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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Weekly Standard: FLOTUS state dinner dress, $12,ooo.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2014 12:08 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FMOTUS got screwed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/12/2014 16:41 Comments || Top||

#2  And probably contains $12 of materials...

And that's no moon Poof at the bottom, that's her actual bottom...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/12/2014 17:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Nice to see the crinolette back in fashion.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/12/2014 17:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Still an ugly dress.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/12/2014 17:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I liked this version better - the rear view.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 02/12/2014 17:59 Comments || Top||

#6 
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2014 19:07 Comments || Top||

#7  This is no surprise for me, as the Michelle I remember was always into super-Fashionista, Femme "Le Chic".

Whats unsettling is to see her no longer carrying a protest-sign-wid-molotovs/eggs = hidden AK-47 + not-a-few Grenades??? I suppose one should expect such changes wid marriage, motherhood, + being a PCorrect political wife = FLOTUS, at least overtly.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/12/2014 19:29 Comments || Top||

#8  A stereotypical STARVING, IDEOL, BERET-N-AK BEATNIK MARXIST-COMMUNIST Michelle is NOT.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/12/2014 19:31 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Thought Police: Firms must swear ObamaCare not a factor in firings
[FOXNEWS] Is the latest delay of 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...
regulations politically motivated? Consider what administration officials announcing the new exemption for medium-sized employers had to say about firms that might fire workers to get under the threshold and avoid hugely expensive new requirements of the law. Obama officials made clear in a press briefing that firms would not be allowed to lay off workers to get into the preferred class of those businesses with 50 to 99 employees. How will the feds know what employers were thinking when hiring and firing? Simple. Firms will be required to certify to the IRS -- under penalty of perjury -- that ObamaCare was not a motivating factor in their staffing decisions. To avoid ObamaCare costs you must swear that you are not trying to avoid ObamaCare costs. You can duck the law, but only if you promise not to say so.
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  and by what authority is this made-up law enforced?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2014 7:56 Comments || Top||

#2  ..about as provable as (old) age discrimination, which at least had legislation as a basis of authority.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2014 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  It seems like some proprietorships and firms are engaging in civil disobedience in response to the AFA and a rising emperorship. (IMO the act should have been declared illegal from the git go. The notion of people being forced to buy something strains credulity. The fact that SCOTUS declared the fine a tax further strained credulity.)
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/12/2014 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  There will always be some reason that HR can come up with (gray ceiling included) to put one on the RIF list.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2014 8:43 Comments || Top||

#5  I so wish the IRS had done this before Nancy went on the comedy channel and not after
Posted by: lord garth || 02/12/2014 9:39 Comments || Top||

#6  ..interesting that the allegation to be denied is that ObamaCare is a factor.

Who reviews and accepts/denies these sworn certifications, and assumed a denial, where does it go from there?

Oh, yeah - our "UberAgency," the IRS, will have an "app" for that..
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 02/12/2014 9:41 Comments || Top||

#7  That'll fool the rubes. Good thinking Obamatards!
Posted by: Iblis || 02/12/2014 9:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Hounds at the table should definitely be legitimate grounds for termination.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2014 11:12 Comments || Top||

#9  Just when I think our government can't emulate the novel 1984 any more....
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/12/2014 12:26 Comments || Top||

#10  What happens when a company takes advantage of one of the apparently illegal extensions or exemptions being thrown around and does NOT provide the health insurance coverage specified in the law, and then an employee develops a catastrophic health event? It would seem like they could sue their employer for not obeying the actual law.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/12/2014 13:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Looking forward to this one hitting the legal system because I just can't imagine how this could possible survive.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/12/2014 14:52 Comments || Top||

#12  Obama can go to hell.
Posted by: Grusoque Creamp7760 || 02/12/2014 16:02 Comments || Top||

#13  They said much the same about the mandate rjschwarz.

After the Mandate-Tax ruling I have little faith in the Robed Princes of the Realm these days.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/12/2014 16:08 Comments || Top||

#14  As quite often happens locally, Glenmore, the employer will identify one's position as 'no longer required' and RIF the employee before the insurance claim is fully detailed(Yea, "right-to-work"!). I imagine the same business practice will continue under any new healthcare laws.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/12/2014 20:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Obama endorses Alvarez. Faulconer wins San Diego Mayor special election
just a reminder that there are sane areas of Caliphornia. Filner was an aberration. Alvarez received the Anti-Midas touch of Obama
Posted by: Frank G || 02/12/2014 11:59 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  just a reminder that there are sane areas of Caliphornia

Amen, Frank. Unions really wanted this one and they lost big because it was a special election and the low information voters didn't turn out. Did you see the girl on the TV news who didn't vote because she didn't even know it was an election day? That was one less vote for Alvarez. Kinda warms the cockles of my cold, black heart. But I'm afraid we're fighting against a rising tide. A couple more years of Obama's immigration non-enforcement and Alvarez will try again.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/12/2014 12:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Any other questions regarding Champ's disdain for the military ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/12/2014 12:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Worth celebrating. Bartender, a round of F-150s for my friends!
Posted by: SteveS || 02/12/2014 14:03 Comments || Top||

#4  An encouraging sign.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/12/2014 14:43 Comments || Top||

#5  San Diego is a Republican city that elected one Democrat Mayor recently and he turned out to be a total embarrassement. It would have taken a miracle for the Dems to recapture the Mayor. They almost spent a miracles worth but still it wasn't enough (and that's not counting Obamacare or the Obamaconomy).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/12/2014 14:51 Comments || Top||

#6  san diego is not republican

in 2012, the county vote for Prez was

Obama Dem 51.5% 502,937
M. Romney GOP 46.4% 453,166

that is a greater margin than in the US as a whole
Posted by: lord garth || 02/12/2014 16:19 Comments || Top||

#7  in local politics san diego is republican...
Posted by: dan || 02/12/2014 17:57 Comments || Top||


Government
Krauthammer on Obamacare employer mandate delay: "This is stuff you do in a banana republic"
[THERIGHTSCOOP]
Posted by: Fred || 02/12/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: junkiron || 02/12/2014 5:06 Comments || Top||

#2  That's the Old Republic. It doesn't exist anymore except in rituals to keep the rubes paying their taxes and sending their kids off to defend the oligarchs power.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/12/2014 8:37 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: junkiron || 02/12/2014 9:06 Comments || Top||

#4  New signs are going up along the US Borders with Mexico and Canada

Posted by: Omearong the Really Smart2859 || 02/12/2014 11:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Wossamatter? You guys ain't seen the Executive Order telling you to like it?
Posted by: Bobby || 02/12/2014 12:39 Comments || Top||

#6  It’s now reached a point where it is so endemic that nobody even notices or complains.

That's right, Charles, and as long as most of the country and our compliant media continue that we, it will continue to get worse.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/12/2014 12:44 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh they notice and complain - but then the media starts calling them teabaggers and worse (but never, ever, addressing their complaint).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/12/2014 12:57 Comments || Top||

#8  But this global warming we've been having froze all my banana trees.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/12/2014 13:32 Comments || Top||

#9  How much unilateral, pro-"World-Sharing" giving up of Power-n-Authority by the Superpower-USA-n-only-the-Superpower-USA do OWG Globalists require???

GEOPOL = EXISTENTIALLY SAFE "JUST RIGHT", versus GEOPOL = EXISTENTIALLY DANGEROUS "TOO MUCH, TOO SOON", as per the "Great Game" of which Globalism as a concept or ideolology is just one -Ism of many???

RISING IRAN/NUCLEAR ISLAM = RISING CHINA = RISING
????? = SEEK GEOPOL "DECISIVE BATTLE" AGZ THE MSM-NET, PERT-VERIFIED "WEAK/DECLINING" USA???


"Mahanism" + "Young Turks".

Lest we fergit, 1990'S POTUS BILL CLINTON/
CLINTONISM = THE US-N-ONLY-THE-US "MUST BE RESTRAINED AND CONTROLLED", voluntarily or forcibly.

* FYI WORLD NEWS > [Straits Times] ISOLATIONISM IS NOT THE ANSWER FOR THE US.

Ditto Socialism-Govtism the "answer" for the US???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/12/2014 21:31 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2014-02-12
  12 killed as three grenades rock Peshawar cinema
Tue 2014-02-11
  British Man Jailed for Threat to Kill Prince Harry
Mon 2014-02-10
  19 killed in violence in Iraq
Sun 2014-02-09
  As many as 500 feared dead in drug massacre in Coahuila
Sat 2014-02-08
  Evacuation operation in Homs begins
Fri 2014-02-07
  Syria Rebels Seize Most of Aleppo Jail as Bombing Toll Hits 257 Dead in 6 Days
Thu 2014-02-06
  Baghdad Bombs, One near Foreign Ministry, Kill 33
Wed 2014-02-05
  Suicide blast near Imambargah kills nine, injures 50 in Peshawar
Tue 2014-02-04
  Kenya Charges 129 as Shebab Members after Mosque Raid
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  Al Qaeda fighters in Syria kill rival rebel leader
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  46 Civilians Killed in Aleppo Barrel Bomb Raids
Sat 2014-02-01
  15 Yemen soldiers killed in suspected Al Qaeda attack
Fri 2014-01-31
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