Archive for December, 2013

ObamaCare/Covered California: How Things Are Going In Pictures

Tuesday, December 31st, 2013

Covered California Payment“Covered CA Thx. Finally received a bill in today’s mail but cannot login and pay.” –Hugo Campos@Twitter

Covered CA“Oh Wait. @CoveredCA and @CA EDD are the same. After partially waiting in queue…” –Melissa DelaCalzada@Twitter

Covered CA IlliteracyCovered California Illiteracy –Image: Lady Goodman@Twitter

Covered California Error Message“Uh Oh! Many people expressing frustration and receiving error messages like this.” Image: Gisela M Perez@Twitter

What Others Are Saying…

@Covered CA: “We need to find someone on the inside. This hold music is going to cause health problems.” –Redwood Girl@Twitter

@Redwood Girl: “Try calling the VA sometime. Worst hold music EVER & incredibly long waits.” –The Real John Seal@Twitter

“I’m a HUGE supporter of the ACA but the @CoveredCA website is a disgrace and no one answers the phone or online chat.”
Scott Nevins@Twitter

ObamaCare New Years Eve Ball Drop…

Tuesday, December 31st, 2013

ObamaCare Rate ShockNew Years Eve Ball Drop…
Image: Yogi Love/American Spectator@Twitter

Nancy Pelosi, Why Have the Taxpayers Spent Nearly $1 Million to Fund Hardcore Porn Project?

Monday, December 30th, 2013

Nancy Pelosi Cupboard is Bare

Flashback: Do you remember when House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claimed “The cupboard is bare. There is no more cuts (in the federal budget) to make.”

The Daily Caller reported yesterday, The Natl Endowment  for the Humanities has provided nearly $1 Million of taxpayer dollars since 2010 to “The Popular Romance Project” which claims to be an academic program to “explore the fascinating and often contradictory origins and influences of popular romance as told in novels, films, comics, (sex) advice books songs and Internet fan fiction.”

The Popular Romance Project plans according to Financial Content: Govt Waste 2013 My Tax Dollars Went WHERE is to “bring new audiences into the conversation about the nature of love, romance and their expressions in novels and popular culture more broadly,” through 4 programs:

  • A documentary entitled “Love Between the Covers”;
  • An interactive website dedicated to romance and romance novels;
  • An academic symposium (I wonder what will go on there, I digress) on ‘the past and future of the romance novel’ hosted by the Library of Congress of all agencies–another really poor expenditure of taxpayers money;
  • A ‘nationwide series of library programs dealing with the past, present and future of the romance novel’ with a traveling exhibit–what like The Moving Wall Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

What could ever go wrong with that? Good Grief!

Related: Feds Spent $180,000 on Booze Ahead of Govt Slimdown

NIH Spent $224,250 to Change How Latino Children Order Food

Showcase ObamaCare/Covered California Puts 500,000 Users Personal Information at Risk

Monday, December 30th, 2013

Covered CaliforniaObamaCare/Covered California Website User Gets This Garbage
Image: Alexandra Fiona-Dixon@Twitter

(Reddit) Showcase ObamaCare California puts 500,000 users personal information at risk of hijacking.

Related: California Medicaid Braces for New Years Day Disruptions

Covered California Asks Obama to Address Undocumented Aliens

NY Times Benghazi Propaganda: One Must Ignore Reality of What We Know Today to Believe

Monday, December 30th, 2013

BenghazigateNew York Times’ Benghazi Fairy Tale Written For Hillary 2016
Image: Yid With Lid

For one to actually believe the New York Times whitewash of Benghazi one would first have to ignore earlier reporting by the New York Times and the reality that the video, allegedly to blame for the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi which I wrote about here was a very poorly made, rather stupid low quality production filmed in Santa Clarita, California and more likely than not, unseen by the Islamic Jihad Terrorist Thugs before the September 11 attack and most Americans subsequently.

Related: The NY Times Benghazi Revisionism –Front Page

CBS News Sharyl Attkisson Addresses NY Times Report on Benghazi

Completely False: Sources on Ground in Benghazi Challenge NYT Report

HHS: How Many of the 1.1 Million ObamaCare Enrollments Have Paid Their First Months Premiums or Have Been Enrolled in Medicaid?

Sunday, December 29th, 2013

5.5 Million Ins CancellationsHealth Insurance Cancellations As a Result of ObamaCare Mandates
Image: The Kelly File@Facebook

The Dept of Health & Human Services quietly in their blog posted today that “More than 1.1 Million people enrolled in a qualified health plan via the federally facilitated marketplace from October 1 to December 24,” seemingly to tout the success of ObamaCare but failed to account for all of the others, whose health insurance policies have been canceled because of the ACA federal mandates or have released data showing:

(a) how many of those 1.1 Million have actually paid their first months premiums;

(b) how many of those 1.1 Million enrolled in Medi-Cal/Medicaid?

High Taxed New York, Soon to Trail No State Income Tax Florida in Population

Saturday, December 28th, 2013

NY Times Opposes First Imcome TaxNew York Times Opposed First Income Tax
Image: Bastiat Institute/Ken Gardner@Twitter

(NY Times) New York which has long been recognized for its progressive and high income taxes will soon fall behind no state income tax Florida which may carry serious political and economic consequences in coming years.

Obamanomics: NYC Homeless Shelters Swell With Record High Populations

Saturday, December 28th, 2013

Christmas Dinner--Great DepressionChristmas Dinner of Turnips & Cabbage During 1930’s Great Depression
Image: Historical Pictures@Twitter

NYC BreadlineNew York City Breadline During ‘The Great Depression’ in 1931
Image: Rami Kiwan@Twitter

Progressive Liberal DetroitDetroit Present Day–How’s that Progressive/Liberalism Working Out For You? –Image: Monica@Twitter

(Wall Street Journal) New York City homeless shelters are swelling with record high populations not seen since The Great Depression.

Isn’t It Ironic That Climate Scientists Studying Global Warming are Trapped in Antarctic Ice

Saturday, December 28th, 2013

Climate Scientists Stuck on Antarctic IceAkademik Shokalsky Stuck in Antarctic Ice Waiting on Chinese Icebreaker Xue Long –Image: TODAY Online@Twitter

(The Guardian) Climate Scientist Chris Turney of the University of South Wales who is leading the global warming expedition may have seen better days.

The Chinese icebreaker Xue Long that was attempting to reach the crippled Climate Science vessel came within 6 nautical miles before becoming stuck in heavy ice itself according to CNN World and is now waiting on the arrival of a French icebreaker hoping to reach the other ships without becoming Antarctic’s ice latest casualty.

On the 10 December, I wrote here that a record low temperature of minus 135 degrees were recorded in Antarctica this year while “Greenpeace” warned Virginia that Christmas may be canceled due to Global Warming.

Related: From the NY Times Vault: Climatology Is?? –Junk Science.com

Covered California Website Issues Persist, What Other’s Are Saying…

Friday, December 27th, 2013

Covered CaliforniaCovered California: Looks Like There Are Some Glitches
Amy Otto@Twitter

What Other’s Are Saying…

“CoveredCA, I still get the error submitting on multiple browsers. Doubt its a browser problem at 4:26 AM on Christmas=Can’t be a traffic issue.” –April@Twitter

“Does the Covered CA take forever to verify information? Or did I break it? Sorry.” RL Miller@Twitter

Thwarted Consumers Vent About Problems With Covered California

“California’s ObamaCare website a horrific mess on last day for sign-ups. Its impossible.” –Hardline Stance@Twitter

Related: CBS Sacramento Exaggerates Enrollment in Covered California

Buten or Butten? Covered CA Misspellings Don’t Inspire Confidence

Covered California Applicants Can’t Get Confirmations on Health Ins