OBAMA CARE less!

As I post this it is fascinating to note that after friends working for the California exchange were promised a raise after the perfunctory waiting period, and after most of which are still on perm-intermittent status, it stands to reason why-- after also being promised a "bonus" (do these exist in government work outside of being a DC lobbyist or senator??) said bonus was no where to be found on the exchange agents paycheck! Well that's the way it goes says the union, but wow! Honestly, these saps can't run their lives the way you people run the HR division of Contra Costa County. Apart from these poor slouches becoming ad hoc programmers, trouble shooting every which way to get the damn system to take a simple edit all the way to --uh-uh-uh you're two minutes BEHIND SCHEDULE!! OFF WITH YOUR E-HAD phenomena of stressing out the employees, I guess its a pretty fair way to make a buck. We just leave the rest to karma as far as executing the appropriate just dues for those in the higher offices that can actually control the minutiae of- oh I don't know- promising bonuses to the over-worked, underpaid exchange employees-- and actually following through with an actualy (wait for it) BONUS... Nicer are a few more facts to peruse: If executives from the director on down to the IT project director gave up one hour of pay daily for each week of every month for a year the exchange is open, they'd have a nice overage to share with the ppl actually doing the dirty work, namely the customer service representatives who, from what I hear, are actually doing the job of case workers... hmmm, take a look; Director Peter Lee $7451.40 Chief Dep Ex Director $6109.80 Chief Fiscal Officer $4440.60 Director of Commerce and PR $4768.80 Director of SHOP Exchange $4768.80 Chief Tech/Info Officer $4768.80 General Counsel $5245.20 Director of External Affairs $4768.80 and last but not least.... (drumroll) The person everyone has to thank for CAL-heers (apart from the powers that be) IT Project Director $4291.80 so thats a lot of chump change the big shots can afford to either: 1. give back to the exchange employees (unwashed masses) 2. provide 1 full time position for a current Permanent Intermittent status person. Think about it and get back to the union, Mr. Lee...

ACLU HAS NO PROBLEM WITH THE RAPE OF CHILDREN!?!!!!

Scripture tells us to dwell upon the lovely, the beautiful, the gracious things of God. So hard in this day and age. BUT imperative in order to survive the saturation of sin around us. Grab your Bible and hold on... When you thought it couldn't get worse-- from the IRS scandal night and day on CSPAN to the horrific act of Islamic fascistic terror in London (hacking of soldier in broad daylight), we have trumped it with run-of-the-mill basic mainstream evil in our own backyard. "Evil continually" as scripture says.. and those who do right in their own eyes. A hell waits for those who continually seek evil and call evil good and good evil. GET OUT YOUR BIBLE AND SEEK THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS AGE! SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE IS ABLE TO BE FOUND. THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN IT WILL BE TOO LATE> AND THAT TIME IS SOONER THAN YOU THINK... CREDIT TO THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR - NOTE SOME DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION HAS BEEN MODIFIED BECAUSE OF EXPLICIT SUBJECT MATTER #FreeKate? Movement to Normalize Pedophilia Finds Its Poster Girl By Robert Stacy McCain on 5.23.13 @ 10:09AM In January, Rush Limbaugh warned that there was “an effort under way to normalize pedophilia,” and was ridiculed by liberals (including CNN’s Soledad O’Brien) for saying so. But now liberals have joined a crusade that, if successful, would effectively legalize sex with 14-year-olds in Florida. The case involves Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt, an 18-year-old in Sebastian, Florida, who was arrested in February after admitting that she had a lesbian affair with a 14-year high-school freshman. (Click here to read the affidavit in Hunt’s arrest.) It is a felony in Florida to have sex with 14-year-olds. Hunt was expelled from Sebastian High School — where she and the younger girl had sex in a restroom stall — and charged with two counts of “felony lewd and lascivious battery on a child.” The charges could put Hunt in prison for up to 15 years. Prosecutors have offered Hunt a plea bargain that would spare her jail time, but her supporters have organized an online crusade to have her let off scot-free — in effect, nullifying Florida’s law, which sets the age of consent at 16. Using the slogan “Stop the Hate, Free Kate” (the Twitter hashtag is #FreeKate) this social-media campaign has attracted the support of liberals including Chris Hayes of MSNBC, Daily Kos, Think Progress and the gay-rights group Equality Florida. Undoubtedly, part of the appeal of the case is that Hunt is a petite attractive green-eyed blonde. One critic wondered on Twitter how long activists have “been waiting for a properly photogenic poster child of the correct gender to come along?” Portraying Hunt as the victim of prejudice, her supporters claim she was only prosecuted because she is homosexual and because the parents of the unnamed 14-year-old are “bigoted religious zealots,” as Hunt’s mother said in a poorly written Facebook post. The apparent public-relations strategy was described by Matthew Philbin of Newsbusters: “If you can play the gay card, you immediately trigger knee-jerk support from the liberal media and homosexual activists anxious to topple any and all rules regarding sex.” None of Hunt’s supporters seem to care about the possible consequences of issuing what Philbin calls a “Get Out of Jail Free” card to their teenage lesbian hero-victim. Some have deliberately falsified the narrative of Hunt’s crime, claiming that the sexual relationship began when she was 17, when in fact Hunt turned 18 last August and the incidents at issue occurred between November and January. According to the arrest affidavit, the 14-year-old ran away from home on Jan. 4 and spent the night at Hunt’s home where, in the words of a Sheriff’s Department detective, the two engaged in illicit activity warranting legal action in light of violation of the states sodomy/rape/underage protection laws. However the ACLU doesn't consider rape of a minor, same sex or no, to be a crime. It is a (WAIT FOR IT).. RIGHT? IN THEIR WORDS: this is “behavior that is both fairly innocuous and extremely common,” the American Civil Liberties Union declared Tuesday in a statement condemning the prosecution of Hunt. The ACLU statement parrots the arguments of all the other “Free Kate” crusaders who emphasize that the sex between Hunt and the 14-year-old was consensual, and who are apparently indifferent (or even openly hostile) to the right of parents to safeguard their minor children against sexual exploitation. The liberal Daily Kos blog goes so far as to proclaim that officials are “prosecuting an 18-year-old for being in love.” This confusing clamor from Hunt’s liberal supporters has nearly drowned out the common-sense caution expressed by Florida authorities. “If this was an 18-year-old male and that was a 14-year-old girl, it would have been prosecuted the same way,” Indian River County Sheriff Deryl Loar told reporters at a Monday news conference. The state’s attorney for the district, Bruce Colton, explained: “The idea is to protect people in that vulnerable group from people who are older, 18 and above. … The statute specifically says that consent is not a defense. … You’re talking the difference between a senior in high school and a freshman in high school. That’s what the law is designed to protect.” Prosecutors in the case are apparently determined to resist the politically correct demands of the ACLU, MSNBC and other liberals who don’t care about the precedent that might be set by nullifying Florida’s age of consent laws. What is remarkable — and alarming to many parents — is that liberals appear to be unashamed to argue for legalizing sex with 14-year-olds. Such arguments are a logical result of the Supreme Court’s 2003 Lawrence v. Texas ruling that cited an “emerging awareness” doctrine as the basis for overturning state sodomy laws. Who knows in which direction this awareness might further emerge? FIGHT THE ACLU! STAND UP FLORIDA! DO THE RIGHT THING!

Oh Yes Mr. Obama, You Are Still That Young Strapping Muslim Socialist

..Just the same old bastard with more power. Bookmark that part on treason in the Constitution. Oh yes, and saying this just a mere 14 days after Boston was bombed by two young strapping muslim socialists makes us wonder if you might be misty over your youth being wasted on just merely acting as a 'community organizer'. Get back to us on that once you wipe the (beluga) caviar off your chin. Did I say bastard? Sorry, I meant old fart muslim socialist.

WE KNOW WHO AND WHY, MR. PRESIDENT

I just wanna hear you say it... Don't tell us you don't know. Stop fostering aid and comfort to the enemies of America and get real. Otherwise, quit if you don't know what you're doing and stop placing us in harms way. We are sick of attacks, dead children, blown body parts, war, home-made bombs, senseless violence and coddling of terrorists and the use of such tragic events to further your own private, political aspirations. Or maybe we just need to lay you off you like we've been from our jobs simply because WE JUST CAN'T AFFORD YOU ANYMORE. TO THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON: ORGANIZE AND KNOW WHO AND WHEN. TO THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA: IMPEACH OBAMA Below a reminder of the things we've forgotten, and a harbinger of yesterday's attack. New Details on Benghazi Nov 1, 2012 4:19 PM EDT Two U.S. officials tell Eli Lake that the State Department never requested military backup the night of the attack.  On the night of the 9/11 anniversary assault at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, the Americans defending the compound and a nearby CIA annex were severely outmanned. Nonetheless, the State Department never requested military backup that evening, two senior U.S. officials familiar with the details of military planning tell The Daily Beast. Libyan security stands guard at the gate of the U.S. mission in Benghazi on Sept. 15, 2012 while investigators work inside. (Mohammad Hannon / AP Photo) In its seventh week, discussion about what happened in Benghazi has begun to focus on why military teams in the region did not respond to the assault on the U.S. mission and the nearby CIA annex. The only security backup that did arrive that evening were former special-operations soldiers under the command of the CIA—one from the nearby annex and another Quick Reaction Force from Tripoli. On Friday, Fox News reported that requests from CIA officers for air support on the evening of the attacks were rejected. (The Daily Beast was not able to confirm that those requests were made, though no U.S. official contacted for this story directly refuted the claim either.) It’s unlikely any outside military team could have arrived in Benghazi quickly enough to save Ambassador Chris Stevens or his colleague Sean Smith, both of whom died from smoke inhalation after a band of more than 100 men overran the U.S. mission at around 9:30 p.m. that evening and set the buildings inside ablaze. But military backup may have made a difference at around five the following morning, when a second wave of attackers assaulted the CIA annex where embassy personnel had taken refuge. It was during this second wave of attacks that two ex-SEALs working for the CIA’s security teams—Glenn Doherty and Tyrone Woods—were killed in a mortar strike. Normally it would be the job of the U.S. ambassador on location to request a military response. But Stevens likely died in the first two hours of the attack. The responsibility for requesting military backup would then have fallen to the deputy chief of mission at Benghazi or officials at the State Department in Washington. “The State Department is responsible for assessing security at its diplomatic installations and for requesting support from other government agencies if they need it,” a senior U.S. Defense official said. “There was no request from the Department of State to intervene militarily on the night of the attack.” The president, however, would have the final say as to whether or not to send in the military. By 11 p.m. Benghazi time, 90 minutes after the assault began on the U.S. mission, Obama met with the National Security Council to discuss the attack. NSC spokesman Tommy Vietor said the president “ordered Secretary Panetta and Chairman Dempsey to begin moving assets into the region to prepare for a range of contingencies” at that meeting. According to the senior Defense Department official, those assets included a special operations team from central Europe to be staged at the Sigonella Naval Air Station in Italy and other small teams of Marines deployed at U.S. Naval bases known as FAST platoons. (These details were first reported by Fox News.) By the time the special operations team and the Marines were prepared to go forward with the rescue mission, however, the first wave of the attack was over. Philippe Reines, a spokesman for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said, “I think what’s getting lost about that night is that four Americans were killed and dozens more were in harm’s way … Everyone in the U.S. government and at every agency immediately had the exact same goal of finding a way to help them.” “The State Department is responsible for assessing security at its diplomatic installations and for requesting support from other government agencies if they need it.” George Little, the chief spokesman for the Pentagon, said Wednesday, “I’m not going to get into the specifics of what we discussed with our State Department partners on the night of the attack. The fact of the matter is that all of us wanted to find a way to respond to the unfolding situation in Benghazi. Both the State Department and the Department of Defense acted quickly to identify response options and to start moving out quickly.” Panetta said last week that he and the military’s leadership did not have enough “real-time information about what’s taking place” to send in reinforcement that evening. However, three U.S. Defense and intelligence officials confirm to The Daily Beast that a surveillance drone was at the scene of the attack while personnel were evacuated from the diplomatic compound to the CIA annex—though the drone was not present at the beginning of the attack. The Pentagon did eventually play one role in the aftermath: when personnel from the U.S. mission and CIA annex were at the airport, the Defense Department transported them from Benghazi to Tripoli. Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Republican chairman of a House oversight subcommittee investigating the Benghazi attacks, told The Daily Beast that General Carter Ham, the outgoing U.S. commander of Africa Command, “told me directly that he had no directive to engage in the fight in Benghazi.” Spokesmen from Africa Command declined to comment for this story. Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates all day long. Eli Lake is the senior national-security correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast. He previously covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times. Lake has also been a contributing editor at The New Republic since 2008 and covered diplomacy, intelligence, and the military for the late New York Sun. He has lived in Cairo and traveled to war zones in Sudan, Iraq, and Gaza. He is one of the few journalists to report from all three members of President Bush’s axis of evil: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. For inquiries, please contact The Daily Beast at editorial@thedailybeast.com.

Extreme Celebrity Presidential Boxing

Attention! We now live in a communist regime. Oh, and Mr. Woodward: we told you so but you didn't believe us. Strange when it happens to you, isn't it?

The Emperor Has No Clothes & is Posing for Sports Illustrated

The evil in our country is only exceeded by political manipulation. If Obama is offended by the Grammy's sartorial up-to-here-down-to-there excess, and the entire muslim world places faux 'covers' on Michelle's shoulders as they appeared 'bare' during the Oscars, why oh why are the royal DC pair hypocritical enough to not shout against pornography, child sexual abuse and objectification of women now overtaking our culture? Are you a true muslim Mr. President? Be serious and get porn out of our country!

Mike Rowe Is All I Want for Christmas

First Mitt Romney loses, then NO absolutely NO freaking justice regarding Benghazi, and now NOW the only TV show that remains a personal guilty pleasure is going away... WHAT IS HAPPENING PEOPLE???????????????????????????????????????????????????? A Turkey Without a Pardon: Bidding Farewell to Dirty Jobs Posted: 11/21/2012 9:59 am BY MIKE ROWE FROM HUFFINGTON POST BLOG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It never fails. Whenever Dirty Jobs goes off the air for a few months, people start to wonder if the show has been canceled. Rumors begin to swirl, and questions about the show's future fill my inbox. Over the years it's been my pleasure to assure anxious fans that Dirty Jobs is coming back for another season. And indeed, we always have. Alas, this year, I'm afraid I cannot dispel the rumors. A few weeks ago, I was officially informed that Dirty Jobs had entered into a new phase. One I like to call, "permanent hiatus." Or in the more popular industry vernacular, canceled. My first instinct was to immediately pass the news on to you, but frankly, it's taken me a few weeks to digest. Dirty Jobs is a very personal show, and it's difficult for me to imagine a future that does not involve exploding toilets, venomous snakes, misadventures in animal husbandry, and feces from every species. Nevertheless, the future is here, and while it does not appear to contain any more Dirty Jobs, it will almost certainly include another Thanksgiving. So in the spirit of the holiday, I'd like to thank those people most responsible for reinvigorating my erstwhile career, and launching the most honest show in the history of reality TV. First, to John Hendricks, David Zaslav, and everyone at Discovery. In 1993, with nothing on my resume but an inglorious pink slip from the QVC Cable Shopping Channel, Discovery hired me to host Romantic Escapes. For nearly a year I traveled around the world with an attractive co-host, drinking wine, floating around in hot air balloons, and creating the illusion of romance in five-star resorts. With Discovery's continued support, I would eventually work my way up to the sewer, where I've happily splashed about for the last eight years. David Z -- your support has been invaluable, and the many opportunities that sprung from Dirty Jobs have positively changed my life. Thank you. John H -- you are one of the greatest entrepreneurs in modern history. Thanks to your vision, I have Forrest Gumped my way into over 180 countries, and inflicted Dirty Jobs onto a sizable hunk or unsuspecting humanity. I'm very grateful for that. To you and everyone at Discovery -- as well as my good friends who are no longer there -- thanks very much. Second, to Craig Piligian, Eddie Barbini, Ed Rohwedder, and everyone at Pilgrim Films. Back in 2001, I was producing a modest little segment for the CBS affiliate in San Francisco called Somebody's Gotta Do It. I thought it deserved a bigger audience, but sadly, no one else agreed. In those days, networks were hesitant to spend money on reality shows that didn't feature cash prizes, convicts, or pets that attacked their owners. But after two years of rejection, Craig P. watched an episode of Somebody's Gotta Do It, and told me he could sell it. Craig can sell ice to Eskimos, or in this case, a slightly disturbing video of yours truly collecting semen from a friendly bull and artificially inseminating a nearby cow. I don't know how he did it, but Discovery ordered a pilot and changed the name to Dirty Jobs. The rest is history. Of course, Craig didn't just sell a show -- he sold a genre. Today, over two-dozen separate programs have evolved from Dirty Jobs. Maybe more. The credit for that, (as well as the blame!) belongs to Craig. Thanks Craig, very much. Third, to my crew. Dave Barsky, Doug Glover, Troy Paff, Chris Jones, Chris Whiteneck, Adam Bradley, Dan Eggiman, Ryan Walsh, Amber McClarin, Marlen Schlawin and half a dozen other masochists who picked up the slack over the years. Making Dirty Jobs was never an actual war, but there were days -- many days -- that felt a lot like combat. Whether we were dangling from bridges, crawling through mines, swimming with sharks, castrating sheep, transplanting giant cacti, or slowly freezing to death on the Arctic Ocean, we usually made it out in one piece, and we always got what we needed. It's easy to forget -- what with all the laughing and bleeding and vomiting and eighth grade shenanigans -- just how excellent each and every one of you is at what you do. Well, I won't forget. I promise. I'll remember you always as a band of brothers, and do what I can to one day put the band back together. For now, there's nothing else to say but thanks. You're the best. Fourth, to the hundreds of trusting Americans who invited us into their homes and workplaces -- you have always been the true stars of Dirty Jobs. For eight years, you welcomed a reality TV crew into your lives when a first year law student would have advised you bolt the door. ("What's that? A show called Dirty Jobs wants to highlight our business? They want to shoot in our kitchen? Sure!") That was an extraordinary act of faith, and I am forever humbled by it. From pig farmers to bridge painters, roughnecks to gandy dancers, your hospitality was exceeded only by your candor and good humor. According to the credits, I am the host of Dirty Jobs, but really, it's been you guys all along. I'm just the guest, and you have made me feel welcome on 300 different occasions in all 50 states. Dirty Jobs was never intended to become a comprehensive collection of Americans who comprise the finest work ethic on Planet Earth. But thanks to you, it became exactly that. I'm honored to have worked with each and every one of you. Thank you all so much. Fifth, to the fans. Anyone who's ever had any good fortune in this fickle business knows who really calls the shots -- it's not the networks or the production companies or the on-air personalities -- it's the people who watch. And the people who watched Dirty Jobs turned out to be far more curious than your average channel surfer. Beyond your sophisticated taste in cable programming, you brought an unprecedented loyalty to a business known for fostering the exact opposite. In the early days, when I was spending 300 nights a year in Motel 6s and Super 8s, you guys became my lifeline. Far from home, smelly, and desperate for human contact, we made a genuine connection in virtual space. The questions you posed were not only fun to answer, they were therapeutic. Literally, thousands of posts and tens of thousands of words flew back and forth between us. In truth, it was really you guys who programmed the show. Long after I ran out of ideas for more jobs, it was your suggestions that kept us on the air, and our ongoing dialogue made me realize that Dirty Jobs -- in spite of it's aggressive simplicity -- was endowed with some rather large and universal themes. When our economy crapped the bed in 2008, Dirty Jobs became weirdly relevant in ways that no one anticipated, especially me. Suddenly, I found myself answering questions about jobs and manufacturing, infrastructure and the skills gap, and a few other topics that I knew little about. But it was you that really took this show to the next level. Thanks to your research and support, we were able to build and launch an online Trade Resource Center, and today, mikeroweWORKS continues to make a noisy and compelling case for skilled labor. I think that's pretty cool. In fact, The mikeroweWORKS Foundation has raised over a million dollars for trade school scholarships and tool stipends. That's something you should all be proud of. I know I am, and I know for a fact that it wouldn't have happened without you. And I'm not just saying that because you're the boss. So thank you all very, very much. Finally, I'd like to thank my granddad. Carl Knobel was an electrician by trade, but so much more. He was a role model to me, my brothers, my cousins, my uncles, my dad, and everyone else who knew him. Like so many of his generation, he worked more than he played, listened more than he spoke, and quietly went about the business of making civilized life possible for the rest of us. Dirty Jobs was inspired by him, and dedicated to millions of other Americans cut from the same cloth -- men and women blessed with raw skill, the discipline to hone it, the diligence to apply it, and the willingness to wake up clean and come home dirty. Those attributes may go out of style from time to time, but they will never vanish. They mustn't. Thanks Pop, very much. -- I'm thinking of an old joke about an auctioneer who was trying to get top dollar for George Washington's famous hatchet. "A true original, ladies and gentlemen. The very one he used to cut down the cherry tree! The handle has only been replaced three times, and the head just twice!" I can't say that Dirty Jobs never jumped the shark (since I literally leaped over one in season two), but I'm proud to say it's still the same hatchet. The last episode looked pretty much like the first. We didn't become something we weren't. We never shared the sewer with Paris Hilton, and we never invited you to "tune in next week for a very special Dirty Jobs." We stuck to the mission statement. We stayed small. We worked hard. And we had a hell of a good time. It was as they say, a very good run. As for me, good things are in the works. Not as dirty perhaps, but exciting nevertheless. I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past. As for the present, I'm going to eat the lions share of a large turkey waiting for me in the next room, drink some Champagne, catch up with family, watch the football game, and sleep till Christmas. Thanks again, and Happy Thanksgiving. To read more of Mike's blogs, visit www.mikeroweworks.com/scrap-yard/mikes-blog/

Mark Levin's Right Reason: Liberty and Tyranny are the Issues, America!

"On November 9–10, 1938, the Nazis staged vicious pogroms—state sanctioned, anti-Jewish riots—against the Jewish community of Germany. These came to be known as Kristallnacht (now commonly translated as “Night of Broken Glass”), a reference to the untold numbers of broken windows of synagogues, Jewish-owned stores, community centers, and homes plundered and destroyed during the pogroms. Encouraged by the Nazi regime, the rioters burned or destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, and killed at least 91 Jewish people. They also damaged many Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes as police and fire brigades stood aside. Kristallnacht was a turning point in history. The pogroms marked an intensification of Nazi anti-Jewish policy that would culminate in the Holocaust—the systematic, state-sponsored murder of Jews." Of latest concern is the election... To all those wealthy individuals of Jewish heritage, you have set yourselves up for failure with the incumbant. Note over the next few years the present liberties that will soon become obsolete. Liberalism is the new communism. Leave it in the dust and stop supporting people and ideas that will only harm you and the rest of us...