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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Vandalism Wave Strikes Confederate Memorials Around the Country
[Breitbart] A rash of instances of property destruction, vandalism, and petty crimes have cascaded across the country unleashed by the "Black Lives Matter" movement as families grieve those killed by a lone gunman in a South Carolina church.

The mood was set on Sunday as "Black Lives Matter" protesters gathered to burn the US flag and hoist a black nationalist flag in Charleston, South Carolina on Saturday. A photo of the flag burning was posted to Twitter by professional race agitator DeRay McKesson.

By Tuesday statues and monuments from Maryland and the Carolina Coast down to Texas had been defaced by criminals leaving "Black Lives Matter" messages spray painted upon them.
It's ok, they are only businesses historical monuments.
Related: Gateway Pundit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2015 03:01 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  protesters gathered to burn the US flag and hoist a black nationalist flag in Charleston

Told ye.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/25/2015 6:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Prediction: By October, "Black Lives Matter" will burn down a black neighborhood somewhere.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/25/2015 7:14 Comments || Top||

#3  The 'Black Lives Matter' mantra is really 'ONLY Black Lives Matter.'
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/25/2015 7:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Sort of like a spat of cop killings following another politically exploited event.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2015 9:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember all they have to sell is hate and envy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2015 9:36 Comments || Top||

#6  One or two policemen armed with Remington 870's, plenty of #6 shot..... the bullshi* stops.

No worries, it won't happen anytime soon. We're too far down river. I can hear the falls in the distance.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2015 9:49 Comments || Top||

#7  History and its symbols will always be with you. Your efforts to stamp them out are fruitless. Your actions reflect the efforts of the ISIS in your attempts to destroy history.
Posted by: Black Charlie Crique9103 || 06/25/2015 10:34 Comments || Top||

#8  Long past time to load up the grapeshot on these fools.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/25/2015 13:57 Comments || Top||

#9  #5 Remember all they have to sell is hate and envy.

Unfortunately, there's a big, tax-funded(via welfare, affirmative action, etc.) demand for hate and envy.
Posted by: charger || 06/25/2015 13:58 Comments || Top||

#10  Grom -

You told us to give these animals what they ask for. I warned you they would keep asking.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/25/2015 17:14 Comments || Top||

#11  This isn't what they want, this is learning how to get what they want.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2015 19:00 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Marriage of Woman and Transgender Man Nullified
The Jerusalem Rabbinate was forced this week to announce the nullification of a marriage it had performed, when it became clear that the groom was actually a transgender man, thus making the marriage invalid according to Jewish law.

The saga began when the couple approached the Rabbinate to register for marriage. The Rabbinate saw that the woman was pregnant, and the man claimed the fetus was his child.

Approval for the marriage was then granted.

The couple request a modest wedding ceremony to be held at the Rabbinate's office, and the Rabbinate complied with the request. The ceremony took place and one of the rabbis on the Religious Council officiated.

However, two weeks later, the Rabbinate received information that the man married had not actually been born a man, and was previously a woman who had sex reassignment surgery in 2013.

After the surgery, the person in question had their ID card's sex changed to male.

Upon looking into the issue, the Rabbinate decided to revoke the marriage license and the couple will no longer be considered as married.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/25/2015 07:27 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I presume it would be ok if it was a transgender woman and a transgender man?
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/25/2015 7:50 Comments || Top||

#2  WTF is a transgender man? Is that the same as an ex-man like Brucie Jenner?
Posted by: AlanC || 06/25/2015 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  See above
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/25/2015 8:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Coming up next: the invention of trans-marriages
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/25/2015 16:48 Comments || Top||


Residents Say They Fled After Being Watched In Westfield, N.J. Home
[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] Terrifying letters forced a New Jersey family to flee their new home, and what happened left residents in the quiet community more than a little unnerved.
I seen dis movie. Just the first 30 minutes. It wuz awful.
As CBS2’s Valerie Castro reported, the large six-bedroom home in Union County is being watched – according to a lawsuit filed by its new owners.

They paid $1.3 million for their “dream home” in the picturesque town of Westfield. They claim the previous owners were aware of a man who calls himself “the Watcher,” but they never said anything.

“I would be pretty upset if I bought a house and found out that the previous owners knew about it,” said Robert Hagen of Westfield.

Since moving in, the owners said they have received numerous letters from the mysterious person. “The Watcher” claimed the home “has been the subject of my family for decades,” and “I have been put in charge of watching and waiting for its second coming,” Castro reported.

The new owners have several children, and other letters asked, “Have they found out what’s in the walls yet?” and “I am pleased to know your names now, and the name of the young blood you have brought to me,” Castro reported.
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, the NSA has employees in NJ. Oh, and about your phone and internet communications...
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2015 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  So... What has Bill Clinton been doing lately?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 06/25/2015 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  I seen dis movie. Just the first 30 minutes. It wuz awful.

You should have stayed until the end. In the end, it turns out that the new owners couldn't afford the house, so they claimed there was a stalker and sued the previous owners. But still, you're right, it was an awful movie. I hope Rifftrax will be doing it soon.
Posted by: Angie Schultz || 06/25/2015 21:11 Comments || Top||


Woman Who Thought She Was Black Finds Out After 70 Years She's Actually White
[HOUSTON.CBSLOCAL] A woman who thought she was black found out after 70 years that she was actually white.
Rachel Dolezal is black green with envy.
Verda Byrd on Converse tells KENS-TV that she found out she was white when she started searching for her biological parents in 2013.

“My adoptive mother, Edwinna Wagner, never told me that she had adopted a white baby,” Byrd explained. “She took it to her grave that she had a white daughter.”

Byrd was originally born to Earl and Daisy Beagle – described as white transients – in September 1942 in Missouri. Byrd’s original birth name was Jeanette Beagle.

Her and her four siblings were taken by the state of Missouri after Daisey Beagle fell 30 feet to the ground in a trolley accident. Earl Beagle had already walked out on the family by the time of the accident.

She was then adopted by an African-American family from Newton, Kansas – Ray and Edwinna Byrd. They changed her name from Jeanette to Verda Ann Wagner.

She grew up treated as a “fair-skinned black child.”
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: || 06/25/2015 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  fell 30 feet to the ground in a trolley accident.

How tall exactly was this trolley?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 06/25/2015 4:28 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought that would have had to have been a pretty liberal Kansas adoption agency for the 1940's.

Not if the child looked mixed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/25/2015 6:25 Comments || Top||

#4  She waited 70 years to find out she is a racist.
Posted by: Airandee || 06/25/2015 6:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Prediction: Self Identification of race is meaningless, mandatory genetic testing will soon be imposed to return to honest evaluation of race.
Posted by: Black Charlie Crique9103 || 06/25/2015 10:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Not necessarily Beso, though agree this is only a story because Narrative!

Back in the 40's Newton would have been a major rail transport hub, and there was still a decent black population from when freed slaves moved west. There were even entire towns populated by blacks.

In general west Kansans were religiously hardy, and in the 40's the dirty 30's would still be a prevalent mindset. It is quite likely the parents were just good people who adopted an abandoned child because it was the right thing to do.

And without knowing more details, it could have been the State of Missouri which had something to do with the adoption. Looks like she didn't pay no mind until bucket list time.

Dodge City, also a big rail hub, had a vibrant black and, surprise, Vietnamese community until about 20 years ago.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2015 12:40 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh my heavens! What if my parents (R.I.P) went to their graves without telling my I was really black?
Posted by: Bobby || 06/25/2015 13:47 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Sindh heatwave death toll climbs to 830
[DAWN] At least 830 people have perished in Sindh since Saturday as the province languishes in the grips of a searing heatwave.

The total corpse count at Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre has risen to 295 since Saturday. The combined corpse count at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and other Karachi Municipal Corporation-run hospitals has peaked at 140. Civil Hospital Karachi has seen 110 dead, while 58 have perished at Liaquat National Hospital.

The Emergency Cardiac Centre in Shah Faisal Colony has seen at least five deaths since Saturday, and Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad and New Karachi have seen 10 and 23 dead respectively.
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  it is ramadam and the religious muslims are not drinking water during the day
Posted by: lord garth || 06/25/2015 21:38 Comments || Top||


Mass. Bill Would Allow Pets To Be Buried With Owners
[BOSTON.CBSLOCAL] Who gets to go first? Me or Rover?
Which one of you is costing the state more?
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah, but what do the pets think about it?
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/25/2015 7:12 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Saudi Arabia rubbishes calls for gay rights
[ARABNEWS] There would be no rights granted to gay people in the Kingdom, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.

In a post on its Twitter account, the ministry stated that it supports human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
principles proposed by international bodies as long as they are in line with Islamic law. It also slammed those questioning the Kingdom's rights record.

It said that freedom of expression does not mean demeaning the beliefs of Moslems; and condemned those who continue to ridicule the Prophet, peace be upon him.

The ministry said it rejected terrorism and urged united international action to tackle all forms of extremism because these ideas violate the teachings of the world's religions.

There has recently been intense debate on Twitter about gay rights in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
. One blogger said "all religions reject this perversion which is why God created man and woman."

On Monday in Geneva at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, Faisal bin Hasan Trad, the Kingdom's permanent representative to the UN, said Saudi Arabia would not tolerate criticism of its human rights record, and that it rejected a proposal to grant rights to gays.
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia


Bangladesh
He was drunk while shooting
[Bangla Daily Star] A counsel for Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of ruling Awami League politician Pinu Khan, yesterday told a Dhaka court that his client was drunk when he rubbed out two people in the capital on April 14.
Well, obviously if he was drunk he wasn't responsible for his actions.
His client had no intention to kill any people, claimed advocate Kazi Nazibullah Hiru, adding that Rony committed the offence when he was drunk. So, he should not be placed on remand.
"He ain't gonna shoot nobody now that he's sobered up."
Moreover, his client is sick, and he should be given proper treatment in jail custody.
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Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Economy
Saxobank CIO Explains Why The Greek 'Problem' Won't Be Solved
[Zero Hedge] Even if a deal between Greece and its creditors is struck, the problem isn't solved," warns Saxobank CIO Steen Jakobsen, which leaves the door open to a snap election being called shortly and a referendum on continued membership of the EU just weeks later. Debt refinancing will be the first issue, with the country needing a significant discount. But how can the country secure that, asks Jakobsen, when the government is unwilling to bring in significant reforms?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2015 02:42 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Basically, because you still have Greeks when you're done.
Posted by: ed in texas || 06/25/2015 7:10 Comments || Top||

#2  That which cannot be repaid will not.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/25/2015 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Saxobank CIO Steen Jakobsen
Of course it will fail.
The spokesman is an IT guy.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/25/2015 10:13 Comments || Top||


Europe
Austrian initiative collecting signatures for EU exit
[Iran Press TV] Austrian civic initiative Heimat and Umwelt (Homeland and Environment) has started collecting signatures from Austrian citizens who support the country's EU exit.

"This initiative is open for all political parties and we expect a broad support. This is proved by our numerous conversations with the citizens over the past months," the Sputnik news agency quoted an initiative representative, Inge Rauscher, as saying on Wednesday.

The representative went on to say that over 10,000 signatures were collected during the preliminary stages before the official launch of the initiative.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Dawn breaks in Austria, a nationality is not a bad thing. - Austrians may have awoken too late in the day though - Good Luck with your efforts to extricate yourselves from the multi-headed dragon called the European Union.
Posted by: Black Charlie Crique9103 || 06/25/2015 10:28 Comments || Top||


Greek government comes under fire from its own lawmakers
[AA.TR] Greek PM Tsipras has to deal with angry lawmakers from his own Syriza party, who oppose the proposals submitted to creditors during bailout talks
Tsipras is so down from trying to accomplish the impossible for the ungrateful that he takes an evening off to watch Mohammad cartoons in the hope that someone will kill him.
Debts that can't be paid, won't be. Greece should default. The EU will survive. Greece can leave the Euro and start printing bunches and bunches of drachmas. That'll show everyone. Meanwhile EU bankers will be slightly less able to look everyone in the eye and proclaim that an EU bond is as safe as an American treasury...
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This "initial" deal is over EU8 Bil just to keep the lights on. It does not address the 100% debt to GDP issue at all.

The self important Greeks are going to find themselves in Argentine shoes very soon.
Posted by: newc || 06/25/2015 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  @newc.

The mantra about 100% debt over GDP is idiotic. Youa re compering aples and ornages, a flow and a stoc;

Did you ever buy a house? Weel, you indebted yourself for several hundres persnt of your revenue (your GDP). But repayment was to be donde in fifteen or twenty years so it din't overburden you.

When you borrow money, there tow factors to consider:

1) How high are the repayments relatively to yor revenue: if yopu owe a mere 10% of your yearly revue but must repay in one month then you are in big trouble.

2) Is how much must you payis the interestr rate? First because interest is a loss of money. In accounting when you buy something it is tanslated as X doolars have been transformed into X dolars of house/car/machine since if you resell them you wil get your money back (loss value due ti used status is accounted but differently, here we supoose the good does not lose value). But interest is a net loss. The second point is that as long as you pay inthe interest and a bit of the capital you can borrow again to repay your fits loan and your debt will dminish. Exmalpe: I borrow 1000 to 10% interest rate. I pay back 100 (interest) + 200 (capitale). Now I borrow 800 in order to refuind the firtst loan. I end with only 800 in debt. But if you can't pay the interest you cannot do that since your debt will increase instedes of decrasing.

Now I am not saying Greece is goijng well or that is good to have masive debt, just that the 100ù of GDP argument is idiotic.
Posted by: JFM || 06/25/2015 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Buying a house and mortgage payments is not a good comparison since people typically buy one house and in the case of Greece they are buying a house every year without getting new revenue to pay.

a better analogy is trying to negotiate repayment from a drug addict; would you give them more money for rehab and food when they are siting in front of you and admitting that they will continue to buy drugs?
Posted by: Airandee || 06/25/2015 6:32 Comments || Top||

#4  @newc

Now the rant about the 100% of GDP criterium being idiotic is not against you but against "experts" and journalists who use it.
Posted by: JFM || 06/25/2015 6:55 Comments || Top||

#5  When the fair market interest payments on debt exceed the willingness to pay them the debt will be defaulted. When the interest exceeds the available surplus after survival needs are met, default cannot possibly be avoided. 100% debt/GDP ratio is not (necessarily) that point, but the constant increase in that ratio will make default inevitable. All the lenders are trying to do is pass that hot potato to someone else.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/25/2015 7:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Glenmore. Your points are valid but my post was about the "uuuuuuh, debt si 100% of GDP! We are all going to die!" rhetoric: millions of families go into debt for 400% of their "GDP" when they buy a house and they don't default. That is because they have 15 years, 15 GDPs, for refunding their debt.
Posted by: JFM || 06/25/2015 10:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Airandee.

I was trying to explain Doublke-entry book keeping. If you buy a house for 1 million dollars you ahve one million less in cash but one million more in house. No loss. (You will hghave to account for a loss if house's value decreases or for the funds you spend in mantaining it. You will get a profit of 500,000 if you resell it for 1,5 millions). If you borrow one million dollars you get one million in cash but one million in debt. No profit, no loss. As you refund it you will have less and less cash but also less and less debt. Again no loss.

If you borrow one million, buy a house and refund there is no loss. Obviously the money will have to come from somewhere, possibly from your income so at the end you will have one million less in cash than you should but you will have one million more in the form of a house.

If you borrow one million but have to refund 1,1 million you incur a loss of 100,000$.
Posted by: JFM || 06/25/2015 11:34 Comments || Top||

#8  If you borrow several trillion and have no way to repay it, who incurs the loss?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/25/2015 13:05 Comments || Top||

#9  You are right. The use of raw numbers does not represent the actual situation.

The truth for the Greek situation is with their pension system and the fact that many avoid taxes, it makes their situation un-tenable for lenders.

Spain tightened their belts, Greece should as well.
Posted by: newc || 06/25/2015 13:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Also, all the GDP is not there to pay the debt. It is also there for purpose of running the State.
Posted by: newc || 06/25/2015 13:26 Comments || Top||

#11  GDP is made to pay for debt just like your income is amde to pat for debt. Listen, problem in Grece is not perecentage of debt to GDP I have explained what it is idiotic and besides Japan has a much higher ratio. Greece's problem is they are retirring far sooner than anyoune else and getting pensions higher than anyone else, that it doesn't even try to get taxes pauid and that, for instance, there are no controls in Athen's suburan trains so no Greek apys. So it jas huge deficy=ts and their debt is explong. THe Greeks rely on the UE to make for the apyments and UE is saying NO.

Nut the concept of debt to GDP ratio is still deeply idiotic. One ids aflow the other a stock. Have Earth slowing its rotation around teh Sun, years become two tiles longer so GDP becaomes two times higher and voila! debt to GDP falls to 50%; See how easy?
Posted by: JFM || 06/25/2015 17:34 Comments || Top||


Anti-Islam Dutch politician airs Muhammad toons on TV
[AA.TR] In the nearly three minute long new video aired on Youtube and Dutch national television, far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders shows cartoons of the prophet
The Islamic world comes down all aflutter with the vapors, then vows to kill producers, directors, camera guys, and everybody that watched.
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Olde Tyme Religion
Pope says family separation can be 'morally necessary'
[NEWS.YAHOO] Pope Francis said Wednesday that it may be "morally necessary" for some families to split up, marking a change of tone in the Catholic Church's attitude to troubled marriages.
"Marriage" and "cohabitation" aren't the same thing.
"There are cases in which separation is inevitable," he said during his weekly general audience, with a message hoping to encourage greater compassion in the Church ahead of a highly anticipated global meeting on family life in October.

"Sometimes, it can even be morally necessary, when it's about shielding the weaker spouse or young children from the more serious wounds caused by intimidation and violence, humiliation and exploitation," he said.

Francis said there were many families in "irregular situations" and the question should be how to best help them, and "how to accompany them so that the child does not become daddy or mummy's hostage".
That's not as big a change in tone as the writer imagines. The Church always has compassion for those who are suffering. "Split up" isn't the same as divorce. If and when the Pope says that divorced people can receive the sacraments and remarry within the Church, THAT will be a change in tone...
No word on climatic impacts ?
Posted by: Fred || 06/25/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Government
Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of Obamacare
[Daily News] The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday handed President Obama a major victory regarding his signature health care law, ruling that tax subsidies provided under the legislation are legal.
Don't worry about what it actually says, we'll tell you what it means.
In a 6-3 ruling, the nation's highest court decided that the subsidies nearly 9 million people receive to help make their health insurance affordable -- a key part of the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare -- are legal nationwide and do not depend on where recipients live or purchase them.

The ruling means the legislation is almost certain to survive past Obama's presidency and marks another enormous victory for the administration, which has been forced to defend the ACA time and time again since its 2010 enactment.

President Obama called on critics to accept the law as permanent.
The 'permanency' of a law is the purview of the people and their elected representatives in the Congress, not you, you communist wanker.
"The Affordable Care Act is here to stay," Obama said in remarks in the Rose Garden after the ruling. "We've got more work to do, but what we're not gonna do is unroll what has now been woven into the fabric of America," he said.

Obama argued that the law is working, helping tens of millions get coverage and slowing the increase of health care costs.

"This is not an abstract thing anymore. This is not a set of political talking points. This is reality," he said. "It's working. In many ways this law is working better than it's supposed to."
Never was "an abstract thing." It's socialism, pure and simple.
The fight over the law now moves to the 2016 election.
"Republicans should stop trying to tear down the law and start working across party lines to build on these successes, "Hillary Clinton said in a statement.
Like the dems worked "across party lines" to craft the initial legislation ?
Republican presidential candidates are all running on platforms that include repealing the law. Several issued statements Thursday reiterating that position.

"This decision is not the end of the fight against Obamacare," former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush said.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion in the case, again siding with his liberal colleagues on the bench in support of the health care law. Roberts, who was nominated by Republican former President George W. Bush, was also a deciding vote in another landmark case regarding Obamacare from 2012.
That's twice Roberts has smiled whilst handing us kak.
The dissenters were the court's three most conservative members: Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

At issue in the case, King v. Burwell, was the legal interpretation of a small clause within the 900-page law regarding whether tax credits for buying insurance could only be available in states that had decided to run and operate their own health insurance exchanges.

"Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them," Roberts wrote in the majority opinion. "If at all possible, we must interpret the act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter."
Interpret the law in support of the people, not big government and insurance companies, for foks sake.
Writing for the dissenting justices, Scalia cracked that the law had been influenced more by the Supreme Court than by any other government body.

"We should start calling this law SCOTUScare," he wrote, referencing the acronym for the high court.

The ruling had been anticipated for months. If the court had ruled against the legality of the subsidies, the decision would have likely invalidated the tax credits that millions of people relied on to purchase affordable health insurance -- an outcome that would have almost certainly resulted in those citizens giving up their coverage.
Well at least we know why the regime had no 'Plan B.' The fix was in.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2015 13:56 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The fact the law now means whatever the government means it to be, despite what the actual fucking words spell out is dangerous territory. The government has gone completely rogue and will do whatever it wants, whenever it wants and damn what the laws and the lower courts say. We fought a revolution over this and the French threw off their monarchy for the same reasons.

I feel that there is almost no course left for us if we want to keep our freedoms and not become serfs. Hopefully the Article V movement can put some breaks on this runaway government, but I'm not holding my breath.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/25/2015 14:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Evidently 29 States of the Union have it all wrong.

State
Lawsuit Joined against Obamacare
Date Joined

Virginia Virginia March 23, 2010
Florida Florida March 23, 2010
South Carolina Florida March 23, 2010
Nebraska Florida March 23, 2010
Texas Florida March 23, 2010
Utah Florida March 23, 2010
Louisiana Florida March 23, 2010
Alabama Florida March 23, 2010
Michigan Florida March 23, 2010
Colorado Florida March 23, 2010
Pennsylvania Florida March 23, 2010
Washington Florida March 23, 2010
Idaho Florida March 23, 2010
South Dakota Florida March 23, 2010
North Dakota Florida April 5, 2010
Arizona Florida April 6, 2010
Georgia Florida April 13, 2010
Alaska Florida April 20, 2010
Nevada Florida May 14, 2010
Indiana Florida May 14, 2010
Mississippi Florida May 14, 2010
Wisconsin Florida January 3, 2011
Oklahoma Oklahoma January 7, 2011
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Ohio Florida January 11, 2011
Kansas Florida January 12, 2011
Maine Florida January 12, 2011
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2015 14:40 Comments || Top||

#3  The states should issue arrest warrants for treason against the 6 Justices and declare the entire law null and void in their states. Provoke the Fed and force them to back down.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/25/2015 15:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Justice Scalia issues scathing dissent on ObamaCare ruling

Says "Supreme Court essentially rewrites the law."
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2015 15:08 Comments || Top||

#5  No checks or balances any more. Supreme Court and Congress are rubber stamps. Republicans are as bad as Democrats. Whatever Obama wants, he gets. It is truly disturbing. We might as well be living in China.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/25/2015 15:27 Comments || Top||

#6  John Roberts is Earl Warren II...
Posted by: badanov || 06/25/2015 16:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Fanfukntastic.
Two months ago my insurance went up -again- 30%
Today I open a letter saying my insurance policy will be cancelled end of 2015
So I get to pay for a police a cool 50% higher than my house payment then poof gone.
A policy I have had for more than 7 years.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2015 16:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Saves Boehner the trouble of rescuing ObamaCare.
Posted by: Iblis || 06/25/2015 17:11 Comments || Top||

#9  IMO Republicans dodged a bullet.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/25/2015 17:28 Comments || Top||


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Liberals refusing to breed so they don't biologically spread white privilege
[Huffpoo] Must be some type of Sierra Club award nomination in play here as well. Limiting co2 emissions, Gaia carrying capacity, global warming, inconvenient births, UN food shortages, etc. There must be a linkage, a central meme.
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#1  So, on some subconscious level, they do understand.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/25/2015 6:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Between aborting themselves and this, within 40 years there will be a very small group of liberals.

Hopefully.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/25/2015 6:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Now, just abolish child welfare payments, and we're in the groove.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/25/2015 7:05 Comments || Top||

#4  That's why they're importing 10 million plus illegals. Doing the jobs Americans won't. You misunderstood the use of the word 'labor'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/25/2015 8:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Progressivism - self limiting? Nice. Question is will they die out before the damage they do to liberty is irreversible?
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/25/2015 8:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Barking Moon Bat is a species of Hebrews that are liberal and support the democrats
Posted by: Sock Puppet al Doomi || 06/25/2015 9:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Fred:

Please consider saving 'Barking Moonbat' to our graphics collection.
Posted by: Otto Slomoger5372 || 06/25/2015 9:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Now, just abolish child welfare payments, and we're in the groove. Posted by g(r)omgoru

Without ADC, food stamps, and the drug trade there would be no urban commerce. Get a grip g(r)om ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/25/2015 9:52 Comments || Top||

#9  The problem does seem to solve itself.
Posted by: Graving Jineth4326 || 06/25/2015 10:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Sorry I'm laughing, mental illness is no laughing matter, I'm thinking these folks are afraid that their kids (if they had them) would grow up to be Conservative Republicans.
Posted by: Black Charlie Crique9103 || 06/25/2015 10:18 Comments || Top||

#11  If they are really feeling that guilty, they should simply go to Africa and sell themselves into slavery. Yes yes, I know it supposedly ended but they should embrace reality in this aspect and be slaves to deal with their guilt.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/25/2015 11:04 Comments || Top||

#12  Wonderful to see self flagellation is trendy again. What is missing from the dark ages now...death by plague?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 06/25/2015 12:44 Comments || Top||

#13  They figure (correctly so far) that they can still compel everyone to send their kids to indoctrination camps school, so it's a win-win for them.
Posted by: charger || 06/25/2015 13:54 Comments || Top||

#14  Too bad her parents didn't feel the same way.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/25/2015 14:45 Comments || Top||

#15  Does that apply to those Americans whose ancestors were still in Europe by 1865

Or BTW why is they defend Musl:ims when thses have historically been the biggest and worse slave traders and save-owners, proud of it and ready to begin anew?

Sick, thse peole are sick.
Posted by: JFM || 06/25/2015 15:41 Comments || Top||

#16  They are sadly mistaken if they think people of color will be less racist. If they feel so bad about their white privilege I really do wish they'd try going to live in some Third World hell hole instead of turning America into one.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 06/25/2015 15:54 Comments || Top||

#17  more, faster
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 06/25/2015 16:21 Comments || Top||

#18  Darwin was so prescient in so many ways...
Posted by: regular joe || 06/25/2015 16:41 Comments || Top||

#19  DarthVader: I just finished Empire of the Summer Moon. Comanches had a low effective fertility rate (attributed to spending so much time on horses--dunno), but they maintained their numbers by taking captive the little kids after their raids and raising them as Comanches. I leave any analogies as an exercise for the reader.
Posted by: James || 06/25/2015 18:22 Comments || Top||

#20  One of the things that I picked up from Empire of the Summer Moon was that the charming custom of gang-raping Mexican and Anglo female captives by all the members of a Comanche war party would have let venereal diseases spread like wildfire in a tribe. Yes - all members of a raiding party rape a woman who might have been afflicted with syphilis or gonorrhea ... and there is that disease let go among all the women of the tribe who had sex with their husbands following on a successful raid into Mexico or Texas.
Yes, no wonder their fertility rates declined to the point where they could only replace by adopting child captives.
Not politically correct, noting this. But - history, none the less.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 06/25/2015 19:56 Comments || Top||

#21  There must be a linkage, a central meme.

God willing, we will prevail, in peace and freedom from fear, and in true health, through the purity and essence of our natural... fluids. God bless you all"
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 06/25/2015 22:13 Comments || Top||



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