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-Land of the Free
Team Obama wins fight to have Christian home-school family deported
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2014 03:26 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Deport Obama back to Kenya since it is believed part of his (college) education was administered under the foreign exchange student classification.
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 || 03/04/2014 10:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Their only hope at this point is a Muslim conversion.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2014 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  “This administration thinks it’s a privilege to home school – not a right,” he told me. “We’d better buckle down and be ready to fight them every step of the way.”

For a Constitutional lawyer, Champ sure doesn't know much Constitutional law. The SCT has held that homeschooling is a fundamental right.
Posted by: Crusomp Gliter7661 || 03/04/2014 12:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Yet another reason to hate the Democrats. My list is getting very, very long.
Posted by: Secret Master || 03/04/2014 14:27 Comments || Top||

#5  canada, Australia and new zealand are english speaking and have relatively lenient home schooling laws
Posted by: lord garth || 03/04/2014 15:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Dim-rats love to preach that what they do is for "the children. Unless it is the children of people coming here legally or trying to get away from oppressive socialist societies (Elian Gonzales).
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 || 03/04/2014 15:33 Comments || Top||

#7  recent update

Obama admin will give family temporary permit to stay
Posted by: lord garth || 03/04/2014 15:55 Comments || Top||

#8  I don't hate Democrats anymore, it's unhealthy. I just moved them into the non-human category, like AIDS and smallpox.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/04/2014 17:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Don't worry Silentbrick, they hate you and anyone else who won't be sheeple.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/04/2014 20:24 Comments || Top||

#10  I know. But then they hate me anyway, cause I'm well armed and have read the Constitution which makes me a threat. Even worse, I work in the oil industry. And to top it off, I used to work for Halliburton! So yeah, I'm spawn of Satan to them.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/04/2014 21:19 Comments || Top||

#11  Silent Brick is an extremist! ;-)
Posted by: Omavising Ebbemp9815 || 03/04/2014 23:12 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Blast From The Past: Roundup of Ukraine News @ AoSHQ
Including this gem:

Lugar and Obama Urge Destruction of Conventional Weapons Stockpiles:
DONETSK, Ukraine – U.S. Senators Dick Lugar (R-IN) and Barack Obama (D-IL) called for the immediate destruction of 15,000 tons of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and light weapons, and 1,000 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) or shoulder missile launchers that are often sought by terrorists.

Lugar and Obama toured the Donetsk State Chemical Production Plant, a conventional weapons destruction facility where the U.S. has taken the lead in a three-year NATO program to destroy the weapons. Another 117,000 tons of ammunition and 1.1 million small arms and light weapons are slated for destruction within 12 years.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/04/2014 14:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
New ObamaCare delay to help Democrats in midterm elections
The Obama administration is set to announce another major delay in implementing the Affordable Care Act, easing election pressure on Democrats.

As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce a new directive allowing insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet ObamaCare's minimum coverage requirements.

Prolonging the "keep your plan" fix will avoid another wave of health policy cancellations otherwise expected this fall.
The cancellations would have created a firestorm for Democratic candidates in the last, crucial weeks before Election Day.

The White House is intent on protecting its allies in the Senate, where Democrats face a battle to keep control of the chamber.

"I don't see how they could have a bunch of these announcements going out in September," one consultant in the health insurance industry said. "Not when they're trying to defend the Senate and keep their losses at a minimum in the House. This is not something to have out there right before the election."
Posted by: Beavis || 03/04/2014 08:30 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wont work, It's a stinking log, designed to take money from Americans and give it to people who don't care and only say "GIMME" (Obama) and we know it.

Democrats are fucked and THEY know it.

Hence, the delay.

Thank Obama.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/04/2014 11:06 Comments || Top||

#2  What do folks think the Champ will do if the Dems somehow prevail in the upcoming election? All of these postponements will be curtailed overnight.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2014 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe. Or maybe this axe hangs over our heads election to election.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2014 12:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Specifically targeting the moron vote -- as it turns out a key Democrat demographic.
Posted by: Crusomp Gliter7661 || 03/04/2014 12:24 Comments || Top||

#5  I expect the Media will spin this as the 'Democrats' saving people's healthcare from the *evil* Republicans who crafted the Affordable Care Act to just 'steal' your healthcare.

(Never mind that the ADA was crafted and passed by the democrats...)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/04/2014 15:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Original ObamaCare law allowed insurers to extend/renew pre_ACA underwritten policies for one more year (2014, and then all plans would have to cancel, and then offer new ACA-compliant plans. Not being able to "keep your plan" was feature, not a bug, because it forced those insureds to buy plans off the exchanges. In states that run exchanges, they did not even allow the one-year renewal. Your plan was canceled at the end of 2013 and you had no choice.

If this latest fiat become "law," (law is a fungible terms these days... ) here's what happens. Insurers will have to submit their 2015 rates in one month. In many cases they've already released the underwriters who priced pre-ACA plans. And so insurers will most likely not be able to submit 2015 rates with any confidence of accuracy. Insurers will either have to pull out of the market or look forward to a bailout.

The end game was based on Obama's calculation that those who purchased private insurance are Republicans, and the uninsured are Dems.

To quote a Venezualean freedom fighter, "Do I smell sulfur?"
Posted by: regular joe || 03/04/2014 15:47 Comments || Top||

#7  I read that about 1/3 of the people who had healthcare have been screwed as the result of Obamacare. These people are not going to be too happy come election time in 2014 and 2016.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/04/2014 16:08 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Miss Me Yet?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/04/2014 09:50 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At least he didn't hate the US.
Posted by: gorb || 03/04/2014 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  He didn't deny knowing his brother Billy or his uncle Hugh, or talk badly about his granny.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2014 10:54 Comments || Top||

#3  We can't miss Carter because he hasn't gone away. He spent the time after his Presidency helping North Korea keep its bomb program, and helping Uncle Yugo consolidate his power, and now he's helping his hand-picked successor psycho bus driver run over the current batch of designated victims.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 03/04/2014 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Thankfully, God has term limits.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2014 11:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Mis Me Yet?


Not yet, check back in another 35 years!
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 03/04/2014 11:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Miss me yet?

No, jimmuh. Can't say as I do. You may not have been the worst president ever but you were bad enough. Please go back to you peanut farm. I'm sure there's a nice, comfortable rocking chair on the front porch just waiting for you to sit in it.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/04/2014 11:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Last I heard Jimmy was trying to coordinate efforts with the government of Venezuela.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/04/2014 12:09 Comments || Top||

#8  Carter speaks Venezuelan does he ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/04/2014 15:19 Comments || Top||

#9  A sanctimonious ass of the first water.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/04/2014 16:58 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2014-03-04
  Egypt bans Hamas activities in Egypt
Mon 2014-03-03
  A day after Taliban ceasefire: jets bomb Taliban hideout; five killed
Sun 2014-03-02
  Blasts targeting polio team kill 11 in Khyber agency
Sat 2014-03-01
  ISIL Jihadists Retreat from Parts of North Syria after al-Nusra Ultimatum
Fri 2014-02-28
  PTI ends Nato supply blockade
Thu 2014-02-27
  Al Nusra jihadists declare war on ISIS jihadists
Wed 2014-02-26
  Jets pound militant hideouts in Waziristan; 30 killed
Tue 2014-02-25
  Gunmen Kill Senior Pakistan Taliban Commander
Mon 2014-02-24
  Zawahiri's Representative Killed in Syria Suicide Blast
Sun 2014-02-23
  Nine killed as gunships strike militant hideouts in Hangu
Sat 2014-02-22
  Gunmen storm Presidential compound in Mogadishu
Fri 2014-02-21
  40 killed as fighter jets bomb Taliban in Waziristan, Khyber
Thu 2014-02-20
  6 Dead as Qaida Claims Suicide Blasts in Beirut's Southern Suburbs
Wed 2014-02-19
  Taliban kill senior army officer near Peshawar
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  Boko Haram kill over 100 in village massacre


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