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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mevis who wrote (8087)	2/18/2014 6:22:21 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

I want to hear about the tainted blood operation they ran.

To: Mevis who wrote (8087)	2/18/2014 6:25:42 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

This Is Child Abuse, Progressive Style Mommyish writer Marly Pierre-Louis writes that before her baby was even born, she and her partner intended to “ gender bend the hell out of it.” When I got pregnant, my partner and I knew we wanted to be thoughtful about the ways we helped our kids construct their gender and the way they viewed gender in general. Whatever sex our baby was born, we had every intentions of gender-bending the hell out of it. We toyed with the idea of raising a gender neutral child. But between the confusion and protests it would incite in our families and all the extra work it involved, we decided it wasn’t for us. What we really wanted was to find ways to equip our future children with the tools to think critically and the ability to challenge the notions of gender dichotomy that society would inevitably be pitching to them from womb to tomb. — Our next gender-bending challenge was clothing. As soon as our son was born, we were bombarded with utterly boring “boy clothes”. I had to lay down some rules. No sports! No “macho superhero’s”! And nothing with the words, “champ”, “all star” or anything of the sort. I was really hard core about this. I planned to balance out all the blues and greens with lots of pinks and purples and was ready to go to war with anyone who had a problem with it. Turns out, it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. Even as a “progressive” parent, these binaries are still hard-wired within me and require some serious unlearning. I couldn’t fathom putting a dress on my son! If he asked for it, that’d be one thing. But doing so as a regular practice of gender bending? I wasn’t nearly as bold as I thought I was. Over a hundred years of “progressivism,” yet this fool hasn’t figured out that men and women are biologically different. When this boy goes to school, he will be behind his classmates in sociological development. His upbringing has set him up for a world of mockery, which won’t be the fault of the other kids. It will be the result of this boy’s foolish parents. Here’s the kicker: The writer just really hates males. So she is abusing her son out of spite. She cannot claim that she is really gender neutral. Even though I always played it off like I didn’t care what sex my baby would be, I secretly wanted a girl. Read the rest. Why does being “progressive” always include going out of your way to create confusion and destroying things at their foundation? http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/02/17/this-is-child-abuse-progressive-style/ credit brumar

To: Mevis who wrote (8087)	2/19/2014 1:05:04 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Obama 'Jobs Recovery’ More Than 100 Million Not Working ...................................................................................................................... Investors.com ^ \| February 19,2014 \| LEWIS K. UHLER AND PETER FERRARA

To: Mevis who wrote (8087)	2/21/2014 10:09:41 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Another one bites the dust: Nevada’s ObamaCare exchange director resigns ........................................................................................ February 20, 2014 by Erika Johnsen hotair.com Nevada’s independently designed online ObamaCare exchange has certainly had its own unique slew of technological glitches and processing problems. Just last week, the state drastically lowered their enrollment targets to less than half of their initial projections, moving the goalposts from 118,000 signups by March 31st to just 50,000. I’d guess that even that might be a little on the optimistic side, seeing as how only 24,000 had selected plans on the exchange as of early February, and of those, only about 16,000 have actually paid their premiums to ensure coverage. Meeting lower enrollment targets for Nevada’s online health insurance exchange will still be challenging as the system continues to grapple with website and call center issues, a state official said Thursday. “It has been a difficult month,” Jon Hager, executive director of the exchange, said in a report to the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board. “We have had website problems, long wait times at the call center, frustrated partners, frustrated consumers and low enrollment.” Hager outlined immediate goals that reflect issues that have plagued the system from the start: Fix the website and fix the call center. But Hager won’t be there to oversee those attempted fixes, because he just joined the ex-directors of Minnesota, Maryland, Hawaii, and Oregon among the ranks of the resigned. Via the Las Vegas Review-Journal: The executive director of the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange is resigning. Jon Hager, who came under fire in a Feb. 13 exchange board meeting for cutting March 31 enrollment goals from 118,000 to 50,000, left the agency Thursday afternoon. Board members told Hager in their meeting that it was time to put together a “disaster recovery plan”to help fix technical problems that have plagued the exchange’s Nevada Health Link website since it launched on Oct. 1. As for that “disaster recovery plan,” the board is looking at firing Xerox, the contractor that designed the website, as well as straight-up scrapping the effort and joining the federal health exchange — which might be their best option. Their state exchange’s operations are being funded through federal grants this year, but that funding expires in 2015, and Gov. Sandoval has already said that he won’t use state general funds to keep it going. Oof.