Obamacare is in force and the big corporations that were in Crony Capitalism mode are slowly understanding that the only person that matters is Obama.  Deals struck with him, like all of his campaign promises, have expiration dates.  Matters not whether much money and efforts have been expended on his behalf earlier – you’re no longer needed.  From Yahoo News (reformatted, emphasis mine)

Exclusive: U.S. CEOs threaten to pull tacit Obamacare support over ‘wellness’ spat

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Leading U.S. CEOs, angered by the Obama administration’s challenge to certain “workplace wellness” programs, are threatening to side with anti-Obamacare forces unless the government backs off, according to people familiar with the matter. Major U.S. corporations have broadly supported President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform despite concerns over several of its elements, largely because it included provisions encouraging the wellness programs.

The programs aim to control healthcare costs by reducing smoking, obesity, hypertension and other risk factors that can lead to expensive illnesses. A bipartisan provision in the 2010 healthcare reform law allows employers to reward workers who participate and penalize those who don’t.  But recent lawsuits filed by the administration’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), challenging the programs at Honeywell International and two smaller companies, have thrown the future of that part of Obamacare into doubt.

The lawsuits infuriated some large employers so much that they are considering aligning themselves with Obama’s opponents, according to people familiar with the executives’ thinking.

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I guess this is, in part, the cover for Obama to start repatriating those Islamic fighters that have worked to kill Americans – after all, doesn’t “belligerants” sound more like just misguided people with an anger management problem?  Such is the Obama Administration trying all of the linguistic tricks in the books in support of his EVIL (not misguided, EVIL) policy in letting dangerous killers free to go back to the battlefields to kill again – Federation of American Scientists:

When it comes to Department of Defense doctrine on military treatment of detained persons, “unlawful enemy combatants” are a thing of the past. That term has been retired and replaced by “unprivileged enemy belligerents” in a new revision of Joint Publication 3-13 on Detainee Operations, dated November 13, 2014.

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This should enrage all taxpayers (emphasis mine, reformatted):

IRS staffers who owe back taxes will in some cases still be eligible for bonuses next year, the agency said this week.

In a statement, the agency said it would keep employees who willfully skipped out on their taxes from getting performance awards, but would be more forgiving of those who made honest mistakes. John Koskinen, the IRS commissioner, announced a new round of bonuses this week for 2014, to be paid out early next year. “It’s important to remember that not everyone at the IRS is a tax expert — some work in non-tax specific areas in occupations ranging from IT programmers, administrative professionals to human capital specialists,” the IRS told The Hill in a statement this week. “Where employees have been found to have made unintentional tax mistakes, they would generally still be eligible to receive performance awards they have earned.”

How ’bout those that haven’t PAID their taxes – at all?  John Koskinen – this is the guy that has waged a one man snark war against the CongressCritters in trying to find out who said and did what in the IRS / Lois Lerner targeting of Conservative / TEA Party groups in denying them tax status given to others.  It was clear that he’s stonewalled them – after all, how many months has it been that he’s obfuscated and outright lied about the “missing” Lerner emails that have just magically appeared?

The announcement that staffers who owe back taxes could still collect bonuses

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For the past few years I’ve taken a moment on the day before Thanksgiving to post the latest DCCC Annual Let’s Ruin Thanksgiving Flyer.  There’s one every year.  It’s a bullet  punch check list to guide the drone army in a national dinner-time defense of the progressive narrative.

Ever ask yourself why?  Why does the left need to send its fawning acolytes a turkey-day palm card to help them get their Democrat ducks in a row?  Ace nails it.

Supposedly progressives are super-informed and Love Science. Indeed, that’s the main “political” argument they’re actually arguing for.

So why is it so many of them seem to need these bluffer’s guides to explain to them why they believe the things they believe?

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In the [Food Network’s] holiday promotion their spokespeople cite the much-debunked statistic that one in five children in America goes hungry on a regular basis.  .

Something is truly out of whack here.  If one in five American children are going hungry how can there also be an epidemic of obesity that requires the downsizing the heavily subsidized public school lunch program to help correct?   Basic observation indicates the children of the affluent are neither overweight nor emaciated.  If anything, many middle class children tend to look a little pudgy, while a great many of the children of the welfare class and the working poor are noticeably obese.  So who and where are those twenty percent of American children who go hungry?

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From End of the American Dream comes this question:

“If you could stay home and watch television, play video games and hang out with your friends all day at government expense, would you do it?”

It goes on to talk about the safety net vs what I call the Govt hammock with the soft cocooning that eventually either convinces one to just lay there – or traps them there.  Yes, I have used the former (as I have said many times before) – a hand up.  And I have known those that have answered that question above with a resounding “YES!”  The carrot is dangled out there, by the policies of the Left, who believe that government kindness is only kindness offered by their mindset (without ever saying thank you for those that actually fund them) – it is only one’s sense of morality that says “thanks for the hand up – no longer needed” or (in the cases I have seen) “you owe me more – I want more”.

So EofAD lists some of the reasons why Americans are falling into that dependency disaster that the Government offers (reformatted, much left at the above link, emphasis mine):

Of course most Americans that collect money from the government each month are not abusing the system.  Many truly are incapable of taking care of themselves, and others are just receiving government benefits (such as Social Security) that they feel that they have earned by a lifetime of hard work.  But with each passing year the number of Americans jumping on board “the safety net” continues to grow rapidly, and a lot of these people should be able to take care of themselves.

The Left doth protest too much when they say “YOU are cold-hearted and selfish!” but again, the only thing that is important to the Left is that they think they’ve done good (again, via someone else’s money and detriment), their intentions are good – but being accountable for those results are immaterial.

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In many countries, that would be true.  But we aren’t most countries (at least, not yet) – it is clear that our radical Founding Fathers determined that our Rights pre-exist the formation of Government (e.g., I didn’t happen to be safe from illegal search and seizure or posses the self-defense rights simply because the Constitution was signed).  Our Constitution, the practical manifestation of the philosophy in the Declaration only enumerates those Rights.

It does NOT grant them.  In fact, the Constitution was written to tell those in Government that THEY DO NOT grant (and therefore, having the ability to rescind) RIGHTS!  So why is yet another Government school claiming exactly that??

Note the phrasing in two of the points:

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Once again the moonbats in Marxichusetts have decided to embarrass themselves.  At a school in Belmont, a trip to see the Nutcracker Ballet was cancelled because some parents found there to be ‘questionable material’ in the production.  From EAGNews:

The Butler Elementary School PTA in Belmont, Massachusetts makes an annual trip to the Nutcracker ballet, but this year, some parents complained the show has portions of the show that some viewers may find offensive.

At the PTA meeting, parents were supposedly told they were being “discriminatory” if they supported their children attending the production, WHDH reports.

The PTA “secretly” canceled the trip.

What was so offensive in the Nutcracker to some of them?

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Some things should not be forgotten, like Democrat Robert ‘Renny’ Cushing’s Legislative Service Request (LSR) 2015-H-0005-R.

The Cushing Sex Act: requiring colleges and universities to adopt policies regarding sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking as a condition for receiving state funds.

I guess NH campuses are like Indian reservations – not subject to NH or Federal laws on such mattress?  That aside, you’d think that Islands peopled with intellectual experts stewing in cultural Marxism, would have covered all of these bases already?

Renny Cushing thinks not!, and like a good Democrat he knows government can “fix it.”

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No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.  -Matthew 6:24

This is very disturbing that clergy and churches agree to turn from preaching the Gospel to a more “social gospel” and now under the Government thumb leaning on the “sermon scale”, agreeing to sermonize about GAIA worship – simply to avoid taxes.  A modern tale of selfishness and self-justification?  Is this the nose of Government pushing its way under the Church’s tent side?  And especially in today’s political climate (in which the political infuses into almost every nook and cranny, thanks to Progressives – reformatted, emphasis mine; more background after the jump):

Churches in a Maryland county are being offered tax breaks for incorporating environmentalism into their sermons.

In Prince George’s County, 30 pastors have started preaching ‘green’ ministries to avoid extra taxes, the Washington Post reports.  The taxes depend on the acreage for all property owners, including churches, as part of Maryland’s “storm water remediation fee.”  Reverend Nathaniel B. Thomas of Forestville New Redeemer Baptist Church said he attempted to challenge the fee and said:  “Once Uncle Sam finds a way to take your money, he doesn’t stop.”

Mostly because those behind that “way” believe it was always theirs to begin with – even that belonging to God.

Thomas acknowledged the people of his congregation have higher priorities than the environment, such as employment and family-related issues: “I know I’m not going to get a lot of ‘amens’ today,” adding, “The question is, are we taking care of what God has blessed us with?”  Thomas also voiced his support for environmental consciousness: “What God made was good, but it’s us that made it bad.”

Right – but it needed that Government to threaten you before you “evolved”?  That you had to look the “opportunity” square in the eyes (of the Tax Collector) and your hand on your collection plate to realize that you had “strayed from your First Calling”?

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Well, what will happen now in Ferguson?  I predict there will be rioting all over.  Just in watching the press conference, there were already questions whose main premise was “What, no justice for this black boy” with shades of “white power”?

The only justice these people were seeking had already been predetermined months ago, sans evidence.  Given the level of planning by professional agitators (make no mistake, while there are those truly concerning with this incident, there are those that are using this as an excuse – as typified by Lilian Lisa Fithian, the master planner of the “direct action” riots that were seen in Seattle when the WTO meetings were held there).  Lots of groups have been horning in on this tragedy for their own political purposes (e.g., New Black Panthers. Communist Party USA, et al).

And yes, Obama is making it all about him….again.

Fox News – protesters have already gone after cars and some store fronts.  Watching the livestream, protesters advanced on the police line and now there is a lot of tear gas in the air. Unverified reports of gunshots heard.  Car on fire.  Looting the Fergason Meat & Liquor – looting a cell phone store is “justice’…….how?  Like I said, simply an excuse.

Just look at the list of PLANNED cities in which there will be “action”:

• Albany, NY
• Albuquerque, NM
• Atlanta, GA
• Austin, TX
• Baltimore, MD

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Steve broke the news that Terry Bean, millionaire founder of the Human Rights Campaign, massive Democrat / Obama donor, and friend of NH Democrat Chair Ray Buckley, was arrested on charges of sodomy on a minor-aged boy (here) and the silence from the NH Democrats in NOT speaking to disavow that same important Democrat Terry Bean (here) even as they have no problem at all in going after NH Republicans for merely saying something they disagree with (which they used to do to us – except we punch back).

Well, here’s a story where a high ranking Democrat, formerly the IRS person who was in charge of approving charities for tax exemptions, approved a prostitution ring (you know her – the one that DISAPPROVED a lot of TEA Party groups because, well, she’s a raging Democrat – Lois Lerner).  Seriously – approving a group, Royal Order of Jesters, that, in some cases, used under-aged prostitutes and approved a museum as their charity “home”?  She protects her own ideological Party over political disagreement but approves a group that has abused young girls; am I the only one that thinks Lois Lerner’s moral pointers are all crooked? Reformatted, emphasis mine:

This reads like a James O’Keefe scandal.  Sandy Frost reported:

This seemingly boring property tax story began when attorney Ron Pruitt filed nonprofit incorporation documents with Texas’ Secretary of State on 7/11/2003.These documents were then filed with the IRS, where Lois Lerner, the former Director of Exempt Organization Rulings and Agreements, decided the Royal Order of Jesters deserved 501(c)(3) status as a charity and, on July 24, 2004, approved their application that classified their new headquarters as a “museum.”…

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