Gysi is trying to avoid bad publicity before a crucial vote in Thuringia where a coalition of communists, social democrats and greens might elect a communist PM for the first time since 1990.
Gysi's detractors are faithful to CPEG tradition. Gysi isn't, for tactical reasons.
[POLITICO] House Democrats ended Election Day controlling fewer seats than they have in nearly 80 years, but Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... (D-Wonderland) isn't conceding anything.
'I do not believe what happened the other night is a wave,' Pelosi said in her first sit-down interview since Democrats lost a dozen House seats to Republicans on Nov. 4. 'There was no wave of approval for the Republicans. I wish them congratulations, they won the election, but there was no wave of approval for anybody. There was an ebbing, an ebb tide, for us.'
As for whether she would consider stepping down as minority leader, Pelosi said she's needed now more than ever.
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..the little people (not to be confused with Nancy and the ruling caste). It's for their own good cause the little people are too stupid to think for themselves.
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This chump's three taped soundbites are going to be the gift that just keeps on giving, to the responsible folks trying to destroy the Obamacare debacle.
They should be played constantly, loudly, and in every sort of presentation venue - so that they become as well known as Nixon's "I am not a crook".
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I hope SCOTUS redeems themselves when they hear the next batch of Obamacare cases coming before them. A law passed under false pretenses is a bad law or no law at all.
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The Dems will repeat no wave, no repudition of policies, the media will repeat it, and by the next election a large majority of folks will believe it as well.
[FREEBEACON] The federal government has invested over $10 million developing and promoting a video game about a young teen that must escape a town full of fat people, as a method to fight obesity.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) paid for the development of two video games that promote healthier eating, including "Escape from Diab," a "nightmare" fictional city where people are only allowed to eat junk food.
"The story centers around five children who must get healthy enough to escape the evil King Etes," explains Archimage, Inc., a computer game company that received $9,091,409 to develop the games. King Etes is a fat ruler who forces his people to eat out of vending machines.
"Deejay, an athletic inner city youth, accidentally tumbles into an abandoned building and through its rotting floor," according to the backstory described on Escape from Diab's website. "When he awakes, he finds himself in Diab, a nightmare city where people eat nothing but junk food."
"He finds new friends and agrees to help them prepare for their escape to the legendary Golden City, using everything he has learned about nutrition and exercise from his track coach," it says. "Deejay's arrival has been noted by the despotic King Etes who will stop at nothing to capture him."
"This is the town of Diab. You can eat all the junk food you want. In Diab, you never have to exercise," a narrator says over a trailer for the game. "Sound like a dream? It's not."
Deejay has to teach his fat friends about healthy eating and exercise in order for them to escape the city, which is full of "high-rise vending towers" that give "free access to foods like Lard Chips, Creamy Cakes, Butter Breads, and Etes Burgers."
The game is not available to play online, though the site does offer its version of Tetris for kids to play.
The financing for the creation of the game was provided by NIH grants from 2003 to 2008. Archimage, Inc. also developed "Nanoswarm: Invasion from Inner Space," a game set in 2030 when the United States has a female president and life is "almost perfect," but kids have to save the planet from obesity and type II diabetes.
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funding projects like this is why NIH 'give us money to fight ebola' comments are despicable
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The district I work for has a sekret cinnamon bun recipe that I remember from 55 years ago. They were just awesome a meal in itself, but given as a dessert. They can only be made for adults now, for meetings, PTA etc. they are still as good as I remember, but no memories for the kiddies. Don't get me started on their Friday soup of blessed memory.
[THEHILL] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... (D-Nev.) on Wednesday pledged to work with Republicans when they are in the majority and eschew the strategy of obstruction he has accused them of using against Democrats.
"I am ready, Mr. President, to work with him in good faith to make this institution function again for the American people. I saw firsthand how a strategy of destruction was debilitating to our system," he said, addressing the Senate chair.
"I have no desire to engage in that manner," he said.
Democrats accused Republicans of using filibusters over the past four years to paralyze the Senate and drive down public opinion of Congress and government as part of a broader political strategy.
With Republicans set to take control of the upper chamber in January, it has raised questions about whether Democrats might seek Dire Revenge by blocking Republican initiatives in order to run against a dysfunctional GOP Congress in 2016.
Reid said that would not happen.
"I have been able to strike compromise with my Republican colleagues and I'm ready to do it again. Regardless of how you may interpret last week's election results, it's clear the American people want us to join together to get things done for the middle class and all Americans," he said.
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Why should he? Mitch will still do whatever he wants in order to 'go along to get along'.
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His lips were moving therefore I don't believe him.
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My earliest memories of Harry were from the time he ran against 'Drunk-Bob' Stupack for the Mayoralship of Las Vegas. One of his campaign lines was "the handicapped candidate".
He declared himself legally blind because the state mandated he wear glasses to drive.
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Okay Dingy, why don't you start off the Lame Duck session by filing a bill to repeal Obama-care in its entirety. I'm sure that the 'pubs wouldn't consider that an obstruction.
If that's a bit to much to swallow then do the same with the Keystone pipeline. Vote on that now and send it to Obola to sign.
Put your votes where your mouth is. Best to get going before you get pulled in on those pedophile rumors, no?
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She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears to her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. (Wonderland 1.21)
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Reynold’s map of free and slave states in the U.S. circa 1856. With the exception of the colours and the status of the slaves, not much has actually changed.
[CBS DC] Americans will see their bank accounts shrink if they don't sign up for Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... in its second enrollment season.
Uninsured Americans who decide not to enroll will face a penalty of $325 per person, more than tripling the $95 penalty those who did not enroll had to pay the first time around.
Children under the age of 18 will be fined $162.50. The maximum amount an uninsured family will be penalized is $975 under the flat-rate method.
"The penalty is meant to incentivize people to get coverage," Laura Adams, senior analyst of InsuranceQuotes.com, told CBS News. "This year, I think a lot of people are going to be in for a shock."
CBS News reports that many Obamacare plans will be charging more as a 27-year-old earning 250 percent of the poverty rate will now have to pay an average of 7 percent more for the lowest-cost bronze plan. The analysis from Investor's Business Daily found that the lowest-cost silver plan will rise 9 percent and the lowest-priced catastrophic policy will go up by 18 percent.
Adams stated that very few uninsured Americans don't understand the penalties they are facing.
"There is very little awareness of this," she told CBS News. "Until people understand the financial consequences, they don't have an incentive."
The Health and Human Services Department said earlier this week that between 9 to 9.9 million Americans will receive health care plans through the Affordable Care Act marketplaces for next year's coverage. That's lower than the 13 million estimated by the Congressional Budget Office.
The bugs have supposedly been removed from the famously troubled http://www.healthcare.gov website, which can withstand last season's peak loads and beyond with at least 125,000 simultaneous users. The online application has been pared from 76 screens to 16 for most consumers.
The "young invincible" crowd of 18-to-36 year olds is crucial to the law's success because insurance companies need their business to offset the costs of covering older, sicker and more expensive enrollees.
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There's also a mind-numbing credit (Form 8962) that goes into the 2014 1040 tax return. Supposedly makes the AMT calculation look simple by comparison.
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The penalty is meant to incentivize people to get coverage.
Negative incentives are only effective when people value the reward. In light of the fact that most plans offer sketchy coverage with rising premiums and skyrocketing deductibles this scheme looks likely to backfire. It will be viewed like giving a kid a Christmas gift but deducting their allowance to pay for it. Good luck with that.
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Not going to pay it. That is my duty to the cause of Freedom and Liberty. I will not finance Socialist Medicine and insurance that is inferior and more costly than what we had when we were free and not being forced into this by socialist mandates.
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It's a penalty and a tax for the uninsured. Unless you are an illegal, then you get free Medicaid.
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Would not be the first time I have been fined.
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the fine is designed to make people buy the Govt approved products of AETNA, Humana, Wellpoint, Cigna, etc.
Those are the companies hoping to hype their profits for a few years buy getting healthy 20 and 30 somethings to put in $200 to $600 a month to buy far more insurance than they really need and gain subsidies for customers with low incomes
Of course, the end of Obamacare will probably result in either a govt takeover or a more competitive market so those companies are going to be hit in the long term.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Nancy 
Harry Reid
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