SCOTUS Obamacare Decision Makes Individual Mandate A Fact & Universal Healthcare Coverage A Fiction
Americans for Tax Reform notes that when Barkycare's individual mandate kicks in in 2014, we'll get to fill out a brand new tax form:
This new tax information document must, at a minimum, contain: the name and health insurance identification number of the taxpayer; the name and tax identification number of the health insurance company; the number of months the taxpayer was covered by this insurance plan; and whether or not the plan was purchased in one of Obamacare’s “exchanges.”
This will be required as an inclusion in your April, 2015 filing. Your insurance company (if any) will be sending these data along to the IRS. If you can't prove coverage, you'll get to pay the fine for failure to comply with the edict.
Amid reports, now even being discussed in legacy media, that the Barky administration has orders for enough ammo to last a century at current rates of use for "training", there have been no efforts to scale back the orders, nor even to explain them, emanating from the most transparent administration in the history of the country. As Ralph Benko notes in Forbes, this was a great opportunity for Barky to step in, order a scale-back, and in so doing unite much of the country on a particularly disturbing issue.
Naturally, he hasn't. And Big Sis, testifying recently at a Congressional hearing on the matter was dismissive of reports on the purchase orders because Drudge was among the first to draw attention to them, she really stepped in it: the site receives around 1 billion page views per month; to blow it off as inconsequential - as Big Sis did - is especially stupid. And folks are actually pushing for her to run for President in 2016? That could be a gift-wrap for Republicans.
Cruz, noting that there's strong bipartisan support for border security among Americans, says that the Gang of Eight's "Immigration bill" is going to fail because it doesn't include much in the way of meeting that requirement. Chuckie blasted his "good friend", claiming that Cruz simply doesn't want "a pathway to citizenship". Well, Cruz is from the border state of Texas, while Schumer's an east-coast liberal. Ted's got more credibility than Chuckie, it seems.
And buried amongst the 800+ pages of this "bipartisan" bill is a DHS mandate to establish a national identity database:
Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.
Yeah - more DHS oversight of citizens (while ignoring illegal aliens). That's the ticket! Maybe we can all have RFID tags embedded in our arms, too.
Mark Sanford cheated on his wife. In other words, he's not exactly a paragon of virtue. Nonetheless, he won election to office despite that albatross, and the party of Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, and William "cold cash" Jefferson are desperately trying to use Sanford's infidelity as a club against Republicans - which is kind of humorous, really.
But fake Republicans are also getting into the act, as evidenced by something that popped up in the Twittiverse recently:
Washington Post observes that in our military, which once had two kinds of camouflage patterns for troops, there are now ten. And this, they note, is a problem that's endemic in our government:
Duplication is one of Washington’s most expensive traditions: Multiple agencies do the same job at the same time, and taxpayers pay billions for the government to repeat itself.
The habit remains stubbornly hard to break, even in an era of austerity. There are, for instance, at least 209 federal programs to improve science and math skills. There are 16 programs that teach personal finance.
If anybody in Congress was actually interested in cutting what they laughingly refer to as "the budget", there are at least 214 "programs" that we could do without, right there. But it makes too much sense, so....
Joke Biden, the gaffemeister-in-chief, has announced that we need to give the millions of illegal aliens in our country amnesty in order to bestow upon them the dignity and respect that they deserve.
“Because not doing that, it’s hard to make the case in my view, to six hundred million people in the hemisphere, that we genuinely respect you all,” Biden said. “When we do not show respect for 11 million people here in America who hail from the very countries we talk about respecting."
Once again, he drags out the tired refrain about "undocumented" men, women and children being able to "come out of the shadows". He must figure that if that phrase is repeated often enough, then the rest of us will eventually buy it.
In another example of the way Democratics twist things to suit their equally twisted mind-set, Rep. Cummings of Maryland lambasted Republicans in general and Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), for what he believes was the congressman using the Benghazi attack for his own political gain.
As is so often the case, Mediaite gets it wrong: Cummings doesn't believe it; he merely claims it. There's a difference, and it's a particularly ironic one in view of the fact that Barky and his administration deliberately lied to the American people for personal political gain.
It's a mixed success, as a rifle round blew it up. Obviously, some additional tweaking is needed for that.
Wilson also treated the gun barrels with acetone vapor to smooth the surface and reduce friction. This may be why the gun is able to withstand the heat and pressure of .380 caliber bullets that would normally destroy this type of plastic.
As suspected, the six-oz. piece of metal incorporated into the weapon in order to comply with current law is not located in the barrel. Questions remain: is the barrel rifled? If not, accuracy is up for grabs. How many shots can be fired before a new barrel is required?
On the other hand, this was merely a prototype intended to test the concept - and clearly, it works.
Help your Congressmen overcome their bedwetting issues - see below. There must be some part of the words, "shall not be infringed" that they can't quite wrap their heads around.
When Nanny Pelosi famously stated that they had to pass Obamacare so that Americans can find out what's in it, she was inadvertently prescient. We're finding out what's in it, we don't like it, and Democratics are now running scared; distancing themselves as much as possible from what Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. two weeks ago described as a train wreck.
Barky's lies have begun to catch up to him: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Not under Obamacare. "It'll bend the cost curve down." No, it doesn't. "It'll provide coverage for all Americans." No, it doesn't. "It'll create jobs." In what alternate universe? Employers are cutting full-time jobs to part-time; underemploying millions.
How bad is it? Bad enough that Baucus subsequently decided against mounting a reelection effort - and he helped write the thing. Even Harry Reid calls it a train wreck. And New York Senator Ron Wyden has expressed concerns:
While Obama and his administration say they are working nonstop on reform, analysts believe a poor performance could make the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act a big enough campaign issue in 2014 to jeopardize Democratic control of the Senate - particularly if insurance costs rise sharply.
"There is reason to be very concerned about what's going to happen with young people. If their (insurance) premiums shoot up, I can tell you, that is going to wash into the United States Senate in a hurry," said Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat.
With this comment, Wyden joins Democrats Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, and Max Baucus, who themselves recently expressed concern about Obamacare.
And first out of the gate is Chuckie Schumer: What this country really needs is another law! Sorry, Chuckie, but that cat's outta the bag;3-D printable weapons are already here.
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SCOTUS Obamacare Decision Makes Individual Mandate A Fact & Universal Healthcare Coverage A Fiction 
