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EGADS! Republicans Would Repeal Obamacare In Precisely The Way They Accuse Democrats Of Enacting It.
How dare they play by the Democrats’ rulebook.
Sarcasm, of course,..............I really want them to do it as publically as possible.
Show some balls........for once.
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Out: Pallets of cash — In: Pallets of uranium? Just when you thought the Iran Deal couldn’t get worse…
AP Exclusive: Diplomats: Iran to get natural uranium batchVIENNA (AP) — Iran is to receive a huge shipment of natural uranium from Russia to compensate it for exporting tons of reactor coolant, diplomats say, in a move approved by the outgoing U.S. administration and other governments seeking to keep Tehran committed to a landmark nuclear pact.
Two senior diplomats said the transfer recently agreed by the U.S. and five other world powers that negotiated the nuclear deal with Iran foresees delivery of 116 metric tons (nearly 130 tons) of natural uranium. U.N. Security Council approval is needed but a formality, considering five of those powers are permanent Security Council members, they said.
https://apnews.com/db5a8d6cad764c208322939ed84a0d49
ROGER SIMON: Iran Shows Obama, Not Trump, Putin’s Biggest Lackey.
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Violence has risen to the point where we need to take decisive action. Ladies and gentlemen, what we need is an ad campaign!
"We've got to protect our phoney-baloney jobs, Gentlemen "! -
Ah liberals............you can always count on them for a laugh.
U. Chicago offers $500 for ‘creative ways’ to fight city’s ‘perception of violence’
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THE HUFFINGTON POST TRANSFORMED INTO THE ONION SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED:
Gosh. I wonder if they’ll have to bake cakes and serve pizza, as well?
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Interested in how we got to this Obamacare craziness? This is pretty much a Gruber confession video.”
The biggest turkey awaiting President Trump is, of course, Obamacare. The Republicans want to repeal it, but some of its provisions will have to be replaced with something better, given that millions of insurance policies have been issued, and many other actions have been taken, in reliance on its provisions. Some kind of transition will presumably be necessary.
The problem is that enacting any sort of replacement will need to get past a Senate filibuster by the Democrats. As I understand it, all parties agree that the GOP can’t simply use the reconciliation process to repeal the ACA and enact whatever replacement is deemed necessary, the same way the Democrats passed Obamacare in the first place. This is beyond my pay grade: one hopes that Republican parliamentarians can outsmart their Democratic counterparts and achieve the results that their majorities justify, but this rarely seems to happen.
Obamacare is an unpopular program that has become progressively more unpopular as its effects–more expensive health insurance and fewer choices–have become apparent.
Michael Ramirez sums up the situation well: Humpty Dumpty has crumbled, and the task of repairing the Democrats’ failure falls to Republicans:
It is quite possible that the Democrats have screwed up the health care system so badly that the Republicans won’t be able to repair it. It is also quite possible that if they try, the Republicans will wind up taking much of the blame from voters. But who ever said that politics is fair?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/01/the-boobytrapped-presidency.php
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Actually Urban has had a rough 2017.
2016 was okay, except for that Penn St game
Clemson game was 12/31/16
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Today’s Intelligence Report Proves Nothing
Today the U.S. intelligence community–i.e., the CIA, the FBI and the NSA–released a report titled “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections.” This is the declassified version of a longer report that was delivered to President Obama, President-Elect Trump, and indirectly to the Washington Post and other news organs friendly to the Democratic Party. The report constitutes, allegedly, the long-awaited proof that Russia (specifically, Vladimir Putin) meddled in the 2016 presidential election by, most notably, hacking into email accounts of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta and distributing emails from those accounts to Wikileaks and others.
Does the report prove that claim? No, it merely states it. There is zero evidence in the report tying the Russian government (or anyone else) to the crude spearfishing effort or to the generic, out-of-date malware that invaded the DNC’s and Podesta’s email systems. Zero. Nada. Zilch.
Weirdly, today’s report never mentions the one the same agencies (apparently) released eight days ago. That report did purport to contain evidence of Russia’s involvement in the email intrusions, but, as we and many others pointed out, that supposed evidence was essentially meaningless.
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Today’s report is, as noted, remarkably brief. The longest portion of the report, at seven pages, is Annex 1, titled “Russia — Kremlin’s TV Seeks To Influence Politics, Fuel Discontent in US.” Annex 1 is devoted entirely to RT America TV, which the agencies deem a propaganda outlet of the Russian government. Given that this annex comprises the largest portion of the report, it is stunning to see this footnote:
This annex was originally published on 11 December 2012 by the Open Source Center, now the Open Source Enterprise.So the CIA, FBI and NSA are so lacking in relevant, probative intelligence that the largest portion of today’s report is a recycling of four-year-old, public domain information on Russia Today.
In short, it is possible that the Russian government gained access to the DNC’s and Podesta’s email accounts by spearfishing, downloaded emails from those accounts, and provided them to Wikileaks. But we have to take the bureaucrats’ word for it. Neither last week’s report (which at least tried) nor today’s (which doesn’t try at all) contains any evidence that would make that claim more than mere assertion.
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Winston Churchill bust set for Oval Office return by Donald Trump
by Barney Henderson
Original Article -
Listening to the talking heads on the cable news channels try to spin the "proof" released today by the IC is the best comedy on TV.
CBS, ABC Wake Up to Idea That Maybe Russia Didn’t Make Hillary Lose
Did they hack it with, like, an axe or something?
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The left was reduced so much the Dems got almost 3 million more votes than the GOP - and has outvoted in aggregate the congressional and senate races....
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More "transgender" news............
Transgender man sues Catholic hospital for refusing surgery - The ...https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../transgender-man-sues-catholic-hospital-for-refusing...Man’ Sues Catholic Hospital For Denying to Perform Hysterectomy on ‘Him’A “man” in New Jersey has filed a lawsuit against a Catholic hospital for their refusal to remove “his” uterus.There may may come when America wakes up and realizes it’s abetting mental illness—nay, institutionalizing it (and not in the way that would make sense). Today is obviously not that day.A transgender New Jersey man filed a federal lawsuit accusing a Roman Catholic hospital of discrimination after it cited religion to deny him a hysterectomy procedure deemed medically necessary for his gender transition.
Jionni Conforti in 2014 was diagnosed with gender dysphoria and has long suffered depression and anxiety stemming from the need to identify as male — his true sex, according to the complaint.
First, if you have a uterus, male is probably not your true sex. The dysphoria that medical professionals should be treating is that of a woman who believes she is not a woman. Instead we have culturally mandated the abandonment of biology and the application of pseudoscience. The irony here is that the people who are leading us down this path are more than likely the same people who would attack the Catholic Church for being anti-science.
If someone thinks he’s Napoleon, you wouldn’t treat him by helping him overthrow the government of France. If someone believes he is a an elephant, you wouldn’t treat him by surgically attaching a trunk to his face. If a woman thinks she’s a man (or vice versa) this is basically what happens though. Delusion is treated as truth because not to do so is offensive to the delusional.
After undergoing a double mastectomy, the 33-year-old Totowa man received the recommendation that he receive a hysterectomy — the surgical removal of his uterus and cervix — to treat his condition and reduce the risk of cancer related to the hormone treatments he was receiving.
Radical surgery and aggressive hormone treatments are actions aimed at erasing this person’s true sex.
Conforti was initially approved for the surgery by staff at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, only to be met with an email denying him the procedure when he tried to schedule it a week later, according to the complaint.
The medical center refused to perform the surgery based on its religious affiliations
“This is to follow up to your e-mail inquiring about scheduling a total hysterectomy here at St. Joseph’s to remove all female parts based on medical necessity for Gender Reassignment,” the email read. “This is to inform you that as a Catholic hospital we would not be able to allow your surgeon to schedule this surgery here at St. Joseph’s.”
The surgery was performed at a different hospital but the lawsuit is still going forward because disagreeing with someone’s delusions is not good for diversity, or something.
And while Conforti received his surgery a few months later at a different facility, he said he still felt the sting of betrayal from the medical facility he grew up attending. Citing the problem of suicides in the transgender community, Conforti said he’s pursuing the suit so that no one has to face a similar experience.
People don’t bat an eye anymore when doctors recommend mutilating a woman because she thinks she’s a man. Let a Church act as if they actually believe in their religion and people lose their minds.
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Emails were leaked, not hacked
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-hacking-intelligence-20170105-story.html
Here's the difference:
Hack: When someone in a remote location electronically penetrates operating systems, firewalls or other cyber-protection systems and then extracts data. Our own considerable experience, plus the rich detail revealed by Edward Snowden, persuades us that, with NSA's formidable trace capability, it can identify both sender and recipient of any and all data crossing the network.
Leak: When someone physically takes data out of an organization — on a thumb drive, for example — and gives it to someone else, as Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning did. Leaking is the only way such data can be copied and removed with no electronic trace.
Because NSA can trace exactly where and how any "hacked" emails from the Democratic National Committee or other servers were routed through the network, it is puzzling why NSA cannot produce hard evidence implicating the Russian government and WikiLeaks.
Unless we are dealing with a leak from an insider, not a hack, as other reporting suggests. From a technical perspective alone, we are convinced that this is what happened.
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Irony continues............
"Voters Want Trump to Concentrate On Jobs"
Oh, sorry.
My bad.
That's not The News.
That is the bland headline under which the leftwing Politico hid The News -- actually they buried it screaming alive under almost a dozen mind-numbing paragraphs filled with information no one cares about.
Basically, the entire Politico piece reads like this…
…Trump's inauguration speech, will take place minutes after noon Eastern Time, a Friday, the third of the month when the equinox touches Aries in its gravitational wave outside of Uranus and Trump beats Obama in our head-to-head poll, but 49 percent say they won’t plan on watching Trump's speech, while 14 percent aren’t sure.
Wait? Stop. What was the middle thing again?
Did Politico just say it conducted a poll where voters chose Trump over Obama for president?
Because when you consider the fact that both Obama and Trump have been publicly claiming that they would beat the other, that seems like news to me.
Why, yes -- yes, Politico did conduct that poll and Trump does beat Obama 45% to 44%:
The poll also shows voters evenly divided on a recent point of contention: whether they would rather have President Barack Obama continue for a third term – which is prevented by the 22nd Amendment limiting presidents to two terms — or whether they want Trump to take office this year. Forty-five percent of voters say they want Trump to serve as president for the next four years, while 44 percent want Obama to continue as commander-in-chief.Of course Politico buried this news..................... The national media always smothers Narrative Killers.
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ANALYSIS: TRUE. Bernie Sanders Says Trump Won Because Democrats Are Out Of Touch.
AND................back at the ObamaCare thread
President Obama actually had the audacity to complain about the media reporting unfairly about his signature legislation during an interview with Vox? Yep, he sure did:
Pres complains about news media: when ObamaCare worked well, it didn't get credit, but when it had problems, it got front-page.headlines.
Ha! Nice try, Mr. President:
Just wonderered where "worked well" is defined here.
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And what does that change?
Nothing.
He knows, or at least he should, that majority of those votes that he clings to are from California, both presidential and senate.
We certainly don't need to post again the large # of governorships, state house and senate, and the US congress #'s that the dems have lost in the last eight years.
They are a regional party, representing the left and right coasts.
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In a Chicago interview today :
Obama said “You know I think that in some ways, like everything else it’s gotten better ... I promise you, for the most part, race relations have gotten better.”
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Actually, it reads like a Who's That?!?
Celebrities Call for ‘Month of Resistance’ to Fight ‘Fascist’ Trump
Rosie O’Donnell, Debra Messing, Ed Asner and Michael Shannon are among the dozens of artists, entertainers, and activists who have attached their names to an effort calling for a month-long protest to stop President-elect Donald Trump.“No! In the Name of Humanity We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!” reads a full-page ad placed in the New York Times on Wednesday by the group Refuse Fascism.
“Donald Trump, the President-elect, is assembling a regime of grave danger,” the ad says. “Millions of people in the US and around the world are filled with deep anxiety, fear, and disgust. Our anguish is right and just. Our anger must now become massive resistance –before Donald Trump is inaugurated and has the full reins of power in his hands.”
Stupid election backlash
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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Robert B. Reich explains his 12-point plan for 100 Days of Resistance to Donald Trump.
Here's Michael Moore promoting the 100 days of obstruction: (at link)
Here's the 12-point list in simple text if you prefer reading.