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Healthcare ObamaCare Politics

Here’s The Link: CNN Poll – 70% of Young Adults Believe Obamacare Will Work

Earlier today, I tweeted a recent poll by CNN saying that 70% of young Americans believe the problems with the Obamacare website will eventually be fixed.

Here’s the tweet:

Needless to say, some Republicans on Twitter couldn’t believe that this poll actually existed, and thought that I was making it up. I don’t blame them for thinking this. Their political leaders are constantly feeding them false information which they readily eat up, so naturally when someone shares the truth, they feel the need to question it as well.

Here is one example of the replies I got to the tweet mentioned above:

So with that said, here is the link to the A CNN/ORC International poll where that tweet came from. And here is a CNN article that mentions this data. Below is an exert of the actual article.

Younger Americans are much less likely to express negative views of the new health care law.

“Only 25% of 18-to-34 year olds say that the new law is a failure, compared to more than four in 10 in any other age bracket. Seven in 10 younger Americans think the current problems faced by Obamacare will eventually be fixed. Senior citizens are split, and most people between 35 and 65 years old think that the system is permanently broken,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

The poll was conducted November 18-20 for CNN by ORC International, with 843 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey’s overall sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

To the doubters: – Where it says “only 25% of 18-34 year olds say that the new law is a failure,” it means that the remainder 75% think the law is NOT a failure. And where it says, “seven in 10 younger Americans think the current problems faced by Obamacare will eventually be fixed,” that “seven in 10” actually mean 70%.

Hope this helps.

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Politics right winged

Right Winged Mega-Church Pastor Accused of Plagiarism – Video

Mark Driscoll, a right-wing megachurch pastor best known for his chauvinistic,bullying, anti-gay and domineering preaching style, is facing charges of plagiarism from his fellow conservatives. When talk show host Janet Mefferd confronted him about the plagiarism claims in an interview last week, Driscoll was offended that Mefferd dared to ask him such questions and told her that she was “grumpy,” “rude” and “not very Christ-like.”

He patted himself on the back for being “gracious and humble” through it all, adding that he couldn’t appropriately answer Mefferd’s questions because he had a cold and was doingher a favor by appearing on her show. Driscoll’s publisher similarly claimed that it was not Driscoll who was at fault but Mefferd for taking a “belligerent tone” with him, and supporters eagerly piled on.

Christian blogs have noted that Driscoll himself preached against plagiarism as a “Satanic issue.”

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Healthcare ObamaCare Politics

Victory Decleared In Obamacare Website Fixes

(Reuters) – The Obama administration declared victory on Sunday in its effort to get HealthCare.gov working smoothly for the vast majority of users, saying the site had reached a goal of handling 50,000 simultaneous users after a five-week “tech surge.”

In a six-page progress and performance report, administration officials said the troubled website could now handle at least 800,000 visitors per day, with the system remaining up at least 90 percent of the time.

The new performance levels mark significant improvement after the Obamacare website’s disastrous October 1 launch, when it crashed in the face of high traffic volumes and remained down 60 percent of the time for weeks.

But officials remain concerned about high volumes this month, with the potential for large numbers of people entering the site to apply for insurance coverage beginning January 1.

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Politics

Video: President Obama and Daughters Shopping Small This Saturday

The big companies had their day on Black Friday so today, the day following the Black Friday extravaganza, is being observed as Small Business Saturday – supporting small local business. With that in mind, the President along with his two daughters Malia and Sasha took a trip down to the local book store – Washington’s Politics and Prose Bookstore – and… bought some books.

Video.

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Healthcare ObamaCare Politics

White House: Obamacare Website On Track to Meeting Deadline

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it will meet its self-imposed deadline of fixing the troubled health care website so that 50,000 people can log in at the same time starting Saturday. Yet questions remain about the stability of the site, the volume of traffic it can handle and the quality of the data it is delivering to insurers.

Round-the-clock repair work since HealthCare.gov went live on Oct. 1 has produced fewer errors, and pages are loading faster.

But the revised site still won’t be able to do everything the administration originally had envisioned. And companion websites for small businesses and Spanish speakers have been delayed.

Still, the White House hopes a more smoothly functioning website after weeks of bad publicity will mark a fresh start for Obama.

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Politics Republican

Really? A Southern Republican Representative Wants to Improve Obamacare?

Jack Kingston

Don’t get too excited about this from GOP Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia—he has yet to propose an idea that would actually improve Obamacare—but:

“And there’s some criticism, ‘Well, are you helping improve this law when you make that change? And should we be doing that?'” Kingston said of pushback to his bill.”A lot of conservatives say, ‘Nah, let’s just step back and let this thing fall to pieces on its own.’ But I don’t think that’s always the responsible thing to do,” he added.

“I think we need to be looking for things that improve healthcare overall for all of us. And if there is something in ObamaCare, we need to know about it.”

Then, Kingston suggested the unthinkable: That Republicans should actually listen to reasons why Obamacare isn’t the Devil’s Medicine:

“If you get a lot of letters that say, ‘Hey, back off, it works. I have a special needs child and here’s why its been good for me,’ we want to listen to that,” he said.

In a sane GOP, neither of these statements would raise an eyebrow—Kingston’s words come down to a simple declaration that better is preferable to worse, and that if something is good, he’d like to know. But today’s GOP isn’t sane, and it’s a little surprising to hear Kingston give voice to such thoughts, particularly in light of the fact that he is a southern Republican seeking his party’s nomination for U.S. Senate.

I’m sure he will be stoned for this by his fellow Republicans.

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Birther Politics

Wingnut Preacher Claims President Obama Fathered Love Child With Woman Killed in DC

“Pastor” Manning

These people will never stop with their lies and misinformation. This time, like many other, the lies are coming from a so-called Pastor. His name is James David Manning, pastor of Atlah World Missionary Church. Pastor Manning is no stranger to lying. He is just as guilty as Donald Trump for pushing the lie that President Obama was born in Kenya.

Now that the Birther lie is not as strong as it once was, Pastor Manning is pushing another lie to his faithful followers – most of whom I’m sure are Republicans. In his new lie, the Pastor is claiming that President Obama and Miriam Carey, the Connecticut mother who was shot and killed in Washington when she tried to ram her car into police barricades, are parents of the child found in the dead woman’s car.

The pastor, citing no facts to back up his lie simply because there aren’t any, is telling anyone who will listen that her family has demanded a paternity test to prove that the President is indeed the father of her 15 month old child.  The family has asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to look into the case but nothing has been said about paternity, in fact they are involved in a custody dispute with the child’s actual father.

In his latest rant Manning asserts that Carey’s sister has gathered the requisite number of signatures needed to require that the investigation be opened on her petition hosted by Change.org petition, insinuating that the petition carries some kind of legal weight.  Change.org is a private sector business which hosts petitions for a fee and has absolutely no legal standing at all.  Even if it did it is highly unlikely that 586 signatures would be sufficient to require action.

He claims that it was not the Capitol Police who shot her and that it was actually an elite “hit squad” operating under direct orders from the President.  His source for this is a “news service” known as What Does It Mean? This website has a number of stories reminiscent of the National Enquirer with headlines such as Evidence That 5 Million Americans Have Been ‘Disappeared’ By Obama Shocks Russians.

Expect this to be the new truth for the low information Republicans, who are more than satisfied with taking nonsense and turning it into their version on the truth… especially when it involves the President of the United States. At some point, you have to believe that the President is shaking his head in disbelief at all these dumb people.

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Politics trayvon martin

George Zimmerman Hit With a $2.5 Million Legal Defense Bill

George Zimmerman got away with murdering Trayvon Martin based on dumb arguments from his attorneys like, Trayvon Martin was armed with a sidewalk and used it to attack Zimmerman. The prosecution bringing the case against Zimmerman failed to show the absurdity of that argument, and they allow the jury to walk away thinking Trayvon really had a sidewalk in his back pocket.

Zimmerman smiled when the jury came back with a not guilty verdict, and he left the courtroom a free man. But apparently not free from the bill. According to The Orlando Sentinel, the bill from Zimmerman’s lawyers has arrived, and I doubt the check will be in the mail anytime soon.

O’Mara took on the case in April 2012, saying he would represent Zimmerman at no charge. Then he discovered that Zimmerman and his family were raising funds via a website and that money was pouring in, at least initially.

Throughout the case, even after the trial, O’Mara said he and West had not been paid a dime, although they hoped to be someday.

In an interview this week, O’Mara said Zimmerman paid them “a minute amount” after the trial.

O’Mara is still hopeful, he said, that there might someday be money he and West can collect.

In truth, they have already benefited financially from Zimmerman’s legal-defense fund. Several months ago, O’Mara reported spending $52,550 on “law firm support and infrastructure.”

O’Mara and his spokesman never provided a detailed accounting as to what that included, but they said it was such things as more computers, upgraded software, new phones and improved office security.

West and O’Mara also formed a private partnership, Timber Run Enterprises LLC, and bought the building next door to O’Mara’s Concord Street office in downtown Orlando. That building, like O’Mara’s office, is a former single-family home for which the lawyers paid $270,000.

 

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Politics

New BlackFriday Trend – Hunting for More Guns

Black Friday is typically known for its deals on hot holiday gifts such as clothes and consumer technology, but the last two years have shown another item gaining popularity: guns.

According to the Huffington Post, gun sales have declined since the early months of 2013, but gunmakers are hoping Black Friday represents a significant turnaround, and numerous retailers are offering firearms at a discounted rate.

Over the last two years, the day after Thanksgiving has seen a surge in gun sales. In 2012, Black Friday resulted in such a large wave of requests for background checks – a record 154,873, to be exact – that call centers at the National Instant Criminal Background Check System suffered from overload and outages. That was a 20 percent increase over the previous record-setting Black Friday in 2011, which saw calls for 129,166 background checks.

What’s more, since the FBI doesn’t track individual gun purchases, the ability to buy multiple firearms at once means there could be even more weapons sold than the number of background checks indicate. As of October 31, the FBI has recorded requests for more than 17 million background checks this year.

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Politics war on women

A Republican Representative Stands Up – His Letter Supporting Women’s Choice

I know! This is hard to believe! A Republican Representative supporting a woman’s right to choose what she does with her own body? Are you for real?

Yes, this is real. Rep. Doug Cox (R-OK), who is also a Physician, has had enough of the Republican’s War on Women and he is standing up to defend these women against the onslaught from his fellow Republicans and their cavemen mentality. Cox shared his displeasure with the Republican’s war on women in a letter to The Oklahoman.

All of the new Oklahoma laws aimed at limiting abortion and contraception are great for the Republican family that lives in a gingerbread house with a two-car garage, two planned kids and a dog. In the real world, they are less than perfect.

As a practicing physician (who never has or will perform an abortion), I deal with the real world. In the real world, 15- and 16-year-olds get pregnant (sadly, 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds do also). In the real world, 62 percent of women ages 20 to 24 who give birth are unmarried. And in the world I work and live in, an unplanned pregnancy can throw up a real roadblock on a woman’s path to escaping the shackles of poverty.

Yet I cannot convince my Republican colleagues that one of the best ways to eliminate abortions is to ensure access to contraception. A recent attempt by my fellow lawmakers to prevent Medicaid dollars from covering the “morning after” pill is a case in point. Denying access to this important contraceptive is a sure way to increase legal and back-alley abortions. Moreover, such a law would discriminate against low-income women who depend on Medicaid for their health care.

Is my thinking too clouded by my experiences in the real world? Experiences like having a preacher, in the privacy of an exam room say, “Doc, you have heard me preach against abortion but now my 15-year-old daughter is pregnant, where can I send her?” Or maybe it was that 17-year-old foreign exchange student who said, “I really made a mistake last night. Can you prescribe a morning-after pill for me? If I return to my home country pregnant, life as I know it will be over.”

What happened to the Republican Party that felt that the government has no business being in an exam room, standing between me and my patient? Where did the party go that felt some decisions in a woman’s life should be made not by legislators and government, but rather by the women, her conscience, her doctor and her God?

Those are some powerful questions to ask any supporting member of the GOP. Cox has been known for speaking his mind about his party’s policies that perpetuate back-alley abortions. He is a recent winner of Planned Parenthood’s Barry Goldwater Award. Cox also proposed that his views aren’t so ostracized by Republicans in private.

“I have people who tell me they feel the way I do, but are afraid to vote the way I do,” he said.

I wonder how much longer Rep. Cox will be able to call himself a Republican. Expect him to receive a swift scolding from the Republican leaders, followed by a revocation of his Republican card.

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Politics thanksgiving

Marissa Alexander Released From Jail

Marissa Alexander used Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law in her case to fight off her abusive husband. She was prosecuted by Angela Corey, whose prosecution team was responsible for putting on the lack-luster event in a Florida courtroom, that allowed George Zimmerman to walk free after he murdered Trayvon Martin. In Marissa’s case however, Angela Corey put on her best show and got Marissa sentenced to spend 20 years in jail for shooting a gun into the air in an attempt to scare off her abusive husband.

On Wednesday, Marissa Alexander was freed from jail. She will spend Thanksgiving with her family and will stay at home under house arrest while she awaits a new trial ordered by the 1st District Court of Appeals.

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Another Week, Another Republican Arrested For Rape

They constantly pat themselves on the back and brag that they are the party of responsibility and Christian morality. But I’m getting to the point where writing about another Republican charged with rape, is becoming the norm.

Sadly.

Robert Kerns, former chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Committee in Pennsylvania, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with 19 criminal counts, including rape of an unconscious victim, rape of a substantially impaired person, sexual assault, aggravated assault without consent, aggravated assault of a person unaware penetration was occurring, and 8 other forms of assault.

He also faces charges of possession of an instrument of crime with intent, possession of a controlled substance, and tampering with evidence. According to the Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman, a grand jury discovered that Kerns had “delivered a controlled substance and sexually assaulted a woman in multiple locations.”

Authorities said that Kerns had drugged the woman by spiking her drink with Ambien, a drug used to treat insomnia, during a Republican Party dinner. He then allegedly raped her multiple times when she lost consciousness.

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