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Sprinting Towards Gomorrah [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2013-12-07 11:39:35 by A K A Stone
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Have you ever wondered what it looks like when a culture collapses? Have you ever wondered if past cultures that collapsed throughout history knew what was about to happen to them? Did they see it coming, or were they blindsided by it? I’ve often asked myself those questions, but now I’m also asking myself a new one. Provided the Lord chooses not to return and culminate history, I’m now wondering if future generations will ask the same questions about us? There are several telltale signs of a culture in decline, or on the brink of collapse. One of which is when a culture fails to safeguard its future and ceases to be good stewards of its next generation. Wanting our ...
Rand Paul wants big tax cuts for Detroit, other distressed areas
Post Date: 2013-12-06 12:55:08 by A K A Stone
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced Thursday that he will propose legislation that would cut taxes for Detroit and other areas of the country that are in dire financial straits, pitching the idea as an alternative to bureaucratic government stimulus programs. Paul is traveling to Detroit on Friday to make his case. During a conference call Thursday morning, he said the idea (known as "Economic Freedom Zones") should satisfy both Republicans who like cutting taxes and Democrats who want to provide stimulus to areas such as Detroit — all without another government-funded bailout. "What we hope to do is create taxes so low that you essentially are able to bail yourselves ...
Is John Boehner a faggot?
Post Date: 2013-12-06 12:52:43 by A K A Stone
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Speaker John Boehner said the Republican Party ought to openly support gay candidates — a blunt statement that’s sure to ratchet up tensions among traditional conservatives who see the GOP as straying from core principles and wading into political territories held by Democrats. Mr. Boehner’s exact words, reported by Politico: Republicans should not only “be a little more sensitive” when running against women candidates, but they should also support openly gay individuals who are seeking higher office. “I do,” he said, in reference to supporting gays for Republican seats, Politico reported. “Some of our members just aren’t as sensitive as they ...
Church Members Mistreat Homeless Man in Church Unaware It Is Their Pastor in Disguise
Post Date: 2013-12-05 23:29:51 by A K A Stone
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paster Pastor Jeremiah Steepek transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning. He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service, only 3 people out of the 7-10,000 people said hello to him. He asked people for change to buy food – no one in the church gave him change. He went into the sanctuary to sit down in the front of the church and was asked by the ushers if he would please sit in the back. He greeted people to be greeted back with stares and dirty looks, with people looking down on him and judging him. As he sat in the back of ...
Ted Cruz: Obama "Picking And Choosing Which Laws To Follow" Is "Dictatorial"
Post Date: 2013-12-05 20:29:39 by A K A Stone
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SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): One of the most disturbing aspects of the Obama presidency is the willingness of this president to disregard the law, to ignore the law. You know, we were talking a few minutes ago about Obamacare. And you mentioned it’s the law of the land. If it’s the law of the land, the president shouldn't keep ignoring the law. He unilaterally granted an exemption for big business for one year. The law says big business doesn't get an exemption and the president just waved his hand and said, “I am granting them an exemption.” He unilaterally granted an exemption for members of Congress. The law says that members Congress have to be on the exchange ...
OBAMACARE UPDATE - 5 December 2013
Post Date: 2013-12-05 18:13:19 by nolu chan
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OBAMACARE UPDATE - 5 December 2013 The Obama administration has declared mission accomplished on fixing the previously ailing website and only a few minor issues remain to be addressed. First, the flawed data for policy enrollment being issued to insurers is unusable. Second, the flawed data being given to states for Medicaid enrollment is unusable. Third, the system to calculate and pay subsidies to insurance companies has not been built yet. Fourth, the reconciliation system has not been built yet. Fifth, young, healthy people are saying "hell no," Sixth, ... Seventh, ... http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/01/us-usa-healthcare-progress-idUSBRE9B008I20131201 Obama ...
This Is the MIT Surveillance Video That Undid Aaron Swartz
Post Date: 2013-12-04 08:43:48 by A K A Stone
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The door to the network closet pops open and a slender figure enters, a bicycle helmet hanging from one arm. He sheds his backpack and pulls out a cardboard box containing a small hard drive, then kneels out of frame. After about five minutes, he stands, turns off the lights and furtively exits the closet. This scene, captured by a video camera hidden in a wiring closet at MIT, was the beginning of a probe that led to federal charges against the late coder and activist Aaron Swartz. The video, along with dozens of other documents related to the case, has been released to the public for the first time through my Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the agency. Aaron Swartz, 2008. ...
WW2 Navajo Code Talkers Appear in Redskins Jackets; Liberal Heads Explode
Post Date: 2013-11-30 15:05:59 by A K A Stone
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The Redskins, as everyone who isn’t the media by now knows, got their name from their Native American players back in the day. Some of the surviving WW2 Navajo code talkers may know that, because unlike liberals, they weren’t born yesterday. As a joint celebration of the NFL’s Salute to Service month and Native American Heritage month, the Washington Redskins recognized four members of the Navajo Code Talkers Association. The code talkers were a group of Native American service members who transmitted secret communications beginning in World War II. Four representatives — Navajo Code Talkers Association President Peter MacDonald Sr., Vice President Roy Hawthorne and ...
Is Xbox Kinect Listening to Your Skype Calls?
Post Date: 2013-11-28 19:26:15 by A K A Stone
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Users of the new Xbox One are complaining that Kinect is monitoring their Skype conversations for swearing and then punishing them with account bans. Microsoft has admitted it is punishing gamers for bad language but denied that it is snooping on private Skype chats. Info Wars
Obamacare Small Business Exchange Will Be Delayed A Year
Post Date: 2013-11-27 20:33:49 by nolu chan
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Obamacare Small Business Exchange Will Be Delayed A Year Jeffrey Young Huffington Post Posted: 11/27/2013 1:39 pm EST Updated: 11/27/2013 3:47 pm EST Small businesses won't be able to buy health insurance via HealthCare.gov until next year, President Barack Obama's administration announced Wednesday. The delay in functionality for the so-called SHOP exchanges represents the latest setback in the Obama administration's efforts to implement the three-year-old Affordable Care Act. The development also comes just days before HealthCare.gov, the online portal for individual and family health coverage in more than 30 states, is supposed to be working better after its troubled ...
Christian American Patriots Militia Leader: We Now Have Authority To Shoot Obama
Post Date: 2013-11-25 16:34:18 by Brian S
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An apparent threat made against President Barack Obama’s life posted on Facebook has caught the attention of the Secret Service. Agents declined to comment on the post, which has been removed but was preserved in screen captures by Social News Daily, made Tuesday by Everest Wilhelmen, leader of the Christian American Patriots Militia. “We now have authority to shoot Obama, i.e., to kill him,” Wilhelmsen posted on his Facebook page. “His willful violations and alienation of our Constitution, constant disregard for our peaceful protests and corruption of all the three branches of government, (i.e., rogue and illegitimate government), reveal the dictator that he is. Obama ...
Absurd Creature of the Week: This Parasite Eats a Fish’s Tongue — And Takes Its Place
Post Date: 2013-11-25 07:36:59 by A K A Stone
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A fish walks into a bar and takes a seat. The bartender asks what he wants to drink, but the fish doesn’t say anything. So the bartender asks, “What, cat got your tongue?” The fish grabs a cocktail napkin and writes out, No, actually, it was an isopod. An isopod got my tongue and by “got” I mean she ate it. That joke may not be funny to you, but it’s hilarious to the tongue-eating isopod. You see, in the Gulf of California there actually exists a critter, Cymothoa exigua, that targets a fish by infiltrating its gills and latching onto its tongue. It proceeds to not only consume the organ, but will then replace it ...
California votes against extending canceled health policies
Post Date: 2013-11-21 18:21:25 by nolu chan
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California votes against extending canceled health policies By Chad Terhune November 21, 2013, 2:40 p.m. Spurning President Obama’s plan for canceled policies, California's health insurance exchange voted against any extension for about 1 million policyholders in the state. The five-member board of the exchange voted unanimously to keep its current requirement that insurers terminate most individual policies Dec. 31 because they don't meet all the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The decision ends a weeklong drama over what would happen for policyholders who will lose their existing coverage at year-end and face finding replacement insurance that may cost them ...
Second wave of health plan cancellations looms
Post Date: 2013-11-20 17:19:21 by nolu chan
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Second wave of health plan cancellations looms Published November 20, 2013 FoxNews.com A new and independent analysis of ObamaCare warns of a ticking time bomb, predicting a second wave of 50 million to 100 million insurance policy cancellations next fall -- right before the mid-term elections. The next round of cancellations and premium hikes is expected to hit employees, particularly of small businesses. While the administration has tried to downplay the cancellation notices hitting policyholders on the individual market by noting they represent a relatively small fraction of the population, the swath of people who will be affected by the shakeup in employer-sponsored coverage will ...
Woman Signs Up For Obamacare And Has Identity Stolen
Post Date: 2013-11-20 17:17:34 by nolu chan
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Woman Signs Up For Obamacare And Has Identity Stolen Written by: Daniel Jennings November 13, 2013 Experts’ warnings about the Obamacare website’s complete lack of security apparently have been justified. The website reportedly gave at least three unknown individuals access to a woman’s Social Security number, address and other data that could be used for identity theft. Customer service operators at Healthcare.gov’s 1-800 number told Lisa Martinson about the unauthorized access when she called in to change her password, St. Louis TV station Channel 4 reported. When Martinson asked for her information to be removed from the site she was told it would take five days. ...
Poll: Obamacare support, Obama approval sink to new lows
Post Date: 2013-11-20 17:12:23 by nolu chan
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CBS News/ November 20, 2013, 6:58 AM Poll: Obamacare support, Obama approval sink to new lows By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto and Fred Backu President Obama's job approval rating has plunged to the lowest of his presidency, according to a new CBS News poll released Wednesday, and Americans' approval of the Affordable Care Act has dropped it's lowest since CBS News started polling on the law. Thirty-seven percent now approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president, down from 46 percent in October -- a nine point drop in just a month. Mr. Obama's disapproval rating is 57 percent -- the highest level for this president in CBS News Polls. A rocky ...
Is My Date on Healthcare.gov Secure? - Committee on Science (19 Nov 2013)
Post Date: 2013-11-19 23:49:39 by nolu chan
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Is My Date on Healthcare.gov Secure? - Committee on Science (19 Nov 2013) At page 30 of PDF, page 1 of David Kennedy/TrustedSec Security Analysis To Whom It May Concern, November 15, 2013 TrustedSec performed an open-source analysis of the security around the healthcare.gov website. This report contains information regarding the concerns for the security around the website and the ability to keep United States citizen information protected to an adequate level. TrustedSec did not perform analysis through “hacking” techniques, as our organization was not authorized to perform offensive activities against the site. Instead, TrustedSec utilized information readily available ...
Woman Obama Held Up as ACA Success Story Turns Out to Be a Perfect Example of Everything Wrong With the Law
Post Date: 2013-11-19 14:26:18 by nolu chan
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Woman Obama Held Up as ACA Success Story Turns Out to Be a Perfect Example of Everything Wrong With the Law By: Jon Walker Tuesday November 19, 2013 7:36 am This is really embarrassing. Jessica Sanford, the woman President Obama held up last month as an example of the Affordable Care Act working, turned out to be a perfect example of everything wrong with the law. From CNN (you really need to read the whole thing): But then, after Obama mentioned her story, Sanford started having problems. Sanford said she received another letter informing her the Washington state health exchange had miscalculated her eligibility for a tax credit. In other words, her monthly insurance bill had shot ...
George Zimmerman arrested on domestic violence charges in Florida: report
Post Date: 2013-11-19 07:20:07 by Fred Mertz
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The former neighborhood watchman who gained national notoriety after killing Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager, was busted Monday on suspicion of domestic violence 15 miles north of Orlando. This is far from the first time he has been back in the news since his acquittal in July. George Zimmerman was charged with assault and battery for allegedly pointing a long-barreled shotgun at his new girlfriend Monday afternoon, authorities said. The former neighborhood watchman, 30, pushed Samantha Scheibe, 27, from their Florida home at gunpoint and barricaded the door with furniture, according to the sheriff's office. Two separate 911 calls obtained by TMZ, one from Scheibe and one from ...
DHHS to Court 10-17-2013 - A majority of group health plans will have lost their grandfather status by the end of 2013
Post Date: 2013-11-18 21:54:01 by nolu chan
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DHHS to Court 10-12013 - A majority of group health plans will have lost their grandfather status by the end of 2013
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Priests for Life et al v. United Stated Department of Health and Human Services et al, DCDC 1:13-cv-01261-EGS, case filed 08/19/2013
Document 13, Memorandum in opposition to re 8 MOTION for Sumary Judgment filed by JACOB J. LEW, THOMAS E. PEREZ, KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, UNITEDSTATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OFTHE TREASURY. (Attachments: # 1 Statement of Facts Defendants' Response to Plaintiffs' Statement of Facts)(Berwick, Benjamin) (Entered: 10/17/2013)
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Catapult-Launched Bat Drone Wages Electronic War
Post Date: 2013-11-18 07:26:07 by A K A Stone
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Small, tactical drones may have a new role in military strikes after Northrop Grumman’s catapult-launched Bat demonstrated an electronic attack capability for the first time in new tests. With its 12-foot wingspan, the low-flying Bat, which maxes out at 70 miles per hour, was able to jam radar during tests. That means the Pentagon will soon have the option of deploying a flexible, largely undetectable drone with radar-jamming capability to protect manned aircraft against radar and surface-to-air missile guidance systems. “Bat continues to demonstrate capabilities that can normally only be achieved by larger, more expensive unmanned aircraft,” said George Vardoulakis, ...
Toxic waste seems to naturally vanish from Palos Verdes Shelf
Post Date: 2013-11-18 07:02:33 by A K A Stone
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Decades after industrial waste dumping turned part of Southern California's seafloor into a toxic hot spot, scientists have dredged up a mystery. Chemicals fouling the ocean off the Palos Verdes Peninsula seem to be going away without being cleaned up. Samples taken from the sediment suggest more than 100 metric tons of the banned pesticide DDT and industrial compounds known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, have vanished from one of the country's most hazardous sites, almost a 90% drop in just five years. Scientists are at a loss to explain the decline across the 17-square-mile site, which sits about 200 feet below the ocean surface and two miles off the Los Angeles County ...
What I Meant to Say Was...
Post Date: 2013-11-17 14:11:42 by nolu chan
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Kevin McCarthy Majority Whip What I Meant to Say Was... What I Meant To Say Was … All – Let’s not forget that it wasn’t just President Obama who repeatedly told people that if they like their healthcare plan, they could keep it. When Obamacare was finally passed in the House, 219 Democrats voted for it, repeating the same false promise as the President did to the American people. Tomorrow, House Democrats have an opportunity to clarify whether they truly meant for people who liked their healthcare plan to be able it keep it, or if this was just a sales tactic to shove an already unpopular bill through Congress. Running into Democrats who can’t quite ...
Man buys house next to ex-wife, erects giant middle finger statue
Post Date: 2013-11-16 17:49:05 by A K A Stone
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Orchard Lake, Mich. (WJBK) -
Nothing quite communicates the wrath of a scorned lover like the middle finger. But in Bloomfield Hills, this middle finger is loud and proud - in the form of a near 12-foot high statue one man erected next door to his ex-wife.
Alan Markovitz recently moved into the home where the statue was erected, which happens to be next to the home where his ex-wife now lives with her new lover, whom she reportedly had an affair with while being married to Markovitz.
Markovitz tells Fox 2's Randy Wimbley his plan was to get even the ex-wife's new lover, and never meant for the matter be made public. However, it soon grabbed local attention when the ex-wife's ...
Think NSA Snooping Is Bad? Check Out MPAA Theater Security
Post Date: 2013-11-15 21:45:23 by A K A Stone
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Hollywood studios are urging theater operators to crack down on in-theater camcording with the deployment of night-vision goggles, low-light binoculars and security cameras. The latest version of the Motion Picture Association of America’s “Best Practices to Prevent Film Theft” (.pdf) also suggests old-school surveillance, like “random bag and jacket checks for prohibited items” and to “observe patrons” when entering the theater. “Look for the unusual, such as someone wearing a long or unseasonably heavy coat in warm weather, odd shapes outlined in pockets or patrons carrying shopping bags. If any of these are observed, please take a closer ...
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