UNEXPECTEDLY! New Yorkers Face Hard Decisions After Collapse of Health Republic Insurance. "If anyone could manage to obtain treatment under the Affordable Care Act, it should have been Liz Jackson. With a severe nerve condition that forced her out of a job, Ms. Jackson did not just qualify for a government-subsidized plan, but she also knew her way around the new system, having been trained as a volunteer âhealth care navigator' to help others sign up. Yet the collapse of her insurer, Health Republic Insurance of New York ‐ the largest of 12 health care co-ops nationwide set to close this year ‐ has left her and more than 200,000 others in a panic over medical coverage after their plan ceases on Nov. 30."
Plus: "'I'm an advocate for the health care law,' said Ms. Jackson, who lives in Harlem. âAnd if I can't navigate this, who can?'"
It's as if the whole ObamaCare thing was just a politicized Potemkin village.
[Hurriyet] Yildiz Palace, a historic Ottoman palace in Istanbul's central Besiktas district, has been allocated for use by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , a Turkish columnist wrote on Nov. 8, sparking a debate over the use by statesmen of the area which included large green parks.
Yildiz Palace, built on a Besiktas hill near the Bosphorus Strait was used by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876-1909) as the center of state affairs. At the time it was known as the Saray-i Humayun (Central Palace).
The Buyuk Mabeyn section of the palace was recently renovated and allocated for Erdogan's use, Murat Bardakci wrote in his column for daily Haberturk on Nov. 8. Erdogan hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... in Buyuk Mabeyn during her latest visit to Istanbul.
Barakci said the entire palace will now be allocated for the use of the president and the rest of the palace will be renovated. He also noted Yildiz Palace will then be called the "Presidential Istanbul Kulliye." A recently built presidential palace in Ankara's Bestepe neighborhood was named the "Presidential Kulliye" by Erdogan, who said the huge building will serve the people and will be open to visits by citizens on tours.
The palace was left to the War Academies in 1946 and handed over to the Culture Ministry in 1978. It has served as a museum under the name of the Directorate of the Museum of Yildiz Palace since 1993.
[THEHILL] Complete with expensive commercially printed signs and banners. Dozens out of a population of 8.4 million.
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"Dozens " of protesters makes a headline, yet 800,000 at the annual March for Life in DC doesn't even rate a mention.
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Only funny line in SNL on Saturday was Larry David yelling Racist at Trump and then saying he was wasn't sure why but he was told he'd get $5000 for yelling it.
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Commercially printed signs and banners, like the presence of mortars and crew-served weapons, are widely recognized signs of a spontaneous demonstration.
Funny about the Larry David bit. One news blurb I saw only mentioned that a heckler stood up and yelled "Racist". Details. Mere details.
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I assumed the Larry David bit was scripted to take the piss out of the protests but some guy has said he's gonna pay Larry the $5,000 so who knows. Maybe the guy is making lemonade or didn't get it.
[EW] Trump is still bringing the bump. Instead of just being a lump... With Donald Trump hosting, Saturday Night Live jumped to its biggest overnight rating since 2012. ... giving the ratings a jump....
According to NBC, SNL had a whopping 6.6 household rating on Saturday night, easily beating the season’s previous high: the 41st season premiere last month, hosted by Miley Cyrus and with a guest appearance by none other than … Hillary Clinton. In fact, Trump’s overnight rating was 47 percent higher than the Miley/Hillary episode. He did it without twerking, brought them out of their slump...
The previous high was held by an episode that aired Jan. 7, 2012, hosted by Charles Barkley with musical guest Kelly Clarkson. His grammar was perfect. He brought class to the dump...
Saturday night marked the Republican presidential hopeful’s second time hosting the iconic late-night series. He previously acted as host in 2004 when Trump was still the host of NBC’s The Apprentice. He was gonna send an assistant, but he fired the chump...
Trump was pretty confident he’d boost SNL’s numbers. “I get the best ratings,” he reportedly said when asked about the appearance.
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Ppl really still watch SNL? This show hasn't been funny in at least 25 years.
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He did it without twerking
Please! My eyes!
P.S. What would have happened if Hillary had tried twerking too?
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I haven't watched in 20 years. It'll be another 20 years before I watch again. My stepdaughter laughed at the Drank parody but that one went over my head so maybe its a generational thing because I found the whole thing tedious and unfunny.
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Way back in the good old days of the show there were a few good sketches now and then, mixed in with an awful lot of the tedium that comes from failed humor. A good show was maybe 1 good part in 10. Haven't seen it since before Belushi died. I gather it didn't get better.
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[The Hill] Tom Perkins, a Republican billionaire venture capitalist, once offered a "Hunger Games" take on money and American politics.
"You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes -- how's that?" Perkins proposed in a speech last year.
Perkins' words sound like a billionaire's fantasy unleashed about total political dominance of the lower 99.9 percent.
But that fantasy is close to the reality of the 2016 election cycle in which, The New York Times reports, just 158 families have given half of all the money donated to presidential candidates. All but 20 of those wealthy families have given their money to Republicans.
That fits with earlier findings that since 2010 only 195 "individuals and their spouses gave almost 60 percent" of the $1 billion channeled to super-PACs. Those numbers come from a report by the Brennan Center for Law & Justice in a review of the money gushing into politics since the Supreme Court ruled that unlimited contributions are to be protected as a matter of free speech.
Big dollars coming from super-PACs have doubled in Senate races since 2010, according to the Brennan Center. The group found that "of the 10 highest-spending super-PACs in the most competitive Senate races in 2014" only two got more than one percent of their contributions from individual donors who gave $200 or less.
At the moment, big money is also dominating the Republican presidential primary. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas had lagged in polls but has remained competitive largely due to the $11 million given to his super-PAC by one hedge fund manager, Robert Mercer.
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, is also failing to gain support from voters but he has raised more than $100 million for his super-PAC. The group began the year with a $100,000-per-ticket fundraiser hosted by Henry Kravis, a New York businessman.
And last week Sen. Marco Rubio's (Fla.) campaign, which is rising after a slow start, got a big shot in the arm because of an endorsement from billionaire investor Paul Singer. The 70-year-old topped all conservative donors in the 2014 midterm elections, and he is a top bundler of donations from other rich people. His support is so important to Republicans that Bush sent two top aides to Singer's office in a last-ditch effort to stop him from endorsing Rubio.
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OK Juan. The billionaires, who by and large, earned their dollars - are awful people because all but 20 of the families support Republicans. Amirite? The Unions, who take their money with mandatory dues from worker's paychecks (who may be Republicans - like me), almost 100% support Democrats. Who's the immoral assholes here, Juan?
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Left out of Mr. Williams'' calculation is "bundling." But that doesn't fit the class warfare narrative.
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I don't remember Juan (or anyone) reporting the number of billionaires that supported Obama. I suspect they is a lot of the same names as the rich see the way the wind is blowing and try to have the winning side 'owe' them.
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...well, the more you pile on 'soak the rich' the more they buy politicians to protect their riches, thus corrupting the entire process. Never figure that if you had something approaching a flat or three tier system minus any deductions (other than real children -18yo), they might ease off the buying and selling game. As far as the rich are concern the pols are just legal thieves and they're protecting their own interests like anyone else.
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.
With Donald Trump hosting, Saturday Night Live jumped to its biggest overnight rating since 2012. 
