Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach October 6, 2013 – 9:27 am

Happy Sunday! Another gorgeous day in the Barrycaded nation of America. This pinup, perfect for the playoffs, is by Forest Clough, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine Barrycaded 15

  1. Raised On Hoecakes isn’t impressed by Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Jesus”
  2. The Lonely Conservative notes that Scott Walker told Los Federales to take a hike
  3. The People’s Cube has some people’s karaoke
  4. The Strata-Sphere reviews shutdown theater
  5. Theodore’s World notes what the IRS is doing during shutdown theater
  6. This ain’t Hell… has SEALs vs ninjas
  7. Wake Up America has shutdown theater on Lake Mead
  8. Villainous Company notes that they were opening a “marketplace”
  9. The Daley Gator wonders how evil Obama can get during shutdown theater
  10. The Camp Of The Saints notes that park rangers “were only following orders”
  11. The Last Refuge notes governing by temper tantrum
  12. protein wisdom is very concerned over the reduction in Obama housekeepers
  13. Legal Insurrection notes that you can’t look at Mt. Rushmore during shutdown theater
  14. Jihad Watch notes more cries of “islamaphobia” in the UK
  15. And last, but not least, Fire Andrea Mitchell notes the scheduled Million Vet March On the Memorials

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page. While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your “Pinups for Vets” calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. (BTW, since someone asked, the reason I leave links for the previous week up (or you might see a *) is because they are place holders for later in the day or for next weeks. Easier than rewriting all the time. Also, the listing order has to do with how they are added over time, not how good a post is. I just copy and paste from the previous week, then edit. If you see one of the *’s, go ahead and check out the blog anyhow, see if there is an update. I cannot update with my Android during the day.

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“Affordable” Care Act Follies: “I Was Laughing At Boehner Until The Mail Came”

By William Teach October 6, 2013 – 8:00 am

Will the “Affordable” Care Act end up helping some Americans? Sure. Even the worst written law will help some people. The ACA will surely help illegal aliens. It’ll also help those with pre-existing conditions. Not only can they not be denied coverage, but they supposedly can’t be charged more than healthy people (though the example the San Jose Mercury News uses for this doesn’t help the O-care narrative). There will be some success stories, ones designed by the law to be successful, which cover up the other 90% of what the law does. And ACA supporters are shocked, shocked, I tell you! that they got hosed

(SJ Mercury News) Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.

Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.

Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.

These “independents” were like totally floored. For people in Middle Class Land, that’s real money that could have been used for other things, and really hurts in the Obama economy malaise.

“I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today,” Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare.

“I really don’t like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family’s pocket each year, that’s otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy.”

Granted, both families make more than the cutoff for receiving a “subsidy”. Yet, Covered California states that just 570,000 of the 1.9 million who will get insurance through the Government Exchange will be eligible for subsidies. And someone has to pay for all those extra costs built into O-care plans. People like the ones mentioned in the story.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Schoolkids Won’t Know What Life Without A Snowcat Looks Like

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 6:15 pm

Won’t someone please think of the children?

Breaking nearly century-old early autumn snowfall records, a storm system smothered South Dakota’s scenic Black Hills in South Dakota with up to three and a half feet of wet, heavy snow, leaving residents the challenge of digging out.

Pennington County Emergency Management spokeswoman Alexa White said rescue efforts were slow-going, because “the only way to get there is the snowmobiles or the Sno-Cats.”

Of only people would give up their 21st century lifestyle which makes it hot!

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Should The Government Regulate Your Grow In The Dark Plant?

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 4:06 pm

That’s the headline on the front page of the Washington Post, slightly different at the story page

Hunkered down in a converted shipping container stationed in a San Francisco parking lot, three young entrepreneurs are tinkering with the DNA of ordinary plants in the hopes of being able to mass produce a variety that glows in the dark.

If all goes well, their start-up company will begin mailing out the first batch of seeds next spring to the 8,000 donors across the country who helped them raise nearly $500,000 in a phenomenally successful online fundraising campaign through Kickstarter.

It’s a big “if”, because enviro-hysterics and are creating issues, from Kickstarter funding because the plants are genetically modified (stuff like that never ever happened before, ya know!) to whining at government agencies to Do Something

“What if someone decides it would be cute to light up a national forest?” asked Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University and an adviser to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on synthetic biology.

Well, then, civilization might end or the planet might explode.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a sea that will rise hundreds of feet, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Gateway Pundit, with a post by Jim Hoft on how a disease nearly took his life. We’re all looking forward to Jim being back full time and doing the great work he’s always done. More importantly, we pray for his health to continue to get better and full recovery.

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Hey, Noah Had To Go Through “Climate Change”, Ya Know!

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 12:36 pm

So he built a fossil fuels powered Arc

(Huffington Post) Noah is told by a highly creditable source (God) that climate change (40 days and nights of rain) will cause a dramatic rise in sea level (the Flood) which will, in turn, cause enormous loss of life. Noah’s response may provide guidance for us. We too have been told by a highly creditable source (science) that climate change (global warming) will cause a dramatic rise in sea level (plus many other problems) which will, in turn, cause enormous loss of life.

(snip all the way to the end of a bat guano insane article that you really have to read to understand the full bat guano insanity)

Let us avoid the survivalist mentality, rise to a higher standard than Noah, accept responsibility, and take social action in the face of scientific predictions of potentially disastrous climate change.

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Rick Perry To California: “we don’t judge success on the number of people we have on public assistance.”

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 8:35 am

Texas Governor Rick Perry continues his tour to swipe jobs and companies from Blue States, having recently gotten into it with Maryland Commissar, er, Governor Martin O’Malley. Now…

(SFGate) Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry, on a tour aimed at pushing “red state” tax and business policies to drive growth, said Friday that a major economic difference between California and Texas is that “we don’t judge success on the number of people we have on public assistance.”

“California has substantially more liberal public assistance programs,’’ said Perry, considered a possible 2016 GOP presidential candidate, in a wide-ranging interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. “This is a state that’s going bankrupt. You have huge debt out here..and part of that is driven by these very expensive, very rich programs.”

“We judge success by the number of people that have a job,’’ said Perry, who has been a vociferous critic of the Affordable Care Act.

He said working Texans are free to “go buy (health) insurance, or be in a company that delivers that health care for them. That’s the real future of America.”

Nor did he hold back on Obama

“The President of the United States thinks the more people on public assistance, the more successful he is as a leader,” he said.

One last excerpt

“Jerry Brown is very capable, thoughtful fellow,” he said. “He just has a different outlook than I do.”

Instead of being bombastic, abusive, and insulting, which is the way Obama and so many Democrats would do it, Perry is gracious and flattering, and simply notes a different set of ideas.

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Boehner Slams Obamacare Website “Scheduled Maintenance”

By William Teach October 5, 2013 – 8:06 am

No website is perfect. Things happen. My host, Dreamhost, has certainly had their share of issues over the years, from minor annoyances to huge outages. Of course, they, like all sorts of giant individual websites, like CNN, Fox News, Youtube, etc, rarely go down, especially for “planned maintenance”. Obamacare?

(The Hill) Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) blasted plans to partially disable ObamaCare’s enrollment site for maintenance during non-peak hours this weekend as a sign of major flaws with the law.

“The news that [the] enrollment system is already going offline confirms that the launch of the president’s healthcare law has been an unmitigated disaster,” Boehner said in a statement Friday.

The comment followed tweets by several Republican leadership staffers mocking the decision from federal health officials and suggesting that it masks serious problems with healthcare.gov.

Boehner also criticized the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for refusing to ay how many people have successfully enrolled in coverage so far.

“This announcement is more proof that we need to delay the law and provide basic fairness, just as Republicans have called for. How can this administration tax individuals for not purchasing a product from a website that doesn’t even work?” Boehner said. Even the Washington Post has noticed that Exchange websites are mostly a disaster, especially Maryland, which was supposed to be a poster child. And

A few state exchanges are performing well. Connecticut officials threw themselves a party after a successful second day. Kentucky officials had a yellow sheet cake with “100,000” in white icing to mark the number of people who had completed the pre-screening process Wednesday.

Let me get this straight: Kentucky was celebrating people completing a process, not people actually signing up for insurance? Personally, I love how healthcare.gov says “Plus, see if you qualify for lower costs.”

They are supposedly going to take it off-line during off-peak hours to add “enhancements”. Because it’s not like they had 3 years and oodles of taxpayer money (wasn’t this supposed to be revenue neutral?) to get it right at launch.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

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Students Really Psyched For This Divestment Movement

By William Teach October 4, 2013 – 3:25 pm

However, not so much about giving up their own fossil fuels or energy usage

(USA Today) If energy consumption continues to grow at its current rate, that’s when the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will cause permanent climate change, according to a new U.N. report.

That year stuck out to Daniel Sherrell, a senior at Brown University. He will be 49 then.

“Before then, members of Congress and the international community will have to swallow their hubris and make difficult decisions,” says Sherrell, a leader of the Brown Divest Coal Campaign, which advocates that Brown stop investing in the coal industry.

Strange, Sherrell and his group want Brown to give up a major revenue stream, but no mention of giving up their own cars. I wonder if all these folks would be willing to give up all their electricity sucking tech?

Ophir Bruck, a senior at the University of California-Berkeley and Fossil Free Campaign coordinator, hopes students can get the University of California system to commit to divestment by the end of the year.

However, he sees the Fossil Free campaign’s goals extending beyond divestment.

“A huge part of the campaign is to educate students and to just spread awareness among students, faculty, staff, alumni of climate change and the urgency with which we need to act,” Bruck says.

Here’s where it gets good, since Bruck, like so many other Leftists, is going to Power Shift 2013. In Pittsburgh. How will he and the roughly 10k other climahypocrites get there?

Also, notice the “spreading awareness” idiocy. Warmists still refuse to practice what they preach.

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If All You See…

By William Teach October 4, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful bad weather preventing bicycle with a reusable water bottle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Jo Nova, with a post by Bob Tisdale noting 6 questions the media should be asking the IPCC on AR5.

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