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lmao...you got too much time on your hands
Close the border and the wages will go up...simple....they are not my Chamber of Commerce...they are idiots that support open borders for cheap labor.
It's the economy stupid >> even the huffpost figured it out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/obama-democrats-economy-election_n_6094888.html
The lawsuit is simply to enforce the law as written...if they keep politics out of it...the subsidies to state exchanges are gone.
I suppose...if getting people on food stamps is the measure.....
Yea Yea...let's change the subject completely...lmao
I have been praying that America would wake up and send Obama a clear message that his agenda is not theirs. Now we will see if he has eyes, ears, and a brain to process the results.
Congrats...Democrats Sink to Pre–Great Depression Levels in State Legislatures >> The state legislative chambers now stand at 65 Republican, 23 Democrat, 1 tie, and 4 undecided.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/392074/democrats-sink-pre-great-depression-levels-state-legislatures-john-fund
In addition to the GOP gains in the U.S., Senate, House and governorships it was an historic night for the party in state legislatures.
Here is the summary by Tim Storey of the National Conference of State Legislatures:
The Republican wave that swept over the states left Democrats at their weakest point in state legislatures since the 1920s.
Everything went in the direction of the GOP as Republicans seized new majorities in the West Virginia House, Nevada Assembly and Senate, New Hampshire House, Minnesota House and New York Senate, The West Virginia Senate is now tied.
Control of several legislative chambers was still up in the air early Wednesday as counting continued in several tight races that will determine control of the Colorado Senate, New Mexico House and Maine Senate.
The lone bright spot for Democrats was holding majorities in the Iowa Senate and Kentucky House.
The overall number of divided state governments will increase with changes in governor in places such as Massachussets, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Maryland along with the legislatures in West Virginia, Minnesota and New York.
UPDATE: Republicans have taken control of the Colorado senate and the New Mexico house. They also have a chance to win the Colorado house and the Washington house, after mail-in ballots are finally counted. The state legislative chambers now stand at 65 Republican, 23 Democrat, 1 tie, and 4 undecided.
If you like your KFC....you can keep your KFC
-instant classic by Moochella
Tom Wolf....race tightening...great piece >>
I thought THUG was a racist code word....Can it be applied to white Russians??
Gallup >> More Still Say Health Law Has Hurt Instead of Helped Them
More stupid people??
http://www.gallup.com/poll/178094/say-health-law-hurt-instead-helped.aspx
Confidence in Obama on economy sinks to new low..24% confident
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102063107?trknav=homestack:topnews:7
Despite an improving economy and the lowest unemployment rate in six years, Americans' views of President Barack Obama's economic leadership stands at the lowest level of his presidency, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic survey.
Just 24 percent of Americans say they are extremely or quite confident in Obama's economic policies and goals, down from 33 percent when the question was last asked in June 2013, the previous low-point of the Obama presidency. And 44 percent of the public say they have no confidence at all in the president on the economy, tied with the prior low in August 2012. (Prior surveys were conducted by the NBC/Wall Street Journal).
Testing of HealthCare.gov to Be Kept Confidential
Marketplace to Open for Testing by Insurers, but Confidentiality of Process Is Required
EXPECTATIONS MUST BE EXTREMELY HIGH...lmao...let's hide this massive failure until after the elections
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/healthcare-gov-testing-to
-be-kept-confidential-1412696376-lMyQjAxMTE0MjAzNzUwNjc3Wj
The new HealthCare.gov is set to open up for broad testing by insurers on Tuesday. But they’re not going to be talking—or tweeting—about it.
On Monday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent out an emailed alert that informed insurers that it would require “all testers to acknowledge the confidentiality of this process in order to access the testing environment,” according to a copy reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The agency didn’t require such an agreement of insurers last year ahead of the launch of HealthCare.gov, a CMS spokesman confirmed. Last fall, early hints about the troubled launch of the federal marketplace emerged weeks before it went live on Oct. 1. Insurance executives and other sources pointed to potential problems.
This year’s testing is occurring earlier, and for a longer period of time, than last year, and insurers haven’t yet finalized their plans, the spokesman said. This phase of testing ahead of the Nov. 15 launch “involves access to proprietary issuer information and secure systems over several weeks, and we wanted to ensure testers understood to treat this information confidentially,” he said.
The email alert spells out exactly what is expected of participants: Insurance-industry officials “will not use, disclose, describe, post to a public form, or in any way share Test Data with any person or entity, including but not limited to the media,” unless the recipient has also agreed to the confidentiality provisions.
The new confidentiality agreement isn’t just covering the industry data that will be included in the marketplace’s testing environment. It also covers “results of this testing exercise and any information describing or otherwise relating to the performance or functionality” of HealthCare.gov.
Write to Anna Wilde Mathews at anna.mathews@wsj.com
Do patents put floor on it?? What are they worth....
Volvo slows down plans on own engine >> there are many reasons for the recent tank
http://www.ngtnews.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?
content.10107
In early 2012, Volvo Trucks created buzz upon the announcement that it would be developing its own natural gas engine for the North American heavy-duty trucking sector. The 13-liter power plant, paired with liquefied natural gas (LNG) technology, would be a market complement to engines such as Cummins Westport's new 11.9-liter ISX12 G.
Those plans are now on hold, with the company stating this week that it is "adapting to the pace of the North American alternative fuel market."
Volvo's new product was intended to be a compression-ignition engine that used HPDI technology from Westport. The company reported more than two years ago that the engine would be commercialized in 2014.
However, Volvo cited the "modest" pace of natural gas fueling infrastructure development for long-haul trucking in the past year as one factor in its decision to wait on the release of the 13-liter engine.
Moreover, Volvo already offers two heavy-duty truck platforms - the VNM and VNL - that can be equipped with factory-installed Cummins Westport natural gas engines. The company says these two models are sufficiently meeting fleet customer demand in the regional-haul and dedicated-route trucking markets.
Volvo is also scaling back its market plans for trucks that run on dimethyl ether (DME) - an alternative fuel that can be produced from natural gas and biogases and used in diesel engines, such as Volvo's D13.
Last year, the company began working with Oberon Fuels as a DME supplier and with fleet customer Safeway Inc. to test DME in over-the-road trucking applications. According to Volvo, this kind of pilot testing will continue, but the original commercialization target for DME-powered trucks - 2015 - has been set aside.
"We now believe it will take more time for the market and other stakeholders to embrace the approach," Volvo Trucks' John Mies tells NGT News.
Would suggest a world wide deflation ahead, something that isn't on my radar.
That is exactly what this guy see's happening for some interesting reasons...worth a look.
http://www.martinarmstrong.org/
He certainly has done more to secure boarders...millions of them....except we are paying the fee to house, feed, and medicate them.
Obama has done more to secure the boarder than anyone else. Most people aren't coming in through Mexico - as a matter of fact up until last year more people left that way.
Stop blaming Bush already...own SOMETHING...if Obama wanted to close the border it would be done. Yes...The Chamber of Commerce is a problem...they want cheap labor...but the DEMS are willing participants...they get future voters.
They are BOTH screwing us............
How about closing the border for one.....
Matthews...the tingle is gone...EBOLA is here
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/09/30/chris_matthews_vs_ezekiel_emanuel_on_ebola_obama_said_it_was_unlikely_it_has_happened_its_here.html
On MSNBC's Hardball tonight, host Chris Matthews tussled with Obamacare architect Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel over the how serious a threat Ebola is to Americans. Matthews and Emanuel also spar over President Obama saying it was "unlikely" that an Ebola case would strike the U.S.
"Obama said it was unlikely. It has happened. It's here," Matthews said.
Dr. Emanuel said there is some "fear mongering" going on here, but Matthews said he was just quoting the president and stating facts. Here's a bit of the argument that lasted nearly ten minutes:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: I'm just trying to follow the logic here. Everybody's being told, don't worry unless they have the infectious symptoms, you can see them, that you don't have to worry about catching them. Yet, this guy picked up the disease apparently from somebody who did not have the infectious symptoms.
DR. EZEKIEL EMANUEL: Again, don't hypothesize because we just don't know. We have no idea what he did or didn't do and how he got it. I'm sure that's going to be vital information to try to understand the transmission, but the idea that there's going to be a widespread outbreak here, I think is just, again, it's a bit of fear mongering. We have a single case. This is not a big, widespread --
MATTHEWS: Yeah, yeah, but I'm just going back to the president's statement, doctor, and that is that the president said it would be unlikely if we had a case in this country. Unlikely to even have one case. You want to see the tape again?
EMANUEL: He said there wouldn't be an Ebola outbreak.
MATTHEWS: No, and in the second part of his sentence he said in the unlikely case someone brings it here. In the unlikely case someone brings it here. Well, they've done it. We're living in the world of the unlikely already. That's all I'm saying. I'm not fear mongering. I'm stating the facts and I wonder if everybody else is.
EMANUEL: The reason we can be assured here that this isn't going to be a major outbreak is we have a CDC that can do very good contact tracing. We have a very good health system that takes universal precautions on all patients, with the gloves. And you're not regularly in contact with people's bodily fluids the way it is much more common in Liberia. I think those things distinguish it. And I don't think we should get into a panic because we were reassured it would never be in the United States.
MATTHEWS: No, the president said it was unlikely two weeks ago. Well, it's not the unlikely, it has happened. It's here.
Researcher shows that black holes do not exist >> Big Bang...may just be BS >> http://phys.org/news/2014-09-black-holes.html
Black holes have long captured the public imagination and been the subject of popular culture, from Star Trek to Hollywood. They are the ultimate unknown – the blackest and most dense objects in the universe that do not even let light escape. And as if they weren't bizarre enough to begin with, now add this to the mix: they don't exist.
By merging two seemingly conflicting theories, Laura Mersini-Houghton, a physics professor at UNC-Chapel Hill in the College of Arts and Sciences, has proven, mathematically, that black holes can never come into being in the first place. The work not only forces scientists to reimagine the fabric of space-time, but also rethink the origins of the universe.
"I'm still not over the shock," said Mersini-Houghton. "We've been studying this problem for a more than 50 years and this solution gives us a lot to think about."
For decades, black holes were thought to form when a massive star collapses under its own gravity to a single point in space – imagine the Earth being squished into a ball the size of a peanut – called a singularity. So the story went, an invisible membrane known as the event horizon surrounds the singularity and crossing this horizon means that you could never cross back. It's the point where a black hole's gravitational pull is so strong that nothing can escape it.
The reason black holes are so bizarre is that it pits two fundamental theories of the universe against each other. Einstein's theory of gravity predicts the formation of black holes but a fundamental law of quantum theory states that no information from the universe can ever disappear. Efforts to combine these two theories lead to mathematical nonsense, and became known as the information loss paradox.
In 1974, Stephen Hawking used quantum mechanics to show that black holes emit radiation. Since then, scientists have detected fingerprints in the cosmos that are consistent with this radiation, identifying an ever-increasing list of the universe's black holes.
But now Mersini-Houghton describes an entirely new scenario. She and Hawking both agree that as a star collapses under its own gravity, it produces Hawking radiation. However, in her new work, Mersini-Houghton shows that by giving off this radiation, the star also sheds mass. So much so that as it shrinks it no longer has the density to become a black hole.
Before a black hole can form, the dying star swells one last time and then explodes. A singularity never forms and neither does an event horizon. The take home message of her work is clear: there is no such thing as a black hole.
The paper, which was recently submitted to ArXiv, an online repository of physics papers that is not peer-reviewed, offers exact numerical solutions to this problem and was done in collaboration with Harald Peiffer, an expert on numerical relativity at the University of Toronto. An earlier paper, by Mersini-Houghton, originally submitted to ArXiv in June, was published in the journal Physics Letters B, and offers approximate solutions to the problem.
Experimental evidence may one day provide physical proof as to whether or not black holes exist in the universe. But for now, Mersini-Houghton says the mathematics are conclusive.
Many physicists and astronomers believe that our universe originated from a singularity that began expanding with the Big Bang. However, if singularities do not exist, then physicists have to rethink their ideas of the Big Bang and whether it ever happened.
"Physicists have been trying to merge these two theories – Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum mechanics – for decades, but this scenario brings these two theories together, into harmony," said Mersini-Houghton. "And that's a big deal."
A bit premature...That assumes the companies in the remaining 35 or so states have their rates approved at what they consider necessary. Many many states out there yet to release rates.
Obamacare is costing many workers of small businesses to lose group coverage...AS EXPECTED. The individual plans are not nearly as rich and those not getting subsidy are shocked that on top of rate increases/lesser coverage....their contributions on individual plans can no longer be pre-taxed.
OOOPS
He learned from the best...Al Gore
Big news = pipe dream....all they did was assure they hold 50%+
Most of the affected employees were under a union agreement that gave them the right to transfer within DuPont if they preferred..
They should be pissed that their union did not get deal in writing....ie...we will not sell for X years.....else the offer to transfer once again becomes effective.
Do you think that there may be some witnesses that may fear retribution if they deviate from the script already layed out??
There are plenty of cops that are assholes...we can all name a few.
Read the article from the Boston Globe I posted to AZ...do you trust the FBI??
AZ...Johnson admitted that he and Brown had stolen cigarillos from the store, said the lawyer, Freeman R. Bosley Jr.
Theft alone does not justify shooting but that video claiming he was paying is BS....do you really think the cstore owner wants to become a target?? He likely feels great pressure from the coomunity to conform to the story.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/08/19/missouri-shooting-accounts-differ-holder-schedules-visit/Obj6jwcimy73EkrE30TMGM/story.html
FERGUSON, Mo. — As a county grand jury prepared to hear evidence on Wednesday in the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer that touched off 10 days of unrest here, witnesses have given investigators sharply conflicting accounts of the killing.
Some of the accounts seem to agree on how the fatal altercation initially unfolded: with a struggle between the officer, Darren Wilson, and the teenager, Michael Brown. Wilson was inside his patrol car at the time, while Brown, who was unarmed, was leaning in through an open window.
Many witnesses also agreed on what happened next: Wilson’s firearm went off inside the car, Brown ran away, the officer got out of his car and began firing toward Brown, and then Brown stopped, turned around, and faced the officer.
But on the crucial moments that followed, the accounts differ sharply, officials say. Some witnesses say Brown, 18, moved toward Wilson, possibly in a threatening manner, when the officer shot him dead. But others say Brown was not moving and may even have had his hands up when he was killed.
The accounts of what witnesses have told law enforcement officials come from some of those witnesses, law enforcement authorities, and others in Ferguson. Many of them spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The new details on the witness accounts emerged as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was scheduled to visit Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with FBI agents who have been conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting.
Holder and top Justice Department officials were weighing whether to open a broader civil rights investigation to look at Ferguson’s police practices at large, according to law enforcement officials. The issue came up after news reports revealed a 2009 case in which a man said that four police officers beat him, then charged him with damaging government property — by getting blood on their uniforms.
Under Holder, the Justice Department has opened nearly two dozen such investigations into police departments nationwide, more than twice as many as were opened in the previous five years.
Also Tuesday, a few miles from Ferguson, St. Louis Metropolitan police officers shot and killed an emotionally disturbed 23-year-old black man. The shooting threatened to further inflame a community still reeling from Brown’s death.
Sam Dotson, the chief of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, said two officers encountered a man at the Six Stars Market in northwest St. Louis behaving “erratically” and brandishing a knife. The officers repeatedly warned, “Stop, drop the knife,” but he refused, Dotson said. The man approached the officers, knife raised, and was shot after he came within three or four feet, the chief said.
As clashes in Ferguson continued on Tuesday, federal authorities learned the results of an autopsy performed on Brown by military coroners that showed that he had been shot six times, though they declined to release further details until their investigation was finished. An autopsy conducted on behalf of Brown’s family also found that he had been shot at least six times — including once in the face and once in the top of his head — with all bullets striking him in the front. The county has also done an autopsy, which found evidence of marijuana in Brown’s system.
The Brown family has scheduled a funeral for Monday. In a statement Tuesday night, Governor Jay Nixon expressed sympathy for the Brown family and praised residents for “standing against armed and violent instigators.” But he also said that “a vigorous prosecution must now be pursued.”
The fatal confrontation began on Aug. 9 shortly after the police received reports that two men had robbed a convenience store in Ferguson. Wilson, who was not responding to the robbery, had stopped to speak with Brown and a friend, Dorian Johnson. The Ferguson police chief, Thomas Jackson, said that it was around the time that Wilson started talking to the two that he realized they fit the description of the suspects in the convenience store robbery.
A lawyer for Johnson said that his client was interviewed by the FBI and the St. Louis County Police last week for nearly four hours. In that interview, Johnson admitted that he and Brown had stolen cigarillos from the store, said the lawyer, Freeman R. Bosley Jr.
Bosley said that the officer told the two to get off the street. They got into a verbal dispute with the officer about whether walking in the street constituted a crime, Bosley said.
Contrary to what several witnesses have told law enforcement officials, Bosley said that the officer then reached out of the window with his left hand and grabbed Brown by the throat. He said Brown pushed him off, and the officer then grabbed Brown’s shirt.
“My client sees the officer pull a gun and hears him say, ‘I’ll shoot you’ — then ‘pow!’ there was a shot,” Bosley said, referring to the one that apparently went off in the car.
You speak as though there is NO doubt...that YOU actually witnessed it.
I have witnessed how the mob mentality works first hand...
I was about 25 and lived near Philadelphia. We regularly went down to the Casinos in AC but would go very late...while driving down we would pass directly through Philly...Penn/Drexel area. Before you get to the University area you pass through predominately black areas between 69th and 40th streets...not too bad an area 25 years ago but not a place where an outsider would go walking around at night.
At about 40th and Chestnut the guy in front of me was spun out by a guy that ran a red light at full speed. Luckily he just clipped the back of the car and spun him. There was NO doubt he ran the red light as I was traveling behind the spun out vehicle at a good distance and light was still green as I passed by.
I pulled in a well lit gas station that is on the corner. There was one or two people other than the 4 occupants of my car that could have witnessed it. Cops arrived about 5-10 minutes later and about 40-50 people had gathered on the corner surrounding the cops...one white and one black. They had filtered out of a nearby bar but had magically ALL witnessed the accident.
We waited about 20 minutes and gave the cops the REAL version of the story.
My point is....do you think the mob always gets it right. Do you think the riots will help or hinder the REAL story being known?
Interesting...Like I said...give it time. If this story is true...he deserved all six...black white young old clean stoned
Would explain that head shot. There are good cops and bad cops but they all want to go home at the end of the day. Once again...if the fact that he initiated contact resulting in gun discharge..then ran and turned to confront officer. BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG....shoot till he drops....if you still want to call that an execution...then you are as stupid as he was.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/18/us/missouri-teen-shooting/index.html
Sox...you keep saying EXECUTED yet you accuse me of inflaming others???
I never said he deserved it...you have already passed judgement though as if you were there. The eyewitness account of him being shot in the back running away is already in dispute....what else don't we know?
How about giving it a little time.....
It becomes related when his parents/friends start with the he was a gentle giant bullshit...the video did not show a gentle giant stealing and intimidating the storekeeper.
Race war or just war on the poor >> Kareem weighs in >> http://time.com/#3132635/ferguson-coming-race-war-class-warfare/
Correct...read the question...SOX understood it perfectly well
Sounds like you are describing Obama....whining...radical....character issues.
I will add daddy issues to that list....which no doubt led to all of the above....imo
http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/obamas-half-brother-spills-beans-on-president/
Steph....which DEM holds the record for civilians killed yet was never charged with war crimes?
1984
Learn something every day....I can actually agree with you on something. Fracking probably another....the companies will be long gone with their $$$$'s by the time the actual bill comes due...saw it as a kid with the strip mining of caol in NE Pennsylvania.
Tinner....the govt does't "sell" the individual plans...they facilitate the marketing/buying process. The benefits are provided by and the premiums are paid to the "companies".