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Obama Coming to Southern California Again

Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

Obama Looking For A Handout

(Hollywood Reporter) President Obama will be in Los Angeles again for the umpteenth time on the 09 September for what is being dubbed as an “Off the Cuff” roundtable with his elitist friends willing to shell out $32,400 per guest organized by the Democratic Natl Committee.

In July, the Washington Examiner reported President Obama already the most traveled Chief Executive is expected to run up Air Force One travel costs alone of at least $24 Million this year alone–the most updated figure on the cost per hour of operating Air Force One is $179,750 but its not Obama’s money.

Update: Obama Cancels L.A. Trip to Lobby Congress in Support Al-Qaeda

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Glendale Unified School District Hires Company to Spy on Student’s Social Media Posts

Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

Social Media Spies –Image: Cyber Guardian Online

(CBS Los Angeles) The Glendale Unified School District has hired a Hermosa Beach company at a cost of $40,500 a year, to monitor 13,000 student’s social media posts claiming, its for the kid’s to prevent them from hurting themselves or someone else.

Riiight…

On 06 March, 2012 the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a law suit under the caption of R.S. et al -v- Minnewaska School District et al, USDC Minnesota over invasion of a student’s privacy on the grounds that the student’s Civil Rights were violated by the school district and the Pope County Sheriff’s Dept in two separate instances involving Facebbok.

The ACLU Minnesota Executive Director Charles Samuelson argued, “Student’s don’t shed their First Amendment Rights at the school house gate, (see: Tinker -v- Des Moines, 393 U.S. 503 (1969)) yet schools like Minnewaska seem to have no regard for that standard.”

Who actually believes that the Glendale Unified School District will be any more consciousness than the Obama Administration’s NSA when it comes to privacy?

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ObamaCare Hard Sell in California Still Developing Strategy, Navigators Target Low Income Families

Monday, August 26th, 2013

ObamaCare California Navigators –Image: John C. Stires

(LA Daily News) ObamaCare is a hard sell especially in California and with the state’s healthcare exchange scheduled to open in just 37 days supporters are becoming desperate.

Covered California spokesman Larry Hicks said in an email, Our community outreach educators (ObamaCare Navigators/Monitors) were chosen from a variety of organizations that know their communities inside and out and from all income levels.

Many of the organizations that received some of the $37 Million in grants to sell ObamaCare in California to the public (If its so good, why are people not beating down the door wanting to sign-up? –I digress) are traditionally focused on low income populations.

For the first time in their careers of social work (ObamaCare Navigators–Monitors, Outreach Workers) some 2,200 must reach a population in many way more skeptical of “reform” than the poor: California’s ethnically diverse working and middle class.

“The target group is difficult. We’re still trying to develop a strategy on how to reach this community,” said Wendy Zheng.”We mainly target lower income families–looking for a population up to 400% higher than the federal poverty level.”

Should people not sign-up for ObamaCare, they’ll be hit with a tax penalty of $95 per individual–$285 per family or 1% of their income whatever is greater. By 2015 the tax penalty rises to $695 per individual–$2,085 per family or 2.5% of their income.

Good luck in collecting them tax penalties from the ‘ObamaCare target group’ in a tough California economy with health insurance rates expecting to rise from 64% to 146% during a deepening jobless crisis across the state.

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Obamanomics California: 850 More Job Losses as Orchard Supply Hdwr Announces 17 Store Closings

Saturday, August 17th, 2013

Obamanomics: Jobs & Hoops –California Political Review

(LA Daily News) Seventeen more stores are being shuttered in California subsequent to the bankruptcy sale of Orchard Supply Hardware, company officials confirmed yesterday throwing some 850 more people out of work as the state’s joblessness worsens ticking up to 8.7% in July from 8.5% during the previous month.

On Thursday I wrote here that San Jose based Cisco Systems announced this week that they’ll be laying off 4,000 employees or about 5% of their workforce.

In July, President Obama pivoted on job’s for the 19th time since taking office, while almost simultaneously defending his dismal economic record in Illinois before heading to of all places Los Angeles this month for his latest appearance on the Jay Leno Show where Obama claimed there are a lot of ‘good economic trends’ during his watch.

Unemployment & Underemployment Remain High in California

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California Recovery? What Economic Recovery? Cisco Systems to Layoff 4,000 Employees

Thursday, August 15th, 2013

California Unemployment –Chicks On The Right

(Bloomberg/Businessweek) San Jose based Cisco Systems announced yesterday that they will be cutting 4,000 employees–about 5% of its workforce.

On the 30 July, I wrote here that employees of the San Onofre Power Plant learned that 900 of them would be laid-off by Labor Day.

All of this dismal economic news is occurring while Obama claims that the economy is improving, as personal income dropped 5.3% during the first quarter of 2013 and California lenders filed 25,747 notices of default between April and June, an increase of 38.7% from the previous quarter.

H/T: California Political News

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Zero People Show Up at Obama’s OFA Climate Change Rally at the Georgetown Waterfront

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

Zero People Show Up at Obama’s ‘Organizing For Action’ Climate Change Rally Today at the Georgetown Waterfront –Phil Lerpen/Twitter

(Conservative Happenings) Not a single person showed up at the Georgetown Waterfront today for a climate change agenda event put on by Obama’s shadowy ‘Organizing For Action’ group.

This embarrassing showing follows the news earlier this month that only one person showed up at OFA’s ObamaCare event in Virginia and just six people attended an ObamaCare Focus Group in July in Los Angeles.

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L.A. to San Francisco in Less Than 30 Minutes? What About the G-Force Effect on Humans?

Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

This May Take You From L.A. to San Francisco in Less Than 30 Min –ABC

L.A. to San Francisco in 30 Minutes Inventor Elon Musks Hyperloop –Image: Wall Street Journal/Twitter

(WSJ) Billionaire Inventor Elon Musk unveiled his design plans yesterday for what he has dubbed the ‘Hyperloop’ a futuristic solar-powered vehicle that promises to zip people between cities at super sonic speeds.

Lacking is a discussion on the effects of G-Forces (the measure of velocity of an object that is accelerating) that would be exerted on a given passenger traveling in a pod like device at 760 mph

Pardon my skepticism but I will believe it when I see it.

More here Acceleration That Would Kill a Human –The Physics Factbook

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Lies, Damned Lies: Obama Claims Health Ins Will Be “Significantly Cheaper” Under ObamaCare

Friday, August 9th, 2013

ObamaCare Premiums on the Rise –Image: Rep Trey Radel/Twitter

(Weekly Standard) At today’s White House Press Conference, President Obama claimed that health insurance plans offered under ObamaCare will be ‘significantly cheaper’ than plans currently on the market but a string of recent reports says that just isn’t true.

“What happens on October 1, in 53 days, is for the remaining 15 percent of the population that doesn’t have health insurance, they’re going to be able to go to a website or call up a call center and sign up for affordable, quality health insurance at a significantly cheaper rate than what they can get now on the individual market,” Obama said.

Not true, as CNN reported this week, rates will be 35% higher in Florida and 41% higher in the State of Ohio on average under ObamaCare.

In California, major health insurers such as Anthem Blue Cross and a growing list of companies are exiting the state’s health insurance exchange where health insurance rates are forecast to to increase by as much as 146% and to keep premiums from rising even higher insurers will be limiting access to doctors and hospitals some facts which President Obama conveniently left out of today’s lecture.

On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that insurance companies “have already warned small business customers that premiums could rise 20% or more under the ~~affordable~~ unaffordable care act.”

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Public School Advocate Matt Damon Claims Has No Choice But to Send His Children to Private School

Thursday, August 8th, 2013

Matt Damon School Choice

(Reason) Matt Damon is moving to Los Angeles, when he arrives, he’ll be sending his own children to private school–no biggie???

In 2011, Damon took on FOX News reporter Michelle Fields over public school teachers, claiming that he was a strong advocate for the public school system.

Hypocrite: Fast forward two years and Damon tells The Guardian that he didn’t have a choice about educational options because public schools are not ‘progressive’ enough.

Michelle Fields reacted on FOX News/Hannity on Wednesday saying, “Actually yes, he (Matt Damon) did have a choice. The people who don’t have a choice are the rest of Americans who don’t have Matt Damon’s bank account and can’t afford to send them (their children) to private school.”

Damon has been critical of various aspects on modern public schooling, including the focus on testing and quantitative measures of success but has been vehemently opposed to alternative providers (especially those capitalists that dare to make a profit) saying that he’ll continue to cheer public education—for other peoples children.

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Obama on NBC ‘The Tonight Show’ With Jay Leno, Had the President Fessed Up…

Wednesday, August 7th, 2013

Obama on the “Tonight Show” with Jay Leno –Charley Canucky/Twitter

(Politico) During President Obama’s interview with Jay Leno on Tuesday, Obama claimed, “The unemployment rate has been ticking down and housing is improving. We’ve seen the deficit cut in half…So there are a lot of good trends.”

Huh?

On the 02 August I wrote here that just 953,000 jobs have been created in 2013 of those 731,000 are part-time–Likewise personal income has dropped 5.3% during the first quarter of this year–Is this what President Obama touting as a great success of his economic policies?

What about record poverty levels, Hispanic unemployment rate of 9% and youth unemployment over 16% which President Obama conveniently failed to address again when cheering what he sees as “good trends” during his watch.

One in every 324 of all U.S. housing units received a foreclosure filing in the 2nd Qtr 2013 according to Business Insider and in California lenders filed 25,747 notices of default between April and June which was up 38.7% from the previous quarter–just a couple of facts that must have just slipped Obama’s mind?

As for the federal budget deficit which President Obama claims has been cut in half, once again the facts just don’t resemble what the president says.

Before the financial panic of 2008 Hot Air points out, the federal govt was spending about $1 Trillion less–about $2.7 Trillion annually.

Doubling The Debt

During Obama’s Watch, federal debt has doubled according to the Office of Management & Budget which reports that President Obama will become the first president ever to break the $4 Trillion spending level in a single year and debt held by the public as a share of the economy will continue to climb to what the Obama Administration forecasts in 2014 will hit 78.2% of GDP despite the superfluous claims made yesterday during President Obama’s 6th appearance on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno.