15 Pop Culture Jack O’Lanterns That You Wish You Made Yourself

Buzzfeed    "How do you make a pumpkin more delightful? Carve in your favorite fandom. After that, you’ll be happier than Dracula at a blood bank! And just as happy as a person calling GEICO customer service."

Barack Obama: The Most Uninformed President in History

Big Government  ...."This weekend, we learned that President Obama "didn't know about" NSA spying on world leaders, especially German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He also "didn't know about" the posthumously obvious problems with the rollout of the ObamaCare website exchanges. According to the New York Times, these problems were evident eight months ago. Yet, it seems, they never made it to the President's desk.

"President Obama was also completely unaware that the IRS was subjecting conservative organizations to undue scrutiny on their tax-exempt applications. At the time of the alleged targeting, the IRS Commissioner visited the White House more than almost any other federal official, but, apparently, never disclosed his agency's targeting of political opponents of Obama."....
But wait! There's more!
And: "President Obama also, presumably, was unaware of the Justice Department's program to allow Mexican drug gangs to purchase military-grade arms from the US."....
 And: "President Obama also, apparently, didn't know that his spy agencies were monitoring millions of phone calls...."
 And: "President Obama also didn't know that his diplomatic mission in Libya had requested more security and felt threatened by rising tension in the war-torn country."....
....
So: He has advisors, right? He gets regular briefings, I assume. None of this ever comes up?...."

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Has Your Health Insurance Plan Been Canceled?

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Below is the text of a letter I wrote in the Tillamook, Oregon Headlight-Herald in 2012. It was titled, "Liberal solutions bring about mediocrity"

     My own father died nearly destitute, largely because of my hypochondriac mother who required bags-full of prescriptions and a schedule filled with doctor appointments.

      Another good friend was forced out of his home due to the oppressive expenses of caring for his wife with Alzheimer’s. The same happened to another relative whose wife had dementia. I see what long-term illness can do to a family’s finances and desperately wish something could be done to help.

     But I also see how the present solution of Pelosi-Obama’s vast plan can reach into every corner of our lives; and make no mistake about it, this government or one like it will. Liberal solutions unfailingly bring about mediocrity in everything they touch and you can be sure this will happen to medical practice. I saw socialized medicine during a three-month stay at the Camp Lejeune hospital where dependents of Marines seeing doctors were given the standing appointment time of 0800.
     There the room was filled with mothers and children, waiting in folding metal chairs for their turn with a doctor to come. Their numbers gradually grew smaller through the day while the remaining children grew more and more restless with no place for them to play, only to run around the rows of steel chairs where their mothers continued to wait.
     By the afternoon, there were only a couple of families left, waiting since 8 a.m. All this because the hospital was government-run and had no incentive to encourage patients’ selection of them as medical provider.
     I desperately wish those mentioned here could have been taken care of, but never by committed socialists whose supporters hang Che posters and communist flags in their offices.   The Tunnel Dweller
 Now, on to the subject of cancellations:

 Heritage  “Before, I had a plan that I had a $1,500 deductible,” she told CBS News. “I paid $199 a month. The most similar plan that I would have available to me would be $278 a month. My deductible would be $6,500, and all of my care after that point would only be covered 70 percent.”

"The cancellations are still being announced in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Maryland. Over the next year, NBC News reports, between 50 percent and 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy insurance on the individual market could get cancellations."

From Godfather Politics: "We know that Nancy Pelosi never read the Act she voted for. Her response has become six seconds of liberalism stripped naked: “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.' ”

The Liberal blog Think Progress gives us this opinion: Here Is What’s Wrong With That Story About Obama Knowing That Your Health Care Policy Would Get Cancelled  "The goal of grandfather regulations is to allow a consumer to keep their existing policies, while also ensuring that there are some basic patient protections built into these plans. If insurers make changes that significantly burden enrollees with lower benefits and increased costs they have to come into compliance with all consumer protections."....

"So yes, individuals can keep the plans they have if those plans remain largely the same. But individuals receiving cancellation notices will have a choice of enrolling in subsidized insurance in the exchanges and will probably end up paying less for more coverage."

 

But what changes with regard to the deductible?

Does the failure to reach proper standards have to do with the fact that my wife and I -both in our seventies - do not have prenatal coverage?

Premium increases under Obamacare

Florida Woman's Insurance Rate Increases 10X Under Obamacare  "I just want to know why I can't keep what I have. ... Why do I have to be forced into something else?"
...."One Florida woman is going from paying $54 a month to $591 under Obamacare, CBS reports:"


With His Premiums More Than Doubling, This Dad Would “Rather File Bankruptcy” Than Deal with Obamacare  "Ben Neptun and his wife Charla are “furious” their family’s health insurance premium will be raised from $419 to $899 per month because of Obamacare."

Insurance cancellations; WH: 'It's True' Some Americans Won't Be Able to Keep Their Health Care Plan Under Obamacare

The Weekly Standard  "White House spokesman Jay Carney explained at today's briefing that "it's true" some Americans will not be able to keep their health care plan under Obamacare: 

"The journalist Ed Henry asked, "The president, when he was trying to get the law passed, repeatedly said, if you currently have health insurance you will be able to keep your plan. This morning David Axelrod was pressed on that point and said, the majority -- the vast majority -- will be able to keep their plans. He no longer works at the White House. From the podium, will you admit that when president said, if you have a plan, you'll get to keep it, that that was not true?"

"After some throat clearing, Carney said, "So it's true there are existing health care plans on the individual market that do not meet those minimum standards and therefore do not qualify for the Affordable Care Act.' "
The discussion continues with this video
 

Hat tip to Eddie Stidham at US Tea Party Political Activists National Assembly

Californians getting slammed by cancellations, rate increases 
" 'She said, 'I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,'" Kehaly said. (My emphasis)"
Obama's reelection is now explained with that confession. There were rock concerts followed by the concertgoers being directed to polls close by for early voting. Democrats knew they were sweeping the low-information voters to their causes, no matter what the consequences to this nation.
Obama had near 50 million votes, equal to the O.J. Simpson jury times four million. TD

NRO: No, You Can’t Keep It   "When and if the website is finally functioning, many of these people won’t like what they see. .... For millions of Americans, Obamacare will be an experience in plumbing the depths of the dishonesty of President Obama’s case for his signature domestic accomplishment."

Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance  "Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent.....' ”  

Benghazi Report: First Western eyewitness in Benghazi to go public gives account of attack, warning signs

Fox News  via Lucianne  "The first Western eyewitness to the deadly Benghazi terror attacks has given an account of the seven-hour assault on the U.S. outpost in Libya and says Americans knew such an incident was inevitable.

"The witness -- a former British soldier who for decades helped protect U.S. diplomats and military leaders -- told CBS’ “60 Minutes” that Al Qaeda forces first attacked the U.S. Special Mission Compound in which Ambassador Christopher Stevens was killed. Then they launched a second attack on a secret CIA annex about a mile across the city.

“ 'They knew what they were doing,” the security guard told CBS. “That was a well-executed attack.' ” 
Video at the link, but you have to sit through a commercial.

Legal Insurrection; 60 Minutes confirms Benghazi is a real scandal, and you’ve been lied to   "....the Obama administration lied about these warnings after the attack.
"Hillary* and Obama blamed a video and stood by the caskets perpetuating that lie.
"And remember how almost all of the media obsessed with Mitt Romney’s statement over Benghazi, and colluded to ask Romney gotcha questions while downplaying and obfuscating what really happened."
*File this away for 2016 

Bill Whittle – Common Core Is Obamacare For Education (UPDATED)

American Glob  Government control over education just as Obamacare is control over our healthcare and our lifestyles.

 

Common Core – Teaching Alinsky to first graders   "Do first graders really need to learn how to use emotional words in writing to bring about social justice? Common Core thinks so."

 

 

UPDATE from the WaPo: Principal: "I was Naïve about Common Core"   "Here’s a powerful piece about how an award-winning principal went from being a Common Core supporter to an opponent. This was written by Carol Burris, principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State. She is one of the co-authors of the principals’ letter against evaluating teachers by student test scores, which has been signed by 1,535 New York principals."

....

Recalling how she and her colleagues were once fully behind Common Core, she  confesses,
"I even co-authored a book, “Opening the Common Core,” on how to help schools meet that goal.  It is a book about rich curriculum and equitable teaching practices, not about testing and sanctions. We wrote it because we thought that the Common Core would be a student-centered reform based on principles of equity.

"I confess that I was naïve...."

Utahns Against Common Core  This lists many organizations you are familiar with that oppose Common-Core.

How Many Have Enrolled in Obamacare?

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire  AP: "The Obama administration will face intense pressure next week to be more forthcoming about how many people have actually succeeded in enrolling for coverage in the new insurance markets. Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner is to testify during a House hearing Tuesday, followed Wednesday by Sebelius before the House Energy and Commerce Committee."

"Meanwhile, the New York Times reports economists and policy wonks behind the Affordable Care Act worry that the technical problems bedeviling the federal portal could become much more than an inconvenience. If young applicants "decide to put off or give up on buying coverage, rising prices and even a destabilized insurance market could result.' "

That NY Times article: Health Site’s Woes Could Dissuade Vital Enrollee: the Young and Healthy

Organizing For Action workers in Arlington, Va.,  inform the public

about the launch of Obamacare on Oct. 1.

 

"The economists and policy wonks behind the Affordable Care Act worry that the technical problems bedeviling the federal portal could become much more than an inconvenience. If applicants like Mr. Jackson decide to put off or give up on buying coverage, rising prices and even a destabilized insurance market could result."

Cyber Bullying: Bullied Texas Teen Fights Back

Barracuda Brigade  "Texas High School Jr. Shea Shawhan was born with a brain injury, and it causes her to have seizures.
"Over the past 8 months, Shea's been the victim of some brutal online bullying, but this time, she's fighting back!"   Via RightSightings.com

 

Rebecca Sedwick, 12, jumped to her
death from a third-story cement plant
 

Cyberbullying investigated in death of Florida girl 

"Two girls, ages 12 and 14, have been charged with aggravated stalking for what a Florida sheriff described Tuesday as "maliciously harassing" a 12-year-old girl who jumped from a tower to her death."

....

"....  a Facebook post by the 14-year-old which read, “yes I bullied Rebecca and she killed herself, but I don’t give a (expletive),” prompted Monday's arrests."....

"....other children at the school also started bullying Sedwick to avoid being bullied themselves. The 12-year-old was Sedwick’s former “best friend,” Judd said."
 

Cyber Bullying Law and Legal Definition  "The National Crime Prevention Council defines cyber-bullying as “the process of using the Internet, cell phones or other devices to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person.' ”

 

So then, why wouldn't you call this 2009 incident cyber-bullying? 

He sort of apologized and, being of the left, no problem.
 

Palin vs. Letterman   "....Gov. Sarah Palin and her husband, Todd, are swinging back at David Letterman, after the talk-show host made the Alaska governor and her family the focus of a series of off-color jokes." 

Hilarious Saturday Night Live spoof on healthcare.gov

Rick Moran  What else could they have chosen as an opening skit?

 

" 'Millions of Americans are visiting the Healthcare.gov, which is great news," she said. "Unfortunately, the site was only designed to handle six users at a time."

"Sebelius also told users that while they were waiting for the site to respond, they could book vacations to Canada on Kayak.com and buy cheaper prescription drugs while out of the country." More here.

Star Parker blasts Obama over race relations

WND   'This president has decided to use the bully pulpit to separate us as a society'
 

"President Obama is using race as a divider in America, instead of trying to unite the nation, charges the head of a nonprofit think tank that addresses issues of race and poverty through principles of faith, freedom and personal responsibility.
“ 'I think that race relations in America were getting better over time [before Obama's election],” said Star Parker, the founder and president of  the Washington-based Center for Urban Renewal and Education, or CURE."

Star Parker "has a BS degree in Marketing and Business from Woodbury University and has received numerous awards and commendations for her work. She has lectured on poverty issues at more than 180 colleges and universities and has served on advisory boards for several organizations ranging from Carenet to the Cato Institute."

Michael Moore And Al Sharpton Argue Christianity Just As Bad As Radical Islam…

Weasel Zippers  "With the obligatory Michael Moore “it’s our fault they want to kill us” argument."

"I’ll begrudgingly giver Maher credit for pointing out the left’s mind-numbing hypocrisy when it comes to criticizing Islam."
Full article

...."But both Maher and Dawkins argued that unlike Islamic extremists, Christian extremists don’t casually throw out fatwas and death threats when their faith is attacked.
"Sharpton insisted much of the Muslim community has thoroughly denounced the “distorted use” of their faith, while Moore charged that Christian extremists are just as bad because their stranglehold on American politics has kept the U.S. in a scientific “dark age.' ”