Data Intercept Technology Unit (DITU) is the NSA's indispensable partner in its global spying operations: an obscure, clandestine unit of the FBI

When the media and members of Congress say the NSA spies on Americans, what they really mean is that the FBI helps the NSA do it, providing a technical and legal infrastructure that permits the NSA, which by law collects foreign intelligence, to operate on U.S. soil. It's the FBI, a domestic U.S. law enforcement agency, that collects digital information from at least nine American technology companies as part of the NSA's Prism system. It was the FBI that petitioned the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to order Verizon Business Network Services, one of the United States' biggest telecom carriers for corporations, to hand over the call records of millions of its customers to the NSA.

But the FBI is no mere errand boy for the United States' biggest intelligence agency. It carries out its own signals intelligence operations and is trying to collect huge amounts of email and Internet data from U.S. companies -- an operation that the NSA once conducted, was reprimanded for, and says it abandoned.

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"EAT, FRY, LOVE: a Cautionary Remix" (William Shatner's video warning about serious turkey fryer accidents)

Published on Nov 12, 2012

In 2011, State Farm teamed up with William Shatner to produce a short video dramatizing an actual accident where the celebrity was burned in a turkey fryer mishap on Thanksgiving. As a result of the video and safety campaign last year, State Farm grease & cooking related fire claims occurring on Thanksgiving Day were carved in half and the daily average for the entire month reached a seven year low. It seems that William Shatner really DID help save the world from exploding turkeys. To get the safety message out in 2012, State Farm worked with John Boswell, aka melodysheep on YouTube, to auto-tune the Shatner turkey fryer video. Called "Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix", Boswell injected the perfect blend of creativity and repetition to create a Thanksgiving safety anthem sure to have families clamoring for a moister, tastier and turkey.

Rush Limbaugh: The True Story of Thanksgiving

From 2010: The REAL lesson is in the second half of this video (the lesson you were never taught in school):

Answers to Objections When You Talk About Islam

BELOW IS A LIST of responses you are likely to get when talking about the terrifying brilliance of Islam to someone who knows little about it. The responses link to an article giving you suggestions about how to effectively respond.

The good news is that the responses you will typically get are a fairly small number. You’ll hear the same few objections over and over (1-7 are the most common). When you have some good answers to these objections ready at hand, you will be able to answer smoothly and with poise, without feeling tense or antagonistic.

When you talk about Islamic supremacism with people, they are likely to say one of the following:

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Retired generals critical of Obama say “peaceful civil uprising not out of the question”

From Allen West 11/26/13:

We who have served in uniform took an oath, “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”

Those who truly believe in and live this oath realize there is no statute of limitations on this commitment to our beloved Republic. True military servants will stand guard for America as long as there is breath in their lungs. While in uniform we know we must follow the orders of our superiors, as long as they do not violate any moral standard.

However, once out of uniform, we have more freedom to express our thoughts, perspectives, and insights. Towards that end, two retired U.S. generals, Army General Paul E. Vallely and Air Force Brigadier General Charles Jones, have created a citizens’ commission called America’s Provisional Leadership Council to scrutinize Obama administration actions on national security and economic issues.

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DARKNET IS 5,000 TIMES LARGER THAN THE "SURFACE" - UPDATE

UPDATE: Being in a hurry to post this I originally misspelled "Darknet" in the title and left out a paragraph that summarizes what this is!

the "darknet” – the vast, murky portion of the internet that cannot be indexed by standard search engines. Estimated to be 5,000 times larger that the "surface" web, it’s in these recesses where you’ll find human-trafficking rings, black market drug markets and terrorist networks.

THRILLING: The internet mystery that has the world baffled...

RACIST TEACHER FROM HELL

Far left Professor Noel Ignatiev (Massachusetts School of Art) ended his teaching career by telling white males to kill themselves.

“If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!"

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Survey: The more practicing physicians learn about Obamacare, the more they dislike it and want to start over

Some pretty devastatingly negative results about Obamacare from a November 8-12 survey of 3,072 practicing physicians in all 50 states, and reported this week by the Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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Go forth and be successful

From FORBES:

5 Things Super Successful People Do Before 8 AM

6 Things You Should Quit Doing To Be More Successful

If millions of families have to cut these things to afford Obamacare, what do you think that will do to our economy?

Heritage Foundation: See Everything This Mom's Cutting to Pay for Obamacare

Here are all the cuts they’ve come up with so far:

• Stop paying the extra payment on my mortgage: $100/month
• Stop eating out: $150/month
• Don’t go to the movies: $36/month
• Switch to getting a haircut every other month: $15/month
• Stop getting manicures: $40/month
• Stop monthly charitable donations to Wounded Warrior and Habitat for Humanity: $70/month
• Stop saving for an annual anniversary getaway: $60/month
• No Christmas gifts to extended family: $40/month
• Quit buying beef at the grocery store: $100/month
• Teeth cleaning only once per year: $30/month
• Cancel all magazine/newspaper subscriptions: at least $30/month
• Cut DISH service to cheaper plan: $50/month
• Cancel land line phone service: $70/month

Hidden Source Code in ObamaCare

THIS VIDEO REVEALS THE REASON THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT BE IN CHARGE OF YOUR HEALTHCARE:



SOURCE: Western Center for Journalism

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services:
Understanding HIPAA Privacy

EX-COP DEFENDS HIS HOME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

GREAT STORY AND GREAT DISCUSSION (07:12):

WHO KNEW? RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS PRECEDED U.S. CONSTITUTION

Professor Malcolm's book shows that the right to Keep and Bear Arms was a right recognized under the English Common Law, the fundament of our legal system.

BREITBART:
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4 cyber security experts concur: Obamacare website dangerous for Americans to use!

Healthcare.gov ‘may already have been compromised,’ security expert says

Rubin called for a security review of the site, but stopped short of calling for a complete tear down and rebuild of the healthcare.gov site. Others were less cautious.

“You can bolt a metal door on to make a house better, but if the foundation is bad. . .” Kennedy said.

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Hearing: Security Flaws in Obamacare Website Endanger Americans

Kennedy demonstrated an attack in the hearing room, showing how on Finder.Healthcare.gov a hacker could breach into a computer, monitor its webcam, and steal passwords.

Hackers from Russia or China could “absolutely” breach the online marketplace, he said.

The problems could only get worse since the president’s team is trying to fix the website while it is still up and running.

Morgan Wright, a cyber terrorism expert and CEO of Crowd Sourced Investigations, LLC., said attempting to fix one line of code could open up a “Pandora’s box.”

“You create an unintended series of cascading events you have no control over because you don’t have a grasp of what the code is actually doing,” he said. “You think you’ve changed one thing, by doing that you’ve opened up a Pandora’s box of vulnerabilities on the other side.”

Kennedy said he has never seen anything like it.

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Hugh Hewitt lays out the cure for Obamacare!

THE CURE FOR OBAMACARE:

From Hugh Hewitt:

I want to put out an additional reform – at least in concept. It has to do with FDA certification of pharmaceuticals and medical devices:

“The Cure for Obamacare: The Widely Accepted Alternative and a New Idea to Go with It” By Clark S. Judge"

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Blind Dog & Loyal Brother in Need of Home

Both dogs, approximately 8-months-old and believed to be lab-pitbull mixes, were found on the streets of Philadelphia

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Longest line in the history of a book signing?

Entire town sells out of Sarah Palin's new book!

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FUSION = FREEDOM

Don't fall for the "green mirage" -- fusion is our future and our freedom: Fusion4Freedom.com

Pat Boone and Tom Tamarkin meet in Pat Boone's Hollywood, California office to discuss the moral and practical imperatives to correctly solve energy through the development of fusion power and how EnergyCite and the EMS-2020 program can be the key ocontributor to this effort.

COMPLETE BENGHAZI TIMELINE

Grounds to impeach Obama:

The Damning Evidence of Cover-up and Treason

High school senior blows the lid off "Common Core"

A Tennessee high school senior is receiving widespread attention for an eloquent speech he made against Common Core at a school board meeting.

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The ignorant omniscience of President Obama

He knows everything...and he knows nothing:

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Beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998...

I was born in between the first two...so I always say that I came into this world with a bang.

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

Want to see real action? Skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

BOEING VIDEO: QF-16's first unmanned flight

First time ever an F-16 has flown without a pilot in the cockpit - Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida:

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Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you

'Fairy Tale' Continues as Obama Proposes Extralegal Obamacare Fix:

Obama's proposal is an extra-legal solution to a big problem for millions of Americans around the country.

"I don't see within the law how they can do this administratively," said Speaker John Boehner in a press conference on Capitol Hill. "No one can identify anything the president could do administratively to keep his pledge that would be both legal and effective."

The proposed White House fix so that Obama can honor his commitment is also likely to create more problems and to further distrust the American people have for this administration, which makes law based on what it chooses to enforce while sidestepping the constitutional process that is in place.

Indeed, there's another problem. As Texas senator Ted Cruz says, the president cannot fix an unfixable law. "We cannot 'fix' Obamacare. The damage has been done, as millions of Americans have already been made to pay higher premiums and lose their jobs, wages, and health care plans," Cruz said today.

President Clinton famously dismissed Obama's candidacy for president of the United States by saying, "Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I have ever seen."

With Obama's reliance on "enforcement discretion," it would now seem that Clinton had a point -- and that the "fairy tale" continues.

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Sen. Rand Paul Reveals: Barack Obama Wrote The Regulation To Cancel Your Insurance AFTER the Bill Was Already Passed!!

“I’m still learning about it. It’s 20,000 pages of regulations. The Bill was 2,000 pages and I didn’t realize this until this week, the whole idea of you losing or getting your insurance cancelled wasn’t in the original Obamacare. It was a regulation WRITTEN BY PRESIDENT OBAMA, three months later.So we had a vote, this is before I got up there. The Republicans had a vote to try to cancel that regulation so you COULDN’T BE CANCELLED, to grandfather everybody in. You know what the vote was? Straight party line. EVERY DEMOCRAT VOTED TO KEEP THE RULE THAT CANCELS YOUR INSURANCE.”

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I can only say: I'm sorry, America.

As a former Federal Reserve official, I was responsible for executing the centerpiece program of the Fed's first plunge into the bond-buying experiment known as quantitative easing. The central bank continues to spin QE as a tool for helping Main Street. But I've come to recognize the program for what it really is: the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time. READ MORE

Important update on the TWA FLIGHT 800 disaster in 1996

John Macidull weighs in with his investigative past (NTSB and then the FAA where we know he was associated with the Challenger Loss). Unknown to many, he also did some work for the Italians concerning the mysterious disappearance of an Airliner within missile range of Libya.

© November 12, 2013 [Reprinted here with permission of the author.] 

John Macidull revised (from 2011) statement to a friend on TWA 800

Personal conclusions: TWA 800 was struck and destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. . .TWA-800 is also of primarily importance because its investigation was conducted as the first blatant, open, and public ‘official’ violation by our Government of our Constitution. It had the same ‘official’ disdain toward the public as the Benghazi video tape pronouncements and witness accesses, “it doesn’t matter now” official statements, passing unread laws, and repeated Presidential proven lies. Fortunately our Second Amendment should remain enforceable by we the people who made this whole thing possible. 

READ MR. MACIDULL'S COMPLETE STATEMENT HERE (UPDATE #2): http://lgstarr.blogspot.com/2011/07/cover-up-twa-flight-800-and-clinton.html

East Georgia: Location of the infamous Georgia Guidestones, the Crown Jewel of The New World Oder!

Hunger activists are livid when they find out: Michelle Obama stole their food!!

Liberal zealots never learn, do they?

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Thirty to forty million lives were expended in Mao Tse-tung's Great Leap Forward [simplified Chinese: 大跃进; traditional Chinese: 大躍進; pinyin: Dà yuè jìn] of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Never forget!

A government that would rape and torture a man to find a fistful of drugs is not worthy of our allegiance, obedience, or respect.

Do you agree?

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CBO: by 2016, we're screwed.

That’s not “perhaps”, not “odds-on”, but with certainty.

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Obamacare has become the domestic policy equivalent of the Iraq War

Steven Hayward, FORBES: Obamacare Will Be Repealed Well In Advance Of The 2014 Elections

The Wall

From a friend who is a veteran:

"There are five (5) names on the wall of guys that I knew - I was within 30 ft. of each of them when they were hit (just a 5 ft. arms length away for 2 of them).

I still on occasion, like now, ask the age-old question "Why Not Me." Could have been, but my name wasn't on the bullet I expect.

The best "revenge," if that's the right choice of words, is to move on, live life and remember on occasion, that there are others who had and still have it far worse than I."

The Wall:
A little history most people will never know.

Interesting, and very moving, Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall.

There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.

The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.

The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth, Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.

There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.

39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.

8,283 were just 19 years old.

The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old. 12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.

5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.

One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.

997 soldiers were killed on their ‘first’ day in Vietnam.

1,448 soldiers were killed on their ‘last’ day in Vietnam.

*31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.

*31 sets of parents lost two of their sons.

54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia. I wonder why so many from one school.

8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.

244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.

Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.

West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.

The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.

The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam. In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.

The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.

For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.

Men On Strike

JEWISH VERSION

Does Obamacare's marriage penalty extend to gay couples?

Perhaps there's yet another exemption to the Unaffordable Care Act that's going to be extended...

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Page 33:

But what stands out in their brief is something very new, Barack Hussein Obama's long form birth certificate that has a different backing, something never before seen. It's on page 33 in the document below. . .

Multiple Obama Birth Certificates Surface In Alabama Eligibility Case

10/10/13:
The Alabama Supreme Court may Collapse Obama’s house of cards

This is war!

The sooner we face facts and respond accordingly, the sooner we will truly and effectively fight for liberty.

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Of The 22 World Conflicts around the World, 21 are Muslim

Here is the list: 

1. Afghanistan Extreme radical Fundamentalist Muslim terrorist groups & Osama bin Laden headed a terrorist group called Al Quada (The Source) whose headquarters were in Afghanistan.
2. Bosnia Serbian Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholic, Muslims
3. Cote d'Ivoire Muslims, Indigenous, Christians
4. Cyprus Christians & Muslims
5. East Timor Christians & Muslims
6. Indonesia, province of Ambon Christians & Muslims
7. Kashmir Hindus and Muslims
8. Kosovo Serbian Orthodox Christians, Muslims
9. Kurdistan Christians, Muslims Assaults on Christians (Protestant, Chaldean Catholic & Assyrian Orthodox). Bombing campaign underway.
10. Macedonia Macedonian Orthodox Christians & Muslims
11. Middle East Jews, Muslims
12. Nigeria Christians, Animists, & Muslims
13. Pakistan Suni & Shi'ite Muslims
14. Philippines Christians & Muslims
15. Russia, Chechnya Russian Orthodox Christians, Muslims. The Russian army attacked the breakaway region. Muslims had allegedly blown up buildings in Moscow. Many atrocities have been alleged.
16. Serbia, province of Vojvodina Serbian Orthodox & Roman Catholics, Muslims
17. Sri Lanka Buddhists & Hindus Tamils, Muslims

Additional conflicts

19. Thailand: Pattani province: Buddists and Muslims
20. Bangladesh: Muslim-Hindu (Bengalis) and Buddists (Chakmas)
21. Tajikistan: intra-Islamic conflict

SOURCE

Grand Theft Obama: The Biggest Heist in U.S. History

My husband has been saying this for years, now: this is a heist, it's nothing but a heist! Now Accuracy in Media has provided all the documentation to absolutely confirm:

Our nation is being stolen before our very eyes. The American people are being robbed of their livelihoods, their security and their freedom. President Obama makes grand sweeping gestures and delivers soaring rhetoric about helping the poor and achieving fairness. But he merely draws our attention away from the hand that is reaching deep into our pockets. Such is the nature of his extremist legislative agenda. Call it Grand Theft Obama, but it is no video game; this is for real. . .

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New evidence: Clinton White House ignored 9/11 warnings

Excerpt:

In early 2000, the documents informed America’s top intelligence analysts that al Qaeda had devised a sophisticated plan to hijack a commercial airliner departing Frankfurt International Airport between March and August 2000. The terrorist team was to consist of an Arab, a Pakistani and a Chechen, and their targets were U.S. Airlines, Lufthansa and Air France. The document pieces together an intricate plot directed by a 40-year-old Saudi, Sheik Dzabir, from a prominent family with ties to the House of Saud. It revealed that al Qaeda had actually penetrated the consular section of the German Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, relying on a contact referred to as “Mrs. Wagner” to provide European Union visas for use in forged Pakistani passports for the terrorists.

These revelations came from an unidentified source that provided U.S. authorities with copies of Arabic letters containing precise information about the al Qaeda plot. It was all laid out in minute detail.

So, how did the Clinton administration respond? In the incriminating words of the intelligence information report, advanced warning of the plot “was disregarded because nobody believed that Osama bin Laden or the Taliban could carry out such an operation.” Perhaps that explains why, for 13 years, the report was classified “secret” and hidden from public view until Judicial Watch forced its release in August of this year.

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Amazing video

VIDEO

Mia Marie Pope, who was a high school friend of Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) in Hawaii during the 1970s, says that Obama identified himself as a foreigner in high school and was known as a crack-smoking homosexual.

Obama’s Secret Iran Détente

“Sounds like Obama decided to enter the Persian nuclear bazaar to haggle with the masters of negotiation and has had his head handed to him..."

Do you have "prepper amnesia"?

It is almost as if most people have forgotten what happened during the last financial crisis.  2008 may as well be ancient history for most Americans.

None of the underlying problems that plagued the U.S. economy back then have been fixed.

For example. . .

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So now we'll really be like Russia

Vodka is all that we'll be able to afford...

The looming global shortage will mark a turning point for the wine industry, which is emerging from a period of massive oversupply after a string of bumper crops between 2004 and 2006. The glut lasted until around 2010, with the impact on winemakers exacerbated by the global economic downturn, which forced many growers to close down their vineyards.

Net exporters such as Australia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand, stand to benefit the most from the approaching shortfall, which will see demand for their produce soar and push prices up.

“Data suggests there may be insufficient supply to meet demand in coming years, as current vintages are released,” said the report.

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What we learned about Obamacare today: Nov 7, 2013

From AEI-Ideas.org: James Pethokoukis is the Money & Politics columnist-blogger for the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, he was the Washington columnist for Reuters Breakingviews. Pethokoukis has written for many publications including USNews & World Report, The New York Times, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, USA Today, and Investor's Business Daily.

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Re: financial illiteracy

From the American School of Entrepreneurship

We normally don’t write about politics or economics, but the feverish comments about ‘default’ and associated topics by pundits, radio talk show hosts and other are just too much.

We’d like to inject, for our readers at least, some financial sanity into the discussion.

About the only national pundits on this topic who know what they’re talking about on the default topic are Rush Limbaugh, Dr. Charles Krauthmmer and George Will, who have all correctly used the ‘default’ term.

It’s clear that most of the national punditry never took a course in finance.

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The administration never intended to allow ANY American to keep a non-Obamacare insurance policy for any length of time.

Powerline: Lies of Obamacare, Documented

In the Federal Register, the administration candidly acknowledged:

The collective decisions of plan sponsors and issuers over time can be viewed as a one-way sorting process in which these parties decide whether, and when, to relinquish status as a grandfathered health plan.

The administration was prepared to be patient as the “one-way sorting process” ran its course, and all Americans lost the plans they had, whether they liked them or not.

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Surprise: polyphasic sleep schedules bring down sleep time to as little as two hours a day!

Fascinating Facts About Sleep From Around The World

These Alternative Sleep Schedules Could Save You 20 Years Normally Spent In Bed

"One theory supporting these alternate sleep schedules suggests that human evolution favored polyphasic sleep."

Chris Christie: Unresolved vetting problems from 2012 cloud future for 2016 presidential election

Here are the problems Mitt Romney's vetting team ran into, and, as far as I know, are still unresolved:

Four nights later, on July 19, Myers’ team put the finishing touches on the Pufferfish vetting dossier. Included was a DVD with some of Christie’s most outlandish or unnerving YouTube hits: his castigating a pro-gay-marriage New Jersey assemblyman as “numb nuts,” his angrily berating a constituent while chasing him down the Seaside Heights boardwalk, brandishing an ice cream cone. But the main event was the 35-page written report titled “Chris Christie memo 71912 FINAL.”

After 11 days of teeth-gnashing labor, several of the issues that the vetters had unearthed around Christie were still unresolved. Myers and her team were sticklers. Uncomfortable producing a final report they considered incomplete, they made a point of being meticulous about framing and flagging the problems, including a refrain in bold applied to a number of items.

On Todd Christie’s securities-fraud settlement: “[Governor] Christie has been asked to disclose whether Todd Christie incurred any monetary or other penalty as a result of the SEC/NYSE action. If Christie’s possible selection is to move forward, this item should be obtained.” On Christie’s defamation lawsuit: “Christie has been asked to provide the terms of the settlement of this matter. If Christie’s possible selection is to move forward, this item should be obtained.” On Christie’s household help: “Christie has been asked to provide the names and documented status of all domestic employees. This material has not been received. If Christie’s possible selection is to move forward, these items should be obtained.” On Christie’s lobbying clients: “Christie has provided only one of the twelve or so [public disclosure] filings made [in the time he was a lobbyist] … If Christie’s possible selection is to move forward, these items should be obtained.”

Then there was this: “In response to the questionnaire, Governor Christie indicates that he has no health issues that would hinder him from serving as the vice-presidential nominee. Published reports indicate that Christie suffers from asthma and was briefly hospitalized last year after he suffered an asthma attack. He is also obese and has indicated that he struggles with his weight. ‘The weight exacerbates everything,’ he is quoted as saying. Christie has been asked to provide a detailed medical report. Christie has been asked to provide a copy of all medical records from his most recent physical examination. If Christie’s possible selection is to move forward, this item should be obtained.”

Despite the language in the report indicating that Christie had not been sufficiently forthcoming with his medical records, Romney and Myers agreed that what he had provided put their minds at ease about his health. But the dossier on the Garden State governor’s background was littered with potential land mines. Between that and the pay-to play snag, there was no point in thinking about Christie further. With the clock running out, Romney pulled the plug again, this time for good.

Read more: Double Down Excerpt: Mitt Romney Feared Chris Christie's Baggage | TIME.com http://swampland.time.com/2013/11/02/the-hunt-for-pufferfish/#ixzz2jcQWcReU

If you lose your health insurance because of Obamacare...

...send your cancellation letter to mycancellation.com!

Top 10 Obamacare Disasters to Come

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE:

1. Deductible shock
   
   
2. Will people pay?
   
   
3. Attracting the sickest
   
   
4. Less expensive plans vanish
   
   
5. Families lose out
   
   
6. Repaying subsidies
   
   
7. Public health-care costs are gong to explode
   
   
8. More jobs lost
   
   
9. Identity theft and fraud will explode
   
   
10. Federal-exchange subsidies eliminated?

If you thought Healthcare.gov was bad, just wait.

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November 7th

There is a history for "November 7th" ... do these Russians know something that we don't...yet?

Russians: “These Dumb Americans Will Find Out How Dumb They Are on November 7th.”

3 caucasian men appearing to be of Russian descent from the language used to converse between them, were spotted at a bar by a fellow patron. The unidentified man relayed to the John Moore show that after eavesdropping on the conversation of the men, he was able to translate that they were speaking about the intelligence of Americans, describing them as “stupid and dumb”. The unidentified caller to the show alleges that the men were discussing the citizens finding out their intelligence deficit on November 7th, but he failed to identify any specific threat from the group.

The November 7th date is a significant day in American history...

11/1/13: DHS Prepares for Rioting as Food Stamp Cuts Take Place Today

Obama's world: The Department of Homeland Security prepared for food stamp riots due to the November cuts to the program. . .