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Happy 5th Birthday ObamaCare: More Than Half of Americans Don’t Like You

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

Real Clear Politics ObamaCareAccording to the Latest Real Clear Politics Average of Obama’s Signature Legislative Achievement 52.5% Americans Oppose ObamaCare

(The Daily Signal) Unfortunately for IHOP Franchiser Scott Womack who owned 12 restaurants in Ohio and Indiana with plans to expand his franchise to add 14 new locations in Ohio before ObamaCare was signed into law. Womack estimated that the Affordable Unaffordable Care Act would cost him $7,000 per full-time employee to provide health care coverage leaving him with few options:

Cut costs, eliminate staff, reduce hours or convert workers to part-time status.

Facing the prospect of ObamaCare’s  employer mandate taking effect on 01 January, 2015 Womack was forced to sell his IHOP franchise.

What are other Americans saying about ObamaCare:

  • Kristina Ribali@Twitter: “5 years after ObamaCare and my deductible went from $1,200 a year to $6,000 a year per person. Family from $6,000 to $12,000”
  • Gavin Preston, MD @Twitter: “All of my Doctor friends, except for one, have told me if they had to accept ‘Covered California’ (The ACA exchange) payments, out of business.”
  • Covered California@Facebook:  Elena Furlan Ross writes: “Covered California is a SCAM!! I paid $416 monthly premium, I went to the doctor, paid my copay and the doctor sent me a bill for $1225 because COVERED CALIFORNIA denied the claim! Do not buy Covered California, Do not waste your money, you will receive no health coverage.”
  • Nabeel Amin@Twitter: “Left with no coverage in an urgent situation courtesy @CoveredCA and @BlueShieldCA with no recourse or responsibility.”
  • Nabeel Amin@Twitter: “…@CoveredCA 5 hours of non-stop calls and all they can say is we don’t know why your account was terminated.”

Related: Ask Emily: ObamaCare Adds More Pain to Taxes –OC Register

Covered California Sends 120K Corrected Tax Forms Thousands Still Wait

Insurance Choices Dwindle in Rural California as Blue Shield Pulls Back

Another Obama Foreign Policy Failure… Now the White House Wants a Nuke Deal With Iran

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

Obama YemenFlashback Video: Remember in September when Obama Called Yemen’s
War on Terror a Success Story
and the Taxpayers Gave Them
Wasted $800 Million Since 2011 –Image Courtesy:
Shannon Knutsen

Obama Iran NukesNow Obama has His Sights on a Nuke Deal With Islamic Fascist Iran
What Could Possibly Go Wrong With That?

While Obama & Kerry Push Forward on Deal With Iran, Khamenei Leads ‘Death to America’ Chant

Sunday, March 22nd, 2015

Iran KhameneiIran’s Grand Islamic Fascist Wizard Ayatollah Khamenei

(Rueters) Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khameni on Saturday rejected Obama’s and Secy of State John Kerry’s claims that Tehran will be pressured and give into the demands of the United States and other Western nations.

Amid shouts of ‘Death to America’ Kahameni said in his speech in Northeastern Iran: “Of course yes, Death to America because America is the original source of this pressure. They insist on putting pressure on our dear peoples economy. What is their goal? Their goal is to put the people against the system.”

Khamenei challenged a message to Iranians by Obama in Fasrsi on Thursday in which Obama said the nuclear talks represented the best opportunity in decades to pursue relationship between the two countries.

In related news, ‘Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran’ is reporting this morning that Roozbeh Karamjani, who has been imprisoned for insulting the Grand Islamic Wizard Khamenei leadership, has been transferred to Ward 6 of Rajai Shahr Prison for informing the media of his condition.

Ward 6 of Rajai Shahr Prison is one of the most unsanitary wards of the prison where the most dangerous prisoners with heavy sentences are kept.

Related: New Wave of Mass Executions & Repressive Actions by Iran

Where’s the Moral Outrage by Feminists & Dems? Proposed Iranian Laws are Setback for Women

Saturday, March 21st, 2015

Islamic Women...Islam #1 Abuser of Women & Children Worldwide -Image: Salt & Light

(VOA) Proposed new laws in Obama’s peace-partner Islamic Fascist Iran, would restrict Women’s access to contraceptives and jobs, according to a new report issued this month by Amnesty International.

The human rights watchdog has expressed alarm by two bills moving through Iran’s parliament (which the Obama Administration and Hillary Clinton have been silent about, I digress) that aim to arrest the rouge regimes plunging birth rate and declining population–which would make Iranian Women, little more than baby-making factories.

“The Iranian authorities are trying to, first of all, ban voluntary female sterilization, which is interestingly the second most common method of birth-control in Iran after pills,” said Raha Bahreini, Amnesty Intl Iran’s researcher. “They are also restricting access to information about sexual reproductive health and specifically methods of contraception.”

The new laws would also ban vasectomies.

Such restrictions could have far-reaching consequences for Iranian Women, Bahreini said.

Amnesty Intl also said a second proposed law would entrench sexual discrimination of Women by giving priority for job vacancies to Men and to Women who already have children–Young Women without children would be at the bottom of the pile.

“That means Women will be further excluded from the labor market in Iran…Also it tries to make divorce more difficult to obtain. Women already face lots of obstacles in getting divorced and they do not have equal divorce rights as Men, said Bahreini.

Iran’s objective is to combat a declining and aging population but the policies would incur additional short-term economic pain, according to Shereen Hussein, a demographer and senior researcher fellow at King’s College London.

Mr. Obama: Please Explain Why Americans Should Have Any Confidence in Your Negotiations With Islamic Fascist Iran?

Friday, March 20th, 2015

Obama IranObama Praises Iran’s Mullahs In Direct Message to the Islamic Fascist
Regime with Farsi Subtitles
–Image: Expose Liberals@Twitter

Christian Persecution in Iran(MRCTV) Iran’s Imprisonment of Christians Nearly Doubled in Past Year
Image: RezaIranien@Twitter

Bibi Netanyahu Hands Obama Humiliating Defeat

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

BIBI Wins(JPost) In a Victory Speech, Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Says he Will Seek a Strong Stable Govt –Image: AFP/Yahoo

Flashback: On the 28 January, I wrote here that the Obama Administration via the U.S. State Dept funded a group to oust Israel PM Netanyahu, hiring former ‘Team Obama’ national field director Jeremy Bird who had taken up office space in Tel Aviv according to IMRA earlier in January.

The White House won’t be uncorking champagne bottles tonight.

In February Obama Told Vox.com “We Should Welcome China’s Peaceful Rise” Meanwhile…

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

China Jails Journalists(Forbes) A Third of All Journalists Imprisoned Globally are
Being Held by the China Regime & Islamic Fascist Iran

China Human Rights Defenders Releases Its Annual Report on Human Rights Abuses

Monday, March 16th, 2015

Silencing the Messenger...China Regime Have Detained More Than 200 Human Rights Activists and Supporters of Hong Kong Freedom Revolution  –Image: CHRD@Twitter

China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) experienced unusual severe reprisal in 2014 according to its annual report — Silencing the Messenger: 2014 Annual Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in China CHRD asserts that the governments persecution of of human rights defenders and activists in 2014 was as severe as it has been since since the 1980s

On the 11 November I wrote here about Obama assuring China regime dictator Xi Jinping that the White House had no involvement in promoting Freedom & Democracy in Hong Kong — In February I wrote here that Obama claimed in an interview with Vox.com that, ‘We should welcome China’s peaceful rise,’ no matter how imaginary and unbelievably naive on Obama’s part that is.

The China regime has launched relentless and aggressive assaults on fundamental liberties to tighten its stranglehold in rapidly shrinking space for civil society, targeting Human Rights Activists.

More here from CHRD

State Dept IG: During Hillary Clinton’s Watch, Agency Only Preserved 0.00006% Emails

Wednesday, March 11th, 2015

State Dept Hillary Clinton(Daily Beast) During Former Secy of State Hillary Clinton’s Watch
State Dept Employees Only Preserved 0.00006% of Emails
as Required by Federal Law –Image: Ward Lyon

U.S. State Dept Inspector General reported on Wednesday, out of more than 1 Billion emails created, agency employees only preserved 61,156 records in 2011 because employees did “not want to make the email(s) available in searches.”

In 2009 an upgrade in the U.S. State Dept’s system facilitated  the preservation of emails as official records however under Hillary Clinton’s watch, agency employees did not receive  adequate training or guidance of the responsibilities for using the systems to preserve “record emails” the government’s watchdog said–even though,”every employee in the department has the responsibility of preserving emails that should be retained as official records,’ the IG report added.

Related: AP Sues State Dept Seeking Access to Hillary Clinton’s Records

Overzealous China Regime Education Officials May Ban All Foreign Books, Literature Scholar Fears

Thursday, March 5th, 2015

China Censorship...

China Censorship
Image:
David Mulroney@Twitter

(SCMP) A Chinese literature scholar fears overzealous China regime education officials could ban all foreign textbooks following a call by the Education Minister (Yuan Guiren) for tougher ideological controls.

“Once the top official speaks, local officials in charge of implementing his directives often get carried away” trying to impress their superiors. This could lead them to implement a blanket ban on all foreign textbooks, said Wang Benchao, Dean of Southwest Univ School of Literature on Wednesday.

Yuan also reportedly told universities to free classrooms from remarks that ‘defame the rule of the Communist Party, smear Socialism,’ or violate the China regime’s so called constitutional liberties and laws.

In December I wrote here that subsequent to Michelle Obama’s ‘Mooch Trip’ to China promoting student educational exchanges, China President Xi Jinping called for greater ‘ideological guidance’ (propagandizing) students at universities saying:

Universities have to “shoulder the burden of learning and researching the dissemination of Marxism” calling on authorities to step up the totalitarian party’s ‘leadership and guidance’ in universities as well as to ‘strengthen and improve the ideological and political work’ as the country tighten control of Western values.

Flashback: Following Obama’s trip in November to the APEC Summit in Beijing and his call for a free and open Internet, China Digital Times reported the China regime issued a directive to all media forbidding them to report on Obama’s appeal.

Wang Benchao said it wasn’t realistic for universities to scrutinize every utterance an instructor made, “If we recorded all classes or asked students to file complaints, about defamatory speech, teachers wound not dare to say anything but the words printed in textbooks.”