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The more you look at Obamacare, the more you see that the entire intent is to kill off another industry: healthcare insurance.  I stumbled upon this just a bit ago:

The problem with a 90-day grace period for premium payment is that at the end of it you must pay for three months of premiums, when you couldn’t afford to pay one month in the first place. A lot of people won’t be able to do that, but meanwhile they have been running around with an insurance card receiving health services.

What then? Who is on the hook for those services? HHS has decided to split the baby. The insurance company will have to pay for the first month of non-coverage, but providers (doctors and hospitals) will have to absorb the costs incurred for the second two months. That could be a whole lot of money. The (formerly) insured person will be canceled after three months, but they get to re-enroll again at the end of the year without penalty. (And we were told one of the purposes of this law was to solve the “free-rider” problem. Oh, well.)

Along with paying for services during the first month of the delinquency, the insurer must: 1) notify HHS of the non-payment; 2) notify providers of the possibility of denied claims during the second and third months; 3) notify the insured that he/she is delinquent; 4) continue to collect the advanced tax credit on behalf of the policyholder; 5) return the tax credit for the second and third month to the Treasury; 6) issue a termination notice to the insured at the end of the grace period. Oh, and the carrier must also determine whether the insured has a disability as defined by the Americans With Disabilities Act, and make “reasonable accommodations” for such individuals. These are pretty substantial administrative burdens, and the costs will aggravate the Minimum Loss Ratio requirement for the carrier.

So, how many people do you suppose will do this? I would wager just about everybody. Why not? You can get 12 months of coverage for nine months of premiums and suffer absolutely no penalty.

My head hurts – let’s see if I have this straight:

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Yesssir, a contest!  For nothing says “Success!” for a nitwittish, top-down command and control, IRS-fine-giving billy club of a “We’re from the Government and we’re here to help you” HHS “shh…we care” like having to run a contest to get those youn’uns that don’t need it to sign up and pay three times the premiums just to keep that halo going over the Obamessiah brow:

And just to make sure that this isn’t just the Senior set trying to run a con on them, Obama, Sebelius and the (dum-da-da-TUM!) Young Invincibles (aka the Center for Community Change, Washington DC) decided to get those creative type’s juices going and “send us a video” just like America’s Funniest Videos does (except AFV’s rewards, being a private capitalistic show, actually has decent money for prizes).

Socialism – the political system that REQUIRES propaganda in order to think that there is sugar in the medicine they’re jamming down the throat.

Oh, by the way, did you now know that that Obamacare has its own Obama corpse (Like the US Marine “Navy Corpsemen“)?

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Hugh Hewitt (talk show host, author, lecturer, lawyer) has a column in the Washington Examiner today: “Is Obama the worst president ever?”

Since 1979 and the acquiescence of the transfer of Iran to religious zealots with world-enders and Hidden Imam-summoners among them, I didn’t think it was possible for an American president to be ranked below Jimmy Carter on the competence list.

But now we have Obama, with double the years that Carter had to more than double the wreckage of the Carter era. Obama is working on his place in history every day, and every day he is making that ranking more secure.

Earlier in the column, he reviews the cost and lies about Obamacare, the situation in Syria (re: Weapons of Mass Destruction).  Certainly there are a lot of areas in which we have pointed out where things are just upside down and rightside wrong with what this Administration has and is doing.  The key ‘graph in the piece is this:

Obama’s tenure is a vast desert of anti-achievement, a landscape of waste and ruin on every front at home and abroad, save on the ability to mobilize voters who don’t know or don’t care about the state of the country or the world.

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I stumbled upon Duck Dynasty when it first started: a bunch of good old boys just having fun  – and getting fabulously wealthy at the same time.  And then I started to really watch past the beards, past the slapstick humor, and figured out that this was as conservative a show that there was on TV.  Guess that lots of people agree with me:

“Reid Wilson shares a map from National Media, a Republican ad-buying firm, depicting a recent television event: “Using data from Rentrak, a company that monitors data from set-top boxes, the map shows what percentage of television viewers in specific designated market areas watched this television event live.”

Red are Republican leaning counties, Blue are the Progressive.  You can tell who sees the same things I do – and those snobs that only see the beards, the guns, the hunting, and the fishing.

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Political Correctness police (almost always Progressives as they seek to use this tool of Political Castration to move Forward their agenda of Cultural Marxism) do what they always do – find someone who has upset your sense of being and then DESTROY him – and that is what they did to that Rodeo Clown wearing the Obama Mask in Missouri.  They simply have no sense of humor when it comes to their LightBringer (the Warmists are the same way and so are the Race-Baiters).  It is never enough to simply issue a rebuke, not enough to hear an apology – they have to destroy that person personally and financially.  Make them and their family homeless? “Good! – but insufficient!”.  These are EVIL people who see everyone that disagrees with them politically as just “those that oppose me” but really view others as bad people at best and EVIL subhumans that must be put down at worst.  They got him banned for life – taking away his livelihood and effectively making him destitute.

All around him, former “friends” abandoned him to the tsunai of politics that engulfed him, fearful that some of it might rub off on him (e.g., like the DC Republicans are doing now – political cowards). Democrats went bananas (er, clown, rodeo clown, cowboys – get it: Bush??) and Republicans, not willing to stand up to the Democrats per satire and that Pesky First Amendment, lent the gravitas of their elected officialdom so as not have the Democrats throw the Race Card at them in the backwash.

The Progresive PCers must be all reaching for their Maalox after this:

“A Texas rodeo isn’t shying away from controversy — instead, they are doing the opposite and promoting an appearance of a rodeo clown wearing a mask of President Obama this weekend.

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Yeah, 35 years ago and 31 years ago was the last time I sat in front of a blackboard with a prof.  I do remember well that first weekend as a freshman and scurrying all over to get all the stuff I needed to get set up – including my books.  We all did – was on a freshman floor with all pre-med / bio and engineers guys – I immediately knew that competition was HERE as I heard their SAT scores.  So, these rules for the newbies seem to be as applicable now as they were then:

1. Arrive early.

2. There might be homework due.

3. Bring your laptop — if you can handle it.

4. Keep up with the professor.

5. Be prepared to actually work.

6. Have an open mind about your classmates.

7. Start taking notes immediately.

‘Course at that time, laptops didn’t exist – pen and paper were it.  Pretty much all the rest are right (take a gander over at the site for the commentary). And imagine the shock when I realized after the first day in the hardest subjects (Calc, Chem 101, and Bio 101) that I was already two chapters behind in each BEFORE the prof picked up a piece of chalk (yes, chalk – not even dry erasers).  They worked us hard (math prof, Dennis Burke, later became the Dean) – this was NOT like some colleges that weren’t much more than a paid second high school. And slide rulers ruled the day – calculators were still wicked expensive.

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• If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally …you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

• If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion … you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

• If the only school curriculum allowed to explain how we got here is evolution, but the government stops a $15 million construction project to keep a rare spider from evolving to extinction … you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

• If you have to show identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor or check out a library book, but not to vote who runs the government … you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots.

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Sheesh, what maroons (Er, that would be BOTH Ed Mosca and Stephen LaBonte)!  A fake internet site during a campaign – what a NOVEL CONCEPT to think of.  I…I…don’t think anyone has tried that during a campaign before!  Shhh….don’t let ANYONE outside of NH get ahold of this idea, because, well, people might think….well, LOOK!

OH Wait!  That’s from another race!  My, could I think that one is not like the other??  Quick, Stephen, call up your crack investigators (hint – put up by the NRCC)!! As Moe Lane said: “Nice to see the GOP going on offense. Also… hasn’t the DCCC learned by now to secure the potential websites for its candidates? Tsk, tsk, tsk.”

Back to what LaBonte said time.  Moe’s advice would also apply to lawyers who wish to shove their clients into the middle of an election….that would be Ed Mosca, IMHO. I guess, Stephen, this would make you look a bit…silly for your ruling (after the jump)  Here’s what I wrote at the time (emphasis from original & now, and reformatted).

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From DEFENSETECH:

Army to Rename XM25 Airburst Weapon

U.S. Army weapons officials predict that the long-awaited XM25 Counter Defilade Target Engagement weapon will be ready for fielding by late 2014. The weapon will be known as the M25.  “We’d take the X off,” Lt. Col. Shawn Lucas, the Product Manager Individual Weapons, said in an Army press release. “It’s no longer experimental; it’d be the M25.” XM25 is currently in the engineering and manufacturing development phase and not yet ready for fielding, Lucas said.

Army officials halted operational testing in of the shoulder-fired, 25mm airburst weapon in February after a soldier suffered minor injuries when the weapon “malfunctioned” in Afghanistan. The weapon experienced a double feed and an “unintentional primer ignition” of one round, Army officials maintain. The XM25 had already completed one 14-month battlefield assessment and was in the early stages of a second assessment when the double feed and primer ignition occurred during a live-fire training exercise.

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It has been a while since I’ve written about Occupy NH.  Certainly we agreed upon one thing – that the combination  & collusion of Big Government with Big Business resulting in Crony Capitalism at best, and Fascism at worst.  Where we parted ways was on how to ameliorate the situation; they wanted even BIGGER Government to handcuff Big Business.  As a Free Market guy, I want the chances for Big Business to worm its lobbying armies into every nook and cranny of Government to go to nil.  It is ONLY because Government is so large, and has so much money to spend, that Big Business does what it does – follows the money.  Reduce the size of Government, turn much of the non-Constitutional activities back to the States, and much less cronyism can occur.  But I digress.

With the Lenco BearCat being pursued by Concord’s Chief Duval, who targeted Occupy NH as an immediate and present danger (along with the Free Staters, Sovereign Citizens formally, and probably TEA Party folks floated around in his noggin), Occupy NH wrote a very good rebuttal and made some very good points – and yes, I agree with them (emphasis mine):

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No, Duval didn’t call me, or other “extreme right-wing” bloggers” a Nazi – but Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC) did. Duval called out several groups in his application for a replacement armored tank (a new Lenco Bearcat) like Occupy NH, Sovereign Citizens, and Free Staters (and probably TEA Party and Second Amendment supporters went through his mind as well) thinking that these were people who presented a clear and immediate danger to Concord (like that tank would get lots of usage in a town of 43,000 – daily!  Weekly!  Monthly! OK, maybe one every couple of years when in years past, a few squad cars would have sufficed).  But no, he did not declare that this groups were Nazis or Nazi-like.

But Clyburn did meet up with Godwin’s Law and jetted right past it:

Democratic representative Jim Clyburn likened conservative media and websites to the propaganda outlets of Nazi Germany in a radio interview today. The South Carolina Democrat at first seemed to be going after the American media as a whole, but went on to target “extreme right-wing” bloggers for supposedly ginning up “manufactured controversies.”

Would he be talking about…..us?  Naw, not a chance!  Right Wing?  Patriots, for sure.  Extreme?  Only in that we want to return to real Constitutional values and not “manufactured” ones.  Really – calling Right of Center bloggers to be the same kindred kind as ….Nazis?

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I have been on Howie’s email list for a while and this recounting of CSP’s “promoting” is posted with his permission (certain emphasis mine):

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I was able to make the Veterans Town Hall meeting this morning, organized by congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, and I am glad I did, though I think some of those on the Podium are not so happy I did.

They had a panel of people from various support organizations at the head table and each gave a presentation of what their organization was about and what they are doing for Veterans – when I got my chance to speak I addressed that as nothing more than a Dog & Pony show, as to me it was more important that they listen to us than us to them. I suggested to the Congresswoman that she do such a Veterans Town Hall meeting in the future, in an evening session, with an open forum microphone where she and her staff, and any invited guests listen to us talk about what is important to us rather than have them brag about their accomplishments while Veterans are still hurting, and many have lost faith in these organizations. It is sad to hear and understand that our new generations are just as disheartened and neglected as us Vietnam Vets, so my hair stands up on the back of my neck when he hear all these people talk about all the money they are spending on taking care of Vets when I know much of what they say is only the rosy picture they want us to believe.

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