Here it is; knock yourself out

https://www.healthcare.gov/

 

Reactions to Obamacare around this country

Rosslyn Smith: The Ghost of Vietnam Will Haunt Obamacare ..."The individual mandate is likely to be the most ignored law since the 55 mile an hour speed limit. What he doesn't address is the source of the opposition.  The draft thwarted the plans of young men.  A large slice of those from middle to upper middle class backgrounds would not accept it."

Bruce Johnson; "Sorry. Obamacare is going to hurt me and I can't buy that right now."   When solicitors call for donations in the future, do not avoid answering the phone; Instead do this: 
 

"I pick up, I listen... then I let it be known that I can't buy that right now. I choose not to buy that right now. I choose not to give at this moment.
"I just found out what Obamacare is doing to me and my family and, frankly, my duty is to take care of them.
"People who support Obama and his "signature" legislation have to be made to know, must learn, that what is bad for me just became bad for them.
"Don't miss an opportunity to let them know that their guy is the cause." 
Emphasis added.

 

Civil Disobedience: Citizens Pushing Back  

The people have an obligation to be prudent and circumspect about engaging in civil disobedience, and the government has a responsibility to be scrupulous with its powers. That contract has been violated by the White House.

Gallup: Number of Americans Who Will Refuse To Join Obamacare And Instead Pay Individual Mandate Fine Jumps To 34%, Up 9 Points Since Last Month… 

A key to making the Affordable Care Act work as designed is for all Americans to carry health insurance. To ensure this happens, the law stipulates that Americans are subject to fines if they do not have health insurance. When Gallup reminds uninsured Americans of this requirement and asks what they are most likely to do, 56% say they plan to get insurance, while 34% say they are more likely to pay the fine. 

Why can't the meek and mild Republicans in Washington say these things?

Are you frustrated because the leaders in Washington cannot or will not speak to voters this way? Why can't they be as mad as those of us here in fly-over country so they can produce ads like this one?

Cuccinelli Ad: McAuliffe Is 'Deeply Unserious'
"With just weeks left in the 2013 gubernatorial race in Virginia, Republican candidate Ken Cuccinelli has a new TV ad that questions the seriousness of his Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe. "What's Terry McAuliffe offering Virginia families?" the voiceover asks. "False, misleading attacks; massive, wasteful spending; and $1,700 dollars in higher taxes every year."
"Terry McAuliffe," the voiceover continues. "Deeply unserious." Watch below:"

 

 

Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh for having this on his show today; Great Anti-McAuliffe Ad Changes Minds

"I want you to listen to this again, because isn't this the kind of thing you think the Republican Party ought to be doing? The Republican Party did not do this.  I don't believe that the Republican Party did this.  My memory on this is from something I read about this ad two or three weeks ago, and I don't think the Republican Party of Virginia is doing this."

....  "Now, I'm sorry. I didn't make a note of who the Gang of Five is, but they're media people.  Chris Matthews is one."

 

The major clothing designer whose fashions once struck terror across Europe

 Hugo Boss today     

 

Hugo Boss AG is a German luxury fashion and style house based in Metzingen, Germany. It is named after its founder, Hugo Boss (1885–1948).   "Though he claimed in a 1934/1935 advertising that he had been a "supplier for National Socialist uniforms since 1924", such supplies are probable since 1928/1929 and certain since 1934, when he became an Reichszeugmeisterei-licensed (official) supplier of uniforms to the Sturmabteilung, Schutzstaffel, Hitler Youth, National Socialist Motor Corps, and other party organizations."

And the company's management during the late 30s to the end of the war used slave laborers. 

 

One attraction of the NAZI Party then and even now was the sheer elegance of their uniforms.

 

"According to German historian Henning Kober, the company managers were "avowed Nazis", "the Boss were all great admirers of Adolf Hitler", and Hugo Boss himself had in 1945 in his apartment a photograph of himself with Hitler taken in the latter's Obersalzberg" 

Even American comic books liked to put the good guys into Boss-styled uniforms.
Like this:  "Clad in matching blue and black uniforms (with Blackhawk himself boasting a hawk insignia on his chest), early stories pitted the team against the Axis powers..."

These uniforms were and are uber-cool. The team members all came from assorted Nazi-occupied countries.

Saudi Arabia Rejects Security Council Seat

NY Times  "Assailing what it called double standards at the United Nations, Saudi Arabia took the highly unusual step on Friday of declining to accept a rotating seat on the Security Council one day after it was invited to join the body for a two-year term."
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"The gesture reflected Saudi Arabia’s simmering annoyance at the Security Council’s record in Syria, where Russia and China — two of the five permanent members — have blocked Western efforts, broadly supported by Saudi Arabia, to pressure President Bashar al-Assad. The other permanent members are the United States, Britain and France."

'If it ain't broke': Why are Army uniforms so bad ?

Foreign Policy

"Last summer I saw a Washington Post article about the House's approval of a measure to have all the military services use the same camouflage pattern on their battle dress.

"I applaud that decision, and it got me thinking about uniforms and uniform changes in general and, in particular, those of my service, the Army, which seems to be 1) always changing its uniforms and 2) getting a uniform that is worse than its predecessor. In this regard, I have to admit a certain jealousy of my colleagues in the Marine Corps. I'm no expert, but I believe that the "jarheads" have, basically, had the same uniforms since WWII."

 

Forum on this topic here.  And here.

V.D. Hanson: Sort of True, Sort of Not

Victor Davis Hanson  "The problem with negotiating with President Obama is not necessarily that he sometimes makes things up, but that he always sort of makes things up. Take a single recent October 8 press. All at once, the president used a weird assortment of similes and allusions to brand ad nauseam his opponents as little more than ransom takers, house burners, defaulters, global-economy crashers, nuclear-bomb users, extremists, threateners, extortionists, hostage takers, plant burners, and equipment breakers. He then bragged that domestic oil and gas production on his watch are at an all-time high—true, but he left out the salient fact that such gains are entirely the result of exploration on private lands, given that under his administration new federal oil and gas leases have by intention radically slowed. In 2010 actual oil and gas production on federal land hit historic lows. Ditto Obama’s brag that he lowered the deficit by half..."

Henninger: Obama Romneyizes the Republicans; The president is doing the same thing to Ted Cruz and the tea party that he did to the 1%.

 

 Wall Street Journal  "Want a look at how a pro is spinning the Washington mess? Punch into Twitter.com and type "Barack Obama" into the search window. Click on "Barack Obama," next to the "End This Now" logo. The Obama tweets the past week have been fairly amazing. As in the presidential campaign against Mitt Romney, the Twitter feeds going out in the name of the president of the United States are virtually wall-to-wall propaganda.

Barack Obama: "If the debt ceiling isn't raised by Thursday, America could face an economic shutdown." This from the man who accuses the GOP of "manufacturing crises.' "
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"Virtually every Obama tweet demonizes the tea party. Last week, within minutes of the collapse of the Obama-Boehner talks, the tweeting robot called "Barack Obama" had hung the collapse on the "tea party.' "
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"Someone in the tea party outside the Beltway had better wake up and smell the smoke. The great nemesis has done it again: He's turning them into political toast."

The natural follow-up to this strategy will -of course- be this:

Charles Krauthammer: Obama looking to exploit Illegal Immigration for 2014 elections    "He just uses the issue to demagogue Republicans. That’s what he’ll try to do again."