What’s interesting in the news today?
1. What a desperate bunch. Nothing like a Wednesday before Thanksgiving and the long holiday weekend news dump huh? And notice the delay is until after the elections. Can’t have millions more being cut by employers right before now can we? Weasels.
From Politico “The Obama administration today announced a one year delay of online enrollment for small businesses looking to purchase health coverage through federal Obamacare exchanges, another high-profile setback for HealthCare.gov.
It’s the second delay for online small business enrollment, which the administration had said would begin this month.”
“The delay of the small business exchanges comes as little surprise, as the administration had said earlier this week it would offer alternative ways for small businesses to enroll. Still, it undercuts the White House message that it’s beginning to turn around the disastrous rollout of the health care law.”
“The announcement just before Thanksgiving is the latest in a series of delays and miscalculations for the president’s signature domestic legislation. On July 2 — also just before a holiday —it delayed the employer mandate for a year. Small businesses with fewer than 50 workers are exempt from the requirement to cover them, and the exchanges are supposed to give more options to those that choose to offer coverage.”
It’s all so cowardly.
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2. Wow, that’s pricey. 😯
Pretty cool though too. I’d go to see it.
From CNN “The world’s most valuable book sold Tuesday for $14.16 million at Sotheby’s in New York, according to the auction house.
The rare Bay Psalm Book is the first book ever written and printed in what is now the United States. Its sale set a record for a book sold at auction, Sotheby’s said.
Philanthropist David Rubenstein purchased one of 11 surviving copies.
He “plans to share it with the American public by loaning it to libraries across the country, before putting it on long-term loan at one of them,” according to Sotheby’s.”
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3. Normally I stay away from stories like this, but I’m making an exception. The reason being that it exposes the lie about not “recruiting.” Let’s face it, these minors were preyed upon at what was supposed to be a safe place for them. The fact that the President has honored one of these individuals also makes it newsworthy.
And yes, a big ol’ Content Warning!!!
From LifeSiteNews “An openly homosexual teenager, who was given a position as an “adviser” to Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and honored by President Barack Obama at a White House “gay pride” dinner, has been indicted on more than a dozen counts of sexual misconduct with a minor under the age of 15.
Caleb Laieski, now 18, was 17 at the time of the alleged abuse. His alleged victim, a close friend he met on TrevorSpace (a social media site for children and young adults aged 13-24 who have an interest in homosexuality), was only 14 at the time. The younger boy said the sex was consensual, but that he felt “pressured” to participate. However, Arizona law says no one younger than 15 is capable of giving consent.”
“In an unusual twist, Laieski is also considered a victim in the case, since at least some of the charges stem from a three-way sexual encounter the boys had with 43-year-old Chris Wilson, an openly homosexual Phoenix police officer who was arrested more than a year ago and is now in jail awaiting trial for his role in the abuse of both children. Although Laieski was a minor at the time, his participation in sex acts with the younger boy violate state law, which says it is a crime for older minors to have sexual contact with children under the age of 15.”
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4. The hits just keep comin’ for Common Core.
From EAGNews ” On the heels of a controversial children’s book about Barack Obama – which stated “white voters would never vote for a black president” and that “Barack’s former pastor” said “God would damn the United States for mistreating its black citizens” – comes a new lesson that casts America’s 44th president in a messianic light. Literally. And – surprise – it’s Common Core-aligned.
The lesson plan and accompanying visual presentation were authored by Sherece Bennett, and is for sale on TeachersPayTeachers.com. It’s all based on a book titled, “Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope,” by Nikki Grimes.”
“Another excerpt from the book reads: “Before dawn each morning, Barry rose – his mother’s voice driving him from dream land. ‘Time for learning English grammar and the Golden Rule. Be honest, be kind, be fair,’ she taught him.”
The story continues: “One morning, he slipped on the name he’d been born with. The name of his father, Barack. For the first time in his life, he wore it proudly – like a coat of many colors.”
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5. While they may place him high on a pedestal, some see him in a different light. 🙂
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Wandering Views 
From CBS Minnesota, via Drudge:
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/11/27/group-american-held-in-dubai-for-online-parody/
?MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Woodbury family is fighting to get their son out of a prison in Abu Dhabi. He’s been living in Dubai for the last seven years working as a business consultant.
But 29-year-old Shezanne Cassim was put in prison because the government didn’t like a parody video he posted on YouTube.
His family says he made it with some friends as a spoof about young people in Dubai.
United Arab Emirates officials say it violates cybercrimes law and poses a threat to national security.
The video was uploaded in October of last year. And then in April of this year, Cassim and four others who appear in it were thrown in jail.
In June, they were moved to a maximum-security prison.
Cassim’s parents, brother and sister have taken turns visiting him in Abu Dhabi. They say he is sharing a cell with his four friends and has lost a lot of weight.”
EVERYBODY should know that when you leave the USA, there is no freedom of speech. That is especially true in Muslim countries. But also in most socialists countries, like China and Russia. In those places you are guilty until you can prove your innocence, or more likely in Mexico & similar places, pay the police and judges the fines they ask.
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So I am sitting here watching the Today Show and there is a segment where Chinese couples who cannot have children on their own are hiring an American Surrogate. It is advertised to them about the 14th Amendment so these children leave with an American birth certificate, a Social Security Card, etc.
Can no one see down the road when these Chinese raised American Citizens return?
Are we headed to our first Chinese President?
OH and yeah, they are doing gender selection. I know you will be surprised to know they all want boys.
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They depend on boys to support them in their old age. That used to be the atitude in America, but the culture has changed that.
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