The president, when lobbying for his bill, solemnly promised "if you like your healthcare insurance, you can keep it. End of story."

As You Liked It

" But as the sainted Paul Harvey would say, there is...the rest of the story. Specifically, that Barry was lying like a prayer rug, and knew perfectly well that Obamacare was specifically designed to encourage employers to drop healthcare coverage and make previously secure workers into wards of the state."

 

Obamacare Is Becoming Socialist Healthcare As Predicted "Employers are indeed dropping their employees from health insurance who will in turn be forced to enroll in government healthcare. The costs are rising because we all now have to pay for unreasonable demands such as paying for everyone’s nosebleeds and birth control regardless of whether or not they contribute a dime to Obamacare."

Video: Catholic deacon files suit against HHS mandate  ...."But what happens when an ordained minister owns a for-profit company?  And what if just three years ago, the same ordained minister was hailed worldwide as a hero for the rescue of trapped miners in Chile? KSTP and KAAL-TV, ABC affiliates in Minnesota, profile a new lawsuit filed by Greg Hall, a deacon in Houston who owns a Minnesota mining-equipment manufacturer:"...
..."Be sure to watch to the end, when the anchors express alarm that this may affect “women throughout the state … over 900,000, according to Planned Parenthood.”  How? By not forcing companies like American Manufacturing to distribute birth control for free?" 

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The Tunnel Wall's log shows a reader from Clearwater, Florida logging into the Tunnel Wall to a post entitled only "".
A search failed to turn it up, showing no posts with that title but it seems like something that should be taken car of. If you find some post by this means, a comment on it would be appreciated.
Enquiring mind wants to know.
The Tunnel Dweller, Plano, Texas; formerly 45 years in Santa Maria, Ca.

Texas Lawmakers Blast ‘Anti-American’, ‘Anti-Christian’ Curriculum

CSCOPE (education) according to Wikipedia.
“For us, CSCOPE is a lifesaver,” Dina Webb, director of curriculum in Lackland, told the San Antonio Express. “We don’t mandate how teachers use it and certainly, as a military district, wouldn’t teach anything anti-American. But we certainly don’t have the money or staff to be able to write new curriculum every time the state standards change.”
But critics – including some state lawmakers – believe the curriculum is anti-American.  (From the Starnes article below.)

Todd Starnes  "Texas lawmakers are putting educators on the hot seat after public school curriculum surfaced that  promoted Islam and socialism while deconstructing American values and patriotism."
"School children were exposed to lessons that labeled the Boston Tea Party an act of terrorism. They were also instructed to create flags for socialist and communist countries. And they were also given in-depth lessons in the Islamic faith that included classroom readings from the Koran.
"“They are indoctrinating our children to hate America,” said Janice VanCleave, of Texas Education Patriots. “Texans are embarrassed about this.” "

Texas CSCOPE Review

Is your child in a school that uses CSCOPE? You can Find out Here

TALKING POINTS USED BY SUPERINTENDENTS TO PACIFY PARENTS

 From World Net Daily: Texas teaching 'Allah is the Almighty God'  
"According to excerpts, under the heading, “Who Is Allah?,” students are told:

“Allah is the Almighty God.”

“Allah alone is the Creator. He alone deserves our devout love and worship.”

"Muhammad is described as having become “disillusioned with the corruption in the city and the growing gap between the urban dwellers and the Bedouins (nomadic herders).”
"But there is no mention of his documented sex activities with a child or his penchant for beheading entire indigenous people groups."

Is there a correlation between all this and the massive influx of Californians into Texas? I know, I know; I'm a transplanted Californian, but doing everything possible to keep Texas Texas. TD

First our military, then the Boy Scouts

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2013/02/05/106942

Boy Scouts Delay Decision on Repealing Gay Ban Until May

"The Roman Catholic Church and Southern Baptist churches have criticized the proposed policy change, but more liberal groups like the United Church of Christ, as well as leaders from the United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have called on the ban on gay members to be dropped."

This 2006 article in The Accuser has a comment that should provoke discussion: Child molesting priests are gay, not pedophiles.
...."Gay websites and magazines show a warped fascination with underage boys. Your splitting hairs equivocation shows the bent of your rationalizations to twist reality to support your distorted preceptions of it (reality that is).
"The priests were pedophiles because they preferred males not yet considered adults? Preference for wanting sex with your same gender is homosexuality. Placing artificial distinctions to separate 'gay' from 'pedophile' is smoke and mirror crap meant to fool simpletons."

It is considered unwise to have a male leader on an un-chaperoned outing with a group of girls for reasons that are obvious. I know empirically how a young life can be ruined by such sexual situations created by bad choices of leaders. Now these situations will be forced on children by the tyranny of political correctness. The Tunnel Dweller

California at Twilight

Victor Davis Hanson   "More importantly, our power companies have the highest energy bills in the nation, given all sorts of green and redistributionist mandates. The costs fall most heavily on the cold winter/hot summer interior residents, who are the poorest in the state. Those who insist that the utilities invest in costly alternate energy and other green fantasies live mostly in 65-70 degree coastal weather year-round and enjoy low power bills.

"Yet the liberal coastal political lock-hold on the state continues.

"No one in San Joaquin or Tranquility cares about a baitfish in the delta, but they do vote nonetheless for the elites who divert water from farms, put the poor farm worker out of work, and feel good about saving the smelt in the process. Go figure."

Obama's Jihad in Egypt: #Tahrir Sign "Down with the American Democratic Party the ally of Morsi"

 Atlas Shrugs  Notice anything familiar in this picture?

"Obama owns Egypt. No matter how the media obfuscates, deceives and misleads on this jihadist takeover, Obama's Muslim Brotherhood coup in Egypt is DOA and the blood is on Obama's hands. There's no getting out from under that boot. Just ask the Iranians, 24 years and counting." 

Ann Coulter on The Republicans' Primary Problem

About.com

Townhall  "Having just lost an election, many Republicans are anxious to remake our party in the image of Democrats. The theory seems to be that whatever we're doing isn't working, so we better change everything.
"But in fact, whatever Republicans did in 2012 -- other than an overly long primary fight -- worked amazingly well, given the circumstances.
"In a detailed analysis of the 2012 election, William A. Galston, a fellow with the liberal Brookings Institution, makes a number of fascinating observations that Republicans would do well to consider before embracing amnesty, abortion, gay marriage and Beyonce. " ....

jewishworldreview.com

We would do well to remember this next point which Ms. Coulter brings out later in the article and to which I have added emphasis:
"By contrast, Obama faced zero opposition from his party, the media, the education establishment or Hollywood, all of which were madly in love with him.
"And yet, Obama may be the only president ever to win re-election with fewer votes than his initial election, down nearly 4 million votes compared to 2008."

Some quick links

It's official: Post Office to stop delivering mail on Saturday  Beginning about August.

Al Sharpton drops 'God' from Pledge  "MSNBC might be the only place where God can’t get a shout-out from a Baptist minister."

72-year-old Las Vegas Homeowner ventilates burglar
....“Don’t screw with an old guy. They don’t have the strength to fight you, they’ll just kill you.”

Young Bucks: How And Why Your 401(K) Is Changing "We all wish people would not have to borrow from their 401(k)s, but when you consider the alternatives, it’s a viable option."

 

Drone Strikes, Waterboarding, and Moral Preening

Cliché alert: Obama is quoted herein saying - wait for It - "let me be clear".

Peter Wehner  "The president went on to trumpet the fact that he banned the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, saying, “I know some have argued that brutal methods like waterboarding were necessary to keep us safe. I could not disagree more.” .... Obama insisted that his policies would “regain America’s moral stature in the world.” This was a common Obama theme: He would act in ways that respect international law and human rights and remove the stain from America’s reputation."
....
A good argument in here is that no innocent bystanders were killed because of waterboarding captured terrorists. My big problem with all this is that the Obama Administration wanted to criminally prosecute Bush officials who used enhanced interrogation on those people.

"....there is a serious argument to be made that during wartime targeting terrorists, including Americans, with drones is justified. But that justification probably best not come from someone who has spent much of the last half-dozen years or so sermonizing against waterboarding, accusing those who approved such policies of trashing American ideals and shredding our civil liberties, and portraying himself as pure as the new-driven snow."....

I cannot dredge up much indignation for the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki because his fate was his own choice. He chose to be an enemy of the US and desired to kill as many of us as possible.
Should Americans fighting in Hitler's army have been arrested and brought to trial instead of killing them? And just how would we have done that?

Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law

We the People   "Obama has said so many disingenuous things about this health care debacle."
"He claimed it would be revenue neutral, he wouldn’t sign it if it wasn’t, he said he favors competition in the health care market place, when in fact the ultimate goal is a single payer system thus breaking another promise that, “You can keep your own insurance and doctor.” "

Quoting Stephen Dinan  in the Washington Times"

President Obama’s health care law will push 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage — nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday.
CBO said that this year’s tax cuts have changed the incentives for businesses and made it less attractive to pay for insurance, meaning fewer will decide to do so. Instead, they’ll choose to pay a penalty to the government, totaling $13 billion in higher fees over the next decade.

Wounded Warrior Project changes mind and accepts donations from a Baptist organization

Still think America is a Christian nation?
American Thinker
"We were heartbroken," Pastor Wallace Cooley told Fox News.
It wasn't until after Liberty Baptist Church and Academy had already paid a $100 registration fee to raise funds for Wounded Warrior Project that the they received an email from the non-profit organization.








"Here is a copy of the actual letter sent to the Liberty Baptist Academy, as posted on The Blaze."

"But there has been an update to this story, due to the uproar on the internet and elsewhere. GOPUSA reports that:"

...."So what is going on here? Did the Wounded Warrior Project organizers commit a simple mistake, or are they bowing to public pressure. If funds from religious events are accepted on a "regular basis," then why does the web site state differently? And why did the e-mail received by the school also state that the funds raised by the church would not be accepted because of the religious nature of the fundraising event?"   Read more:

Taking America from Welfare State to Opportunity Society

Heritage  "Yet our modern, cradle-to-grave welfare state is structured in such a way that it hinders rather than boosts upward mobility. Despite a massive array of programs and colossal budgets, poverty rates remain high, our public education system is failing us, and the family—whose importance for the future well-being of children cannot be overstated—is falling apart among poor and low-income Americans.

arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com 

"President Obama made clear yesterday that he is more interested in additional tax increases than serious entitlement reforms. At the same time, the Congressional Budget Office was projecting that health care entitlement spending will be bigger than defense or even Social Security spending in just two years."

But the fight will be hard and the left will pound conservatives with their demagoguery. See this pro-welfare state cartoon and tell me how on earth Republicans will overcome things like this.  This is typical of ideas that are pounded into low-information voters' heads by movies, TV, most news channels, school books and pretty much every source of information they are exposed to.
Cartoon from schools.natlib.govt.nz