Monday, October 14, 2013
Epic Debate: Senate Candidate; Republicans Finally Standing Up To Tyrant Obama
Video: US Senate Candidate Steve Lonegan (R-NJ): Constitution Doesn't Carry Much Weight With Obama Admin; I'm Proud Republicans Are Finally Standing Up To This Tyrant (Obama);
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American Thinker has an article on Steve Lonegan's battle against Cory Booker and the Obama machine, here.
FULL VIDEO: [ 2nd debate ]
NJ special election is being held Oct. 16th. Mr. Lonegan's campaign website is here: www.loneganforsenate.com
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October 12th, 2013 - New Egypt, NJ - Governor Sarah Palin spoke at today's [8/12] campaign rally for New Jersey republican senate candidate, Steve Lonegan. Sponsored by the Tea Party Express, the event was held at the New Egypt Speedway. - iizthatiiz.
The Free Patriot: Is Booker Ineligible for the Senate?
Charles Johnson, an independent reporter, recently visited Newark to find out if the mayor actually lives there. Booker lists two properties he owns as disclosure forms require that he list every property he has at least a $1,000 interest in. Johnson conducted interviews with people who live near both residences and recorded the conversations.
Booker is running for the US senate from New Jersey, to fill the seat left vacated with the death of Frank Lautenberg. The election is just days away on October 16th. But neighbors aren’t convinced that Booker lives at either address.
Johnson told the Blaze that Booker is registered to vote using 435 Hawthorne Avenue as his address, but residents who were taped claim that Booker is never there. Cassandra Dock, who was a census worker in 2010, said that she knows that Booker does not live on Hawthorne, because when she went there, it was a police station.
[...] Continued @ The Free Patriot.
The Free Patriot: Is Booker Ineligible for the Senate?
Charles Johnson, an independent reporter, recently visited Newark to find out if the mayor actually lives there. Booker lists two properties he owns as disclosure forms require that he list every property he has at least a $1,000 interest in. Johnson conducted interviews with people who live near both residences and recorded the conversations.
Booker is running for the US senate from New Jersey, to fill the seat left vacated with the death of Frank Lautenberg. The election is just days away on October 16th. But neighbors aren’t convinced that Booker lives at either address.
Johnson told the Blaze that Booker is registered to vote using 435 Hawthorne Avenue as his address, but residents who were taped claim that Booker is never there. Cassandra Dock, who was a census worker in 2010, said that she knows that Booker does not live on Hawthorne, because when she went there, it was a police station.
[...] Continued @ The Free Patriot.
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Mitt Romney’s new Utah home is an ultra-luxe log cabin
Romney already has his a beach house in La Jolla, California -- infamous site of the planned car elevator -- a family vacation home in New Hampshire (see video below), a modest townhouse in Massachusetts near one of his sons, and equestrian property purchased earlier this year in Utah. Now he's adding a Utah log cabin to the portfolio.
Don't be fooled, though: This is no rough-hewn Lincoln-style abode.
The 2012 GOP presidential nominee and his wife, Ann, just bought the "slopeside mansion" in the Park City area of Deer Valley, according to the local Park Record. They'd had a home in Park City from 1995 until 2009, and he led the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah, but they apparently hadn't owned property in the state again until this year.
"As featured in Architectural Digest," the listing read, "this 'Utah Rustic' home gave renowned local architect Fred Babcock the opportunity to stretch beyond what one assumed could normally be achieved in log construction." It's made of "whole logs" and has a "massive stone fireplace" in the great room. "Six bedroom suites accommodate family and friends."
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Author: By Jennifer Karmon
Chicago Marathon's heightened security, solidarity keep runners afoot
The Bank of America Chicago Marathon was run without incident Sunday as tighter but by no means suffocating security did little to scare off runners or subdue the raucous street party bubbling along the 26.2-mile racecourse.
Police and event organizers instituted new safety measures after the bombings that marred April's Boston Marathon, but the essential character of the race remained unchanged. Some runners and spectators said they were grateful for the heightened scrutiny, while others said they barely noticed it.
"It's good that you don't see the presence because that makes people uncomfortable," said Kelly Kane, who was cheering on runners in Old Town with few uniformed police officers in sight.
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Author: By John Keilman, Jeremy Gorner, Kim Geiger and Geoff Ziezulewicz
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Some explanations as to why the roll out for the Affordable Care Act online had so many glitches.
What do the Obamacare exchange websites do?
The exchanges are online marketplace where millions of Americans who don't receive health insurance from their employers will be able to purchase coverage. The system is designed to work like any other e-commerce site. Users can compare health insurance plans, choose the one that best meets their needs, and order it online.
How has it gone?
Not great. The system was overwhelmed with traffic on its first day. Since then, the site has become somewhat more responsive, but it is still plagued with problems.
Who is in charge of the system?
Responsibility for the system is shared between the federal government and some states. The Affordable Care Act gave states the option to run their own exchanges or to leave that job to the federal government. Only 14 states and the District of Columbia opted to operate their own exchange. The other 36 states opted to let the federal government do some or all of the work of setting up the exchange for their consumers. (In other words the Republican governors refused to cooperate so that all of the responsibility for the implementation of the ACA fell on the Federal government, and DHHS, which then allowed them to point out the problems during implementation and use that as an example of why the new law will not work. And don;t think for an instant they did not know this would be the outcome.)
That means the bulk of the Obamacare implementation has fallen to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. As its name suggests, this agency has traditionally administered key aspects of the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The Affordable Care Act gave it a new role administering the exchanges that form the heart of Obamacare.
Even in states that have opted to run their own exchanges, CMS has played an important role. CMS has supervised states' implementation of their exchanges and provided them with access to federal data needed to run the system.
Private companies sell things online all the time. Why is the government having such a hard time setting up an online health insurance marketplace?
If the exchanges were just insurance marketplaces, getting them to work might have been a lot easier. Much of the complexity comes from the fact that the exchanges are used to administer the complex system of subsidies the Affordable Care Act provides to low-income consumers. Figuring out whether a customer is eligible for a subsidy, and if so how much, requires data from a lot of federal and state agencies. Here's a chart from Xerox that illustrates the complexity of the system:
The exchanges are only open to American citizens and documented immigrants. To verify an applicant's citizenship and immigration status, an exchange must first verify a customer's identity with the Social Security Administration, and then check her immigration status with the Department of Homeland Security.
The exchanges must also check to make sure applicants are not already enrolled in another government health insurance program, which would make them ineligible for Obamacare. That means retrieving data from the Veterans Health Administration, the Department of Defense, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Peace Corps. It also means checking with a state's Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program agencies to see if an applicant is already enrolled in one of those programs.
Finally, once a customer purchases health insurance, the exchange must provide her information to the insurance company she has chosen. Insurance companies across the country have been scrambling to integrate their own computer systems with the exchanges.
I think that should be helpful in explaining exactly what went wrong, and why.
The article goes on to explain what is being done to solve these issues as well as predicting problems that the system may face in the future.
The thing is that ALL bureaucracies face difficulties, and clearly this one will be no different, what sets it apart is that EVERY hurdle, both big and small, is being mined for political points and will be used in attempts to undermine right up until it provides no more ammunition.
However in the meantime, health care becomes more and more affordable, and the people who listen to these assholes become fewer and fewer in number.
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Just walk it off.
Well you have.
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Attorney Klayman: Obama Put The Quran Down Come Out With Your Hands Up
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Excerpt via CNN: Rallier tells Obama to 'put the Quran down'
Washington (CNN) - Angered by the closure of national landmarks due to the partial government shutdown, a crowd of conservatives removed barricades Sunday at the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial as they rallied against President Barack Obama and Democrats for their role in the ongoing stalemate.
High-profile speakers with close ties to the tea party appeared at the event, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. [...] Continued @ CNN.
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Anti-migrant riot erupts in Moscow after killing
Russian police scuffle with protesters in the Biryulyovo district of Moscow Sunday, Oct. 13.
Moscow police nabbed nearly 380 people after a peaceful protest over the killing of an ethnic Russian erupted into a riot of several thousand.
MOSCOW — Rioters smashed shop windows, stormed a warehouse and clashed with police in a Moscow neighborhood Sunday in the biggest outbreak of anti-migrant unrest in the Russian capital in three years.
Demonstrators, some chanting racist slogans, vandalized shops and other sites known for employing migrant workers in the southern Biryulyovo area after the killing of a young ethnic Russian widely blamed on a man from the Caucasus.
Several hundred residents had protested peacefully, demanding justice over the killing, until a group of young men began smashing windows in a shopping center and briefly set it on fire. A video posted on Youtube showed them chanting "White Power!" as they forced their way in.
When police in riot gear tried to make arrests, protesters threw glass bottles at them and the police fought back with batons. Video footage from the scene showed overturned cars and smashed fruit stalls.
Some in the crowd, which grew to number several thousand, set off from the shopping center and stormed into a vegetable warehouse employing migrants from the Caucasus and Central Asia.
Moscow police said several officers were wounded in the riots, around 380 people were detained and a criminal case was opened.
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By Maria Tsvetkova and Gabriela Baczynska of Reuters
