On Thursday, he passed a new law at a press conference. George III never did that. But, having ordered America’s insurance companies to comply with Obamacare, the president announced that he is now ordering them not to comply with Obamacare. The legislative branch (as it’s still quaintly known) passed a law purporting to grandfather your existing health plan. The regulatory bureaucracy then interpreted the law so as to un-grandfather your health plan. So His Most Excellent Majesty has commanded that your health plan be de-un-grandfathered. That seems likely to work. The insurance industry had three years to prepare for the introduction of Obamacare. Now the King has given them six weeks to de-introduce Obamacare.
“Ban surgery to change the look of vaginas”
Urges profession that cuts off dicks so they’ll fit better in a bikini.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
How ironic that the same media tearing at #RobFord is this week celebrating a womanising, drug-addicted American president as a hero.
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 15, 2013
The Children Are Our Future
With the battle to eliminate “math” and “grades” behind them…
On Wednesday, Campeau — along with [Saskatchewan] Education minister Don Morgan — released the report which included a number of recommendations that the province plans to implement. Changes to education policy will supposedly make for a more consistent reaction from teachers when it comes to bullying. They also plan to “support” students in improving online behaviour and consult with them to build better bullying solutions.
But perhaps the most tangible recommendation is to build an “online tool” that allows students to report bullying online anonymously.
What could possibly go wrong?
The relentless “anti-bullying” drumbeat of the industrial media complex is no spontaneous development. Somewhere out there, PR firms have been hired to make it happen.
We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars
Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) shareholders have had much to fret about lately, from a nosebleed valuation and sagging stock price to periodic YouTube videos of exploding Tesla electric cars. Here’s another one for the list: Sometimes Tesla acts like it doesn’t know what it’s doing when it comes to financial reporting.
Consider Tesla’s news release last week disclosing its third-quarter financial results. The headline said Tesla had “Net income (non-GAAP) of $16 million.” Tesla spent parts of the first three pages discussing this and other nonstandard metrics that don’t comply with generally accepted accounting principles.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
I also asked if Chuck Rifici owner of Tweed pot company + Lib party CFO has any influence over his pro-legalization stance. Visibly annoyed.
— Suzanne Sexton (@SuzakiTheAmazon) November 15, 2013
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
“An entire column, published by a major daily, premised on an idea a Grade 7 student could explain was wrong.”
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Why so impatient, Mr Hyde?
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Honey, I Finished The Internet
More Pavilions At Folkfest
Of course, Obamacare never would have passed without decades of massive immigration from the Third World. Liberals didn’t change any minds — they changed the voters. In order to pass Obamacare, Democrats had to bring in the Third World to vote Democratic.
The downside is that the country is now chock-full of people who come from cultures where criminality and government corruption is a way of life — at the very moment that the country is expanding a government-run health insurance program already shot through with fraud and abuse.
Those Moderate Muslims!
Didn’t see this coming: Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties
What We Really Need Is Democracy
Syrian Spring: Al-Qaeda-linked rebels apologise after cutting off head of wrong person
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
The White House is going to allow people to keep their existing insurance policies in an attempt to head off a revolt among Democrats over ObamaCare.
President Obama is expected to make the announcement at 11:35 a.m.
The news comes one day before the House is scheduled to vote on a Republican-sponsored bill that would accomplish essentially the same goal.
Unbelievable things about America
Fruits and vegetables are way more expensive than meat and poultry.
That, generally speaking, the poor is more obese than the rich.
A lot of couples adopt children, sometimes in spite of having their own, and treat them exactly like their own. (To me, this alone is a marker of a great people)
President doesn’t automatically become the richest person in the country.
We Don’t Need No Stinking French Fry Grease
More than 1.2 million acres of grassland have been lost since the federal government required that gasoline be blended with increasing amounts of ethanol, an Associated Press analysis of satellite data found. Plots that were wild grass or pastureland seven years ago are now corn and soybean fields.
That’s in addition to the 5 million acres of farmland that had been aside for conservation — more than Yellowstone, Everglades and Yosemite National Parks combined — that have vanished since Obama took office.
Operation Empty Chair
Via Michael Yon: The Syrian revolution in 3 minutes.
Oh, Shiny Pony!
Et vous, Chantal? “Peak Justin.”
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YNoKyoto
Warsaw climate talks: nearly 3 in 10 countries not sending ministers
I Question The Timing
Jumpin’ Rob Ford, it’s a gas gas gas: Detectives from the Ontario Provincial Police anti-rackets division were scheduled to visit the premier’s office Wednesday night as part of their criminal investigation…