RANT: Making it up as we go?

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Obama Delays Health-Insurance Requirement for Some Employers
A batch of employers won’t face a fine next year if they fail to provide health insurance to their workers, the Obama administration said Monday.

In regulations outlining the Affordable Care Act, the Treasury Department said employers with between 50 and 99 full-time workers won’t have to comply with the law’s requirement to provide insurance or pay a fee until 2016.

Companies with 100 workers or more could avoid penalties in 2015 if they showed they were offering coverage to at least 70% of their full-time workers, Treasury said.

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POLITICAL: “New” Federal “Rights”

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Same-Sex Spouses to Get New Federal Rights

The Obama administration will give same-sex couples who are legally married the same status as other married couples in federal legal matters—including bankruptcy proceedings, prisoner visitation and death benefits for slain police officers, Attorney General Eric Holder said.

The Justice Department, Mr. Holder said, would issue new instructions to its employees on Monday to extend the same protections historically afforded to heterosexual married couples. He made the announcement at a speech in New York to the Human Rights Campaign, a major gay-rights advocacy group.

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Excuse me, but “rights” don’t come from the Gooferment!

“Rights”, which the Gooferment grants, can be taken away just as quickly!

Argh!

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RANT: Debt Ceiling; what joke!

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

House Votes to Suspend Debt Ceiling Until March 2015
The House voted to suspend the nation’s borrowing limit until March 16, 2015, without any policy conditions, a tactical retreat by Republicans stymied by their internal divisions.

The bill cleared the House in a 221-201 vote, relying on the support of a majority of Democrats and pushing the next debate over the issue until after the 2014 midterm elections. Most Republicans opposed the debt-ceiling suspension, which came to the floor without any of the policy proposals they hoped would sweeten its sting for conservatives.

The measure now heads to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where leaders have expressed optimism it will soon pass.

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Hope all the youngsters appreciate being screwed! 

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GUNS: An armed robber killed by the RKBA

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

http://bearingarms.com/sc-homeowner-kills-armed-robber-armed-with-stun-gun/

SC Homeowner kills armed robber armed with stun gun
Posted by Bob Owens on February 9, 2014 at 12:21 pm

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A sad result, but good for the homeowner.

This is the second effect of the RKBA!

The primary reason is to keep the Gooferment, politicians, and bureaucrats in check.

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POLITICAL: OBAMACARE nukes incentives

Monday, February 10, 2014

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304680904579367143880532248

The Economist Who Exposed ObamaCare
The Chicago professor examined the law’s incentives for the poor not to get a job or work harder, and this week Beltway budgeteers agreed.
By JOSEPH RAGO CONNECT
Feb. 7, 2014 6:30 p.m. ET

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Another way of putting it is that taking away benefits has the same effect as a direct tax, so lower-income workers are discouraged from climbing the income ladder by working harder, logging extra hours, taking a promotion or investing in their future earnings through job training or education.

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The bad news just keeps rolling in.

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LIBERTARIAN: MYOB & fiscally conservative and socially liberal

Sunday, February 9, 2014

http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2014/02/rise-of-the-libertarians-10-reasons-why-slate-salon-and-the-progressive-media-are-afraid/

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/rise-of-the-libertarians

Rise of the Libertarians, 10 reasons why Slate, Salon and the progressive media are afraid
By Nick Sorrentino on February 7, 2014

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1. Libertarianism is the new “center.” At the risk of raising the hackles of the hyperanalytical, consider this: Most people think of Ds as being on the left and Rs as being on the right. Remember: It’s about popular perceptions. And when we think in terms of those perceptions, most people think of Rs as being fiscally and socially conservative and Ds as being fiscally and socially liberal. The old center was once about being either squishy in both departments, or about being fiscally liberal and socially conservative. But a new “center” is emerging. As people become disaffected with all the bad economic policies of the Obama administration and all of the preachy moralisms of the Republican status quo, most are gravitating to a position that looks decidedly more libertarian—that is, fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

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It’s even more fundamental than that: I don’t want to pay for anything I don’t want. And, I don’t care what you do as long as you don’t hurt anyone else.

Golden Rule: I want you to be as free as I want to be.

Argh!

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RANT: Leno Wrap; me too

Saturday, February 8, 2014

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/02/07/jay-leno-wraps-his-the-tonight-show-run-with-14-6-million-viewers/235483/?utm_campaign=WP%20%3E%20Twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

Jay Leno Wraps his ‘The Tonight Show’ Run With 14.6 Million Viewers; Most Since 1998
Categories: 1-Featured,Late Night TV Ratings,Network TV Press Releases

Written By Sara Bibel
February 7th, 2014

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Well, that’s a late night wrap for me. No reason to stay up late now.

But then, NBC wasn’t after the fat old white guy injineer demographic anyway.

Argh!

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FUN: Huge Bear Surprises Crew

Friday, February 7, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eryxAcsTcOA

Huge Bear Surprises Crew on EcoBubble Photo Shoot in BC

Check out what happened to this crew on a photoshoot for the EcoBubble washing machine. They were near Manning Park, BC.

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INTERESTING: Goal-Setting Limits

Thursday, February 6, 2014

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/02/05/oliver-burkeman-antidote-plans-uncertainty/

Stop Making Plans: How Goal-Setting Limits Rather Than Begets Our Happiness and Success
by Maria Popova

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The effectualists include the cook who scours the fridge for leftover ingredients; the chemist who figured out that the insufficiently sticky glue he had developed could be used to create the Post-it note; or the unhappy lawyer who realises that her spare-time photography hobby, for which she already possesses the skills and the equipment, could be turned into a job. One foundation of effectuation is the “bird in hand” principle: “Start with your means. Don’t wait for the perfect opportunity. Start taking action, based on what you have readily available: what you are, what you know and who you know.” A second is the “principle of affordable loss”: Don’t be guided by thoughts of how wonderful the rewards might be if you were spectacularly successful at any given next step. Instead — and there are distinct echoes, here, of the Stoic focus on the worst-case scenario — ask how big the loss would be if you failed. So long as it would be tolerable, that’s all you need to know. Take that next step, and see what happens.

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I find this fascinating. Perhaps one can succeed without a plan?

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POLITICAL: Gooferment rules apply universally, automatically, and unavoidably

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

http://www.strike-the-root.com/rules

Column by Paul Hein.

Exclusive to STR

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The fact that certain rules, of, say, a sport, or a social organization, no longer apply to you does not mean that you are thereby exempted from ordinary ethical and moral behavior. It only means that you have separated yourself from the organization whose rules you formerly voluntarily accepted.

Ah, all except one organization: government. Our Rulers assume that you are on their team, and subject to their rules, which they have drawn up, and frequently modify. The Cardinals, or Ford, or the Knights of Columbus can draw up whatever rules they want, and change them as they see fit, but so what? If you don’t belong to those organizations, it’s moot, as far as you’re concerned.

But the rules laid down by the Rulers, which they call “law,” are thought, as least by the Rulers, to apply universally, automatically, and unavoidably. And any attempts at withdrawal will be dealt with severely: consider the Confederacy.

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Yup, the King’s subjects: have to pay for “services” they don’t want, can’t use, and can’t afford!

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