TINFOILHAT: Your privacy is gone!

Saturday, April 30, 2016

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/8-revelations-from-2016-that-completely-vindicate-conspiracy-theorists_042016

8 REVELATIONS FROM 2016 THAT COMPLETELY VINDICATE “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS”
APRIL 25, 2016 | CLAIRE BERNISH 

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1. Though trading a pinch of liberty for an ounce of security has never panned out for anyone but government, people continue to allow the fuzzy blanket feel of increased ‘protection’ from terrorism to cloud their perception of possible future outcomes. Such has been the case with the insidious PATRIOT Act, whose repercussions from blanket, indiscriminate surveillance culminated this year in a gloriously horrible way.

In March, it was divulged that domestic law enforcement will now have access to information swept up by the National Security Agency’s broad net of data collection performed on all Americans. Shocking though that may be, global tumult in recent years — which naturally has begun to sweep the U.S. — evidences a paranoid and increasingly fascistic government in decline. Its imperative need at this point wholly comprises self-preservation.

What better way to effect and maintain control than to have its every enforcement arm keen to those who might organize sufficiently to oust said government from its pedestal of power. Of course, when Edward Snowden first revealed the NSA’s dubiously extensive program, privacy rights advocates suspected there would be more to follow — and now we know.

“What does this rule change mean for you?” queried the ACLU. “In short, domestic law enforcement officials now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained without warrants, that they can use to put people in cages.”

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Still think that all Conspiracy Theorists are crazy?

Still trust “your” Gooferment?

Still want to pay your taxes?

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1. Though trading a pinch of liberty for an ounce of security has never panned out for anyone but government, people continue to allow the fuzzy blanket feel of increased ‘protection’ from terrorism to cloud their perception of possible future outcomes. Such has been the case with the insidious PATRIOT Act, whose repercussions from blanket, indiscriminate surveillance culminated this year in a gloriously horrible way.

In March, it was divulged that domestic law enforcement will now have access to information swept up by the National Security Agency’s broad net of data collection performed on all Americans. Shocking though that may be, global tumult in recent years — which naturally has begun to sweep the U.S. — evidences a paranoid and increasingly fascistic government in decline. Its imperative need at this point wholly comprises self-preservation.

What better way to effect and maintain control than to have its every enforcement arm keen to those who might organize sufficiently to oust said government from its pedestal of power. Of course, when Edward Snowden first revealed the NSA’s dubiously extensive program, privacy rights advocates suspected there would be more to follow — and now we know.

“What does this rule change mean for you?” queried the ACLU. “In short, domestic law enforcement officials now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained without warrants, that they can use to put people in cages.”

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RANT: 61 killed in Aleppo airstrikes

Friday, April 29, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/04/28/at-least-27-killed-as-wave-airstrikes-hit-near-hospital-in-contested-syrian-city.html

SYRIA
At least 61 killed in Aleppo airstrikes, including Doctors Without Borders staff, patients
Published April 28, 2016  FoxNews.com

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The Civil Defense, a volunteer first-responders agency whose members went to the scene of the attack, put the death toll at 40 and said the dead included six hospital staff, including a dentist and one of the last pediatricians remaining in the city.

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I know that hospitals are sometimes used for “non-hospital” purposes.

But somehow, this has to stop.

Argh!

Children and doctors?

For shame on all of us humans.

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MONEY: Another reason that Lincoln was the worst!

Thursday, April 28, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/brion-mcclanahan/leave-jackson-20/

On the New Bank Notes
By Brion McClanahan
April 22, 2016 

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He is in good company with Lincoln, the man who ignored the Constitution for four years while “best subduing the enemy,” and who favored the re-establishing of a central banking system.  Lincoln also followed Jackson’s blueprint for military coercion of a State and ordered the largest mass execution in American history when thirty-eight members of the Dakota tribe were simultaneously hung in 1862.

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http://wp.me/Pg9z-2ak

Sorry but nothing redeems him imho.

I don’t understand the national brainwashing.

Argh!

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FUN: Lily and Marshall pause

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

https://youtu.be/sYxfSXnDoFU

Lily and Marshall pause

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Many a true word comes on comedy shows!

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LIBERTY: A lot of establishment type hate Trump — a reverse recommendation?

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/political-theater-air/

Political Theater on the AirLew Rockwell and Alex Jones on Trump, Hillary, and everything else.
April 20, 2016

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I used to think that Alex Jones was profiting on the mental illness of Conspiracy Theories.

Now I am not so sure.

Lew and Alex brought up a great point. 

Trump may be a closet libertarian. Operative words “may be”. They gave the following evidence: (1) He wants to avoid war with Russia; (2) He seems to think NATO is obsolete; and (3) he’s has a lot of non-libertarian enemies.

I thought the third was most powerful. 

The guy sure has the “Establishment” shorts in a knot. 

Have to go back to the Republican Rockefeller Establishment stealing the nomination from “Mr. Republican” Bob Taft and give it to the Rockefeller Republican Dwight Eisenhower. 

Argh!

Perhaps the “theft” of this nomination would be a good thing to wake up “We, The Sheeple”?

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RANT: Prince has no will?

Monday, April 25, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/04/25/who-will-inherit-prince-millions.html?intcmp=hpff

How can someone NOT do their paperwork? 
 
It’ll only make the lawyers rich.
 
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SECURITY: United Airlines resets their security?

Monday, April 25, 2016

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To better protect your United MileagePlus® account, we’ll soon no longer allow you to use your PIN to sign in. Instead you’ll need to have security questions and a strong password.
If you haven’t done so already, please sign in to your account today. You’ll be asked to complete these steps:
(1)  
Validate your email address
(2)  
Choose and answer new security questions
(3)  
Update your password
For now, you will still need your PIN when you call the United® Customer Contact Center, so don’t lose track of that just yet.
Thank you for being a MileagePlus member and for taking the time to update your account.

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I guess that someone has hacked United Airlines.

Didn’t hear about this in the media.

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POLITICAL: Negative rights are the only rights we have?

Sunday, April 24, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/walter-e-williams/rights-vs-wishes/

Rights Versus Wishes
By Walter E. Williams
April 20, 2016

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Here is what presidential aspirant Sen. Bernie Sanders said: “I believe that health care is a right of all people.” President Barack Obama declared that health care “should be a right for every American.” The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: “Every person has a right to adequate health care.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his January 1944 message to Congress, called for “the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.” And it is not just a health care right that people claim. There are rights to decent housing, good food, and a decent job, and for senior citizens, there’s a right to prescription drugs. In a free and moral society, do people have these rights? Let’s look at it.

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So how is that “right” to “affordable care” working out for you?

I have no obligation to pay for anyone else’s “stuff”.

Argh!

A “positive” right to something implies that someone must provide it.

In nature, everything has a cost. Even “free health care”.

http://tomwoods.com/d/bernie.pdf

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SURVIVAL: This super experienced guy goes … and nearly dies!

Saturday, April 23, 2016

http://www.aol.com/article/2016/04/19/tv-crew-saves-castaway-after-spotting-him-on-deserted-island-h/21346472/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&intcmp=hplnws

TV crew saves castaway after spotting him on deserted island: ‘He was ready to die’ 
Inside Edition JOHANNA LI
Apr 19th 2016 5:44AM

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Shearman said that the man, whom they later learned was named Tremine, was out fishing one day when he decided to venture off his boat in search of better oysters. He was told that the Sir Edward Pellew Group of Islands was only inhabited by a small aboriginal group, and would be a more interesting area to fish.

Tremine, a roofer from Borroloola in northern Australia, is an experienced hobby fisherman and often takes short camping or fishing trips. But he didn’t anticipate the conditions that day. Shearman said Tremine told him that he left his boat and took a wrong turn after a couple hours of digging for oysters.

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After 60 hours without water, this guy was a mess and near death.

How many of the ‘survival rules’ did he break!

Maybe they should be codified so that we “experts” don’t fall afoul of them?

First rule, is remember “Murphy’s Law”. And, it’s like the Law of Gravity. It’s always operational.

It’s a dangerous world out there and puny naked humans shouldn’t forget that ONE FACT!

He was almost a “Darwin Award” nominee; let’s not have others!

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GOVERNACIDE: Aghh, bureaucrats are just that!

Friday, April 22, 2016

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/04/22/dashcam-video-shows-fla-deputies-debating-whether-to-rescue-girls-from-stolen-car-in-pond.html?intcmp=hpbt3

The bureaucrats did a “great” job!

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POLITICAL: The Israel Lobby?

Friday, April 22, 2016

http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-642-the-israel-lobby-what-it-does-and-how-it-works/

Ep. 642 The Israel Lobby: What It Does and How It Works
18th April 2016
Tom Woods

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We are supposed to believe that the network of organizations promoting a particular view of Israel and the U.S. relationship with that country doesn’t exist, and that anyone who says it does is a crank and a hater. Yet it’s precisely the network of organizations that would call such a person a hater that we’re talking about in the first pace. Grant Smith joins me for a rational discussion of this inexplicably sensitive issue.

About the Guest

Grant F. Smith is director of research at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.

Book Discussed

Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America

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Basically, I don’t understand anyone who doesn’t have sympathy for Israel after the Shoah considering American actions before it (i.e., rejection of the Saint Louis; the anti-semitism of the US State Department; the failure of the executive to order the US Army Air Corp to stop the trains; the failure to inform the American people of what known facts when it was happening). 

That being said, not all the Israeli and USA interests are ALWAYS aligned.

It was an eye opening podcast that exposes how much the Israeli Gooferment manipulates the USA Gooferment to its benefit.

Argh!

Entirely too much Gooferment is my bottom line.

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We are supposed to believe that the network of organizations promoting a particular view of Israel and the U.S. relationship with that country doesn’t exist, and that anyone who says it does is a crank and a hater. Yet it’s precisely the network of organizations that would call such a person a hater that we’re talking about in the first pace. Grant Smith joins me for a rational discussion of this inexplicably sensitive issue.

About the Guest

Grant F. Smith is director of research at the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, D.C.

Book Discussed

Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America

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INSPIRATIONAL: Ev’s cardiologist wrote a book

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Alone in the World: Stories of Complex Human Relationships

“My world crumbled, a stable, happy and peaceful life disintegrated in to millions of pieces- from a man I became a patient”. These were the words of one of my patients who suffered an unexpected heart attack.

The pain and sadness hidden in these words permeated into the core of my consciousness and my professional evolution- from a physician to a healer began. The Hippocratic Oath is taken by all physicians. In the original form, it requires a new physician to swear by a number of healing gods. The concept of healing is deeply embedded in the Hippocratic Oath.

This book reflects my journey to help patients heal from the ravages of disease.

About the Author

Ashok Kumar, M.D., is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and a clinical cardiologist at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He lives with his wife and is in private practice with his daughter who is also a cardiologist.

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He’s a great guy. He told me that he’s donating all the profits.

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MONEY: TDBANK launches an expensive and slow PayPal competitor

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

http://view.e.tdbank.com/?qs=859baa97e49b3782d53acd89cee5a052785361738a875abf9111a8482c546426dbc352c59b5fc2cab663db28a15525083d55787279596536c2866d63492b6973f3e47bb6a8bc4021

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With Person-to-Person Payments, you can send money to anyone in the U.S., directly from your TD Bank account. 

Pay rent, split a dinner bill, or send a gift with ease with Online Banking.
See how easy it is to make a payment.
Send money now
Explore the benefits
Access Person-to-Person Payments by logging in to Online Banking – an easy, secure way to:
Send money. Pay anyone with just an email address or mobile phone number.
Request payments by text or email.
Include an e-card or personal message!

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Interesting?

Paypal is instantaneous in its P2P service and free.

So why would you come to market with a competitive service that is slow and costly? (1 day xfer for $7 and 3 day for $1)

Makes NO economic sense.

And how is that TRULY putting your Customer FIRST?

TD would have been better striking an affinity deal with PayPal.

https://www.paypal.com/

If you want to try it, you can send me money … free! https://paypal.me/reinkefj

Reminds me of when Soupy Sales 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales

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On January 1, 1965, miffed at having to work on the holiday, Sales ended his live broadcast by encouraging his young viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents’ bedrooms and remove those “funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents” from their pants and pocketbooks. “Put them in an envelope and mail them to me”, Soupy instructed the children. “And I’ll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico!” [20] Several days later, a chagrined Soupy announced that money (mostly Monopoly money[21]) was unexpectedly being received in the mail. He explained that he had been joking and announced that the contributions would be donated to charity. As parents’ complaints increased, WNEW’s management felt compelled to suspend Sales for two weeks. Young viewers picketed Channel 5. The uproar surrounding Sales’ suspension increased his popularity. Sales described the incident in his 2001 autobiography Soupy Sez! My Life and Zany Times.

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Laugh!

My line would be “I’ll send you a post card from Aruba!”

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SECESSION: An idea who’s time has come

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/jack-perry/end-not-near/

The End is Not Near, It has Begun
By Jack Perry
April 15, 2016

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People have this idea that the United States must remain united. Why? Many regions have different interests. Like a relationship that went sour, this federal government thing was nice when times were good, but we need to move on. We need to see other people, or rather, see different flags flying above our state capitols. We’re different people now. That’s not a bad thing, it just means we need to stop trying to pound every square and triangular peg into the round hole. The federal government cannot administer this entire country anymore. Look at Detroit. Look at the blighted areas of every major city. Not to mention the aggressive nature of the federal government in terms of cataclysmic wars it starts all over the planet.

Soon, it will become apparent all over America that the future for them looks like Detroit. Detroit was the first sign of the terminal illness that will fill the federal government. In time, regions will learn they need to break away for their own survival. Political ideology will not sell people on secession. But half the supermarkets empty and the other half on fire will. 

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It happened to the USSR. And, it will happen to the USA.

The current 18T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with will assure it’s demise.

If “We, The Sheeple” were smart — but then they wouldn’t be sheeple — they’d be hold the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats feet to the fire. Spend less; do less. More freedom; less laws, regulations, and diktats.

End the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”. End the Crony Capitalism! End the overreach of the Gooferment into every facet of American life.

You made bad choices, we’re genuinely sorry, but it’s not “our” problem.

Tough love!

No more Gooferment programs that make infantile helpless human beings who think everyone owes them something.

Life is tough. It’s even tougher when you depend on the Gooferment!

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RANT: Why is Tax Day April 18?

Monday, April 18, 2016

http://www.efile.com/tax-day-deadlines/#april-18

Why is Tax Day April 18?

The regular tax return filing deadline is April 15. However, due to the Washington D.C. Emancipation Day holiday being observed on April 15 instead of April 16, 2016, Tax Day is on the following Monday.

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Doesn’t anyone else see the irony of Federal taxes being delayed by something called “Emancipation Day” in the “District of Corruption”?

Argh!

Tax Day and Election Day should be the same day.

Or even better. Tax Day is the day BEFORE Election Day!

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GOLD: What are your “savings” worth?

Sunday, April 17, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/jack-perry/praise-penny/

In Praise of the Penny
By Jack Perry
April 14, 2016

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Consider this: If I back my dollar with gold, there are only so many dollars I can print because gold is a finite thing. No one will be able to accumulate too many of those dollars because, sooner or later, they’re going to have to part with them if they want to eat. But if I can print unlimited cash, unbacked by anything, I’m not even limited by the supply of paper! I can use a computer to say, “There! I just created ten billion dollars to issue to Slob Junction Central First National Bank!” After all, hey, we’re going to electronic transfers and people are saying we don’t even need the fig leaf of paper money to hide the fiction of the currency. Therefore, people can hoard immense sums and when there’s a shortage of available currency because it’s being hoarded, they just print more. Or open up a computer program and create more out of thin air and electrons. Same thing. That’s what creates “income inequality”, not wages.

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It’s no secret that I’m a gold bug.

When the <synonym for excrement> hits the fan and the Gooferment can pay its bills, guess what will happen?

Of all the “fun things” that might happen, the one that worries me most and that I have personally seen is INFLATION.

When the value of paper money or “electronic dollars” goes into the toilet, I bet a roll of nickels will be worth something. Never mind an ounce of silver or gold.

Remember that’s what many USED to be.

Twenty dollar gold piece had real value.

Argh!

“We, The Sheeple” are so dumb.

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MONEY: Sovereign Debt Threat

Saturday, April 16, 2016

http://www.jasonstapleton.com/sovereign-debt-threatens-new-global-depression/

Sovereign Debt Threatens New Global Depression
By Jason Stapleton –  Apr 13, 2016

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Today we’re going to have a critical discussion about something you won’t hear about in the news. I’ve been tracking several issues that will likely have a direct impact on your life over the coming months and years. We start in Japan.

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Review your history lessons about the Weimar Republic!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic 

And just think about the the current 18T+ national debt and the guesstimated 200T+ in unfunded liabilities that our posterity will have to deal with!

Argh!

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SOFTWARE: “rm -rf”

Friday, April 15, 2016

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html

Man accidentally ‘deletes his entire company’ with one line of bad code‘
I feel sorry to say that your company is now essentially dead,’ one person on a coding forum advised Marco Marsala
Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin 15 minutes  ago

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A man appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code.

By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, hosting provider Marco Marsala has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers.

Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts that he was now stuck after having accidentally run destructive code on his own computers. But far from advising them how to fix it, most experts informed him that he had just accidentally deleted the data of his company and its clients, and in so doing had probably destroyed his entire company with just one line of code.

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So where are your backups?

I don’t care what type of User you are. I don’t care if you are a “corporate drone”. I don’t care if you just “play games”. I don’t care if you just use your computer or your phone for notes. 

Where are your backups?

When the computer flames, the service provider goes bust, or the Gooferment shuts you down … …

… … … what will you do?

“Corporate drones” think they are protected by a corporate system. What happens if it just loses YOUR specific work? How’s your annual appraisal going to look?

“Gamers” can just rebut all their games and replay for hours to get where they are today.

“Note takers” can just “forget” every note they’ve taken.

Argh!

Wake up people.

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POLITICAL: Jeanne Shaheen supports the ACA!

Thursday, April 14, 2016

In response to my letter opposing the ACA.

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Dear Ferdinand,

 

Thank you for contacting my office about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act. This is one of the most important issues facing our nation and I appreciate hearing your thoughts. 

I support the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and believe that the law was a necessary step toward improving our nation’s health insurance system and broadening access to coverage for individuals in New Hampshire and throughout the country. While I believe the law should be improved, I oppose efforts to repeal or dismantle it. The law makes critical insurance reforms, such as guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26 and limiting annual out-of-pocket costs to consumers. The ACA is providing insurance options to millions of Americans who were previously uninsured, ensuring that many of them have access to health insurance for the first time. 

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that the ACA will reduce the federal deficit over the next ten years and into the following decade. However, we must continue to focus on efficient and effective implementation of the ACA to ensure these significant savings. I am pleased that millions of Americans are receiving insurance plans through the online marketplaces, in addition to the millions nationally who have bought plans outside of the health insurance exchanges, and those who benefit from Medicaid expansion in our state. This demonstrates the ongoing need for the essential reforms that this law made. 

Although we have already seen benefits from the ACA, I am very concerned about problems that remain and I am dedicated to making this law work for New Hampshire residents. Last year, I was pleased to author the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees (PACE) Act, which is the first bipartisan standalone, health-related fix to the ACA to pass both the House and the Senate, and I’m proud that the President has signed it into law. This legislation amends the ACA to allow New Hampshire and other states the option to treat employers with 51 to 100 employees as large employers for the purposes of health insurance markets, preventing potential rate increases that could have otherwise taken place. 

Furthermore, I remain concerned that some individuals have faced insurance premium increases and understand that the rising cost of health insurance is a burden on many American families and small businesses. While health insurance premiums have typically increased annually in recent years, the ACA includes provisions to rein in insurance company abuses, such as requiring insurance companies to justify extreme cost growths to the consumer and ensuring that they spend a minimum of 80 percent of premium costs on actual health care services as opposed to administrative costs.

As you know, insurance premiums are based on underlying health care costs and a number of factors such as the use of the latest, most expensive technology and our fee-for-service model of health care delivery, where quantity rather than quality is rewarded. The ACA also took important steps to address the cost of health care, and I am hopeful that as the law’s implementation progresses, its innovative reforms and cost-saving measures will result in a more efficient and less costly health care system. 

I am pleased that five insurance companies are selling insurance plans in New Hampshire’s marketplace for coverage in 2016. This will ensure that our residents have access to a broader range of hospitals and providers throughout the state. If you or someone you know is in need of assistance or information related to the health reform law, please contact my Manchester office at 603-647-7500. In addition, Covering New Hampshire is an information resource available to all Granite State residents; please visit www.coveringnewhampshire.org to get in touch with the organization. 

Please be assured that I will continue to look for commonsense ways to improve the law to help ensure that Americans have access to affordable health insurance coverage. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts with me, and please do not hesitate to contact my office with any future concerns.

 

Sincerely,

Jeanne Shaheen
United States Senator

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Dear Ferdinand,

 

Thank you for contacting my office about health care reform and the Affordable Care Act. This is one of the most important issues facing our nation and I appreciate hearing your thoughts. 

I support the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and believe that the law was a necessary step toward improving our nation’s health insurance system and broadening access to coverage for individuals in New Hampshire and throughout the country. While I believe the law should be improved, I oppose efforts to repeal or dismantle it. The law makes critical insurance reforms, such as guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26 and limiting annual out-of-pocket costs to consumers. The ACA is providing insurance options to millions of Americans who were previously uninsured, ensuring that many of them have access to health insurance for the first time. 

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects that the ACA will reduce the federal deficit over the next ten years and into the following decade. However, we must continue to focus on efficient and effective implementation of the ACA to ensure these significant savings. I am pleased that millions of Americans are receiving insurance plans through the online marketplaces, in addition to the millions nationally who have bought plans outside of the health insurance exchanges, and those who benefit from Medicaid expansion in our state. This demonstrates the ongoing need for the essential reforms that this law made. 

Although we have already seen benefits from the ACA, I am very concerned about problems that remain and I am dedicated to making this law work for New Hampshire residents. Last year, I was pleased to author the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees (PACE) Act, which is the first bipartisan standalone, health-related fix to the ACA to pass both the House and the Senate, and I’m proud that the President has signed it into law. This legislation amends the ACA to allow New Hampshire and other states the option to treat employers with 51 to 100 employees as large employers for the purposes of health insurance markets, preventing potential rate increases that could have otherwise taken place. 

Furthermore, I remain concerned that some individuals have faced insurance premium increases and understand that the rising cost of health insurance is a burden on many American families and small businesses. While health insurance premiums have typically increased annually in recent years, the ACA includes provisions to rein in insurance company abuses, such as requiring insurance companies to justify extreme cost growths to the consumer and ensuring that they spend a minimum of 80 percent of premium costs on actual health care services as opposed to administrative costs.

As you know, insurance premiums are based on underlying health care costs and a number of factors such as the use of the latest, most expensive technology and our fee-for-service model of health care delivery, where quantity rather than quality is rewarded. The ACA also took important steps to address the cost of health care, and I am hopeful that as the law’s implementation progresses, its innovative reforms and cost-saving measures will result in a more efficient and less costly health care system. 

I am pleased that five insurance companies are selling insurance plans in New Hampshire’s marketplace for coverage in 2016. This will ensure that our residents have access to a broader range of hospitals and providers throughout the state. If you or someone you know is in need of assistance or information related to the health reform law, please contact my Manchester office at 603-647-7500. In addition, Covering New Hampshire is an information resource available to all Granite State residents; please visit www.coveringnewhampshire.org to get in touch with the organization. 

Please be assured that I will continue to look for commonsense ways to improve the law to help ensure that Americans have access to affordable health insurance coverage. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts with me, and please do not hesitate to contact my office with any future concerns.

 

Sincerely,

Jeanne Shaheen
United States Senator

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CLOUD: OneDrive reduces your space

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

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Changes to OneDrive
We want to let you know about some upcoming changes to OneDrive. On July 13, 2016, the amount of storage that comes with OneDrive will change from 15 GB to 5 GB. We are also discontinuing the 15 GB camera roll bonus. You can learn more at our FAQ.
There is no action you need to take, because your OneDrive account is currently below the new storage limits. Even though you aren’t currently affected, we want to keep you updated on all important changes to OneDrive. If you’d like to check your account, you can visit the Storage page.
We realize these are big changes to a service you rely on. We want to apologize for any inconvenience they may cause you. We made a difficult decision, but it’s one that will let us sustainably operate OneDrive into the future.
Thank you for using OneDrive.

– The OneDrive Team

 

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RANT: Comcast and the Yankees

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Interesting that:

  1. Comcast competition has been advertising, that they have the YES network, reporting that Comcast dropped the YES network.
  2. Comcast has responded in advertising that they dropped it to save the Customer higher rates.
  3. The Yankees stood their ground and Comcast doesn’t have the Yankees.

Now do Comcast customers get a refund for the “missing” YES network?

Do any of the “regulators” have any interest?  (That’s a joke!)

I’m sure the Comcast contract has “mouse print” that says the Customer gets whatever Comcast feels like serving.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: The definition of DUI and the Gooferment empowering penalties

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

http://nj1015.com/feedback/

Listened to D&D (DEMINSKI & DOYLE) on 101.5 FM the other day.

And, gave them the following “feedback”. (Their webpage prevents cut’n’paste. Argh!)

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D&D on “drinking and driving”

I think the penalties are wrong and counter-productive.

First, if drinking and driving are soon bad, then my generation should have died out.

Second, “they” keep lowering the “limits” to capture more revenue. It used to be 1.25 for “DRUNKEN driving”. Now, it’s 0.80 for “DRINKING and driving”.

Third and probably worst, it confuses the definition of “crime” — something that causes death, injury, or damage to property. A driver, who is snagged for the first time in a random stop, has not hurt anyone.

Argh!

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In a short feedback square, it’s impossible to lay out what is so totally wrong about the biased question. It was designed to get folks talking about increasing the suspension time and prison time for DUI.

Argh!

Even the hosts readily and quickly admitted that their question had no chance of “solving the problem” (i.e., folks drive while on the suspended / revoked list and breath interlock devices can be bypassed).

So, let’s go into a little depth.

Historically, “Drinking and Driving” was a not a “big deal”. In fact, unless there was an accident, it wasn’t enforced.

The politicians and bureaucrats want to get into our pocketbooks to drain more wealth for their unconstitutional activities. More money is always needed!

SO let’s start with reinstating the Fourth Amendment, and end the random capricious checks for “DUI”.

If there is an accident, an injury, or Heaven Forbid a death, then there has been a crime. The accused should be tried and forced to make restitution.

If it’s just an accident with property damage, then the individual should be put on notice that the NEXT time there will be SEVERE penalties. An injury or fatality goes directly to an enhanced punishment!

For a second offense, jail time should be mandatory.

Subsequent offenses should have suitably longer imprisonment.

That will END the problem with a minimum expense to the taxpayer.

 Argh!

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LIBERTY: The REALID database is like the Social Security Number

Monday, April 11, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/mark-nestmann/can-publicans-stop-flying/

The IRS could Stop You From Flying. Here’s How…
By Mark Nestmann
Nestman.comApril 6, 2016

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Then there’s the matter of whether Real IDs will actually be, well, real. Proponents say the high-tech identity documents produced under the initiative will be tamperproof and nearly impossible to counterfeit.

But this claim is a bald-faced lie. We need to look no farther than the newest generation of US passports – those equipped with a supposedly tamperproof radio frequency ID (RFID) chip similar to the one inserted into all Real ID compliant driver’s licenses. Hackers have shown it’s almost child’s play to clone an RFID passport. Is it too much to imagine that clever hackers will similarly find a way to hack Real IDs?

But the most threatening aspect of the Real ID initiative is its creation of the equivalent of a national database to include details on 250 million licensed drivers. Each state must provide electronic access to the information contained in its motor vehicle database to all other states.

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Stopping REALID is a very important to our liberty!

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LIBERTY: The FCC is another unconstitutional out-of-control Gooferment appendage

Sunday, April 10, 2016

http://www.jasonstapleton.com/fcc-expands-its-powers-over-the-internet/

FCC Expands it’s Powers Over the Internet
By Jason Stapleton –  Apr 1, 2016

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I remember when I first warned about the FCC’s talks about regulating the internet. I took more heat for my position on that issue than any other issue we’ve discussed.  I, of course, warned everyone that this was not, as the FCC suggested, an effort to “keep the internet free” but rather was a massive power grab by the government to regulate an industry it had no business overseeing.

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Jason (correctly) points out the abuses and corruption of the FCC.

First, they are immune to Congressional oversight of their budget because they fund themselves out of the “fees” and “fines” that they themselves “legislates”. 

Second, they are “regulating” to “keep the internet free”. “barbara streisand”!

Third, they play the poor and children as proxies for their “bleeding heart” liberalism.

Argh!

No one “needs” the FCC!

It’s an unconstitutional infringement.

Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: Still believe the “official story”?

Saturday, April 9, 2016

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/04/paul-craig-roberts/boston-marathon-bomb-case/

Update on the Boston Marathon Bomb Case
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
April 1, 2016

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On April 18, 2013, the FBI identified the culprits from a private street video, showing the brothers Tsarnaev on Boylston Street prior to the explosions. Two still-frames from this street video were used in FBI posters advising the public of the identity of the suspects. These two still-frames do not clearly portray what these young men were carrying on their backs. But a third still-frame from the same street video shows Dzhokhar from the rear, carrying over his right shoulder a small, light-weight, white backpack, with no bulging or sagging as would have appeared if he had carried a heavy pressure cooker bomb as claimed by the FBI and alleged in the indictment. Because the white backpack Dzhokhar carried is not the black backpack carried by the accused bomber as stated in the indictment, Dzhokhar stands excluded as a suspect and is necessarily not guilty as charged. Alleged confessions or statements of self-incrimination introduced against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are disproved by the findings of the FBI crime lab and the street video used by the FBI to identify the culprits.  In other words, the street video shows that the backpack carried by Mr. Tsarnaev does not match and has the opposite characteristics of the backpack which the FBI crime lab determined was carried by the guilty party.  Therefore, no alleged admission of guilt by Dzhokhar can be true.

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Any fair minded individual will admit that there are a LOT of unanswered questions.

Argh!

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” —Reinhold Niebuhr

I KNOW that the “official story” is always deliberately slanted; if not deliberately deceitful!

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LIBERTY: Proper role of Gooferment

Friday, April 8, 2016

http://www.jasonstapleton.com/what-is-the-role-of-government/

What IS the Role of Government?
By Jason Stapleton –  Mar 30, 2016

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Now to be fair Trump did say that his top three were security, security, security but let’s not kid ourselves, that was a cop out, and he went on to say that healthcare and education were very important. I wonder if he can show me where in the list of enumerated powers he finds healthcare and education listed.

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While I am NOT a Trump fan, he may well be the “prettiest nag in the glue factory corral”.

It’s clear that NONE of the Republican or Democrat candidates have a clue about the proper role. 

(Spoiler alert: It’s the protection of life, liberty, and property. Equal opportunity; not equal outcomes. A level playing field where everyone can be their “best” and be secure in their “papers and property”!)

Even some of the Libertarian Party candidates get it wrong. (See they think to win they have to not be too “out there”.)

Ron Paul was 99% of a great candidate but he was labeled “crazy”.

SOoo instead, “We, The Sheeple” get more war, more welfare, more Gooferment, more “laws”, more “regulations”, more “diktats”, and more unacceptable behavior by politicians and bureaucrats!

Really, Hillary’s email, Bernie’s “free college”, and on and on and on.

Time to put a stop to the whole merry-go-round.

How?

Just refuse to consent.

Look at the “respect” that the average motorist has for “speed limits”.

It’s the reason that Alcohol Prohibition ended. “We, The Sheeple” stopped cooperating at the jury box and the ballot box.

So remember, “no victim; no crime” if you get on a jury.

And, every time you vote, make a statement!

p.s., Who said: “If  nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.”?

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/william_tecumseh_sherman_101113

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