What’s interesting in the news today?
1. ObamaCare is/will make it harder for some to get insurance.
From FoxNews “Here’s more fallout from the health care law: Until now, customers could walk into an insurance office or go online to buy standard health care coverage any time of year. Not anymore.
Many people who didn’t sign up during the government’s open enrollment period that ended Monday will soon find it difficult or impossible to get insured this year, even if they go directly to a private company and money is no object. For some it’s already too late.
With limited exceptions, insurers are refusing to sell to individuals after the enrollment period for HealthCare.gov and the state marketplaces. They will lock out the young and healthy as well as the sick or injured. Those who want to switch plans also are affected. The next wide-open chance to enroll comes in November for coverage in 2015.
It’s a little-noted consequence of President Obama’s health care overhaul, which requires nearly all Americans to be insured or pay a fine and requires insurers to accept people with health problems.”
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2. More ObamaCare shenanigans. I wonder if these are counted in the 7 million number? I’m thinking probably yes.
From TheSharkTank “In the closing days of the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was mailing out letters notifying certain Americans that they had already started a healthcare coverage application on their behalf.
The HHS letter stated that the information they used to begin the application for individual Healthcare was obtain by the state agency in charge of implementing Obamacare.
The next step for the individual would be visit Healthcare.gov and complete the already started application to see if they qualify for “Marketplace coverage.”
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3. Not shocking.
From IJReview “Obama’s ‘Champion Of Change’ Amnesty Advocate Indicted For What Else? Immigration Fraud!”
“Bonnie M. Youn, who Obama’s White House touts on its website as “a recognized Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) community leader in Georgia,” was indicted on three criminal charge counts in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division on April 1, according to publicly filed court documents.
The first indictment count alleges Youn committed perjury with regard to an alien illegally in the United States. The second indictment count alleges that Youn violated a federal immigration law that prohibits bringing illegal aliens into the United States and harboring them, alleging she did so “for the purpose of commercial advantage and private financial gain.” The third indictment count alleges Youn illegally tampered with witness testimony, specifically alleging she influenced the illegal alien—whose identity is kept anonymous in the indictment—to provide false information about employment in the United States to federal agents.
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4. UNC has a scandal on it’s hands, besides the one in the athletic dept. They’re being accused of religious profiling.
From AccuracyInAcademia “At the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Dr. Mike Adams teaches crime — but he never dreamed he’d be the victim of one. Unfortunately for the assistant professor, that all changed when his ideology did. When he was hired as a criminology expert 21 years ago, Adams was an avowed and outspoken atheist — a worldview that was shaken to the core when Mike went to visit a prisoner on death row in 2000. The convict, a mentally handicapped man, had read the entire Bible — something Adams had never done. He resolved then and there to change that — and when he did, Mike was completely transformed.
The once-vocal liberal became a passionate follower of Christ, a conversion that ultimately bled over into his political beliefs. Over time, he started writing columns and doing media appearances from a conservative perspective — infuriating UNCW’s forces of political correctness in the process. Like most universities, the faculty was a fraternity of liberals, who insist on diversity but practice anything but. After a slew of awards and accolades for his work, Mike applied for a full professorship in 2006.
Despite a glowing record, the University turned down his application. Apparently, the only promotion UNCW is interested in is the promotion of the liberal agenda. As his lead attorney, David French, writes in NRO, administrators engaged in the fiercest kind of viewpoint discrimination. It was “a process where they applied a made-up promotion standard that contradicted the faculty handbook, passed along false information about his academic record, deceptively edited documents to influence the faculty vote, explicitly discussed his constitutionally protected viewpoint, and allowed a faculty member with an obvious and outrageous conflict of interest to cast a vote against him.” At one point, the University even launched an underground investigation (at the request of a transgender group) to determine if the professor was “transphobic.”
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5. Good question.
From MercuryNews “Why did state Sen. Leland Yee escape terrorism charges?”
“Shocking enough are the allegations that a long-perceived unassuming state senator tried brokering an international arms deal with military-style rifles and rocket launchers, but Leland Yee may have narrowly escaped an even more ominous label: supporter of terrorism.
Yee, whose arrest after an FBI undercover sting shook the California political world last week, would likely have been charged with aiding terrorists if not for a bureaucratic label missing from the militant Filipino group that he is accused of sourcing for an international arms deal, counterterrorism experts told this newspaper.
His ties to the group, whose leader has said he personally met with Osama Bin Laden, are spelled out in a 137-page affidavit. It accuses Yee and two associates of conspiring with an undercover FBI agent posing as a Mafia gangster to purchase up to $2.5 million in weapons from a source with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines.”
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6. Cummings has obstructed this investigation since the start. He should be looked at more closely, as should his witness tampering ways.
From TheWashingtonExaminer “House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked the panel’s top Democrat to disclose communications between his office and the lawyer for former IRS official Lois Lerner, who faces contempt charges before the committee.
In a letter to ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., Issa said it was vital for him to share what he learned from interviewing her attorney, William W. Taylor III.
The panel is investigating Lerner — who headed the Exempt Organizations division of the agency when it controversially targeted conservative groups — and will vote on contempt charges on the grounds that she has refused to cooperate with the probe.
“As you know, Mr. Taylor’s position with regard to Ms. Lerner’s willingness to cooperate with the committee has changed several times,” Issa wrote. “So that all members of the committee can have a better understanding of Mr. Taylor’s current position, please disclose any communications that you or your staff have had with Mr. Taylor.”
He’s more interested in protecting a Democrat president than he is in getting the truth.His actions don’t pass the smell test.
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Wandering Views 
Here is a book to give to your favorite tree hugger:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/10748667/The-game-is-up-for-climate-change-believers.html
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How many rats do you need before it’s officially a pack? We gotta whole lotta rats here.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/al-sharpton-764312
“The former mob snitch has become a regular in the White House, where he has met with the 44th president in the East Room, the Roosevelt Room, and the Oval Office. He has also attended Obama Christmas parties, speeches, policy announcements, and even watched a Super Bowl with the First Family (an evening the man has called “one of the highlights of my life”). During these gatherings, he has mingled with cabinet members, top Obama aides, military leaders, business executives, and members of Congress. His former confederates were a decidedly dicier lot: ex-convicts, extortionists, heroin traffickers, and mob henchmen. The man’s surreptitious recordings, FBI records show, aided his government handlers in the successful targeting of powerful Mafia figures with nicknames like Benny Eggs, Chin, Fritzy, Corky, and Baldy Dom.
Later this week, Obama will travel to New York and appear in a Manhattan hotel ballroom at the side of the man whom FBI agents primarily referred to as “CI-7”–short for confidential informant #7–in secret court filings. In those documents, investigators vouched for him as a reliable, productive, and accurate source of information about underworld figures.
The ex-informant has been one of Obama’s most unwavering backers, a cheerleader who has nightly bludgeoned the president’s Republican opponents in televised broadsides. For his part, Obama has sought the man’s counsel, embraced him publicly, and saluted his “commitment to fight injustice and inequality.” The president has even commented favorably on his friend’s svelte figure, the physical manifestation of a rehabilitation effort that coincided with Obama’s ascension to the White House. This radical makeover has brought the man wealth, a daily TV show, bespoke suits, a luxury Upper West Side apartment, and a spot on best seller lists.
Most importantly, he has the ear of the President of the United States, an equally remarkable and perplexing achievement for the former FBI asset known as “CI-7,” the Rev. Al Sharpton.”
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More on that Obama speaking at the snitch’s NAN conference of community organizers here.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/obama-headline-al-sharptons-nan-conference
“President Obama is lending his political support to fellow community organizer Al Sharpton by headlining the MSNBC host’s National Action Network (NAN) conference this week in New York. Obama’s choice to headline the conference underscores the close ties of the two leaders and provides an increased sense of political legitimacy to the controversial leader and his much-maligned organization.
Sharpton’s conference is held in April “not just to commemorate the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, but to honor his legacy by proactively engaging in dialogue that will spawn change.” The NY Daily News reports that along with President Obama, the conference will feature other high-profile liberal leaders, including US Attorney General Eric Holder, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
Over the years Sharpton’s organization has been accused of engaging in questionable financial practices, including using the threat of boycotts to extort donations from corporations and land Sharpton consultant positions. As the New York Post reported in 2008, nearly 50 companies—including GM, Pepsi and Wal-Mart, and some labor unions—had donated to NAN. The NY Post attributes many of these donations to extortionist tactics:
“Terrified of negative publicity, fearful of a consumer boycott or eager to make nice with the civil-rights activist, CEOs write checks, critics say, to NAN and Sharpton – who brandishes the buying power of African-American consumers.” In some cases, they hire him as a consultant.”
The govt takes care of it snitches pretty good huh? It appears it even allows them to continue with their own extortion racket to keep the info coming.
Like I said, ALOT of rats.
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We took Mozilla off our computers today. Anyone else planning to take action?
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More on Putin from World Magazine columnist:
http://www.worldmag.com/2014/04/does_god_take_sides
” … As Western civilization comes apart, strange bedfellows appear. Dinesh D’Souza’s 2007 book, The Enemy at Home, posed the startling thesis that the cultural left is a far greater threat to our nation than radical Islam—that the left had, in fact, encouraged that very radicalism, and we should foster alliances with moderate Muslims on moral grounds. This wasn’t the way to talk while our troops were fighting house-to-house in Fallujah, and D’Souza got dumped on. But he had a point, and so does Pat Buchanan, and yet …
” … We must be careful who we align with, whether in body or in spirit. Family values are not God’s ultimate purpose; His kingdom is.”
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I believe The Enemy at Home was the most important book written after 9/11. D’Souza understands both radical and moderate Muslims and he understands other traditional people in poorer countries.
After 9/11, Little Bush told us that radical Muslims hated us “because of our freedom”. D’Souza carefully researched the speeches and writings of radical Muslims and proved this was not the case. They hate the US because of our culture of pornography, perversion, radical feminism and drunkenness. They also hate us because our government and our media are spreading abortion, perversion and the other worst elements of our culture to the rest of the world. It was this case against the US that resonated with so many moderate Muslims and other traditional people around the world.
Right now the Russian people are very proud that Putin and Russia are standing for Christian morality against the outcry of the perverted US and its allies. Who can blame them? I hope other countries will follow Russia’s lead and try to prevent the promotion of perversion to minors.
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they hate us because we are not Muslim. Each Muslim is charged with the talk of converting all infidels. That is convert or kill all unbelievers where we find them.
Just as Jesus charged all Christians to go into the world and preach the gospel, so Muslims have been charged by Mohammed to go through the world and make converts.
The difference is that except for unscriptural perversions of the charge, like the Crusades and inquisitions, Christianity has made converts by proclaiming Christ.
The “Bloody borders of Islam” tells that they make and retain their religion by force.
Indeed, it is Muslims that go on jihad. For the unlearned, some mullahs try to say it is a spiritual war, but you don’t get 72 shamed faced virgins by a spiritual war.
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