union/dependency axis. As one droll tweeter put it, “If Obama had a city, it would look like Detroit.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/353959/downfall-detroit-mark-steyn

These people just do whatever the he11 they want. Laws are for suckers who give a damn.

Authorities are investigating the man President Obama tapped to take over the second highest spot at the Department of Homeland Security for allegedly using his position and power to unfairly obtain U.S. visas for foreign investors in a company run by Hillary Clinton’s brother, FoxNews.com has confirmed.

Alejandro Mayorkas, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was named by Homeland Security’s Inspector General’s Office as a target in an investigation involving the foreign investor program run by USCIS, according to an email sent to lawmakers late Monday.

The investigation was opened in September 2012 following a referral from an FBI counterintelligence analyst. The probe was first reported by The Associated Press.

The investigation into Mayorkas is based on allegations he helped secure U.S. visas for Chinese businessmen after they had been denied by his own agency’s officials. The visas had been sought by Gulf Coast Funds Management, a financing company headed by then-Secretary of State Clinton’s brother Anthony Rodham, according to an aide to GOP Sen. Charles Grassley, who had received internal USCIS emails about the matter from a department whistle blower.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/24/investigation-into-dhs-official-using-his-power-to-help-hillary-clinton-brother/

Here is one way to feel "connected".

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked during an interview for Time magazine what he though was the most astounding fact he could share about the universe.

http://youtu.be/9D05ej8u-gU

Her PR campaign is in full swing this month. I can't decide what her biggest achievement as SS was: propping up the Muslim Bro'hood in Egypt (after first backing Mubarek), the Al-Qaeda controlled Syrian freedom fighters, or reminding us to think "what difference does it make?" whether an American ambassador was killed by people protesting a film or an organized military assault by Al-Qaeda, or going after a two-bit Youtube filmmaker to appease muslims (“We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video.”), taking the side of the fascist coup leader in Honduras, or overseeing a foreign service through a time of disgraceful sex and prostitition and corruption scandals. She was on the wrong side of freedom, democracy, and U.S. national interests at almost every major issue of her tenure.

It's not all her fault, though, because Obama controls foreign policy and delegates "global women's issues" to Hillary. Aaron David Miller, a longtime diplomat and Middle East expert, who was in charge in Washington on Iran, said that the policy is “made, controlled, and micromanaged by the White House.” That, he noted, is true of most important areas of work. Clinton, he said, “doesn’t own any issues.”

I guess it's fair to say that she has indeed worked very hard and tirelessly pushed Obama's political agenda wherever she went.

http://redalertpolitics.com/2013/07/30/hillary-clinton-to-be-honored-with-american-patriot-award-for-defending-our-nation/