Fishnet Friday

Gruber Isn't the Only One Who Cashed in Big on ObamaCare

Why is it such a radical idea to think that maybe taxpayers should just keep their money instead of sending it off to Washington to be redistributed to giant contracting corporations?  Seems everyone in Washington agrees that this isn’t radical at all.  Inside the ribbon of concrete and asphalt of the Beltway, reason is suspended and giving billions to defense contractors to support Obamacare seems like a good idea.

The contractors and the lobbyists love it.  It’s just the rest of the country that gets hosed.  

from IBD

"The Kaiser Report also shows that traditional defense contractors like General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Booz Allen are increasingly turning to HHS for business, thanks to cutbacks in defense and the explosion in ObamaCare spending. Last year alone, six of the biggest cleared $2.3 billion.

General Dynamics got $814 million mainly to help with ObamaCare call centers. Defense giant Serco got more than $400 million, much of it for collecting paper applications after the online marketplaces failed.

What’s the rest of the money for? “Buying medical-record software, insurance websites, claims processing, data analysis, computer system overhauls, consumer education and consulting expertise,” Kaiser says.

In other words … overhead. Worse, this is overhead that didn’t exist before ObamaCare."

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Raging Progressive Bigotry

Public Secrets

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the worst reactionary bigots I’ve ever met have all been on the Left. 

I’d never heard of Michael Tomasky before untill my feed reader was suddenly full of commentary about his anti-South screed at The Daily Beast.  Apparently the recent disaster the Democrats suffered in the midterm elections set him to boiling, and Mary Landrieu’s defeat over the weekend in the Louisiana runoff blew the lid off:

"Practically the whole region has rejected nearly everything that’s good about this country and has become just one big nuclear waste site of choleric, and extremely racialized, resentment.  A fact made even sadder because on the whole they’re such nice people! (I truly mean that.)

With Landrieu’s departure, the Democrats will have no more senators from the Deep South, and I say good. Forget about it.  Forget about the whole fetid place. Write it off. Let the GOP have it and run it and turn it into Free-Market Jesus Paradise. The Democrats don’t need it anyway."

“They’re such nice people, but I really hate their guts!”

Mikey then goes on to say there are some parts of the South the Democrats really do need, but for the rest he wishes secession had succeeded, because they just aren’t real Americans down there.

Yeesh. Look, Mike.  I know the election was hard on you. From Texas to the Atlantic, there is now only two Democratic statewide officeholder in the Old Confederacy. Landrieu lost a seat the Democrats held since I think the 1870s.

I get it.  This is tough on you. It can’t be easy being rejected when you’re so cock-sure of your own side’s intellectual and moral superiority. I only hope you didn’t smash the keyboard while writing your tirade.  I’d like to think the election results would have lead you and your fellow progressives to reflect on why you lost so badly in that part of the country. What policies lead to your rejection? What was it about what the Democrats were offering that made so many say “no, thanks?”

But, no.  You and so many like you in the progressive commentariat already know the answer, no self-reflection needed:  “They’re all a bunch of mouth-breathing Jesus-fetishists who just don’t know what’s good for them, so we should just tell them to go to Hell!”

If that’s the case, Mike, how do you explain Colorado and Iowa, where Republicans won the Senate races?  Or New Mexico and Nevada, where Latino Republicans won reelection for governor?  Or deep-Blue Maryland and Massachusetts, where Republicans also won the elections for governor?  I’ve never been to Maryland, but I know it ain’t a “Free-Market Jesus Paradise.”

You know, when Reconstruction ended and the Democrats returned to power, using Jim Crow laws and their allied terrorist groups, such as the KKK, to make sure Blacks could never vote Republican — or often not at all. There’s a good book on all that and more.

If you want to find the real bigot suffering from “choleric resentment,” Mike, try looking in the mirror.  

One Last Parting Shot Over the Shoulder

This Senate Intelligence Committee's CIA Report marks a new low for congressional oversight of intelligence because of its naked partisanship and refusal to consider all relevant evidence. The report was written entirely by the committee's Democratic staff. The investigation included no interviews and is based only on a review of documents. Because the report lacks Republican co-authors or interviews of people who ran the enhanced-interrogation program, it has no credibility and amounts to a five-year, $50 million Democrat cherry-picking exercise to investigate the Bush administration. 

There are many former Bush-administration and CIA officials who claim that the enhanced-interrogation program was effective, provided crucial counter-terrorism intelligence, and was conducted entirely within the law. These officials also claim that Democratic members of the House and Senate intelligence committees
were fully briefed on the program and supported it until it became politically useful to condemn it.

This Should Drive the Ferguson Race Baiters Crazy

Western Journalism

Online crowdfunding is proving to be both a comfort and a source of substantial funds for Darren Wilson. After resigning from the Ferguson, Missouri, police force without severance pay, Wilson apparently has no job prospects; and he still faces all sorts of daunting challenges — both legal and safety-related — despite not being indicted by the grand jury in the August death of Michael Brown.

But Darren Wilson and his new wife will reportedly be receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from online donation efforts organized by an anonymous supporter. In fact, according to a post on dailymail.co.uk, the amount of money pouring in from crowd-funding could soon exceed $1 million.

Shortly after then-officer Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in a confrontation on a residential Ferguson street, some crowd-funding sites were launched that reportedly raised a good deal of money for Wilson before the sites were shut down as violent protests over the killing intensified.

Maybe Someone Will Pass The Hat for the 4 Mil. in Debt Race Pimp

Obama Attends Annual Santa Skivvies Run in San Francisco

MIDDLE FINGER NEWS SERVICE

Which could very well explain This

This Should Make You Very Uncomfortable

The Heritage Foundation has just released its report on 'Federal Spending by the Numbers, 2014'. It makes horrifying reading.

Here are a few of the most important figures in graphical form.

Yes, 69% - well over two-thirds - of all federal government expenditure went to entitlement and welfare programs. Out of every $3 the government spent, just over $2 was a handout of one sort or another. Less than $1 went to actually run the country.

In order to spend all that money on entitlement and welfare programs, the US government is deeper in debt than ever before - and note that this figure does not include future promises to taxpayers, which add tens of trillions of dollars to the debt load, but keep it off the books so that the politicians can pretend it doesn't exist.

That way they can fool the electorate into re-electing them. 

Jesse Jackson Resumes Skakedown of Industries

With the national race-baiting duties firmly in the hands of Rev(?) Al Sharpton and a corrupt Attorney General, Rev(?) Jesse Jackson resumes his affirmative Action shakedown of American industry. Speaking at a Microsoft shareholder meeting, J.J. said Microsoft must hire more minorities and a more diverse workforce of cultures, genders, ethnicities, and lifestyles.

from Yahoo News:

"Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the company's largest shareholder, was sitting in the audience next to Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was given the stage to read remarks asking Microsoft to do a better job hiring minorities.

Jackson isn't targeting only Microsoft. He's been out giving speeching imploring the tech industry to up its hiring of minorities, including a talk on Tuesday at the University of Washington, reports Geekwire.

It's not an accident that he was talking about this.    

Last month, Jackson also wrote two open letters to Apple and Tim Cook on the topic. And his Rainbow coalition has been successful at getting many big tech companies to release diversity data, Microsoft included.

When it comes to that diversity data, Microsoft, with over 100,000 employee in 190 countries, is pretty typical of the tech industry: Overall its workforce is made up of 71% men and 29% women; they are 60% white, 29% Asian and 11% other races. In technical roles, 83% are men to 17% women, with 57% of them white and 35% Asian. As far as leadership roles, 83% of those roles are held by men and 72% are white."

When powerful, intelligent leaders of industry have to dance to the tune of talentless hucksters like Jesse Jackson who contribute nothing to society, something is very wrong.

Maybe Rev Jackson should be out encouraging education and abiding by the law to his people so there are more qualified blacks for positions in industries where they are under represented. Affirmative Action has proved a gigantic failure. Go to any state or federal government office and try and do business and see what you have to deal with. The tech industry is no place for Jackson's brand of forced placement or advancement with little or no merit, and only because of you're the not of a certain race.

Experience or ethnicity doesn't seem to bother the good reverend when it comes to black dominated entities like professional sports or some media where blacks are over represents as a percentage of population.  But then again, his binders are pulled tightly from such things.....

The Future King Meets with the Emperor