Multiple articles regarding BHOs trials-tribulations regarding ObamaCare illustrate festering problems with its launch; a few hyperlinks are provided, followed by a more lengthy analysis that arrived only via e-mail and, thus, is not independently on the Internet. The key-question, of course, is whether BHO will be confronted by the media when he fails to fix the problem that he mendaciously created; Rush said on Friday what this physician has continually argued, namely, that BHO cares not about anything else [poll numbers, unions, Dems] as long as his inexorable effort to exert Statism will become irreversible.
Not a joke, The New York Times reports that kickbacks and bribes are legal now in ObamaCare 52 million Americans have lost or will lose health insurance
'This is what betrayal looks like' FLASHBACK 2010: Obama Admits Millions 'Might Have to Change Coverage'
Blame game as insurers dump doctors Rocky Start For North Carolina Health Care Exchanges: Only 1 Person Signed Up So Far, But Hasn't Paid; Lone Applicant Already Targeted By Scammer Only 5 in DC? Health insurers say they're canceling plans because of federal law Cancer Patient Chooses Death Over ObamaCare GALLUP: UNINSURED REJECT OBAMACARE
Woman Who Championed ObamaCare Stunned After Losing Insurance Plan INSURANCE CANCELLATIONS SURGING ObamaCare Adviser: Healthcare Website Encountering New Issues
Issa subpoenas White House tech official for hearing
NBC's David Gregory: Media Never Would Have Let Bush Recover from Saying Im Sorry' NBC's Chuck Todd: Obama 'Does Not Believe He Lied' Howard Kurtz: Jon Stewart Playing 'Neat Little Game' to Minimize Own ObamaCare Jokes CNN Blames Christians for ObamaCare Problems CBS's Schieffer: ObamaCare Shows Govt. Incapable of Making Things Better The "Inconvenient Truth" About ObamaCare
If you've ever been on a used car lot, you have experienced one of the great truisms in sales - often the harder the pitch, the weaker the product. And from the beginning, we've seen an unprecedented effort by the Obama administration to polish up its lemon of a health care overhaul and to convince the American people they're getting a luxury vehicle.
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priced marketing firm, hired by the Obama administration to craft its messaging, the massive internet search engine campaign - all at taxpayer's expense.
We know about these things because Judicial Watch has done the gritty work of forcing the release of government records. (The total cost of the ObamaCare propaganda campaign was estimated to be as high as $200 million, by the way.)
And regarding the purpose of this propaganda machine, remember this gem from documents we uncovered from HHS? "Health and program-related messages are processed by the target audience according to a particular reality, which he or she experiences. Attitudes, feelings, values, needs, desires, behaviors and beliefs all play a part in the individual's decision to accept information and make a behavioral change."
That one still creeps me out as it is the exact description of brainwashing.
But this week, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, we learned that the Obama administration considered, but rejected, telling the truth about ObamaCare's destructive effects
Per The Wall Street Journal:
As President Barack Obama pushed for a new federal health law in 2009, he made a simple pledge: If you like your insurance plan, you can keep your plan. But behind the scenes, White House officials discussed whether that was a promise they could keep.
When the question arose, Mr. Obama's advisers decided that the assertion was fair, interviews with more than a dozen people involved in crafting and explaining the president's health-care plan show.
But at times, there was second-guessing. At one point, aides discussed whether Mr. Obama might use more in-depth discussions, such as media interviews, to explain the nuances of the succinct line in his stump speeches, a former aide said. Officials worried, though, that delving into details such as the small number of people who might lose insurance could be confusing and would clutter the president's message.
"You try to talk about health care in broad, intelligible points that cut through, and you inevitably lose some accuracy when you do that," the former official said.
You read that right. Government officials were worried the truth would clutter the president's message. And so they kicked accuracy to the curb in favor of "simpler" falsehoods.
(Actually, the president's promise was even stronger than described by the Journal: "if you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." [Emphasis added.])
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cancellation notices from insurers to customers around the country prompted him to recalibrate.
In other words, the "if you like your plan you can keep it" Obama mantra turns out to be a bold-faced lie and the president is trying to save face (or lie about his initial lies) while acknowledging what cannot be ignored.
According to industry experts, as many as 10 million Americans will have their health care plans terminated by year's end, leaving them with skyrocketing out-of-pocket expenses. You see, health insurers read the writing on the wall. Existing plans will surely die out if there are no new customers. So why keep them on life support?
Of course, the Obama administration saw this coming. They knew plans would be cancelled. In fact, that was one of their principle goals, to have more Americans leave their health insurance plans and enter into "improved" plans offered through Healthcare.gov exchanges. But this proved to be an "inconvenient truth" that would surely undermine the president's bumper sticker campaign message. And they couldn't take that risk - 10 million Americans be damned.
By the way, the Obama excuse that ObamaCare only changed the plans in the individual insurance market is also misleading. Employers who provide health insurance have also been forced to curtail wages, hours, and jobs to comply with the ObamaCare mandate. If you have a job with health insurance and get laid off, you will lose your health insurance as surely as the millions of individuals now receiving ObamaCare-caused cancellation notices.
The net result for the president is some very real trouble. Democrats in Congress who voted for this monstrosity are nervous, and the leftist press is having an increasingly difficult time making lemonade. (Even Obama defender and television host John Stewart is "tired of all the ObamaCare lies." This scandal has all but shredded, for those few who still believed it, the notion of Obama's having the most transparent administration in history.)
And now, the Obama administration has given up on recalibration in favor of distraction, by arguing that it doesn't matter, because these people will ultimately have better health plans. The American Enterprise Institute's Jonah Goldberg demonstrates the folly of this argument:
If a landlord promises you can keep your dog when you move into an apartment, but then after you sign the lease he takes your dog and replaces it with a stuffed one, he wasn't telling you the truth. The landlord's view that the new dog is better ("No mess! No noise!") is utterly irrelevant to the question of whether the landlord lied - and it doesn't make you a fool for preferring your old dog, either.
At any rate, it doesn't appear to be working. The American people are too smart. We saw ObamaCare for what it was - a watered down version of health care socialism - and that's why the public has never supported it. (Or "make a decision to accept information and make a behavioral change," to use the administration's creepy Big Brother language.)
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The lying president will try to power his way through this credibility crisis. And I'm sure the media, now going after him for a bit, will get back on board with Obama.
In the meantime, Judicial Watch will persist and seek truth and accountability. We have many pending ObamaCare open records investigations, but this week we began a new, massive, and nationwide investigation of the ObamaCare debacle. I will provide you more details later, but rest assured that we are on the case!
A Sweetheart No-Bid Contract for Obama-Connected Marketing Firm?
The government contracting process is supposed to be transparent, fair, and subject to open bidding so the American people can have confidence that politicians and their appointees in the federal bureaucracies do not engage in the behavior of rewarding campaign donors with sweetheart deals.
Note I said supposed to be transparent, fair and open. Often it is not, as evidenced by an apparently corrupt arrangement between the Obama USDA and an Obama-connected marketing firm.
This week we announced the release of 44 pages of documents revealing that in 2010, the USDA evidently violated federal law by giving a $100,000 no-bid contract to a marketing firm with close ties to President Obama's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns. The funds were for the purpose of spearheading Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" obesity initiative.
How close were the ties?
Top executives of the firm Shepardson, Stern, and Kaminsky (SS+K) previously held key positions on Obama campaign staffs, and the firm produced advertising for the 2012 Obama campaign, including the controversial "Your First Time" TV commercial, which compared voting to losing one's virginity.
Importantly, even the USDA has admitted that the contract might have been unlawful. Following the early February 2010 delivery of the SS+K materials, the USDA, in an apparent effort to justify the no-bid contract, produced a "Request for Ratification of an Unauthorized Commitment" conceding possible violations of Federal Acquisition and Agriculture Acquisition regulations.
The Request said the USDA employee "was not aware of the contracting process" and that "the importance of this program necessitated an aggressive schedule that hindered his ability to research the process."
Let me cut through the bureaucrat-speak for a moment: What the Obama administration argues here is that the urgent need to advance Michelle Obama's obesity initiative was of greater importance than following the law! And the person who presided over the contract allocation did not even have a basic understanding of the contracting process.
Once again, we see the perfect storm of incompetence, corruption and cover-up from this administration.
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Property Management sent an email to the project director asking, "What did we get for our money?" Also, the commitment might have been "unauthorized."
The documents obtained by JW on October 22, 2013, were in response to a June 13, 2013, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking the following information from January 1, 2010, to the present: Any and all contracts between USDA and SS+K, a creative marketing firm located at 1717 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Suite 660, Washington, DC 20036 and Pine Street, 30th Floor, New York, NY 10005. Any and all records of communication between any official, employee, or representative of the United States Department of Agriculture and any officer, employee, or representative of SS+K.
According to the documents, the USDA awarded SS+K the "unauthorized commitment," no-bid contract to produce the "Let's Move" logo, slogan, and artwork for Michelle Obama's campaign, as well as the creative design for the "Let's Move" website, which right now features characters from the Muppets as well as photos of Michelle Obama dancing/exercising.
(Perhaps we can all agree, liberals and conservatives, that any government-funded campaign that involves puppets does not rise to the level of an "urgent need" that requires government officials to ignore the rule of law.)
SS+K evidently delivered the completed project in February 2010 with a 30-day invoice. On April 5, 2010, Jodey Edwards, Deputy Director, USDA, Office of Procurement & Property Management, sent an email to USDA Administrative Officer Yvette Ward asking, "What did we get for our money ... any deliverable? I know this is an unauthorized commitment: however the[y] still must provide evidence of what is being paid for ..."
To say that SS+K saw a precipitous rise in its government contracting business after Obama took office would be an understatement.
Prior to the $100,000 "Let's Move" no-bid contract, SS+K also received contracts totaling $2 million from the Obama Department of Education for the "TEACH" teacher recruitment campaign in 2010. Previous to the Obama election, the firm, founded in the early 1990s, had landed only one government contract, a $50,000 contract from the Department of Defense in 2002.
This increase in government business - from $50,000 to $2.1 million - comes as no surprise given the connections of the company's higher-ups.
The firm's founding partner, Robert Shepardson, previously led SS+K's work on the Obama campaigns in 2008 and 2012. Marty Cooke, who also worked on the "Let's Move" account for SS+K, was the creative director during the Obama '08 campaign. SS+K vice president Mike Moffo is the former National Director of Special Projects for the Obama 2008 campaign. Other SS+K clients include the AFL-CIO, George Soros' Open society Foundation, and the Democratic National Committee.
Look, this is as much a sweetheart deal as I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of them. Just as with the no-bid contract for the disastrous ObamaCare website, it is clear Barack Obama is paying off his friends out of the public treasury. And for the USDA to try to justify its sleight of hand by claiming that the "importance" of the program "necessitated an aggressive schedule" is both disingenuous and insulting.
As noted in the emergency-level blast of two days ago, BHO triggered an overt-schism with Israel [On the cusp of a historic sell-out of Israel] plus Mideast Alliances, prompting Egypt to look to Russia; fortunately, as it became apparent that obama-was-lying-about-iran-sanctions, World Powers Split on Iran Nuke Deal [with, allegedly, a Half-built reactor being the sticking point], despite Rohani urging that the West not miss 'exceptional opportunity.' Instead, Stronger Sanctions on Iran are sorely needed. Quotes from e-mails are provided from two key-resourcesBB [anguished/angry] & Arlene Kushner [with her own hyperlinks embedded]; it is advised that the texts be reviewed in-detail, urgently.
BB:
http://www.jltv.tv/ga/replay-2013-GA-Sunday-1.php [Netanyahu starts at minute 28] Transcript of PM Benjamin Netanyahu's Remarks at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly - 10/11/2013
[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: "Bring me by speech" Netanyahu said in Hebrew as he came up to the podium. The first mike didn't work. Neither did the second one. So Prime Minister Netanyahu, standing next to the lectern, used a third mike - starting his presentation without losing a beat.
So he stood there without notes and starting taking about Iran. He only moved over to the lectern, where an assistant placed his notes, after he completed his message about Iran and moved on to greet people by name [from "I know that there have been many times that we have stood together......"]
When I spoke with Americans at Binyanei Heuma in Jerusalem before PM Netanyahu's address there were those who were confident that Netanyahu would talk against Iran but avoid being confrontational with America ("after all," more than one observed, "we are a mixed crowd.").
But as our prime minister noted, "when it comes to the question of Jewish survival and the survival of the Jewish state, I will not be silenced, ever."
So its not the time to be pleasant or politically correct or worry about offending some American Jews.
"And what is being offered now, and I'm continuously updated in detail. I know whereof I speak." [= the American officials trying to excuse the criticism as a product of a lack of knowledge are liars.]
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Then again, there were other visiting American Jews who told me that they have friends who were, up to now, diehard supporters of President Obama but the most recent developments shocked them and turned them around.
Hardly a reliable survey.
One thing is clear: for the next two weeks it is our fervent hope that friends of Israel in America and around the world heed Netanyahu's call:
"When it comes to the question of Jewish survival and the survival of the Jewish state, I will not be silenced, ever."
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November 10, 2013
"Where Are the American People?"
Either they're asleep, or on numbing narcotics, or have decided they just don't give a damn any longer what happens in the world -- so that the fact that their president is surrendering America's proud and exceedingly important international role is just fine with them.
Please! do not write to me explaining what happened to America. The above is rhetorical flourish by way of introduction to what I am seeing. I cannot fix America, and whether Americans are asleep or on something, the result is the same: America's proud and important role in the world is being swiftly abandoned. I grieve for this. The implications are terrifying.
And the bottom line here, of course, is that the president of the United States is destroying America. I think Americans have yet to face the profound consequences of what is being wrought.
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The core of what I am referring to is, of course, Iran. What has become shockingly clear is that Obama has capitulated to Iran. Talks have been going on in Geneva between Iran and P5 (the permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the US, France, Britain, Russia and China) + 1 (Germany).
What had been on the verge of being finalized just days ago was a horrendous agreement. It would have required Iran to stop enriching at the 20% level, but would have permitted the continuation of enrichment at the 3.5% level, with enrichment continuing at all sites. Nothing would have been dismantled and there would have been no limit on the number of centrifuges that Iran would continue to possess (estimated at 19,000).
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In return for this, there would have been a considerable reduction in sanctions -- the unfreezing of $3 billion in fuel funds, an easing of sanctions on the petrochemical and gold sectors, an easing of sanctions on replacement parts for planes, and a loosening of restrictions in the Iranian car industry.
One source quoted by the JPost called this "very grave" -- a situation that might lead to the collapse of all sanctions. It would not stop the Iranian nuclear project, but merely give the Iranians "breathing space."
As the JPost explained, "Once major international transactions begin, a dynamic will kick in that will lead to a collapse of sanctions."
"The Americans folded," said the source, "maybe because they very much want to reach an agreement and be done with this."
"...The Iranians are the ones who came crawling to the negotiations, begging for an easing of sanctions, otherwise their regime will fall, and what's incredible is that it seems that the Americans are more eager than them (sic) to reach an agreement." (Emphasis added here and above)
What has to be emphasized here is that this was to be an "interim" agreement: it was not intended to dismantle Iran's ability to make a bomb. It involved only a "freeze." As all enrichment facilities and equipment would stay in place, the Iranians could start up again whenever they pleased. And it would be too late to re-start the sanctions program that would prevent them from taking this step.
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Needless to say, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu went ballistic over this. Israel has again and again advised the international community that only if Iran no longer has the capacity to develop a bomb could a deal be considered a success. Aside from the enrichment facilities, there is also the heavy water plant at Arak.
On Friday morning, he met on this issue at the airport with Secretary of State Kerry, who was leaving for Geneva. This was a suddenly announced trip and it is widely thought that Kerry took himself there to secure credit for the deal he anticipated would be finalized shortly.
Then, later, on learning more about what was transpiring in Geneva, Netanyahu met with reporters, and said (emphasis added):
"I understand that the Iranians are walking around very satisfied in Geneva -- as well they should be because they got everything and paid nothing. Everything they wanted; they wanted relief of sanctions after years of a grueling sanctions regime, they got that. They are paying 885
nothing because they are not reducing in any way their nuclear enrichment capability."
He explained that, "the international community got a bad deal, a very bad deal" while Iran "got the deal of the century." And then he made it clear that, "Israel utterly rejects [the deal] and what I am saying is shared by many in the region, whether or not they express that publicly. Israel is not obliged by this agreement and Israel will do everything it needs to do to defend itself and the security of its people."
On the cite above, you will find a video clip in addition to Netanyahu's words in print. Please notice how agitated and drawn he looks.
With this statement, the prime minister has put the world on notice. No one can ever say he/she didn't know that Israel was going to/on the cusp of deciding to hit Iran.
I am keenly aware of the balancing act Netanyahu is engaged in, with regard to hitting Iran. If negotiations fail (and more on this below), this becomes an appropriate time. If a bad deal is struck, then he must face the ire of the international community, which will claim it had been on the edge of securing a peaceful situation, when he, a warmonger, upset the dynamic. That doesn't mean that he wouldn't do it anyway. Not at all.
But I have the sense of his weighing various options with the utmost seriousness possible. And I also have a vivid and painful awareness of the fact that the window of opportunity for Israel to act is going to close very very soon.
I make no secret of my conviction that, as matters stand, he must hit. But there is no certainty yet. In fact, there will be no certainty until it's been done.
Netanyahu has spoken repeatedly about the need to tighten the screws on Iran with regard to the sanctions. This is apparently in the hope that it might yet cause the implosion of the current regime, or, far more likely, weaken it sufficiently so that the mullahs hold off on crossing that red line -- especially as Israel presents a credible threat.
Yet, as matters have transpired in the last days, this is an unlikely prospect.
When Netanyahu made his statement on Friday, he believed the deal was about to be finalized. What happened yesterday, however, is that France - as I understand it, and astonishingly - took Netanyahu's warnings seriously and pulled back from agreement. The French referred to the prospective arrangement as a "sucker's deal," and so at present there is no deal. 886
Some reports have the other P5 + 1 parties that are involved - apparently still eager to finalize that deal - minimizing French objections: No no, everyone is on board, France is just addressing some technicalities. Whether France will hold out remains to be seen.
As matters currently stand, there will be a short break, before negotiations are resumed on November 20. In the meantime, Netanyahu intends to do a great deal of lobbying. Yet, again.
Whether this deal goes through or not, whether France holds out or not, whether Netanyahu convinces some other nations to take a more careful look at what they are doing or not, I hold the Obama administration culpable at the most basic levels.
Once, not so long ago, the US was the leader of the free world, and demonstrated strength and perseverance. Now, from all indications, the US was terribly eager to sign a very bad deal. This after Kerry had pontificated that no deal is better than a bad one. How shameful is it, that it could be said that America was more eager for a deal than Iran. What does this tell us?
And what an indictment, that perhaps the Americans caved because they want to be done with it already. What a gross and shocking dereliction of Obama's basic responsibility to his nation, and to the international community this would be.
It seems to have been the case that the US stance softened in the course of these recent negotiations. What is still speculative is the reason why. A desire to "be done with it already" is only one possible reason. There are other perspectives being advanced. The Netanyahu government is especially incensed that the degree of reduction in sanctions the US was prepared to agree to was greater than Israel had been told it was. Reportedly early on Friday, before the negotiations for the day began in Geneva, Kerry told Netanyahu that there would be "minor" sanctions relief offered to Iran that would "not be significant."
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"The Obama administration began softening sanctions on Iran after the election of Irans new president in June, months before the current round of nuclear talks in Geneva or the historic phone call between the two leaders in September.
"...the key condition for Iranrelief from crippling sanctionsbegan quietly and modestly five months ago."
What this suggests is that the Obama administration didn't simply cave at the last minute during negotiations, but was eager all along to provide relief to Iran -- and to show Iran a weak negotiating stance.
Then the indictment against Obama is far graver: it becomes an issue of pre- meditated intent to cut Iran as much slack as possible, and, yes, allow Iran to go nuclear. And we have to ask which side Obama is on. (Again -- please, don't write to tell me.)
As might be expected, Israeli-US relations are in a state of considerable tension right now. And there is a way in which I consider this healthy. For Netanyahu can harbor no illusions about a quid pro quo if Israel makes concessions, or about trusting the US to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power, or about the US having Israel's back.
Netanyahu's predisposition to respond to American pressure has to be slight at best. We must trust that he will now proceed on the basis of what is best for Israel. Period.
Obama is simply not to be trusted.
I want to circle back to a discussion of the "negotiations" -- for certainly what I have written here has serious implications in that regard as well. In fact, the prime minister himself alluded to this issue in his statement about the bad deal with Iran.
Because I have something of significance to share concerning Israel's stance on the negotiations, I am going to save this for tomorrow's post.
As well, I hope to take a look at other ways in which Obama is weakening the country he was elected to lead.
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Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:31 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXII [Israel & Iran, ObamaCare, Tea Party Movement]
During a spirited-discussion among Republican-Thinkers this past Friday-p.m., this physician argued rather vociferously regarding how the GOPs Civil War will worsen before it heals; when challenged, Instant-Internet quotations were provided to illustrate how the GOP-Establishment would prefer that a Dem emerge victorious if it feel its power would become threatened by a victorious conservative. Indeed, these concepts are buttressed in a WaPo piece that explores why the internal battle for the soul of party is now expected to continue into next year and beyond [Narrow tea party losses are wake-up call for Republicans]. Attendees @ this event were reminded that, during last years event, this physician argued *also vociferously+ that the GOP should stand-firm on pushing BHO to maintain the debt-ceiling [and, thus, to cut the budget], a posture that presaged the [transiently successful] events in October.
{In follow-up of both ObamaCare and David Horowitz, note this just-posted notice.}
Conservative writer and ex-Marxist David Horowitz should get some kind of Solzhenitsyn Truth award for exposing yet another leftist euphemism.
On Wednesday Horowitz told Fox News' Sean Hannity, when it comes to a government run program which would collect all healthcare fees, and pay out all healthcare costs, the term 'single-payer' is another way of saying "communism."
What I'm trying to write in this book called The Black Book of the American Left is the story of how the communist movement marched into the Democrat Party after '68 behind the McGovern campaign, have taken over the apparatus of the party, and are tolerated by people in that party, so that there's...
What is ObamaCare? And single payer? Why do we call it single payer? It's communism. If the government controls your access to health care which is what this is about, as to what you can have and to what you can't have, how is that different from-- that is communism.
In fact President Obama, raised and mentored by communist caretakers, said, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal health-care program" in 2003 and reiterated his support many times after that. The march towards single-payer is a march toward communism. We might as well say it.
As noted in the immediately-prior blast, BHO cares not about anything other than growing his statism. People write that hes a loner, self-reliant, closed-off, that he blew-the-entire-last-year, and that his second-term-slide-continues; meanwhile, he EYES EXECUTIVE ORDERS AS SECOND TERM CRUMBLES, as George Will queries, Other Than Nixon, Has There Ever Been a Worse First Year of a Second Term? {Thus, this piece by Mark Levin ["Win first, fight later."] encapsulates the diagnosis and therapy needed.}
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This occurs as conservative-groups-push-republicans-to-save-sequester-cuts that BHO wants to discard; this illustrates the ongoing policy-component of the GOPs Civil War, and it explains why, although House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy avers Amnesty Dead in 2013, the RNC CHAIR WARNS IMMIGRATION REFORM COULD STILL PASS HOUSE THIS YEAR as Obama Pushes Immigration Reform After Meeting with McCain. This also is occurring as Joe Scarborough claims the Tea Party Movement is comprised of Political Amateurs Who Are Tarnishing GOP Brand, while Palin is observing that China Will Be 'Foreign Master' if U.S. Doesn't Fix Debt and Palin is claiming Americans Shouldn't Have Faith in the 'Arrogant' Church of Big Government.
David Horowitz, whose monographs are routinely cited/provided *from this physicians back-pocket] when engaged in political-chats, spoke on 11/8/2013 in Philly regarding his writings and unique insights, and he will appear at a Heritage Special Event [Tuesday, Nov 12, 2013 @ noon, in Lehrman Auditorium]; it will be live-streamed. He has published The Black Book of the American Left: The Collected Conservative Writings of David Horowitz, and much of his presentation [which was on C-SPAN in Philly] was said to have been upbeat; he feels/hopes that BHO now resembles the declothed-emperor. ,Cleverly, this Send Out the Clowns video may convey growing-beliefs, but it lacks recognition of the profound impact that BHO continues to have throughout all facets of daily life, here and abroad.}
The House will disclose more BHO-based Scandal-Sheet disclosures [e.g., Issa Subpoenas Lew for Tea Party Targeting Docs] including Benghazi-Gate updates within a few days.
ted-cruz-slammed ObamaCare and gay-marriage on the tonight-show [Part 1 & Part 2], with the latter emphasized as being best adjudicated on the state-level; the Cheered When Ted Cruz Said ObamaCare's the Biggest Jobs Killer in This Country. Meanwhile, as Rupert Murdoch issued a timely truism [World Freedom Dependent on Israels Future], FNCs competitors were incorrigible; NBC's Chris Matthews Mocked Christie's Weight ['I Feel For His Wife+ and CNN Threw In the Towel [Moved Away from News].
,As noted in an earlier blast, the US/Israeli Schism is Historic, and it follows that with other neighboring allies such as Saudi Arabia; those who attempted to discount the potential of the latter to lead to the former [and to other ripple-effects] simply cannot deny the acute/subacute/chronic damage BHO has wreaked upon U.S. Foreign Policy. These observations are now well-ensconced, even among the Media-Libs @ Politico; pivotal info from this hyperlink has been excerpted because this generic hyperlink to the Playbook will have time-value (and, thus, this entry will then be archived on the site).}
TOP STORY - --"Crisis brewing in Israeli-US relations," by AP's Josef Federman in Jerusalem, with Josh Lederman in D.C.: "A pair of testy public exchanges this week appear to have undone whatever good will was created between the Israeli and U.S. governments during a ... visit by President Obama early this year. Tensions burst into the open during a swing through the region by ... Kerry. In an interview broadcast on both Israeli and Palestinian TV, Kerry questioned Israel's seriousness about peace with the Palestinians. Hours later Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired back, vowing not to cave ... to the Palestinians - and ... saying he 'utterly rejects' an emerging nuclear deal between world powers and Iran. ... Israeli news reports describe Netanyahu as being in 'shock' over the possible Iranian compromise." 890
--"Iran nuclear talks fail to reach deal, France pushes back," by Reuters' Stephanie Nebehay and Lesley Wroughton in Geneva: "Iran and six world powers failed in marathon talks to clinch a deal to curb Tehran's nuclear program ... [French] Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told France Inter radio that Paris could not accept a 'fool's game' -- in other words, a weak deal with Iran. ... Fabius' pointed remarks rankled others in the Western camp. One diplomat ... said the French were trying to upstage the other powers and were causing unnecessary trouble for participants in the talks ... "[Secretary of State Kerry told reporters:] 'There is no question in my mind that we are closer now as we leave Geneva than we were when we came and that with good work and good faith over the course of the next weeks, we can, in fact, secure our goal ... We came to Geneva to narrow the differences and I can tell you without any exaggeration we ... narrowed the differences and clarified those that remain' ... But he warned Tehran that ... the window for diplomacy 'does not stay open indefinitely.'" --SECRETARY KERRY is added to "Meet the Press," with an interview with David Gregory recorded from Geneva yesterday. --"Failure to Win Iran Nuclear Accord Gives More Time to Hardliners," by Bloomberg's Jonathan Tirone, Indira A.R. Lakshmanan and Kambiz Foroohar: "The pause in talks gives opponents in Israel, Saudi Arabia and Washington time to lobby against any deal that would allow Iran to keep sensitive nuclear technologies and to press for new economic sanctions on Iran. After a stop in Abu Dhabi, ... Kerry intends to fly back to Washington to brief lawmakers and try to head off further congressional penalties that President Obama's administration says could scuttle an accord." --AFP/London: "A deal between world powers and Iran on Tehran's nuclear programme is within reach, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday following talks in Geneva." Jack Potok has provided juicy-hyperlinks, including the Toomey-note; therefore, his latest e-mail is provided as grist [both his Healthcare insurance cancellation Letter and his suggested reaction, namely, sending an "ObamaCare Cancellation Notice" to Congress]. His Resources included: Duke Expert: 68% to get cancelled, Four ObamaCare Sign-Ups In Delaware, and Carrie Underwood Mocks ObamaCare (video).
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Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 1:48 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXIII [Holocaust]
Last night, the JCC Holocaust Museum held its Annual Gala, with ~100 more people attending this year than were present last year; ~280 people were squished into Philmont C.C.s quarters; note that it was not possible [as PAL does, for example] to expand onto the porch when an event occurs in November, although it may be desirable to employ contiguous rooms for an anticipated-to-be-larger crowd in 2014.
,When this physician chatted amiably with Rep. Fitzpatrick, his coda was, Dr. Bob, dont get into any trouble! This was a social-event, so official discussion of politics would have created unnecessary discomfiture; my response *A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do (quoting John Steinbeck, John Dumelo, George Jetson, Tendo Choi and Woody Harrelson )] reflected the need to challenge [politely/firmly] a campaign-promise that had been broken. No one welcomes this [inevitable?] Civil War, but duty calls.
The need to maintain awareness of the Shoah is enhanced by fear that Neville Chamberlains approach to Hitler *appeasement+ is currently being replicated by BHO in his dealings with the Iranian Nukes; indeed, as European Jews Report a Rise in Anti-Semitism, the theme of the most recent issue [Fall, 2013] of the Middle East Quarterly was devoted to its forerunner as an inspiration for Hitler, exploring the slaughter of Armenians [What Is Genocide? The Armenian Case - Turkey, Past and Future], particularly as Revisiting the Armenian Genocide by consulting century-old records [newly-unearthed and still- shrouded] argue that it should no longer be allowed to remain unacknowledged by a regime that may be on the verge of resurrecting its worst elements [Islamic Supremacy Alive and Well in Ankara]. Also, illustrative of the import of teaching how governments can become demonized is what the Soviets did in 1921 [a near-genocidal famine] and in 1931-1932 [Ukrainian Famine]; as Guzzardi notes, this is hardly a sectarian issue, for it has critical historical value that reflects, for example, the effort to create a global caliphate *by exterminating Christians, such as Egypts Copts, as well as erasing Israel from the map+. {This problem also exists in Connecticut: anti-semitism-and-swastikas-meet-the-pine-bush-school.}
There is no question that this information must be included within the high-schools standard *core?+ curriculum, inasmuch as college-students are ignorant of basic-data. Yet, efforts to mandate this be accomplished in PA [as occurs in NY/NJ] sit currently in the Senates Education Committee *Mike Folmer, Chair, a friend of both Guzzardi and this physician]; the House already passed this bill [HB 1424 - Teaching Genocide and Holocaust in Pennsylvania K-12 schools]. The political problem faced is the need to avoid issuing unfunded mandates due to the possibility others *with other agendas+ would latch-on to this approach and, thereby, undermine the need to empower the localities.
In a recent e-mail exchange, Guzzardi conveyed these concerns [amplified by having read Diana Wests American Betrayal book+ to Rhonda Fink-Whitman [whose video served as the basis for the above- referenced documentation of ignorance, both of the Holocaust and of WW-II]; she shares this intent and feels the above impediments can be overcome: The impression drawn from all available data is that cost is not an issue, resources are available gratis [e.g., Holocaust Awareness Museum, USHMM, Holocaust Resource Center of Central Florida, Internet+ and Phillys museum can invoke a volunteer- group of survivors to speak to the students for free, grant-monies may be available for this type of 892
education, and other genocides [e.g., Armenian+ are encompassed *noting the bill includes Holocaust and other Genocides+. {During the dinner last night, it was noted that each session costs $125, a prod for ongoing development.-
The GOPs civil-war continues to rage, as Cruz claimed Reagan Would Fit In Perfectly with Today's Conservative Grassroots and Sarah Palin Warned Conservatives: Its Time to Stiffen Our Backs For The Fight Ahead; apparently, the GOP Establishment Conceded the Tea Party Will Not Retreat and No Longer Views Movement as 'Fad.' On the one hand, the NEW YORK TIMES equated CONSERVATIVES with JIHAD MASS MURDERERS; on the other hand, tom-brokaw-stood-up for the tea-party. Meanwhile, the NRSC claimed to want a Conservative Not Republican Senate, But Declared War on Conservatives, triggering a-question-for-mitch-mcconnell that attacked his attack on the Senate Conservatives Fund. The Chapter You Won't Likely Find in Scarborough's Hypocritical New Book relates to the observation that Scarborough mocked Romney during the POTUS-race last year, the moderate he now touts. Levity dominated Coulters Jokes at USC Republican-Tea Party Event, and seriousness dominated an essay by Ben-Shapiro advising how to win debates-with-liberals (although many Dems are incorrigible).
As 11/22/2013 approaches, rehashes of who-killed-kennedy [a-guide-to-the-conspiracy theories] and of Lee Harvey Oswald abound. On this Veterans Day, the University of Maryland Defended Calling 'Star Spangled Banner' a 'War Anthem' and Rush Limbaugh highlighted another Palin 'Tour de Force,' as she Took Matt Lauer 'to the Cleaners.'
Regarding Benghazi-Gate, perhaps as a prelude to upcoming hearings, Brock and Media Matters allegedly Overplayed their Hand on Benghazi *the retraction of the 60 Minutes report+; also, this same Media Matters will try to Save Hillary from Benghazi. And again trying to silence critics, the Columbia Journalism Review claimed CBS Shouldn't Cover Benghazi Because it Publishes Conservative Books.
Regarding the failure to achieve an agreement with Iran [despite the fact that Iran's Rouhani Said Uranium Enrichment 'Red Line'], the french-foreign-minister was more hardline-on-iran-than-john-kerry; meanwhile, Kerry said 'You Have to Act in Some Good Faith' and that Iran Rejected Nuclear Deal. As the WH Pressured Congress to Ease Iran Sanctions, Kerrys Remark on the territories Set-Back-U-S-Israel-Relations. [Lest we forget what faces us domestically, a Muslim Imam in Tennessee claimed that, because Christians & Jews are Most Evil of All Evils, Muslims May Take Their Property.] {Also, the ZOA claims Obamas Not Serious About Stopping Iranian Nuclear Weapons.}
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Under-reported is revelation of how BHO has tried to doctor the data: the bureau of labor-statistics admitted-data-were wrong, for the unemployment-rate-really is 7.7%. Throughout much of October, during the partial federal government shutdown, some 700,000 federal workers were furloughed. Yet, according to data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, even though they were not working, they were not unemployed, either. Sure enough, the governments data shows that the amount of people working in October did decrease by 735,000. So, if the furloughed federal employees were not working, yet were not unemployed, where were they? Apparently, not even in the labor force. According to the Bureaus data, the civilian labor force shrank by 720,000 in October. 894
Curious. Particularly, if one considers that had they been included in the survey, the unemployment would have jumped to a whopping 7.7 percent, instead of the reported 7.3 percent. And, according to the Bureaus press release, they should have been counted as unemployed, but were not: Workers who indicate that they were not working during the entire survey reference week and expected to be recalled to their jobs should be classified in the household survey as unemployed on temporary layoff. In October 2013, there was an increase in the number of federal workers who were classified as unemployed on temporary layoff. However, there also was an increase in the number of federal workers who were classified as employed but absent from work.
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Regarding ObamaCare, Palin confronted Obama ['What Apology?'] as it was reported that there was only 3% ENROLLMENT IN OBAMACARE EXCHANGES; probed have been forces beyond the obamacare-website-fiasco. Under-reported, also is that the New ObamaCare Mental Health Regs are Tied To Gun Control; at this point, although the GOP is making noise as if it would accept fixes, True-Conservatives [RedState/Rush] argue that repeal-is-the-only-fixharkening back to the forsaken Ted Cruz Gambit.
The following was received [and reformatted] as further illustrations of how this debacle festers; commentators on Fox All Stars just universally predicted *including the lib, A.B. Stoddard+ that matters will worsen before they improve, and that even Sen. Kay Hagan [N.C.-D.] now calls for an investigation.
nObama Lies About Lying While Lying In a recent speech to his supporters, President nObama denied ever saying that if you like the healthcare you have, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep them....It seems that the President is trying to blame his political opponents for his own broken promises. In fact, the President says that what he said wasnt what he meant at all.
Seniors Losing Medicare Advantage Plans, Doc under nObamacare Retired chemist Edward Schokowitz was incredulous when he received a letter from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey early last month saying his Medicare Advantage Plan, which had no premium, would be eliminated next year... They took all the senior citizens and threw us out of the plan. They now want to give us the same plan for $153 per month, he told the Daily Caller. The President said you cant be kicked out of your plan. He lies. Schokowitz is one of many Medicare beneficiaries now 895
learning that like Americans who buy insurance on the individual market they are losing their insurance, and in some cases their doctors, under nObamacare.
72 Absurd Items nObamaCare Requires Your Insurance to Cover There is nothing about nObamaCare thats working. It took a pack of lies to sell nObamaCare which passed in the Senate by a single vote...But the ultimate problem that dooms nObamaCare is cost the sticker shock of the monthly premiums people are experiencing right now who have been thrown into the nObamaCare exchanges. According to a 49-state study by the Manhattan Institute, nObamaCare is causing an average increase in premiums for individuals of 41 percent.
nObamacares Moral Blindness The fatal conceit of the hard-core nObamacare defenders: their efforts started with the dangerous and uninformed decision to make deals with the insurance companies...What the nObamacare planners should have done was to find ways to knock down any and all barriers to entry that prevented low-cost competitors from entering the market. That means letting healthcare insurers cross state lines; it means letting for-profit businesses enter into businesses supplying walk-in care at affordable prices. None of that was done, so the current legislation piles outsized benefit packages on top an unworkable delivery care system. The broken websites are a sideshow. Mark these words: the breakdown in the individual insurance market is only a small foretaste of the total chaos from mass insurance cancellations that will come when and if the employer mandates go into effect.
Health Policy Experts Insurance Gets Canceled by nObamacare As a health policy expert, Hadley Heath has warned about the problems with nObamacare for years. Now, like so many other Americans, shes facing the real-life consequences of the law...Speaking to Fox Newss Greta Van Susteren, Heath said her current health care plan is no longer an option. The $113 per month she pays for that plan includes hospitalization, preventive care, immunization, X-rays, and all the basic things that someone might want in a health insurance plan. Her deductible was $2,700 per year.
YOUR FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD
I love Christmas lights! They remind me of the people who voted for Obama. They all hang together, half of them don't work, and the ones that do, aren't all that bright! 896
Rush thinks Bills statement *Former President Bill Clinton said that President Obama should keep his pledge to allow people to keep their current health care plans, if they like them, under ObamaCare.] presages enhanced efforts to delay implementation of ObamaCare; the inherent contradiction between this effort to socialize 1/6 of the economy and the ability of people to keep what they like [even if /when policies arent tethered to community-rating] will intuitively render Senate-Dems increasingly crazed. The Dems may attempt to blame the GOP [as Mika lamely tried to do on Morning Joe+, but even the National Journal scoffed at this effort to change the topic. Indeed, Rush noted that Syria is suddenly dominant in some quarters, and a survey of todays newscasts *MSNBC/CNN+ revealed focus on the Philippines, discussion of Hillary beating Christie, and generalized revulsion @ D.C. [not citing a party]. Meanwhile, the SCOTUS will consider HHS Mandate Petitions, as Dems claim Medicaid is ObamaCares early success story and a Dem. Rep. opined that BHO Was Grossly Misleading to the American Public.
James OKeefe *who presented effectively at Anastasias Annual $-Raiser in Doylestown, a few weeks ago] CAUGHT ON TAPE ObamaCare Navigators Counseling Applicants to Lie, thus revealing the truth about navigators. {Betcha MSNBC/CNN eschew coverage.}
The Wide-Open Race in 2016 Offers Ocean of Possibilities, illustrating by an nbc-poll showing christie- faces-divided-gop and trails-clinton-in-hypothetical-16-race; Palin noted Christie 'Flirtin' with Disaster' on Second Amendment Stance and is 'Disappointed' GOP Establishment Set to Wage War on Tea Party. It is clear why conservatives and the business lobby cant get-along, although FNC is not yet on-board *noting Roves being touted and Bernie Goldbergs claim that Tea Partiers are 'The Real RINOs'].
SD-36: State Rep. Gordon Denlinger (R-Lancaster) is running for the open seat of retiring Sen. Mike Brubaker. It's a safe district for the GOP, but a primary battle is likely. {Guzzardi: The Forgotten Taxpayer is pessimistic. Sen. Brubaker had voted for more debt in the Capital Budget, and it appears Rep. Gordon Denlinger will follow his lead. The GOP-Establishment will welcome being joined by a Team Player. Lancaster County is not as conservative as the shallow, superficial and clueless media present as Rep. Gordon Denlingers Capital Budget Debt votes demonstrate. But heyhes pro-life, ya know.}
Finally, this physician has suddenly been working on the Holocaust/Genocide Education mandate, as had been introduced overnight-Sunday in one of the marathon-blasts; after having taken a history, interventions were promulgated along the following lines, recognizing thatabsent an amendment the Senate would probably pass the House Bill [rendering elementary/secondary curricula discretionary] after two more readings on the floor. Thus, the following was remitted to the key-players [but recall that critique is invited if anything crucial has been overlooked, following this individual intervention]:
Analysis
First, note that the last graph of the blast e-mail has been updated [both infra and on scribd]; essentially, the issues being explored related to the unfunded-mandate concept. This is of-interest philosophically, for the sticking-point that has prompted insertion of 897
conditional phraseology is the desire to maximize local-control over the educational process.
Second, the expansion of the cc-list includes two staff-people from Mike Folmers officeplus a critic of Common Core *who hosted an SRO-crowd over the weekend @ State College+. These individuals will be exploring what mandates have been promulgated via the PDE and, if necessary, a contact-person who may [if necessary] be called directly for clarifications.
Third, this physician is the President of a [Cyber Charter] School Board [which is currently closing] and, thus, there exists justification to deal directly with the PDE regarding curriculum. This could be obviated if the Senate Bill is placed on-hold *inasmuch as it has had 1 of 3 anticipated readings already on the floor, with the timing of others not yet announced].
Synthesis
First, a number of ideas were promulgated, primarily to Ms. Jen Smeltz; she will be in- and-out throughout this [Session] day, but plans to provide primary-data from the PDE- curriculum. Here, whatever may already serve as precedent may provide an opening through which an expansion of any given topic could then be invoked to encompass Holocaust Education.
Second, some who fear unfunded-mandates fear other issues could be shoehorned-in from on-high, despite the fact that a distinction can be made between topics and curriculum. Specifically, it can be mandated that this TOPIC be encompassed in whatever fashion desired, with an optional CURRICULUM [or set of alternatives] being provided to the School Board.
Third, others who fear excess-costs associated with teacher-education could be reassured that this would not be mandated and, further, that volunteer resources are eager to be invoked. Therefore, although the ideal model would be to ensure a certified teacher conveyed a comprehensive curriculum, it wouldnt be problematic to mandate ensuring the topic be taught.
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First, an amendment to the pending Senate bill could be drafted [through the reference bureau] that would ensure these legitimate practical concerns have been unambiguously addressed. It would MANDATE the TOPIC be taught [in 1-8 and 9-12, per existing structure] by ANY qualified teacher, invoking whatever curriculum/volunteers/training may be available locally.
Second, note that this would easily be viewed as having been achieved within customary organizational resources rather than foisting an additional cost-center upon the School Board. And, certainly, the NEED to ensure these phenomena have been conveyed to our youth cannot be denied by any sentient individual, particularly noting this mandate exists in NY/NJ. 898
Third, as a Plan-B, the ability to employ a back-door approach by appending Holocuast to anything else that may exist *in PDEs Core+ would necessitate, perhaps, a more extensive re-write. EVERYONE should know that this e-mail represents NO ONE ELSES VIEWPOINT other than mine, based upon a quick-study of the major forces-at-play [plus the importance of the topic].
This past weekend was the 75 th Anniversary of Kristallnacht!
The interior of the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue in Berlin after Kristallnacht. Night of Broken Glass, Reichskristallnacht November 910, 1938 Nazi Germany and Austria (then part of Germany) Perpetrators: SA stormtroopers & German civilians
The Morning Joe crowd has donned sack-cloth and ashes, unsure what BHO can do to interrupt his well-acknowledged free-fall [ Poll: 52% Say Obama Dishonest, 73% Want Mandate Delayed]; GOODWIN claims Obama's Big Lie destroying his credibility, as Obamas Promise of Competition in ObamaCare is known Also to have been False. Dems are rebelling [CNNs Dana Bash: House Dems May Vote for Anti- ObamaCare GOP Bill and Senator [Warner] Disabled Embedding for Health Insurance Pledge Video], although some remain conflicted [although Sen. Kay Hagans Website Still Promises You Can Keep Your Insurance., this Vulnerable Red State Dem Wants ObamaCare Investigation]. And a Former Secret Service agent blasted this 'toxic' administration, as Dave Horowitz [at the Heritage Foundation] averred 'The Communist Party Is The Democratic Party.'
Valerie Jarrett still claims Insurers [not ObamaCare] forced people off of their plan, ignoring the fact that the insurers did so because they had been forced to comply with ObamaCare; she also averred *yesterday+ that substantial progress will have been made by months end *towards fixing the website+, even as the Obama Admin admitted Healthcare.gov Can Only Handle 20K-25K Users at Once and the WaPo admitted that the Site Won't Be Fixed By Month's End. Meanwhile, in CALIFORNIA, 1 MILLION LOSE IT! [health insurance] and Only 1% of Massachusetts Cancellations Enrolled for ObamaCare; Distaste is so extreme that ObamaCare's Mystery Woman [pulled from the front-page, now in-hiding] Said She Fell Victim to Cyberbullies. It was just revealed that ObamaCare Cuts Out Consumer, Pays Subsidy Directly to Insurer, undermining the concept that the patient should [potentially] shop-around for the most cost-effective alternative; perhaps desperate, BHO released Racy Colorado ads using sex & beer to promote ObamaCare. {As Americans struggle to replace canceled plans, apologists such as LARRY SUMMERS] claim this situation is Better than expected, while others admit there is 'No hope left.'}
Media defenders continue to exist [CNN's Sanjay Gupta: Millions Losing Health Plans a 'Red Herring'] and advocate [Media Let Democrats Tell New 'You Can Keep Plan' Lie+, while others quietly note BHOs ideological achievement [ObamaCare's Medicaid Enrollments Give Democrats the Last Laugh]; it was, perhaps, inevitable, that at least one of BHOs greatest advocates would be forced to confess gross error [Paul Krugman openly admits that greater centralized, government control over health-care resources means the near-inevitability of government deciding which health-care needs are attended to and which remain neglected. And even Mr. Krugman admits that the name for any such governmental- decision-making process might be death panels (although, suggests he, for supporters of government- run health care to call such a decision-making process by such an unappealing name is snarky).].
The WSJ notes there was a Response Team That Never Responded, in conjunction with its continued coverage of the health law rollout; BHO introduced a White House "SWAT team" early on that was meant to swoop in and rescue big tech projects before they became epic failures. But when HealthCare.gov landed on a federal high-risk list, the response team failed to respond. Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton joined a chorus of political figures calling for fixes to the health law. People whose policies are 900
being canceled should get to keep their insurance "even if it takes a change in the law." {It now seems that a Flaw Allows Anyone on Earth To Fraudulently Enroll.}
Illustrating the level of [SICK] inside-baseball that has been practiced, WebMD cashed-in without telling readers; of greater import is the fact that Federal officials considered only one firm to design the ObamaCare health insurance exchange website that has performed abysmally since its Oct. 1 debut: *Authors comment: ALL OF THIS FALLS UNDER THE 'YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I'LL SCRATCH YOURS' CATEGORY, TRANSLATED AS: 'YOU CONTRIBUTE BIG-BUCKS TO MY CAMPAIGN AND, WHEN I WIN, YOU'LL GET GREATER BIG-BUCKS CONTRACTS TO LINE YOUR POCKET!']
Rather than open the contracting process to a competitive public solicitation with multiple bidders, officials in the Department of HHS' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid accepted a sole bidder, CGI Federal, the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian company with an uneven record of IT pricing and contract performance.
CMS officials are tight-lipped about why CGI was chosen or how it happened. They also refuse to say if other firms competed with CGI, or if there was ever a public solicitation for building Healthcare.gov, the backbone of ObamaCares problem-plagued web portal.
Many allegations that emerged relate to Toni Townes-Whitley [Senior Vice President at CGI Federal for Civilian Agency programs]; she was in the Princeton Class of 1985, as was Michelle Obama, and both are members of Association of Black Princeton Alumni. Problematic, also are questionable credentials; the media have not pursued this issue.
Also, CGI "donated" $47 Million to Obama's campaign, and CGI executives were large campaign bundlers for BHO; they helped him shut-off all the security features on BHO's campaign donation website in 2008 & 2012, to take multi-millions in foreign donations.
Illustrating the profundity of the GOPs Civil-War is the fact that VA GOP Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling Undermined Cuccinelli Campaign and Joe Scarborough Told 'The View' He'd Vote for a Democrat for President; indeed, such anti-Conservatism is illustrated by how The 'Establishment' Fights Back [Mitch McConnell on the shutdown's failure, ObamaCare's future and his own primary challenge] and by Foxs Brit Hume [whose commentary on Christies 2016 Hopes claimed the Tea Party Doesnt Care About Electability, despite the fact that this criterion IS important *but that its not viewed as the primary consideration+.
The repercussions of what is occurring to ObamaCare may be reflected in the media, noting Fox Nearly Doubled CNN and MSNBC's Combined Prime Time Viewers Last Week, and that Rats are Leaving the New York Times Sinking Ship.
Overseas, Iranian Supreme Ruler's Wealth Exceeds Value of Entire Country, as Iran's Statement on Syria shows signs of desperation and Human Rights Watch said Syria uses Russian-Made Incendiary Weapons. As France Sees Opportunity in U.S. Weakness, Obama and Kerry attempt to mollify Congress on Iran [claiming: You Don't Want War, Do You?], perhaps forgetting the existence of a world-wide Islamist war affecting Africa [Christian-Muslim Bloodbath Devastates Central African Republic] and Israel [Palestinian's Own Words Show Intent in Checkpoint Attack, which killed a 19 year-old soldier today]. {News Flash: 2009 John Kerry Letter Backed Anti-Israel Gaza Flotilla (Mavi Marmara) Activists.}
Lest we forget of domestic manifestations of anti-Semitism, know the NYPD is Searching 901
for Black-Teen Gangs Wanted In Series Of 'Knock Out Jew' Attacks, as students are victimized [and no one responds to ongoing anti-Semitism] in Toronto and New York.
Efforts to pass mandatory PA-education regarding Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Violations [see CCXXIII & CCXXV+ are quickening, for the Senate is poised to hold a second *of three+ reading on Monday of the Clymer [watered-down] bill; growing concurrence appears to exist regarding my advice that an amendment be promulgated by Sen. Williams ASAP [prime sponsor of a comparable proposal] with the concurrence of Sen. Folmer [Chair of the Education Committee] that both bills be supplanted [RESOLVED: Chapter 4 of Title 22 shall be amended to ensure that instruction during Grades 4, 7, 10 and 12 shall include the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights violations.+ to tweak existing statute. It may be recalled that the current effort [HB 1424] is voluntary [with curriculum composed by the DOE], whereas the original bill by Sen. Williams was perceived as an unfunded-mandate by the GOP [advising teacher-certification+; my suggestion is not voluntary and it will be achievable *using a catchphrase learned from the PA Medical Societys House of Delegates+ within normal organizational resources. The rationale for this move is based on the fact that current standards do not comply with the way they were characterized in the staff-notes prepared by Rep. Clymers Education Committee *The standards include cursory references to genocide, WWII, and Nazi concentration camps; albeit without clarification.+; word-searches *deferring WWII because its a bit afield] actually demonstrate that: Genocide appears once: Conflict and Cooperation Among Social Groups and Organizations Domestic Instability (political unrest, natural and man-made disasters, genocide) Nazi appears once: B. Evaluate historical documents, material artifacts and historic sites important to world history since 1450. Documents, Writings and Oral Traditions (e.g., Declaration of the International Conference on Sanctions Against South Africa; Monroe Doctrine, Communist Manifesto, Luthers Ninety-five Theses) Artifacts, Architecture and Historic Places (e.g., Robben Island, New York Trade Center, Hiroshima Ground Zero Memorial, Nazi concentration camps) human rights and Holocaust and Armenia and Cambodia do not appear at all. * Also problematic is how the concepts are currently classified, for genocide should hardly be relegated under the concept of Conflict *noting its deep roots that transcend the common usage of that term+ and Nazi should hardly be relegated under the concept of Artifacts, Architecture and Historic Places *noting that this connotes the lack of major contemporary import]. Finally, problematic is the need to specify concerns regarding human rights as violated during the past century in otherwise under-appreciated fashions [Armenia, Cambodia], plus others [Ukraine Famine, China/Tibet, etc.]; indeed, the exercise of exploring these additional CRUCIAL facets of world history instruction would *one hopes] sensitize the student to detecting manifestations of such tendencies following graduation. It is now easy to envision what can now transpire, namely, that the mandate is passed that these TOPICS be encompassed in four grade-levels; thereafter, multiple quality-organizations can tackle the database [500 school districts, 3,150 schools and 1,793,284 K-12 students] by providing a non-profit resource designed to satisfy the statewide mandate [including curricula, handouts, teacher-education, handouts].
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Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:39 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXVII [Iran, ObamaCare, Holocaust-Education and Kerns]
Developments on the international, national, statewide and countywide levels have occurred overnight; the goal, hereas alwaysis to ID the action-item as often as possible, with critique always invited. {In follow-up of two prior topics, note this compilation [The New York Times is suffering a brain drain.] which illustrates how top-journalists are voting-with-their-feet-against-libs, and this condemnation [Palin Slams GOP Leadership Who Threw Ted Cruz Under The Bus], which illustrates how very-correct the TEA Party Movement [and Cruz] had been, when presciently trying to save the US from ObamaCare.}
International
During an event last night sponsored by the Jewish Policy Center [joining Michael Medved, Cliff May, John Podhoretz, Dan Pipes], the narrative was [predictably] condemnatory of all-things-BHOadmixed with smatterings of positives; no one said what this physician hopes will transpire, namely, that BHOs current domestic travail will freeze his foreign policy, precluding even greater disasters from occurring *and, essentially, placing his agenda into Congressional receivership until 1/20/2017+. Emphasized by MM was dismay over the lack of concern in the latest Pew study of Jews for Israel, and for religion; emphasized by everyone else was the need for American/Israeli policy to confront nefarious Islamists.
In many respects, this was an old home week symposium, for this physician probably shook-hands with as many as 50 people *during rounds before/after the 2-hour chat]; as is often the case, 99% of the key-data were obtained during the last 1% of the time [during chats with those in-the-know regarding the inside-story of whats with Tehran+. These impressions are best left untyped, but they instilled a sense of optimismand anyone wishing to hear an oral presentation is invited to call 215=333-4900 [anytime!]. Overall, particularly during a high-level discussion @ Chilis that lasted until ~midnight, the hope is that the Jewish Community will suddenly awaken to the dangers of BHO.
Internationally, it is viewed as Zero Hour for Israel, for Israel allegedly Must now Choose Between Attack and Enslavement, as Senators were Appalled by Kerrys Anti-Israel Remarks in Iran Briefing [Whenever someone asked Kerry "what would the Israelis say?" Kerry said, "Stop listening to the Israelis."+ which he just attempted to walk-back during a soft-ball interview on Morning Joe. Again, he emphasized [after having just talked with BB on the phone+ that America is 100% with Israel, while claiming the disagreement is merely related to tactics. *He neglected to paraphrase BBs reaction.+ Essentially, as Kerry claims his goal is to freeze Irans program *omitting divulging the quid pro quo], admitted is recognition of repeated claims by Iranian leaders that they have no intention of rolling-back.
Recommended last night as an accurate distillation of Israels re-establishment in 1948 was Perfidy by Ben Hecht; it cites rivalries *among Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi] included in Exodusreleased a decade hencecarrying ongoing philosophical importance. Dramatizing contemporary forces-at-play are two Syria-related historical observations: Nazi Germany and fascist Italy read Western indifference as defeatism. The absence of consequences for their brazen actions helped to set the stage for the much larger conflagration that followed only a few months after Franco's victory in 1939.*and+ The 904
virulent hatred of Tehran's rulers against the Jewish state is being played down. Witness how Rouhani's elusive answers about Holocaust denial were greeted with enthusiasm by a swooning media all too eager to put the Ahmadinejad years behind them.
National
In response to the infamous quote by Pelosi ["We have to pass it, to find out whats in it], a physician caller to a radio show said: "That's the definition of a stool sample." The lamentations on Morning Joe are ballooning, amidst reports of an incipient revolt by Congressional-Dems; also, the roll-out of the new Politico-Mag was dominated by discussion of how BHO ignores his locked-in *i.e., ignored+ cabinet. BHO will propose a fix to mollify Dems angered by the OBAMACARE ENROLLMENT DISASTER which led to total enrollment of FEWER THAN 27K ON FED WEBSITE, the GOP has not been idle with its messaging:
The House Republican Conference resurrected remarks the President made at the House Republican Retreat in Baltimore, in January of 2010, acknowledging "some stray cats and dogs" in the health-care law that might interfere with the promise that you can keep the coverage you have, but declaring that the administration was "in the process of scrubbing this, and making sure that it's tight." Here is the Transcript of his quote:
If you look at the package that we've presented -- and there's some stray cats and dogs that got in there that ... we were in the process of eliminating. For example, we said from the start that it was gonna be important for us to be consistent in saying to people ... if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it -- that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision-making. And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge. And so we were in the process of scrubbing this, and making sure that it's tight."
Statewide
The effort to amend by substitution the Holocaust/Genocide education bill now before the Senate essentially achieves common-ground between Clymer/Williams; the former is discretionary and the latter has a definable cost-centerwhereas this physicians intent is to create a mandate *which would be satisfied privately, rather than by the PDE+ that isnt an unfunded-mandate [because of the absence of any teacher-certification component]. All that is done is to thicken what is ensconced within statute *without allowing cursoryif not ABSENTcoverage of these topics, having contemporary correlates] and is to allow for others *such as Phillys Holocaust Museum+ to provide programs congruent therewith.
During last nights think-tank discussion, the concern was raised that this effort could be hijacked by the evil forces-of-the-left, who would supplant the intended curriculum with one that might bastardize the human rights component of this effort; this argument was answered by recognizing the need for a sequential approach, with the initial goal being the necessity to recognize the vital impact of the Shoah [explicitly articulated]. Indeed, to whatever degree any potential diminution of this effort could be mounted *by, for example, claiming Israel violates human rights of Palestinian Arabs+ would be dwarfed by contrast of such specious allegations with real-life 20 th Century tragedies *Cambodia, Armenia, Ukraine+; by no means would the job be done following passage 905
of such legislation, but the audience would be defined that could then be receptive to messaging that is needed [and then, for example, correlates could easily be drawn between quotes of Hitler/Ahmadinejadenhancing acute sensitivity to Israels woes.
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This Report that the MontCo GOP Chairman [Bob Kerns] was just Accused of Sexual Assault Charges hyperlinks to an article that explicitly cites this physicians unsuccessful effort to replace him in 2011 *from the lede: Abington GOP Committeeman Robert B. Sklaroff attempted to offer an amendment to the bylaws that would have required the partys committee people to hold a leadership vote in May.+ Presaging the loss of two high-quality judicial-candidates, the article ended with an all-too-true quote *Sklaroff had intended to offer an amendment to delay implementing the housekeeping amendment until after this years presidential primary election, an organizational meeting could be held. I guess we are just going to have to wait another two years before this party can make any progress, said Sklaroff.+ At last nights event, a birdie said three people being vetted by powers-that-be include Mike Vereb, Kate Harper and Bob Griffith; because Vereb brokered the recent Asher/Gureghian reconciliation, he is perceived as the front-runner for assuming control over the party in 2014.
Anyone who recalls Willow Grove Park may enjoy this 1956 Promo.
Not yet uploaded @ IMRA [but presumably available shortly, despite arrival of the e-mail @ 11:36] are news-stories representing incremental updates of previously-discussed forces at-play in the middle east; none have been discussed elsewhere [yet] and each carries particular implications {impugning BHO}.
Syrian Kurds formed transitional government
{Recall that this physician wrote of this problem a half-decade ago [The Road To Iran Runs Through Kurdistan - And Starts In Syria] and a month ago [The Kurds can lead a reborn Syria, at peace with all of her neighbors] because it was necessary to debunk ambient either/or constructs *regarding Iraq+ of Sunni/Shiite and [regarding Syria] Assad/al-Qaeda; that this community remains highly-relevant was illustrated yesterday in a column disseminated by Daniel Pipes [Turkey's Fix for the "Kurdish Problem"]. Thus, BHO would be best advised to RECOGNIZE what has transpired, although he wont.-
After a series of military gains, Syrian Kurds in the northeast of the country announced on Tuesday [11/12/2013] formation of a transitional autonomous government.
The latest declaration comes amid a general strengthening of Kurdish rights in neighboring Turkey, and increasing moves towards independence by Iraqs autonomous Kurdish region.
Long oppressed under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Kurds view the civil war as an opportunity to gain the kind of autonomy enjoyed by their ethnic kin in neighboring Iraq.
The announcement was made after talks in the mostly-Kurdish town of Qamishli, and comes after Kurdish leaders announced plans to create the temporary government in July.
The transitional autonomous government involves the division of Syrias Kurdish region into three areas, each with its own local assembly, as well as representatives to a regional executive body, AFP reported.
Tuesdays statement detailed the formation of a transitional civil administration for the area of Western Kurdistan-Syria.
The meeting was held two days ago in the town of Qamishli between all the local groups, which discussed the project of a transitional civil administration that was put forward by the PYD earlier, it said, referring to the Kurdish Democratic Union Party.
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The key responsibilities of the transitional administration will be preparation of local election laws and preparing general elections, a well as political, military, security and economic issues in the region and Syria.
Kurdish regions of northern Syria have been administered by local Kurdish councils since forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad withdrew in the middle of 2012.
The redeployment was seen as a tactical move by the regime, one which freed up forces to battle rebels elsewhere, and encouraged the Kurds to avoid allying with the opposition.
More recently, Kurds have battled with jihadist groups keen to secure a wider corridor between Syria and Iraq to ensure more regular supplies and reinforcements.
Last month Kurdish forces seized control of a crucial border point with Iraq.
Fighting between the Kurdish militiamen and jihadists ostensibly battling to topple Assad has added another level of complexity to the civil war, which has claimed an estimated 120,000 lives since 2011.
Kurds represent about 15 percent of the Syrian population, and are mostly concentrated in the northern part of the country.
Egypt expresses optimism over Russian ministers visit
,That BHO has alienated the Egyptian Military has now been demonstrably answered; this reversion to the Nasser-Soviet alliance of a half-century ago SHOULD be unnerving.}
Egypt's foreign minister said the upcoming visit of the Russian foreign and defense ministers is a sign of 'care and respect' for Egypt and the region.
The visit comes one month after the US suspended a part of its annual military aid to Egypt, including cash payments and the delivery of F-16 fighter jets, helicopters and tanks. The move came after two protest camps by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi were forcefully dispersed by security forces, leaving hundreds of protesters dead.
Some have speculated that Egypt is searching for other military allies.
"It is not a change that implies substituting one party for another but a change that implies adherence and persistence to having more choices and ensuring multiple options for the Egyptian decision," Fahmy said, speaking of the foreign policy changes after Morsi's ouster.
The programme for the visit involves talks on weapons sale and political relations.
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Egypt had close ties with Russia until a few years before president Anwar Sadat made peace with Israel in 1979, a deal which brought close military links with the US and substantial military aid.
"Egypt-Russia military relations did not stop for a second. We have bought weapons and fixed weapons in Russia since the 1970s, but to buy new weapons is a matter that needs studying," Fahmy said.
"The visit and discussion in such a format will be conducted for the first time in the history of our friendly relations (with Egypt)," Russian spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told AFP earlier this week.
Shin Bet agents storm al-Aqsa [by Mohammed MarI, Saudi Gazette]
{One discussion-point during last nights event was the error made by Moshe Dayan after the 67 War, when he ceded control over the Temple Mount unilaterally because he hoped for a quick-retreat in conjunction with a comprehensive Peace Treaty.}
A group of eighty five agents of internal intelligence service Shin Bet stormed the Al- Aqsa Mosque Compound in occupied Jerusalem, according to the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage.
The Shin Bet agents entered the Al-Musalla Al-Marwani, Al-Musalla Al-Qibli and the Dome of the Rock, storming Muslims third holiest shrine through the Al-Magharebah gate that connects the mosque with the Al-Buraq Plaza (the Western Wall Plaza).
The foundation said that the group started provoking the Palestinian worshipers who shouted Allahu Akbar in response. The foundation said that the Israeli security forces surrounded the groups to prevent hundreds of Palestinians from attacking it.
Palestinian officials say the daily storming of the Muslims third holiest shrine is part of the Israeli measures to Judaize what has been left of Jerusalem by intensifying the Jewish presence in it.
On June, the Jewish Rabbi Yaakov Medan of Har (Mount) Etzion seminary said that the Israeli internal intelligence service Shin Bet supports the visits to the Muslims third holiest shrine.
The Shin Bet Jewish Division Director told me Jewish presence on the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque complex) is essential for maintaining our sovereignty.
He told me that in order to accommodate this trend he would increase the number of agents and security personnel on the Temple Mount. Medan told participants in the Begin Center Conference on the complex.
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On last July, the rightist Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel said that the government has to build the second temple on the ruins of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Complex in occupied Jerusalem.
Ariel, form the rightist Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) party, reportedly said that the we have built many buildings, including many small temples, employing a term used in the Jewish world to refer to synagogues.
We need something that is not like the Temple. We need the Temple. On the Temple Mount (Al-Aqsa Mosque Complex), Ariel told participants at the Shilo Conference on Biblical Research and Archaeology. Shilo settlement located to the north of Ramallah in the West Bank.
Israel captured East Jerusalem in the June 1967 War, annexed it in 1980, and has since built settlements there that are home to some 300,000 Jewish settlers.
Control over the city has been seen as the most sensitive and thorniest issue of Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Palestinians hope to make East Jerusalem the capital of their future state but the Israel says the city is its eternal capital
Rice: French On Board with Iran
{Again discussed last nightafter Dennis Miller facetiously noted that the French have experience with bad-dealssuch as the Louisiana Purchasewas potential capitulation of America, dissing Israel. Lets see how many Dem-Jews speak-out AGAINST this deal.}
President Barack Obama's top national security aide said Wednesday [11/13/2013] that France was "fully on board" with a proposed interim deal on freezing Iran's nuclear program, ahead of a new round of talks in Geneva.
National Security Adviser Susan Rice made the comment after Obama spoke to French President Francois Hollande by phone and both men urged Iran to accept a deal presented by world powers.
"The French are fully on board," Rice said at the Washington Ideas Forum sponsored by the Atlantic magazine and the Aspen Institute.
Reports last week said that eleventh hour reservations by France had scuttled hopes of agreeing a deal with Tehran at the talks grouping the P5+1 world powers in Geneva.
But Rice insisted that "some of the reporting on this has been, frankly, rather misleading."
In a statement issued by the French presidency, Hollande and Obama expressed support for the text of an agreement put forward at the Geneva talks.
"The two heads of state expressed their shared determination to obtain from Iran every guarantee that it will finally give up its military nuclear program," the statement said. 910
"Now it is up to Iran to give a positive answer," the statement said.
A White House statement said the leaders were in "full agreement" on the "unified proposal" put forward by world powers in the P5+1 group.
The statement also highlighted Washington's close relationship with Paris, smoothing over suggestions that Washington was angry with France's role in the talks.
"The United States deeply values its relationship with France, including as NATO allies, and we will continue to consult closely on global security," the White House said.
Iran and world powers are planning to meet again on November 20 for further negotiations.
Western diplomatic sources say the two sides were close to a deal, but that Iran backed away because it was unhappy with some of the wording in the text.
The P5+1 is made up of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany.
They have been negotiating with Tehran for years over its nuclear program, which the West suspects is aimed at developing a nuclear weapon -- a claim Iran vehemently denies.
EU Lawmakers Urge Rethink on Guidelines with Israel
,It may be recalled that BBs reaction was to delimit $ that was to be directed solely to Judea/Samaria under prior contracts, perhaps serving as impetus for this evolution. That BHO again has remained MUTE regarding this type of economic-warfare against Eretz Yisrael is, of course, part of a pattern of picking-shots against its government.}
Some 30 members of the European Parliament on Wednesday [11/13/2013] urged the EU to rethink July guidelines banning financial ties with Israeli settlements.
In a letter to the bloc's top diplomat Catherine Ashton, 27 MEPs across the political spectrum urged the EU's executive, the European Commission, to reverse or at least soften the guidelines setting a January 2014 ban on funding and business deals with settlements in the occupied West Bank and annexed East Jerusalem.
They urged Ashton "to take all the necessary steps to withdraw the commission guidelines or, at the very least, to come to terms with the government of Israel to ensure that their implementation will reflect the deep bilateral relations between the European Union and Israel and would by no means harm them."
The July 19 EU text angered Israeli leaders, with some accusing Europe of trying to dictate its borders. 911
The letter to Ashton was released as Israel's Haaretz daily said the country finally might join a European-funded research project that it had threatened to shun due to these guidelines.
The paper said Israel gave Brussels a "final proposal for the wording of the agreement governing Israeli scientific cooperation and participation in the joint Horizon 2020 initiative".
It said EU officials were expected to give an answer by the end of the week.
Israel warned in August that it might refuse to participate in Horizon 2020, a seven-year 70-billion-euro ($94 billion) research and innovation plan.
The Jewish state was to contribute 600 million euros to the project.
The building of new settlements on occupied Palestinian land is a key sticking point in Middle East peace talks.
Israel and Hamas square up for next Gaza duel
{Recall that shelling from Gaza continues, as BHO again remains MUTE against attacks.}
A year after trading fire in a weeklong war in Gaza, Israel and Hamas are squaring up for another confrontation, despite both sides appearing reluctant to make the first move.
More than 170 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed when hostilities erupted after an Israeli missile killed Hamas military chief Ahmed Jaabari last November 14.
An Egypt-brokered truce was agreed seven days later, on November 21.
During an inspection of the Israeli armys Gaza division on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that one year later, a significant deterrent was achieved.
He cited a fall of 98 per cent in the frequency of rocket attacks on Israel from the Islamist-ruled Palestinian territory.
Israel will continue to respect international law scrupulously, but will not remain with its arms crossed in the face of terrorism, he warned.
Rights groups and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights have accused both sides of flouting international law during the 2012 Gaza conflict.
Netanyahu accused Palestinian militants of preparing for another round of hostilities.
Hamas and other terrorist groups continue to arm themselves in different ways. They are also trying to develop an underground option through the use of tunnels, he said.
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On October 13, Israel announced the discovery of a terror tunnel 1.7 kilometres long from Gaza under the border into Israel.
Responsibility for constructing the sophisticated tunnel was claimed by the Izzeddine Al Qassem Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, which said it had planned to use the tunnel to capture Israeli soldiers and hold them in exchange for imprisoned Palestinians.
A Hamas leader, Bassem Naim, told AFP the tunnel was an important message to Israel that Hamas is ready to strike as far as possible.
On November 1, four Hamas fighters were killed and five Israeli soldiers were wounded during an Israeli raid to destroy the tunnel, which saw Israeli forces bomb another tunnel during the shootout.
Hamas does not want war or confrontation, because the Palestinian domestic situation weighs heavily, Naim said, referring to the heavy toll of Israeli and Egyptian border restrictions on the impoverished territory.
But if it happens, the movement will not stand idly by and will respond with military force, as well as politically and diplomatically.
On Wednesday*24 Nov.+, Palestinian security forces paraded in Gaza Citys central Katiba Square to celebrate Hamas victory in last years conflict with Israel.
Our message is that the Palestinian resistance will rid the Zionist enemy of its arrogance in every battle to come, one official from the Hamas armed wing told AFP.
He said the Izzeddine Al Qassem Brigades were even stronger now than a year ago.
Last week, the Hamas government said it had added studies to encourage resistance to Israel to the territorys public schools curriculum.
Courses to strengthen Palestinian rights, update programmes and add studies on human rights would be introduced at three levels in secondary schools, Education Minister Muetassem Al Minaui told AFP.
For Hamas, however, the most immediate threat comes from the souring of relations with Egypt after the army there toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July.
The Egyptian military has since stepped up efforts to destroy tunnels used to smuggle fuel and other basic goods into Gaza from under the border at Rafah.
Hamas has also lost support from Syria and Iran after breaking with President Bashar Assads regime over his brutal crackdown on an Arab Spring-inspired uprising.
Hamas faces a grave crisis after the failure of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and tensions with Iran, said Naji Sharab, political science professor at Gazas Al Azhar University. 913
It has lost its strategic, political, economic and security-related depth.
He believes the Islamist movements options are limited, given that the sole issue is reconciliation with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas Fateh movement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Hamas official Ahmed Yussef said he recognises the existence of numerous difficulties because of less support from Iran, but insisted these are being surmounted and relations will improve.
Hamas is focusing especially on resolving problems caused by the closure of the tunnels, and it will be some time before the crisis is over, Yussef conceded.
A year after war, Gaza-Israel front is calm By Washington Post
{Not atypical of the WaPo is denial of strife experienced by Israelis, while hyperinflating that of Palestinian Arabs; this, of course, mirrors the ANTI-SEMITIC meme of BHO.}
We dont have the basic materials for life, said Fadi Abdulmajeed, 33, a merchant in the Sheik Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City. No solar, no diesel, no electricity, no gas, no crossing points. Its a dead country.
Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and Israel look back on a mostly quiet year.
The merchant and others blamed Hamas even more than Israel, which maintains an air and sea blockade against the coastal enclave but allows most trade goods except building materials such as cement to pass through its single commercial crossing.
Were going back 50 years, and its all because of Hamas, Abdulmajeed said.
He and others said the division between Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, which is run by the Fatah party and President Mahmoud Abbas, has created a crisis.
No one in Gaza is optimistic. If the crossings opened and they let us out, you would not find a soul left in Gaza, Abdulmajeed said.
Abu Yousif, 33, a street vendor, said the fighters in the resistance against Israel performed well last year. But for me as a citizen? I didnt gain anything. On the contrary, the situation becomes worse.
Israel squeezes us, but do not forget Hamas and Fatah, what they have done, said Adnan Abu Helal, 57, a clothing merchant. As long as we are divided, we will remain weak.
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During the war, Palestinian militant factions in Gaza fired almost 1,500 rockets at Israel, although 143 landed inside Gaza and 421 were reported intercepted by Iron Dome, according to the United Nations.
The Israel Defense Forces say they struck 1,500 sites in Gaza.
Retired Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, former chief of Israeli defense intelligence and the director of Tel Aviv Universitys Institute for National Security Studies, said lessons were learned by Israels military between Operation Pillar of Defense last year and a similar operation in 2009 known as Cast Lead.
In Pillar of Defense, at the very start, a commander of Hamas was killed, and their strategic assets, like the missiles that reach Tel Aviv, were all destroyed, Yadlin said. Hamas was shocked. They understood that they could not survive this in the same way they survived in Cast Lead.
Yadlin said that these days, Hamas is racked by internal and external challenges that have little to do with Israel.
The Egyptian military is waging war in the northern Sinai against jihadist groups and trying to smother the Muslim Brotherhood, a longtime supporter of Hamas. The Egyptian army has sealed most of the smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza that provide Hamas with $230 million in annual tax revenue and a lifeline of cheap goods. At the same time, Iran has reduced its financial support for Hamas because of the latters opposition to the governing regime in Syria. Qatar also has cut back support.
A year ago, in the early evening hours, Yael Gerasi, a mother of three and a tax adviser, had just returned home after walking her dog in Rishon LeZion, a town near Tel Aviv. The sirens began to wail, and she huddled with her kids in the fortified safe room in her apartment.
Then, she said, a Fajr-5 rocket fired from Gaza scored a direct hit on her apartment building, causing extensive damage but no serious injuries.
This week, she came home for an hour at lunchtime to check on the final details of her year-long renovation.
I dont think about the politics, Gerasi said. I just want to raise my kids and live in peace and quiet. Asked about people in Gaza, she said, I think they want to live in peace and quiet, too.
Although this physician missed half of his press conference due to the need to testify, it has been vetted by others AND a key-response is overtly deficient. Regarding the latter, he claimed he has assumed people would find preferable programs if dropped from the current insurance plansbut no one asked him WHY he hadnt DIVULGED this PIVOTAL assumption contemporaneously; regarding the former:
Obama's Cancellation "Fix": Violating the Law for a Short-Term Public Relations Move By Chris Jacobs November 14, 2013 at 12:06 pm
President Obama has told ObamaCares critics that the law is settled and here to stay. But today he is saying hell violate the law to put a Band-Aid on it for another year. Thats in addition to the one-year delay in the employer mandate and numerous other fixes and delays.
The President is announcing his fix to the problem of millions of canceled policies: According to press reports, the Presidents plan would allow people to keep their plans into 2014, by allowing the sale of insurance plans that dont meet the laws new requirements.
Theres one problemthe Presidents promise that his new plan can allow people to keep their plans is just as flawed and false as his original like your plan/keep it pledge. The law itself is clear: ObamaCares new benefit mandatesthe requirement to cover all individuals with pre-existing conditions, the new essential benefits, and mandates increasing the percentage of health costs insurance plans must coverall take effect on January 1, 2014.
As any follower of Schoolhouse Rock will know, theres only one institution that can change the law: Congress. President Obamas plan attempts to ignore them entirely. The Presidents proposal is but the latest in a long line of waivers and unilateral changes made in a futile attempt to repair an inherently unworkable law.
The ultimate fix lies with Congress, and its a simple one: Undo this unfair, unworkable, and unpopular law that never should have been passed in the first place.
New Jersey Assn. of Health Underwriters, on the Fix: This Is a New Insanity
I just spoke with David Oscar, the communications chair for the New Jersey Association of Health Underwriters and a partner at Altigro Financial Group. He had this to say regarding President Obamas attempt to offer a one-year restoration of canceled plans:
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I do not know how the insurance carriers and federal government are going to be dealing with this. First, many states require a 60-day notice of a change in plan or a cancellation. Its November 15! How can they comply with this new element of federal law, and with their state laws?
Second, do they really think carriers are going to be willing to recreate the old plans, while also being mandated to offer the new ones that comply with the exchanges? I have a large number of clients, small to medium-sized businesses, who would much rather renew their old policies on 12/1 than sign up with the newly mandated exchange policies. Everyone is going to want the old ones! You really expect the insurance carriers to willingly deal with the financial loss and legal headaches of switching back?
It is going to be very difficult for carriers to honor this.
Howard Dean: Is Obamas Fix Even Legal?
When BHO claimed he did not realize the full extent of HealthCare.gov's problems until after its launch ["I was not informed directly that the website wasn't working the way it was supposed to+, he added that, had he known about the site's technical issues in advance, "I don't think I'm stupid enough to say ,actually, have said- this is going to be as easy as shopping around on Amazon or Travelocity. Problematic is the fact that Policy Cancellations would allow for only Old Plans, but its unclear whether Congress must act; presumably, pundits/politicians will weigh-in thoroughly, inasmuch as Fridays voting on Upton looms. With the Worst Yet to Come, Media's ObamaCare Cover Up Marches On; for example, Ed Shultz [of MSNBC's ObamaCare Numbers Spin] said 'This Is The Way The Law Was Designed To Work' and that MSM 'Wants ObamaCare To Fail' *!+ And *recall Zimmerman was dubbed a white Hispanic+, the NYT termed Obama's Health Insurance Lie an 'Incorrect Promise.' Heres the latest ObamaCare Spin: when Healthy people are Paying Less For Insurance, this is abject 'Discrimination.'
Hillary Clinton in 2007: If you have a plan you like, you keep it.' Dennis Miller in 2013: Mr. President, if you liked your apology, you can keep it
Although one Dem Senator advised that it would be desirable to Kill the 'Death Panel' *recalling Sarahs having been lambasted for having coined this term], CNN's Tapper complained No Dems Will Talk to Us After ObamaCare Numbers. Compiled are 10 Senate Dems Who Should Apologize for ObamaCare, while Boehner advises simply to 'Scrap This Law, Once and For All.' ,Through it all, its difficult to feel sated by the Dems lamentations, for people are suffering; one hopes BHO will be permanently defanged by his sinking polling, but ObamaCare remains law and BHO continues to degrade America worldwide.} And, in other news, Scarborough Bashed Tea Partiers as 'RINOs' *mirroring Bernie Goldbergs attack+, while Elizabeth Warren, who is said to be Positioned to Challenge Hillary from the Left in 2016, claimed that the GOP is Making Naked Attempts to Nullify the 2012 Election *for no opposition can be loyal+.
Omitted from the prior blast *because it was deemed desirable to convey the IMRA news intact {with commentary segregated} were two under-reported observations: Egypt Announced the End to State of Emergency and Dems Rebuff Obama on Stalling 917
Iran Sanctions because, quoting Sen. Kirk (R-IL), Kerry and Biden were [during the Iran Briefing] overtly 'Anti-Israeli.' {BHO is fortunately powerless to stop GOOD stuff!}
Bob Guzzardi observed that the Republican General Assembly and the Republican Governor have increased PA-debt by $6,300,000,000 via three bills [Acts 130 of 2011, 193 of 2012 and 69 of 2013]; they appear not to be the friend of the Forgotten Taxpayer. Along with the Republican Establishment, Pro-Life Lancaster Republican Representative Gordon Denlinger supported the three Corbett budgets. [Note to Pro-Life community: It is difficult to convince people of the righteous of your position when you are taking their money. Some may think you opportunistically use the Pro-Life issue for personal gain.]
Remember Dueling Banjoes from Deliverance?
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Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 12:34 PM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXX [ObamaCare and Iran]
Although the fixation is on ObamaCare, it must be recalled that an israeli-minister was astounded-by- kerry-remarks-on-iran [Kerry Tells US Senators to Ignore Israel on Nuclear Iran], as top-american- jewish-leaders-slammed kerry and BHO over-iran-peace-talks-comments; Sen. Kirk [Illinois-R] reportedly reacted ominously [Today is the day I witnessed the future of nuclear war in the Middle East]. Caroline Glick, of the Jerusalem Post, said it all [The demise of Pax Americana] in a must-read piece; these sentiments were amplified by this observation by Jack Potok *I think it time that 'liberal Jews' realize this regime is no friend of Israel and, while their status as 'liberal' may still be morally virtuous in their rationalization, it shouldn't be at the expense of a core belief that Israel has a right to exist.+.
The Palin Book Tour Heads to Heart of Battle Between GOP Establishment and Tea Party Movement, as ted-cruz [on-the-kelly-file] called for repeal ObamaCare [and he reacted to a rather bizarre interview by ezekiel-emanuel who admitted ObamaCare enrollments are disappointing, but then attacked FoxNews for having hindered this rollout effort]. The revised attack on Conservatives (by the GOP Establishment) was manifest yesterday by McCain [again Cruz] @ theliberalAspen Institute; lest anyone suggest they had been boldly prescient, McCain slashed more aggressively @ Cruz than @ BHO.
Because BHO appears to be 'Winging It' on ObamaCare, Uncertainty has emerged after Obama retreat; this has prompted some to claim Obama is on the ropes and that ObamaCare will hurt Democrats in 2014 and 2016; despite troubles, Obama raised another $1 million for Dems, Obama delivered a defiant speech wherein he vowed to "push back" against the swelling chorus opposed to ObamaCare, and an ObamaCare advocate is poised to become next Surgeon General. The lede in the N.Y. Times [A1 - "News Analysis+ is that, as Troubles Pile Up, A Crisis of Confidence has now emerged *The disastrous rollout of his health care law not only threatens the rest of his agenda but also raises questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency."] Others aver ObamaCare isn't Katrina; it's Iran- Contra. Corroborating this concern was BHOs warning of the next big ObamaCare problem. ["Even if we get the hardware and software working exactly the way its supposed to, with relatively minor glitches, what we're also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy."] {Regarding the issue of lying, as Sen. Kay Hagan admittedly Knew Some Would Lose Healthcare Plans Under ObamaCare, Pelosi will be interviewed on Sunday, but she and other Dems are highly unlikely to accept a semblance of blame.}
Lefties flail [Using ObamaCare confusion to sell junk insurance and ObamaCare fix doesn't put out fires on Capitol Hill+, but even the panelists on Morning Joe *except Howard Dean, who would hire 10,000 kids to call everyone who was dropped on the phone to invite them to renew their policies+ were down regarding its prospects. Also, Progressive Sirius-XM recognized pitfalls, but then blamed the GOP for using this debacle to rationalize-away their not having to deal with Immigration Reform.
Meanwhile, the 'Fairy Tale' Continues as Obama Proposed Extralegal ObamaCare Fix, which will neither Stop the Bleeding nor satisfy jittery Democrats; yet, 'Fixes' could end ObamaCare as we never knew it. His unconstitutional, hypocritical blame-game was amplified when he admitted the Federal Government 919
doesnt have a good record, a Transcript shows Obama slammed lobbyists [prior to hiring one to help fix ObamaCare] and tried to shift the burden to the insurance industry. After the CBO reported Insurance Cancellations Just Beginning, Obama scheduled a meeting with health insurance CEOs.
Americas Health Insurance Plans President and CEO Karen Ignagni said Obama's proposal could destabilize the entire insurance market and raise premiums. ["Premiums have already been set for next year based on an assumption of when consumers will be transitioning to the new marketplace.If now fewer younger and healthier people choose to purchase coverage in the exchange, premiums will increase and there will be fewer choices for consumers.+ {This statement emerged DURING his Presser!}
Mike Fitzpatrick just explained *on Dom Giordanos 1210-Big Talker radio-show] why he co-sponsored the Upton ObamaCare fix [which is either a lifeline or a trap]; this is a band-aid, intended to help Dems and, instead, he should be tirelessly advocating what he had campaign-promised: Repeal and Replace. Illustrating why fixating on one subset of the population serves to HURT them [because this reprieve is only to last a year] and to HURT everyone else [because major defects are being consciously ignored] is the fact that The BHO-Administration admitted ObamaCare plans cost more than current plans, even after government-subsidies have been acquired; this may explain why PA Matches Anemic National ObamaCare Enrollment [After healthcare.gov's disastrous rollout, just 2,207 Pennsylvanians have enrolled in insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare]. And it may also explain why an Obamacare Architect predicted this predicament 'Could Be the Beginning of a Death Spiral [noting that the Insurance Commissioner of liberal Washington State rejected Obama's "fix" two hours after he spoke]; also, not to be forgotten are security-concerns, as illustrated by release of a second okeefe-video that exposes-more-obamacare-navigators-telling-people-to-commit-fraud-and-deceit.
What will America look like after Obama? Sadly, more like a banana republic than the constitutional republic envisioned by the Framers in 1787. The country will be virtually bankrupt -- our national debt already exceeds our Gross Domestic Product -- and the populace will be at the ruling class' mercy. America's status as a world superpower will be just a memory. Americans owe it to our progeny to find a better future.
Lest we forget that the ultimate tool of BHOs defenders *regardless of the issue-of-interest] is to cry Racism, note that Oprah continues claiming that People Hate Obama & Me Because Were Black:
Oprah Winfrey thinks most Americans are racist, and shes not afraid to say it.
The talk show host said that President Barak Obama is hated because they are black.
Riiiight, lets just blame it on skin color! The dislike for President Obama certainly has nothing to do with the out-of-control spending, consistent lying, and government power-grabs.
She also said Americans dont like her for the same reason because of her skin color.
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And lest BHOs Scandal-Sheet be lost-in-the-shuffle, know that the FBI-Director said that its OK for Congress to Talk to Benghazi Survivors [two of whom were interviewed earlier this week].
Updates are again provided on multiple-levelswith potential action-items articulatedfor critique. Overall, it is hoped that BHOs ObamaCare problem and Foreign Policy failures yields the potential for Congress [essentially] to place his administration into receivership until1/20/2017; the fear, of course, is that a cornered-rat may opt to lash-out even more aggressively [and with even less thought], yielding even greater endangerment of the American Heritage and future. Through it all, one wonders if Dems [other than those who are incorrigible] are awakening to the Leviathan they have fashioned via BHO; with the situation way-way beyond satiric [as the late-nite comix are latching-on, including Jon Stewart], perhaps those who wish to adopt the role of adult-in-the-room could, for example, recall JFKs legacy.
International
In An Open Letter to Communal Leaders[Sound the Alarm!], it is advised that multiple existential threats have not been the subject of clarion-callsif nothing elseto Jews [via synagogues and organizations]; illustrative of this concern is an essay by Ben *BeulerBeuler+ Stein, who warns Obama is now Making 'Annihilation' of Jews Possible because inter alia Russia will Help Iran Build a Second Nuke Reactor. While [leftie] Peres warns against feud with USA [and thereby covertly-endorses BHOs gross inactivity, which is increasingly condemnedas per prior blasts+ Middle East tension is viewed as a top concern for 2014; it has gotten to the point where Bipartisan House Efforts have been mounted to Stop Obama from Caving on Iran, as Dems Rebuff BHO on Stalling Iran Sanctions. Telling internationally are reports from debka that: [1]Hollande-and-Netanyahu may form a joint French-Israeli-Arab front-against-Iran, [2]Secret Israeli document to White House shows how US strategy shortens route to Iranian nuclear weapon, [3]A Further setback to Iran nuclear diplomacy occurred with Khameneis refusal to see nuclear watchdog director, [4]Lavrov to confirm Russian air defense system, surface missiles for Egypt, Russian Navy facilities at Alexandria; [5]Kerry bid from Abu Dhabi to break-up unique broad front which tripped-up US-Iran nuclear deal, and [6]Iranian leaders urgently mulled some nuclear flexibility, as Rouhani told Khamenei The cupboard is bare! ,News-Flash as of 4 p.m.: iran and world-powers are close to nuclear-deal, per russias-lavrov; the comments are almost universally condemnatory of BHO.}
Lest we forget the existence of [c]overt media-bias, note a recent manifestation thereof [Instead of a photo showing the family of the Israeli victim of terror mourning, the New York Times illustrated its coverage of the attack with a photo of the terrorist's mother being comforteda graphic illustration of all that is wrong with the newspapers Israel coverage.] and wonder Hell can accommodate all these [should-know-better] criminals.
Underreported are ways BHO continues to intimidate BB [BB Cancels Israeli Settlement Plan to Save 'Peace Process'] and how the populace is stirring [Anti-Palestinian demonstrations after soldier stabbed to death], with some again advocating Capital Punishment For Terrorists [lamenting prisoner-releases].
Illustrating how the world attempts to right itself despite BHOs being AWOL is the fact that Islamists Called for Dialogue in Egypt After Coup [A Muslim Brotherhood-led alliance in Egypt said Saturday it is ready for a national dialogue to end the political 922
standoff in the country, in an announcement that did not demand the return of the nation's toppled president to power], as Egypt announced a plan to hold parliamentary elections "between February and March" and a presidential vote in early summer.
It is vital to appreciate how vital the Syrian Kurds can become, when one envisions how turmoil in that region can resolve favorablyif only BHO would deviate from his support of the Muslim Brotherhood; serving as a resource for information in this regard is a website [rudaw] that [predictably] reported the Kurdish Declaration of Autonomy in Syria was Rejected by Turkey and Larger Opposition, while a piece in the WSJ noted Syrian Kurds have Grown More Assertive [Syria's Kurdish Community is Capturing Territory and Moving Toward Autonomy, But Challenges Remain]. This evolution of events is c/w what this physician wrote in September [The Kurds can lead a reborn Syria, at peace with all of her neighbors], as strenuous efforts were being made to forestall BHOs bombing Assad and thereby helping al-Qaeda; now, its necessary to encourage BHO to RECOGNIZE this nascent country, for its existence can serve as a conduit through which non-Islamists to create a non-terrorist state in Syria [by attracting like-minded peoples, such as Christians, Druze, Syrianics, Turkmen, Alawites, non-Islamist Sunni, non-Islamist Shiite+. That Turkey refused to acknowledge this entity is explained by its inability to control these non-Islamists.
A friend cited a feel good story of the year *video]: Syrian rebels mistakenly behead fellow rebel, which prompted consternation and then a request for 'Understanding.'
Under-reported, also, is the fact that the UK Minister of Faith complains that the World 'Cannot Stand Idle' as Christianity Faces 'Extinction' because violence against Christian minorities around the world [particularly by Asian/African Islamists] has reached the level of a global crisis, to the extent that Christians are facing the danger of becoming extinct in some areas, even in their ancient homelands.
Updates are again provided on multiple-levelswith potential action-items articulatedfor critique. Overall, it is hoped that BHOs ObamaCare problem and Foreign Policy failures yields the potential for Congress *essentially+ to place his administration into receivership until 1/20/2017; the fear, of course, is that a cornered-rat may opt to lash-out even more aggressively [and with even less thought], yielding even greater endangerment of the American Heritage and future. Through it all, one wonders if Dems [other than those who are incorrigible] are awakening to the Leviathan they have fashioned via BHO; with the situation way-way beyond satiric [as the late-nite comix are latching-on, including Jon Stewart], perhaps those who wish to adopt the role of adult-in-the-room could, for example, recall JFKs legacy. {Also, watch harlem globetrotters corey-thunder-law drain a 109 basket, setting a guinness record.}
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A patient inquired today [while she was receiving chemo-Rx] how one might project future events, as ObamaCare explodes and BenghaziGate [now that eye-witnesses can testify freely] is poised to explode [BENGHAZI ATTACKERS HAD INSIDE INFORMATION, for they knew location of ambassador's safe room]; noting impending deadlines, candidly, its difficult to do soother than to note that impending fixes wont resolve fundamental problems and, thus, the GOP risks being tarnished by any provisional effort [e.g., Upton, which expires in a year and thus, fundamentally, allows for ObamaCares implementation+. {In a related-story, AG Holder just asked for appeal in Fast and Furious case holding him in contempt.} One wonders about how much the GOP denies vindication [When Does Ted Cruz Get His Apology?] but, for now, the focus is on how DEMS TURNED ON OBAMACARE [39 Democrats break with the White House to vote for GOP health-care fix]; when Nancy Pelosi claims to be Shocked at ObamaCare Outrage *Ive Never Met Anyone Who Liked Their Insurance Plan] and denies BHO lied, one hopes she will be confronted on Meet the Press with the fact that even BHO apologized for claims that have not been met. The videos of how House Democratic Leaders simply Will Not Apologize to Americans who are Losing Their Health Insurance are extraordinary; even leftie-McDermott is amazed *I Havent Seen This Much Panic on the Floor Since 9/11+, reflecting the degree to which Dems are now divided over insurance plan fix despite BHOs assurances [although PA Dems Held Ranks+ despite BHOs Veto Threat. {Politically devastating to the increasingly-endangered incumbents, CNN issued a Friendly reminder: Senate Dems killed a 2010 GOP proposal (by Utah Sen. Mike Enzi) to let more people keep their plans}
Problems continue to emerge [e.g., More ObamaCare navigator fraud uncovered in Texas, THOUSANDS OF DOCTORS DROPPED FROM HEALTH PLANS, University Drops Student Health Insurance Due to ObamaCare, and Students at historically black college complain ObamaCare left them uninsured], as this Continuingand Continuing ObamaCare Disaster prompted some to conclude OBAMACARE IS A KILLING MACHINE AND MILLIONS WILL DIE and Krauthammer to explain Why liberals are panicked.
After Obama Unilaterally Rewrote ObamaCare - Again in a valiant effort to Save His Cherished Law, arguments promulgated by Dems were being decimated almost before they had been disseminated; The Latest Lie [ObamaCare Plans Will Be Better Than Canceled Policies] cannot be documented, MSNBC's Tour claimed Only Senators In 'Gerrymandered' States Don't Like ObamaCare is impossible 924
to document [because senators are only elected at-large and, thus, cannot be subject to redistricting], the Boston Globe trotted-out a shopworn nostrum [Obama simply Needs to Give Another Speech], and a Top Clinton Aide [Podesta] predictably has Called for Single Payer Health Care, while the Clinton camp continued to distance itself from the ObamaCare fiasco. Meanwhile, Journalists Knew Obama Was Lying, and Major Newspapers in Reids and Obamas Home States have Called for ObamaCare Repeal; ominously, even on CNN this-a.m., there is talk of Hurricane ObamaCare and the Lame Duck and, finally, it was postulated that BHO scandal-sheet is finally starting to catch-up with the POTUS. {Whereas the GOPs weekly-address lambasted BHO on ObamaCare, BHO didnt dare to mention it.-
Now that BHO Fumbled in his most incoherent press conference yet [describing the ugly rollout of ObamaCare as a mere fumble], his defenders [MSNBC] devised an ObamaCare Numbers Spin 'This Is The Way The Law Was Designed To Work'] while ignoring the fact that the Lack of Younger Enrollees Threatens Exchanges; it gets worse, as WA State rejected his latest patch and it is causing mass-confusion in other states, including PA:
The state Insurance commissioner cast doubt Friday on a plan by President Obama to stop insurers from dumping more than 250,000 Pennsylvanians whose medical coverage did not meet the minimum requirements of the new health care law.
Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine questioned whether Obama had the legal authority to allow insurers to reinstate or extend those policies. He also said the state has limited power to force insurers to comply with a scheme that he said heightens confusion surrounding the law's implementation.
I think there are very fair questions being raised about the legal authority for the president to say we're going to ignore what's in the Affordable Care Act, Consedine told the Tribune-Review.
The situation has deteriorated so quickly that experts note the Gov't would prosecute Healthcare.gov execs if it were private entity for fraud, and the claim of a Dem Rep that Amnesty is actually key to making law work is falling on deaf-ears [Cantor now claims Many Senators 'Regret' Voting for Amnesty]. Also noted is the fact that a Congressman Warned of ObamaCare Secret Security Force, a clause this physician detected and used to confront then-Rep. Sestak @ a Town Hall [showing him the quote on a laptop].
Reflecting their disarray, kerfuffles arose among the lefties, as Andrew Sullivan Ripped MSNBC Over 'Raging, Violent Bigot' Alec Baldwin [whose show was suspended, but who admits it Might Not Return] and Palin Compared Federal Debt to Slavery [a claim that, predictably, Sharpton, termed 'Racist']; indeed, Former Nightline anchor and MSNBC host Martin Bashir suggested someone should defecate and/or urinate in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's mouth and, as a result, Mark Levin Condemned Women's Groups' [and everyone else] for their Silence on the attacks of these MSNBC Hosts on Palin.
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The WaPo continues to claim Corbett is the most endangered incumbent governor, but it is assumed that the Dems may not do well in one year [due to ObamaCare, and the ability to tag Schwartz with it, 925
were she to be the nominee]. Guzzardi is fixated on defeating any legislative-hike in the minimum wage, a concern thatin a larger contextharkens to the famous discussion of Milton Friedman regarding Socialism vs. Capitalism. Meanwhile, after GOP Leader Kerns Resigned Amid Sex Assault Investigation, the Shakeup-at-MontCo led to this physician [a GOP Committeeman for two decades] receiving a letter that confirmed gop-kerns is-out; it is predicted that vereb will be in when the vote occurs on 12/4/2013, because rep-vereb is currently the only-candidate-for-MontCo-gop-chairman-position. Finally, noted is the fact that Bensalem's public school system will pay $546,000 in underwriting costs to First American Municipals [the firm of Pat Poprick, the BucksCo GOP-Chair] and $75,000 in legal fees to Stark & Stark; inexplicably, this $78M bond for the High School was OK'd, despite the absence of competitive bidding.
[the national total is now beyond 5 million, and PA is higher]
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Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 9:56 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXXIII [Kurdistan]
Regarding ObamaCare, Scams rise sharply as fraudsters use law to exploit elderly, 1 in 5 may not be able to enroll online, Senator Enzi claims Americans Don't Want a 'Fix,' They Want to Keep Their Plans, 'Racist' President Says Now You can Keep Your 'Substandard Insurance', and Cruz predicted whats next. Regarding the fundamental GOP-platform Joe Meo notes that debt [at EVERY level of government] constitutes a coward's way of taxing; specific reference is made to documentation by Guzzardi that the Corbett upped PAs debt-service by $6.2 billion under. Joe adds the GOP message should be: "P-I-L-E-S."
Personal Responsibility Individual Liberty Limited Government Equality of Economic Opportunity (not outcome) Security at home and abroad
BHOs inherent-racism was manifest by arne-duncan, when he depicted opponents of Common Core to white-surburban-moms-upset-that-common-core-shows-their-kids-arent-brilliant. It is unclear if the upset of vance mcallister over neil riser in louisiana carries national import, but it certainly illustrates the existence of an ongoing civil-war within the GOP. Locally, private-communications suggest the MCRC *MontCo Republican Committee+ will be led inclusively and aggressively by Rep. Mike Vereb. Sadly, illustrating the intransigence of the lefties, the New York Times Continued its Anti-Israel Crusade apace and, lest one hope Kerrys attack on Israel *delivered in Israel+ was a glitch, know that UN Ambassador [and former national security advisor] Susan Rice Blamed Israeli Houses for Muslim Terrorism.
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Pending receipt of clips from todays news-interview shows, provided is a rough-draft of a 700-word essay illustrating why Kurds could serve as the lynch-pin for favorable resolution of the Syrian Civil War; critique is invited because, if no one has major modifications, it will be submitted for publication ASAP.
America Must Recognize Kurdistan Welcoming the Worlds 197 th Nation Could Yield a Strong Democratic Ally The United States should support the newborn non-Islamist entityKurdistanwhich established a provisional government in eastern Syria on November 12 th . It is has militarily resisted entreaties to be absorbed by rebels dominated by al-Qaeda, and recognizing this independent entity could provide other non-Islamist elements a conduit through which a government could be established throughout Syria. Although others in the region might become irritated by such an initiative, providing a homeland for approximately 30,000,000 Kurds [the largest ethnic group on the globe without their own government] could provide America a stable ally in a tumultuous region.
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A briefing regarding the fundamental forces at-play may be acquired by reviewing Wikipedia [1] which lists the involved ethnic groups; the Middle East Forum [2] which provides a Turkish perspective; the New English Review [3] which analyzes how a post- Assad Syria could integrate Kurds and other minorities, and FrontPage Magazine [4] which provides an additional historical perspective. Also relevant are articles we wrote, both five years ago [5] when Kurds were accommodating themselves with the Iraqi government, and two months ago [6] when it was desirable to promote a paradigm which did not require America to support either Assad or the rebels. Finally, the legal underpinnings for an independent Kurdistan in this region were laid in the Treaty of Svres (August 10, 1920), the peace treaty concluded between the Ottoman Empire and Allies at the end of World War I [7].
The MEF piece notes While Turkey has shown its support for Kurdish autonomy in Syria and Iraq, within its own borders, Kurdish autonomy is still viewed as a threat, citing The continuing Kurdish problem in Turkey after Ocalan's capture *8+. Also, it recalls the 1991 entreaty of Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel (1991-93), who averred Turkey's border, flag, and official language cannot be debated, but ethnic groups *sic+ demand to retain their own ethnic identity and culture should not be rejected They have their own history, language, and folklore. If they wish to develop them, let them do so.
Nevertheless, the Kurdish Declaration of Autonomy in Syria was rejected by Turkey and the rebels [9]. Pivotal, therefore, is the need to vet leaders of this autonomy initiative, to ensure support would not be rendered to terrorists. Throughout, also, the capacity to achieve incremental improvementrecalling that Turkeys Prime Minister Erdogan is an Islamistis desirable in this war-torn country.
The Syrian Kurdish militia are dominated by the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which controls much of northwestern Syria near the Turkish border; it has links to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has conflicted with Ankara, but which is involved in peace-negotiations with the Turkish government [10].
The main opposition alliance is the Syrian National Coalition, dominated by Sunni Arabs; it blasted the Syrian-Kurd declaration, claiming it had been issued by hostile forces. This event is viewed as undermining efforts to maintain ties with the Kurds, during the two-and-a-half-year uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad. Illustrative of this initiativewhich Kurds view as hollowis the fact that the Syrian National Council named a secular Kurdish dissident, Abdulbaset Sayda, as its leader last year. Nevertheless, the Kurds are alienated from the SNC, in large part due to clashes between the Kurds and Al-Qaeda loyalists aligned with the SNC.
In any case, consonant with this paradigm is the announcement that Kurdish, Arab and Christian leaders had agreed to turn Syrian Kurdistan or Rojava into three semi- independent provincial areas, within a larger Kurdish autonomy in the northeast. Thus, despite their being in a hostile neighborhood, the Kurds are creating alliances with non-Islamists. Indeed, a recent piece in the widely-read Wall Street Journal [11] is supportive of this initiative, albeit recognizing ongoing challenges to its success.
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Those who lament the decision not to create an independent Kurdistan after the Gulf War (in lieu of the no-fly-zone) could now be vindicated by the creation of a Homeland for Kurds in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey; far from providing sanctuary for cross-border attacks, this would allow for peaceful interaction between Syrian Kurds and those living in a Diaspora. And it would provide America a friend in the heart of this struggle between Assad and the Islamist-dominated rebels.
On the International-Front, no one has provided negative-critique of the essay advocating recognition of Syrian Kurdistan as an independent state; meanwhile, Maher Echoed Hillary On Benghazi: 'What Possibly Is The Difference?', Two Kinds of Libertarianism have been defined [Calhounian and Heinleinian] and BB will lobby world powers against Iran nuclear deal [he launched an intensive campaign on Sunday to convince world powers to toughen terms of a proposed nuclear deal with Iran ahead of negotiations reconvening this week in Geneva; after meeting Francois Hollande on Sunday as part of a three-day state visit by the French president, Netanyahu was scheduled to travel to Moscow to see Russian President Vladimir Putin and return to Israel to meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday.].
Is this [hands-free] human-hemisection video an optical illusion?
On the National-Front, The modest three-year recovery did little to change the widening income gap in America, a phenomenon manifest as ObamaCare problems grow [ObamaCare Trashes Married Couples] and Dems scramble [Failed Left-Wing Policies Sinking Obama's Presidency, Plouffe: Running Against ObamaCare an 'Impossibility', D.C.-Official who questioned Obama's health-care change was fired, Chuck Todd: White House Knows Obama Doesn't Have Power for ObamaCare 'Fix', NBC: Democrats Suffer 'Biggest Defection Of The Year' Over ObamaCare Fix, Steny Hoyer: It Was Accurate When We Said You Could Keep the Insurance You Like, Dem Senator Gillibrand: 'We All Knew' Obama Was Lying, Obama's Priority: Save Democrats, Not the Sick, Obama Health Care Woes Become Credibility Fight, CBS's Major Garrett Takes On Obama, and Why the Failure of ObamaCare is Troubling], as fictitious- ObamaCare-fixes are revealed, Cruz Called-Out Obama at Federalist Society Convention; softening tone, Scarborough [on Fox] said 'Moderate Republicans Don't Win Elections'.
What We Learned about ObamaCare has been satirized. On the Statewide-Front, the power-point presentation used last week during a TEA Party Patriots event by Ms. Jamie Cox has been posted [PA-Taxpayers Subsidize Union Politics+; sadly, the title says it all. Meanwhile, c/o Joanne Yurchak [h/t Guzzardi], the status of PA-Education has been updated, to wit:
With regard to the Common Core (Common Core State Standards," PA Core Standards," whatever...) it is my understanding that a fiscal analysis is required for regulations to be passed. However, the PA Dept. of Education (PA DOE) did not do a fiscal analysis when the initial standards and regulations applying to these standards were adopted. From what Peg Luksik (a Pennsylvanian who understands this initiative as no other person does) said that it is legal for them to forego providing a fiscal analysis if they claim that significant federal funds are at risk if they don't adopt it. That's evidently what happened in 2010 when the PA State Board of Education (an unelected committee) adopted federally-controlled CCS in math and English (ELA) on 7/1/2010 with an 930
effective date of putting them into place of 7/1/2013. Standards for other subjects (science, history, etc.) were to be added later.
Joan Benso, a CC supporter, and head of PA Partnerships for children, included a table of what will happen if the IRRC approves of the Chapter 4 final form regulations and what will happen if they do NOT approve it. From what I have been told, this chart is correct; if they reject the regulations, they revert to the current regulations which were adopted by the PA DOE in 2010 without performing a fiscal analysis and without going before the legislature. BOTH situations are bad. Many of you know that the IRRC will be voting on these regulations on Thursday, November 21.
Finally, an overnight e-mail exchange [e-mail received @ 12:45 AM and reply sent @ 1:08 AM] is copied for the reading-pleasure of those who would question the motives/execution of this physician, herein; seemingly, the self-described Independent has been inculcated by the entire meme of the Lefties [and telling, unfortunately, was the writers inabilityto dateto defend an emotional reaction to a database]:
Dr Sclaroff, I have diligently read your missives, often more than once a day, and, though there is clarity on some points, you do not seem to grasp the need for people who walk into ERs be insured to allow our hospitals to keep a firm footing. As a fellow health care professional, I have seen the deleterious effects of one insured person having to pay for four or five others. An ostrich, though his head is buried, still knows of the dangers which surround him, but hopes that things will be better when he extracts his head. The costs go through the roof. It would be nice if the GOP had a plan to replace the ACA, but, they do not. Such nihilism does not ever blossom in fecundity. The original tea party was a bunch of white guys destroying private property, and dressing like a weaker ethnic group who would be easy to blame. The grass-roots fervor of your tea party associates has been by corporate 931
underwriting so deeply, that it is hard for an independent like myself to give them any credence, and their anti-BHO bias seems more related to racism and fear, than logic. Please remove me from the daily rant mailing list, and I will settle for the facts gleaned from more heterogeneous sources. Thank you. *
The gop has a plan [interstate competition, equal tax-deductibility, etc.] and ER visits are covered both under Hill-Burton and EMTALA; these rants are well-documented and CRY for attempts @ rebuttalwhich you have failed to provide. *with hyperlinks+ Also, the costs have all ready gone through the roof, and the rest of your ad-hominem is disconnected to current reality, even if the Koch Brothers initially funded one segment of the TEA Party Movement; as opposed to the libs, we do not behave as ostriches particularly with regard to the skyrocketing debt.
And the only racism that exists is that which is projected by faux-independents such as yourself; the one truism in your reaction is the existence of FEAR that America is being destroyed.
Do you support BHOs capitulation to Tehran?
[BTW, I draw from myriad sources, includingin particularMSNBCso your comprehension skills are wanting.]
If you cant refute my data with data, then you perhaps are rejecting the conclusions drawn therefrom a bit prematurely, eh?
Your reaction [and my response] will assuredly appear [without your name] in the next Blast *which Ill spare you, if I can find your e-mail address among the non- alphabetized aggregates].
[You must REALLY be frustrated by the POTUS-meltdown, if you felt so provoked.+
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Two more: "I've got Israel's back" and "I will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons." [h/t Steve Feldman via Bernadette Bachich Repisky]
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Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:55 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXXV [Iran, ObamaCare, Common Core and MCRC]
In addition to a hot *but troubling+ revelation that a team of negotiators led by White House adviser Valerie Jarrett conducted secret talks with Iran about its nuclear weapons program for the past year, know that two major statewide issues pend regarding Holocaust-Education [a second-reading of the Clymer Bill will transpire today, prompting ongoing senatorial lobbying] and Overall-Education [noting that a school interrogated 7 th graders over their political views, an effort c/w databases being accrued]; also, two follow-up essays are worth prompt disseminationone regarding ObamaCares implications [available only via e-mail, although the National Review website is replete with elaborative essays] and one reflecting this physicians mindset with regard to the future of the MCRC *post-Kerns, pre-Vereb]:
Morning Joltwith Jim Geraghty November 18, 2013
The Easy Way to Fix HealthCare.Gov: Redefine What 'Fixed' Means
The next big broken promise from the administration will be Jeffrey Zients' promise that "by the end of November, HealthCare.gov will work smoothly for the vast majority of users."
"Vast majority" means fewer folks than you think: "The Obama administration will consider the new federal insurance marketplace a success if 80 percent of users can buy health-care plans online, according to government and industry officials familiar with the project As many as one in five Americans who try to use the Web site to buy insurance will be unable to do so."
I don't ever want to hear another federal worker object to the phrase, "close enough for government work," or complain that they're unfairly maligned as incompetent, slipshod, or unreliable.
Now the right-wing doubters are sneering loudly: "And I'm not convinced it's going to be fixed -- you know, I've seen a lot of tech rollouts. We don't do those well in this country. My rule for them is -- and no matter what -- electronic medical records or the tax department, it takes twice as long, costs twice as much and often you have to do it twice."
Er, wait, scratch that. That was Howard Dean this weekend.
Don't Tell President Obama Bad News! He Can't Deal with 'the Drama'!
A fascinating bit of political journalism from Gloria Borger:
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heels of the government shutdown. Consider the context: Republicans had just tried to defund ObamaCare, and they lost in a heap of public humiliation. So the rollout of ObamaCare had to be really impressive, because the Republicans had to be proven wrong.
And yet, as the dry-runs continued to produce red flagsover and overthe president remained in his steely cocoon. If this were the presidency of George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan, the obvious theories would abound: the chief executive is disengaged. Or incurious. Or worse. But since Obama is none of the above, what gives?
Notice how she just flatly asserts that Obama is not disengaged, incurious, or worse. But what's even more amazing is that her very next paragraph confirms the possibility she just denied:
This much is clear, after speaking with both past and present senior administration officials: no one was really in charge, so no one knew for sure how bad the overall picture was. What's more, andperhaps most tellingno one wanted to even hint to the president that this techno- savvy administration possibly had a website stuck in, say, 1995. "People don't like to tell him bad news," says an ex-White House staffer. "Part of it is the no-drama culture."
It is flat-out impossible to be a good president if you don't want to hear bad news.
[For those who need an entertaining respite, watch the babies.]
In an essay regarding the Shakeup at MontCo GOP [Kerns Out, Vereb In], this physician-weighed-in:
It is desirable to provide an excerpt from an e-mail by Vereb [sent to a constant-critic of the status quo who is NOT a member of the MCRC] regarding his mindset [illustrating, on many levels, his pathway to this current spot]: "I am agreeing to do this job based on a few things. One of them is that we all have input and that we respect each other's opinion and, secondly, that I am not in this alone. I can't do this alone and need everyone that has been on the sideline to step on to the playing field and participate."
This constitutes a breath-of-fresh-air when the insularity and [physical/philosophical] deafness of his predecessor is recalled; for example, when this physician sought to subject him to a re-election vote in 2011 [pursuant to the Bylaws], he exhibited a raw version of autocracy [for he had been provided noticevia registered-mailof this plan].
The MCRC needs rehab, both loco-regionally and within the fabric of the MCRC [manifest both with regard to technology and policy]; it is urgent that this be appreciated ASAP, and private efforts are underway to facilitate appreciation of what specifically must be accomplished ["yesterday"].
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Remember, 500,000 have signed up for ObamaCare
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Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 6:10 PM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXXVI [Kurds, ObamaCare, Common Core and MCRC]
Another update of potential action-items serves to amplify prior conclusions, with notable twists.
On the International-Plane, internal-friction has been noted within BHOs inner-sanctum, inasmuch as, before Secretary of State John Kerrys recent trip to Cairo, National Security Adviser Susan Rice told him to make strong statements in public and private about the trial of deposed President Mohamed Morsi; on his own, Kerry decided to disregard the White Houses instructions. Also noted is the fact that the palestinian-authority-gave-freed-prisoners-$50,000-each, as many now are second-guessing the wisdom of the Gaza Withdrawal in-2005; reportedly, Al Jazeera America is Tanking Worse Than Current TV had. {Illustrating the importance of supporting non-Islamist rebels (against Assad) headed by Kurds, is the fact that OBAMA-BACKED JIHADIS FEED ALEPPO DOGS WITH SYRIAN SOLDIERS BODIES.}
On the National-Plane, SNL lampooned Obamas second-term troubles, as the Left rankled over linking Katrina and ObamaCare [The analogy is less telling than who is using it, including WaPos Ezra Klein]; although PELOSI [looking subdued] decried A LOT OF HOOPDEY-DOO AND ADO ABOUT OBAMACARE, some claim repeal-is-still-in-the-cards [including Heritage Action, as cited during weekly phone calls held on Mondaysone of which just occurred]. The ripple-effect has adversely affected two related Congressional Hill conflicts, immigration reform *gop-senators-press-obamas-dhs-nominee-to-end- lawless-immigration-policies and ObamaCare-crisis-is-choking-obamas-top-priority-immigration-bill] and the ongoing fiscal battle [gop-is-winning-the-budget-fight]. Meanwhile, using rather colorful lingo, oprah-was called-out-for-playing-the-race-card; inexplicably, however, krauthammer claimed the notion of a gop-civil-war-is-a-liberal-media-myth, despite the fact that another Congressional conflict occurred in the South over the weekend [allegedly pitting big-business against a more doctrinaire Conservative]. {Politically, the import of The Democrats ObamaCare Crackup has been explored, replete with links; also, when BHO again met with health insurance CEOs, he seemed rattled and politically punch drunk.}
On the Statewide-Plane, a Pa. bill changing public notices was decried as a threat to the republic; Senate Bill 733 [INTRODUCED BY ROBBINS, EICHELBERGER, ALLOWAY, ERICKSON, FARNESE, FERLO, FOLMER AND FONTANA] would allow all of Pennsylvania's governmental entities to post notices on government websites as well as newspapers, and only on those governmental websites if they so choose. *This poorly-written bill also could prove to be pernicious, as it would allow public officials the opportunity to attempt to influence press coverage by agreeing or not agreeing to publish public notices in local newspapers. In turn, will a newspaper be forced to decide not to accept public notices issued by a local government on which it is reporting if it might be perceived as being influenced?+; also, it was advised by Jamie Cox that this Twitter-List be invoked for those who wish to monitor Common Core:
@KeystoneReport @AFPPennsylvania (though they Tweet a LOT) @Melissamdaniels (PA Independent reporter) @GovernorCorbett @RepBloom (gives good info; probably the most active tweeting PA-lawmaker, albeit not everyones favoriate) @Free_to_Teach 937
On the Regional-Plane, meetings of true-conservatives are being held in MontCo/BucksCo this week; also, an update of what is occurring with the Holocaust Education Legislation will be acquired in the a.m.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 6:28 PM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXXVII [Iran and ObamaCare]
The goal, here, is to provide a mini-update as to the political-impact of ObamaCareand what it isnt. Essentially, one can become self-mesmerized with hopes that a tsunami of anti-BHO electoral support will be bestowed upon the GOP next yearbut everyone knows [or should know] that interim-events could easily bespoil such idealized prognostications. This physician argues that the world would be VERY different currently if the GOP had stood firm, for the ability to defund this monstrosity would be extant; indeed, although Dems Tried to Make ObamaCare Repeal-Proof, even the NYT, Citing 1989 Health Law, Suggests Repeal of ObamaCare Is Possible. Thus, as Rush now repeatedly emphasizes, the Cruz-Gambit has been vindicatedalthough no one in the media would DARE to acknowledge this intuitive factoid; instead, as BHO turned the white-house press-room into a 3 rd -Congressional-chamber, they are mute. {We should only wish that The Great Democrat Policy Debate will be Are We Wrong or Just Liars?}
BHO has no plan to rescind this dream of Socialists for a century, and hell toss-aside anyone/everyone in his path *including, in particular, purported allies along the way+ to achieve this end. He cares minimally that Polling shows ObamaCare is Sinking Dems Even in Blue States, that A Devastating Poll on Obamaand ObamaCareis impugning his credibility, that POLLING shows [a year tardy] Romney beats Obama, that the Botched ACA Rollout Hammers Obama, as Job Disapproval Reaches a Career High, that Gallup reports a Majority Say Healthcare Not Govt.'s Responsibility, and that ABC News Poll shows Two-Thirds Oppose Individual Mandate. He doesnt even care that a Confused President claims '100 million' enrolled, that a CMS Official admitted not yet having Built '60-70%' of ObamaCare's Web Apparatus (including Payment Systems), that a Woman Hailed As Success Story Now Can't Afford insurance, that he felt compelled to Issue an SOS, that the ObamaCare Conference Call was Spoiled by Website Failure, that the administration now cuts-off medicare patients from their existing medical suppliers, that Students suffer ObamaCare sticker-shock as premiums soar and plans get cut, that D.C.-Based Health Care Exchange May Have Engaged in Illegal Political Activity, that Obama Health Care Woes Became Credibility Fight, that Incompetence and Secrecy Still Dog ObamaCare Roll Out, that ObamaCare failure May Shave 30% From Drug Sales, and that the White House and HHS were explicitly told of HealthCare.gov risks in March.
He plans for shills to provide short-term support until the subsidy-$ flows on 1/1/2014; thats why BIDEN will prognosticate success, 'God willing,' Jay Carney will claim a 20% Failure for HealthCare.gov would be Acceptable, and claims of an ObamaCare Death Spiral may actually mirror how the Politico ObamaCare Analysis Ignored upcoming Employer-Market Cancellations. If such dire prognostications grow [as it is noted increasingly, for example that 80 now new 60 for retirement], Rand Paul predicts Obama will continue Using Executive Power to Coerce America into a Single Payer system. If he next proposed that A Health Insurance Company Bailout was needed, Marco Rubio has already claimed there should be No Bailouts for ObamaCare. The viewer should be forewarned that BHO-boosters who are attempting to rehab their own levels of credibility are neo-critics [David Gregory: ObamaCare is Obama's Iraq; Woodward: ObamaCare 'Going To Get Worse'; Matthews: ObamaCare Could Take Obama to 20% Approval Rating; Brokaw: Botched ObamaCare Rollout Low Point For Obama] and should be ignored. 939
As the WH claims Obama skipped Gettysburg Address because of 'whole website thing,' others have analyzed Why Obama Fears the Gettysburg Address, for the Gettysburg Address tersely conveys The Power of Eternal Truths while lamenting the evolution From 'Four Score' to 'Yes We Can!' Why BHO would seemingly toss-under-the-bus the POTUS he had rhetorically idolized, Lincoln, prompted some to wonder whether Our Government is Still "Of the People"; others note that neither a university-nor-its- students-know-lincoln-was-a-republican, suggesting he views everything as political. Finally, as a potential clue to his priorities [as he just lectured to the WSJ-CEOs+, it is sadly noted he Dropped 'God' from his addressreflecting again how he disses religion. {This is why, for example, Palin claims the War on Christmas is the 'Tip of Spear' in the Battle to Transform America, a posture that should pique the interest of Jews, as well; attempts to explain this snub appear only to have become a black-hole of tweets.}
Its almost unworthy to provide this incident much attention, but know that Bashir was Not Punished for Saying Someone Should 'Sh*t' *and piss+ in Palin's Mouth, despite the fact that Bashir Apologized; yet, the MSNBC Twitter-Feed Still Promotes Video of Palin Attack After Apology. This posture is perhaps explained by noting that a Flashback regarding Martin Bashir's Flippant Slavery Analogy reflected a pattern of behavior and, in turn, explained MSNBC's Double-Standards; compiled [somewhat satirically] are The Top 20 Signs That You Get All Your News From MSNBC, raising the query as to whether MSNBC can Clean-Up Its Act. This perhaps explains why Maria Bartiromo is leaving CNBC to join Fox Business. Meanwhile, AL JAZEERA AMERICA Draws No Ratings, having Lost More Than Half of Current TV's Audience; also CNN's Don Lemon Got a weekday 11PM Slot [despite his sometimes-controversial views].
In local-news, Drudge promoted a VIDEO of a Massive Overbrook High School Brawl Sparked By Social Media Post, it was postulated that only by nominating Schwartz could it be possible to Save Tom Corbett [in a Philly-centric essay by Tom Ferrick, recognizing her extreme-leftist views that this physician first detected during a 1:1 chat in 1991, when she was running against Joe Rocks for the Senate], lobbyist-reform-passed the PA- house, and [most importantly] Kelly named Foles as the starterfor the bye week.
Regarding Iran, it seems a Deal is closer because Iran conceded RHETORICALLY [only] on right to enrich; this is why BB Tacitly Slammed Obama on Iran, for it is viewed as Negotiation 101 that Democracies Keep Agreements while Dictatorships Cheat. It seems the Rumored Israel-Saudi Alliance Against Iran is Real, for France's Hollande in Israel said France Will Not Back Down on Iran; nevertheless, it is feared that this French Dtente with Israel is A Troubled Embrace. Douglas Feith predicts Sanctions on Iran Won't Be Cranked Back Up; he is a NeoCon who was deeply enmeshed in Iraqi-policy, known since childhood by this physician [who tutored him in math a half-century ago, as per input from my mother]. Special attention should be paid to a mea-culpa [Samantha Power and the Iranian Problem From Hell] composed by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach for having supported Samantha Powers confirmation; he posited a query *Will Samantha follow the Administrations line that negotiating with Iran before they have repudiated their goal to exterminate Israel is acceptable, or will she stick to her message that genocide can only be remedied by courageous governments who act forcefully against murderers?+ that she, unfortunately, answered in the affirmative on CBS and on MSNBCs Morning Joe, yesterday-a.m. {Clarity rings-true, here, c/o Claudia Rosett: Iran Follows in North Koreas Nuclear Shoes.}
Abbas Cracked-Down [again] on Media, as the World [again] Looked the Other Way; it is plausible that Palestinians Committed to 9 Months of Peace Talks because [lamentably, 940
to a large degree] Kerry claimed US considers Israeli settlements to be 'illegitimate.' This is actually part of another level of retrenchment, as Kerry Declared that 'The Era of the Monroe Doctrine Is Over' [before he Proceeded to Distort It]; it is perhaps explainable that, within this context, Obama is now Purging the Military of Dissent, manifest also as Sen. Gillibrands plan to exclude the Military Chain of Command from Sex Assault Cases. {Mirroring domestic-dynamics is Merkels view that Trust with US Needs to Be Rebuilt, and mirroring how aggressively BHOs minions are waging-war on any dissident-effort is the now-scrubbed accusation of Laura Rozen that a Jewish Expert spoke at Instruction of Israeli Government *for this harkens to the Jewish Lobby anti-Semitic smears of Mearsheimer and Walt, in-turn recalling the dual-loyalty accusations that peaked in 48; necessarily, also, Israels Economy Minister Bennett Schooled CNNs Amanpour Over Use of Term Occupied Territories *a.k.a. Judea & Samariaincluding Jerusalem+.}
Other domestic-concerns have been under-reported, including the charge that Obama's DHS Secretary Nominee Plagiarized 23 Different Times, the rendering by DiGenova of 'Shame' On House GOP For Lack Of Benghazi Subpoenas [a view supported by Cruz], the existence of DONOR FATIGUE (as ticket-Prices to a BHOs CA fundraiser were halved) juxtaposed by a expressed-plea of Michelle O to Stop McConnell, the mocking by Joe Biden of Hong Kong Accents, and the impact on Minority Youth whom BHO Wants to Stop from Attending Private Schools. Lest urban prejudice be ignored, Crown Heights Jews are outraged after blacks play knockout attack game on Hasidim and bill-de-blasio-praised-msnbc-radical-Sharpton behind-anti-Semitic-race-riot; also, a D.C. Mayor [Andy Shallal] candidate has history of extremist views. Finally, illustrating the GOPs ongoing Civil-War, the newly-elected GOP Congressman supports amnesty, as the Tea Party Targets Thad Cochran's Mississippi Senate Seat [along with those in many other states]. {Another scandal: BHO released faked unemployment data prior to the 2012 POTUS-election.}
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Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:59 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXXVIII [Iran, ObamaCare, and PA-Transportation]
OBAMAs favorability polling CRASHED TO 37%, as he blamed the GOP for ObamaCares Rollout Woes; the latter was articulated yesterday during a speech to the WSJ-CEO Conference, an event he attended in the p.m. after having skipped the 150 th Anniversary of Lincolns #GettysburgAddress event [which, after critique became heated, resulted in his having penned a 272-word handwritten tribute thereto]. Frustration extended to Harry Reid, who threatened to change filibuster rules to ram through agenda; investigation will start today over the claim that the 2012-election-was-a-complete-fraud due to the fact [allegedly] that unemployment data were fudged. Also revealed was the claim that the US May Have Let 'Dozens' of Terrorists Into Country As Refugees; more pushback on his union-promotion agenda was penned [Right to work: Busting unions for their own good], as the GOP eschews a new shutdown fight. On the cultural front, it has been alleged that Alec Baldwin is not welcome back at MSNBC and the world of scatology has been explored; the latter recalls this physicians having hosted a guest-speaker at a meeting in the 1980s of the North Branch of the Philadelphia County Medical Society who explored the etymology of the most prominent words [then and now] that are exclaimed @ moments of angst. ,The Coolest Music Video You've Ever Seen48 Years In the Makingis based on the 50 th Anniversary of the release of Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone; each time it is viewed, the graphics change *!+.-
Drudge has captured new sets of major problems with ObamaCare more than once daily [Plans in DC Cover Abortion, Not Hearing Aids; CO man signs up, but his dog gets covered instead; No one yet in Oregon; Insurer stops advertising; Payment system still not built; carney-blames-insurers-for-obamas-broken-keep-your-doctor-promises; and First lady rallies on ObamaCare: 'There but for the grace of God go I']. Others wonder if Obama can Bail-Out Health Insurers [invoking cronyism and government manipulations].
A liberal commentary *Policy-Mic] provides the optimal spin for this ongoing, burgeoning disaster:
What Obamas health care announcement means. On Thursday, President Obama offered a fix to the problem of canceled health insurance policies, telling insurers they dont have to cancel peoples coverage plans if they dont meet ObamaCares new standards. Obama essentially offered a one-year extension for the 7-12 million Americans who were sent cancellation notices for 2014. But, the announcement may actually create even more of a mess for insurance companies and the state officials who regulate them. It took just three hours for states to start pushing back.
ObamaCare takes toll on small businesses. Meanwhile, a new survey found small businesses are cutting full-time workers or worker hours to comply with Obamacare. About 30 percent of small franchises and 12 percent of other small businesses say they are cutting work hours or switching to part-time workers because of the law. Technically, the employer mandate asking businesses to sponsor health insurance if they have more than 50 full-time employees wont be enforced until 2015. But, some employers have already started adjusting for the new landscape.
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Satire [The Affordable CAR Act] has been unrelenting [Lenos brief joke simultaneously attacked Illegal Immigration and ObamaCare's Failure+, prompting a blogger to conclude We have a government run by the Sorcerer's Apprentice depending on the Wizard of Oz. This mini-joke has made the Internet-rounds:
A man goes into the hospital for a vasectomy. Before the procedure a very attractive nurse comes in and takes his vitals, then tells him to take all of his clothes off.
When he is fully undressed she instructs him to lie down on the table. The man obeys. The nurse then takes all of her clothes off and climbs on top and has her way with him.
Upon the completion of the act the man catches his breath and asks what that was all about. The nurse informs the patient that studies have shown that before a vasectomy if the man has an ejaculation, he will be more relaxed and that the cord is easier for the surgeon to locate and sever, thereby making the surgery safer, more efficient and quicker.
The nurse then wheels the patient to the operating room.
While they are going down the hall the patient looks through a window to the right and sees six men in a room masturbating.
Curious, the man asks," What are they doing in there? "
The nurse responds, "They're preparing for vasectomies too, but you have Blue Cross ...while they have ObamaCare."
Again illustrating the subtleties of anti-Semitism, know that the trusted scholastic-magazine erased israel-from-the-map and Maus creator Art Spiegelman discussed his Jewish Museum retrospective [plus Mad magazine, the Holocaust, and American Jewish culture today]. Meanwhile, BB took his campaign [to oppose allowing Iran to keep nukes] to the Kremlin, anticipating Kerrys return on Friday. Revealed is the prospect that the final US-Afghan agreement would keep troops in place and funds flowing, perhaps indefinitely *undermining BHOs pledge to end this war, perhaps noting the prompt recrudescence in Iraq]; amazingly, the DoD claimed Afghan postwar talks were on schedule, despite recent violence in the Afghan capital ahead of the Loya Jirga meeting [underscoring the deep divide between D.C. and Kabul on how a potential U.S. postwar force will operate in the country after 2014] and, as part of negotiations to keep a residual American force in Afghanistan after 2014, Karzai demanded BHO admit in-writing that the American military had made mistakes in its war there.
Claiming Pennsylvanias roads and bridges are crumbling, The House passed a $2.3 billion transportation funding bill, with tax increase, on Tuesday, 104-95. The bill will go to the Senate. The Senate passed SB1, which is a nearly identical bill to the House bill, 45-5, in June 2013. Corbett and the GOP General Assembly leadership [Speaker Sam Smith and Majority Leader Turzai] united with Governor Corbetts predecessor, Philadelphia Dem Ed Rendell and with the Philadelphia Building Trades Union president Pat Gillespie. Bipartisanship, another name for one party state. Guzzardis observation *The Forgotten Taxpayer is crushed with this last straw.+ was posted on PoliticsPa. ,Also noted is the obamacare-vs-corbettcare debate, with national implications.-
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Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:05 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXXXIX [Iran & ObamaCare]
Although not yet uploaded onto the Internet, IMRA just noted [via e-mail+ the fact that Syrias main opposition group, the National Coalition, announced last week the formation of a government to administer the parts of Syria that are no more under regime control, putting the country in the awkward situation of having, formally, two governments. This is congruent with the essay by this physician [which awaits approvals] regarding Kurdistan, and it suggests the prospect of a trisection of the land. {Bolton considers Kerry 'Delusional,' as some feel BHOs Soft Stance on Iran Might Force Israel to Strike.}
During the past hour, Drudge added devastating hyperlinks ['MR. PRESIDENT, TEAR DOWN THIS WEBSITE' (noting security issues), Healthcare Site Crashed While Sebelius Tried To Sign-up Person At Media Event, Koch Bros. Target Dems Who Voted For It]. Breitbart piled-on [YOUTH ABANDON OBAMA AND OBAMACARE, Gibbs: Obama Should Have Fired Someone For ObamaCare Rollout, CBS: Dems Fleeing BHO Over ObamaCare & 84% of Dems Want ObamaCare Changed or Repealed, and Walker opposes Amnesty]. {In a move this physician has argued for years, 40 GOP House Members Joined Lawsuit That Could Give Justice Roberts an Obamacare 'Do-Over' due to origination clause.}
The media also provided follow-up of points noted herein [Obama to Write Letter to Afghan People Admitting 'Mistakes' During 'War on Terror,' Clarence Thomas vs. Barack Obama on Gettysburg and American Greatness, DHS Employee Who Called for Murder of Whites Still Has Job and Palin PAC to MSNBC: When Will Bashir Be Disciplined?] and newer ones [Dan Rather Upset at CBS for Scrubbing Him from JFK Coverage and USDA Gave No-Bid Contract to Obama-Connected Marketing Firm.]
Illustrating why Lib/Dem media-sources are routinely ignored are the following hyperlinks from TPM: Five ways to determine if ObamaCare is Working, cruz-to-cnn- anchor: thanks-for-trying-to-lecture-me, more historically bad polling For Obama & ObamaCare, Rep. Trey Radel Pleads Guilty In drug case, Albuquerque Voters Reject 20- Week Abortion Ban, Hickenlooper Faces Restless Electorate, But Leads GOP Rivals, George W. Bush Is Not Too Worried About How History Will Judge Him, Obama Still Optimistic Immigration bill will pass this year, Alan Simpson said Liz Cheney Destroying Family Relationships, and Sandy Hook Shooting Game Draws Ire. These reflect inability to avoid covering the absolutely-obvious and ability to try to change-the-subject.
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Unreal Public Union Employees in Illinois went on Strike Over 14.5% Raise. [Will County had offered to pay 90% of the cost for health insurance.]
In the interest of full-disclosure, the presentation for tomorrows meeting of true-conservatives in the 8 th Congressional District is to be provided succinctly herein; the goal is to afford prep-time for all of those true-patriots who might opt to disagree with any link in this logical-stream. All assertions herein have been thoroughly documented, and the goal is to demonstrate the reasons[s] why it is desirable ASAP to ID a potential primary-contender against the [extremely well-liked] Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick. This is all business, illustrated by an essay that discusses why "Moderate" Republicans are simply trying to manage "better" the ongoing leftward drift, and why its preferable to try to change direction; noting the Dem-Meltdown [triggered by ObamaCare], it is assumed is thatagainst either Demany reputable GOP-candidate should be able to emerge victorious. It is also assumed that alia jacta est because it seems the already-extant database provides a reasonable basis for conclusions to be drawn; ultimately, because most prognosticators feel there are too-few seats up-for-grabs, dire predictions that challenging Mike could threaten GOP-control over the House are rejected as insufficient justification [assuming a quality-individual emerges, not merely a placeholder] to give him a free-ride to November.
Before launching, note the funniest-video-about-israel-you-will-ever-see, advising that the world give-the-middle-east-to-the-jews; noting its citation of a debt of only ~$13T, this has been available for awhile [and this physician recalls having viewed it previously]. It is so succinct that its desirable both to watch it and to pick-choose from others that emerge @ the end *on youtube+, for its a penultimate manifestation of Jewish humor.
Mike has violated the core campaign-promise [shared by most-everyone in his class of 2010+ to work slavishly to rid America of ObamaCare; his rationale was retroactively manufactured, for the Dems and the media inflated the impact of the partial governmental slow-down to hype the GOP into capitulation. He was duped, despite having noted the ability of the GOP to band-together; the double-whammy that allegedly tipped him to abandon this pledge was [covertly] the weekend meeting led by Valerie Jarrett *subbing for BHO+ in the White House with CEOs and [overtly] the polling [by the biased-combo of NBC/WSJ, representing K-St./Wall-St.] that reflected the successful effort to blame this faux-catastrophe on the GOP. Tossed under-the-bus was Main St., USA *as manifest by the TEA Party Movement+, and prophylactically maligned *anticipating 16+ was Ted Cruz; they had no strategy was their catch-phrase, despite the fact that their plan was to starve the beast [as per the Constitution, Article I Section 7].
Taking a respite from this distillation, note these hyperlinks about Common Core [carrying specific correlates with ObamaCare, the website for which was characterized by Rush as a vacuum-cleaner for highly-personal in-bulk data, ripe for hackers]: Common Core Is about Politics, Not Academic Standards, Its about Snooping, Not Standards and 12 th Grader Schools School Board over Common Core National Standards.
The claim that Mike generally votes conservatively * la Reagan+ must also be debunked, both by providing the precise-quote and by exploring its precise import. Note that the foundational concept *The person who agrees with you 80% of the time is a friend and an ally, not a 20% traitor, unsourced] does not take into account the weight of a given decision, nor its implications; here, Mike trashed those who had served as his core-supporters, and there is every indication [based upon his remarks 947
delivered on 8/3/2013 @ Lower Bucks Community College] that he supports some-sort of Amnesty [before the border has been secured and provision of proof of nondiscretionary law-enforcement]. Adding his other bloated-budget votes [e.g., the Sandy Bills] to his version of moderate-conservatism yields his having positioned himself politically for re-election optimally [perhaps], but at definable cost.
It is also desirable to probe how he failed to comport with his campaign-promise to hold monthly Town Hall events, particularly with regard to the 8/3/2013 event with the head of No Labels, David Walker. One might view it as a filibuster, for there was minimal Q & A and anyone who chose to check-out the website [as noted recently, herein] would want to hear him speak-out against the provision of a no-bid high-cost contract [via the Bensalem School Board] to Pat Poprick; a rationalization that this is merely a local matter that doesnt merit critique by a federal officer DOES NOT COMPUTE, because this good-government concept [when there was no emergency as, arguably, existed when Halliburton was chosen by Cheney to pitch-in after the Iraqi invasion] must be honored @ all levels [from local to national+. It is not a trap to invite critique when the issue will clarify whether political linkages will trump public service.
One must appreciate the fact that fingers are connected to hands, and anyone who claims that he/she will oppose Popricks control during the next four yearsovertly [by voting for a competitor] or covertly [by pledging to change the bylaws]would be subject to cogent credibility-critique. Of course, someone not living in Bucks may be perceived as being facile when suggesting a massive recruitment effort would be necessary [as part of a precinct-project+, but its necessary to confront stark-reality in this regard. Thus, when Mike doesnt condemn Pat for accepting this no-bid non-emergency contract, he is then acquiescing to business as usual that necessarily uses The Forgotten Taxpayer as a patsy. He then shows hes subject to Wall St./K St. over Main St., besmirching the core of the TEA Party Movement.
One must, finally, appreciate what might have been had Mike not facilitated the deal *read: surrender+ to BHO. First, BHO would have been able to tap into the BILLIONS of tax-$ which he has segregated for the supplements starting on 1/1/2014, thereby undermining the narrative that the government would have not paid its debts. Second, by not having funded ObamaCare, it would be far easierat this pointto be shutting-down this leviathan simply by starving-the-beast [depriving it of sustenance]. *All of these points are contingent upon good policy makes good politics, a quote from Mike Kibbe that he uttered @ the end of last nights FreedomWorks tele-conference; thus, even had polling sunk further in October, data in Novemberand beyondwould have shown the citizenry that the GOP would boldly champion its core-desires.]
Received feedback regarding my rationale for primarying Mike from a friend 3000 miles to the west; following an in-depth chat, it is my impression that he concurred that such a pursuit should only be advocated if a quality-individual emerges. Meanwhile, regarding ObamaCare, Mark Levin said tonight what this physician has been consistently advocating [via feedback Monday-p.m. to Heritage Action and Tuesday-p.m. to FreedomWorks], namely, that the GOP must formulate an alternative plan-of-attack; someone must submit legislation that sequentially unravels ObamaCare and supplants it with, perhaps, the plan introduced by Scalise 2 days ago to replace ObamaCare [The American Health Care Reform Act], which apparently supplanted that of Tom Price because the latter would federalize high-risk pools. THEREFORE, a CONSENSUS must be developed ASAP around this counter-initiative, leading to PASSAGE.
Problems abound [50 to 100 million insurance cancellations coming, ObamaCare 2014: 100 Million Policy Cancellations and data are not secure on the ObamaCare website], as SEBELIUS admitted it was a 'BAD CALL' TO LAUNCH OBAMACARE ON OCTOBER 1 and WHOOPI chimed-in [4-YEAR-OLD CAN FIGURE OUT INTERNET, GOV'T 'CAN'T DO JACK' ON OBAMACARE SITE]. Meanwhile, as the CBS Poll shows 84% of Democrats Want ObamaCare Changed or Repealed, the wh-wont-say-how much obama knew about ObamaCares tech meltdown, thereby recalling the quasi-back-to-the-future history of Nixons modified-limited-hang-out [c-2013]. As one 'Navigator' Director Conspires to Release Private Data, a DEMOCRAT AIDE predicted OBAMACARE 'COULD BE DEMISE' OF PARTY as the Death Spiral Watch IDed Few Younger Enrollees in KY ObamaCare.
In Geneva, IRAN'S LEADER BACKS NUKE TALKS, WITH CONDITIONS and admitted Nuclear negotiations are merely a maneuver to reach Islamic goal of attacking Israel/USA, but French Demands and Secret Site Could Stymie Iran Talks Again; unfortunately, obamas-israel-spat has boosted-irans-leverage. And in Israel, a Senior Al Qaeda Operative is being held and Bennett averred Leaving Gaza Cost 1,000 Times More than Staying [a point made by this physician in a letter-to-the-editor in the Jewish Exponent that was published before the 2005 withdrawal]. In America, Honest Reporting claimed success when noting that the choice of a photo [after a Palestinian Arab stabbed/murdered an Israeli] provoked outrage but, although the NY-times admitted-it-got-it-wrong *when seeking balance+, the photo wasnt supplanted.
Regarding manifestations of Islamism in America, AL QAEDA is now IN KENTUCKY and Benghazi-Gate is going to explode with info regarding pleading-distress-calls-made- from-us-consulate-on-the night-of the benghazi-attack. The predictable reaction of the Dems is racism/racism/racism, manifest by oprah [racists have to die for racism to end] and Rangel [Southern Republicans are All Related to Confederate Generals]; the issue of Dem-policy has gone so far as to wonder if Obama can be Charged with Anti-Semitism.
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about-vile-c-word-tweets. {Following-up other issues, potential penn-state-reforms were announced, PA's Gas Tax may become Highest in Country, and Bucks County bought 38 $970-chairs for dispatchers.}
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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:00 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXLII [TEA Party Movement & ObamaCare]
During last nights convocation of consistent-conservatives, strategizing transpired regarding how best the powers-that-be might be challenged; during the discussion, this physician read aloud from the latest proclamation from Corbetts campaign *which touted elimination of small gas-pump tax, without noticing imposition of a gigantic gas-company taxwhich will now be included in the pass-through costs] and from the rejoinder from someone who would plan to refuse to contribute $ to his re-election effort *I gave at the pump!+. Guzzardi provided an ironic backgrounder *The funding has been pushed hard by Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who when he signs the bill will renege on his biggest 2010 campaign pledge of no new taxes and no new fees. Corbett announced his bid for reelection two weeks ago on a campaign theme of Promises Kept. +. It would otherwise be inappropriate to convey quotations from those who were present, except to note that an effort to disseminate a good-governance basic-theme *Non-Emergency No-Bid-Contracts should be opposed at all levels of government+ was viewed askance because of concern its adoption could serve to undermine existing relationships [no matter their quality] and, thus, it was felt to be prudent to opt for pragmatism over advocating this principle @ this time.
Invoking the adage that 99% of the key-information is often conveyed during the last 1% of an interaction, one individual requested this physicians input be purged of any drum-beat suggesting the desirability of primarying Mike; that individual was advised that this physician would gladly comply with a request to be removed from receiving these blast e-mails, for this physician cannot comply with a request to delink a cogent paradigm [distinguishing Wall St./K St. from Main St.] from local forces-at-play, when there is generalized agreement of its applicability on the statewide and national levels.
It was also suggested that those who would conjure a new red line in the sand would fashion it within the Amnesty context; they were reminded that these same individuals had averred the existence of a comparable threshold prior to Mikes vote to fund ObamaCare *and to blow the debt-ceiling] and that Mike had dissed Cruz. And when it was suggested [incorrectly] that the issue of primarying Mike had dominated the conversation inappropriately, it was noted that this physician had simply stated that, absent any viable opposition, such discussion had been operationally mooted. [This physician, however, was unapologetic if awareness of this grating-concern had enveloped the mindset of some people.] Noting BOEHNER claimed Immigration is 'Absolutely Not' Dead and others keep it alive via protests [Activists Storm Cantor's Home], lobbying [Zuckerberg: Amnesty 'one of the biggest civil rights' issues of our time], rhetoric that ignores reality [only 2.1% of-dreamers-denied-work-permits], and ongoing crime [Illegal alien charged with rape in Idaho and Illegal Alien Gets Life in Prison for Murder Rampage], it is indeed plausible these loyalists may soon be forced to confront another level of reality in this context.
Under the aegis of were in an echo-chamber, talking only with ourselves, some were tempted to claim *prematurely+ that victory over *the law of the land+ ObamaCare had somehow been attained, notwithstanding the turmoil its ongoing existence has caused. This physician played the role of truth-teller in both this regard and when discussing the impact of the Nuclear Senate-Dems; pivotal is the fact that it is necessary to view the current environment on a wartime footing, a posture that isnt dissimilar to the need 951
[sadly] to view global forces-at-play within the context of unrelenting efforts by Islamists to create a worldwide caliphate. Thats why this physician *and Guzzardi+ would want a weakened/fractured GOP to field the most aggressive army that can be mustered, ASAP.
Another major concern articulated by this physician [recalling, again, the careful elucidation of rationale that no one appeared able to discount+ was the desire to maintain a friendship with Mike, who is both a personable politician and a politician who will invoke the desire to be moderate to ignore his base; this had been again invoked within two contextsReagans *rhetorically-corrupted+ 80% Rule and the need to create a slate that includes people who are anti-Poprick but pro-Mike [ultimately, impossible] and, @ the end *again only reporting this physicians input+, the consensus was to remain inert, for now. When candidly portraying stressors affecting growth of a loyal opposition within a loyal opposition, such considerations must be researched credibly, lest people *particularly those who are leaders+ become tempted to lower themselves to functioning on the same level as those they feel abuse power *ref.: Orwells Animal Farm+. Illustrative of the delusion that the GOP is somehow winning politically [without having articulated a specific legislative alternative, as Cruz/Scalise have consistently tried to do] is a claim that the media decided the public has had Enough ObamaCare, and is now whacking the GOP.
Another facet of prejudice prompted clarifications [Dana Perino claimed Bashirs Attack on Palin had been 'Premeditated'], behavioral commentary [Bayer to Keep Advertising on MSNBC After Bashir's Palin Rant] and reactions [Howard Kurtz: 'Stunning' MSNBC Hasn't Disciplined Bashir; Cannon: Time to Pull the Plug on MSNBC?; Shuster: MSNBC Suspended Me, Why Not Bashir?; Politico's Dylan Byers & Hadas Gold Turn on MSNBC; Flashback: Obama Calls for MSNBC to Fire Imus for 'Hateful' Remarks; Imus to MSNBC President for Not Firing Bashir: 'Come on, Man!'], as MSNBC remained totally mute.
On 11/20/2013, Drudge headlined 3 MORE 'KNOCKOUT' ATTACKS IN PHILLY [two in Lower Merion and one outside Josephs Pizzeria in Fox Chase *Northeast-Philly], a phenomenon that Tom Sewell claims is grossly-under-reported [A Very Dangerous Game+some suggest, due to fear of scrutinizing a sequella of black-on-white crime and being pegged as a racist [noting, also, that they have occurred in DC]. Perhaps not surprisingly, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC Primetime have Ignored 'Knockout Game.'
Another COVER-UP: BHO blocked investigation into clearance for Navy Yard shooter.
Illustrating how they continue to perceive ObamaCare in purely a political context, BHO continues to find ways to blame everyone but himself and the Dems are grappling with a branding problem; Sebelius has also been asked to explain $2B in ObamaCare loans. Meanwhile, governors such as Scott Walker continue grappling with Medicaid Expansion [per his Medved interview on 11/20/2013 and his presentation @ the Constitution Center on 11/21/2013attended by Guzzardi along with ~80 others+., and states such as Calif. have felt compelled to make new law while rejecting ObamaCare freebies. And it was just announced that Round 2 of ObamaCare enrollment will be delayed until after 2014 midterms.
Another layer of NSA-style secrecy, Merkel-be-damned: America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy entails kneecapping UN-promotion of a universal human right to online privacy.
BHOs disastrous policy in the Middle East continues to play-out in Pakistan [New American Drone Strike Stirs Outrage, prompting Pakistani Doctor Who Helped U.S. Find Bin Laden to be Charged with Murder], Iraq [militia sends warning, as Mortar fire hits Saudi desert], Iran [Iran declares 'lack of trust'] and 952
Afghanistan [initial reports that USA and Afghanistan had reached a security agreement were amended, as Afghanistan rebuffed US demand on signing security deal and Karzai Delayed Signing Security Pact].
As Hanukkah nears, note these ten of the Greatest Quotes About Israel and the Jews.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 3:39 PM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXLIII [TEA Party Movement & ObamaCare & Media & Fitzpatrick]
Much is transpiring simultaneously and hugely, all of which falls under previously-detailed rubrics; again, via a series of blast e-mails, an effort will be made to ID the appropriate action-items. When Obama claims not to be 'a Particularly Ideological Person,' he perpetuates the deceit being heaped upon those who cannot [or will not] attempt to draw independent conclusions; yet, despite Polls showing Obama is Sinking Dems in Swing State Florida and, indeed, a Poll showing the GOP Surging Past Dems, it is vital that we not believe our own notices and, thus, aggressively attempt to help people connect-the-dots. As Rush would say, trust me when this physician warns against failing to recognize what BHO plans, for he [and Valerie Jarrett] are aware of the same forces-at-play that are jamming the media currently; for example, after Obama Wooed Liberal Journalists With Another Off-The-Record Meeting, the MSNBC automatons were all attempting to change the subject [The Weather, Crime, Human Interest, etc.] while desperately claiming the rectification of website woes will reverse BHOs dismal/sinking polling-data.
The Baltimore Sun Media Critic Called-Out Brokaw and Todd for Silence on Bashir, but the only real fall-out was that Bashir Lost High Profile Interview over Palin Attack; indeed, CNN's Cuomo Praised Bashir *citing context+ while, contrasting with its stance regarding Bashir, MSNBC and Alec Baldwin will end his short-lived talk show, Up Late. Palin noted the Media Elite 'Pooh-Pooh' and Laugh-Off Attacks on Conservative Women as she accepted-martin-bashirs apology (but didnt retract her slavery-comments) while, after Parnell stayed out of Alaska Sen. race, some hoped she would enter it.}
Tapper was justifiably Tapped For CNN Prime Time, while the meteoric- rise-and-fall of KATIE COURIC appears complete; she split from ABC and CRASH-LANDED [@ Yahoo] ONLINE; also, under-reported is the ongoing Revolt against restricting the media, as USA Today Refused To Publish White House Photos. And, as liberal Politico's Pay for Play-Book is being grossly manifest regularly by BHO, Ian Murphy, an editor and a reporter for The Beast *F*ck the Troops & I Punk'd Scott Walker+ and a Politico Writer] Shared a Gif of Himself Burning the American Flag.
The Media went Insane After Limbaugh Condemned Rape [while discussing the Senate's Post-Nuclear Option status, as both Krauthammer and others have discussed how the republicans-can-retaliate, both now and perhaps in 15, and Chuck-Todd predictably claimed that the Nuclear-Option-Was-Obama/Reid gift to an Upset Activist-Base without recognizing that, essentially, it legalized majority fiats+. ,We were this-close to achieving a zen-like state of perfect government nothingness, Colbert lamented.}
Some claim this physician has become a bit hyperbolic when attacking Mike Fitzpatricks vote to fund ObamaCare, but the if you fund it, you own it mantra explains why so many GOPers in Congress *sadly, including Mike+ are fixated on fixing itrather than doing what they said theyd do when campaigning vigorously against it [in 2010], namely, to completely replace it; notwithstanding the facile See, I told you so stance that Cruz could easily adopt, he *and others, including FreedomWorks, 954
Heritage Action, Tea Party Patriots] battle-onward, educating/advocating against the GOP-Establishment [which undoubtedly has benefitted, quietly, fiscally, noting ObamaCare is Blowing Up Healthcare Stocks] against which the civil-war continues unabated. As Cruz met with Trump in N.Y. and Cruz Denounced Iran Accord, it was revealed that Karl Rove Gave Grover *Arabist-lover+ Norquist $26 Million in 2012 as the White House Proposed Curbs on Campaigning by Tax-Exempt Groups [attempting to denude Rove]; its unclear how long it will take for those who attempt to assume BHO can be reasonable will accept what this physician [and others, increasingly] have argued since 2008: BHO is uniquely untrustworthy. Therefore, when McConnell claims the Tea Party is a 'Bunch of Bullies' Who Need a Punch in the Nose and McConnell Targets Nebraska Conservative Candidate Ben Sasse as a result, Bevins claims that his Primary Against McConnell serves as a 'Microcosm' of Tea Party vs. Establishment are validated; also, when Matt Bevin claims McConnell's Attacks on Me are 'Such a Push,' it explains why Bevin Took over 80% of Vote in Kentucky Straw Poll. {In-fact, when this physician has argued that ObamaCare has less to do with health-care than it does to the desire for BHO to control 1/6 of the economy, the correlate with Common Core [Obama's Means to 'Fundamentally Transform' America's Education System] is apt; thus, this physicians model that the GOP is split between those who would acquiesce to this process and those who would aggressively oppose each and every facet thereof, this is why Mike has failed and this is why he cant be believed as much as anyone else who shares his viewsbut who hasnt broken-trust.
Before detailing concerns related to Iran and ObamaCare, it is desirable to cover loco-regional issues, some having national import and others only fitting into a larger context of SCHADENFREUDE. Here, just as the Dem-Racists reflexly attempt to tie everything that transpiresanywhereto slavery, it is incorrect to claim everything worldwide is tethered to BHOs connivance; on the other hand, his scope is far greater than many innocently envision [as just detailed], so maintaining vigilance is mandatory.
Read the details of this story and lament the fact that, although this physician railed against his egomaniacal [mis]conduct two years ago @ a GOP [MCRC] gathering, it is impossible to enjoy the downfall of The former chairman of Montgomery County's GOP, who has been arrested on charges that he drugged a female employee from his law firm last month then raped her while she was unconscious, prosecutors said; Robert Kerns, 66, who resigned from his party position this month, faces 19 criminal counts, including charges of rape, sexual assault, tampering with evidence, and lying to authorities. Facebook contains an entry that poses a query that this physician can answer astutely *As one trusted Pennsylvania conservative told me: He was an ineffective, incompetent opportunist interest in his solicitorships. Don't know how he came to have such influence with committee people to get elected, but he is one reason Montgomery County (most important and wealthiest county in suburban Philadelphia) Republicans are in decline. Incompetence does not win elections. No doubt was troubled by the rise of the outrageous people in the Tea Party.+ Having supported him, its vividly recalled that he had promised [during the prior losing-campaign] to revitalize the regional-GOP; there was not-a-trace of the arrogance that emerged, and we know Vereb knows this.
As a side-note, this physician was 12 years-old on 11/22/1963 and, thus has monitored for a half-century the myriad conspiracies around the JFK-Assassination; one need only recall the demise of his World View *We Shall Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden for the Success of Liberty+ under BHO to appreciate the bipartisan angst that led inexorably to Johnsons landslide *for sentimentality was not ever to have been overcome, regardless of the high-quality of AuH 2 O...Goldwater]. A Paper Linked Tea Party to JFK Assassination [San-Fran libs cant be suppressed+ and Dan Rather complained CBS had Scrubbed Him from JFK Coverage, but most everyone else extolled him as a Cold Warrior who had recognized the need to attempt to relate to Cuba *Cuber+; Dick Morris spent considerable time debunking the claim that responsibility rested with Moscow; in this physicians view Oswald couldnt have acted alone because, if nothing else, he couldnt have aimed/fired thrice within only 10-seconds *although, beyond that, its still unclear who plotted it+.
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This physician continues to advocate amending incrementally the states pending Holocaust-Education bill, as evidence is accrued of the ignorance of Americas youth *Nuremberg, Forget it; They don t even know Hitler+; meanwhile, as noted earlier, Corbett faces conservative-backlash-over-transportation-bill [this physician included], as corbett-trails-all-dems and conservative-republicans-vow-to-repeal-and to remember tax-increase-inside-transportation-bill. During the meeting held last week with the Consistent Conservatives of the 8 th Congressional District, this physician read a memo that had been issued by the State-GOP in which this bill was praised because it had led to dropping all direct state-taxes @ the pump; this was so very disingenuous, because this bill will tremendously-hike taxes paid by oil companies that will serve as an indirect hike in the cost-per-gallonto the highest in the nation
As a further illustration of worriment regarding the commitment of Mike Fitzpatrick to the rudimentary need for law-enforcement BEFORE any consideration of Amnesty, it is noted that Obama claims that Boehner is 'Sincere' About Passing Amnesty [which Mike appeared to support on 8/3/2013 @ Bucks CC], even as there continue to be Massive Delays when processing Legal Immigrants; just like ObamaCare, one wonders why the bureaucracy that cant shoot-straight already, is to be inflated by more work. Thus, while Sessions Urged Congress to Halt Comprehensive Immigration Reform and a Congressman Challenged Facebook's Zuckerberg to Tour Insecure U.S. Border, Obama Mixed Fundraising with his Immigration Message and Illegal Aliens are Hounding a GOP Rep from One Town Hall to Another. Indeed, a Liberal Mag reported Journalists Outnumber Activists at Immigration Rallies, as Biden said, 'Come hell or high water, we're going to win this.' Already recognized is the fact that piecemeal bills could yield backdoor passage via reconciliation and Boehners capacity to ignore the Hastert Rule, so the purported concessions in this regard by the POTUS [previously documented], rep-nancy-pelosi [open to piecemeal-approach-on immigration] and Rep. Gutierrez ['My Republican Friends' Tell Me They'll Try to Pass Full Immigration Bill in Parts] are akin to the Spiders invitation to the Fly that he visit his parlour.
Hanukkah & Thanksgiving: A Torah Perspective
Thanksgivukkah The similarities and essential differences between Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.
This past Friday night, a Cyclist in South Philly was senselessly beaten; the man had been cruising when teenagers [five boys and three girls] were playing the Knockout game. Also, a philadelphia-store-clerk- lost his job-after-fighting-robber; thus, Philly Mayor Nutter Announced a War On 'Knockout' crime, events explored by Stu Bykofsky [Knocking out race]. Nationally, 'Knockout games' keep police on move; Six 'Knockout' Attacks occurred in New Haven, Connecticut, a Jewish man was clocked in Brooklyn *although its unclear whether this knockout of-the-jew-will be-labeled-a hate-crime-in-new-york city], a 14-Year-Old was Accused of Murdering a Young Teacher, Using Tree Branch to Rape Her, a 60-Year-Old Woman Reportedly Shot/Killed Two Kids Playing Knockout Game, a purse-snatcher got the surprise-of- his-life-when a-woman-served-up justice, and a guy unsuccessfully tried to play the-knockout-game. This prompted one commentator to posit a core-question [Why is it that when Blacks commit mass organized violence it isn't considered terrorism or racism but instead a "game" with hundreds of their enabling advocates coming to the rescue making excuse after excuse for their abhorrent behavior?] that carries implications tethered to what BHO is doing [militant-black-nationalist-still-gets-paid-by feds] and what is occurring in academe [prof-corrects-minority-students-capitalization, and is-accused-of-racism]. Finally, Al-Sharpton-Condemned this Knockout-Game which, according to FNC *Megyn Kellys show+, actually has roots dating back to when Grand Theft Auto was first released in 1997.
It may be recalled that two grist files *each ~90 pages of accumulated hyperlinks+ were assembled over the summer, but supplanted by invoking more contemporaneous citations. Three related to events in Philly [black-thug-in-east-philadelphia-pepper- sprays-beats-and-robs-82-year-old-man, Man dies after being punched in North Philly, and Friend_charged_in_murder_of_teen_at_Northeast_Philly_construction_site], and many appeared to have been triggered by the Martin/Zimmerman conflict in Florida. Issues related to Reverse-Racism often stem from the Soft bigotry of low expectations, and this physicians *Black+ banker characterized the situation regionally, succinctly, recognizing the distinction between stereotype and the Black-Experience in this fashion *In the South, groups are vilified but individuals are loved; it is reversed in the North+ and it is this physicians view that BHO has perpetuated divisiveness for political benefit. In any case, the opportunity presents itself to provide raw-data consisting of the hyperlinks that relate to this issue, not particularly well-grouped, but each a stand-alone facet of this complex sociological concern [often characterized by the below-graphic].
In this physicians view, subtle manifestations of profound racism persist, but perhaps eradication cannot reasonably be achieved *noting human nature and the larger group against group mentality that despots invoke as misdirection while they quietly achieve personal goals, as BHO has achieved]. Therefore, its mandatory that society remain vigilant *just as anti-Semitism lives-on, subtly], but it is also necessary to recognize that everything ailing the United States doesnt have racist underpinnings [with apologies to Melissa Harris-Brown, who has the uncanny ability to link everything to slavery]. Thus, these categorizations have internal-groupings but are not otherwise parsed-out for parallelism, nor is it necessary to editorialize beyond providing the news-hooks [in the form of provocative titles].
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Martin/Zimmerman [& Chris Lane]
george-zimmerman-had-an-affair-with-a-second-woman president-of-naacp-claims-obama-likely-to-pass-trayvon-law wheres-the-outrage-glenn-reacts-to-media-coverage-of-chris-lane-murder tvs-law-order-creates-a-racist-paula-deen-character-who-shoots-a-trayvon-martin Memphis-tenn-three-blacks-kill-white-man-for-trayvon Chris-Lane-murder-Is-a-racist-dimension-of-the-crime-being-discounted sharpton-speaks-nothing-to-protest-in-chris-lanes-murder al-sharpton-keeps-quiet-about-chris-lane-murder-because-he-says-that-the-system-worked the-lucrative-business-of-racism african-american-activist-demands-that-blacks-boycott-koch-brothers-products-to-protest-zimmerman- verdict video-shows-college-kids-know-trayvon-martin-but-have-no-idea-who-chris-lane-is Powell: Trayvon Verdict 'Questionable' Emmett Till's Cousin: 'Crying Time Again' in America After Trayvon Verdict Sharpton Compares Trayvon to Emmett Till president-of-naacp-claims-obama-likely-to-pass-trayvon-law Blacks More Negative About Race After Zimmerman Verdict Glenn Beck: Media Cared So Much About Trayvon, What About Black-On-White Crime? al-sharptons-interview-with-george-zimmerman sister said suspect-in-chris-lane-murder-never-been-a-vicious-person-and-has-a-lot-of-caucasian-friends florida-owes-zimmerman-$300k bob-woodson-blasts-black-leaders-on-trayvon-martin Trayvon Martin hailed as 'martyr' alabama-state-university-marching-band-spells-out-travyons-name-during-half-time
MLK, Jr. D.C. March [& Politicized Assertions]
MLK stood for -- gay marriage? SEGREGATION: NATION'S ONLY BLACK SENATOR NOT INVITED Estimated crowd falls short of expected 100,000 Obama compares MLK to Jesus al-sharpton-and-other-race-baiters-pervert-mlks-dream Carter: MLK Would Be Disappointed in Black Unemployment Under Obama MLK III claimed COLOR OF SKIN REMAINS LICENSE TO MURDER (alluding to Martin/Zimmerman) and SHARPTON declared the death of the 'OLD AMERICA' that ONLY WORKED FOR ENGLISH-SPEAKING WHITE MALES MLK 50 th Anniversary Event Excluded Conservative Key Organizer of '63 March MLK Event Organizers Ignored Suggestions for Black Conservative Speakers 20,000 CURRENTLY ESTIMATED AT MARCH ON WASHINGTON, 100,000 WERE EXPECTED LIVE UPDATES: March on Washington Anniversary Priest calls for urban ceasefire for the day SPEAKER COMPARES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO KKK civil-rights sharpton was paid MLK ANNIVERSARY SPEAKER COMPARES SUPREME COURT JUSTICES TO KKK rush-limbaugh-obama-will-turn-mlk-anniversary-into-something-about-him-and-his-presidency/ I HAVE A DREAM 959
obama_says_he_is_mlk_dream sen.-tim-scott-wasnt-invited-to-event-commemorating-mlk-march-on-washington Why You Won't See Or Hear Much of Speech Today Long waits cause frustration at security checkpoint Dozens pass out CARSON: MLK would be alarmed by black-on-black violence, lack of family values FLASHBACK: Speech led to federal government to spy on MLK Ben Carson: MLK Would Be Alarmed by Current State of Black America bill-oreilly-tears-into-civil-rights-grievance-industry-dr-king-would-be-horrified
Crimes [& Misdemeanors]
harlem-mother-jackie-rowe-adams-stop-and-frisk-could-have-saved-my-sons police-nab-second-suspect-in-delbert-belton-murder tennessee-red-lobster-server-suspended-after-posting-receipt-with-racial-slur black-men-viciously-attack-navy-vet-who-now-suffers-a-brain-bleed jury-to-rule-on-punitive-damages-in-controversial-case-on-racial-slurs paula-deen-makes-a-comeback-on-tvs-masterchef riotous-black-mobs-out-of-control black-teenager-savagely-rapes-93-year-old-grandmother-in-her-indiana-home 19 Year Old Says He Stabs White Women For Fun 4-blacks-savagely-beat-white-woman-racially-motivated-attack Bus Driver Says Youre Short, Fat, & White To Student Doesnt Even Get Fired tables-turn-on-fontaine-avenue-robbery-suspects Are Blacks Tired of Killing Each Other? Woman brutally beaten by group of teens in North Side says attack was racially motivated three-black-kids-brutally-bully-white-3-year-old-making-her-cry-on-camera mob-of-black-teens-brutally-beats-woman 4-teens-custody-deadly-horn-lake-shooting ten-to-twelve-black-teens-gang-rape-two-women-in-wilmington-delaware-park racially-charged-attack-against-whites-in-new-york-city-leaves-one-man-brain-dead-others-injured nypd-man-brain-dead-following-random-rampage-in-union-square Coulter slams media for hyping rare white-on-black crime while ignoring black-on-white crime white-hot-dog-vendor-beaten-with-hammer-by-4-black-men-at-home-depot we-are-raising-a-nation-of-savages arrest-warrants-issued-for-two-suspects-after-they-allegedly-set-memphis-man-on-fire Oklahoma Shooter's Sister Blames Community for Her Brother's Cold-Blooded Murder member-of-obama-boyz-gang-charged-in-st-louis-shootings three-black-kids-bully-beat-3-year-old-white-girl-post-video-facebook-fun black-mob-on-rampage-fractures-cops-skull three-blacks-arrested-for-murder-of-white-college-football-player white-man-held-hostage-at-gunpoint-forced-to-apologize-for-things-white-people-do-to-blacks Teen-suspect-and-his-father-claim-murdered-88-year-old-Delbert-Belton-was-drug-dealer dry-asparagus-prompts-allegations-of-racism-against-missouri-grocery-store white-toddler-racially-bullied-by-kids-parents-speak-out-are-disgusted Pre-teen black kids bully 3-year-old white girl - 'When white people piss black people off' Black teen girls assault white woman; charged with 'ethnic intimidation' Black man attacks elderly white male, tells him he 'shouldn't be in his park' 960
SC restaurant refused to seat black patrons black-teen-rapes-robs-93yr-old-woman Obama rodeo clown speaks: My performance had nothing to do with race obama-rodeo-clown-skit-been-around-for-years-weve-done-it-with-bush-and-clinton-and-ronald-reagan 'A lot of people have lost ability to laugh' Receiving death threats Teen Suspect: We Were Buying Crack From Murdered 88-Year-Old Veteran 90 Year Old WWII Vet Killed, Wife Raped guilty-mona-nelson-welding-torch-killer-verdict-guilty 25 African Americans Denied Service At Restaurant Because White Patrons Felt Threatened By Them anderson-police-seek-suspect-in-rape-of-93-year-old-woman black-mob-on-rampage-fractures-cops-skull Restaurant worker says blacks weren't refused seats deadly-st-louis-gang-member-of-the-obama-boyz-has-been-charged-with-two-shootings KICK HER IN THE HEAD!: WOMAN SAVAGELY ATTACKED IN PITTSBURGH BELIEVES BEATING WAS VERY RACIALLY MOTIVATED FOUR BLACK TEENS CHARGED WITH ETHNIC INTIMIDATION IN BEATING OF PITTSBURGH WOMAN attacker-calls-man-a-cracker-then-smashes-his-face-in-on-nyc-bus/ bus-riders-face-smashed-in-during-hate-attack Victim of 'I hate white people' rampage dies NYC bus rider's face smashed in during racial 'hate attack' four-black-men-with-hammer-brutally-attack-white-man-at-home-depot guilty-mona-nelson-welding-torch-killer-verdict-guilty teen-suspected-of-raping-93-year-old-woman-in-her-home; police found-his-dna-on-victim Mother of slain Ga. baby cross-examined by defense
Politics *& BHOs Impact+
Tim Wise 'Cracks The Code': Everything Conservatives Say Is Racist duke-prof-white-people-are-the-problem-racism-everywhere Bashir Slams Sheriff Joe & Rep. Yoho: Can't Handle Obama ID Fraud Issue stopping-voter-id-is-not-civil-rights-march-on-washington-north-carolina Improving the election experience for all voters despite-voter-id-law-minority-turnout-up-in-georgia are-you-sure-theres-no-voter-fraud-voter-id cokie-roberts-whats-going-about-voting-rights-downright-evil blacks-trash-conservative-actress-on-twitter-after-she-quotes-mlk-shut-up-white Prof. Cornel West: 'Al Sharpton Is Obama's House Negro' Only 10% of Americans Think Race Relations Have Improved Under Obama harvard-study-shows-gun-control-doesnt-save-lives most-racially-divisive-statements-by-left-wingers-in-2013 Buchanan concluded 'Whites Are now the Only Group against which people can Discriminate Legally.' CLINTON: CONTINUING RACISM MEANS HARDER TO VOTE THAN BUY ASSAULT WEAPON Fallin: Obama Speaking on Killing Would Be a Nice Gesture RNC Speaker Tells Blacks: Gays, Immigrants Prioritized Over You Black lawmakers lament flaring of racial tensions under Obama Just 1 in 4 blacks say situation better 'Homeland Security' employee behind racist website placed on PAID leave 961
Black Democrats Think American Whites Still Racist Asian-American Pulitzer Winner Plays Race Card Cornel West: Obama Only Gives 'Wonderful Speeches' Cornel West: 'New Jim Crow' Increasing Under Obama CORNEL WEST: AL SHARPTON ON OBAMA 'PLANTATION' DEM: LIVES OF 'PEOPLE OF COLOR' VALUED LESS THAN WHITES CLINTON: HARDER TO VOTE THAN BUY ASSAULT WEAPON 11-black-conservatives-speaking-at-cpac-2013 RFK Jr. diary raises eyebrows...'Al Sharpton done more damage to black cause than George Wallace...'Transparent venal blackmail and extortion schemes taint all black leadership' An editorial reported that, in 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder and then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman personally conducted a pep talk in Washington for leaders of the nations black churches to coach them on how to use the church influence to get black voters to the polls without endangering the churches non-political tax-exempt status.
Commentaries [& Myriad Related-Events]
Black Homeownership Hits 18 Year Low unbeatable-villains-and-perpetual-despair walter-e-williams-the-civil-rights-struggle-is-over-and-it-is-won black_st_peters_prep_student sent himself racist text during his run for student council you-are-paying-jesse-jackson-jr-8700-per-month-not-to-be-a-congressman-while-he-is-in-prison florida-rep-frederica-wilson-blames-tea-party-for-all-the-economic-problems-of-the-black-community obama is not good_for_black_americans Obama-Legacy-Of-Discrimination-Spurring-Minority-Poverty jews-in-the-civil-rights-movement GUT CHECK: RACE POKER REAGAN'S SON MICHAEL CALLS 'THE BUTLER' 'A BUNCH OF LIES' greg-gutfeld-slams-media-a-dead-australian-is-just-the-price-you-pay-to-be-politically-correct lib-columnist-calls-miley-cyrus-mtv-awards-performance-racist-a-minstrel-show jesse-jackson-claims-gun-owners-are-trying-to-resurrect-the-confederacy
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Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:00 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXLVI [ObamaCare]
Here is the newly-uploaded ObamaCare Homepage; see if you can register!
With all due respect to those who fantasize that ObamaCare is self-destructing, it should be noted that its fully-funded *thanx to Mike Fitzpatrick+ and will begin to distribute goodies *subsidies+ in a month; nevertheless, hope springs eternal and, thus, emerging-data are worth distilling and disseminating. Again, to save time *as occurred with the Racism-themed blast+, categorization after an intro will be provided, with key-concepts grouped and juxtaposed, affording the reader a database that can be used to corroborate conclusions drawn in analyses/syntheses of this transformational [irreversible?] effort. {ObamaCare doesn't officially kick off until 1/1/2014, yet millions of Americans are already at each other's throats over it; research from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that the country is now more divided than at any other time in history since the Civil War era...and BHO must now feel self-satisfied.} The GOPs Health Care Compact tersely conveys an alternative to this crass exertion of Big Government.
This is the compilation major Healthcare Policy Articles disseminated on 11/25/2013 by The Market Institute, [c/o the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons, of which this physician is a member]; readers may want to check-out/explore this website:
Healthcare.gov is not CGIs first bungled IT contract. They were tasked with building out a gun registry website in Canada that ultimately did not work and cost Canadians $80 million (Heritage Foundation Blog).
Independent undercover investigations into so called ObamaCare Navigators have revealed instances of fraud (Heritage Foundation Blog).
ObamaCare is supposed to influence smokers to quit tobacco use, but the opposite effect is occurring. Because of facing higher insurance premiums due to their tobacco use, smokers are opting out of health coverage altogether (Fox News).
Concerns over Healthcare.gov are not going away with the end of November deadline approaching for the website fix, but analysts think the government has until March to really get the website working because that is when most young people will be looking to enroll (National Journal).
Congressional Democrats are worried the White House is not taking the electoral blowback of the fledgling ObamaCare rollout seriously enough. There is cause for concern however, as the President and his namesake law are polling at all-time lows (Politico).
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The news-of-the-day [President Barack Obama's health care law is headed for a new Supreme Court showdown over companies' religious objections to the law's birth-control mandate.] is being over-hyped because, of far greater significance, a more profound filing of AAPS threatens the Individual Mandate [now wending its way via the lower-courts]; it is hoped it will not be stopped in the soon-to-be-packed D.C. Appellate Court, although the SCOTUS can still grant a Writ of Certiori if any outcome is adverse. Anyway, know that pennsylvania-catholic-groups-won-an ObamaCare-reprieve.
This is the news-release from James OKeefes theprojectveritas [whose presentation to the Kitchen Table Patriots was previously summarized] which just arrived via e-mail:
Chris Tarango has resigned following our investigation into Enroll America, a Sebelius-linked group dedicated to signing people up for ObamaCare, after we exposed him conspiring to release private data to help a political action committee.
Of course Enroll America has attempted to bury his resignation, releasing it Friday night in an email and nowhere else, but I refuse to let this go quietly.
It is both illegal and a serious security breach for a non-profit employee whose job is to sign people up for ObamaCare to be sharing private data with political campaigns.
It is hard to believe Enroll America when they say they absolutely do not work with partisan organizations or campaigns when their employee openly asks, How do you suppose we get around the 501c3 status?
Following Project Veritas expos, a complaint has been filed with the IRS accusing Enroll America of violating its tax-exempt nonprofit status by engaging in partisan politics.
This is the second complaint against Enroll America. Sebelius relationship with Enroll America is currently under investigation by a government ethics audit for her role in fundraising for the group.
Yes, theres a good chance Enroll America will lose their tax-exempt status.
The VERY liberal New Republic reported that Obama Lashed Out and Called Dems who are Worried About ObamaCare Bed-Wetters; counterpointed are Dems who fear Leaders Suffer ObamaCare Denial, manifest as FRANKEN CAVING [WE MAY HAVE TO DELAY OBAMACARE MANDATE], as Dems appear Desperate for a ObamaCare Fix as President Embarks on Fundraising Tour. Yet, as state Insurance Commissioners predictably claim BHOs fix is illegal *if its envisioned to have been done by 1/1/2014+, the theme that has been sounded by Cruz [and here] since early-August remains operational, for it is advised that people Stop Wasting Time Trying to Fix ObamaCare. Everyone knows what Sununu wrote [ObamaCare fail isnt the site its the law+ and should function accordinglystridently, confidently, inasmuch as Dem-governors are nervous-about-ObamaCare. {Here is a compilation of many articles.} 965
Operational Problems
ObamaCare-regulations-stifle-innovative-lasik-eye-surgeon Young Americans Not Receiving Promised ObamaCare Subsidies Percentage of Uninsured Adults Planning to Sign Up Declines California's 'November Surge' Not Enough to Overcome the October Purge New ObamaCare Report: The Nightmare Has Just Begun HALPERIN: There really are 'death panels' Social Security # Swiped State confirms health website security breach more-ObamaCare-exemptions-for-unions insurers-doctors-and-hospitals-all-hate-ObamaCare-too ObamaCare-Anonymous-Shopper-tool SHOCK: 80 million could lose employer coverage under ObamaCare CBS News: White House Knows Millions More Insurance Cancellations Coming
Conceptual Impact
ObamaCare-discourages-work and marriage four-reasons-why-your-doctor-might-not-want-to-keep-under-ObamaCare Don't Dare Call the Health Law 'Redistribution' Daily Kos Diarist: The ObamaCare Deception
Defenders
Zuckerberg Defends ObamaCare Website NBC News Mocks Idea of ObamaCare Politics Behind Iran Deal Media Blame Romney for Failure to Scrutinize ObamaCare russell-simmons-claims-ObamaCare-has-already-saved-millions-of-lives
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Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 5:05 AM Subject: Anti-BHO "blasts" Continue -CCXLVII [Iran]
It is desirable to ferret-out the less-than-obvious info regarding catastrophes such as the Iran-Deal [focusing on how key-players/pundits reacted thereto], rather than merely restating the obvious [e.g., attempting to draw meaningful conclusions by reading only the official text of the final deal from whitehouse.gov, which provided a fact-sheet detailing the first-step understandings reached with Iran]; furthermore, its again mandatory not to become mesmerized by feel-good distractions [including the Not 'trustworthy' polling regarding Obama], for BHO continues to achieve precisely what he wants. Reassuring, however, are negative pronouncements from BIBI [who LET HIM HAVE IT and who claimed US Gave Iran 'Written Approval' to Violate UN Resolutions], israeli-ministers, Simon Wiesenthal Center ['West Let Iran Win the Round, and Perhaps the Match+, cruz, Bill Kristol, Schumer ['Disproportional+, Geller [november-23a-day-that-will-live-in-infamy], Scarborough, Krauthammer [Worst since Munich], Lindsey Graham [Senate Will Challenge Obamas Iran Deal], Daniel Pipes, Caroline Glick [BHOs goal is not to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, nor even to facilitate a rapprochement between America and Iran; his foreign policy is intended to weaken Israel], John Bolton [Obama Pushed Iran Deal to Prevent Israeli Airstrike], Limbaugh [I Smoke Cigars with Bibi, 'I Trust This Man+, and Melanie Philips [final countdown to nuclear blackmail and war & Its 1938 all over again]. {Prescient was a terse essay detailing seven-reasons-proving-obama-is-not-serious-about-stopping-iran-nukes, which was posted on November 12, 2013 by JNS.org by Morton A. Klein (ZOA-Prez) and Daniel Mandel (another local).}
Of particular interest is the mea culpa issued by Dershowitz [Could Be a 'Chamberlain Moment and 'Cataclysmic Error of Gigantic Proportions'], inasmuch as his appearance @ Penns Annenberg Center almost two years ago *sponsored inter alia by Federation] was decidedly upbeat regarding BHO [ostensibly, having stated opposition to BDS], recognizing that, politically, he [and his enablers, masquerading as sponsors+ intended to anesthetize the Jewish Community from abandoning BHOs re-election effort. Thus, one would expect the liberal powers-that-be to invite him back, so that he can ATONE; of course, this would serve as a tacit admission that propping-up BHO was foolhardy.
A pivotal component of the ZOA-essay [supra] was manifest when, alleging the focus was on nukes, Obama Abandoned Imprisoned American Pastor Saeed Abedini in Iran for Nuke Deal; touted priorities regarding Human Rights [among Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Valerie Jarrett, and even Hillary] became road-kill in the process. A simplistic way to recognize all that is so terribly wrong with this initiative may be provided to Obama-sycophants [iran-nuclear-weapons-deal-explained-to-obama-voter], but it is also necessary to appreciate its Myths vs. Facts. Narratives detailing its deficiencies abound [Rift with USA, obamas-full-grovel-to-iran, The West doesn't care about the Jews, iran-deal-cannot succeed, Iran Deal and Munich, Worse Than Munich, American Held Hostage In Iran For 444 Days Calls Deal 'Foolishness,' Iran Deal Beginning of End of Sanctions Regime for U.S. Caved on Enrichment Right+, With Iran, U.S. must Remember Long-Term Interests, and Deal Lets Iran Keep Half of 98%-Enriched Uranium Stockpile. {Sloppiness emerges when Sec. Kerry Heads to Geneva to Continue Iran Nuke Talks and is too-eager to avoid hard-bargaining, thus creating risk that an overlooked 'Loophole' may allow off-site reactor work.}
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surprising that the white-house is lying-about-details-of-nuke-deal, manifest by Obama [Nuclear Deal Blocks Iran's Path to Bomb, BHO Pushes back against critics of Deal, and BHO aggressively defends policy amid Israel anger], Kerry ['From This Day, Israel Is Safer, the Delusion that there is 'No Daylight' Between U.S. and Israel and Blame Bush] and Rice [the Latest Obama Admin Official to Blame Israel First]; ultimately, they all Counter Israel and UN by claiming Trusting Iran is Worth the Risk. Thus, despite having few options, Israel vowed to do 'whatever is necessary' and to fight in light of this 'Historic Mistake.' {Such is the outcome when the 'Great Satan' meets the 'Axis of Evil.'}
Complicit-media [News Agencies Kept Iran Talks Secret] and cheerleading-media [NYT: Obama's Iran Deal 'Welcome Change of Subject' from ObamaCare & NYTimes envisions a Longer-term-deal-with-iran] are in overdrive [ny-times-provides-clear-picture-of-bias & NY Times: Israeli, Saudi Anger Just 'Theater' & NYT: 'No One Can Seriously Argue' Iran Deal Makes World Less Safe], noting the anti-Zionist history of the NY-Times. Overtly ignored is the fact that this deal further tests Obamas credibility, as some try to explore ways the parties could Make the Iran Nuclear Deal Work. BHOs actions regarding iran prompted jews to reconsider their allegiences, as obama tests american-jewish-power; abroad, this 'Historic' Iran Nuclear Deal Raises Worldwide Controversy, as Saudi Arabia warns it will strike out on its own [with a Saudi Prince claiming BHO is in Over His Head with Iran] and Qatar *home of many Shiites+ claiming this Iran Nuke Deal constitutes a Step for Stability in Region. France Expects End to Some Sanctions in Dec. {Not explored herein are reactions elsewhere, as Anger and jitters have exploded in the Mideast.}
As Senators call for new Iran sanctions [if/when Iran cheats], libertarians are weighing-in [Senators Still Push Iran Sanctions Even With an Actual Deal on the Table, as Reluctant Warmongers Want War] particularly when their claim reframes the perennial conflict within the GOP regarding the desirability of neo-isolationism by eschewing interaction with Wall St./K St. *Establishment Republicans aren't just interested in showing they're more headstrong than President Obama, they may also be trying to isolate non- interventionists in their own party, most notably Kentucky senator and likely future presidential candidate Rand Paul.+ Also, when a rhetorical/leading question is posed *Why Are Republicans, Israeli Officials Upset About the Iran Nuke Deal?+, it is claimed the involved-diplomats deserve praise for managing to strike any deal at all, given the far from ideal relationship between Iran and the West, particularly U.S.A. {These views are cannily similar to those of Lefties, who consciously avoid applying a labor-intensive adage The Devil is in the Detailsand then allowing conclusions to flow therefrom.-
As anticipated, conflicting re-interpretations of key-facets of this pact began to emerge even before the parties had departed from Geneva; now, IRAN REJECTED 'INVALID' NUKE DETAILS, as ominous reports emerged [Iran and North Korea are Secretly Developing New Long-Range Rocket Booster for ICBMs, Head Of Iranian Think-Tank Advising Supreme Leader Khamenei claims The Jews Want Nuclear Bomb To Kill Muslims And to Achieve World Domination, DEFIANT: Iran building two more nuke power plants, senior iranian mp israels unconcealed rage over nuclear deal shows success of geneva agreement, Khamenei claims victory, Jubilation in Tehran over Iran's Nuclear Deal, Iran Foreign Minister: Eventually Enrichment Process Will Be Accepted without Sanctions. As a result, as Obama vows he will not engage in 'Tough Talk and Bluster' on Iran, Democrats are Sharply Divided over Iran Deal, reflected in a piece by DAVID E. SANGER [buried on A16 of N.Y. Times]: "A Step, if Modest, Toward Slowing Iran's Weapons Capability" which admits "The deal does not roll back the vast majority of the advances Iran has made in the past five years, which have drastically shortened what nuclear experts call its 'dash time' to a bomb [minimum time it would take to build a weapon if Iran's supreme leader or military decided to pursue 968
that path]. Lengthening that period so that the U.S. and its allies would have time to react, is the ultimate goal of BHO's negotiating team. ... [T]he rollback he won for this first stage, according to American intelligence estimates, would slow Iran's dash time by only a month to a few months." {And of-interest is the rationale of Patrick Clawson (born on the same day as was this physician) for suggesting that israel get-nastier-with-iran (e.g., sink a sub) to create an illicit false-flag and, thus, a war.}
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Despite aggressive summarization, it is necessary to cite three news-items, one source of misdirection, and five sources of erudition; three of the latter must be provided at-length, because they only arrived via e-mail and arent yet uploaded onto the Internet. News-#1: When obama-called-netanyahu, BHO told BB that he wants the United States and Israel to begin consultations immediately regarding our efforts to negotiate a comprehensive solution. The President underscored that the United States will remain firm in our commitment to Israel, which has good reason to be skeptical about Irans intentions." News-#2: AIPAC urged imposition of new Iran sanctions. News-#3: Anti-Israel resolutions passed by the UN abound. Misdirection: DENNIS ROSS [who advocated a sell-out to Arafat @ Camp David II in 2000] after having been thinking about the Iran deal, has concluded that, at minimum, there is now more time to see if a comprehensive agreement is possible. {This facile rationale for delay is, at minimum, juvenile.}
Erudition-#1, the underpinnings of this Bad-Faith Presidency were linked to domestic and foreign policy. Erudition-#2, psychological forces animating BHO [and their import when neo-Nazi Iran wants to destroy Israel] are of-interest *Obamas commitment to rapprochement with Iran arises from deep personal identification with the supposed victims of imperialism. That is incongruous, to be sure. Persia spent most of its history as one of the nastier imperial powers, and its present rulers are no less ambitious in their pursuit of a pocket empire in the Shiite world. The roots of his policy transcend rationality. Israel can present all the evidence in the world of Irans plans to build nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and the Iranians can cut the Geneva accord into confetti. Obama will remain unmoved. His heart, like his late mothers, beats for the putatively oppressed peoples of the so-called Third World.+.
Erudition-#3 constitutes input from Dr. Aaron Lerner [www.imra.org.il]:
Critical observation on Iran: It was never about dividing Jerusalem 11/24/2013
In the wake of the deal just announced with Iran it is crucial to note that the efficacy of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's valiant struggle to prevent a nuclear Iran has never been either influenced or impaired by Israeli policy relating to the Palestinians in general and in particular progress or lack thereof towards reaching an agreement to create a sovereign Palestinian state.
This struggle is hardly over and we now find that the current round of talks with the Palestinians are set to end at the same time that a final arrangement is supposed to be reached with Iran.
There is no doubt that many supporters of a sovereign Palestinian state, come-what- may, both in Israel and abroad, will seek to try and assert that Israel's case with regard to Iranian nukes will be ignored if we dont march to their drummer.
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This attempt to blackmail the Jewish state is not only immoral - it is - as demonstrated in the last weeks - based on a false premise.
To be clear: the power of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's arguments regarding Iran has nothing to do with Israel's willingness to divide Jerusalem and everything to do with the cold logic of his arguments.
So it was until now and so it will be in the coming months.
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[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Some of the reporters, in the fine old tradition of coverage of Oslo agreements, have not read the Iranian agreement. For example: "The final step of a comprehensive solution...would...Involve a mutually-defined enrichment program...."]
Following is an excerpt from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks this evening (Sunday, 11/24/2013), at the EMET Prize award ceremony in Jerusalem:
"As we learn more and more details about the agreement that was achieved last night in Geneva, it becomes increasingly clear how bad and dangerous this agreement is to the world, the region and Israel. Iran is receiving billions of dollars in eased sanctions without having to pay any real price. Iran is receiving written approval to violate UN Security Council resolutions. To a large degree, this agreement rescues Iran from the pressure it has been under and also gives it international legitimacy to continue its nuclear program. This is a bad agreement."
Erudition-#4 is a lengthy-letter from Arlene Kushner:
November 26, 2013
"Betrayed"
That Barack Obama has betrayed Israel, the Sunni Arab nations, and his own people is, to my thinking, beyond question. He has capitulated to a dangerous terrorist state.
The media are full of comments and analyses about what he has done, why he has done it, and what comes next. I will attempt to summarize what is important here, and you will find links to key articles below. But to share all of the various analyses and viewpoints at length would require a book rather than a posting.
I do not pretend, not for a second, that I am sanguine about any of what is going on. This is an infuriating, and exceedingly agitating business. ~~~~~~~~~~
As to why he did what he did...
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That he is an enemy of Israel is clear -- no matter what some liberal American Jews who, incredibly, still like him may think. Did he act to weaken Israel (as Caroline Glick has written) or even destroy Israel, or to attempt to preclude an Israeli attack on Iran (as John Bolton has written), or to avoid having to attack Iran himself, no matter the consequences? Or was he after better oil prices? All these theses have been advanced.
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I read today that the deal is not yet finalized, but have not been able to secure further information on this. From The Israel Project:
"News broke mid-Monday that the final details of this weekend's interim agreement between the P5+1 and Iran had not yet been agreed upon, and that the six month period during which Iran is expected to negotiate over a comprehensive deal - and during which U.S. negotiators had committed to preventing the imposition of new nuclear-related sanctions - had not yet started."
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The six month countdown will begin, rest assured. That is, if Obama has anything to say about it -- no matter what he has to do to get there. But the fact that the final details have not been set in place yet is not a small matter.
Netanyahu is sending a team to Washington, which will include his national security advisor Yossi Cohen. I'll say more about this below, but one of their tasks will be to find out what the details are -- there remains confusion on some fine points.
This situation exists because the deal was rushed through so quickly. Rushed before it could be stopped.
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If there is any way to stop what Obama is doing -- either at this point or down the road - - it is via Congress. A good number of Senators and Congresspersons -- both Republicans and Democrats -- are angry about what the president has done.
See this:
"...there isnt much that Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on these days. However, President Obamas historic deal to curb Irans nuclear ambitions may be just the thing to get lawmakers from both sides of the aisle working together again. "Unfortunately for Obama, they'll be united against him. "Within hours of announcing the agreement, the White House was met by stiff opposition from high-ranking Democrats who vowed to move forward with legislation aimed at tightening sanctions against Iran despite the Obama administrations concerns that the move could derail the sensitive negotiations for a long-term deal. "Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), perhaps the most vocal detractor from the presidents own party, denounced the framework set up by his former colleague, Secretary of State 971
John Kerry, to pause Irans march toward weapons of mass destruction in exchange for easing sanctions. His chief complaint? That Iran only had to freeze its nuclear enrichment program, while the United States was giving up its most valuable negotiating tool. (The administration insists that the sanctions could easily be resurrected if Iran backslides.) "'This disproportionality of this agreement makes it more likely that Democrats and Republicans will join together and pass additional sanctions when we return in December,' said Schumer, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate. 'I intend to discuss that possibility with my colleagues.'" http://theweek.com/article/index/253316/together-again-how-republicans-and- democrats-joined-forces-over-obamas-iran-deal
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And this: "House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) called the arrangement 'dangerous' and said it brings Iran 'closer to becoming a nuclear power.' He said the deal 'bodes very, very ominously for the region and U.S. security.' (Emphasis added) "Speaking to 'CBS This Morning' on Monday, Cantor said the terms of the deal were softer than those already in several U.N. resolutions. He said the deal was 'not worth the paper it's written on. ... Since when do we trust Iran? I believe that the attitude should be mistrust and verify...' "'All we have to do is listen to our allies, who are most proximate to the threat in the region and who have been saying all along that any kind of deal with this regime in Iran is not worth the paper it's written on,' he said." http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13577 ~~~~~~~~~~ What is needed are tough sanctions that cannot be overturned by the president. This works most effectively, I have been given to understand, with specific wording in the legislation:
No presidential waiver can be permitted. (Sometimes legislation calls for a specific action, except as the president, for reasons of national security or national interests deems it unwise -- this sort of terminology must be avoided.)
The wording, additionally, must set out a requirement -- such and such "shall" happen, not "should," or "may." What an associate of mine with considerable Congressional lobbying experience calls "weasel words" must be avoided.
Lastly, the legislation can carry greater impact if it has a defunding provision: If this and this is not done, then the budget for such and such will be cut.
Congress does not do these things lightly. But they can be done. And if there is sufficient distress and anger within Congress now, they might be done.
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At present, I implore all of my faithful readers to act on this. Your elected representatives in Congress must hear from you immediately. In addition to feeling their own distress about the current situation, they will be more motivated to act if they understand that their constituents in large numbers want them to do something about the deal Obama has struck.
Express your anger and ask them to use all of the powers they have to stop what the president is doing with regard to Iran. The rest must be left to them.
And please, share this very broadly. Numbers matter so very much.
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As to what Netanyahu will do now, it is difficult to say. His position is close to unbearable.
Some people believe that he has no diplomatic option to attack Iran right now, because of the threats allegedly being made by Obama with regard to this (have no confirmation, only reference to allegations) and the pressure being put on him more broadly. Obama is not the only one:
British Foreign Minister William Hague, in the Parliament yesterday, called on Israel to refrain from actions that could damage implementation of the agreement.
John Bolton, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former US ambassador to the UN, while recognizing the difficult position Netanyahu is in, favors a strike by Israel before long. Writing in the Weekly Standard, he says (emphasis added):
"...the international climate of opinion against a strike will only harden during the next six months.
"Undoubtedly, an Israeli strike during the interim deal would be greeted with outrage from all the expected circles. But that same outrage, or more, would also come further down the road. In short, measured against the expected reaction even in friendly capitals, there is never a 'good' time for an Israeli strike, only bad and worse 973
times. Accordingly, the Geneva deal does not change Israels strategic calculus even slightly... "Israel still must make the extremely difficult judgment whether it will stand by as Iran maneuvers effortlessly around a feckless and weak White House, bolstering its economic situation while still making progress on the nuclear front, perhaps less progress on some aspects of its nuclear work than before the deal, but more on others... "So in truth, an Israeli military strike is the only way to avoid Tehrans otherwise inevitable march to nuclear weapons, and the proliferation that will surely follow. Making the case for Israels exercise of its legitimate right of self-defense has therefore never been more politically important. Whether they are celebrating in Tehran or in Jerusalem a year from now may well depend on how the opponents of the deal in Washington conduct themselves." http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/abject-surrender-united- states_768140.html?page=2
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But while Bolton thinks it will only get worse for Israel, with regard to international reactions to an attack on Iran, there are other perspectives.
One suggestion is that Israel heighten its intelligence monitoring of Iran in order to discover ways that the Iranians will be cheating on the terms of the current interim agreement (shock! they cheat!). Then, going public with this would provide a rational for hitting militarily that might resonate with some international leaders.
The independent Israeli monitoring of Iran's adherence to the deal is particularly important in light of what Zalman Shoval suggests may be Obama's tendency to go lightly on Iranian violations:
"Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Zalman Shoval expressed concern that Washington, in an attempt to justify the Western deal with Iran limiting Tehran's nuclear development program, would most likely 'go easy' on Iran when it came to evaluating violations of the agreement."
I alluded above to the fact that an Israeli team is heading for Washington. One of its purposes, we are being told, is to encourage the Obama administration (work with the Obama administration, ostensibly) to develop the toughest possible terms for the final agreement to be reached (at least in theory).
I read this and found myself bewildered as to what this was about. For I do not believe Iran is going to sign on to a meaningful final agreement and I do not believe that our prime minister thinks so either.
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However, if the terms brought to the final negotiations are tough, then it might increase the resistance of Iran with regard to even a semblance of cooperation. And this, too, might reduce international resistance to a military strike.
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It is the opinion of Dr. Aaron Lerner of IMRA that Netanyahu must continue his campaign of alerting the world as to the dangers of a deal with Iran, with all possible vigor (emphasis added):
"By the same token that the interim deal with Iran was driven by a desire to make a deal come-what-may, the same will be the case in six months.
"The issue of enrichment and other elements that place Iran weeks from making a bomb at any time are matters that President Obama is clearly willing to compromise on in the final agreement in order to sign a piece of paper.
"And that is not going to change solely via intimate conversations.
"And it is not going to change because we offer to divide Jerusalem.
"It is only going to change if Obama faces so much pressure, both domestic and international, that he finds himself opting for the right path rather than the easy path.
"And that pressure can only be achieved by continuing, over the next six month, with the campaign to alert the world to just how dangerous an inadequate deal with Iran will be."
http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=62459
~~~~~~~~~~ All of this is speculative. We do not know how Netanyahu will play it.
And so my friends, especially those of you in the US, I ask that you also write to Prime Minister Netanyahu:
E-mail: Memshala@pmo.gov.il and also pm_eng2@it.pmo.gov.il (underscore after pm) use both addresses
Tell him that you are furious about/ashamed of (you pick the term) the position that Obama has taken in negotiations with Iran -- that you understand how untenable the prime minister's position is and what difficulties Obama's deal causes for him.
Let him know that if and when he makes the decision to hit Iran unilaterally, you would support this action.
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For your information, I share here the key implications of the deal with Iran, as put out by the Israeli Foreign Ministry (with emphasis added):
"Unprecedented international recognition of Iran's enrichment program
"...for the first time since the beginning of negotiations in 2003 the international community recognizes Iran's enrichment program and agrees that it will not be rolled back contrary to a longstanding policy of full suspension enshrined in several UN Security Council resolutions.
"International acceptance of the heavy water reactor in Arak "The elements of the comprehensive solution mentioned in the Geneva agreement lack any commitment to the dismantling of the Arak heavy water reactor...which is uniquely suitable for the production of military grade plutonium. "Uninhibited R&D of advanced centrifuges "The current agreement allows Iran to continue R&D of Advanced Centrifuges. This means Iran will be able to further develop and strengthen its enrichment capacity under the guise of this agreement, and will be in a better position technologically when it decides it is time to further expand enrichment. Therefore, the agreement actually enables Iran to get closer to breakout capability. "Current stock of uranium enriched to a level of under 5% will remain intact "Iran is allowed to preserve its current stock of about 7 tons of uranium enriched to a level of 5%... "Iran will be able to easily reverse the measures taken under the agreement and charge ahead once it is politically convenient Iran is not required to roll back or dismantle anything. Its nuclear infrastructure will remain intact, enabling it to resume full operations upon decision. [Note: turning 5% into more highly enriched uranium is not difficult] "The agreement undermines the sanctions regime and provides Iran with crucial relief in economic pressure "The international concessions in the area of sanctions undermine the sanctions regime and curb momentum for additional pressure on Iran....reducing sanctions without any real concessions on the part of Iran is extremely counter-productive: Iran is now less likely to agree to any significant restrictions on its nuclear program. [Note: once the sanctions regime is weakened, restoring it is very difficult, see below] "The agreement signals that it is now legitimate to do business with Iran "The 'interim' agreement might become permanent "Given the observations made above, this means that Iran will practically be escorted to a nuclear threshold position by the international community." http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Issues/Pages/Geneva-Agreement-between-P51- and-Iran-24-Nov-2013.aspx
Does this not make your hair stand on end? It makes imminently clear why I refer to Obama's betrayal. This deal can be seen as nothing less.
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I would advise my readers to take the advice of Aaron Lerner to heart. For what he says about sounding the alarm about the dangers of a deal with Iran applies first to Netanyahu, but then to each of us individually.
I have armed you with information.
Write about this -- letters to the editor, op-eds. Tell people. Call in to radio shows. Post on your FaceBook page and send to discussion groups. Let everyone know that this is an exceedingly alarming situation. Ask them to spread the word, and to contact their elected representatives in Congress.
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In the interest of supplying information, I will suggest that you might want to see what Shoshana Bryen of the Israel Policy Center has to say about this horrific situation. She provides good insights:
Erudition-#5 is a lengthy-discussion [with conclusions congruent with others] from The Israel Project :
Iran Deal "Beginning of End" of Sanctions Regime, U.S. Caved on Enrichment "Right"
Analysts, diplomats, and journalists spent overnight Saturday and into Sunday outlining both the meaning and the implications of an interim agreement secured last night between the P5+1 global powers and Iran. Controversy erupted not just over the substance of the deal - whether it met the benchmark previously set by President Obama to prevent Iran from "advancing their program" - but even over what the deal explicitly did and did not promise. Western concessions - according to Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies - will inject Iran with financial relief ultimately worth roughly $20 billion. In exchange - per a quick New York Times assessment - Iran agreed to concessions that not only fall short of "roll[ing] back the vast majority of the advances Iran has made in the past five years," but that shorten its breakout time by "only a month to a few months." The interim deal allows Iran to continue enriching uranium to 5% purity and to keep building new centrifuges to repair worn ones. Iran will have to convert its 20% enriched stock either to fuel or to diluted 5% stock, but those processes can be easily reversed within weeks. The only way to put that material beyond use is to actually irradiate the stock, but Iran doesnt have the capacity to do that. In any case experts from the University of Virginia and the U. S.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) recently warned [PDF]) that Iran can sneak across the nuclear finish line using only its stockpile of 3.5% enriched uranium. Inasmuch as Iran is not being forced to dismantle its centrifuges, there are fears it will either cheat or just wait six months and use them when the interim period expires. 977
More controversially, Iran seems to have secured language under which the international community acknowledges that a comprehensive agreement will still allow Tehran to enrich uranium. The U.S. has long rejected Iran's claim that it has a "right" to enrich, and last October lead U.S. negotiator Wendy Sherman told Congress that "the President has circumscribed what he means by the Iranian people having access access, not right, but access to peaceful nuclear energy in the context of meeting its obligations." The interim language, however, describes a future comprehensive solution as involving "a mutually defined enrichment program with practical limits and transparency measures to ensure the peaceful nature of the program." Iranian state media carried boasts by among others Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif that the U.S. had caved on its long-standing position. The U.S. and Britain both flatly denied Irans interpretation of the interim language with Secretary of State John Kerry saying as much and the White House further denying it on a late-night background call. The Washington Post's Jackson Diehl this morning noted that the plain text of the agreement favors the Iranian interpretation. Later in the day, the Daily Beast's Eli Lake went further: To be sure, the idea that Iran would be able to enrich uranium after a final status deal has been floated in negotiations for the last two years. But the offer represents a significant softening of earlier demands from the United States and even the Obama administration. During his first term, Obama offered Iran a deal that would have required Iran to import enriched nuclear fuel, but not allow Iran to make that fuel in facilities its government controlled... Already this language has drawn fire from top Republicans. In a statement Sunday morning, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said, The text of the interim agreement with Iran explicitly and dangerously recognizes that Iran will be allowed to enrich uranium when it describes a 'mutually defined enrichment program' in a final, comprehensive deal. It is clear why the Iranians are claiming this deal recognizes their right to enrich. The substance of the deal will deepen concerns that Tehran intends to pocket the interim concessions and walk away. Patrick Clawson and Mehdi Khalaji, respectively the director of research and a senior fellow at the Washington Institute, had already expressed concerns weeks ago that "Khamenei has been laying the groundwork to walk away from any deal by warning that the West is untrustworthy and will not deliver on its promises the same reasons he gave for walking away from the earlier nuclear deals." Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at American Enterprise Institute, was blunt in summing up what Iran got and what Iran gave, and how that might affect the regime's calculations in walking away from the table: Chatting last week with a prominent nuclear expert in Washington (a Democrat), we talked about the problems with the then-prospective deal. Ironically, we were in complete agreement:...Sequenced agreements of this kind dont work (viz: North Korea). The administration was too desperate for a deal. There will be no phase two... Iran has given nothing of substance other than a pause in its 978
program... while the concessions to Iran on sanctions are in and of themselves not dramatic, the reversal in momentum for sanctions and the loss of the psychology of impenetrable sanctions is of immeasurable value to Tehran. Dealmakers will be back, letters of credit will once again be available, and it will be the beginning of the end of international cooperation on sanctions. The asymmetrical structure of the deal - with Iran "freezing" its program but the international community chipping away at sanctions - may also influence whether Iran decides to abandon negotiations over a comprehensive deal. U.S. concessions are largely irreversible. Most straightforwardly, Iran will get to pocket the billions in financial relief its gets, using the funds to stabilize the Iranian economy, bolster its nuclear program, and fund its global terror network. The arguably more significant danger, however, is that the sanctions regime cannot survive even the limited erosion that the deal entails. There are multiple scenarios under which the sanctions relief in the deal would trigger a downward spiral that irreversibly and substantially eroded the regime. The most immediate fear is that major powers and corporations will engage in a feeding frenzy to get into Iran: No one wants to be left behind as Irans market opens up, and so everyone tries to get in first. Pletka's suggestion about the "psychology of impenetrable sanctions" is one mechanism for a downward spiral. Brookings Institute fellow Michael Doran earlier this week pointed to evidence that such a downward spiral was already beginning, with Paris looking to reopen a trade-related attach office in Tehran next year. The Iranian economy is already recovering on expectations of a sanctions collapse: Iran's currency jumped more than 3 percent against the U.S. dollar on Sunday as news of a breakthrough deal to curb Tehran's nuclear program raised hopes that the economy would start recovering from international sanctions... by reducing the chance of military action against Iran and raising the prospect of more sanctions relief in future, the Geneva pact may stem capital flight from the country and encourage a partial revival of domestic investment. This could be enough to pull the economy out of the recession which has gripped it for most of the past two years, while encouraging Iranian and foreign businessmen to begin rebuilding trade ties. "We are feeling the positive sentiment in Iran," Nariman Aflani, a foreign exchange trader at AFI Group, an Iranian civil engineering firm in Tehran, said by telephone. Prices of construction materials such as ceramics and cement in Iran are already coming down because people hope a gradual loosening of sanctions will make it easier for the country to obtain supplies from abroad, he said.