Archive for the ‘California’ Category

Obama’s Watch: 15% of Young People Out of School and Work

Monday, October 21st, 2013

Hoax-and-Chains

(AP) Almost 6 Million young people (ages 16-24) are neither in school or working, according to a new study by The Opportunity Nation Coalition released today.

On the 18 October, I wrote here that in Los Angeles County, joblessness and poverty is a growing problem for both young people and Asian Americans during Obama’s Watch.

Other studies have shown that young adults are missing out on a window to build skills they will need later in life or use the knowledge they acquired in college. Without those experiences, they are less likely to command higher salaries and are more likely to be an economic drain on their communities.

ObamaCare: Democrats Say The Strangest Things

Sunday, October 20th, 2013

ObamaCare Rollout TeamObamaCare Rollout Team –AF Branco Cartoons

Democrats Say The Strangest Things:

Delusional Dick Durbin Mocked for Calling ObamaCare a Success

David Axlerod: “Isn’t it ironic that the most ardent opponents of the ACA are now complaining that people can’t sign up fast enough.”

–Update: ObamaCare/Covered California More Failures–

“I’ve been to the ‘Covered California’ website over 6x–none of which have worked. Website beyond buggy-its broken.”
Agent Orchid@Twitter

“My test trial w/Covered California ended in constant failure to log in. I’d be frustrated if I needed insurance. 2/2” –Ana-Maria Popescu@Twitter

“Covered California’s Website=Failure! So many f* system errors!”
Jessie@Twitter

Yicky! Democrat L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar Accused of Sexual Harassment

Saturday, October 19th, 2013

Jose Huizar LA City CouncilLos Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar –Image Courtesy: LA Weekly

(FOX News Latino) Who can forget disgraced former Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner (aka Carlos Danger) his illicit sexual escapades and lewd chats with Women via Twitter, or more recently Filthy Democrat San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, now there is yet another yicky pervert, Democrat L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar now making news for his sexually harassing, pressuring and intimidating a subordinate to engage in sex with him to keep her job and advance her career.

Francine Godoy in her sexual harassment complaint filed against Huizar with the California Dept of Fair Employment and Housing alleged that she was subjected to sexual harassment (quid pro quo and hostile work environment) and retaliated against after refusing Huizar’s advances.

While Huizar initially denied Godoy’s allegation, he later conceded that her claims were in-part true but claims they were “consensual” that he “deeply regrets.”

Riiight…regrets that he’s been exposed and that his wife and family have found out.

Isn’t it ironic that Jose Huizar on his website surrounded by his wife and four children (3 girls and a boy–what has he taught them) claims that he’s ‘proven himself a staunch advocate for educational reform and public safety…helped to create thousands of new jobs,’ (how he’s done this is anyone’s guess) as to his ‘staunch’ advocacy for public safety, Francine Godoy may think a little differently about that.

What’s up with these Democrat deviant’s War on Women, preying on subordinates for sexual favors to satisfy whatever prurient desires their small minds can imagine?

Huizar an Attorney graduated from UCLA Law School, before being elected to L.A. City Council, Huizar served as President of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) between 2003-2005 and earlier worked with the Harvard Civil Rights Project as well as being appointed to the Board of Trustees at Princeton University.

What message has this degenerate not only has sent to all of the LAUSD and Princeton University students that may have (at one time) looked up to him but to his own children?

How long will it be before California Democrats Gov Jerry Brown, Congressional Rep Nancy Pelosi, Senator’s Feinstein and Boxer call for this latest Democrat pervert to resign?

Only in Los Angeles: Democrats Propose Setting Up a Commission on Voter Apathy

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Voter Apathy

(KPCC) With many more serious problems in Los Angeles such as double digit unemployment and poverty for young adults and Asian Americans one would think that Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson formerly Democrat Speaker of the California Assembly, would have better things to do with his time than introducing a resolution this week to tackle voter apathy in citywide elections.

Democrats with maybe just a little too much time on their hands, may be looking at the low voter turnout issue all wrong. It just may be as result of no confidence in the revolving door politicians that never really leave public office such as Herb Wesson being termed out in the California Assembly in 2004 he has since, continually been a member of the city council and doesn’t seem to have any higher ambitions than the next election.

In September, Gallup released a survey that showed Americans ‘trust in the American people” to make judgments about political issues facing the nation has declined in recent years but is still considerably higher than the confidence one has in politicians.

ObamaCare/Covered California Generates Loads of Data But Keeps Number of Enrollees Under Wraps

Thursday, October 17th, 2013

Covered CaliforniaObamaCare/Covered California Down Again
Image: HangEmHigh@Twitter

(San Francisco Business Times) So two weeks in, ‘Covered California’ is piling on the statistics, releasing late on Tuesday a flurry of figures: Number of visitors to its website since ObamaCare’s roll-out; Number of calls to its call centers; Number of navigators but the one number that is peculiarly missing is, how many people have actually completed applications for coverage?

Of course one must be suspicious in the accuracy of any data provided subsequent to state officials admitting that they exaggerated lied about the actual number of visitors the website received by 10 fold, during the first day of ObamaCare’s roll out.

Related: ObamaCare/HHS Allegedly Misusing Copyrighted Software

AETNA CEO Bertolini: “So Much Wrong” With ObamaCare Exchange

Wednesday, October 16th, 2013

ObamaCare Covered CaliforniaObamaCare Internal Service Error Two Weeks and Counting
Image:
Hugo Campos@Twitter

(CNBC ) AETNA Insurance CEO Mark Bertolini on Monday, gave a critical review of ObamaCare marketplace exchange saying, “There’s so much wrong, you just don’t know whats broken until you get a lot more of it fixed.”

Asked by CNBC  if he (Bertolini) knew that the roll out of ObamaCare would be problematic, AETNA CEO Bertolini added, his giant company’s role as an alpha tester for the system gave it a sense of how many problems ObamaCare faced on the eve of its launch.

“We were pretty nervous as we got further along,” said Bertolini, “As they started missing deadlines, we were pretty convinced it was going to be a difficult launch.”

Bertolini’s fears have been realized he said and the technological debacle seen at ObamaCare is one similar to just the handful he’s witnessed over the years.

 On the 29 May, I wrote here that AETNA Insurance, together with United Health Group and CIGNA have chosen to opt out of ‘Covered California’ the nation’s largest health insurance exchange–if ObamaCare is so wonderful, why would they do this?

What do they know that you don’t?

Related: Covered Calif Isn’t Accepting my Application -JackieG@Twitter

Covered California Still Doesn’t List Doctors & Hospitals

SF Chronicle: Working Less Can Get You Huge ObamaCare Subsidy

ObamaCare Website May Open Door to Hackers Leaving Users Vulnerable to Theft of Personal Data

Tuesday, October 15th, 2013

Covered California Website WarningSafari/Apple ‘Covered California’ Website Warning
Image: 11Gear@Twitter

(Christian Science Monitor) Cybersecurity experts are voicing concerns about the ObamaCare website system that could open the door to theft of personal information adding the government site lacks defenses to prevent an attacker from putting an invisible layer over the legitimate website–as a result, a user clicking on a link or button might end up at a renegade site that looks the same.

The ObamaCare site appears not to use a feature that prevents access to cookies that are stored on a users personal computer and basic problems with the ObamaCare site could invite cybercriminals to use automated systems to hack individual accounts according to researchers at TrustedSec in Strongsville, Ohio noted that there were no features to prevent an intruder from using an automated program to try repeatedly to enter the site even if it didn’t get a login try correct.

More here Is ObamaCare Website Secure? Probably Not –TrustedSec

Related: ObamaCare Website So Bad Error Page has an Error

3.50 Years and $634 Million+ Later, Wasn’t Enough for ObamaCare Exchange

Thursday, October 10th, 2013

Covered CaliforniaObamaCare at Work in California –Image: Joel Fine/Twitter

(ARS Technica) ObamaCare hits reset button on passwords as contractors scramble–3.50 years wasn’t enough time for the Obama Administration/HHS to get the IT effort past the finishing line.

According to Digital Trends the taxpayers have spent $634,320,919.00 for ObamaCare’s broken website, which cost more than Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, a really poor expenditure of taxpayers money–a sign of things to come for government managed health care.

Related: ObamaCare Website Outdated, Costly, Buggy Technology –WaPo

H/T: Sen Mike Lee@Facebook

ObamaCare/Covered California “Glitches” Continue; Residents Complaining of Sticker Shock

Monday, October 7th, 2013

ObamaCare Covered CaliforniaObamaCare/Covered California Broken Over the Weekend Petaluma/Twitter

(Politico) The second week of ObamaCare enrollment started a lot like the first with error messages…

ObamaCare/Covered California Still Experiencing “Glitches” Monday writes EdCastagna@Twitter “I tried to register with the California ObamaCare site today. After 10+minutes the site’s server had a death panel moment.”

Related: ObamaCare California Shoppers Suffer Sticker Shock

Cry Me a River, Calif Residents Floored by ObamaCare Premium Hikes

L.A. Unified School Students Need IPad’s for State Tests, Whatever Happened to Paper & Pencil?

Friday, October 4th, 2013

Taking Test CartoonsExam Day –Cartoon: For Better or For Worse/DeAnza College

(L.A.Times) IPad’s will be necessary for Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Students to take new state standardized tests at a cost of $1 Billion–$500 Million for the tablets and an additional $500 Million for extra bandwidth and teacher training.

LAUSD is getting hosed!

Given the fact that LAUSD has seen declining enrollment and facing a $350 Million deficit I’m thinking that the Sacramento Geniuses that came up with this brainstorm may want to reconsider paper and pencil? They worked good for many years.

Just imagine how much paper and how many pencils one could buy for just .10% of $1 Billion? If businesses could advertise on them, LAUSD could even maybe get them for free?

Nah, silly me! That would just make too much sense.