Monthly Archives: April 2011
Video* Douchebag who mocked Trig Palin looks excatly as you might expect
Sheesh, Michael Moore looks manly next to this weenie! H/T Aleister!
Ah yes, remember who the media blamed for sky high gas prices in 2003-04?
Image by SS&SS via Flickr
Why President Bush, of course!
Who was raising a big stink about it being Bush’s fault?
Bloomberg news and their hit piece.
Americans are paying 30 percent more for regular gasoline than a year ago, an average of a $1.94 a gallon, and a poll by American Research Group May 3-6 showed voters becoming concerned. Oil futures have averaged $28.62 a barrel since Bush took office, 42 percent higher than the average during Clinton’s two terms. Oil reached a record $41.38 a barrel on Friday.
Thurston Kerry III via Fox-
SEATTLE — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (search), visiting a swing state with rising prices at the gasoline pump, is blaming President Bush’s foreign policy for high energy prices he says endanger national security.The LA Times
Experts have a lot of good reasons to explain why prices are going up at the moment: unrest in the Middle East, gas-guzzling cars and greed among the oil producing nations, among others. But there is another culprit that is being ignored and that is making the problem far, far worse in the U.S. than elsewhere: the decline in the value of the dollar.“Instability and danger in the Middle East are driving up the price of oil,” the Massachusetts senator said in remarks prepared for delivery Wednesday in Seattle
The NYT-
INDIAN WELLS, Calif., April 22 — President Bush spent an Earth Day marked by record-high gas prices promoting his support for hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars, but Democrats said that the vehicles were years away from reality and that the president needed to do more to relieve sticker shock at the pump.
Today is different though isn’t it? Sure, we all know a Democratic president could NEVER be blamed for high pain at the pump, even though it is HIS fault that our domestic oil production is WAY down!
In related news, it looks like Obama is creating a team to “root out any cases of fraud or manipulation in the oil markets that might affect gas prices.”
“That includes the role of traders and speculators,” Obama said at a town hall-style meeting in Reno, Nev. “We are going to make sure that no one is taking advantage of American consumers for their own short-term gain.”
“This gas issue is serious,” Obama said, adding that the best solution is developing alternative energy sources.
No one is doing more manipulating than Obama himself! Who is it that is refusing to issue new drilling permits? Who is it that has issued drilling bans almost everywhere we have oil here? Why, that would be the Manipulator-in-Chief!
Terrific… Our New Libyan Rebel Allies Filmed Beheading A Libyan Soldier
Terrific… Our New Libyan Rebel Allies Filmed Beheading A Libyan Soldier – Gateway Pundit
The Jawa Report posted video of our new allies beheading a Libyan soldier.
The Libyan rebels are guilty of many of the same war crimes as the Gaddafi regime.
The rebels cart dead soldiers through Misrata. (Business Insider)
John McCain called today to increase military support to these same rebels.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton announced yesterday that the US would provide $25m of non-lethal items such as vehicles, radios and medicines to opposition forces.
9,800 Eggs Adorn Retiree’s Easter Tree
9,800 Eggs Adorn Retiree’s Easter Tree – WKMG
Volker Kraft’s apple sapling sported just 18 eggs when he first decorated it for Easter. Decades later, the sturdy tree is festooned with 9,800 eggs, artfully decorated with everything from beads to sea shells.
Decking trees with hollowed-out, painted eggs for Easter is popular in Germany, but the 75-year-old retiree’s creation has become something special. Last year, it drew 13,000 visitors.
Kraft needs two weeks and countless trips up and down his ladder to hang the eggs.
The task has become a little heavier each year since Kraft began his decorations in 1965. He started with plastic eggs, and later switched to real eggs painted by his three children.
These days Kraft’s wife, Christa, designs many of the most exotic decorations – knitting egg wrappings on long winter evenings.
Daily Benefactor News – Obama’s Labor Board Attempting To Legally Compel Boeing To Build Factory In Forced-Union State
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Can federal bureaucrats tell a private company where to build a factory?
Members of President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board think they can. In a decision that even the New York Times is describing as “highly unusual for the federal government,” Lafe Solomon, who was appointed to the board by Obama, filed a complaint on behalf of the NLRB on Wednesday seeking to force the Boeing Co. to build an assembly line in Washington state instead of South Carolina. The NLRB action stems from Boeing’s October 2009 decision to build a new factory for its new 787 Dreamliner airplane near Charleston, S.C. Boeing first sought to build the new plant near its existing facility in Puget Sound, but negotiations with the International Association of Machinists broke down when the union refused to agree to a long-term no-strike clause. The IAM had struck four times since 1989, costing Boeing at least $1.8 billion in revenue.
That’s when Boeing chose South Carolina, a right-to-work state where, unlike Washington, workers are not forced to join unions. As a result of this policy, only 6.2 percent of South Carolinians belong to unions. Construction of Boeing’s new Charleston factory is nearly complete, and the company has already hired more than 1,000 new employees, drawn mostly from within the immediate region. And back in Washington, Boeing has actually increased employment at its Puget Sound plant by 2,000 workers. But that isn’t good enough for the IAM or the Obama White House. After suffering major defeats in Wisconsin and Ohio, the labor movement is looking for a scalp. Obama’s NLRB is trying to turn Boeing into one.
The NLRB is hanging its case on a senior Boeing official’s statement to the Seattle Times that “The overriding factor [in transferring the line] … was that we cannot afford to have a work stoppage, you know, every three years.” The NLRB absurdly claims this is “unlawful employer speech” that infringes on “a worker’s fundamental” right to strike. But the Supreme Court has long held that firms may consider the economic effect of strikes when making business decisions. Also, Boeing’s existing collective bargaining agreement with the IAM allows Boeing to build facilities at other locations. An administrative law judge will hear Boeing’s objection to the NLRB’s complaint June 14, so there still is hope sanity will prevail. But a decision in favor of the IAM would be a disaster not just for Boeing, but for American workers everywhere. A ruling in favor of Obama’s NLRB would make it presumptively illegal for any unionized firm to invest in a right-to-work state.
At first, this would mainly hurt right-to-work states, as they would no longer be able to lure new businesses from existing unionized firms. But over the long run, this policy would hurt unions and all Americans. Why would any domestic company choose to build a factory in a forced-union state if it knew that meant it could never expand to a right-to-work state? Why would any international firm invest anywhere in this country if it knew the White House would favor political allies?
The NLRB isn’t protecting workers, it is setting them up for eventual unemployment.
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Now the Left begins their defense of those non-existent “death panels”
Cue Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Journal Constitution
I don’t mean to sound cavalier about the needs of the elderly, who tend to be sicker and have higher medical expenses. Obama was right to pledge to protect Medicare against the predations of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-), who wants to end it.
But an adult conversation — a truly adult conversation — would engage seniors and help them to understand the consequences of our current spending curve. In nations that suffer famine, we hear wrenching stories of starving parents who give the last scraps of food to their children. We’ve taken a starve-the-kids, feed-the-old approach, instead.
While too many children are stuck in bad schools and poor housing, while community clinics that deliver vaccinations and asthma medicine beg for money, while young adults skip college because they can’t afford it, the elderly were given a budget-busting prescription drug plan during the Bush administration. That makes little sense.
If resources are limited (and they are), the nation needs to make choices – some more painful than others. My brother, Kevin, a Boston physician who treats kidney disease, talks about the Medicare program that pays for dialysis for anyone with failing kidneys — including the terminally ill. Started in the 1970s to help adults still in the workforce, its fastest-growing population is now over 65, he said. And it costs tens of billions a year.
“It may not be the best use of resources for the frail and infirm elderly, and it also forces many elderly patients to spend their last days in the hospital, rather than at home,” a more comfortable setting, Kevin told me.
Check out how Tucker closes her column
But we simply don’t have the money to spend to prolong the life of a terminally ill 87-year-old for a few weeks.
Wow, just wow. And remember this is EXACTLY what people like tucker insisted could NEVER HAPPEN under ObamaCare!
(AJC) — At long last, a few responsible Republicans are chastising their conservative colleagues for the distortions, exaggerations and outright lies they have used to denounce healthcare reform. (It’s too bad that Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson, usually a thoughtful and fairminded man, cannot be counted in that number. But, according to my colleague Jay Bookman, he can’t.)
The Anchorage Daily News reported that Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski spoke at a public policy forum in Anchorage yesterday, where she rebuked the “deathers,” such as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who have insisted that “death panels” would be created to decide whether to euthanize the elderly and the handicapped.
The newspaper quoted Murkowski this way: “It does us no good to incite fear in people by saying that there’s these end-of-life provisions, these death panels. Quite honestly, I’m so offended at that terminology because it absolutely isn’t (in the bill). There is no reason to gin up fear in the American public by saying things that are not included in the bill.”
It’s reassuring to know there are a few Republicans who are still willing to act as the loyal and honest opposition. None of the bills working there way through Congress are perfect; there is certainly legitimate criticism. Why not stick with that?
Again, the Left shows its true colors!
Maybe Next Time She’ll Mind Her Own Damned Business
Woman Chides Smoker, Gets Stabbed In Face With Pen – Arizona Republic
A New Jersey woman was stabbed in the face with a pen on a New York City subway train after she tried to stop a man from lighting a cigarette.
The assault occurred on a crowded No. 3 train near the Chambers Street station during Tuesday’s morning rush.
Witnesses told the Daily News and the New York Post that an argument quickly escalated when Evelyn Seeger asked the man not to smoke.
The witnesses say two riders were trying to restrain the man when he pulled out a pen and slashed Seeger’s face.
Seeger, of Nutley, N.J., was treated at a hospital and released.
Police charged the man with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
Government Handouts Top Tax Revenues For First Time Since Great Depression
Government Handouts Top Tax Revenues For First Time Since Great Depression – Fiscal Times
* Households received $2.3 trillion in government income support in 2010.
* Government cash accounts for79 percent of household income growth since 2007.
* Since 2007, household tax payments have fallen by $312 billion.
With President Obama’s deficit-reduction plan now on the table, the political left, right and center are ready to rumble over how to assure long-term fiscal stability. The big questions are where to slash and by how much, but over the next year or two, the most important question for the economy might well be how quickly the cutting should begin. Households have become unusually dependent on the government for income support and removing that prop too fast could put the recovery at risk.
For the first time since the Great Depression, households are receiving more income from the government than they are paying the government in taxes. The combination of more cash from various programs, called transfer payments, and lower taxes has been a double-barreled boost to consumers’ buying power, while also blowing a hole in the deficit. The 1930s offer a cautionary tale: The only other time government income support exceeded taxes paid was from 1931 to 1936. That trend reversed in 1936, after a recovery was underway, and the economy fell back into a second leg of recession during 1937 and 1938.
As then, the pattern now reflects two factors: the severe depth of the 2007-09 recession and the massive fiscal policy response to it. The recession cut deeply into tax payments as more people lost their jobs, and it boosted payments for so-called automatic stabilizers, such as unemployment insurance, that ramp up payments as the economy turns down. Plus, policy actions, including the Recovery Act, boosted payments to households by expanding and extending jobless benefits and creating other income subsidies while extending the Bush-era tax cuts and adding new reductions in income and payroll taxes.
Government transfers of income to households started to overtake personal taxes at the start of 2008, and the gap has been widening. In 2010, households received $2.3 trillion in income support from unemployment benefits, Social Security, disability insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, education assistance and other cash transfers of government funds to individuals. Also last year, households paid $2.2 trillion in income, payroll, and other taxes. The difference was $125 billion, equivalent to 1 percentage point of overall personal income and about three times the amount Republicans and Democrats agreed to cut from government spending through Sept. 30.
Since the onset of the recession, government direct payments have increased by $579 billion, accounting for 79 percent of the growth in overall personal income. As job growth has picked up, that contribution has diminished, but during 2010, government cash still accounted for 28 percent of the increase in income. Not surprisingly, Social Security, including survivors’ and disability benefits, accounted for a significant portion of the increased payments and the amount paid out in unemployment benefits more than tripled over that period. At the same time, tax payments since the recession began have fallen by $312 billion, also providing a boost to consumers’ purchasing power.
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Government Transfers of Income to Households |
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2007 Q4 |
2010 Q4 |
Change |
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Federal Social Benefits to Households |
1275.9 | 1742.1 | 466.2 | |||
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1071.8 | 1383.5 | 311.7 | |||
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581.1 | 699.8 | 118.7 | |||
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437.0 | 532.9 | 95.9 | |||
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35.1 | 129.0 | 93.9 | |||
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18.6 | 21.9 | 3.3 | |||
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41.1 | 61.5 | 20.4 | |||
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32.5 | 69.8 | 37.3 | |||
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54.8 | 73.0 | 18.2 | |||
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37.9 | 45.3 | 7.4 | |||
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37.8 | 109.0 | 71.2 | |||
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State & Local Benefits |
444.0 | 556.8 | 112.8 | |||
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344.9 | 442.1 | 97.2 | |||
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99.0 | 114.7 | 15.7 | |||
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Total Government Transfers to Households |
1719.9 | 2298.9 | 579.0 | |||
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Typically, the gap between transfers and taxes runs the other way – and by a wide margin. “In normal times the household sector gives about 8 percentage points more of its income in taxes than it receives in direct transfers,” says J.P. Morgan economist Michael Feroli. The potential problem over the next few years is the enormous drag on household income as stimulus measures such as the payroll tax cut and extended unemployment benefits expire. Even if unemployment declines from its current level, the labor markets may not be strong enough to generate the wage and salary income needed to offset that drag.
Feroli says that if the net flow of taxes and transfers even partly returns to normal, the resulting drag on incomes would be significant. The size of the drag would be especially sensitive to how fast that flow is reversed. A shift all the way back to the average 8 percentage point difference between taxes and transfers would be equivalent to about $1.2 trillion in income. To put that in context, half that amount is equal to the total increase in personal income over the past year.
The Inflation Factor
Consumers needed support in the first quarter, as inflation from surging energy costs ate into the buying power of their incomes. Energy helped push the Consumer Price Index in March up 0.5 percent, with prices during the first quarter rising at a 6.1 percent annual rate, gobbling up most of last quarter’s increase in income. Even with a reduced tax burden of about $60 billion last quarter, mainly reflecting the 2 percent cut in payroll taxes, inflation-adjusted spending appears to have grown only half as fast as the fourth quarter’s 4 percent pace. A tepid rise in March retail sales implies little momentum heading into the second quarter.
An increasing number of economists are downgrading their expectations for first quarter economic growth, to be reported on Apr. 28, and for the rest of the year. The drag from costlier energy is lasting longer than expected, and uncertainties over the impact of Japan’s struggles and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East are weighing on growth. Obama’s recent deal with the GOP to cut nearly $40 billion from the federal budget for fiscal 2011 is equivalent to about 0.5 percentage points of GDP over the next six months, although the timing of those cuts is not yet set.
All this should be a yellow flag for the White House and Congress as they work toward reducing the deficit. Until the labor markets are strong enough to power consumer spending without the outsized income support from the government, withdrawing that support too quickly could put spending and the economy at risk to some unexpected shock.
Conservative Group Submits Third Recall For Wisconsin Fleebagger
Conservative Group Submits Third Recall For Wisconsin Fleebagger – Chicago Tribune
A conservative group has filed the signatures needed to force a recall election for a third Democratic Wisconsin senator over his stance on Gov. Scott Walker’s collective bargaining law.
The committee to recall Robert Wirch of Pleasant Prairie has more than the 13,500 signatures needed. Election officials will have 31 days to review the signatures, unless a court grants an extension.
Organizers also filed recall petitions on Thursday against Sens. Dave Hansen of Green Bay and Jim Holperin of Conover. Democrats previously filed petitions to recall four Republican senators. They are being targeted for their support or opposition to a bill that would strip most public employees of collective bargaining rights.
Wirch did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Leftist Protesters Hit High-End Obama Fundraiser
Leftist Protesters Hit High-End Obama Fundraiser – Drudge Report
Thurs April 21 2011 12:52:09 EDT
Subject: Pool report #1
San Francisco — ***Protestors in high-end fundraiser – see below***
Motorcade left the Intercontinental Hotel at 9 am local and arrived at the St. Regis for President Obama’s last Bay area fundraiser. A couple dozen demonstrators are on a corner across the street from the hotel. They have signs – “Yes We Cannabis” and “Protect Marijuana Patients Rights” – and are chanting something your pooler couldn’t make out. One of them also has sign of Uncle Sam’s face with “LIAR” written on his hat.
About 200 donors were at the breakfast fundraiser, per a Democratic official.Your pooler counted 15 tables with 10 chairs each, however, and not all tables were full, including one in the back where Valerie Jarrett, Jay Carney and Patrick Gaspard sat with two other people. Tickets are $35,800 each. The money goes to The Victory Fund, a joint account of the Obama campaign and the DNC. $5,000 goes to the campaign, and $30,800 goes to DNC.
POTUS was introduced by Nancy Pelosi. “We can thank him for bringing hope where there was despair for some,” Ms. Pelosi said. POTUS, she said, was a job creator from the start.”His reelection is absolutely essential to our country’s future,” Ms. Pelosi said. POTUS spoke with a handheld mic. “I’ll admit I sort of slept in,” POTUS said.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Lt Gov. Gavin Newsom was seated front, former Mayor Willie Brown, “no matter how hard I try, Willie is still better dressed than me – although I’m still getting used to the no mustache thing.” POTUS called Ms. Pelosi one of the greatest speakers in history. He started to launch into his stump speech when Ms. Pelosi interrupted to say Gov. Jerry Brown had been there.
Mr. Obama was in the middle of his remarks when a woman in a white suit stood up and said, Mr. President we wrote you a song. POTUS tried to get her to wait until later, but she persisted and the table of 10 broke into a song that pointed out they’d just spent $5,000 donating to his campaign and went on to protest the treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning.
The woman stayed standing as they sang. Mr. Obama looked to Ms. Pelosi and asked, Nancy did you do this? Ms. Pelosi had a look on her face, as she stared at the singing group, that definitely said she did not. The song – will send quotes after transcribe – talked about Bradley Manning and how he is “alone in a cell…”
The 10 singers then passed around 8.5×11 signs that said “Free Bradley Manning” or had a photo of him.Then the woman in the white suit stripped off her jacket to reveal a black T-shirt that said Free Bradley Manning, with an image of him. “We paid our dues. Where’s our change?” they sang. USSS and WH staff had moved near the table at this point. The woman was escorted out. Two others left on their own. (The rest stayed and applauded at the end of POTUS’s speech.)
“That was a nice song,” a displeased Mr. Obama said. “Now where was I?” POTUS asked. As was indicated by that song, “Over the last 2 and a half years, change turned out to be tougher than we expected,” POTUS said.
Subject: Pool report #1a – song lyrics
Here it is:
Dear Mr. President we honor you today sir
Each of us brought you $5,000
It takes a lot of Benjamins to run a campaign
I paid my dues, where’s our change?
We’ll vote for you in 2012, yes that’s true
Look at the Republicans – what else can we do
Even though we don’t know if we’ll retain our liberties
In what you seem content to call a free society
Yes it’s true that Terry Jones is legally free
To burn a people’s holy book in shameful effigy
But at another location in this country
Alone in a 6×12 cell sits Bradley
23 hours a day is night
The 5th and 8th Amendments say this kind of thing ain’t right
We paid our dues, where’s our change?
One of the singers gave your pooler the lyrics, written out on the back of the menu for the fundraiser. It includes the website freshjuiceparty.com
Also, on POTUS – your pooler would say he took the song in stride and at first he didn’t seem to realize it was a protest song.
In other news, the menu included scrambled organic Petaluma farmed eggs, chicked apple sausages, organic fingerling potatoes; fruit and berries; miniature danishes and Matzo crackers. Motorcade is rolling to the airport at 10 am local.
Police: 20-25 Teens Storm Georgia Train, Attack And Mug Riders
Police: 20-25 Teens Storm Georgia Train, Attack And Mug Riders – The Blaze
A group of 20 to 25 youths jumped aboard a commuter train bound for Atlanta’s airport and viciously attacked the passengers, police said.
One of the teenagers bashed a rider in the face with a soda-pop can, pushed him down and stole his wallet, according to a police report. Another passenger late Saturday was punched in the face, the report said.
A video report, via MyFoxAtlanta:
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Both riders who were attacked work for Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines, police said. They have been staying at a hotel near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
The Delta workers – one from Gig Harbor, Wash., and the other from New York City – suffered cuts to their faces in the attack south of downtown Atlanta.
They told police the group of teens boarded the MARTA red line train at the Garnett Station, on the south edge of downtown, and were attacked as the train approached a station.
At one point, two men interceded and separated the teen attackers and Delta workers, police said.
It wasn’t known how many passengers were riding the train at the time, around 11:58 p.m.. The red line is one of two north-south routes that carry air passengers, airline employees and tourists to and from the world’s busiest airport.
No arrests have been made.
Daily Benefactor News – Georgia Becomes First State To Sign Anti-Obamacare Health Care Compact Into Law
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Georgia Becomes First State To Sign Anti-Obamacare Health Care Compact Into Law – Gateway Pundit
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed the health care compact into law today. The law restores authority and responsibility for health care regulation to member states. The law allows Georgia to create their own health care policies by joining an interstate compact that supersedes prior federal law (Obamacare).
Today the Health Care Compact, an agreement between participating states that restores authority and responsibility for health care regulation to member states, was signed into law by Georgia’s Governor, Nathan Deal. The compact allows Georgia to create their own health care policies by joining an interstate compact that supersedes prior federal law. Georgia is the first state to sign the compact into law.
Health Care Compact Alliance Chairman Eric O’Keefe released the following statement:
Today, Georgia’s Governor Deal joined the Georgia legislature in taking a bold step to give the people of Georgia control of their health care future. By acting to move authority and responsibility for health care from Washington, D.C. to Georgia, Governor Deal will help to trigger a robust conversation among citizens and their local representatives about sustainable reforms that meet the needs of all Georgians.
Georgia’s leaders have acted to escape the mandates handed down from a centralized bureaucracy in Washington which threatens to bankrupt the country while rationing health care.
The Health Care Compact Alliance congratulates Governor Nathan Deal as well as all of the sponsoring legislators. With their leadership and determination, Georgia will lead the country toward a brighter future in which patients – not bureaucrats – determine their care.
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Idaho Governor Signs Order Banning Obamacare
Idaho Governor Signs Order Banning Obamacare – KIFI
The so-called nullification bill that Republican state legislators worked so hard to pass is now dead.
Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter vetoed it in favor of his own executive order, which blocks portions of President Barack Obama’s health care reform law.
The order says state agencies cannot implement or receive federal dollars for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Otter said the bill, HB298 was too strict of an interpretation.
“The bill went further than what the authors intended it to do,” said Otter. “It basically said you couldn’t plan anything that looks like ‘Obamacare.’”
The governor said Idaho has been working on a health insurance exchange for the past five years to help consumers understand their options. House Bill 298 would have handed over control of that exchange to the federal government.
In a letter to the secretary of state, Otter said the bill “can impose regulations and requirements that discourage or make it impossible for insurers to offer affordable health coverage to individuals and small employers in Idaho.”
Woman Drives Drunk Onto Stranger’s Lawn, Wanders Into House
Woman Drives Drunk Onto Stranger’s Lawn, Wanders Into House – Weekly Vice
Rita Offerdahl, a 20-year-old Wisconsin woman was jailed Monday after she allegedly wandered drunk into a stranger’s home early Monday morning, went for a scavenger hunt and then proceeded to hide inside the homeowner’s living room.
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According to the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office, Offerdahl was driving drunk when she got a flat tire and somehow ended up parked in a stranger’s front yard.
She reportedly got out of the car, raised the hood to check the engine and then proceeded to walk into the house she was parked near.
Investigators say the homeowner went into the living room and found Offerdahl sitting on her couch – but assumed that her son was home and that Offerdahl was with him.
About 1:40 a.m., Offerdahl reportedly walked into the homeowner’s bedroom, cussed at them and then fled to the living room, where she hid.
When the homeowner peered outside to see if anyone else was around her house, she found Offerdahls car sitting in her front lawn.
When the homeowner checked the garage, she found Offerdahl’s purse sitting in her car with several of her personal items in inside it – including keys to her car, a checkbook, a cell phone charger, two sets of golf club keys, a GPS device and a check written to Offerdahl in the amount of $100 from the homeowner’s checkbook.
Offerdahl was booked into the Sauk County Jail on charges of burglary, drunk driving and disorderly conduct. Her next court appearance has been set for May 9.
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