In 2006 Mitt Romney praised Jonathan Gruber for ‘spending hours and hours’ on Romneycare
It is no longer a secret that Mitt Romney is going to run for President yet again in 2016. Mitt Romney spent many hours during the 2012 campaign trying to draw a distinction between his mandate that all Massachusetts residents purchase healthcare on a State level and Barack Obama’s mandate that all Americans much purchase healthcare on a national level. This distinction fell on deaf years.
Romneycare was the model which was used by Barack Obama on the national level to implement healthcare reform and that was a ghost which Mitt Romney was not able to exorcise during the last Presidential campaign despite his protests to the contrary.
For all of Mitt Romney’s protests to the contrary there is another bond which binds Romneycare to Obamacare and that bond is non other than Jonathan Gruber.
Obamacare: data-mining firms are embedded on healthcare website
It is now being reported in this story that data mining companies are embedded on the Obamacare website and they are able to collect some of your personal information.
Here is more:
A little-known side to the government’s health insurance website is prompting renewed concerns about privacy, just as the White House is calling for stronger cybersecurity protections for consumers.
It works like this: When you apply for coverage on HealthCare.gov, dozens of data companies may be able to tell that you are on the site. Some can even glean details such as your age, income, ZIP code, whether you smoke or if you are pregnant.
The data firms have embedded connections on the government site. Ever-evolving technology allows for individual Internet users to be tracked, building profiles that are a vital tool for advertisers.
Connections to multiple third-party tech firms were documented by technology experts who analyzed HealthCare.gov, and confirmed by The Associated Press. There is no evidence that personal information from HealthCare.gov has been misused, but the number of outside connections is raising questions.
in a recent visit to the site, AP found that certain personal details — including age, income, and whether you smoke — were being passed along likely without your knowledge to advertising and Web analytics sites.
At this point there is no proof that any of the information gathered is being misused but that does not mean it cannot, or will not, be misused in the future.
During a recent interview on MSNBC a guest had some interesting comments in regards to Bobby Jindal, here is the video:
The left loves to claim they are the party of diversity, they love to claim they are for minority rights, and they love to claim the Democrats are the party which will stand up for their rights–as long as they toe the line that is.
NASA climate scientists admit they are only 38% certain 2014 was the warmest year on record
Last Monday the Earth System Science Center released a report which relied on the data from weather satellites which found that 2014 was not the hottest year on record. In fact the study admitted that the .02 Celsius increase in the temperature was equivalent to no increase, which means the earth is not warming.
However just a few short days later NASA scientists again claimed in a new report that 2014 was indeed the hottest year on record. This news was naturally splashed all across the internet with headlines about how we were quickly reaching the point of no return and one story even stated that it was only a matter of time before all ocean-life would be extinct if we did not act quickly.
So how can it be that we have two conflicting reports released within days of one another? Which one is right and which one is wrong?
Open thread for Sunday, January 18th: Master of Puppets
Here is the open thread for Sunday, January 18th. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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Now onto the musical selection of the week. After a couple of “mellow” posts the last couple of weeks I have decided to kick it up a notch or ten this week.
Many of us believe there are people at work behind a veil of secrecy influencing our government. Whether it is the Chamber of Commerce, special interest groups, liberal billionaires, or dare I say it, the Illuminati, these people donate millions of dollars to politicians on both sides of the aisle and when these puppet masters pull the strings our elected officials have no choice but to dance to their nefarious plan.
Here is Metallica performing “Master of Puppets” live in 1989. Although the song is actually about drug addiction I think these lyrics are appropriate to the situation in our government:
Master of Puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, ’cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master
Master, Master, where’s the dreams that I’ve been after?
Master, Master, you promised only lies
Laughter, Laughter, all I hear or see is laughter
Laughter, Laughter, laughing at my cries
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too
Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master
Enjoy:
According to this story the United States Postal Service is expected to sell 56 buildings so they can be leased out to others at a higher rate. In 2011 a real estate company, CBRE, was the only real estate agent along with west vancouver realtor which acts like any other commercial realtor, so the Federal Government tasked with leasing the soon to be abandoned buildings.
In a remarkable coincidence it just so happens to turn out that Dianne Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, was chairman of the Board of CBRE in 2011 and is still on the Board to this day. Richard Blum could pocket up to $1 billion in commissions because of this deal.
Obamacare head Marilyn Tavenner is stepping down amidst controversy
Today Marilyn Tavenner announced that she is stepping down from the Obama regime. Marilyn Tavenner was the woman tasked with overseeing the Obamacare rollout.
Here is more:
The leader of the agency charged with the ObamaCare rollout is stepping down after five years on the job.
Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), announced her departure Friday, which will take effect next month.
“It is with sadness and mixed emotions that I write to tell you that February will be my last month serving as the administrator for CMS,” Tavenner wrote in an email to staff.
Firewall with Bill Whittle: The Road to Hell
We all know the saying about the road to hell, right?
In Bill Whittle’s latest Firewall video entitled “The Road to Hell” he takes on the progressive left’s policies of good intentions and the adverse effect they end up having on the economy–in part due to the high debt in the form of student loans our young people are left with after they leave school and how it actually prevents them from joining the workforce, this is extremely sad because if they would know forbrukslån everything would be so much easier.
Of course he does not stop there, enjoy:
Much like Bill Whittle’s latest Afterburner video is likely to make the collective (pun fully intended) heads of the left explode the same can be said for Andrew Klaven’s latest The Revolting Truth video entitled “Should Waterboarding be an Olympic Sport” just on the title alone.
In this video he tackles the Senate torture report as a “bipartisan effort of the Committee’s Democrats.”
Enjoy:
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