http://www.michellesmirror.com/2013/08/insane-clown-posse-award.html
Which is the offensive cowboy clown ? I can't tell......
Back to exile for the former body man ?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/love-obama-played-cards-during-osama-raid-i-can-t-watch-entire-thing-obama-said_748413.html
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In the last week or so it’s come out that Rep. Mike Rogers, the head of the House Intelligence Committee has actively blocked requests from members of Congress to review details of the NSA’s surveillance program — showing that the claim that everyone in Congress was informed about these programs isn’t just a lie but a duplicitous one. And then it got worse. Rep. Justin Amash pointed out that Rogers’ committee actually withheld key information from all incoming Representatives in the class of 2010, who had to vote on the Patriot Act’s reauthorization, which renewed the program to collect data on all Americans in bulk.
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Which is the offensive cowboy clown ? I can't tell......
Back to exile for the former body man ?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/love-obama-played-cards-during-osama-raid-i-can-t-watch-entire-thing-obama-said_748413.html
Love: Obama Played Cards During Osama Raid; 'I Can’t Watch This Entire Thing,' Obama Said
2:00 PM, AUG 14, 2013 • BY DANIEL HALPER
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Reggie Love says he and President Obama played cards during the Osama bin Laden raid, and that the president told him, "I can't watch this entire thing."
“Most people were like down in the Situation Room and [President Obama] was like, ‘I’m not going to be down there, I can’t watch this entire thing,’ We must have played 15 games of spades," said Love at a public event.
Love was Obama's "body man," and spent much time with his boss while he worked for Obama at the White House.
White House Knew Mike Rogers Withheld Details Of NSA Surveillance From Others In Congress
techdirt.com
August 14, 2013
August 14, 2013
In the last week or so it’s come out that Rep. Mike Rogers, the head of the House Intelligence Committee has actively blocked requests from members of Congress to review details of the NSA’s surveillance program — showing that the claim that everyone in Congress was informed about these programs isn’t just a lie but a duplicitous one. And then it got worse. Rep. Justin Amash pointed out that Rogers’ committee actually withheld key information from all incoming Representatives in the class of 2010, who had to vote on the Patriot Act’s reauthorization, which renewed the program to collect data on all Americans in bulk.
Amash highlighted a document showing that the White House had sent a letter to Rogers, telling him that he should make the document available to all members of Congress, and then noted that he had not actually done so in 2011 (though he had in 2009). Marcy Wheeler has pointed out that if you actually closely read the DOJ’s paper that was released on Friday defending this program, you’d see that the White House was well aware that Rogers never made the document available to Congress.
Of course, you have to read the document very, very, very carefully to spot that. The paper first talks about the document that was provided to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees in 2009, and then notes that both committees made those documents available to all of their colleagues:
In December 2009, DOJ worked with the Intelligence Community to provide a classified briefing paper to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees that could be made available to all Members of Congress regarding the telephony metadata collection program. A letter accompanying the briefing paper sent to the House Intelligence Committee specifically stated that “it is important that all Members of Congress have access to information about this program” and that “making this document available to all members of Congress is an effective way to inform the legislative debate about reauthorization of Section 215.” See Letter from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich to the Honorable Silvestre Reyes, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Dec. 14, 2009). Both Intelligence Committees made this document available to all Members of Congress prior to the February 2010 reauthorization of Section 215. See Letter from Sen. Diane Feinstein and Sen. Christopher S. Bond to Colleagues (Feb. 23, 2010); Letter from Rep. Silvestre Reyes to Colleagues (Feb. 24, 2010)
But, when it came to the similar document in 2011, the White House report only notes that the SenateIntelligence Committee made the document available, and never says anything about the House. And of course, the letter that Amash highlighted points out that the White House was clearly urging Rogers to make it available as well — and he did not do that. An updated version of the briefing paper, also recently released in redacted form to the public, was provided to the Senate and House Intelligence Committees again in February 2011 in connection with the reauthorization that occurred later that year. See Letter from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich to the Honorable Dianne Feinstein and the Honorable Saxby Chambliss, Chairman and Vice Chairman, Senate Select Committee on
The Beauty of Obama’s Clapper Appointment
2013 AUGUST 13
I am in awe, few things have impressed me this deeply.
This isn’t just a middle finger to everyone to everyone who is against blanket surveillance (aka. the majority of Americans), it is Obama saying “Kiss My Ass.”
It’s really hard for most people to understand just how much contempt our lords and masters have for us. They really don’t give a fuck what’s good for us, what we like, or what we think. They are rich, or powerful, or famous because they deserve it, and if we aren’t any of those things then they don’t give two fucks what we think. By not being rich, powerful or famous we have proven we don’t deserve any say. After all, if we had any qualities that were worthwhile beyond the sort of qualities you praise in a dog, we wouldn’t be peons, would we.
In this, Obama is very similar to Bush, actually, but in general it’s a characteristic of everyone near the top of our current society. Starting at about the Senior VP level, people decide that they deserve everything they’ve got and everyone else doesn’t. If they did, they’d have it.
The media is full of studies showing that power decreases empathy, and I’ll bet that’s true throughout history. But I’ll also bet this, the degree to which it is true is social, and in many times and places it has been less true. Over the last couple generations we’ve seen a significant, measurable fall in the general level of empathy in the population as a whole. If you have an ideology which glorifies greed and which claims that society is a meritocracy when there is copious evidence to the contrary, those who win will believe they “deserve” what they have, and everyone else “deserves” what they have. Add to that objective circumstances which amount to dog-eat-dop (there simply are not enough good jobs to go around) and people will either band together, or turn on each other. Generally, we’ve chosen, for ideological reasons, to turn on each other.
This isn’t necessary: it isn’t what happened in the US in the Great Depression, for example. It’s a choice, and our choice is to be bastards to each other.
ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Out-of-pocket limits delayed for the convenience of insurance companies who didn't reprogram their systems
ObamaCare Clusterfuck: Out-of-pocket limits delayed for the convenience of insurance companies who didn't reprogram their systems
Submitted by lambert on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 12:31pm
No, I'm not kidding. The Times:
In another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care.The limit on out-of-pocket costs, including deductibles and co-payments, was not supposed to exceed $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family. But under a little-noticed ruling, federal officials have granted a one-year grace period to some insurers, allowing them to set higher limits, or no limit at all on some costs, in 2014.Under the policy, many group health plans will be able to maintain separate out-of-pocket limits for benefits in 2014. As a result, a consumer may be required to pay $6,350 for doctors’ services and hospital care, and an additional $6,350 for prescription drugs under a plan administered by a pharmacy benefit manager.A senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said: “We knew this was an important issue. We had to balance the interests of consumers with the concerns of health plan sponsors and carriers, which told us that their computer systems were not set up to aggregate all of a person’s out-of-pocket costs. They asked for more time to comply.”
Well, let's be fair. They only hadthree fucking years to implement this! And here's the beauty part, or an even more beautiful part:
The grace period has been outlined on the Labor Department’s Web site since February, but was obscured in a maze of legal and bureaucratic language that went largely unnoticed. When asked in recent days about the language — which appeared as an answer to one of 137 “frequently asked questions about Affordable Care Act implementation” — department officials confirmed the policy.
No, not HHS. Not CMS. Not healthcare.gov. The Labor Department. Makes you wonder how many other Easter Eggs litter the landscape in other Federal Departments.
Again to be fair, even though the Labor Department notice had been up since February 20, 2013,Obama wasn't exactly lying when he said this on May 10, 2013:
if you still can't afford it, then you're going to get help reducing your out-of-pocket premiumswith the largest health care tax cut for working families and small businesses in our history. (Applause.)
After all, Obama didn't say when, and he didn't say everybody.
Readers, if you've been following this series, you'll notice several continuing themes in this latest #FAIL:
1. A project that's poorly managed and out-of-control sheds requirements when deadlines approach. We've seen that with the employer mandate postponement, and the income validation switcheroos. A project that's run by sleazebags and really out of control sheds requirements in such a way that the clients -- in this case, ultimately the American people -- remain unawares until it's too late.
2. ObamaCare's implementation problems all come from its system architecture. Here again we've got the exact same systems integration problems that have played out the with the Data Hub, except in the private sector. Just as integrating the disparate computer systems from DHS, IRS, HHS, the Peace Corps, and gawd knows who else are a true technical challenge, so integrating private systems would be at least an equal challenge, and probably greater. After all, private vendors deliberately make their proprietary data formats incompatible to lock in their customers.
3. ObamaCare consistently delivers unfair, unequal outcomes on a random basis. The story says: "a consumer may be required." Which consumers? Why? Will there be any provision made to take care of citizens consumers who are poor and/or ill? Nobody knows. Or cares, so far as I can tell.
Finally -- and this will surprise you -- single payer Medicare for all would eliminate all these problems. ObamaCare, technically, can be viewed as a gigantic exercise in integrating systems that shouldn't even exist in the first place.
FWIW......
Info To Land Obama In Prison May Be Released By The Muslim Brotherhood (Stunning Video Info)
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 19:58
According to this shocking story just breaking on WND, the son of a jailed Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt claims that “he has the goods that will land Barack Obama in prison.” What are we to think of this new development? What in the world do they have on this man? Is this Barack Obama’s worst nightmare come true? In fact, this claim appears to have been validated by 6 different people! From WND with a video below that reports that Obama made a secret 8 billion dollar bribe to the Muslim Brotherhood. Is that what this is all about?
In an interview with the News Agency Anatolia in Turkey, Saad Al-Shater, the son of imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leader Khairat Al-Shater, said his father “had in his hand” evidence that will put Obama in prison.
In a thinly veiled threat, Saad Al-Shater said a U.S. delegation was sent to Cairo by Obama to press for the release of the imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including his father to prevent the release of explosive information.
Arabic-speaking former PLO member Walid Shoebat has translated the report by the Turkish News Agency Anatolia as follows:
In an interview with the Anatolia News Agency, Saad Al-Shater, the son of a Muslim Brotherhood leader, the detained Khairat Al-Shater, said that his father had in his hand evidence that will land the head of United States of America, President Obama, in prison. He stressed that the senior U.S. delegation currently visiting Egypt, knows full well that the fate, future, interests and reputation of their country is in the hands of his father, and they know that he owns the information, documents and recordings that incriminate and would condemn their country. Such documents, he says, were placed in the hands of people who were entrusted inside and outside Egypt, and that the release of his father is the only way for them to prevent a great catastrophe. He stated that a warning was sent threatening to show how the U.S. administration was directly connected. The evidence was sent through intermediaries which caused them to change their attitude and corrected their position, and that they have taken serious steps to prove good faith. Saad also said that his father’s safety is more important to the Americans than is the safety of Mohamed Morsi.
Writing in his blog, Shoebat noted that six different Arabic sources confirmed the interview with Saad Al-Shater and the report of Al-Shater’s claims.
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