Bob's Rants......

2019-05-21T11:13:00.002-05:00

Who Pays The Most Taxes?

When you mention taxes, the Democrats pull a tired, old and stale page out of their playbook...'the wealthy need to pay their fair share. The rich should share more of the burden. Tax cuts favor the rich.' The truth is, and Democrats know this, the wealthiest among us do pay their fair share and more.

The top 1 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted annual gross income of $480,930 or higher, pay about 39 percent of federal income taxes. That means some 892,000 Americans are stuck with paying 39 percent of all federal taxes. Consider this:

The top 10 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted gross income over $138,031, pay about 70.6 percent of federal income taxes. That is, about 1.7 million Americans, less than 1 percent of our population, pay 70.6 percent of federal income taxes. Is that fair, or do you think they should pay more? (By the way, earning $500,000 a year doesn’t make one rich. It’s not even yacht money.)

But the fairness question goes further. The bottom 50 percent of income earners, those having an adjusted gross income of $39,275 or less, pay 2.83 percent of federal income taxes.Thirty-seven million tax filers have no tax obligation at all. The Tax Policy Center estimates that 45.5 percent of households will not pay federal income tax this year.

So, when you hear the cries from the liberal left that the rich should pay more, it's nothing more than income distribution, the Robin Hood syndrome...steal from the rich to give to the poor. It's the rich that create the jobs in this country. A lot of what they earn goes back in to the businesses they've built which translates into jobs. Take that money away and less people will work.

Why the Democrats wish to punish success, I'll never understand.

2019-04-12T20:37:00.002-05:00

Deport Illegals...To Sanctuary Cities

There's some nonsense going around about the president floating a plan to take illegal aliens storming the border and 'deporting ' them to our wonderful sanctuary cities...San Fransisco comes to mind. Well why not? After all, sanctuary cities have often boasted about being open for illegals and they gladly welcome them.

But, wait. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose district is San Fran and is the queen of the open border crowd, has had a change of heart. She has had a typical liberal meltdown calling the plan "despicable." While she loves her illegal aliens, she doesn't want them in her back yard. She rails against a wall at the border to keep aliens out, but she has a wall around her mansion...to keep them out.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

While there already are lots of illegals in sanctuary cities, the fact is these cities are being taxed economically as it is. A major push of additional people will will really squeeze them. They talk big about being the saviors of the downtrodden and depressed, but because they offer them "free' everything, from health care, food, education and more, they are strapped.

liberal causes.

Oakland, Ca. Mayor Libby Schaaf, who famously warned illegals in her city of pending ICE raids so they could run and hide, joined in the meltdown calling Trump's plan "not American." Are the illegal loving Democrats having a change of heart?

Pelosi and the Democrats are being hypocritical (what's new) by pushing for open borders but then not wanting these people in their cities. The truth is, all they really want is VOTES. And therein lies the rub. Why dump hundreds of thousands of illegals in sanctuary cities to give the Democrats what they really want, years of votes for liberal causes. Immigrants will soon realize that these places of paradise can't afford to keep them and they will begin to migrate to other cities in the U.S.

This is not a good idea. Once they're here, they're here for good. And the burden of keeping them will be on us.

Was Trump Always The Target? An opinion.

2019-01-13T16:00:00.003-06:00

The following is an opinion piece, written by Andrew McCarthy, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and a columnist for National Review, and published on Fox News.com

on 1/13/19. This is a must read. Mr. McCarthy spells out in great detail the activities of the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) in their efforts to thwart the presidency of Donald J.Trump.

Andrew McCarthy: FBI Russia investigation was always about Trump

By Andrew McCarthy | Fox News

New York Times: FBI investigated whether Trump was secretly working for Russia just days after James Comey's firing.

On Friday night, the New York Times published what was clearly intended to be a blockbuster report that, following the firing of FBI director James Comey on May 9, 2017, the bureau formally opened an investigation of President Trump. But in truth, the only thing the story shows is that the FBI, after over a year of investigation, simply went overt about something that had been true from the first. The investigation commenced during the 2016 campaign by the Obama administration – the Justice Department and the FBI – was always about Donald Trump.

We have to remember: The FBI believed the Steele dossier – the collection of faux intelligence reports compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, who was ultimately working for the Hillary Clinton campaign. The Justice Department on four occasions brought surveillance applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), in which the FBI swore that it believed the dossier allegations.

Ostensibly, the surveillance application targeted Carter Page. But Page was just a side issue. The dossier was principally about Trump – not Page, not Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen, or other Trump associates referred to by Steele. The dossier’s main allegation was that Trump was in an espionage conspiracy with Russia to swing the election to Trump, after which Trump would do Putin’s bidding from the White House. The FBI and the Obama Justice Department could not verify the dossier, but they undeniably believed it.

If you believe the dossier, then of course Trump is the main focus of the probe.

The FBI and DOJ knew this would be controversial – the incumbent administration spying on the opposition campaign in the absence of corroborated evidence of a crime. So, they designed the investigation in a way that allowed them to focus on Trump without saying they were doing so. Before Trump was elected, they papered the files to indicate that they were focusing on the Trump campaign or people connected to it, like Page and Papadopoulos. This way, they could try to collect evidence about Trump without formally documenting that Trump was the target.

After Trump was elected, the FBI realized that Trump was soon going to have access to government intelligence files. If they honestly told the president-elect that they had been investigating his campaign in hope of making a case on him, they had to be concerned that he would shut the investigation down and clean house at the FBI and DOJ. So, they misleadingly told him the investigation was about Russia and a few stray people in his campaign, but they assured him he personally was not under investigation.

Because the FBI did not have solid evidence of a crime, they did it under counterintelligence authority rather than criminal authority – calculating that the cover of probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 election would enable them to keep investigating while they tried to tighten up the obstruction case or find some other criminal offense.

This was not true. The investigation was always hoping to find something on Trump. That is why, for example, when director Comey briefed then-President-elect Trump about the Steele dossier, he told Trump only about the salacious allegation involving prostitutes in a Moscow hotel; he did not tell the president-elect either that the main thrust of the dossier was Trump’s purported espionage conspiracy with the Kremlin, nor that the FBI had gone to the FISC to get surveillance warrants based on the dossier. The FBI was telling the president-elect that the allegations were salacious and unverified, yet at that very moment they were presenting them to a federal court as information the judges could rely on to authorize spying.

Later, though Comey repeatedly told President Trump he was not a suspect, he gave House testimony patently geared to lead the public and the media to believe Trump was a suspect – which is exactly how the media reported it. In so doing, the FBI (and the Obama holdovers in the Justice Department who authorized Comey’s testimony) violated DOJ rules about publicly confirming the existence of an investigation, and publicly identifying a subject of an investigation: the Trump campaign, which Comey publicly announced was suspected of “coordinating” in the Kremlin’s widely reported cyberespionage interference in the 2016 campaign.

Comey’s firing on May 9, 2017, was not the start of an investigation of Trump. It was the point when the FBI and Justice Department rashly determined that they finally had a crime to pin on Trump — obstruction. In their haste and overconfidence, they rationalized that (a) Comey’s firing must have been intended to impede the Russia investigation, and that they could couple this with; (b) the claim that Trump may have impeded the Flynn investigation – based on a memo Comey leaked to the New York Times a few days after his firing.

Legally, none of this was obstruction. Yet, the FBI and Justice Department settled on this novel and flawed legal theory: Even though the president has constitutional authority to fire subordinates and weigh in on investigations, he may somehow still be prosecuted for obstruction if a prosecutor concludes that his motive was improper. Of course, even though he could have, Trump never actually took any steps to interfere in the investigations of Russia (which is still continuing) or Flynn (who later was indicted and pled guilty). Yet the FBI, hot-headed over the director’s dismissal, concluded that this obstruction theory was a sound enough basis to go overt with the case on Trump they had actually been trying to make for many months.

Remember, it is not just that the FBI formally opened an investigative file on Trump. There was talk between Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and acting FBI director Andrew McCabe of wiring up against the president — i.e., conducting covert surveillance to try to record Trump making damaging statements. There was also talk of invoking the 25th Amendment – of claiming Trump was too incapacitated to perform his duties. And finally, on May 17, Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel to pursue the Trump-Russia investigation.

But all of these steps were just a matter of finally being overt about something that had been true for over a year: The FBI was conducting a probe to try to make a criminal case on Trump. Because they did not have solid evidence of a crime, they did it under counterintelligence authority rather than criminal authority – calculating that the cover of probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 election would enable them to keep investigating while they tried to tighten up the obstruction case or find some other criminal offense.

Make no mistake, though: The investigation was always about Donald Trump, from Day One.

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review. @andrewcmccarthy

Class & Beauty vs. Uh...What Is She Wearing???

2019-01-01T20:04:00.000-06:00

It's no secret the Irrelevant News Media in this country has an obvious bias against Republicans and especially President Donald Trump. According to a recent Media Research Center study, coverage of the president was 92% negative.
That negativity has flowed over to the First Lady, Melania Trump, the media complaining about everything from her shoes and the boots she wore while visiting troops in Afghanistan this past Christmas. On the other hand they went gaga over boots Michele Obama recently wore that, paired with a yellow bed sheet she wrapped herself in, frankly made her look like a diseased banana. My opinion, of course.
Fashion Magazines, (Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, Elle to name a few) have also displayed their political bias in that Michelle Obama has been splashed all over the covers of these and other magazines while Melania has been ignored (I counted 51 covers Mrs. Obama has graced over years).
Not to say that the former First Lady is lacking in fashion sense, but the current First Lady is second to none.
I offer proof......

It's 2019, but we are stuck in 2018

2018-12-31T20:41:00.000-06:00

Thus, we begin the new year, having said goodbye to 2018, and we find the federal government still shutdown (well, 20% of it, big deal) which is really a good thing...Congress cannot foolishly spend 20% of taxpayer dollars and bureaucrats can't make stupid decisions as it relates to the shutdown. Democrats moaning that federal workers could not buy their kids Christmas presents was a farce because checks to those people went out on December 18th and when they return to work they will be paid retroactively anyway.
Despite what the Irrelevant News Media says, this was another Sen. Chuck Schumer shutdown. He has no interest in the safety and security of this country or he would have agreed to the measly $5B for the border wall. Schumer and the Democrats say walls don't work. They're right. Walls don't fit their agenda...walls keep people out. They want people in. In so they can expand their voter base. That's more important to the Schumers' and Nancy Pelosis' of the world than the safety and interests of the American people and our communities.
The fact is the Democrats dont want President Trump to come through on a campaign promise. This, despite the fact that Schumer, Pelosi, Obama and Clinton ALL agreed to a wall scenario in recent years and claimed immigrants had no business in this country illegally. Had President Obama demanded a wall be built while he was in office, Chuck Schumer would have been the first one at the border in his dungarees with nails and hammer in hand. The Democrat Party has become the party of hypocrisy.
This is sad. But it's what we must deal with going in to 2019. Let's hope the Democrats come to their senses and finally put Americans first.
Happy New Year!

Democrats, From a Party to a Mob

2018-10-11T12:05:00.000-05:00

The Democrats are no longer a party of ideas and solutions. They have none. It's actually been quite some time since they've had either.They no longer represent the districts that sent them to Washington D.C. They are obstructionists and antagonists. They are despicable people, pure and simple.
We have seen them falsely accuse an innocent man of sexual assault in Justice Brett Kavenaugh, and use, for political gain, Professor Christine Ford, Kavenaugh's accuser, who didn't want to be brought out publicly in the first place. Both lives have been tarnished forever.

The likes of Senators Diane Feinstein, Corey Booker, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Maxine Waters, Dick Durbin, Richard Blumenthal, Mazie Hirono et.al. cannot accept that their unruly and clownish acts to bring down Justice Kavenaugh failed. Now they are vowing to impeach him! The people's business be damned! Bury Kavenaugh! That's their agenda.

But to do that they must take back the House of Representatives on election day, Nov. 6th. Kavenaugh is not their only target. Destroying the Republican Party and the Constitution is their agenda and they will, and are, attempting to do this through civil discourse.
It's mob rule, and they have been conducting it since the 2016 election of Donald Trump.They have allowed their minions to accost and run Republican lawmakers and administration officials out of restaurants and to bully them on the streets. Their thugs have burned vehicles with Trump bumper stickers on them, and even attempted murder. One of their deranged lunatics tried to kill Republican Congressman Steve Scalise at a softball team practice. And while they decried the attempt on Scalise' life, they have done nothing to stop the civil unrest we are now witnessing. Another deranged individual attacked and injured Republican Senator Rand Paul. It won't be long before someone is killed.
And lets not forget the destructive antics of the leftist thug group, Antifa, which is quickly becoming the face of the Democrat Party.

Senators Booker, Harris, Waters and others have openly called for defiance and anger in the wake of the Kavenaugh hearings. Even Hillary Clinton has said civility can return when the Democrats return to power....this woman wanted to be president.Thank God he saw the wisdom in not allowing that to happen!

Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder has joined the fray saying, "When they go low, we kick em!" So much for Michelle Obama's "When they go low, we go high." Holder, who was found to be in contempt of Congress, has designs on the presidency. Good luck with that!

Conservatives and Republicans cannot allow this mob to take over. Imagine a Democrat-run Senate or House....everything that has been done will be undone. It will be mob rule and back to the draconian days of the Obama years. That's why it's more than important this midterm to go to the polls.For every liberal Democrat there needs to be three conservative Republicans...let's put them in their place. As President Trump has said, "You don't give an arsonist matches, and you don't give a mob power."

Enough....

2014-01-02T14:27:00.001-06:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR....ALSO,

2013-12-31T10:09:00.000-06:00

HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

The Government Accrding To Dr. Seuss.....

2013-12-28T16:04:00.000-06:00

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2014...What will It Bring....??

2013-12-27T11:34:00.000-06:00

Not to dampen the spirit of the new year, but here it goes anyway........
2014 will bring a bunch of new taxes and fees courtesy of our new found friend.......OBAMACARE.
Yep. Click the link to find out How Obamacare Will Tax Your Wallet

Obamacare will be the story of 2014 as it was in 2013, and even more so as it consumes more American's health care issues. In 2014 the employer mandate that got a one year reprieve will kick in. Millions of working folks who have employer based health insurance will be in for a rude awakening. Some will see the the amount taken out of their pay checks for insurance increase. Others may find their employer cutting certain benefits, like no longer offering spouse or family coverage. Then there is the possibility some employers my drop their health insurance plans altogether. A new day is dawning...and it's stormy and cloudy.

From My Family To Yours.....

2013-12-24T19:26:00.000-06:00

The NSA..We Might Have Known!

2013-12-22T23:14:00.000-06:00

The Season of Giving

2013-12-21T12:04:00.000-06:00

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND

News of the Strange and Bizarre and Wonder Woman, too

2013-12-17T16:05:00.005-06:00

After all the garbage in-garbage out emanating from Washington, D.C., we thought it was time for a bit of a change. After all, there is more news out there. So we went to BizarreNews.Org for other headlines of the day. Click the links to read more:

Are kids these days really this stupid?
Rise in alcohol poisoning amongst teens by ingesting hand sanitizer

This cat probably gets more done than the clowns in Washington
Cat has been mayor of Alaska town for 15 years

Gov. Chris Christie's most urgent crisis
New Jersey capital city running out of toilet paper

Taking 'junk food junkie' to a new level
Girl eats nothing but McDonald's chicken nuggets for 15 years, lives

This guy should have taken a tip from the McDonald's nuggets girl
Man wins dumpling eating contest, then dies

OMG! And you'll never guess what she did with it!
Woman charged with severing husband's penis

Finally....ever wonder what happened to Wonder Woman? Wonder no more.

Uh, later.......

POW! Take That, Mr. President!

2013-12-16T17:31:00.000-06:00

President Obama and his vaunted Obamacare train wreck program has received a punch in the nose from Scott Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin. Seems with all the issues with Obamacare

Gov. Scott Walker

and the 60 million policies that have been cancelled, Governor Walker has taken the bull by the horns for the people of his state. Read More: Gov. Walker's Obamacare Fix

It would seem this would put the president in a box. On the one hand Obama is not going to approve the Wisconsin plan. That would defeat the purpose of Obamacare, which is to evetually have total government control of every American's health care. On the other hand, and as the article above points out, the president boasts that his plan is the only one out there, that Republicans have not come forward with their own. Not true, the president just refuses to acknowledge them. But now that Governor Walker's plan is on the table, the president would show his true colors in shooting it down,which he will. There is no way Obama is going to let anything interfere with his wilfull disctruction of the world's best health care system.

Westjet Airlines' Amazing Christmas Gift

2013-12-15T17:55:00.000-06:00

While some are out there, once again, debunking the spirit of Christmas, there are many others celebrating it. Canada's Westjet Airlines has pulled off a spectacular Christmas event for one flight of passengers. The fact that they did it is amazing in itself, but the logistics, timing and the dedication to the project by Westjet's employees is truly fantastic. The video has gone viral, but if you haven't seen it, here it is. If you have, it's well worth another look.......

Job Well Done, Westjet! Merry Christmas...

The Christmas Season Brings Winter Wonderlands...

2013-12-13T15:49:00.000-06:00

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Memo To GOP: Take The Budget Deal!!

2013-12-12T16:22:00.000-06:00

The budget agreement hashed out by Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patti Murray is getting a not so happy greeting by either political party. House Speaker John Boehner is telling his troops to stop complaining and pass the deal. Conservative and Tea Party advocates are calling it a surrender since $60 million plus in sequester cuts are essentially repealed. Boehner says the plan

means more cuts over the next decade, some $84 million. There are those who are skeptical of that. Democrats are known for promising "down the road" cuts in spending, taxes, etc. but never come through. Tea Party favorite and possible presidential candidate, Senator Rand Paul has jumped on that. Read More: Rand Paul Nixes deal

Democrats, though, are also leery of this deal. Click the think to find out why House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is telling her minions to "Embrace The Suck!" (never a dull moment with that woman).

Despite Republican/conservative disdain for the deal, they need to take it. Here's why. Without a deal the government will go into another shutdown the middle of January (guess who will get the blame..again). After the usual continuing resolution is adopted and the government reopens, we trudge along until the next deadline comes, which will be in September, 2014. That's a crucial period

being just two months away from the mid-term elections and the Republicans don't need to be embroiled in another shutdown scare then. The Democrats and the media would like nothing more as it would take the attention off Obamacare. They are running scared because they know that it's the one issue they can't win. The GOP needs no other distractions.
Besides, Paul Ryan says at the moment this is the best deal they're going to get. Senator Harry "Dirty Tricks"
Reid is not going to bring any other bill up for a vote and Obama has the veto pen.

So, get on with it, pass the damn thing, get it off the table and concentrate on dropping the Obamacare bomb on the elections. Once Republicans retain the House and win the Senate, they can move forward. Reid will be a has been and Obama will be forced to moderate his hard core politics if he wants any of his agenda passed before he's put out to pasture in 2016.

Republicans Cave.......Again!

2013-12-11T14:42:00.000-06:00

This is getting old, but predictable. To avoid another government shutdown in mid-January, 2014, some sort of a agreement between the two parties needed to be brokered. A deal was struck, and as usual the Republicans caved in to the Democrats...what's new?

We travel back almost a year ago when the two sides couldn't get together on a budget deal. Missing the deadline something called a 'sequester' became part of the American lexicon. Automatic cuts went into effect.

With this 'new deal,' hatched by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., and House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis, some $63 billion in funding that had been cut by the sequester would be restored, meaning another increase in spending. But, not to worry. We're told that this

Rep. Paul Ryan & Sen. Patty Murray

$63 billion would be offset by cuts in spending and fees totalling about $85 billion which theoretically would leave a cut in the deficit of nearly $23 billion. Sounds good, right? Wrong! We have to remember who we're dealing with here.They're called Democrats. The $85 billion in cuts would come over a 10 year period. History tells that when the GOP makes this type of deal the Democrats never keep their end of it. If you think Senator Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi or anyone with the picture of a donkey on his or her back is going to cut anything......well, swampland, anyone? The truth is meaningful cuts won't happen as long as Democrats control two-thirds of the power structure in D.C. If the Republicans want to get something done that cuts spending and reduces the size of government they need to keep control of the House and grab the Senate. More thoughts on that later.

Conservative groups such as Heritage Action, through a USA column was not complimentary of the new Ryan-Murray brokered budget agreement:

“This budget deal creates a faux peace in Washington, D.C., while burdening taxpayers by sweeping the impending fiscal crisis under the rug," Amy Kremer, chairwoman of the Tea Party Express, said in a statement. "If the Sequestration was a baby step forward, this is a baby step backward."

Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity said Republicans who backed the plan would be joining Democrats in "breaking their word" to the American people about getting control of government spending:

“This budget compromise is not just bad policy, it is bad politics,” Phillips said, “The American people remember hard-won bipartisan spending limits set by the sequester, and are not pleased to see their conservative representatives so easily go back on their word to rein in government over-spending."

Even Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., was not impressed:.

“In the short run, this budget also cancels earlier spending reductions, instead of making some tough decisions about how to tackle our long-term fiscal challenges caused by runaway Washington spending."

These people and groups realize the Republicans again caved to the Democrats. Numerous others have spoken out as well. At the same time, House Speaker John Boehner has blasted those opposed to the deal. Read More: Boehner Goes Off On Conservative Groups

So, as usual, we find the Republicans in a familiar place..fractured.
First of all they have no backbone. They tend to get blamed by the Democrats for everything, even though it was not their fault. The recent government shut down comes to mind. They need to get a spine and learn to fight back, gain some ground and quit taking a beating. Second, they need to get over the in-fighting. The old line conservatives and the Tea Party groups have to come together for a common cause. As long as Boehner

Rep. John Boehner & Sen. Mitch McConnell

and Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell keep shutting out the Tea Party Representatives and Senators they will continue to lose battles and, more important, elections. Right now Democrats are handing the GOP a gift. It's called Obamacare. On this one issue the Republicans should be able to keep the House and take back the Senate in the 2014 mid-term elections.
But frankly, if they keep caving on issues and acting like siblings who can't get along, I don't see it happening.

Liberal Stupidity at Work....So What's New?

2013-12-10T17:17:00.000-06:00

I don't know about you, but I getting somewhat sick and tired of the so-called liberal progressives who seem hell-bent on destroying the fabric of this country, from their war on Christmas to their stupidity in the public schools. This Christmas season as in previous seasons we have seen their heads pop up out of the snow to attack "Christmas." It's not the Christmas season, it's the holiday season.

Heaven forbid we hurt the feelings of some foreigners who have taken refuge in this country by putting up "Christmas " trees! They prefer "holiday" trees, for crying out loud! You want to celebrate the way it's done in your country, fine. I'm all for it. Just don't intrude on mine. And that's what liberal progressives are trying to do.
These people have also taken their wacko ideas into the education system. It's no secret that liberalism runs rampant in our school systems. Colleges and universities are nothing more than bastions that regurgitate liberal ideologies. They brain wash future teachers who take it into the school systems and start the indoctrination as early as grade school. By the time a kid graduates from college he or she is tone deaf to any other thought until one day they wake up (some don't) and realize they've been had.

Everyday across this country there is a story about some kid getting kicked out of school because some liberally screwed up school administrator is out of control. Case in point, Click the link to read about a 6 Yr Old Boy Suspended From School - Kissed A Girl on the Cheek
Really!!??

A 9-year-old North Carolina boy was also suspended also facing the charge of sexual harassment. His offense was calling a teacher

"cute," and not to her face, but in a conversation with a friend and was overheard. I would have been in real trouble had this gone on in my day. I had a third grade teacher and a sixth grade teacher that were knock-outs. Under today's farcical rules there wouldn't have been a male one in either of these teachers classes.

The Talbot County, MD school district has some real winners for administrators. Two 6-year-old boys were suspended while playing cops and robbers during recess. They used their fingers to make imaginary guns. Bang, bang.

And even if you're a student who does a good thing, in the screwed up minds of these progressive nit-wits, you did a bad thing. This one made national news. In Fort Meyers earlier this year, a Florida teenager was suspended from his high school along with two others used force to disarm another student who allegedly pointed a loaded gun on a school bus threatening to shoot another student. The actions of these kids may have saved the life of one, and possibly other students. Instead of an all-school assembly praising these guys as heroes, they were given a suspension.

Fifth-graders in California who wore mortarboards with tiny toy plastic soldiers to support troops in Iraq were forced to cut off their

miniature weapons, while in Rhode Island, a kindergartner was suspended for bringing a plastic knife to school so he could cut cookies.

The list goes on and on. Everyday in this country a kid is being suspended from school for something small and inconsequential that some progressive minded principal deemed the deed a major crisis. Zero tolerance for certain acts is one thing, but zero tolerance and stupidity is something else. If these people put as much effort into the education of today's kids as they do this garbage, we'd have smarter kids.

Obamacare: If You Like Your Hospital...!!!

2013-12-08T23:46:00.000-06:00

So, you've lost your private health care plan...thanks to Obamacare. You've lost your doctor, thanks to Obamacare and now, you may lose your hospital, again thanks to Obamacare. Some of the country's largest and most prestigious hospitals are not part of the Obamacare network. And maybe soon coming to a hospital near you?? Read More: Ocare Nixes Some Hospitals

As time goes on, Americans who lose their doctors will probably lose the hospital their doctor has privileges with. Finding a new doctor may be difficult as many doctors are opting not to participate in the Obamacare exchanges. As an example, it's reported that 7 out of 10, or 70 per cent of California doctors are

boycotting the exchanges. Needless to say, it's a mess. To date some 60 million people have been given cancellation letters from their insurance companies, and the problems with the Healthcare.Gov website is still not functioning as Obama and company promised, making it extremely difficult to sign up for Obamacare.

The health care disaster known officially as the Affordable Care Act is systematically decimating the world's best health care system, all because of the ego of one man...Barack Hussein Obama.
As far back as 2007-2008, then Senator Obama began touting what

has been termed a socialistic health care agenda. In 2010 he pushed the legislation through a partisan Congress with no Republican votes and signed the bill into law as his signature domestic achievement. Should Obamacare collapse down the road, Obama will be saddled with this as his legacy.

Solo

2013-12-06T16:10:00.000-06:00

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

Harry Reid - The Super Hypocrite

2013-12-05T20:17:00.000-06:00

In September, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters, "Let's stop these really juvenile political games -- the one dealing with health care for Senators and House members and our staff. We are going to be part of exchanges, that's what the law says and we'll be part of that." Well, it seems harry has had a change of heart about playing juvenile political games. Read More: Obamacare Not Good Enough For Harry Reid

'Nuff said...if one of Obamacare's staunch architects and supporters exempts his staff from the law, just how bad is it? And how does it make the rest of us feel, especially those dumped from their plans because of Obamacare? It just shows that the Nevada Democrat is

Senator Harry Reid

an egomaniac who has lost vision of the job he has been sent to Washington to do...represent and work for the people of his state and the country as a whole. Unfortunately, Harry is all about politics and feels he is above the law and better than the rest of us. Truthfully, he's nothing more than a servant of the people.
Reid has parted ways from is fellow congressional leaders. GOP House Speaker John Boehner, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell have all directed their staffs to join the Obamacare exchange, according to aides.
But not Reid, despite his public statement to the contrary in September. Is it any wonder the Americans have such a low opinion of Senator Reid and his Congressional colleagues.

Hypocrisy lives in Washington D.C.

Obamacare: The Fraud

2013-12-04T18:44:00.000-06:00

Everyday, there is something new about the train wreck known as Obamacare. And everyday that something new is never good. The president is living in his own little world when he says Obamacare is doing good things and is working well. I'm sorry, but when 60.3 million people are dumped from their private health plans due to Obamacare, the prospect for many millions more to be dumped

next year from their employer plans, costs are skyrocketing for new plans despite the president's promise they would be lower and

President Obama

people are finding that, if they can sign up for a plan through the disastrous Healthcare.Gov website, their doctor and hospital may not be in the plan's network. Not to mention the millions upon millions of $$$ spent on that website and now millions more to fix it, if it can be.....how can anyone in their right mind say this thing is working well?

On top of all this we now find, and this is a good one, that the administration is about to dump a load of TAXPAYER money on insurance companies. Why? Because along with all the other problems with the health care website, apparently there is no avenue for someone purchasing a plan to make a payment!! There's no shopping cart! What lunatic IT person did that? Preposterous! So what does our bright chief executive decide to do? Obama is going to give the insurance companies a check for what the companies estimate it will cost to cover someone, and they will settle up later. What?
Via Reuters: The administration is planning a “workaround” for payments, said Daniel Durham, vice president for policy and regulatory affairs at America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).

"Health plans will estimate how much they are owed, and submit that estimate to the government. Once the system is built, the government and insurers can reconcile the payments made with the plan data to “true up” payments, he said.
“The intent is to make sure plans get paid on time, which is a good thing,” Durham told Reuters.

Does anyone really think the insurance companies are going to give an honest assessment to Uncle Sam as to any additional money owed them or that they should give back if they were over payed for a plan? Not to say insurance companies are crooked, but this whole scheme is ripe for fraud. And since we know how the government, and particularly this administration, is when it comes to accountability there's no telling how much taxpayer money will be wasted here. Looks like a quick get rich scheme for someone.

The (un)Affordable Care Act is an unmitigated disaster. To further point this out, former Bush Administration bigwig, Karl Rove said we are loosing sight of the big picture here. Obama's main argument six years ago when he started his push for socialized medicine was

Karl Rove

that there was some 40 million people in this country uninsured. They depended on emergency rooms for their health care. So rather than devise a plan for those 40 or so million to the president comes up with this disaster of a plan that affects everyone in the country. Rove says that at the end of the day (probably by the time Obama leaves office) and by the administration's own numbers, about 30 million people will still be uninsured!! Chew on that for awhile as you stress over your own health insurance plan that just got destroyed by this wonderful thing called Obamacare.

BTW....it's been reported that Walmart.com handled over One Billion page views on Cyber Monday. Yet, HealthCare.gov crashes when as few as 20,000 to 30,000 people attempt to use it at the same time.

Obama on the Offensive

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President Obama went on the offensive (again) today, trying to put a different face on the flop known as the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Some say this is about the 12 time in his five year White House residency that he's had to go out and defend something.

This time the president is trying to show 'the good' Obamacare has done. The goal here is to take the sting out of what has been a disaster. Obama hopes his daily trumpeting of how great he thinks his signature law is will take people's mind off of how bad it actually is. Don't think it's going to work, Sir. Just ask the 5.6 million people you managed to kick off their current plans and are

now dangling out there in"no insurance land" because your health care web site's a bust also. The administration says the website, Healthcare.Gov is better than it was when it rolled out on Oct. 1. However there is still mucho problems with it, as many are finding. Obama thinks if 80 per cent of Americans trying to use the site get through it successfully in signing up for insurance than the site is a winner. Really? A 20 per cent failure rate is okay? Think those 20 per cent who can't get through are going to like their status as failures? Imagine if Amazon.com or Ebay.com had a 20 per cent failure rate. They wouldn't be in business long. But, we're dealing with the federal government here...not known for being very successful at running any type of program.

The website, over time will get better and , in fact, one day may be 100 per cent. The website alone isn't going to doom Obamacare. There is another little (now huge) problem that may just bring the

whole thing down. The success of Obamacare depends on young people coming on board. These are "kids" (my age allows me to call them that) 18 - 34 years of age. About 40 per cent of all enrollees were supposed to be the "kids." The administration was counting on them to fund the program. But guess what? It's not happening. Click the link to read why the Young'uns Ain't Buyin' It

The president and his 'minions' apparently were pretty short-sighted when they dreamed up this fiasco to think that strong healthy young people were going to come on board, especially when you factor in the 'extremely few number of visits to the doctor' by this group. Obama was planning on these people funding the health woes of people like me. Needless to say, our president blew it and somewhere down the road, soon, he'll have to go on the offensive (again) to defend this too.

And speaking of 'minions,' (not the president's) Despicable Me 2...great flick..ya gotta see it!