Mark@Sea

The Russian GPS system (GLONASS) is incompatible with ours.  Also, it isn't as accurate as ours.  By a significant factor.  Fewer birds, for one thing.   These monitoring stations would be useful in determining error rates INCONUS, which in turn would be useful to anyone in the US using a GLONASS receiver.  There aren't a whole lot of Russian smartphones in the states (approx. zero, at a guess).  Hmmm, what other devices might use Russian GPS and could benefit from terminal error correction?  Gee, I'm stumped.

Shamelessly stolen from the Ace of Spades overnight thread comments....   The only way to make the ACA popular again is to take the law, put it in a Lincoln Continental Convertible, and drive it down to Dallas. In 50 years everyone will still be talking about what a magical law it was.

Oh, without a doubt we'll hear how the only possible way forward is for the government to take over health insurance.  Can't go back, right?  Thing is, after experiencing Obamacare, there will be a bunch of people really reluctant to give Obama's crew even more control over their healthcare.   Republicans need to offer true free market insurance (over state lines) and medical tort reform.  Getting tort reform past the lawyers will be tough, but those two changes would cut healthcare costs in half.

  Insurance underwriters will have to get in line.  State healthcare exchange officials are already stating they will not comply, nor allow insurance companies to comply, with any such delay.  Partial delays, partial compliance, universal uncertainty as to what he'll decide to change next, valid questions as to the legality of the executive branch modifying legislation without bothering to ask Congress...   The far left will try to morph Obamacare into single payer.  That just isn't in the realm of the possible.     So we've got Democrats running as fast as they can from the bomb they set.  Obama trying to provide cover by doing the same thing he was dead set against just a month ago.  Insurance underwriters and state exchanges facing off the feds.  The IRS now having no idea who is compliant, who isn't, who gets fined and who walks.  Hospitals now have NO CLUE what will be considered a 'compliant' plan, and suddenly all that new software is 'questionable'.  At least 7 million who now don't have insurance, have no idea if they're going to get their old insurance, Obamacare, or something in between...     Republicans need to take a long step back, que up the extended cut of 'Yakkety Sax', and enjoy the show.  The longer the democrats try to polish this turd, the greater the devastation at the polls.      It will be painful, but eventually a majority will demand repeal and replace.

Tuh-may-toe, tuh-mah-toe.....

Nope.  Just finished reading press releases from three insurance underwriter groups.  Direct quotes:   "This is a new insanity".  "Premiums have already been set for next year, based on assumptions of when consumers will be transitioning to the marketplaces."  "If now fewer younger and healthier people choose to purchase health coverage in the exchanges, premiums will increase, and there will be fewer choices for consumers".  "many states require a 60-day notice of a change in plan or a cancellation. It’s November 15! How can they comply with this new element of federal law, and with their state laws?"     So, your old plan is gone with the wind.  Your Obamacare plan is going to be even more expensive than you thought.  Obama is going to try very hard to pin the tail on the insurance companies, instead of the donkey. 

Too little, too late.  Nothing, actually, but he is trying to toss this live grenade to insurance companies, Republicans, anybody who'll catch it.  Meanwhile, "We said the website would be working by the end of November.  We didn't mean this November."

      The confusion is intentional.  He is trying to confuse low-info voters about who is responsible.  "We didn't do it, it was those wascally insurance companies"!

Unfortunately, the business world is a bit more complicated than a grade school playground.  "Do-overs" don't really work in an adult environment.   And the 7 million or so whose plans have already been canceled?  Are those plans suddenly 'un-cancelled'?  If so, this is black Friday for the insurance industry.   The law was so bad it required massive bribery and massive lying to the people to pass it.  The law is so bad that to actually enforce it would cause devastation to the Democrat party (thus the delay of the employer mandate).  The law is so bad that the ratio of people who have so far lost their insurance to the number of people who have actually gotten insured is better than 50 to 1.   Hey, "It's the law of the land".  "Wanting to delay Obamacare means you're a bomb throwing terrorist".  "Only whacko-birds would try to stop this".  "I insist on full and immediate implementation of Obamacare  There will be no negotiation, and I will ensure the American people feel the greatest pain from any (microscopically partial) government shutdown".     You know what?  I insist on full and immediate implementation of Obamacare as well.  (It's the very best way to get it repealed).   I guess Obama has pivoted to jobs - the jobs of Democrats in Congress.

Veterans are people who were willing to step up to the plate and put it all on the line.  This guy will always be a coward, and on some level he knows it.

racist -> self reliant -> gun owner ->conservative -> republican -> racist   Circular logic or circle jerk? 

Peejman, PM inbound

Why not. 

Obamacare affecting Medicare now...   When Obamacare was originally rolling towards approval in Congress back in 2010 one of the bones of contention was that the Democrats would cut $719 billion from Medicare in order to help fund Obamacare. Of course Obama and company scoffed (while following through on the Medicare cuts earlier this year.) Now insurance companies are telling their Medicare enrollees that they won’t be able to see their doctors anymore thanks to Obamacare funding siphoning from Medicare.  Of course Democrats are trying to put the blame back on the insurers.

Kratmans' Caliphate series.

Some faulty assumptions here.  First, the assumption that Obamacare was all about insuring the uninsured.  It wasn't, it is a vehicle for the government to nationalize health care. Second, that fixing the website will fix the problems.  It won't - once the websites are running and the employer mandate becomes effective, between 1/3 and 1/2 of Americans will find they cannot afford insurance.  That's part of the plan - those who cannot afford insurance will be paying the penalty.  Let's not forget that Obamacare guts Medicare Advantage.  'Single Payer' will become a necessity.   Lastly, don't confuse access to insurance with access to healthcare.  Many facilities and healthcare professionals will not be able to continue in the Obamacare business environment.       One reason there are so many RINO's willing to buy off on Obamacare 'under the table', is the rising costs of medicare, social security and various welfare programs.  The moneys paid into the system are long since gone, leaving the government with a whole bunch of IOU's.    Impossible to pay back retirees that paid in without destroying the vote-buying handouts.  Obamacare helps from both ends of the problem - both reducing and transferring healthcare costs from the government to the people, and reducing the life expectancy and associated costs of those who are no longer a good source of revenue.  The entrenched elite of both parties have no particular desire to get off the gravy train they've been riding the last 65 years or so.     Other countries have a government.  In the US the federal government has a country.

Need some body work done on my jeep.  Anybody?  Or any recommendations?  I'm between Rogersville and Morristown.  

Wow.  Talk about hidden treasures!

      Dave, please don't think he's going to do much of anything to 'fix' the problem.  The problem is inherent in the system.  This was known well before Obamacare passed.  Conservatives shouted it from the rooftops and were ridiculed for their warnings.  Look at the number they pulled on Palin!   After a debacle of this magnitude, if he were truly sorry and truly honorable, that would have been a resignation speech.

Are we being pushed into civil war?

  I think these days the meter reader guy falls under DHS. 

I'm sure that a lot of good cops are angry about this.  I feel bad for them.  Doesn't help the image, doesn't help the relationship with the public.   Thing is, dealing with a bad cop is just like dealing with a good cop.  You've got to get through it, hopefully without being violated.  Unlike a mugger, you dare not defend yourself.  So anger and fear are reasonable responses to dealing with the police, because you cannot tell ahead of time if you're talking to a quiet hero, or Hannibal Lector.   It wouldn't be nearly as fearful if the public had confidence that the police will police themselves.  Given that the warrant and medical records have been posted on the internet, it is crystal clear that the officers involved in this deliberately committed a crime.  If the state police takes them into custody today, we will all be relieved.   We all know that won't happen.  It often takes years for badged criminals to face judgement, if they ever do.  Meanwhile, the police union usually ensures they cannot be fired, and face at most a vacation with pay.    Sorry, guys, but police need to be better at policing themselves, and get more publicity while doing it.  The public needs a reason to re-establish the trust.  The police chief in this case backing his officers (when the facts are clearly cut and dried) doesn't help.       A question for the officers on the board - Is a colonoscopy ever considered a reasonable search procedure in an incident where no other evidence exists?  Because if I can be forced into a GI tract examination when a 'drug dog' alerts on a french fry, I may never leave the house again.

When it becomes useable, their problem is just going to get worse.  There are tens of millions who right now are at least able to delude themselves into thinking they won't get the shaft.     Those senators are like the losers Bloomberg bought off in Colorado...  "acceptable collateral damage".

This was the plan all along.  It just isn't the plan they told everyone about.

The ideologically blinded are able to avoid seeing the truth, but Obamacare is just a massive tax increase disguised as insurance reform.   I wonder how long before the majority of those on the dem plantation figure out that having coverage doesn't mean having care?