Not only can’t you keep your doctor, you may not even have a doctor

Legal Insurrection  

 

Obamacare-exchange insurance is essentially Medicaid lite – insurance but few doctors who will see you.

"We’ve covered this issue before – No, you can’t keep your doctor, in fact, you may not even have a doctor because the only way for Obamacare exchanges to keep prices down for the expansive coverage required by law is to severely restrict your access to medical providers.
"Oh, you’ll have “insurance,” just few doctors in the network and those who are will be overwhelmed.  Welcome to waiting times, at best.

"From that known right-wing fearmonger, The New York Times, Lower Health Insurance Premiums to Come at Cost of Fewer Choices
....

"There’s a term for this: Bait and switch.  You think you’re getting a Cadillac plan, but you’ve just paid cash for a clunker."

Related: You can keep your doctor* (*unless doctor and staff laid off due to Obamacare) and Obamacare destroying the private insurance market (according to plan).

Righteous concerns about ObamaCare

Forbes: It's Official: Obamacare Will Increase Health Spending By $7,450 For A Typical Family of Four   Said Obama in 2008: “In an Obama administration, we’ll lower premiums by up to $2,500 for a typical family per year….. We’ll do it by the end of my first term as President of the United States.” 

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

NEJM.org. Only the Beginning — What's Next at the Health Insurance Exchanges?   On October 1, the health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will open for business. Administrators must complete myriad tasks if they are to serve the millions of individuals — many of whom will be eligible for subsidies — and employees of small businesses who are ready to buy insurance. Initial glitches are likely. Some may be serious. But with good will and persistence, they can be corrected, as Massachusetts' experience with a law similar to the ACA has shown. That is not the end of the story, however. After the exchanges are up and running, they will be in a position to make decisions that will help shape the organization, quality, and financing of all U.S. health care.

 

When Obamacare ‘Navigators’ Ask If You’re Qualified, You Should Ask Them About Identity Theft  "Thirteen attorneys general have expressed deep concerns about what the Navigators are going to do with the information. They are rightly worried about identity theft and fraud as consumers reveal Social Security numbers, addresses, employer information, income, home addresses, children’s names, health habits, and much more."

Part-time nation?  "Grace-Marie Turner joins Fox and Friends Weekend to discuss the impact ObamaCare’s employer mandate is having on businesses and jobs." (Video at the link)

The Grace-Marie Turner article: It’s Fact, Not Anecdote, That ObamaCare Is Turning Us Into A Part-Time Nation

 Doctors Brace for Health Law’s Surge of Ailing Patients   "Now, as a result of the U.S. Affordable Care Act, it’s mulling adding staff and hours in anticipation of next year’s rush of newly-insured patients, many with chronic medical conditions that have gone untreated for years."

How's this line up with other hospitals laying off people because of ObamaCare? 

Nincompoopery: Your Home? or a Government Holding Cell?

netrightdaily.com

Underground — And Illegal — NYC Dinner Parties
"*GASP*  And there's more!!!

"Clandestine dinner parties like the one Leitner attended have become more common in New York City. And insiders told Leitner they are completely unregulated."

"Unregulated dinner parties! The horror! There's probably free-lance butlering going on at these rogue events as well!

"Are We still a Free People?

"I don't care if they are gathering to swap spouses, build model airplanes, have farting contests, buy and consume raw milk, study the Bible or Koran, or eat unhealthy foods prepared with blowtorches. Free people gathering voluntarily on private property is no business of government so long as those people are not violating the rights of others or disturbing their tranquility."....

Israeli Special Forces Have Stormed The Nairobi Mall With Kenyan Police To Rescue Hostages

Atlas Shrugs 

"The US is glaringly absent in this worldwide fight for freedom. Obama is Kenyan, a native, so you might think ...... but his father (and stepfather) were Muslim; perhaps that is why he always comes down on the side of the jihad.
Here is where America should be leading from the front, the side, but somewhere. I am ashamed for my country.
"Here's the latest from Haaretz via Before It's News (thanks to Super Closer)"

Israeli forces have reportedly joined efforts to end a deadly siege by Somali militants at a Kenyan shopping mall, a security source told AFP Sunday.

“The Israelis have just entered and they are rescuing the hostages and the injured,” AFP quoted the source as saying on condition he not be named.

Wherever there is a public disturbance in the Muslim world, it seems, Christians wind up being killed.

Another Sunday Morning, More Christians Are Murdered.  "At least 75 Christians, including women and children, were killed by two suicide bombers as they were leaving church Sunday in Pakistan."
Still waiting to see demonstrations by Muslims angry over what is being done by other Muslims in the name of Islam.

21 Cities You’re Pronouncing Wrong

Buzzfeed   Don’t worry, here’s the right way to say them.

This one is #9:

 

Peggy Noonan: WH Staffers Nickname President 'Obam-me'

Newsmax  "White House staffers have adopted a new and unflattering nickname for their boss: "Obam-me," Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan says she heard in chats with a few senators.

"And how did the staffers come up with that name?

" 'Because it's all about him and his big thoughts," Noonan writes in a column. "I guess the second-term team is not quite as adoring as the first.' "

The Decline of College

Victor Davis Hanson  "For the last 70 years, American higher education was assumed to be the pathway to upper-mobility and a rich shared-learning experience.
"The result was a more skilled workforce and a competent democratic citizenry. That ideal may still be true at our flagship universities, with their enormous endowments and stellar world rankings.
"Yet most elsewhere, something went terribly wrong with that model. Almost all the old campus protocols are now tragically outdated or antithetical to their original mission. 

"Young Americans for four years took a common core of classes, learned to look at the world dispassionately, and gained the concrete knowledge to make informed arguments logically."...

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution,Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern”

Many, many bikers roar into DC to compete with the Muslim demonstration

Why do I say "compete"? Because the Muslim rally was organized, I suppose, for Muslims to protest their poor image in American society and to ask that they be respected, which is fine enough as far as it goes. But I heard not one word of anger from Muslims over the murder and destruction around the world done by Muslims in the name of Islam.

WND  "It was originally billed as “The Million Muslim March,” though organizers later revised it to the “Million American March Against Fear.”
"But at noon Wednesday in the nation’s capital, there weren’t a million Muslims or Americans to be found anywhere – not even close.

....
The Weekly Standard had reported Tuesday that police were expecting “the size of the March will be somewhere in the hundreds, not thousands, of participants.”
Mark Segraves of the NBC affiliate in Washington reported that only “about 25 people,” including activist Cornel West, were at the Muslim march as of 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, with a group of Christians about the same size nearby.
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"The name of the “Million Muslim March” was changed to the “Million American March Against Fear” because organizers said the original name proved too “scary.”
"In fact, The American Muslim Political Action Committee was criticized for scheduling the march on the anniversary of 9/11.
"But organizers insist the name was changed because, “Many non-Muslim Americans are terrified of Muslims, who are portrayed by Hollywood and the US media as fanatical terrorists.”"

"Portrayed by Hollywood"? The last few times I saw terrorism films, it was usually extreme right-wingers or violent Christians committing the acts.
Perhaps that is just as well; if Hollywood does make a movie with Islamic terrorists, we'd have to endure more episodes of this president and his cabinet groveling before the Muslim world. TD

However, the counter-protest by bikers was in evidence everywhere.
Driving in from Canada and from all over the United States, the bikers, who were denied a permit for their demonstration, were flooding the capital.
At approximately 1 p.m., “2 Million Bikers to DC” Facebook page co-founder Belinda Bee posted that police have counted nearly 1 million bikers are on the streets of Washington.

Meanwhile, Canadian and American bikers came to DC for 9-11:
 

One of a kind photo from Hollywood in 1943

Brings  back memories of the old days when movies were something for the family. It is a 1943 promotional photo of many of the actors under contract with MGM at the studio's 20th birthday party.

This is an amazing picture, made during World War 2, and features some actors in uniform. It is one you will never see the like of again.

Front Row: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Lucille Ball, Hedy Lamarr, Katharine Hepburn, Louis B Mayer, Greer Garson, Irene Dunne, Susan Peters, Ginny Simms, Lionel Barrymore

Second Row: Harry James, Brian Donlevy, Red Skelton, Mickey Rooney, William Powell, Wallace Beery, Spencer Tracy, Walter Pidgeon, Robert Taylor, Pierre Aumont, Lewis Stone, Gene Kelly, Jackie Jenkins

Third Row: Tommy Dorsey, George Murphy, Jean Rogers, James Craig, Donna Reed, Van Johnson, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main, Robert Benchley

Fourth Row: Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Keenan Wynn, Diana Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Esther Williams, Ann Richards, Marta Linden, Lee Bowman, Richard Carlson, Mary Astor

Fifth Row: Blanche Ring, Sara Haden, Fay Holden, Bert Lahr, Frances Gifford, June Allyson, Richard Whorf, Frances Rafferty, Spring Byington, Connie Gilchrist, Gladys Cooper

Sixth Row: Ben Blue, Chill Wills, Keye Luke, Barry Nelson, Desi Arnaz, Henry O'Neill, Bob Crosby, Rags Ragland
Other sources for this:
http://twentytwowords.com/2012/05/11/a-1943-group-photo-of-65-movie-stars/
http://www.katharinehepburntheater.org/blog/katharine-hepburn/katharine-hepburn-among-the-mgm-stars/

And then today we have:  

Hat tip to Val Brose, Santa Maria, CA 

Free speech on our college campuses?

From FIRE: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

From Berkeley to the 'Blueprint': Prof. Dave's Fight for Free Speech on Campus

Which brings us to this:  California College Forbids Passing Out Constitutions...On Constitution Day   "In a stunning illustration of the attitude taken towards free speech by too many colleges across the United States, Modesto Junior College in California told a student that he could not pass out copies of the United States Constitution outside the student center on September 17, 2013—Constitution Day. Captured on video, college police and administrators demanded that Robert Van Tuinen stop passing out Constitution pamphlets and told him that he would only be allowed to pass them out in the college’s tiny free speech zone, and only after scheduling it several days or weeks ahead of time." 

This Sketch Is Dead-On

From Chicks on the Right comes this portrayal of American media that is, unfortunately, too close to the truth.
"This sketch from the BS of A is awesome and I love it, because 1. It's funny, and 2. We've interviewed Buck Sexton on our radio show, and he's not only just a wee bit accomplished and genuinely nice, but obviously has a wicked sense of humor, too.  
...
"It's just too bad that while this sketch is indeed funny, it's also a completely accurate depiction of our lamestream liberal American media.  Which is equally pathetic and frightening."

Have liberals turned America into a "banana republic"?

American Banana Republic    Mark Steyn: The decay of a free society doesn’t happen overnight, but we’re getting there.

 

“ 'Banana republic” is an American coinage — by O. Henry, a century ago, for a series of stories set in the fictional tropical polity of Anchuria. But a banana republic doesn’t happen overnight; it’s a sensibility, and it’s difficult to mark the precise point at which a free society decays into something less respectable. Pace Obama, ever swelling debt, contracts for cronies, a self-enriching bureaucracy, a shrinking middle class preyed on by corrupt tax collectors, and thuggish threats against anyone who disagrees with you put you pretty far down the banana-strewn path."

Thomas Lifson; Obama claims, 'We're not some banana republic' and Mark Steyn examines the evidence  " Obama has been behaving like a caudillo in ways beyond those enumerated by Steyn. Laughter may still be effective in persuading low information types about the fundamental transformation Obama is implementing." 

 

Dictator's job: Promise them everything and give them nothing.