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News/Politics 2-27-13

What’s interesting out there today?

Open Thread, what have you got?

Here’s a few to start with.

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Not one dime…….

He was right, not one dime. Try 62,000,000,000,000 dimes.

From NationalReview

“Obamacare will increase the long-term federal deficit by $6.2 trillion, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who requested the report, revealed the findings this morning at a Senate Budget Committee hearing. The report, he said, “confirms everything critics and Republicans were saying about the faults of this bill,” and “dramatically proves that the promises made assuring the nation that the largest new entitlement program in history would not add one dime to the deficit were false.”

President Obama and other Democrats attempted to win support for the health-care bill by touting it as a fiscally responsible enterprise. “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future,” Obama told a joint-session of Congress in September 2009. “I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period.”

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And don’t forget, Nancy Pelosi called it “the greatest deficit reduction effort in 2 decades”.

Here’s more from Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), who points out all the lies, and how Republicans were correct about it.

Good thing we had to pass it to find all this out huh?

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All this explains why Dems would whine about this.

From TheDailyCaller

“Some members of Congress apparently don’t like to be reminded about how much  debt the country continues to rack up.

During a House Financial Services Committee hearing Tuesday on the budget, two Democrats complained after  House Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling instructed that two  monitors in the hearing room display a real-time running national debt  clock.

California Rep. Maxine Waters and Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison both issued complaints about the  displays, according to video of the hearing.

Can’t have anyone pointing out the facts now can we?

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This one I can’t help feeling was a set-up. They were wanting to do this anyway, this just gave them a convenient excuse.

From TheLATimes

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have released “several hundred” immigrants from deportation centers across the country, saying the move is an effort to cut costs ahead of budget cuts due to hit later this week.

Announcing the news Tuesday, ICE officials said that the immigrants were released under supervision and continue to face deportation. After reviewing hundreds of cases, those released were considered low-risk and “noncriminal,” officials said.

The releases took place over the last week and were an effort “to ensure detention levels stay within ICE’s current budget,” said ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christiansen, citing uncertainty caused by a budget standoff in Washington.”

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25 thoughts on “News/Politics 2-27-13”

  1. Let’s see?

    For $500,000 I can get a seat on one of the Presidents advisory boards.
    For 42 cents, I can send a letter to the editor of the Hendersonville Times-News.
    Since I’m certain that the two actions will have the same effect, I’m really in a quandary about what to do.
    Really?
    I may do neither.

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  2. And while we’re on the topic of a set-up, Sequestration is exactly what the president wants. This is the *only* way he could get the defense cuts he has always wanted. Congress would not pass such defense budget cuts under normal circumstances. Now by letting sequestration happen, he has the defense cuts. It is going to happen. There will be no 11th hour save.

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  3. Politico is reporting that Senate Republicans are pondering ceding their constitutional power to the president to control the government budget. The Republic has fallen. Time to lock n’ load.

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  5. This is one of those issues, where we just do not know. There have been cases where the child is born with both indications, which causes the confusion in the child, but with the information in the story we just do not know.
    There have been cases where the parents wanted an opposite sex child so bad, that they dress the child up in the opposite sex at birth calling the child by the opposite sex. Which causes the confusion in the child, but with the information in the story we just do not know.

    There have been cases where the parents wanted to prove a point so they dress the child up in the opposite sex at birth calling the child by the opposite sex. Which causes the confusion in the child, but with the information in the story we just do not know.

    An in one case the parents had the child’s sex changed to prove that the person sex at birth does not make a different and they were wrong. They lost custody of their teenager child when that child found out what his/her parents did to him/her.
    The problem with going to psychologist, doctor, their decision could be based on their views on the issue.
    As for seeing parents of transgender children and support groups, they are not going to encourage anything that is opposite of their groups views, they have an invest interest in promoting transgender issues.

    As for the mother, I must question if she try to help the child or just want the child to be another girl based on her comment or was just to overwhelm to deal with.

    ““At 18 months of age Coy gravitated to girl things and very much disliked boy things,” Mathis said. She liked tutus and makeup and dresses. Coy’s brother was all boy, who liked monsters, and trucks and roughhousing.
    “We had two boys with the same clothes and toys and they were so different. Coy was growing up very much a girl. We could compare the two and knew that we weren’t causing Coy to like certain things. We decided to let her just be who she is.”

    When she was two and a half, Coy was anxious if she left the house dressed as a boy. She wanted princess dresses and hair bows. “If it was jeans and a polo shirt you could just see the happiness drain from her face,” Mathis said.”
    Her Comments leaves me with the impression she did not try to help the child enough. Now this could be simple because she was overwhelm with raise 5 kids in all and have those triplets is overwhelm for anyone. We also do not know if dad was involved with the child at a young age. We are told he is former Marine and disabled veteran, so he may have been deployed for most of this child life. So he was not home enough to help his wife and to help then child. We are not told of their political views; which may influence their decision on how to help this child or how outside which may influence their decision on how to help this child.

    So we just do not have enough information in the story to determent what is causing this problem in this child.
    It is easy to jump on one side or the other in stories like these. If you are on the left and support of the GLBT Community, then stories like these are railing points to push GLBT Rights. If you are on the other side of the issue, it is easy to blame the family for not doing enough to raise the child the right way.

    The problem for both sides, is there is just too many unanswered questions.

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  6. This just in…

    The President has reached out to Republicans to avoid this latest crisis. They will sit down and work on a solution. AFTER the sequester hits.

    🙄

    Get your hip waders out people. It’s getting deep.

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  9. The Republican should show up with 3 lists of different cuts. Give them to Mr. Obama and tell him here is list one of cuts, if you do not like list one, then here are 2 other lists where cuts can take place..

    Now Mr. Obama where is your lists of cuts? If Mr. Obama say he does not have a list, the Republican’s should walk out on him and tell him, when you have a listing of cuts come talk to us.

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  12. Roy

    Oft times in transgender cases there really isn’t a right or wrong — just a try to muddle through. In some cases children born with both sets of genetalia have an operation as a child where the parents and doctor chose poorly. Many modern doctors advise waiting before surgery in such cases. In other cases it seems like the biology just didn’t quite work out in the usual way. I’d think a Christian who believes in a fallen world would understand biologicial anomolies as part of that world rather than assume that somehow a child was raised incorrectly.

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  13. If you read what I wrote, you see I cover all those bases. The issue in this case there are just to many unanswer question in relation to why this youg child is this way.. It could be because of physical issue and it could be because of a mental issue, or the fact the mother just did not care treat him like a girl, or she favor the girls so the boy wanted mommy attention , so he acted like a girl. We just do not know.

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  15. Whatcha wanna bet we never learn the names of these career officials who took the decision to release the detainees. Everyone is innocent on this. No court order. They just released them.

    http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/02/white-house-was-not-involved-in-ices-decision-to-release-158027.html

    By JENNIFER EPSTEIN |
    2/27/13 1:10 PM EST
    The White House and the Department of Homeland Security were unaware of Immigration Customs and Enforcement’s decision to release detainees until the agency announced it, administration officials said Wednesday.
    “This was a decision made by career officials at ICE without any input from the White House, as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing resolution, as well as possible sequestration,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday.
    Personnel at Department of Homeland Security headquarters in Washington were also unaware of the decision until the announcement was made, a department official told POLITICO.

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  18. How to get the debt under control.

    Freeze the amount of money actually spent at the same rate as last year, 2012, until the entire national debt is paid off. I think a big problem is baseline budgeting. The budget goes up 10% every year. In 10 years it doubles.

    Just freeze spending.

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  24. She helps to run the day cares on post and ensure that the home day cares and post day are trained and following the rules.

    She told me her boss has been inform that on post day care staffs will be working 4 days a week and that their offices will be filling in on the 5th days. that the days will be open 5 days a week for sure.

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