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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

October 10, 2014 05:07 AM Forum: Politics

Obama To Hide Obamacare Rates Until After Election

Posted By Dave Snope
Of course he is. Everything he does is for The Party.

HealthCare.gov, the online portal where millions of Americans must by health insurance, will not display premiums for 2015 until after the 2014 elections, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

Obama administration officials told the AP that Americans will not be able to find out if their health insurance premiums are going up "until the second week of November," which conveniently falls after Americans will go to the polls November 4th.

Virtually any change in income can significantly change what kind of premiums and plans are available to current Obamacare enrollees. Americans who thought they were lucky to get a raise this past year are likely to either lose their Obamacare subsidies entirely or see them significantly reduced. Americans who report less income compared to a year ago might not qualify for private health insurance at all and could be forced into Medicaid.

Income changes are not the only threat facing Obamacare enrollees. The rates for their specific plan may have increased dramatically from last year and reports indicate that the most popular low cost plans also experienced the steepest rate hikes.

October 16, 2014 02:10 AM Forum: Politics

Thanks, Barack

Posted By Dave Snope
Just got our price for 2015 Democrat-mandated healthcare. Not surprisingly, given that we are a captive customer in a politically managed government-controlled system, the price went up. BY $300 MORE PER MONTH. $3600 more per year that we have to fork out.

You can be sure that our consumer spending will go down by $3600 next year. Thanks, Barry.

October 21, 2014 05:28 PM Forum: Politics

Oops

Posted By Dave Snope
CBS journalist made me laugh to start the day off right.

https://twitter.com/slone/status/523203440328331264/photo/1

“The sad part of it all is that Dr. Paul is more qualified to talk about ebola than the administration’s ebola czar.”

October 24, 2014 01:36 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

October 23 Partial Eclipse

Posted By Dave Snope
Maximum partial solar eclipse from Southern California at 15:30 PST. Also massive sunspot AR12192 makes a nice showing.


December 3, 2014 11:21 PM Forum: Politics

The Bold And The Beautiful

Posted By Dave Snope
Does she speak Hungarian?

The White House struggled on Tuesday to defend Colleen Bell, President Barack Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to Hungary.

Bell, a top Obama reelection campaign bundler and a producer of the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful, was confirmed today without a single Republican vote in the last window of opportunity for Democrats to approve such 'patronage' appointments before the GOP takes over the Senate in January.

Touching on this today, ABC News' Jonathan Karl asked White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 'what are Colleen Bell's qualifications for ambassador?'
'Was it that she was a soap opera producer, is it that she gave hundreds of thousands of dollars - or helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars - for the Obama reelection campaign? Why was she chosen?' he pondered.
Earnest hemmed and hawed before describing Bell as 'somebody who retains the confidence that, well, let me say it this way: Ambassador Bell has the president's confidence that she will do an excellent job representing the U.S. and maintaining the important relationship the U.S. has with the government and the people of Hungary.'

Not letting it go, Karl asked him 'where does the president get that confidence from?'

'I mean, in her confirmation hearing she couldn't even name a single strategic interest the U.S. had with Hungary,' he pointed out.

'We're about to vote on a totally unqualified individual to be ambassador to a nation which is very important to our national security interest,' McCain said from the Senate floor.
'Her qualifications are as a producer of the television soap opera The Bold and The Beautiful, contributed 800,000 [dollars] to Obama in the last election and bundled more than $2.1 million for President Obama's re-election effort,' he continued.

Also approved by the Senate today was Noah Mamet, who will serve as the U.S. ambassador to Argentina. Senate Democrats gave him the job by a vote of 50-43, even though the Democratic fundraiser admitted during his confirmation hearing that he'd never even been to the South American country.
Mamet raised at least half a million dollars for for Obama's reelection campaign in 2012, according to the Center for Public Integrity, and was on his national finance committee.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2858072/White-House-unable-list-qualifications-Obama-s-choice-U-S-ambassador-Hungary.html

December 15, 2014 05:41 PM Forum: Politics

2014: The Year Of The Liberal Lie

Posted By Dave Snope

Bowe Bergdahl. The IRS’s missing e-mails. Lena Dunham. “Hands up, don’t shoot.” Jonathan Gruber. GM and that faulty ignition switch. Andrew Cuomo and that anti-corruption commission. The Secret Service and that White House intruder. Rachel Noerdlinger and her “disabled” son. Rolling Stone and gang rape.

2014 was the year when truth was optional. 2014 was the year when convenient fabrication was the weapon of choice for celebrities, activists, big business and politicians. 2014 was the Year of the Lie.

....

Where on earth could all of these people have gotten the idea that lying is acceptable? Maybe they’re all just marching to the cadence of the Liar in Chief.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/13/2014-is-the-year-of-the-lie/

December 22, 2014 07:09 AM Forum: Politics

Captain America

Posted By Dave Snope


The first issue of Captain America came out on December 20, 1940. It shows Cap slugging Adolph Hitler in the mouth.

Good stuff, but note the date. America wouldn’t enter World War II for about another year. At the time, many Americans wanted to stay out of another European war. And here was an American superhero punching the leader of a sovereign nation in the kisser. Subsequent issues kept pitting Captain America against Hitler and his goons.

The angriest reaction came from the German-American Bund, Hitler’s stooges in the U.S. They harassed Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, the creators of Captain America, with hate mail and telephoned death threats.

“The theme was ‘death to the Jews,’” Simon wrote in his memoir. “At first we were inclined to laugh off their threats, but then, people in the office reported seeing menacing-looking groups of strange men in front of the building on 42nd Street, and some of the employees were fearful of leaving the office for lunch.”

Simon called the cops, and as soon as the police showed up, the phone rang. Mayor Fiorello La Guardia wanted to speak to the creators of Captain America. Simon got on the line. “You boys over there are doing a good job,” the voice squeaked. “The city of New York will see that no harm will come to you.’”

That is how it’s supposed to work in a democracy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/395049/no-superheroes-interview-cave-jonah-goldberg

December 30, 2014 02:45 AM Forum: Politics

Obameror's Golf Round More Important Than Anything

Posted By Dave Snope
These are captains! In the military! :S

Natalie Heimel and her fiancé, Edward Mallue Jr., a pair of captains in the Army, were walking from their wedding rehearsal on Saturday at the 16th tee box at Kaneohe Klipper Golf Course in Hawaii when they were informed they’d have to move their wedding, scheduled for the next day.

President Barack Obama wanted to play through.

It was the second time that day that the couple heard from the nation’s commander in chief, whose affinity for golf has, at times, caused political headaches for the White House. Stationed in Hawaii and knowing the president spends his Christmas holiday on the islands, they invited him to their ceremony on a lark. They had received a letter earlier on Saturday saying Obama regretted he couldn’t come and wishing them happiness on their wedding day.

“It was kind of ironic they got the letter from them and then, within hours, they were told they had to be moved due to him,” Jamie McCarthy, Mallue’s sister, said in an interview. “It was emotional, especially for her—she’s the bride and in less than 24 hours they had to change everything they had planned.”

January 27, 2015 05:25 AM Forum: Politics

Bowe Bergdahl to be charged with desertion

Posted By Dave Snope
About damn time.

Can we get our $5B and five high level Taliban prisoners back? No, too late to put that Obama cat back in the bag.

January 28, 2015 05:30 PM Forum: Politics

118 Times 33 Minutes

Posted By Dave Snope
The Narcissist In Chief is on a global mission for Himself.

Sorry about that, India. He's a monumental bore. I hope you remember that most Americans do not approve of his 'work'.

Today in New Delhi, the president of the United States delivered an address to the people of India. Topics ranged from Obama’s pride in being the first U.S. president to visit India twice, to the historic nature of his attendance at India’s Republic Day Parade, to his grandfather’s occupation as a chef, to his graying hair, to his daughters … to his struggles against political critics back home. If this is starting to sound like the president spoke quite a bit about himself, that’s because he did. Somehow in the span of just 33 minutes, Obama referenced himself 118 times. (For those keeping score at home, that’s 3.5 Obama references per minute.)

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/01/our-self-obsessed-president.php

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