"Forgive Me (Founding) Fathers, For I Have Signed". Hope n' Change blogger signs up for Obamacare

Stilton Jarlsberg

"Although the road to Hell is sometimes paved with good intentions, it's even more frequently paved with unavoidable government regulations. And that's the road the Jarlsberg family just reluctantly traveled down (and down and down) to get our shiny new Obamacare policy.

"As a point of principle, I didn't want to change my existing health insurance policy - but the Obamacare demons didn't give me much of a choice. Not only was the price raised another $4000 for next year (raising my premiums to around $21k), but to "provide affordable services for everyone" per ACA requirements, my insurer declared that my policy would no longer cover my rectal regions owing to some benign polyps found a decade ago.

 " ... So I had no choice but to get a new Obamacare policy. Gulp..." 
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"Do I really have insurance now, or are the errors just out of my sight (and control) now? How much other damage is being done by this bureaucracy and bungled computer programming? And if I'm ever in a strange emergency room, will I bleed out while doctors try to make sense of a blank PDF ostensibly containing my critical government medical records?"
 Full article here.

 

Ripples of Ferguson

Victor Davis Hanson

"... "So another unspoken lesson from Ferguson may be that unarmed assailants such as Brown — or Trayvon Martin — can, just as armed suspects, pose as great challenges to those who confront them, in the sense that being assaulted by them might now be seen as preferable to using a firearm in self-defense, with the subsequent ruin that follows.
 

"Note further that the community of Ferguson dissenters was not much worried that strong-armed robbery occurred, or that a town cannot long exist with youths walking in the middle of the street under the influence or assaulting police officers, or disobeying orders to cease and desist, or postfacto rioting and looting as much as the fact that in the shoot-out, a white policeman shot a black unarmed assailant.  That fact, too, will be silently noted."
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"Note well that last week a Bosnian immigrant was beaten to death by young African-American and Latino teens. Other such black-on-white cases are said to have preceded and followed the murder.  The usual official bureaucratese followed the shooting: that such targeted violence had nothing to do with race, that it could not be a hate crime, and that it was not associated with Ferguson, etc. Was there rioting or a Justice investigation over the unwillingness of authorities to cite this as a hate crime? Certainly, two messages were implicit about the killing of Zemir Begic: had he been African-American and his assailants white, Ferguson-like violence may well have followed; and had he had a gun and shot his hammer-welding attackers, he might well have found as bleak a future as did George Zimmerman or Darren Wilson for shooting and killing an attacker who did not wield a firearm."  Emphasis mine, TD

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BREAKING: Muslim Navy Engineer Busted Red-Handed in Major Act of Treason

I smell a profiling suit coming down the pike.

Fox News headline: Saudi-born US naval engineer allegedly gave undercover agent info on how to sink carrier

Breitbart: FBI Arrest Saudi-Born Navyman for Sharing Tips on Blowing Up Aircraft Carrier

Stars and Stripes: Feds: Navy engineer tried to steal schematics for new carrier class
... "In August, Awwad was issued a security clearance that gave him access to classified information, which includes naval nuclear propulsion information.

"The nuclear power systems onboard aircraft carriers are considered among the most closely guarded sections of the ship. Awwad had access to information concerning the design, development, maintenance and repair of propulsion plants onboard nuclear-powered ships, the affidavit says." ...

Conservative Tribune  "A foreign-born man was just caught in a blatant act of treason.

"To make the incident even more alarming, the crime involves one of America’s most powerful nuclear vessels.

"Mostafa Ahmed Awwad is from Saudi Arabia.

"I'll call you later. I'm knda tied up right now."

 

"However, he was able to gain U.S. citizenship after he married an American woman in Egypt.

"According to the Navy Times, Awwad was arrested on Friday during an undercover FBI operation.

"His alleged crime is severe.

"Awwad has been accused of attempting to sell technical details of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Egyptian government.

"Mostafa Awwad was able to access those technical plans through his job as a civilian engineer working on the USS Gerald R. Ford.

"That ship is currently under construction and is slated to be one of the lead “supercarriers” using new technology in the U.S. Navy’s modern fleet." ..   More...
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 Muslim Naval Engineer Caught Trying To Give Egypt Schematics Of Advanced Aircraft Carrier  "Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, a 35 year-old Naval civilian engineer from Yorktown, Va., was apprehended after he gave computer drawings of the USS Gerald R. Ford to an FBI agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer, and even discussed where to shoot the vessel in order to sink it."

Diversity and multi-culti today - even down under

‘Diversity’, the New Age Religion  "Leftoids obsessed with cultural relativism are deliberately obscuring the Mohammedan invasion with euphemistic blather about ‘diversity’,  ‘ethnicity’ and culture’.  Their morally bankrupt  shrieks of ‘racism’, which blames irritated Aussies for not being nice enough to unassimilable, belligerent Muselmaniacs, are beginning to sound like a broken record."

"Victoria, Australia: Study on “Cultural Diversity” Fudges Difference Between Race and Ideology, Tut-Tuts Because Some People Are Leery of Muslims " 

 

 

Whose Country?  ... " His account is a reminder that although Cultural Enrichment is most pernicious when the enrichers are Muslims, mass immigration to Western countries from any part of the Third World is not something to be desired. Replacing native Europeans with Sikhs, Hindus, Taoists, or animists from Uganda may bring on cultural death more slowly, but it is cultural death nonetheless" ...  From Gates of Vienna*

At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe.
We are in a new phase of a very old war.

 

 Why the name Gates of Vienna?

Evolution of the American Left

Hat tip to Randall Busbea

 

SNL does remarkable imitation of Al Sharpton

Hot Air  "It’s good to see that the ongoing protests and riots are at least helping somebody. Saturday Night Live apparently reached the point where even they couldn’t take any more of Al Sharpton’s endless appearances at rallies around the nation this weekend and set their own version of him up for an interview."

 

"This was interesting timing, since Sharpton has been coming under increasing scrutiny lately. His appearances in both Ferguson and Staten Island have had some conservative commenters wondering if he’s not actually adding to or inciting the violence we’re seeing. For at least some, this is reminiscent of another tragic story which took place in the early 90s during the Crown Heights riots. The fact that Sharpton played a role in that tragedy is not a matter of debate, and one which Sharpton admits without ever actually offering an apology, as described in this 2011 account."...  More here

Profiling guidelines to be unveiled by the Obama administration

Politico  "The Obama administration will Monday unveil its long-anticipated updates to its guidelines on racial profiling, tightening limits on the practice but still allowing federal law enforcement agencies to employ it at airports and along the border.

"The new rules replace guidelines created by the Bush administration in 2003, which banned racial profiling for federal law enforcement, but included broad exemptions for national security and border security. The Bush rules applied only to race, but the new policy also bans profiling on the basis of religion, national origin, sexual orientation and gender identification." ... Read more:

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Replacing the ACA: What Women Want

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

By Grace-Marie Turner at The Galen Institute  "Americans are angry about the manifest failure of Obamacare. Many have felt the impact directly, from the millions who lost their health plans after being promised they could keep them, to those facing sky-high deductibles and premiums, to those — including some in the midst of cancer treatments — who are losing access to their family doctors.

"But at the same time, Americans want insurance that is secure and covers treatments they need. They want the uninsured and those with preexisting conditions to have access to coverage, and they know costs are rising dramatically. They know a safety net is needed for those who lose coverage, particularly those undergoing treatments for serious diseases."...

Alan Caruba: Protesting Law and Order

Warning Signs

 

... "The protests that occurred in the wake of grand jury decisions not to indict a police officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, or another group of police officers whose arrest of Eric Garner led to his death in Staten Island, New York are different only because they swiftly went from local to national. The initial Ferguson protests immediately descended into looting and arson. The Garner protests attracted large crowds that disrupted traffic and interfered with consumers in some shopping outlets. It seems to have gone unnoticed that large numbers of those in the latter protests were white." ...

 

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2nd Night Of Berkeley Protest Turns Violent Again

Most Americans See Race Relations Worsening Since Obama's Election

Bloomberg Politics   "President Barack Obama had hoped his historic election would ease race relations, yet a majority of Americans, 53 percent, say the interactions between the white and black communities have deteriorated since he took office, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll. Those divisions are laid bare in the split reactions to the decisions by two grand juries not to indict white police officers who killed unarmed black men in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y.

"Both times, protesters responded with outrage and politicians called for federal investigations. Yet Americans don’t think of the cases as a matched set of injustices, the poll found. A majority agreed with the Ferguson decision, while most objected to the conclusion in the Staten Island death, which was captured on video...

... "In the six years since his election as the nation’s first black president, Obama has addressed race just a handful of times. ..."

"Obama has also weighed in on the deaths of both Brown and Garner. And the Justice Department is reviewing the two incidents, as well. Yet Obama has not gone to Missouri or New York. ... “He should have gone to Ferguson and very bluntly said, ‘I don’t want any violence here. Let’s show people that we can accept verdicts we don’t like,’” he said. “The destruction just makes people more prejudice[d] than they already are.”

 

Sharyl Attkisson: Why I’m Suing the Justice Dept.: Its Unlawful Freedom of Info. Response

Sharyl Attkisson  "On Nov. 19, I filed a Freedom of Information (FOI) lawsuit against the Department of Justice, which oversees the F.B.I.. For over a year, I had been pursuing public information that the F.B.I. holds—about me. Something any U.S. citizen has the right to do.

"The response I got was typical of the response federal agencies provide to FOI requests today.

"The F.B.I. first said it didn’t have any information that mentioned me.
I appealed, reiterating the information in my original request, which outlined a great deal of information that the F.B.I. is known to have regarding me (at the very least through my dealings with the F.B.I. as a reporter over more than 20 years)." ...

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... "On his first day in office, President Obama said he was instructing federal agencies to err on the side of disclosure in answering Freedom of Information requests. The record under Clinton and Bush had been abysmal. Obama was promising unprecedented transparency. Only the most sensitive material, such as that which could directly harm national security, should be kept from the public that owns it.

"In reality, there is now a consensus among many journalists and open government groups that the Obama administration has been the least transparent in recent times, and the worst at properly responding to FOI requests."   Via IOTWReport

NYPD cops warned militant group Black Guerrilla Family ‘preparing to shoot on-duty police officers’

http://www.nj.com/hudson/voices/index.ssf/2009/10/editorial_cartoon_is_it_safe.html

NY Daily News  "A tattooed gang of militants declared open season on the NYPD in the wake of the Eric Garner grand jury decision, according to a threat a police union verified Saturday.

"Ten Black Guerrilla Family members are “preparing to shoot on duty police officers,” Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins said.

"The gang, formed in the 1960s in the California prison system, recently surfaced on the East Coast and Maryland, where members are at the heart of a drug-trafficking and corruption probe within the Baltimore prison system.

"Members swear allegiance for life and sport “BGF” tattoos, as well as ink depicting a dragon surrounding a prison tower, according to gangs.org.