A REASON TO FEAR DEATH:

FECUNDOPHOBIA: The Growing Fear Of Children And Fertile Women.

ALMA finds the coldest known spot in the universe. I'm surprised; I thought it was on the tip of the ObamaCare iceberg.

GLENN REYNOLDS: Technology could save us from ObamaCare. It's a pleasant thought, but I rather suspect it'll be denied to the 'little people' except under direct supervision of ObamaCare-istas.

NEWT GINGRICH ON 'BREAKOUT': A Strategy for Winning and Governing for 2013-2017. While I can't agee totally with Gingrich's proposals, the Republicans would be wise to pay close attention to his proposals and at least begin to move in that direction.

YET ANOTHER 'Hitler finds out about ObamaCare' video.

“ANTIBULLYING” IS A CROCK.

NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE: Obama raising money off HealthCare.gov problems. Campaigning is sooo much easier than solving problems....

RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane on Medicare insurance and ObamaCare's essential benefits: ObamaCare requires health plans offer a comprehensive package of items and services, known as "essential health benefits." to include at least the following:

Ambulatory patient services
Emergency services
Hospitalization
Maternity and newborn care
Mental health and substance use disorder services
Prescription drugs
Rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices
Laboratory services
Preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management
Pediatric services

So ... am I to assume that Medicare, an 'insurance' program limited to seniors 65 years and over, is required to offer maternity and pediatric care?

NEW YORK TIMES: A quiet trip to the ozone hole. It strikes me as more akin to a very expensive coffin built for two.

OBAMACARE'S LAUNCH: It's just a glitch.

THE TAX BOX: Coming soon to your car. Remember, it's not about infrastructure, or even taxes. It's about control, moving you to an urban high rise subject to the latest progressive whim.

It's always about control.

HOUSE SESSION to fade away. The bright side is that without the House in session, there can be little more damage to be done to the American economy. This session, anyway.

LIES OF OBAMACARE: New Hampshire edition.

So it looks like our government has managed to introduce the same approach to healthcare that the very same folks introduced to higher education; if you make too much, you’ll pay for your healthcare and while you’re at it, pay for a voter of mine while you’re at it.

Linked from PowerLine.

UH, RIGHT: George Wallace was a Republican, and Herbert Hoover was Director of the FBI. You can trust those layers of editors and fact-checkers in the lame mainstream media to get things right every time.

"UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER tells students to avoid costumes including cowboys, indians, white trash or anything potentially deemed offensive." Does that mean I can't drive my truck to a Halloween party and go as myself?

NOW YOU SEE HER, now you don't.

She's probably been put in the Witless Witness Protection Program.

A HISTORY LESSON about your Social Security: just in case some of you young whippersnappers (and some older ones) didn't know this.

Social Security cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message 'NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION' written on the card was removed.

I still have my old Social Security card with the "NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION" message written on the face of the card.

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

1) That participation in the Program would be completely voluntary.

Not any more.

2) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual incomes into the Program.

It's now 6.2% [excluding Medicare] on the first $113,700 of income, with your employer contributing an equal amount.

3) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year.

Not any more.

4) That the money the participants put in went to the Independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the General Operating Fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program.

Under President Lyndon Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and spent.

5) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income.

Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed. If you have any income beyond Social Security, it probably being at least partially taxed.

Some Frequently [Un]asked Questions:

Q: Which political party took Social Security from the Independent 'Trust Fund' and put it into the General Fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which political party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which political party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party with Al Gore casting the 'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.

Q: Which political party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

A: Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Even if they never paid FICA (Social Security) taxes.

Now the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away. And the worst part about it is that uninformed citizens believe it.

From my email.

I WAS ALL FOR OBAMACARE until I found out I was paying for it. Click through to the Los Angeles Times article, and be sure to read Instapundit's commenters.

DURING THE NATIONALLY TELEVISED GAME YESTERDAY, Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers made a gun with his thumb and forefinger and pointed it at the Minnesota Vikings after scoring a touchdown. It was a good thing he's isn't a high school quarterback; he would have probably been suspended, arrested, and charged with bullying....

[Update] Oh, and sued....

WHAT IF the healthcare.gov 'tech surge' is a PR illusion?

IF AL GORE SPEAKS IN THE FOREST and no one hears him, does Al Gore exist?