What’s interesting in the news today?
1. ObamaCare?… Affordable Care Act?…….
Nope, doesn’t ring a bell…..
From NationalReview “At this point, the real action of 2014 will be in the red state Senate races in Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, South Dakota, and Montana. Unsurprisingly, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee isn’t so eager to talk about Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act — at least on their home page.
The only reference to “health” on the DSCC home page right now is a John Walsh tweet that “#MT can’t afford ppl like @SteveDaines who don’t believe in a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions” and a generic “war on women” blog post that claims “We must do everything in our power to protect women’s rights and women’s health.”
The words “Affordable Care Act” and “Obamacare” do not currently appear on the home page of the DSCC web site, nor do the words “exchange” or “insurance” or any other reference to the president’s signature domestic legislation, impacting families, workers, and businesses right now.”
As if we’d let them get off that easy. 🙄
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2. This is what Democrats consider success. This is also why having your state running one of these debacles is a bad idea. Thankfully I live in a state that refused.
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3. Four minutes. That’s how long it took to hack HealthCare.gov.
From TheDailyCaller “David Kennedy, the hacking expert that shook the country this week with his congressional testimony about the security failures of HealthCare.gov, explained Sunday how he was able to penetrate the site.
“There’s a technique called, what we call ‘passive reconnaissance,’” Kennedy explained to “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, “which allows us to query and look at how the website operates and performs.”
“And these type of attacks that I’m mentioning here, and the 70,000 [personal records Kennedy found] that you’re referencing, is very easy to do,” Kennedy continued. “It’s a rudimentary type attack that doesn’t actually attack the website itself. It extracts information from it without actually having to go into the system.”
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4. The walk back.
From TheWeeklyStandard “New York governor Andrew Cuomo came under fire for criticizing pro-life and pro-Second Amendment citizens of his state — and saying “that is not who New Yorkers are.”
“Now his office is backtracking and insisting that the governor said “‘it is fine’ to be anti-gun control, and anti-choice – as he respects both positions.
The video at the link demonstrates otherwise, in his own words.
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5. Here’s a fun one.
From Time “See how your preferences in dogs, Internet browsers, and 10 other items predict your partisan leanings.”
I’m 87% conservative.
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Wandering Views 
5. Why does liking cats make you liberal and dogs make you conservative? Cats are independent, logical, self-sufficient while dogs tend to be are over-emotional deadbeats Plus, according to Drill, dogs in Chicago vote democrat .
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I must be a radical Aj, I”m 94% conservative.
I gather from his interview with Greta, that Shaun Hennity is thinking of leaving NY.
Probably for the same reason Rush did. But Rush doesn’t need TV.
Glenn Beck moved to Dallas.
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I never could understand spelling “Shaun”, “Sean”.
I’ve never known a real person by that name.
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I’ve known multiple Sean’s — perhaps it’s a generational thing!
I got 85% conservative–which is probably fairly accurate!
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I guess I’m the commie here. I only got 82% conservative. Darn Cats!
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KBells, it’s ok. You are still more conservative than I am. I got 78%
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88% conservative here. Messy desk, cats over dogs (only slightly), documentaries over action films, and one other I don’t remember right now gave me liberal leanings. The other eight were conservative, and a lot of those were on the far end of the scale, while the liberal ones were close to the center.
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Oh, I remember the other liberal one: Google Chrome. ??
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87% conservative. No surprise.
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apparently liking fusion cuisine, art, Google Chrome and having a messy desk reduces me to 84% conservative…
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The messy desk thing was silly. I mean, as a conservative, who has time to clean a desk? There are guns to buy, vast right wing conspiracy meetings, voters to disenfranchise and this “war on women” is taking up a lot of my desk cleaning time. And of course, i have to feed the cats.
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I love you, Kbells. You put things so very well! 🙂
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Exactly kBells. 😉
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I got 77% conservative. My friends and family would be surprised to find out I am so liberal.
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89% liberal! 🙂
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I’m a Confederate and I only got 86% conservative. I didn’t understand the relevancy of the questions on pets and restaurants.
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I have often wished I was as clever as KBells. She cracks me up.
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I got 78% conservative – which wouldn’t be a surprise to some of you 😛 It bothered me that there was no middle ground to the questions, like the cats and dogs one – I am neutral on which would be the preferable pet, as I own neither and if I were to have pets, I would probably get one of each. And the question about Times Square vs. the art museum, what was that all about? I would visit both if I had the chance, as my curiosity streak is about a mile wide.
That’s the other thing that bothered me about the survey, the quote from the professor who said that liberals were more open to new experiences – my family is very conservative, morally and fiscally, yet they have an immense interest in learning about other countries, cultures and languages. In fact, if we were to go by what that professor said and say the majority of tourists were liberal, than I would say from the tourists I have encountered that most liberals have no real interest in really understanding other cultures, as most of them ignore the new culture and occupy themselves with their own interests.
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I’m 87% conservative too. My “liberal qualities” are:
You have a messy desk
You like fusion cuisine
You use a modern browser
KBells, thanks for the great laugh!
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I’m at 78% as well.
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Man this place is just crawlin’ with libs. 🙂
KBells,
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Exactly!
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I’m 88% liberal ……
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HRW and Roy are our only liberals???
We don’t hear from Roy much, so HRW has to bear the load.
She does a good job.
Makes me think sometime.
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LOL, KBells! 🙂
We haven’t heard from CB in quite a while. She has said she’s a moderate, hasn’t she? I’m curious where she would be placed on the liberal/conservative scale according to this test.
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Congratulations, Chas! You won.
Tychicus, I hope you get to see The Game tonight. I am nervous. The Spurs handle the absence of injured players well. The Thunder can struggle without Westbrook.
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I opened the survey on Google chrome and it didn’t work!
So, I guess that means I am, neither?
Or, more likely, incompetent!
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Michelle, That may give you a higher score than Chas.
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I’m a proud conservative, but I’m sure part of the score is because I’m an old codger.
😆
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RW: I saw most of the game (after entertaining missionary kids). It looks like the Thunder have the Spurs’ number, but we’ll see what happens in a couple of months when (hopefully) the teams are at full strength. I tell you, that Reggie Jackson always does better against the Spurs than Westbrook!
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84%: messy, Met, server, documentaries
Dogs go to conservatives because dogs are real and they care about others.
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My cats are very real. One just bit me.
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