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To: Bill who wrote (822036)	12/11/2014 12:57:17 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Recommended By Bill Respond to of 1580661

Senate Intelligence Committee’s Report Confirms that CIA Did Not Torture Detainees .......................................................................... PowerLine ^ \| 12/9/2014 \| John Hinderaker

To: Bill who wrote (822036)	12/11/2014 2:03:02 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1580661

6 Reasons Jonathan Gruber Definitely Wrote Obamacare ............................................................................................................................................. 12/11/2014 by Patrick Howley dailycaller.com Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber claimed on Capitol Hill this week that he did not write whole parts of Obamacare. Nonsense. Wyoming Rep. Cynthia Lummis grilled Gruber at Tuesday’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing. Lummis brought up past statements Gruber made identifying himself as a co-writer of Obamacare and saying that he wrote entire sections of it. Gruber denied his prime writing role and stonewalled on key questions about his participation in designing the law. (RELATED: Gruber Lawyers Up) The Jonathan Gruber of the Oversight hearing was contrite, bumbling, and glibly apologetic — just a doddering little academic that got himself caught up in big, bad Washington politics. But Jonathan Gruber was, indeed, the “brains” behind the key parts of Obamacare. Here’s how we know: 1. He bragged to his students on video that he wrote Obamacare Much like the loathsome pot-smoking professor in “Animal House” who plays the guitar for his young female students, Jonathan Gruber has a need to impress. In a lecture captured on video, he admitted that he “helped write” Obamacare. He was telling the truth. (Scroll to 8:44) 2. He came up with the law’s “Cadillac tax” in an Oval Office meeting with President Obama Gruber personally met with Obama in the Oval Office to develop the law’s “Cadillac tax” in an intentionally deceptive way. Having come up with a major portion of the law, Gruber’s testimony that he did not write any major sections of Obamacare rings false. 3. He convinced Obama to create the individual and employer mandates That was a pretty major part of the health-care law. “Mr. Mandate” Gruber did this beginning in his role as a member of President-elect Obama’s transition team in 2008. The New York Times even said so. (RELATED: Gruber Convinced Obama To Create Mandates). 4. Obama was stealing ideas from Gruber as early as 2006 Why did Obama say in a 2006 speech captured on video that he stole ideas liberally from Gruber? He needed to. At that point, Gruber, who worked on the Massachusetts model for national health-care reform, was way more important and influential than Obama in the Democratic Party’s health-care push. The next Democratic president was going to be tasked with health-care reform. Then-Senator Obama needed to get in with the right folks early. 5. Gruber was slated to write the health-care law before it ever became known as “Obamacare” In other words, he still would have been the architect of the law if Hillary Clinton or John Edwards had won the presidency in 2008. When the influential Gruber-linked health-care advocacy group the Herndon Alliance went to all three Democratic candidates in that election, it got Obama, Clinton and Edwards to sign up to endorse more or less the same exact plan. The Herndon Alliance formed out of Ted Kennedy’s years-long health care reform push, which started in Massachusetts with the Gruber-designed Romneycare law. If anything, the group favored Clinton over Obama. As The New York Times’ Paul Krugman wrote during the 2008 primary, Clinton was better suited to write the health reform bill than Obama. Whose analysis did Krugman cite in making that determination? Jonathan Gruber’s. Make no mistake. The health-care law never needed Barack Obama. But it always involved Jonathan Gruber. 6. Gruber’s speaker bio was pretty clear that he “helped craft” the law The professor spoke at a June 27 panel sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform and The Commonwealth Fund, and bragged about his work with the Obama administration and Congress.

To: Bill who wrote (822036)

12/11/2014 2:09:25 PM

From: Broken_Clock

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No conspiracy at all dude. Your beloved Reagan and every president since have funded terrorists.

From: Broken_Clock	12/11/2014 5:54:55 AM
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TALIBAN USING JIHADIST TEXTBOOKS…SUPPLIED BY THE U.S. Published: December 10, 2014 Share \| Print This SOURCE: ALL GOV. THE NEXT GENERATION OF RADICAL MUSLIM FUNDAMENTALISTS IN AFGHANISTAN IS LEARNING HOW TO HATE THE UNITED STATES THROUGH TEXTBOOKS MADE BY THE UNITED STATES. This story of shortsighted, unintended consequences begins in the 1980s after the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. As part of the U.S. campaign to undermine Soviet control over the country, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) oversaw the creation of school books in local Afghan languages that taught children how to become jihadists. The books, such as The Alphabet for Jihad Literacy, were produced for USAID by the University of Nebraska Omaha (which, years later, was apparently paid $6.5 million for a similar book contract, according to First Lady Laura Bush during her appearance with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai in 2002). The books were reportedly smuggled into Afghanistan with the help of the CIA and the ISI, the Pakistani military intelligence organization. The Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan in 1988. The USAID textbooks, however, are still being used, only now by the Taliban as it seeks to recruit new warriors to attack, among others, American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. Duplicated copies of the U.S. textbooks have also surfaced in Pakistan. The books are “filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines,” according to The Washington Post.One sample entry states that the letter “T” is for “topak” (gun). An example of word usage follows: “My uncle has a gun. He does jihad with the gun.” The school books “have served since then as the Afghan school system’s core curriculum,” the Post’s Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway reported back in 2002. That year, UNICEF managed to destroy at least half a million of the made-in-USA books. However, not only did many of the books survive, but—according to a recent Post article—the Taliban is reprinting the books to continue the unforeseen legacy of American tax dollars going to help those who want to destroy the U.S.