Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Christie vs Obama and this blogger pats himself on the back

     I'm patting myself on the back for this one. As I predicted in a recent blog, now that Governor Chris Christie took the lead from  Hillary Clinton in a potential presidential poll, the left and mainstream media will do their best to discredit him.  This week we learned that Christie is involved in a terrible political scandal. Two high ranking political allies decided to punish commuters going from Ft. Lee New, Jersey to Manhattan via the George Washington Bridge by limiting access for no apparent reason.  The was in response to the Mayor Sokolich of Ft. Lee not endorsing Governor Christie in the recent gubernatorial election. A day after he learned of this,  Gov. Christie gave a news conference in which he claim he had no knowledge of this, but took responsibility and fired his chief of staff Bridgette Kelly and broke ties with his campaign manager, both long time political allies.  He also apologized to the Mayor of Ft. Lee and the people of New Jersey.  Ft. Lee Mayor Sokolich accepted his apology.  Though reprehensible, this political vengeance was not criminal (though it borders on it).  Showing real leadership, Christie acted swiftly in firing those responsible and taking responsibility.  With this story about to loose it legs and only 24 hours later, the Justice Department has appointed an attorney who is an Obama campaign contributor to investigate and bring charges.  In addition he is now being investigated for misusing Hurricane Sandy funds to produce an advertisement promoting the Jersey Shore being open for business.  He claims this use had been approved.
      Compare this to Obama, who had to face the IRS targeting scandal  of Tea Party, Christain, and other conservative groups seeking tax exempt status.  Political targeting by the IRS is strictly forbidden and  criminal.  As usual the regime claimed no knowledge and at first claimed it was some low level employees in the Cincinnati office.  A congressional investigation uncovered involvement at a higher and broader level stretching all the way to Washington, DC and White House attorneys and maybe beyond.  Lois Lerner, department head, pleaded her fifth amendment right after giving a lengthy speech denying any responsibility.  Though initially given a raise in salary and a promotion to run part of Obamacare, she has since been placed on paid administrative leave. Obama promised an investigation  but it took eight months to appoint an attorney in the Justice Department, Barbara Bosserman, another Obama campaign contributor, to head the investigation. This appears to be asking the fox to guard the hen house.  Instead, an independent consul should be appointed and criminal indictments should be forthcoming.  The regime has used the Justice Department to stymie congressional investigations, much as President Clinton did to prevent an indictment of recently elected Virginia Governor and Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe (he cosigned on the Clinton's mortgage), who was behind a money laundering scheme to illegally send union contributions to the Clinton campaign in 1996.  Union official were indicted, convicted, and sent to prison, but Janet Reno prevented McAuliffe from testifying before Congress saying he was under investigation and couldn't respond to congressional inquiries.  No results of an investigation have ever been forth coming, if there was really an investigation.  This quietly died when Bush became President and his Justice Department had no interest in pursuing the matter. Incredulously, Obama had the Justice Department investigate itself in the "Fast and Furious " scandal.  Investigation into the American deaths during the consulate attacks in Benghazi have been exceedingly slow or virtually non existent hoping by the regime that these scandals would go away by themselves with the help of a sympathetic mainstream media.  No one seems to be responsible for these scandals and the mainstream media is not pressing for accountability even though at Benghazi and "fast and furious", American lives and been lost.  Obama has taken a page out of the Clinton playbook when Filegate, White Watergate, irregularities around Vince Foster's suicide, and Clinton's treason in allowing bundler Bernie Schwartz to sell Loral's missile guidance technology to the communist Chinese armyfor an illegal campaign contribution of $20,000,000.  Though Judge Kenneth Starr was appointed chief independent consul for some of this activity, he generously gave first lady Hillary Clinton a pass on her perjured deposition testimony, declaring "I don't remember" over one hundred times (Scooter Libby went to prison for saying it once during his deposition).
      As far as political vengeance is  concerned, the Obama regime disgracefully and unnecessarily  closed national parks and the Veteran Memorial, and then had the audacity of blaming it on Republicans.  A duplicitous mainstream media actually attempted to support this ridiculous claim.  The words "I'm sorry" or "I apologize" are not part of Obama's vocabulary.  That would not be in keeping with Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, Obama's handbook and political guide.
      Speaking of political vengeance, we have recently learned of Hillary Clinton's enemies list. Senator Claire McCaskill, Sec. of State John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy were all rated top enemies with a rating of 7.  Friends were rated a 1.  It should be no surprise that politicians have a list of friends and enemies in order to grant or deny favors, but Hillary's list, that was compiled by long term political advisor to both Clinton and certifiable sleaze ball Kris Balderstrom,  was on an Excel spread shee,t rating each episode to arrive at a final rating and often listing an unfortunate event befalling these enemies. For example, Ted Kennedy's death served as a source for gloating.  What was not reported was that Bill Clinton also had an enemies list, just as detailed as Hillary's.  Knowledge of this and details of Filegate leads me to suspect that political blackmail has taken place during the Clinton regime.  If you recall, Filegate involved the FBI files of 1000  prominent Republicans including senators and congressman.  According to the Clintons, these file were accidentally brought to the White House when candidates for political appointments were being screened, but never examined by his staff.  These files were guarded by a marine and a log had to be signed when a file was checked out and brought back. The pages of the log book containing this information while the files were at the White House disappeared just before this story broke, so no one could tell if the regime was telling the truth.  Now fast forward to Clinton's second term when he was impeached by the House Republicans, but cleared by the Senate.  All of the key ranking Republicans in the House responsible the impeachment resigned or did not run for office again over relatively minor scandals involving cheating on their spouses  It is my contention that they were informed of more embarrassing revelations would be forth coming unless they left the House, in other words, they were blackmailed based on information obtained years earlier from their FBI files.  Might be interesting to question the marine guards if they are still alive or haven't been paid off.
      There you have it another blog. Please pass it on and comment.  Planning another blog, "Obama's War on America".
   
   

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

More on Global Warming, Obamacare, and The Minimum Wage

      There is so much going with Global Warming, Obamacare, and the the minimum wage, that I decided to publish another blog.  Everyday Liberalism and the left's lies are being exposed, to the points were libs can only tell more lies that have to be termed ridiculous, only believable by the dumb, dumber, and uninformed.
      This current story has to fall into the "you just can't make this up" category.  In December a group of eco-science people wanted to travel to Antarctica to study the effects of global warming on Antarctic ice, believing that is receding (it is not and is at record levels).  Remember it is summer in Antarctica now when the surrounding ice should be at its lowest level during the year.  Their ship got marooned in ice.  Two ice breakers, one Chinese and the other Australian flagged, tried to rescue them, but were  unsuccessful in their attempts to break through the ice.  Eventually they were rescued by helicopter.  Now an American Coast Guard ice breaker, capable of breaking through ice thirty feet thick, has been dispatched to rescue the Chinese ice breaker that has become encased in ice and is in danger of being crushed.  Wonder what these global warming scientists will say to explain the Antarctic ice that apparently hasn't melted.
      The other global warming story is even more laughable.  As most of you know, the central and eastern part of the United States is experiencing record cold temperatures (while I'm lounging about in a  toasty 80 degrees in Miami).  The global warming lunatics have the nerve to attribute this to global warming slowing down the jet stream, allowing this blast of extremely cold arctic air to more farther south than usual.  If man made global warming is responsible, why in a few days would the temperature get warmer, especially since people are going to be burning more coal and gas to stay warm?  These junk scientists would have been better off saying that if it weren't for global warming it would be much colder or maybe George Bush turned on his weather machine, the same one according to crapper Kanya West, that caused Hurricaine Katrina to strike New Orleans, or maybe it was Mr. Freeze from the Batman movies.  As I have reported in previous blogs, anthropogenic global warming is nothing more than a hoax to transfer wealth from both individuals and wealthy countries to governments and poor countries.  Lurch, I mean our pompous Secretary of State John Kerry is attempting to set up some sort of Global warming world wide organization.  Last year the Obama regime transferred $5,000,000,000 of your tax dollar to Africa to combat global warming even though the earth has been getting cooler for 17 years in a row.  This is a total waste, as is giving money to nearly every African nation for any reason.
     The insurance companies are upset because Obamacare negates their ability to establish realistic rates and plans and unless this Ponzi scheme tricks healthy young adults into signing up and paying exorbitant rates with exorbitant deductibles, the insurance companies are going to face serious losses of income.  But don't weep for them as rooted in the deepest bowels of Obamacare is a bailout for the insurance companies should they loose money, of course, at tax payer expense.
      Obama and Obamacare continue the war on Catholics.  The Little Sisters of the Poor, is an order of nuns dedicated to providing aid and comfort to the dying though hospice care.  They do not want to pay for health insurance that supplies benefits that they know opposes their theology.  It is very unlikely that an elderly nun will need maternity and birth control benefits.  Furthermore, the cost of Obamacare to their order would be more than three million dollars that would end much of their charitable works.  Attorney General Eric Holder representing the regime, has aggressively opposed their law suit, which is headed for the Supreme Court.  Interestingly, Obama appointee Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who is a Catholic, granted the stay requested by the nuns .
      On a much more positive note, Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has filed a law suit against the regime for abusing executive authority, because of all the changes that have been made by the regime to Obamacare.  Only the legislative branch could make those changes.  One of the changes he sites are that staffs of the senators have been granted subsidies.  The staff member involved make between $70,000 and 160,000, well above the level of subsidy eligibility for we common folk.  Senators are not small business nor is the Senate a small business.  The Senate is part of government and senators elected government workers.  The suit has been filed in Wisconsin far way from the Washington, DC circuit, that has been packed by Obama with leftist activist judges.  It will certainly be interesting to see where this suit winds up.  Maybe the Supreme Court will have another opportunity to atone for its failure to end Obamacare.
      To take some of the pressure off the failure of Obamacare, the regime and Dems are pushing for a raise to the minimum wage.  Several states, including California, already drowning in debt, have already raised the minimum wage not understanding what effect it will have on the economy, especially the people it alleges to help.  Only about 2.7% of workers are making the minimum wage and at least 50% of those are between 18 and 24 years old.  Government should stay out of the minimum wage and allow free markets to determine the minimum wage.  For example, MacDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's are all competitive franchises.  The skill level of employees is very similar.  If one is paying $5/hr and another $7/hr, people seeking an entry level job are going to apply to the business offering a higher wage and better benefits.  The business paying the lowest wages will wind up with the worst employees and more employee turnover, as after they receive their training they may find their experience permits them to move on to a better opportunity elsewhere.  Having rapid employee turnover is bad for business and forces wages and/or benefits to be improved in order to lessen turnover and get better employee.  In fact the other business may do the same if it suddenly finds its employees moving over to a competitor or to another type of business like Walmart or Target that may offer even better wages and benefits, using the fast food experience as a positive work experience item on their resume. When government steps in and mandates an artificial minimum wage, it fails to note the damage.  Businessmen faced with a loss of profit due to wages may choose to fire some workers. cut hours, and/or cut benefits as has happened with Obamacare.  Remaining employees will be required to work harder and less overtime will become available.  In order to preserve profits, the price of a Big Mac or Whopper will rise.  The wealthy who may want some fast food will not be affected, but the poor, who frequently consumes it, will be effected and the purchasing power of their minimum wage salary will go down. Governments have never been very good at managing the economy and should just stay out of it.  Let free markets do their job.
      But the real reason for raising the minimum wage has little to do with the workers.  As usual just follow the money.  For every dollar that the government raises the minimum wage, it will collect $.153 in Social Security and Medicare taxes which means more money to waste and spend.  Even if he pays no income taxes, a minimum wage worker would only get $.9235 for every dollar.  The employer would be out an additional $.0765.  This would amount to more than $600,000,000 in addition or about $5,000,000,000 total for all minimum wage workers.  I'm certain Harry Reid or Barak Obama could find some worthless endeavor to spend it.
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Monday, January 6, 2014

Looking Back At 2013 and Ahead to 2014

     First I'd like to wish all of you a happy New Year.  Putting up with Obama in 2013 was bad, but at least people are starting realize what a traitor and monster he is.  I know its been awhile since I last posted a blog and there is so much going on, but that is exactly the reason why I have not posted.  Events are changing so fast that by the time I could write something up, a slew of new info has become available.  This blog will cover a number of topics that need to be updated.
      Obviously, the thing that concerns us the most is Obamacare.  There, I said it and so  I guess I'm a racist just like Obama, who seemed to have at one time liked the term.  I suppose Moochelle is a racist too, as she recently used the term in an ad telling people to discuss it while their family is having Christmas dinner.  I know this is exactly what people want to talk about while trying to enjoy family and friends on what should be a joyous holiday. As I have stated in previous blogs, it was a political necessity that Obamacare did not really kick in until after the 2012 election year, because Obama would never have been reelected on what I knew then and what the general public knows now.  The 2700 pages of crap called the Afforable Care Act was really a "document dump".  It was too long to read before passage and as witch Nancy has said "you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."  As we are discovering this horror story written by Zeke Emmanuel and the commies at the Center for American Progress is a road map for the destruction of America, especially the American middle-class. Of course Obama lied. He lies about everything except wanting to fundamentally change America.  He just never said publicly what he wanted to change America to.  Privately those who have followed this leftist America hater, knew all along he wanted to change America from a thriving capitalist economy, to a failed socialist or communist one.  The good news is there are some cracks in his plan starting to appear.  The failed web site was a good start, but some States, notably South Carolina and Georgia have rejected Obamacare all together using the rights granted states in the 10th Amendment.  Obamacare may not be available in those states, though look for Eric Holder to file a law suit and request an injunction that will find its way to the Supreme Court.  If the court refused to allow an injunction stopping South Carolina and Georgia,  I look for more states to follow.  Meanwhile Obamacare slowly and nefariously creeps on.  With the midterm elections scheduled for November of 2014,  Obama has moved the date when the employer mandate is supposed to kick in from October 15, 2014 to November 15, 2014 conveniently after the elections.  Do you think by then it will really matter?  Seventy to one hundred million Americans, mostly middle class, are going to loose their health care coverage.  Still some Democrats support this "obamanation."  I hope the Dummy Wasserman-Schultz and Nancy Pelosi try to run on this.   With all the changes that Obama has made, Republicans ought to ask the courts to either declare this law null and void, or force Obama to implement the law the way it is written without all the exceptions granted to pals and friends and the delays in implementation for political purposes.  Constitutionally, on Congress can change the law.
      Only 1.1 million Americans have signed up for Obamacare on healthcare.gov, 1/3 of the expected 3.3 million.  Of those who have signed up, many questions remain, and the regimes has not been forth coming with the answers.  How many have paid?  How many are getting subsidies?  How many are healthy young people?  I suspect Obama is hiding the fact that most of those that have signed up are those with preexisting conditions or those with a very significant subsidy. He likes to tout how many have health insurance for the first time, but unfortunately more have lost it than have obtained it. Few healthy young adults have signed up.  Being a wealth redistribution program, not a healthcare program, Obamacare needs healthy young adults to sign up and pay exorbitant rates in order to fund Obamacare and in reality confiscates hard earned money.  Confiscation of wealth and assets is the most important weapon in the communist and socialist armamentarium.  A healthy 28 year old man, if he is stupid enough to throw his money away, should be elated that his one size fits all insurance policy includes pediatric dental care, prenatal and pregnancy care, and free female exams.  Likewise a healthy adult female is excited to have testicular cancer and prostatitis as covered entities.  In reality Obamacare is not insurance.  Insurance companies base their rates on actuary determined statistics of events that are possible, not those that aren't.  Not being able to base a rate on preexisting conditions, further skews what will be paid and ruins what should be actuary sound rates.
      Your humble blogger has also been directly affected by Obamacare.  The "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor" lie covers even Medicare recipients (I know its hard to believe that i'm old enough to be on Medicare).  My doctor has decided, rather than face the onslaught of radical changes to the practice of Medicine, he retired from his busy practice.  Just to let you know, I closed my own private practice of both cosmetic and reconstructive surgery shortly after the passage of the ACA and now work as an independent contractor, performing only cosmetic surgery and no longer using my experience and skill in reconstructive surgery.
      First lady Moochelle continues to inch her way toward a run at the 2016 Democrat Presidential Primary.  She has expanded the issues for which she is"concerned", making her an "expert" on a number of topics.  Though her resume is even thinner than her husband's, thin resumes seem not to  matter to Democrats and low information voters.  After all Hillary Clinton's resume of actual accomplishments was almost as thin as Obama's and still is. She got her job with the Rose Law Firm because her husband was attorney general and later governor of Arkansas. Her experience as first lady was terrible as she was involved in a number of scandals with her husband regime, failure of Hillarycare, and her characterization by the media as a victim due to Bill's cheating.  As a carpet bagging New York senator, her only accomplishments were the naming of six or seven New York post offices, and as a totally inexperienced diploma and Secretary of State, her term was one of the worst in decades with the Benghazi debacle, the failure to stop Iran from moving toward a nuclear weapon, and support for Syria and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.  Liar Elizabeth Warren, now recently elected Massachusetts US Senator, is also being considered as a presidential candidate.  She claimed to be an American Indian in order to get affirmative action consideration.  She has no resume at all.
      As you know we have Obama phones, Obamacare, and Obama EBT cards, so look for Obama gas cards in the near future, alleging that the poor need to drive their work...as if they have a job.  (I can't wait to see the video on the news of an elated welfare cheat saying, "Obama put gas in my Escalade.") Remember the number of those who work for a living is becoming smaller than the number of those who vote for a living.  Moochelle will run on her husband's give aways and offer even more.  Speaking of the 2016 presidential election, very early polling shows that Chris Christy of New Jersey is the only one among  a handful of Republican hopefuls that beats Hillary Clinton.  As a result, the biased main stream media have started putting out negative stories about him.  Once the Republican darling of the main stream media, like McCain in 2008, he will become their villain. Speaking of EBT cards, Florida passed a law signed by Governor Rick Scott to require welfare recipients to submit to drug testing. In many cities, EBT cards are sold by recipients to small grocery stores for $.50 on the $1.00.  A drug dealer conveniently waits outside to make a sale.  Drug testing welfare recipients and denying benefits to those who test positive, would go a long way in saving taxpayers money wasted on welfare fraud.  Unfortunately Judge Mary Scriven has invalidated the law saying that it violates Amendment IV of the Constitution.  Governor Scott plans to appeal.  Look for this one to go to the supreme court.  American are free to travel, so why aren't searches art airports Amendment  IV violations
      Another thing that concerns me, and should concern you, if you have children or grandchildren, is what is happening to our educational system.  At the primary school level, libs have tried to introduce the "core curriculum" educational resource.  We have learned that this is little more than left wing anti American propaganda.  It and its related text books ought to be barred from our schools.  Teachers who are anti religion also ought to be fired.  Isn't it troubling that they are against Christians and Jews, but not Muslims.  Get off your behinds and run for school board if you care about how your children are being educated.  Look at the text books your children bring home or have on their laptops and complain if what you find is inappropriate.  At the college level, there is even more concern, not only because of liberal and radical leftist professors, but with the cost of education. Why has education become so expensive?  The ever increasing cost of college and graduate school can be directly attributed the student loan program, now totally controlled by the regime under Obama. By making guaranteed loans available to just about anyone, colleges have no incentives to control costs.  Everyone from professors to janitors are being paid much more, much more than they deserve.  Since well paying jobs have not been forth coming under Obama, the default rate is increasing rapidly and may be the next bubble that bursts.  Hope and pray that your children and grandchildren will not need loans. Knowing how Obama politicizes everything, as with healthcare, political affiliation may mean more than need in obtaining a student loan.
     The piece of toilet paper, better known as the New York Times, Has unsuccessfully tried to whitewash the Benghazi scandal in order to protect potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who was directly responsible for what happened, allowing four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens to be murdered by radical Islamists affiliated with Al Qaida.  They tried to blame the stupid movie that no one ever saw.  The Times story seems to contradict all the evidence that has been compiled, even that which has been difficult to obtain as the regime has made eye witnesses sign non disclosure agreements in order to protect itself.  Bottom line, Clinton failed to increase security before the attack, despite evidence of an impending attack, failed to send help and made available help stand down, covered up the reason for the attack and who was responsible. On the night of the attack, Clinton and Obama were more concerned with political issues and getting a good night's sleep.
      Obama continues to attempt to usurp Amendment II rights.  He wants states to send the government lists of registered gun owners, as if this is going to end gun violence.  Washington, DC has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, requiring long guns and hand guns to be registered.  Yet it has one of the highest murder rates.  Criminals don't register guns.  So why register them?  If and when Obama declares martial law, he will know where to find them.  Only the criminals will have guns.  Imagine this scenario,  a riot occurs in one of our large cities, with looting, burning, and shooting of innocent civilians and first responders.  The government comes in a seizes weapons from innocent civilians using this an excuse.  Now innocent civilians will be unable to protect themselves from the rioters. Why seize weapons from innocent civilians?  The most obvious reason is for a government seizure by the Obama regime.  The Amendment II was given its high status in order to allow citizens to protect themselves from the government.
      My last item is one of those "you just can't make this stuff up".  The California Supreme Court has ruled that and illegal alien, Sergio Garcia, who managed to obtain a law degree can be licensed in California, despite a Federal Law banning illegal aliens from obtaining professional government licenses.  This has some interesting and ironic consequences.  In Florida as in most states, an applicant to the Bar, is required to submit personal information in regard to any criminal background and admission to the Bar can be denied on that basis.  The California Supreme Court has determined that being in America illegally and violating immigration laws is a felony that they choose to ignore.  Illegal aliens who are by definition criminals now have more rights than felons who are American citizens.
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