Friday, November 08, 2013

MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU. Spinning furiously.
VIRGINIA'S NEW STATE MOTTO: "BS FIRST"



Linked from Twitchy.
WHO KNEW? It turns out windmills only work when there is wind.
THREE TESLAS burn inside of six weeks. There's a Tesla here in town. I understand the fire trucks follow it everwhere it goes.... And with a street sweeper in front of it....
TEXAS GUBERNATORIAL WANNABE WENDY DAVIS: I'm totally pro-life ... outside the womb.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR: Why Classical Schools Just Might Save America.

Which is why school vouchers are also so important, as I'm reminded of Instapundit's oft-repeated question: "Is it child abuse to send your kid to public schools?"
RISK FACTOR: What really happened during the ObamaCare rollout? Short answer: an unmitigated disaster. Having spent nearly 20 years as a systems engineering integration contractor, I concur.

Read it all.
FOUR ... total number of ObamaCare enrollments in Delaware.
More than a month after the launch of Delaware’s health insurance exchange, officials report only four Delawareans enrolled for insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act.

As of Wednesday, Delaware’s marketplace guide organizations reported four enrollments, 31 enrollment applications completed and 218 accounts created for possible enrollment.

Four community organizations were hired to provide marketplace guides, using a $4 million federal grant.
That's, um, let's see now ... uh, roughly $1 million per enrollee. It would've been cheaper by far to buy each a Platinum plan at, say, $15,000 each.

ADDED: Five more in Washington D.C.

Big win for HealthCare.Gov.
PRESIDENT ASTERISK: "I'm sorry".*

*(you believed me.)
BYRON YORK: The simple question that will determine Obamacare's fate.

Have we become a nation of takers or providers? I fear it's the former.
WENDY DAVIS TELLS COURT: That mean newspaper hurt my brain! Impossible. First there has to be a brain to hurt. If, on the other hand, it were her ego....
ACTUALLY it's the first anniversary of the 68-hour workweek.

Or more. With enough part-time employment you might still be able to make a living.
OVERSTATED, BUT NOT BY MUCH: Ender’s Game is Already a Reality for the U.S. Military.
DEMOCRATIC SENATORS complain to Obama about Obamacare.
Obama offered reassurances that the crippled website would soon be operational, and promised to pump up the volume of the pro-Obamacare public relations.

Obama “discussed ongoing efforts to ramp up communication and education outreach to consumers who have received or might receive letters about how their individual market plans might be affected.”
To talk about fixing it is to fix it: makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over, doesn't it?
THE AMERICAN PROSPECT: An argument for 'kludge'-ocracy.
CRUZ-HATING: It begins.
JEFF JACOBY: Which ObamaCare Shoe Will Drop Next? The [nonstartling] conclusion: "[As] government gets bigger, citizens get smaller — and public servants become impossible to control."

Read it all.
OBAMACARE: "a toxic stew of lies, corruption and incompetence." Read the whole thing.

The next shoe to drop will be when ObamaCare's employer mandate kicks in in 2015.
LITTLE JOHNNY CHANNELS OBAMACARE:
The kids filed into class Monday morning. They were all very excited. Their weekend assignment was to sell something, and then give a talk on salesmanship.

Little Sally led off. "I sold Girl Scout cookies and I made $30" she said proudly. "My sales approach was to appeal to the customer's civil spirit, and I credit that approach for my obvious success."

"Very good", said the teacher.

Little Debbie was next. "I sold magazines" she said. "I made $45 and I explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current events."

"Very good, Debbie", said the teacher.

Eventually, it was Little Johnny's turn. The teacher held her breath.

Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom, and dumped a box full of cash on the teacher's desk. "$2,467", he said.

"$2,467!" cried the teacher, "What in the world were you selling?"

"Toothbrushes", said Little Johnny.

"Toothbrushes" echoed the teacher. "How could you possibly sell enough tooth brushes to make that much money?"

"I found the busiest corner in town", said Little Johnny. "I set up a Dip & Chip stand, and I gave everybody who walked by a free sample."

They all said the same thing: "Hey, this tastes like dog poop!"

Then I would say, "It is dog poop. Wanna buy a toothbrush? I used the President Obama method of giving you some crap, dressing it up so it looks good, telling you it's free, and then making you pay to get the bad taste out of your mouth."

Little Johnny got five stars for his assignment.
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CHANGE: Hope lost.
THE PAST comes back to haunt.