When the deficit was 9.x trillion, and we were spending a lot less than a trillion per year on the budget (back in the less than halcyon days when we not only had a budgt but had to have a budget), Democrats were whining about expensive wars and the burden we were putting on working families and our kids.

I realize that after seven years of Democrats more or less owning congress and five years with Obama as President, working and family have taken on a new meaning.  One is a racist term and the other bigoted.  But still, we hear about these mystical working families that Democrats claim to be defending…from working and being a family, is all I can figure.

Where was I?  Budgets, deficits, spending… oh my…

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Farmers Almanac 2014 Winter Prediction

After the unusually warm and snowless winter of 2011–2012, many people questioned if winter could make a comeback. Well it did. Last winter was cold and especially snowy.

So, what’s in store for this winter? The “Days of Shivery” are back! ?For 2013–2014, we are forecasting a winter that will experience below average temperatures for about two-thirds of the nation. A large area of below-normal temperatures will predominate from roughly east of the Continental Divide to the Appalachians, north and east through New England. Coldest temperatures will be over the Northern Plains on east into the Great Lakes. Only for the Far West and the Southeast will there be a semblance of winter temperatures averaging close to normal, but only a few areas will enjoy many days where temperatures will average above normal.

Precipitation-wise, the Southern Plains, Midwest, and Southeast will see above-normal conditions, while the rest of the country will average near normal. With a combination of below-normal temperatures and above-normal precipitation the stage will be set for the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Central and Northern New England to receive lots of snow. Farther south, where the thermometer will be vacillating above or below the freezing mark, Southern New England, Southeast New York, New Jersey, and down through the Mid-Atlantic region will be seeing either copious rains and/or snows.

Well, let’s see what happens.  If this holds up, it certainly will put a lot of egg on those faces that have said “Our childrens’ children may never know snow!”

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New Hampshire should not expand Medicaid. Hospitals will lose hundreds of millions of dollars and Taxpayers will be burdened with billions in unfunded mandates.  At least that is what the results of the NH Department of Health and Human Services own study determined.

…an analysis from the Lewin Group, a prominent health care consulting firm, finds that if New Hampshire expands Medicaid, Granite State hospitals will actually lose $228 million in revenue over the next seven years.

and…

While expanding Medicaid will cost New Hampshire billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, the expansion would only reduce the number of uninsured individuals in the state by 22,300. A larger number would be moved out of higher-quality, private insurance, and into the dysfunctional Medicaid program.

This is from an analysis of the NH DHHS study.  It is how they are supposed to base their own consideration.   Easy enough.  Not right for New Hampshire.

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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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The Arborist, when taking the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office to task for the recent “investigation” that cleared the “voters” who claimed residence at Martha’s Motel for voting purposes then went back home, off to other campaigns, or back to their staffer jobs in DC, makes an important point that should not be overlooked…

“…It is unconstitutional to have dual domicile for the purpose of making your vote worth more than any other law abiding citizens. In effect, the NH AG has created two classes of voter in Arkansas – one who can vote only in Arkansas and one who can select either Arkansas or New Hampshire.”

Not just in Arkansas, either.  Every one of these people, the thousands of college students (and you can make almost any behavior ‘legal’ if you have the votes}, have rights that you do not have courtesy of the New Hampshire Democrat Party and Judge John Lefty Lewis.

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Herein is the difference between people like former Vt. Governor and former Presidential candidate Howard Dean (and pretty much the entire Obama Administrative political appointees and Obama himself).  As Daniel Webster noted “they mean to be masters” – even if they believe their hearts to be “good” and believe in their heart of hears that their motives are only to be seen as pure and “for the common good”.  See what I mean:

On health care, Mr. Cruz said Mr. Obama’s law is a “job killer” that has forced businesses to drop coverage or shift workers to part-time status. He said these changes have an outsized effect on the most vulnerable, including minorities and single moms.

Rising to an oft-repeated challenge, Mr. Cruz offered three health care reforms that Republican may support in lieu of Mr. Obama’ plan.

He said that Americans should be allowed to build up health savings accounts in a tax-advantaged way, that health coverage should be “personal and portable” and divorced from employment, and that consumers should be allowed to purchase health insurance across state lines instead of quarantining policy options to the individual states.

Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, said interstate insurance options is the last thing he wants, arguing some states would pollute the policies that Vermonters and other states have built up and enjoy.

“I don’t want our people buying Texas health insurance,” he told CNN.

Note the totalitarian leanings of Dr. Dean: “I don’t want our people“.  

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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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Over at Conservative Intel, they’ve posted a list of hate-crime hoaxes. Having recently written about the Dylan Bleier hoax at Oberlin, I figured I should post this list; seeing as they went to all the trouble. The list has links and of the thirteen they share (Bleier would be number fourteen) all but one was perpetrated by a liberal or liberals. Yes, there is a supposed ‘conservative’ hate-crime hoax from 2007.

As Conservative Intel points out, right off the top, hate motivated crime is a real problem that happens to real people, though I question whether adding the word hate deters the crime. The very temples of political correctness and diversity, university campuses, just happen to be the primary breeding ground for hate-crime hoaxes, which are themselves crimes.

To the list…

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