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[Mastery]

Doesn't japan have doctors that can slow down time and shit anyway

What am I doing in this topic?

[Tails82]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPKrcIB9BzA

www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/11/13/raunchy-obamacare-ad-called-demeaning-to-women/

Sexually suggestive ObamaCare ad called 'degrading' to women

"Vote with your lady parts"

Taxpayer-funded stuff. All guys are drunks and all girls are sluts. Having to pay for your own health care would've cut into booze money, thankfully taxpayers are on the hook to back that with the brosurance now.

online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303460004579192102917020082

Small Business and ObamaCare

A new survey shows that employers will drop coverage and cut hours.

One of President Obama's proudest boasts about the Affordable Care Act is that it helps small business...Small businesses aren't buying it.

Some 64% of small business franchise owners (such as owners of fast food and retail stores) believe the law will have a "negative impact" on their business, while only 5% expect a "positive impact." For non-franchise businesses the ratio was 53% negative and 12% positive. Only one in 12 agree with the President that the health-care law will "help" their business.

Even more problematic is how businesses are already responding to the new law. The White House continues to deny any relationship between hiring and ObamaCare. The poll finds 27% of franchise businesses and 12% of non-franchises have already replaced full-time with part-time employees in anticipation of the law's employer mandate. ObamaCare defines a full-time employee as someone who works 30 hours or more a week.

The survey also reveals that the "49er" effect is very real. These are businesses that will cap their full-time payroll workforce at 49 employees to avoid ObamaCare's insurance mandate for companies with more than 50 full-time equivalent workers. Of firms with between 40 and 70 employees, a little over half say they are likely to "make personnel decisions to keep" their "workforce below the threshold of 50 full-time employees and avoid the requirements and penalties associated with the new health care law."

More than one in four businesses (28%) say that in 2015, when the employer mandate is scheduled to take full effect, it is "likely" they will drop their insurance coverage and pay the penalty of $2,000 a year per employee. These are the plans employers and employees were promised they would be able to keep.

Imagine if Obama actually followed the law with the employer mandate instead of delaying it for another day. Man that would've sucked double. Now it's just waiting off in the not-so-distant future for another failure and economic damage greater than or equal to the individual mandate.

www.truthrevolt.org/news/cnns-tapper-dems-wont-come-talk-bad-obamacare-numbers

CNN's Tapper: Dems Won't Come on To Talk Bad Obamacare Numbers

Hmm...Democrats dodging, or CNN being completely irrelevant?

washingtonexaminer.com/shock-poll-fox-trusted-more-than-obama-on-obamacare-info/article/2539053

Fox trusted more than Obama on Obamacare info

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24931684

The US has designated Nigeria's Boko Haram and Ansaru militant groups as foreign terrorist organisations.

The state department described the move as "an important" step to help Nigeria "root out violent extremism".

Boko Haram wants to impose Islamic law in northern Nigeria, and has been blamed for thousands of deaths. Ansaru is seen as an off-shoot of Boko Haram.

See, the Islamists are mad in Palestine because their land is being stolen by Israel after it unilaterally draws out of Gaza for peace, and they're mad in the Middle East because America is there after they blew up several of our buildings because they were mad at us, and they're mad in Europe too because Mohammed was in a cartoon and it's against their rights to not be able to kill illustrators and random people over it, and they're mad in Nigeria because uhhhh, and they're mad throughout Africa because uhhhh, and they're mad in Asia because uhhhh, and they're violent worldwide because uhhhh. They can't be crazy, it must be our fault somehow.

Anyway in all seriousness, good news.

washingtonexaminer.com/us-oil-production-outstrips-imports-for-first-time-since-1995/article/2539104

US oil production outstrips imports for first time since 1995

The American Petroleum Institute, however, took a shot at the White House, noting oil production on federal land has dipped under President Obama.

[kode54]

Yeah, get out. This topic belongs to Tails and his Republican Reality Distortion Field.

[Tails82]

blog.heritage.org/2013/11/14/obamas-cancellation-fix-violating-law-short-term-public-relations-move/#.UoVJkSfp6t8

Obama's Cancellation "Fix": Violating the Law for a Short-Term Public Relations Move

President Obama has told Obamacare’s critics that the law is “settled” and “here to stay.” But today he is saying he’ll violate the law to put a Band-Aid on it for another year. That’s 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 President’s “plan would allow people to keep their plans into 2014,” by allowing the sale of insurance plans that don’t meet the law’s new requirements.

There’s one problem—the President’s 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: Obamacare’s new benefit mandates—the requirement to cover all individuals with pre-existing conditions, the new “essential benefits,” and mandates increasing the percentage of health costs insurance plans must cover—all take effect on January 1, 2014.

As any follower of Schoolhouse Rock will know, there’s only one institution that can change the law: Congress. President Obama’s “plan” attempts to ignore them entirely. The President’s 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 it’s a simple one: Undo this unfair, unworkable, and unpopular law that never should have been passed in the first place.

Holy mackarel is that an obvious self-interested delay. Is anyone gonna buy it? What's he gonna do, trap insurance companies between what the law says and what he wants, so his friends who passed said terrible law get to stay around? Is he just going to magically reverse the cancellations, or can we cut to the chase and assume this is another false promise?

www.ncregister.com/daily-news/u.s.-bishops-unanimously-reaffirm-opposition-to-hhs-mandate1/

U.S. Bishops Unanimously Reaffirm Opposition to HHS Mandate

Issued under the Affordable Care Act, the HHS mandate is being challenged in lawsuits by more than 200 plaintiffs across the country. The lawsuits are currently in different stages of the judiciary process and could reach the Supreme Court in a future term.

The USCCB said that protection of religious freedom, “especially as threatened by the HHS mandate,” is among their priorities, and the statement went on to quote the words of Pope Francis: “In the context of society, there is only one thing which the Church quite clearly demands: the freedom to proclaim the Gospel in its entirety, even when it runs counter to the world, even when it goes against the tide.”

online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304243904579195851362185712

Karl Rove: Voters May Cancel Democratic Coverage in 2014

The mounting cancellations of people's health plans is not a result of faulty implementation. The Affordable Care Act was designed to make unavailable health-insurance policies that didn't include its extensive, expensive and often unnecessary provisions.

This problem will get worse and poses a dilemma for Mr. Obama and Democrats. A March analysis by Healthpocket.com estimated that less than 2% of individual plans comply with ObamaCare's mandates. A Nov. 7 study by McClatchy Newspapers suggests as many as 52 million people, including many covered by their employers, could lose their plan.

As the 2014 election approaches, these people will be (a) losing coverage or have lost it already, (b) shopping for new policies, (c) suffering sticker shock over higher premiums and deductibles and (d) wondering why Mr. Obama called their previous policy with doctors they liked "subpar." Then, next September and October, they'll be told about premium increases for 2015.

Mr. Obama has no easy out. White House aides floated a trial balloon of covering premium increases for people with canceled insurance who don't get subsidies. Good luck convincing congressional Republicans to pay tens of billions to fix a problem the president created, shoved down the country's throat, and then misled people about.

Last Sunday Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN's Candy Crowley that "Democratic candidates will be able to run on ObamaCare as an advantage leading into the 2014 election." Republicans should pray every night that Democrats take her delusional advice and make ObamaCare their campaign's centerpiece.

www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/11/14/in_september_obama_mocked_gop_for_crazy_obamacare_predictions_now_he_s_desperate_to_save_himself_in_2014

In September, Obama Mocked GOP for "Crazy" Obamacare Predictions -- Now He's Desperate to Save Himself in 2014

All the Democrats lied to you about this, in order to further this idea of government-run health care. So now, because the Democrat Party as in horrible electoral trouble -- and, remember, it was just a month ago that Ted Cruz and the Republicans were guaranteeing that the Republicans were gonna lose the House. It was just a month ago Ted Cruz and the boys, they were embarrassing everybody. They were extremists. They were terrorists! They were hostage takers. They were demanding ransom...Now, in order for the Democrats to save themselves, the president has ordered the insurance companies to reinstate the plan that his law required them to cancel. So how does that work now? They're gonna be in violation of the law. How does this square? There is a law. It's called Obamacare.

But all the chaos just fits right in with what the president's ultimate dream for all of this is, and that's the government in charge of everything -- and the more chaos and the more distress, the better. They just want to get through the 2014 elections. That's all they want to do -- and then, folks, it's over. Just get through the 2014 elections, because the dream is the Democrats winning the House. That's what they've all got focused on. Now they're even look at possibly losing the Senate. That's how mad people are.

It could be 2010 times 10.

So I don't know how you save insurance contracts and elected politicians who've perpetrated a massive fraud, but that's what they're trying to do.

Here's the question. So Obama says to you that if you like your old plan, you can now try to get it back (if you can). "I'm allowing you to try to get your old plan back! I'm allowing the insurance company to make your old plan that's now illegal available -- for one year."

What are you gonna do a year from now, folks? The election's over, and you're right back where you were, and you're gonna lose it again, and there's no getting it back then. What are you going to do a year from now? What's the point, if it's eventually gonna be taken away from you anyway, and the president today just said, "No matter what, you're gonna lose your plan. You're gonna lose your plan. Just not now, but next year,"

He's doing two things: He's telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do, or what they have to and don't have to do. He is suggesting, for purely political purposes, that if you have your plan now and you like it, you can keep it for one more year so that you don't get any angrier at Democrats than you are now and vote against them next November.

If your plan has been canceled, he has just ordered the insurance company to make it available to you, so that you can go back and get that plan. The problem is that that plan was canceled precisely because it conflicts with his law, with Obamacare. So he has declared war against the insurance companies here and is making it veritably impossible for them to do business. This is purely political...What the president's actually trying to do here is subvert democracy, in my opinion, with all of these mandates.

He's gonna blame governors; he's gonna blame all kinds of outsiders and invisible people for making this happen. He's riding in today as the white knight, playing dictator. The thing that I want to remind everybody is that I thought it was settled law. I thought it was the law of the land. I thought back when Ted Cruz and Mike Lee and others were saying, "Look, let's just delay this whole thing," or "let's just defund it and repeal it," we couldn't because it was the law of the land.

Remember all those angry lectures that Obamacare was settled law? The Democrats said, "It's the law of the land. You can't change it." Well, so much for that. So much for the rule of law. So much for constitutional republicanism. Now we have the president playing dictator the other way to save his party's bacon and to save his dream of government-run socialized medicine. This is where we are, and the Republicans had better talk about this honestly.

This is not how things happen in a free country. What is happening is wrong. All it adds up to is why this mess should be repealed and gotten rid of. It is only gonna get worse. How can we...? You know the big question is, given how frequently and how easily Obama lies, why do we even believe this today? Why do we even believe this? You know, there's a bunch of people that also have to act and make this happen.

This is such a disaster, folks. The original problem with this remains. We have president of the United States who thinks that he can compel people to go buy something. He thinks that he can compel people to go use something, even something they don't want. If they don't buy it, they're gonna get fined or penalized. He goes so far as to deny what they want.

If they don't go get what he wants them to have -- i.e., having their policies canceled. This outrageous. This is so un-American, this whole thing, and now what's the "fix"? The fix is for this guy to play dictator again and now command or compel the insurance companies to run their business the way he wants them to for the next year (so that his party) won't be hurt in the elections next November.

This isn't America, folks.

washingtonexaminer.com/tech-experts-admin-downplaying-threat-of-cyberattacks-on-healthcare.gov/article/2539151

The Obama administration on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that cyberattacks have targeted the healthcare.gov website, but technology security experts say officials are downplaying the number of attacks and minimizing the privacy threat to Obamacare enrollees' personal information...But neither DHS nor HHS will define “cyber incident” or the severity that would warrant a report from Stempfley's office.

Republicans have pointed to an internal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services memo from Sept. 27 that said “from a security perspective,” aspects of the system were not tested, exposing “a level of uncertainty that can be deemed as high risk.”

Over the last month, specific incidents of the system exposing individuals’ personal information have surfaced.

In one case, an outside cybersecurity expert testing the site on his own said he was able to easily obtain personal information from working through the website’s function for resetting lost usernames and passwords.

In another case that attracted publicity, a North Carolina man who tried to sign up on healthcare.gov said he was sent another family’s eligibility letters, which included their names and home address.

www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/13/Congressman-Pete-Olson-introduces-Articles-of-Impeachment-against-Eric-Holder

Rep. Olson Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Eric Holder

The Articles of Impeachment has four different sections. The first calls for Holder’s official removal because of his failure to comply with congressional subpoenas relating to Operation Fast and Furious. Holder has been voted on a bipartisan basis into both criminal and civil contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with the Fast and Furious subpoenas from House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA).

The second section of the Articles of Impeachment deals with Holder’s refusal to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Controlled Substances Act, and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986. The third section calls for Holder’s impeachment on the grounds that he has refused to prosecute any IRS officials involved in the “scandal of unauthorized disclosure of tax records belonging to political donors.”

The fourth section of the Articles of Impeachment goes after Holder for his involvement in the targeting of reporters. Holder testified under oath on May 15, 2013, the resolution states, that he “he was neither involved in nor had heard of a potential prosecution of the press.” Three days later, though, Holder’s Department of Justice (DOJ) “released documents naming journalist James Rosen as a co-conspirator in an alleged violation of the Espionage Act.” Holder later confirmed to Congress that he had in fact “approved a search warrant on James Rosen.”

In a one-pager memo provided to Breitbart News by Olson’s office, the members detail the case for the impeachment of Holder. “For nearly five years, we have witnessed Mr. Holder repeatedly deceive Congress and degrade the credibility of the Justice Department in the eyes of the American people,” the members wrote. “Last year, the House of Representatives took the unprecedented step of holding Mr. Holder in contempt of Congress, making him the first sitting cabinet official ever to hold this distinction."

"Unfortunately, Mr. Holder has continued to act in a manner unbefitting of a cabinet official; he has failed to perform his constitutional duties and violated the law on a number of occasions," the statement continues. "The House of Representatives should not stand by as he continues to undermine the office of Attorney General."

www.ncregister.com/daily-news/divorce-statistics-indicate-catholic-couples-are-less-likely-to-break-up/

Divorce Statistics Indicate Catholic Couples Are Less Likely to Break Up

While 28% remains a troubling statistic, the research suggests that this figure compares favorably with the 40% divorce rate for those with no religious affiliation...When statisticians looked more closely at the data dealing with Catholics, they found that Catholics who marry people of the same faith have a lower divorce rate than Catholics who marry non-Catholics.

Though Bishop Sheridan says Catholic marriage rates must improve, he suggested that a growing number of Catholic dioceses have made progress with solid marriage-preparation standards and doctrinal teachings that forbid contraception and explain natural family planning (NFP) to engaged couples.

The Georgetown research also found a decrease in the rate of annulments in the United States, which accounted for a staggering 49% of worldwide annulments in 2011.

I take the same stance on divorce as I do on abortion: shouldn't happen.

www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-francis-most-mentioned-online-name-in-2013/

‘Pope Francis’ Most Mentioned Online Name in 2013

According to the annual Global Language Monitor survey, the Pope’s Twitter account is also ranked highly on the Internet.

[Tails82]

You know it's possible to get shots outside a government apparatus?

[Chromeo]

But why would I when the government is better at it?

[Tails82]

The government is often terrible at it and it's not what a government's for anyway.

[Chromeo]

Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of a healthcare system which is vastly better than the one you support by any international measurement.

[Tails82]

Except it's not.

[Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Nov 15, 2013 21:45:17 GMT -5 Chromeo said:

Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of a healthcare system which is vastly better than the one you support by any international measurement.

...but you got sick from their antivirus.

[Tails82]

I hear places big on the liberal anti-vaccine stuff have problems with measles and other diseases.

[Chromeo]

Nov 15, 2013 21:49:19 GMT -5 Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔ said:

Nov 15, 2013 21:45:17 GMT -5 Chromeo said:

Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of a healthcare system which is vastly better than the one you support by any international measurement.

...but you got sick from their antivirus.

...because that's how vaccination works, provoking an immune response.

And Tails, you can say it's not for as long at you want but the statistics prove you wrong completely. Keep living in the bubble.

[Tails82]

The statistics show we had the best system when you can pay for it and the satisfaction ratings to back it up. Highest life expectancy as long as you don't get run over or shot.

[little j ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

Nov 15, 2013 21:54:26 GMT -5 Tails82 said:

I hear places big on the liberal anti-vaccine stuff have problems with measles and other diseases.

And I hear it's the nutjob conservatives who are always against vaccines.

[Tails82]

Since when? You mean like people out in the woods?