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To: koan who wrote (757674)	12/14/2013 6:22:28 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575205

Time and again low mentality posters get disappointed when they try to discuss an issue with a lefty in a civilized manner because the lefty always gets defensive and abusive. I always wonder, why if they cannot defend their position don't they just change their position? Human condition I guess.

To: koan who wrote (757674)	12/14/2013 6:25:45 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575205

The Potemkin website The Obamacare facade is beginning to crumble ........................................................................................................... The Washington Times ^ \| 12-12-13 \| Editorial Board Oppressive regimes throughout history have built cities of false facades meant to impress from afar, concealing the embarrassing condition of the places. In its quest to persuade Americans that Obamacare is working, the Obama administration has built the most expensive Potemkin website yet. Rep. Darrell E. Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wants to bulldoze the facade of Healthcare.gov to find what lies beneath, but Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is telling her aides they better keep quiet, or else. In a Dec. 6 letter to Creative Computing Solutions, she instructed the Healthcare.gov construction workers not to talk to Congress. The directive could be considered a crime. “The federal obstruction laws,” Mr. Issa wrote in a letter Wednesday, “reflect the fact that Congress‘ right of access to information is constitutionally based and critical to the integrity and effectiveness of our oversight and investigative activities.” Behind the smiling faces on the front end of the Obamacare website are millions who’ve been cast into the cold as new health care mandates are designed to demolish existing insurance. Pressed about the cancellations, Mrs. Sebelius told a congressional panel that Americans are “thrilled” at the choices they now have with Obamacare. But not quite everyone. Jim Hoft, a conservative blogger, recently found that a strep bacteria was eating a hole in his heart, causing a series of strokes. His private insurance allowed him to go to the doctors at St. Louis University, who saved his life. Waiting for him when he returned from St. Louis was a letter from his insurance company canceling his policy. He fears for his life. “God willing,” writes Mr. Hoft, “I will be able to keep my doctors at St. Louis University. I trust them. They saved my life. Please pray for me and the millions of working Americans who are going through this same ordeal.”The Department of Health and Human Services maintains a rapturous face, insisting 365,000 Americans have happily enlisted in government-approved health care. Left out of the pronouncement is any mention that the figure counts anyone enrolling in Medicare, which is not private insurance. The White House is actually more than 3 million sign-ups short of the goal set for the end of 2013. The number of actual enrollees may be as low as 18,000 because the Obamacare website can’t do what other major websites, such as Amazon or eBay, do without a crisis every day — inform customers about a product and process sales without a headache. With a Potemkin village, appearance is everything. That’s why no one should be surprised that the Obamacare exchange in Connecticut spent $75,000 on three colorful murals to adorn its office walls. As mayor of this village, Mrs. Sebelius insists the site is “working faster” and “responding quicker,” yet her clerks have been required to match individual applications to insurance companies by hand, because of enrollment “glitches.” Eventually, prospective customers notice the Potemkin village is a fake. Polls show Americans already see through the multimillion-dollar propaganda and advertising effort, and they learn the government has made health care harder to buy and more expensive. The only solution is to tear down Healthcare.gov and allow a free market to replace it with something that actually works. Read more: washingtontimes.com

To: koan who wrote (757674)	12/14/2013 6:42:35 AM
From: tonto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575205

How do you define debt to GDP falling like a rock? How much has it dropped since September when the CBO Released the following? MARKET PULSE Archives Sept. 17, 2013, 10:03 a.m. EDT U.S. debt now about 73% of GDP Watchlist Relevance By Robert Schroeder WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) - The U.S. national debt is now about 73% of gross domestic product, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday. The percentage of debt is higher than any point since around World War II, and twice the percentage it was at the end of 2007, the nonpartisan agency said in its long-term budget outlook. If current laws stay in place, debt will decline "slightly" relative to GDP over the next few years, the agency said. But it warned that growing future deficits will push the debt to 100% of GDP 25 years from now.

To: koan who wrote (757674)	12/14/2013 11:03:58 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By d[-_-]b Respond to of 1575205

"Romney knows nothing of social science and cares nothing about the average person. He is a rich patriarch who would run the country like the Mormon church. Most of us don't share those values. " Obama runs the US like it's a chicago Ghetto. Most of us don't shear those values. give me a mormon church over an inner city ghetto

To: koan who wrote (757674)	12/14/2013 11:07:34 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575205

72 years old and you are dumber than on the day you were born, that's quite an accomplishment Koan, you should be proud.

To: koan who wrote (757674)	12/14/2013 11:22:49 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575205

CO school shooter a "very opinionated socialist" & anti-Republican just like we see here on SI every day Sorry libs, he’s one of yours. Via News.com.au: A TEENAGER who may have had a grudge against a teacher opened fire with a shotgun at a Colorado high school, wounding two students before killing himself. Quick-thinking students alerted the targeted teacher, who quickly left the building. The scene unfolded on the eve of the Newtown massacre anniversary, a sombre reminder of the ever-present potential for violence in American schools. Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson identified the shooter on Friday night as 18-year-old Karl Halverson Pierson. The shooter entered Arapahoe High School armed with a shotgun and looking for a teacher he identified by name, Sheriff Robinson said. Thomas Conrad, who had an economics class with the gunman, described him as a very opinionated Socialist. “He was exuberant I guess,” Conrad told The Denver Post. Via Denver Post: . . . In one Facebook post, Pierson attacks the philosophies of economist Adam Smith, who through his invisible-hand theory pushed the notion that the free market was self-regulating. In another post, he describes himself as “Keynesian.” “I was wondering to all the neoclassicals and neoliberals, why isn’t the market correcting itself?” he wrote. “If the invisible hand is so strong, shouldn’t it be able to overpower regulations?” Pierson also appears to mock Republicans on another Facebook post, writing “you republicans are so cute” and posting an image that reads: “The Republican Party: Health Care: Let ‘em Die, Climate Change: Let ‘em Die, Gun Violence: Let ‘em Die, Women’s Rights: Let ‘em Die, More War: Let ‘em Die. Is this really the side you want to be on?” weaselzippers.us

To: koan who wrote (757674)	12/14/2013 12:21:20 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575205

<<Time and again I get disappointed when I try to discuss an issue with a Republican in a civilized manner because they almost always get defensive and abusive>> I'll reply when I get time. I'm not being abusive at all. I don't think we're going to agree on many things but....

To: koan who wrote (757674)

12/14/2013 12:34:50 PM

From: Brumar89

Respond to of 1575205

Defusing the Arctic Methane Time Bomb

wattsupwiththat.com

Suffice it to say it's been warmer in the past and no methane time bomb turned the earth into Venus.

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Alan Robertson says:
December 13, 2013 at 1:40 pm
About David Middleton
I have been a geoscientist in the evil oil and gas industry for almost 30 years. My favorite hobby is debunking the junk science of the radical environmentalists…Particularly the junk science of anthropogenic global warming.
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You and others of like mind are having an effect. Just scan through the comments of any online article regarding climate or weather and see that the warmists are subjected to overwhelming ridicule. The chicken littles are having a hard time. It shouldn’t be too much longer until the politicians start to realize that the electorate has moved on.
Here’s one example: discussions.latimes.com