115th Annual “Golden Dragon Parade” Chinatown Los Angeles
Image: Johnny Stark@Twitter
Chinatown Los Angeles ‘115th Golden Dragon Parade’ Saturday
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Everyone Had a Spectacular Time at the Chinatown Los Angeles “115th Golden Dragon Parade”
Saturday, February 1st, 2014
Everyone Had a Spectacular Time Today at the “Golden Dragon Parade” Images Courtesy: Reinn@FoursquareNancy Pelosi Claims Republicans are Driven by an “Ideological Extreme Sect”
Friday, January 31st, 2014
(Newsmax) Meet some of the ‘Tea Party’ Patriots that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calls an “Ideological Extreme Sect”
Image Courtesy: Cowgirl Moon@Twitter
Covered California How Are Things Going Now? Still Having Troubles Huh…
Friday, January 31st, 2014
“Been trying to apply for ‘Covered California’ all morning and it keeps kicking me off…No fun.” –Caroline Corrigan@Twitter“Shocking report out with new questions on ‘Covered California’ and how you might be putting your ID safety at risk.” Shannon Brinias@Twitter
Dozens of ‘Covered California’ Employees Have Criminal Pasts –CBS Sacramento
What Others Are Saying…Covered California@Facebook
Michael Kitano “Is anybody still getting an error message when trying to login? Its been a week now…”
Gypsy R. Hartman from Los Angeles “I received a ‘Case Number’ for a plan I don’t recognize! I’ve contacted ‘Covered California’ online–6 days ago (still awaiting that 48 hour response) and I also faxed ‘Covered California’ My ‘Covered California’ agent who signed me up with another plan, says he has no idea what it is….Covered California why don’t you help anyone????”
Robert Lassers from Los Angeles “Covered CA who is running this insane program. So frustrated being on hold for hours. I am soooo frustrated…I have not received a bill for coverage, don’t know if I should cancel my other expensive insurance because I think I am covered with this program. I am in purgatory.”
Robert Finch from Tahoma “I can’t afford $500/month with a $5000 deductible. Who decided to call this affordable?”
Sabru Ha from Los Angeles “I’ve submitted my application with the required documents (online) since December of last year and still haven’t gotten a word from your agency.”
Gabby Plascencia “Any more disappointed. I have attempted to enroll at least 3 times this year only to walk away frustrated and angry. Every time I press the submit button–I keep getting ‘administrative error’ tonight alone, I have attempted and failed to submit the remainder of my application 7 times with no success! I was on hold on your help line for 30 minutes only to get cut off…shame on us. Facebook whose purpose is no where as important as health coverage…can imagine the kind of volume yet we can’t make a page that does not crash!!!”
Cindy Appel “16 total hours on hold over past two weeks waiting on hold with both ‘Covered California’ and Anthem Blue Cross. Still can’t get a person. No response from either party to emails. I just want to pay and start my coverage but I’m still not in the system. Jan 28th has passed. I need to go to the doctor. Somebody out there please help me. Developing nations do this better than us.”
Chela Pollard “I got my card finally from Anthem but there was no policy with it, so my doctor doesn’t know what tests or meds to order. Any suggestions? It is impossible to get through on the phone and the online site keeps telling me that I’ve entered the wrong phone number when I try to contact them. Thanks.”
ObamaCare/Covered California Indoctrination Center Shows Up at Grant High School Van Nuys
Thursday, January 30th, 2014
There Doesn’t Appear to be Much Interest in ObamaCare/Covered California at Grant H.S. in Van Nuys –Image: Griselda Vargas@Twitter
If Not For Gov Jerry Brown’s Man-Made Drought
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
California’s Man-Made Drought Moderate to Exceptional –NOAA@Twitter
(CBS San Francisco) As California Gov Jerry Brown’s man-made drought continues, farmers in the San Joaquin Valley fear federal officials may seize water in the San Luis Reservoir intended for their crops.
In 2009 the Wall Street Journal reported thanks to EPA regulations designed to protect the likes of the 3″ long delta smelt, one of America’s premier agricultural regions is suffering from a drought made worse by federal regulations.
California’s persistent drought crisis while made worse in 2009 in large measure may be attributed to Atty General Jerry Brown disastrous environmental law suits to save the mountain yellow legged frog to increasing regulations and prohibitive costs on big construction projects that have over the years, created wealth, prosperity, and opportunities, making peoples lives better.
If not for California’s wacky environmentalist policies and want for more regulations, the state may have instead invested for the future, constructing life-saving desalination plants such as Israel’s Sorek Desalination Plant which provides 26,000 cubic meters or 7 million gallons of clean potable water every hour, to over 1.5 million people.
Similar desalination projects along the California coast line, would forever prevent future man-made water crisis’s.
Res Ipsa Loquitur
Tuesday, January 28th, 2014
Res Ipsa Loquitur –Image Courtesy: Tim Donnelly for Governor Team Obama/OFA California Goofiest Ad of the Day
Monday, January 27th, 2014
Hurry & RSVP ‘Organizing for Action’ Advertising ‘State of the Union’ Party –Image: OFA California@Twitter
In the alternative, Greg Gutfeld’s ‘Drinking Game for the SOTU’ may be a whole lot more enjoyable.
Obama’s Los Angeles $500 Million “Promise Zone” Political Pay-Back, Graft and Cronyism
Sunday, January 26th, 2014
(LA Observed) The news that President Obama is pumping cash from his latest big government, anti-poverty initiative in Los Angeles (to projects only north of the Santa Monica Fwy) hasn’t been setting well with some.
Los Angeles “Promise Zones” of Pico-Union, Westlake, Hollywood, East Hollywood and Koreatown, now qualify for $500 Million of federal bailout money over 10 years but why?
Upon investigation,one has learned that a group called ‘Youth Policy Institute’ (YPI) located in Hollywood and run by Dixon Slingerland, that received the Obama “Promise Zones” grant money, has been a big money contributor to Mayor Eric Garcetti’s political career since 2002
Slingerland has likewise was big money bundler for ‘Team Obama’ since 2007 according to the Daily Caller raising $744,000 in political contributions and has also contributed over $44,000 in 2012 according to Campaign Money.com to other Democrats, these include: Hillary Clinton, California Congressional Rep’s Howard Berman, Janice Hahn and Tony Cardenas, DNC Chair & Florida Congressional Rep Debbi Wasserman-Schultz and to the Obama Victory Fund.
Why am I not surprised that Obama’s “Promise Zone” Los Angeles grant money is nothing more than ‘political pay-back’ to ‘Team Obama’ and Democrats big money contributors.
Flashback: Remember George Kaiser, Billionaire ‘Team Obama’ donor and chief investor of now bankrupt Solyndra which cost taxpayers some $528 Million in Obama’s $9 Billion ‘Green Energy’ scheme.
Covered California How Are Things Going Now? Still Not So Good, Huh…
Saturday, January 25th, 2014
Ken Lenga@Twitter “Absolutely pathetic, ‘Covered CA’ glad I have nothing better to do for the next 22:52”
Mpaulaoliveira@Twitter “TERRIBLE experience with @CoveredCA supposed to wait over 1h in queue to reset password??? 1-877-phone occupied? OMG.”Kangavari@Twitter “The wait times for your hotline are a joke–said 30 minutes been on for an hour and twenty. Can’t login to my account either.”
AMomster@Twitter “No health insurance ID yet. Paid over 2 months ago. Still getting letters saying I haven’t paid. @CoveredCA”
What Others Are Saying to CoveredCalifornia@Facebook
Edna Pontellier “I never succeeded in getting anyone on the phone. I made another futile attempt at ‘live chat’ tonight. Not only do you get dropped after 90 minutes of waiting, the option to fill out an online form to submit always ALWAYS fails…”
Brennan King Cane “Not great news about Orange County’s Medi-Cal provider.”
Federal Regulators Fault OC’s CalOptima –Orange County Register
Mike Reaume “Have you noticed there is not one positive post on this entire page? Peter Lee are you listening?”
Victoria Hicks Castellaccio “Thanks for taking more money out of my families pocket. My new ObamaCare plan from Kaiser is costing us $6100 for my impending birth. Under my old NON-ObamaCare plan, the same delivery would have been $250 a day! Kaiser is telling me they can’t upgrade the plan and save $5500 because YOU won’t let them. Is this true? You won’t help save a family $5500? Who are you helping?”
Richard Dickman “My wife received her Anthem BC card eff 1-1-2014 couple of weeks ago. Paid Anthem online…I believe we are covered. Yesterday I got a letter from ‘Covered CA’ wanting birth certificate and SSN card and that we have 90 days, what gives? We were both born and raised here in California and all that info was given previous plus we mailed ‘twice’ income verification…So my question is, do we disregard the letter from ‘Covered CA’ on 1-17 or respond? Will this jeopardize our coverage with Anthem? I don’t want to send more personal info that they already have and have it floating around somewhere, especially with this Target mess…”
Danny Marks from Los Angeles “Are experiencing issues with your site–I have been trying to apply for weeks and continue to get system errors and got this when I tried to chat with someone.”
Covered California “Hi Danny: Our online chat isn’t working for everyone right now; If you need to contact us call 1-800….If you’re still getting that error, trying logging in with a different browser or making sure your browser is fully up to date.”
Danny Marks from Los Angeles “Excellent suggestion only that every time I call that number it tells me you are experiencing a high volume of calls and to use the website and then hangs up.”
Loic Conte from Los Angeles “Am I the only one to not being able to create only 1 household member? I always have to complete information for 2 members both with my name? Like if I was 2 people! Please help.”
Kevin Gambetti “Because of lies told to me by ‘Covered California’ I may lose everything. I’m disabled and now they forced me on Medi-Cal which does not support my doctors and they refused to let me get and pay for my own plan that would let me keep my doctors and save my life. I think this is to kill off the sick and old, really…”
Maureen O’Brien “Fix your system!!! I qualified and was approved for financial assistance when I applied in December through ‘Covered California’ and even paid my first month premium with ‘Blue Shield’ and received my ‘Welcome’ packet and ID card–only to get a letter from ‘Covered California’ last week inexplicably stating that I now don’t qualify for assistance and that my ObamaCare policy will be canceled in 90 days!!!! No one answers your Help Line to explain this snafu. Stop all the hype and start getting your act together Covered California!!!! Even your above link doesn’t work. What is going on????”
Mimi Ahmadi from Beverly Hills “I get ObamaCare but most of doctors, clinics and hospitals they don’t accept…I had Blue Cross PPO and right now I have Blue Shield…they say they don’t accept because they don’t pay good, unfortunately since last two weeks my shoulder and neck was painful and I had to do X-Ray and MRI and they don’t accept. I pay $107 for this insurance, I have cancer. I worry about that if this insurance doesn’t work what can I do.”
Covered California Gets Another $155M from the American Taxpayers to Produce More Stupid Ads
Friday, January 24th, 2014
‘Covered California’ Did Batman Arrange for People to Lose Their Health Plans and Doctors Despite Mayor of Gotham Pledge to the Contrary?’
Hugh Hewitt@Twitter
Another Stupid ‘Covered California’ Ad How is This Going to Convince Anyone to Run Out and Buy ObamaCare?
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Lots of Empty Chairs at ‘Covered California’ Forum Hosted by the SCV Democrat Action Alliance –Image: Assemblyman Scott Wilk@Twitter
(Business Journals) ‘Covered California’ received another $155 Million this week from the American taxpayers which is to be used for more outreach and marketing.
On the 17 January, I wrote here following the absurd ‘Covered California’ Richard Simmons Dance Shake-a-Thon, if ObamaCare is so good, why are we wasting taxpayers money on stupid marketing and advertisement campaigns, wouldn’t ObamaCare sell itself?