Obama: You Can't Really Keep Your Doctor (VIDEO) and many other broken promises

Heritage 

 

"We knew this was coming—because it’s been happening to Americans for awhile. The president finally admitted that you can’t necessarily keep your doctor under Obamacare.

"In an interview with WebMD (Check the “Access to Care” portion at 1:00 in), he said:

For the average person, many folks who don’t have health insurance initially, they’re going to have to make some choices. And they might end up having to switch doctors, in part because they’re saving money.

Top 10 Broken Obamacare Promises (including the previous one)

"Since the passage of Obamacare in 2010, many of the President’s famous promises have been routinely broken. As he so ironically threatened in 2009, “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out.” To that end, here are 10 promises of Obamacare that have already been broken."

 

This would be number 11: Obamacare Recruiting Illegals in California   "In 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) apologized profusely to the White House for shouting, "You lie!" as President Barack Obama told Congress that Obamacare would not cover illegal immigrants. Now it would appear that the White House owes Wilson an apology, as Covered California--the flagship of state Obamacare exchanges--is recruiting illegal ("undocumented") immigrants to sign up for the program, regardless of their eligibility." 

Uppity Deniers, Unite!

Leann Horrocks    "Climate is the planet's strategy and weather is its tactic.  It is unbelievably presumptuous of we humans to think we are affecting either one.  Let's take a common sense look at the concept formerly known as “global warming” now known as “man-caused climate change” -- an oxymoron if there ever was one.

 

"There is a lot of oil to be had on this planet. Some deposits are easier to find than others.  The Arabian Peninsula is fairly low-hanging fruit in this regard and it seems to be loaded with oil.  This area is also quite inhospitable to human life -- there is lots of sun, no rain and the surface seems to consist largely of sand.  Oil, however is made of decayed plant and animal matter.  This means this area was once teeming with flora and fauna.  It no longer is.  The climate has changed.  Climate change is normal, climate change is gradual in the greater scheme of things and climate change is not always amenable to human interests.

 

"The conversion of this lush forest to a largely barren wasteland we now know as the Arabian Peninsula occurred over a time when there was no man-made anything, let alone cars and coal plants."

Obama Proves Once Again That He Has No Idea How Business Works

 American Glob  "ObamaCare should have been definitive proof that Obama, who has never run a company or met a payroll, has no idea how business works.

 
"Yet now he’s venturing into the world of overtime pay…

Biz stunned by Obama overtime move
Business groups and congressional Republicans are blasting regulations President Obama will announce Thursday that could extend overtime pay to as many as 10 million workers who are now ineligible for it.
While liberals lauded the plan as putting more cash in the pockets of millions of workers, business groups warned it would damage the economy and Republicans said it was another example of executive overreach.

"I’m reminded of a classic scene in the movie Amadeus when the clueless emperor tells Mozart that his new opera is excellent but there are simply too many notes."

My Wife's Last Days -- And the Coming ObamaCare Death Panel

American Thinker  ... "the death panel, also known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). This is the group of political appointees designed to allow the federal government to use a combination of medical and social criteria to determine the healthcare an individual receives.

 

"Or, to put it as bluntly as Sarah Palin did, to determine who lives and who dies. Why am I thinking about that now? Because my wife and soul-mate of 33 years, Sharon Harrah Schwartz, died at the age of 62 in January. Her passing put an end to a slow-motion death from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, ALS, popularly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. She would have occupied the bottom portion of an IPAB treatment list."

Stilton Jarlsberg

Missing Malaysia Airlines jet: Investigation paying 'special attention' to Chinese Uighur passenger

 

The Sydney Morning Herald  "Police investigating the backgrounds of all 239 people aboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight are paying “special attention” to a 35 year-old Chinese Uighur man who undertook flight simulation training, according to a report in a leading Malay language newspaper in Kuala Lumpur."

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"Police are checking the psychological and personal backgrounds of the 227 passengers and 12 crew, including chief pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah whose house has been raided by police.

"Police questioned his family about his behaviour over the days before the plane’s disappearance, the same as they plan to do for all who were on board."

Why It's So Hard for Obama to Be Tough on Russia (For starters, it's because Obama is a typical non-serious Democrat "world leader")

"The president needs Putin as his ally to accomplish his most ambitious second-term goals."

The Atlantic Monthly  "But the harder reality is that most of the time the president will spend on foreign policy in coming months will focus on risk mitigation—trying to avoid a catastrophe more than working to create a triumph."

 

Putin playing for keeps  "The U.S. wants to threaten Russia with reprisal?  Does the U.S. (which ceded all ground under a phony Obama ‘red line’ in Syria to Putin) need Russia’s help on Syria? The Russians have answer for that.  Check."

 

Why Ukraine? Why Now?  "Meanwhile, President Obama has learned nothing from history.  With active Russian support, Iran is virtually a nuclear power. The current North Korean monster Kim has more respect for Dennis Rodman than for Barack Obama. Obama’s first big foreign policy decision was to betray our allies in Eastern Europe in order to curry favor with Putin. " ...

 

DEBKAfile: The Ukraine crisis: Russia may halt (START) strategic weapons inspections, revert to Cold War tactics  "Two years ago, Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev renewed the treaty. The incumbent Russian president Vladimir Putin is now threatening to abdicate from the 23-year pact, i.e., warning the United States and the West that Moscow is prepared to revert to the belligerent posture maintained by the Soviet Union in the years of the Cold War unless they back off on punitive measures over the Ukraine dispute."

 

Hillary’s Russia Problem More Than ‘Reset’   "Where does Clinton really stand on Russia? Russia’s invasion of Crimea should be pause to consider what lessons should be learned. Alas, if her reliance on Tauscher is any indication, Clinton’s “re-set” moment was not simply a photo-op gone awry; it is symptomatic of bad judgment and a continuing self-destructive embrace."

Any reset regret yet?  "The Russians are unlikely to respect a country that doesn't respect itself. All of this brings back memories of the last U.S. administration so eager to be liked. Jimmy Carter spoke of the need to get over our “inordinate fear of communism” and its lead sponsor, the USSR. The Soviets treated that speech like a starter's pistol for a footrace. They ran rampant in Africa, Asia, and Latin America."

Whose "War on Women"?

Tony Branco cartoon

 

Krauthammer: How to stop – or slow – Putin

Charles Krauthammer   ... "The alternative to passivity is not war but a serious foreign policy. For the past five years, Obama’s fruitless accommodationism has invited the kind of aggressiveness demonstrated by Iran in Syria, China in the East China Sea and Russia in Ukraine. But what’s done is done. Put that aside. What is to be done now?" ...
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Dr. Krauthammer long ago accurately -in my opinion - sized up President Obama, but he now sees how good Jimmy Carter looks in comparison to this current president.

"Obama is not the first president to conduct a weak foreign policy. Jimmy Carter was similarly inclined — until Russia invaded Afghanistan, at which point the scales fell from Carter’s eyes. He responded boldly: imposing the grain embargo on the Soviets, boycotting the Moscow Olympics, increasing defense spending and ostentatiously sending a machine-gun-toting Zbigniew Brzezinski to the Khyber Pass, symbolizing the massive military aid we began sending the mujahideen, whose insurgency so bled the Russians over the next decade that they not only lost Afghanistan but were fatally weakened as a global imperial power.

 

"Invasion woke Carter from his illusions. Will it wake Obama?"

Watch Trey Gowdy’s Epic Speech on the Floor of Congress That May Be a Defining Moment for America

IJ Review

"We’ve finally gotten to the point where Congress had to pass a law to make sure that the laws they pass are enforced.

"In a speech that Representative Trey Gowdy really shouldn’t have had to make, he explains angrily to the Congress what its job is, and to Obama what his job is. Members were heard to applaud as he reached the crescendo.

Five Democrats joined Republicans in passing a bill that directs Obama to follows the laws – clearing the House by a 233 to 181 vote."

Published on Mar 12, 2014

Rep. Gowdy's speech in defense of the ENFORCE the Laws Act.

The subject of Mr. Gowdy's concern made manifest: Obama, in his sole discretion  ... "I’ve always said leftists are about not compassion or treating people with sensitivity and respect, much less equally, but control and bullying, all with an arrogant, mean-spirited air of superiority.

"For Obama, there are at least two aspects to his control-freakishness. He not only pushes policies that give the federal government vastly more control over our lives but also is inordinately dictatorial in the manner in which he ramrods his agenda through, displaying utter contempt for what anyone else thinks, what he might damage with his unilateral actions and, most of all, the Constitution and the rule of law." ...David Limbaugh   

Metal stamps used to tattoo Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz discovered

 

The Jerusalem Post    "Director of the Auschwitz Museum: "We couldn't believe that original tools for tattooing prisoners could be discovered after such a long time.' "

 

.... "Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywinski, director of the Auschwitz Museum, emphasized that “it is one of the most important findings of the recent years. We couldn’t believe that original tools for tattooing prisoners could be discovered after such a long time. Even a tattooed number is rare to be seen now as the last prisoners pass away. Those stamps will greatly enrich the new main exhibition that is currently being prepared.' ”

 

The Museum: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu    "In order to take in the grounds and exhibitions in a suitable way, visitors should set aside a minimum of about 90 minutes for the Auschwitz site and the same amount of time for Auschwitz II-Birkenau. It is essential to visit both parts of the camp, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, in order to acquire a proper sense of the place that has become the symbol of the Holocaust as well as Nazi crimes againt(sp) Poles, Romas and other groups."

 

Auschwitz 1 and 2: Virtual tour of the death camp

 

Auschwitz, Memory, World     "The exhitibion(sp) "Auschwitz, Memory, World" was prepared for the 65th anniversary of creation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. It consists of 28 large photographs from the Museum Archives of personalities from the world of politics and religion who paid homage to the victims of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz."

Karl Höcker, adjutant to the commandant of Auschwitz, and SS auxiliaries relaxing at a

 recreation lodge near the camp.

 

 Smiling, Everyday Faces of the Killers at Auschwitz  "The Holocaust survivor story told by a woman named Ruth Brand in “Scrapbooks From Hell: The Auschwitz Albums” is familiar, but the context provided by this engrossing documentary on Sunday on the National Geographic Channel makes it horribly new all over again."  More here. 

Associated Press Mysteriously Deletes 2012 Story On Collapse Of Socialized Medicine In Venezuela

Weasel Zippers  "A story which previously appeared on the Associated Press’ website and web archives from November 2012 has mysteriously vanished.

 

"The story, an expose on the failing healthcare system under then-president Hugo Chavez detailing the failings of the countries beleaguered Socialist system is strange to say the least."

 

Luckily the internet is forever: 

MARACAY, Venezuela (AP) — Evelina Gonzalez was supposed to undergo cancer surgery in July following chemotherapy but wound up shuttling from hospital to hospital in search of an available operating table. On the crest of her left breast, a mocha-colored tumor doubled in size and now bulges through her white spandex tank top. 

Gonzalez is on a list of 31 breast cancer patients waiting to have tumors removed at one of Venezuela’s biggest medical facilities, Maracay’s Central Hospital. But like legions of the sick across the country, she’s been neglected by a health care system doctors say is collapsing after years of deterioration.

Doctors at the hospital sent home 300 cancer patients last month when supply shortages and overtaxed equipment made it impossible for them to perform non-emergency surgeries.

 Full article...

More Taxes than Meet the Eye in Obama’s Budget

CATO   Here are some of the tax hikes the president is proposing:

• “Buffett tax” ($53 billion): President Obama resurrected this tax idea, which would require high-income individuals to pay at least 30 percent of their incomes in taxes.
• Limiting tax deductions ($598 billion): President Obama would limit the value of itemized deductions for high-income earners.
• Changes to the “death tax” ($131 billion): The president suggests going back to the estate tax rules of 2009, which would increase the marginal tax rate on estates and lower the exemption, subjecting more assets to taxation.
• Changes to oil and gas taxation ($44 billion): Frequently criticized by the president, these tax provisions are generally not subsidies to oil and gas companies, but instead ameliorate the tax code’s improper treatment of capital expenditures.
• Changes to international taxation ($276 billion): Instead of moving the United States to a territorial tax system like most other industrialized countries, the president moves in the opposite direction and proposes further raising taxes on corporations with overseas earnings.
• Cap on 401(k) and IRA contributions ($28 billion): This provision would prohibit individuals from contributing to retirement accounts if their balances were greater than $3 million.
• Increase in tobacco taxes ($78 billion): To pay for his universal pre-K proposal, President Obama would increase the tobacco tax from $1.10/pack to $1.95/pack.
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