Stephen Colbert tried all he could not to promote healthcare.gov, but after it was all said and done, his efforts to leave healthcare.gov out of his show proved to be a more difficult task.
Colbert began talking about the appearance the president made on “Between Two Ferns” and the made up controversy that appearance sparked on the right with the usual culprits – Faux News – leading the way.
Colbert however, was quick to point out that although Faux went all out to denounce the president’s appearance, their efforts too failed. After the “Between Two Ferns” episode aired, healthcare.gov saw a huge spike in sign-ups.
So, Megyn Kelly of the Fox Information Network invited a member of the Obama administration on her Fox Information Show. Her guest, Ezekiel Emanuel knows firsthand all there is to know about the Affordable Care Act also called Obamacare, because he was an intricate part of the whole process in getting the healthcare to the American people. He went to the Fox Information Network to share some information with their viewers, but the Fox host wasn’t interested in informing anyone in their audience. She couldn’t get past the fact that enrollees in the new healthcare law is short of the initial figures the administration quoted.
Apparently, this information is more important to the Fox than real information about the law.
I mean, come on. You invite the man with the information and all you’re interested in is trying to figure out if the law is falling short of its initial figures? This is the exact informative news Fox News viewers crave… apparently.
There is always a new war for these Republicans to engage in, but rest assured, you will never, never, never, ever, ever see a Republican war on tax loopholes for the rich, or subsidies to the rich, or anything involving the rich. But if it benefits the poor, they declare war!
The New Jersey teenager who sued her parents for not paying her college tuition moved back into their home – but still hasn’t dropped the lawsuit, a lawyer for her parents said on Wednesday.
Rachel Canning, 18, returned to her parents’ house in Lincoln Park on Tuesday night, said attorney Angelo Sarno, who represents Sean and Elizabeth Canning.
“I’m not here to comment on what the motivation is for this event. She’s just a kid and she’s home,” Sarno said at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.
But while the family may have hashed-out some of its emotional problems — which blew up after the teen voluntarily moved out last fall — the legal conflict is still “pending,” Sarno said.
The deal is that the lawsuit is still pending…There has never been a settlement,” Sarno added.
Elizabeth and Sean Canning cry during the hearing.Photo: AP/Pool
Rachel had been living with a powerful attorney, John Inglesino, a father of one of her friends, since October.
She moved out of her parents’ home because she didn’t want to abide by a curfew or stop hanging out with a bad-influence boyfriend , her parents have claimed.
A massive explosion followed by a fire at a pair of apartment buildings in upper Manhattan on Wednesday has left two people dead and at least 22 injured, officials say.
Two of the injured are hospitalized with life-threatening injuries, according to FDNY. Five others are in serious condition, but non-life threatening injuries, the fire department said. Fifteen others suffered minor injuries.
Rescuers are currently combing through bricks by hand in an effort to locate other possible victims.
“There are a number of people missing,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference. “I emphasize that those who are missing could well be safe in another location and just not contacted yet or reachable yet.”
The FDNY said it received a call shortly after 9:30 a.m. reporting a large explosion in the five-story apartment building on Park Avenue near 116th Street in East Harlem.
The blast smashed windows and damaged walls up to several blocks away from the explosion. Residents in the neighborhood told reporters they feared the earth-shaking boom was a terrorist attack. One man was so worried, he told CNN, that he rushed out of his home wearing nothing but his underwear.
“This is a tragedy of the worst kind,” de Blasio said. “There was no indication in time to save people.”
Based on preliminary information, the mayor said, “The only indication of danger came about 15 minutes earlier when a gas leak was reported to Con Edison. Con Ed dispatched a team to respond. The explosion occurred before that team could arrive.
Con Edison spokesman Bob McGee said that the company received a call from a resident of an adjacent building, reporting that “he smelled gas inside his apartment, but thought the odor could be coming from outside.” Two Con Ed crews were dispatched at 9:15 a.m. but arrived just after the explosion.
Police, including some wearing gas masks, “handed out medical masks to residents and onlookers because of the thick white smoke that shrouded the area.”
The fire department responded with 44 units and more than 250 firefighters to the five-alarm incident. According to public records, the address that firefighters initially responded to — 1646 Park Ave. — was built in 1910.
Reached by phone, an employee of the man who owns the building told Yahoo News that she didn’t know what might have sparked the blast. The five-story building is home to four floors of apartments and Absolute Piano on the street level. The employee said everyone at the piano shop was safe.
According to public records, the neighboring building — 1644 Park Ave. — is home to apartments and the street-level Spanish Christian Church.
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“I’ve never had anything this horrific that’s happened in my community since I’ve been in Washington,” Rep. Charles Rangel, who represents Harlem, told NBC’s New York affiliate. “This is a very serious thing. It’s our community’s 9/11, even though we don’t know how it started.”
Some witnesses described a chaotic scene.
“The whole building shook,” one nearby worker told the New York Post.
“I saw a lady running with no shoes on,” another told Agence France-Press. “It was crazy. It was like a war zone. … I thought it was an earthquake. I got calls from my family who felt it too and that was all the way uptown.”
The explosion occurred near elevated train tracks, and Metro North train service into and out of New York’s Grand Central Terminal was suspended.
According to the White House, President Obama was briefed on the incident in New York by Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland Security and counterterrorism.
Photos posted to Twitter showed smoke and dust coming from the neighborhood north of Central Park, and firefighters searching the rubble for victims.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
It’s pretty obvious that the Yankees will retire Derek Jeter’s number this season. After what we saw last year with Mariano Rivera, we can figure that Jeter is in store for a day just like Mo got.
As soon as the captain announced his retirement, tickets for obvious milestone games, skyrocketed in price. Opening Day saw an increase. The last home game went through the roof. Even the last game of the season at Fenway Park got up around $250 for standing room tickets.
However, the most important day is one that is not set in stone yet. Derek Jeter Day will be the day the yankees immortalize Jeter’s number in monument park and thanks to last year’s Mariano Rivera Day, we can make a pretty good educated guess.
Judging by how the Yankees like to do things, I am putting my money on Sunday, September 21st against the Blue Jays. That day has seen a hike in ticket sales as well due to the fact that people like me figure that to be the day but tickets are still pretty affordable. There are many sites with tickets still available but my go to site is www.VIVIDSEATS.com. Click on that link to go right to the game on September 21st.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Flames and smoke were sent billowing into the air after an explosion leveled two buildings in East Harlem Wednesday, killing one person and injuring more than a dozen others.
It happened around 9 a.m. on Park Avenue on 116th Street, the FDNY said. One of the buildings that collapsed had a piano repair shop with apartments above. The second building housed a church
The cause of the blast is still unclear, but Con Edison said crews had responded to the area on a report of a gas odor just prior to the explosion.
Twitter Inc crashed on Tuesday for the second time in nine days when a software glitch stalled the popular messaging service for about one hour.
The company apologized to its 250 million users in a status blog, saying it had encountered “unexpected complications” during “a planned deploy in one of our core services.”
The outage began around 11 a.m. Pacific time and service had “fully recovered” by 11:47 a.m., the San Francisco-based company said. The stock rose as much as 3.7 percent before Twitter confirmed the glitch, but gave up most of the gains to end 0.25 percent higher.
The outage occurred just as Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took the stage in Austin, Texas, to speak at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, the annual gathering of tech enthusiasts that helped propel Twitter to national fame in 2007.
A new Bloomberg poll finds that President Barack Obama is rebounding from record-low approval ratings as he remedies the botched rollout of his health-care website and moves past the budget standoffs of the last several years.
Less than eight months before the November midterm elections, Americans are evenly split, with 48 percent approving of Obama’s job performance, up from 42 percent in December — the biggest positive change of his presidency, according to a Bloomberg National Poll. He’s also registering an improved favorability rating at 49 percent, the highest since last June.
Even so, majorities still disapprove of Obama’s performance across a broad spectrum of issues. They include the economy, a top issue for voters this year, which may threaten his party’s chances for retaining control of the U.S. Senate. Republicans need a net gain of six seats in November’s elections to retake control of the chamber.
“The six-point increase in Obama’s approval rating puts him back in the territory he typically occupies,” said Ann Selzer, founder of Des Moines, Iowa-based Selzer & Co., which conducted the March 7-10 poll of 1,001 U.S. adults that has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. “He had a post-election bump in December of 2012 and February 2013 and then a steady decline.”
As I’m sure you have heard, this will be Derek Jeter’s last season in professional baseball. If for some reason you haven’t heard, Derek Jeter announced his retirement via a Facebook post last month.
Jeter has said he will do something this year that he has admitted to being bad at in the past. He will enjoy every last moment of this season. As he does that, my plan is to try to share all those moments with you. My goal is to let you enjoy every last minute of this final season as much as Derek does. My other goal is to hopefully convey just how impressive Derek Jeter has been throughout his career to those of you who think he may be a bit overrated.
So I hope you enjoy the future installments of “The Final Season.”
President Obama made a special appearance at Funny or Die’s studios and was interviewed by non other than comedian Zach Galifianakis. You just know this was not going to turn out well or, maybe it did.
The no holds bar interview touched on all the hot topics of the day; where’s the birth certificate, being born in Kenya, why Michele Obama married a nerd, etc. Just all the normal things the American public is interested in.
Questions like, “Is it going to be hard in two years, when you’re no longer President and people will stop letting you win at basketball?” And, “so how does this work, do you send Ambassador Rodman to North Korea on your behalf? I read somewhere that you’d be sending Hulk Hogan to Syria or is that more of a job for Tonya Harding?”
But there was a point to all this. Coming up on the March deadline for enrolling in the Affordable Care Act, the president brought the attention back to healthcare.
“That’s the thing that doesn’t work?” Zach asked.
All in all, a very funny piece from Funny or Die, and definitely a must see.
Julie Boonstra, has been used by Republicans to try to prove that Obamacare will literally kill people. However, claims that she would lose coverage and risk her life as a result have been debunked.
Boonstra, 49, who suffers from leukemia, is featured prominently in the Koch-backed Americans For Prosperity ads. She told a heartbreaking tale of Obamacare canceling her insurance plan and lamenting that her new one was too expensive.
“If I do not receive my medication, I will die,” Boonstra says in the ad. “I feel lied to.”
When journalists looked into her claim, Boonstra identified the new plan she chose on the Obamacare exchanges: a so-called “gold” plan from Blue Cross Blue Shield, per the Detroit News.
Her old plan cost $1,100 per month, which adds up to $13,200 a year in premiums alone — before co-pays, out-of-pocket costs and drug expenses.
Her new plan costs $571 per month, which adds up to $6,852 per year. Her out-of-pocket costs are maxed at $5,100, which means a maximum cost of $11,952 per year. That means her new plan cannot cost her more for treatment than her new plan.
In other words, Boonstra would save at least $1,248 under Obamacare.
When the Detroit News told her this, Boonstra was in disbelief, saying it “can’t be true.”
“I personally do not believe that,” she told the paper.
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