So everyone is talking about this.
Not a surprise. The Clinton’s have a long history of pay-back.
Just like Canada, Part 2
First call to the doctor, second call to a politician.
Your third call should be to the media.
After being contacted by CNNMoney Friday, an Independence executive reached out to Patterson and confirmed that she has had coverage since Jan. 1 and her primary care doctor designation is in order.
After CNNMoney reached out to the insurer Friday to check their status, the couple received a call from a Cigna supervisor, who gave them their ID number and emailed them a letter confirming coverage
The spokeswoman said a customer service representative would look into Watts’ case.
When health-care is political, deal with it as politicians deal with things.
On a related note, I wonder if this company is on the exchange.
Via, Instapundit
Governor Christie’s problem
What about the Republicans? Christie burned a lot of bridges in that debate, and in his embrace (literally) of Obama in those final days of the 2012 election. Ironically, it’s the Obama administration that is widening its probe into the use of those funds now. Don’t expect too many Republicans to rush to Christie’s side in this fight, except to point out that the $2.2 million difference between the two advertising campaign proposals amounts to 0.041% of the porkfest Barack Obama and Chris Christie demanded from Congress for Sandy relief.
Hurricane Sandy ended Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, now it’ll end Christie’s.
Renegade Regulator
“Forty-eight lobbyists, all working for the CSA, and all hitting the Federal Government for money and influence”…
The CSA is constantly lobbying government for more of your money. In the last twelve months, the CSA arranged twenty-eight meetings with government officials to request funding. And that’s just the Federal Government, the CSA is also active provincially and municipally.
Among the highlights, the CSA asked the Federal Government for “funding from Health Canada for the Product Safety Project Committee.” But this committee is run by volunteers, they are unpaid. So the CSA wants money to pay for unpaid volunteers. They also asked for funding to “update” the NGV codes (B108 and B109 specifically). But CSA sells these codes for $190 each, so why is government expected to pay CSA’s product development costs? Then the CSA asked for “funding […] for development of storm water training modules.” Again, the government is expected to pay CSA to develop a training program that CSA would then sell commercially.
The CSA has registered forty-three lobbyists with the Federal Government. Beyond this, the CSA has contracted Global Public Affairs to lobby government on their behalf. Global Public Affairs has subsequently registered five additional lobbyists on behalf of the CSA.
Broad strata update
And it was all done legally with existing warrants allowed by law.
The documents show that during the investigation, police went repeatedly before an Ontario judge to obtain warrants permitting them to do everything from marking evidence with invisible ink to staging break-ins to hide their covert searches.
Ariel Sharon, RIP
Perhaps the most notable way in which Sharon’s life is a reflection of his country, at least outside of Israel, is that the blood libels published against him in the Western media are of a piece with the overall slander of Israel in the European and US mainstream media.
Reader Tips
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the Tips, filmed live during a 2004 tribute to the late Gram Parsons, Keith Richards and friends take turns singing the Stones’ 1971 classic Wild Horses.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Bias? What bias?
Scott Whitlock at Media Research Center:
In less than 24 hours, the three networks have devoted 17 times more coverage to a traffic scandal involving Chris Christie than they’ve allowed in the last six months to Barack Obama’s Internal Revenue Service controversy. Since the story broke on Wednesday that aides to the New Jersey governor punished a local mayor’s lack of endorsement with a massive traffic jam, ABC, CBS and NBC have responded with 34 minutes and 28 seconds of coverage. Since July 1, these same networks managed a scant two minutes and eight seconds for the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups.
Read that last sentence again: Two minutes and eight seconds over 192 days works out to an average of 0.666 seconds of IRS Scandal coverage per day. Compare that to the 2,068 seconds spent in less than 24 hours covering the “explosive” story of lane closures (a nominally Republican mini-scandal) on a bridge in New Jersey.
If any of our progressive, Obama-supporting drive-by commenters would like to make the case that the big three U.S. legacy networks aren’t Democrat shills, pure and simple, feel free.
Related.
Warming…
♬ What’s it good for?
Absolutely everything.
Uh-huh. ♬
Why Profit Isn’t “Optional”
What the left (and most non-accounting people on the right) fail to realize is that it isn’t just the “evil rich business owners” that gets profits, but all his suppliers, vendors, employees, he pays. In other words ALL of his expenses are other people’s profits.
Enviro-whackos
Weibo Ludwig’s legacy.
Justin Trudeau’s victimless crime
“The victim told police that she was attacked after smoking marijuana and drinking beer with people she believed to be her friends, including one girl who had been her best friend since kindergarten.
Patricia Montes, 15, and Erica Avery, 16, are charged with two counts each of felony armed sexual assault and kidnapping. Both have been charged as adults.”
We Don’t Need No Stinking Sparky Cars
We called up Keyes Chevrolet in Los Angeles and were quoted a broad price range of between $3,400 and $34,000 to replace a “drive motor replacement battery” in a 2012 Volt. Tellingly, perhaps, the dealer we spoke with was not sure what replacing a ‘drive motor replacement battery’ (and the ‘Grade B’ version, at that) entails, and told us we’d have to bring a Volt in to see what’s wrong with the pack to get a real estimate. We got the same confusion and numbers to replace the battery from Berger Chevrolet in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We asked GM to clarify what this $34,000 charge includes, but that information was not forthcoming.
Those Moderate Muslims!
“Firefighters struggled to subdue the flames as the decades-old Al-Saeh library went up in smoke on Friday in the Serail neighborhood of Tripoli. Despite firefighters’ best efforts, little of the trove of historic books and manuscripts was recovered from the wreckage. ‘Two thirds of some 80,000 books and manuscripts housed there,’ a security source told Agence France Press, referring to the items destroyed. The source added that the blaze was started after a manuscript insulting the Prophet Mohammed was found hidden in the pages of one of the library books.
h/t Brian
The Cult of Obama
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” ― Margaret Thatcher
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
In 2008, Young revealed his latest project, the production of a hybrid-engine 1959 Lincoln called Lincvolt.[84] A new album loosely based on the Lincvolt project, Fork in the Road, was released on April 7, 2009.[85] The album, partly composed of love songs to the car, also commented on the economic crisis, with one narrator attacking the Wall Street bailouts enacted in late 2008. Unfortunately, the car caught fire in November 2010, in a California warehouse, and along the way it burned an estimated US$850,000 worth of Young’s rock and roll memorabilia collection.
h/t Orville
The two least potent words in Canadian politics
The two most potent words of the upcoming political season will not be budget balance, as the Conservatives would have you believe. Or Senate abolition, as the NDP might desire. Instead, they will be baby bump — which is exactly what the federal Liberals might hope from the polls when Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie Grégoire gives birth to the couple’s third child sometime in March.
It’s astonishing that ten squillion puff-pieces about Justin Trudeau have avoided mention of his complete absence of any serious economic policy platf…
In fact, it is mildly astonishing that of the ten squillion newspaper columns recently committed to telling Justin Trudeau what to do with 2014, not one has mentioned the political effect of his soon-to-be expanded family.
h/t David Southam
Reader Tips
The Cold Wet Steel gonna break your legs.. ♫
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IMHACC’s SL of BS
Headline at the CBC:
Climate change rattles mental health of Inuit in Labrador
So says a paid researcher for the Inuit Mental Health Adaptation to Climate Change project.
Seek and ye shall find.
h/t wallyj
Running out of Other Peoples money
Via Maz2, Spain claws back its solar subsidy.
“It seemed so safe,” he said recently. “It was a government guarantee.”
Well, that was one of many mistakes.
Spain has good reason for wanting to take action. It is facing a growing deficit — about $40 billion now — because it has never passed on the true cost of producing energy to its consumers, a problem that has ballooned with the economic crisis. If it does not do something, that deficit will only grow, experts say.
The watermelons rejoice though.
The dramatic shift towards renewable generation coupled with a fall in overall power demand of 2.1% led to a similarly drastic reductions in emissions from the peninsular’s power sector. “The increased weight of renewable energy in the generation mix structure of 2013 compared to the previous year has reduced CO2 emissions of the electricity sector on the Spanish peninsula to 61.4 million tonnes, 23.1% lower than in 2012,” the report stated.
Except, they still don’t know how to pay for it.
The energy deficit — the accumulated shortfall between the cost of power generation in Spain and what regulated rates bring in from consumers — has reached more than 26 billion euros (about $36 billion). For 2013, the government had targeted a full-year deficit of €3.6 billion. Instead, the shortfall reached €4.5 billion for the period to October.