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Thursday, October 31. 2013The Dems and Wall St.
Those on the inside know that, when Dems talk class warfare, they are always winking at the bankers and at the ultra-wealthy, and hoodwinking naive populist voters. (I have nothing against the bankers. They are necessary for almost everything, but it would be fine with me if their politics were more balanced.)
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Thursday morning links 15 outrageously NSFW Halloween pumpkin carvings Unfortunately, being beautiful imposes real, ugly burdens... David Warren on his Mom's death NYC politics: When Class Trumps Identity Is Mike Lee The Better Liar I've Been Waiting For? The Ten US Cities With Less Than Ten Days Of Cash On Hand David Coleman: Architect of the Common Core and, soon, the SAT Keynesian Economics, Government Shutdowns, and Economic Growth Sultan: Liberal Greed is Good Obama's 'Transformed' America Is Worse In Every Respect Scarborough: Obama a ‘deliberate,’ ‘flagrant’ liar The Passionate Chris Matthews Rant on Benghazi That Will Probably Leave You Speechless
HHS Predicted Much Employer-Backed Health Coverage Wouldn't Survive Obamacare, Either Steele, What's Wrong with Obamacare:
Obama tells insurance companies to shut up, if they know what’s good for them Obamacare will cause people to freeze in geographic location. Insurance companies cannot compete across state lines, so your policy is only portable within your state. Wednesday, October 30. 2013Blame, blame, blame
Excuse me, but they are trying to follow your law, Mr. President. This is like blaming the banks for giving the high-risk mortgages that the government forced them to offer. And yet, from another member of the administration, A canceled health plan is a good thing I think I would term this the "baffle them with bullshit" defense as here: Obamacare team offers multiple self-contradictory explanations for coverage cancellations In my case, I do not want the government standard insurance. I want my cheap, old-fashioned major medical with a high deductible. It makes sense to me, and I like to pay my doctors. Barack Obama is a handsome, glib, stylish, and seductive guyBut so are many or most of the 500,000 gay guys in New York City, of every skin color. A lot of it is about stylin' and profilin'. There is some mileage in that.
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Weds. morning links Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they're now worth $886k People recommend Charles Martin's translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses Why colleges get an F for cost control The charter school that turned my life around Gallup: Self Defense Number One Reason for Gun Ownership MSNBC's Ronan Farrow: 'The Clintons Represent a Style of Honesty That the Public Craves Right Now' BBC declares Obama a "right wing" social democrat Who the HELL is Jay Carney to Tell Me My Health Insurance Policy is "Sub-Standard"? Obama's Favorite 'Conservative' Columnist: 'People Don't Know What's Best For Them' An earthy expletive comes to mind... BBC – Real risk of a Maunder minimum ‘Little Ice Age’ "Sounds like we’re going to have catastrophic global warming and catastrophic global cooling at the same time." EU Unveils Crackdown on Free Speech Tuesday, October 29. 2013Tuesday morning links Amazon never makes money: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Is Like King Midas in Reverse Arthur C. Danto, Philosopher of Art, Is Dead at 89 The Kids Aren't All Right - Younger Americans are being suffocated by spending, subsidies, and debt Sultan: Government is Magic Obamacare Website Company Had Ties to Obama Fundraising, Michelle Obama The Unbearable Lightness of Obama - The president didn't know the NSA was spying on world leaders, but he's found time for at least 146 rounds of golf. Valerie Jarrett: Obamacare doesn’t force you off your plan; your insurance company does, by complying with Obamacare! Big government project, big failure: The Obamacare website fiasco shows that big government can't deliver on extensive endeavors. Monday, October 28. 2013Democrats' New Argument: It's A Good Thing That Obamacare Doubles Individual Health Insurance PremiumsArticle here. Too many lies. What's the point of lying when you know everybody will find out? Oh, OK, because it will be too late. Obama admin. knew millions could not keep their health insurance
Monday morning links People are recommending Allan Bloom's translation of The Republic The bag Cate Blanchett carries in Blue Jasmine is a Birkin Bag US Courts Deliver Verdict on Law Reviews: They’re Useless Oregon School Board: Teachers with Concealed Licenses Can Carry in Classrooms Utopia is a cruel place Why new drugs are so expensive Legislation Curtailing NSA Domestic Spying to Be Introduced Tuesday Ted Cruz’s grassroots: The new Reagan Revolution? 500,000 Californians Lose Health Policies 10 things Obamacare won’t tell you - The health exchanges, central to the law, are also its biggest mystery Give us Your Young, Uninsured (and Dying to be Rooked) Obama’s Valerie Jarrett: Often Whispered about, But Never Challenged Obamacare: We have become seduced by computer glamour. Iran Announces 34 New Nuke Sites - Working with Russia to boost nuclear program Is it time for the military to recruit for resiliency? UK update: Riding the Lesbian Gravy Train
Sunday, October 27. 2013Do you want your medical records in the cloud?
For the same reason, I keep minimal notes anyway and just enough to refresh my memory. From The
Many docs today are spending more time on computer screens than they are with patients.
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The "Manosphere"?“Men who act like belligerent assholes probably do get laid a lot more What do women want? All sorts of things. Women are all different. I think we only tend to hear about the angry women. Guys shy away from them. Most guys are drawn to females with sweet, affectionate temperaments. NB: I am not a belligerent asshole, but I am no metrosexual asshole either. Like all guys, I can be a stupid, annoying and selfish jerk at times.
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Terry McAuliffe: Clintonesque lowlife, probably a lying, manipulative sociopath
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Saturday, October 26. 2013Saturday morning links Olmstead would love that job What’s Worse: Banning Food Trucks or Subsidizing Them? The Trouble with Public Sector Unions Students Unskeptical of Sustainability Wells Fargo Study: 37 Percent of Middle-Class Americans Say They Never Will Retire Nothing wrong with that. What else are you gonna do? Drink? Play golf? Surf the net? Do errands all day? Be a useless member of the tribe? The Braves leave the useless ones behind... Al Gore Throws Another Climate Lie On The Barbie The Blue Government Model Needs Wall Street to Survive Quotation of the day on ethanol – one of the great political boondoggles of our time, and it’s dangerous and delusional Arrival of Obamacare forcing insurers to drop customers with low coverage Number of Americans Who Receive Government Benefits Outnumber Those With Full-Time Jobs "Lack of credit history should not be considered a factor." Oh, boy. Here we go again. Dodd-Frank wants a rerun. Arctic Melts? Global Warming. Antarctic Freezes? Global Warming Jewelry Store Owner in Wheelchair Shoots Burglar Friday, October 25. 2013The good idea behind ObamacareThe good idea behind Obamacare was the idea of a national marketplace for medical insurance. Of course, an insurance consortium could have done it too, but the complication in that is that insurance is controlled and regulated state by state. A deregulated, nationwide marketplace for every kind and flavor of medical insurance with wide competition for coverage format, would have been a good thing for everybody - and put a lot of brokers out of business. Probably most people would opt for cheap high-deductible insurance (Major Medical, aka Catastrophic) as protection against bankruptcy. Brokers have easy access to all available deals within a given state, but it's not national and not available to consumers, and now the ACA has strictly limited peoples' choices. Instead, we have an illusory marketplace selling government-designed product at government-determined prices, and they'll fine you if you don't buy it. Doesn't sound like America to me. Requiring marketplace insurance companies to cover the highest-risk patients is a challenge with many possible solutions. Coverage for kids to age 26 is insane and infantilizing. Adulthood is 21, at the latest. However, "adulthood" keeps creeping upwards, doesn't it? The other useful reform would have entailed tort reform. I have read varying estimates about how many medical costs are lawsuit-avoidance, but it is substantial.
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We Are Raising a Generation of Wimps
Wimpy boys and wimpy girls. If safety is your biggest concern in life, you will never live. I thought it was all about fear of lawsuits, but I am beginning to think it reflects some form of psycho-ideology. We are raising a generation of wimps.
Friday morning links 'Offensive' Halloween costumes banned by US university Keystone Should Be an Easy Choice, So What’s Taking Obama So Long? Buying Stocks On Margin At The Top - They Never Learn Hedge Fund Manager Spitznagel: Stocks May Plunge 40 Percent Once Again, Pain Patients Must Suffer to Save Addicts From Themselves Charles Krauthammer squares off against Jon Stewart on the merits of conservatism Douthat: Could Obamacare Discredit Neoliberalism? Dan Mitchell on taxation:
Setting the Record Straight About the White Working Class “Obamacare, Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell and Ken Cucchinelli: Lessons in Political Communications Thursday, October 24. 2013Is the NYT beginning to get it?I assume everybody is sick of reading about Obamacare, but this piece is good: NYT: Obamacare Disproportionately Hurts Poor, Rural Americans One quote:
As somebody commented, Obamacare was designed to convert insurance companies into government-serving utilities, selling government-designed one-size-fits-all products at government-determined prices. Now watch the insurance companies get blamed for doing what the government forced them into.
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Property RightsProperty rights are a foundation stone of a free society, but government relentlessly chips away at them regardless of the nature of the property. Here's a rebel: Virginia Farmer Starts Property Rights Legal Revolution
Thursday morning links
Depressing graph above via Doug Ross Mitt Romney’s Son Adopts a Child and the Left Erupts with Venom The UK: How GPs are paid £50 bonus to put elderly on 'death lists' Evangelical Leader Preaches Pullback From Politics, Culture Wars Via Insty, Time to end the war against saturated fat? Craigslist makes turning food stamps into cash a SNAP !! The lunatic war on e-cigarettes Infighting: Salon Rips Left-wing Media for ObamaCare Truth-Telling NY Liberals Fight Gas in Politics, Burn it at Home The Progressive Psychoracialists of McRacism ObamaCare 2016: Happy Yet? The website problems were finally solved. But the doctor shortage is a nightmare. The Changing Politics of Public Sector Pensions Mead: Everyone Wants to Reform Obamacare Sebelius Says We Needed ‘FIVE YEARS’ of Website Construction and ‘Two Years’ of Testing Wednesday, October 23. 2013Illegal Eats, Peanut Butter sandwiches, and Free Speech
I hope the European Muslims are aware. "..As some warn victory, some downfall
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Weds. morning links Be a Goddamn Adult. Learn to Cook. I Didn’t Love My Wife When I Married Her Desire is a noun, love is a verb The Real Reason Couples Have Sex Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes "Highlights of Diversity Forum 2013: Day 1. Amusing comments VDH: The Democratic Disasters to Come Legal fighting over affirmative action makes the college landscape look like Gettysburg. How a Terror Attack Against Our Marines — 30 Years Ago This Week — Reverberated World Council of Churches Stands By As Christians Perish, Churches Wither Thornton: Prestige and Power in Statecraft The Left’s hatred for conservatives has become so obsessive that it is In Just One Month, Politicians Prove the Power To Govern Is the Power To Destroy More Americans than ever want to legalize pot Tuesday, October 22. 2013Inequality QQQVia Schneiderman:
Here's Why So Many Americans Are Getting Letters Saying Their Health Insurance Is Canceled
Coyote has this: So Much For Being Able to Keep My Health Insurance From Wall St. to 7th Avenue: Nora Gardner Apparel
I hear that professional women are sick of wearing men's clothing (eg suits or pants) to work, and want to look good. With these, just add a little jewelry and you're ready for your evening out. Conservative, but feminine and affordable and well-made in New York. Here's her About Us. Pics from her launch party in NYC this weekend at fashion site Guest of a Guest. Miss Gardner is center front in this one:
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Tuesday morning links Mead: Metropolitan Opera Season Starts Strong Insty: WHY “ANTIBULLYING” IS A CROCK D'Sousa: Liberalism vs. Conservatism: Political Speech Would Democrats embrace JFK now? Circus posters removed after complaint from woman with fear of clowns The Political Left And The Criminalization Of Dissent NY Times Horrified That Rent Control Leases Might Be Treated Like the Assets They So Obviously Are
Inside the conservative brain: Tea Partyers are afraid - To understand their worldview you have to know how they see themselves Good grief. She is trying to analyse me without meeting me. Americans Sign Petition to Support “Nazi-Style Orwellian Police State” Politics: Oh Dear, We’re Arguing:
Flashback: Obama Told People They Could Keep Their Health Care Plan Media Matters Boss David Brock Calls Benghazi a “Hoax” Barack Obama and the Bad Ideas of Progressivism Finally, France Has the U.S. for Which She's Longed - France has gotten exactly the type of less arrogant and more timid American leadership it wanted. Climate change is good for the world: Scientific consensus is that warmer temperatures do more good than harm Why the JPM - Chase settlement is a bad thing No good deed goes unpunished Monday, October 21. 2013This Stuff Writes Itself
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