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For our semantics and technicality lover: Bigotry):

For our semantics and technicality lover:

 " Bigotry "

Okay,  so the original definition of this word was "To be a religious hypocrite" and first appeared in England around the same time Measure for Measure was written.  Thanks to the hilarity of politics,  it's gotten a much wider meaning over time,  as seen above.

 

And it's also a favorite word of the OTC,  but here's the question,  has the word been used so much as to lose all meaning?  It's basically means to say "This person is incredibly stubborn and unjustified in his or her position as to not accept views remotely different from his or her own".

 

Here's the catch,  no one ever thinks "I'm wrong",  even when doing something wrong.  It's usually justified in some sort of manner,  down to stealing the cookie out of the jar.  So let's say you're liberal,  open minded person.  Do you feel even a slight bit of disdain or negative disposition for those who are closed minded about something,  anything?  Congrats,  you're a bigot because you consider your open mindedness superior to their close mindedness and are prejudice for considering that view to be of less value.

 

In essence,  calling someone a bigot means that you too are a bigot.  That makes me a bigot.  By extension,  calling someone close minded is being close minded yourself.  That similarly makes me close minded.

 

Thoughts?

 

Does it remind you of someone.?

Entry #592

Now is the time to stand up and be counted...!!

The remedy is a simple one

His single, greatest attack has been in the creation of Obamacare. It is his grand weapon against the people. It is there that we need to concentrate our efforts, and it is there we need to attack. If the American people will simply refuse to sign up for it, refuse to support it - even at the risk of fines and imprisionment -  Obamacare will fail and fall. And with it so falls the Emperor. He has put all his chips on a single horse, hobble the horse and the race is over.

Entry #591

The Hidden Obamacare Taxes That Will Crush The Middle Class

The Hidden Obamacare Taxes That   Will Crush The Middle Class

By Money Morning Staff Reports 

  Get  ready to be blindsided by a barrage of new taxes. $1 trillion worth... 

  They'll be coming courtesy of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as  Obamacare. 

  And they won't just be affecting those who make over $250,000. The bulk of  these taxes will be passed on directly to the middle class. 

  That's because while a majority of these "stealth taxes" were  designed to be taxes on businesses, they're actually transferred directly to  ordinary citizens.

MORE: How much extra will you have to pay? To see how Obamacare taxes will directly  affect your paycheck, go  here.

  They include the investment income surtax, a Medicare payroll tax, even a  "tanning tax" on those who utilize indoor tanning services. 

  "Many of those [hidden] taxes, especially those on hospitals, insurers and  medical device manufacturers, will ultimately be passed on through higher  health costs," said Michael Tanner an expert on the healthcare law.

  In fact, analysts estimate Obamacare  will cost the average taxpayer nearly $6,000 in extra taxes as early as next  year. 

    Obamacare Tax Hikes Stoke Outrage

  Many of the Obamacare taxes are already in effect, others will hit January 1. But they are already infuriating millions of Americans.

  While  even Obamacare detractors applaud the requirement that insurance companies  cover pre-existing conditions and put a stop to lifetime caps on benefits, they  say these laudable benefits don't compensate for the bills high cost -  especially in new taxes.

  According  to most experts, Obamacare will create a total of twenty new taxes or tax hikes  on the American people.

  In  fact, the Obama administration has already given the IRS an extra $500 million  to enforce the rules and regulations of Obamacare.

  The  new taxes don't bode well for millions of middle-class Americans. Incomes for  the rich have soared this decade but middle class workers have seen their wages  stagnate and even drop since the 2008 Great Recession.

  Many  fear Obamacare with its high insurance costs and new taxes, could provide the  middle class a fatal blow.

The 20 new Obamacare taxes are making Americans eyes pop out  in disbelief. Take a look.

  Of  course, the Obamacare plan was primarily designed to decrease the number of  uninsured Americans and reduce healthcare costs.

  Many  experts are saying it will have the exact opposite effect.

  They  claim that the taxes and costs needed to pay for Obamacare will crush the  middle class and most U.S. taxpayers, as well as trigger job losses in affected  industries.

  Tax  experts say you should try to estimate how much you will have to pay when the law  goes into full effect - and take precautions to limit the damage to your bottom  line.

What the Experts Say: How to avoid getting your  financial neck broken by Obamacare... Watch this video.

  One expert, Dr. Betsy McCaughey, a constitutional  scholar with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, recently wrote a best-seller  showing Americans how they can not only survive Obamacare, but prosper through  it.

  McCaughey claims to be one of the only people in the  country - including members of Congress - who has actually read the entire  2,572 page law.

  Her book, titled Beating Obamacare: Your Handbook  for Surviving The New Health Care Law, breaks the huge bill down into 168 pages  of actionable advice.

  The book, written in an easy going, easy to read  style, shows some startling facts about Obamacare not seen in the mainstream  press.

  For example, she points to a little known passage in  the bill that shows how you could get slapped with a $2,000 fine for not having  health insurance - even if you do actually have it.

  She also goes into detail explaining how a third of  all U.S. employers could stop offering health insurance to their workers.

  In one chapter, she shows how ordinary Americans  will get stuck paying for substance abuse coverage - even if they never touched  a drink or drug in their life.

  According to McCaughey's research, senior citizens  will get hit the hardest.

  Hip and knee replacements and cataract surgery will  be especially hard to get from Medicare in the months ahead thanks to  Obamacare, according to McCaughey.

  She warns seniors to get those types of procedures  done now before Obamacare goes into effect January 1.

Entry #584

This is Really Sad.

Watching one of the news channels, (msnbc, or cnn, )  they were talking about Obama and how he talked about how the American people are fed up with the congress and Republicans. Little did he know the American people are FED up, but not for those reasons. They are fed up with him.  And then one of the analyst came on and said the rating on his speech. His speech was at 29%, while Sports center was at 35% for those twenty minuetes . Now that's pretty sad when more people watch sport commentators compared to the president.                      GO FIGURE....!!!!

Entry #583

Democrats to America: We own the government!

Democrats to America: We own the government!

Ann Coulter rebuts lefties' 'no negotiating on Obamacare'  analogy

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Ann Coulter, well-known for her TV  appearances as a political analyst, is an attorney and author. Her latest book  is "Demonic."
 
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In the current fight over the government shutdown, Republicans are simply  representing the views of the American people.

Americans didn’t ask for Obamacare, they don’t want it, but now their  insurance premiums are going through the roof, their doctors aren’t accepting  it, and their employers are moving them into part-time work – or firing them –  to avoid the law’s mandates.

 

Contrary to Obama’s promises, it turns out: You can’t keep your doctor, you  can’t keep your insurance – you can’t even keep your job. In other words, it’s a  typical government program, but this one wrecks your health care.

Also, the president did raise taxes on the middle class in defiance of his  well-worn campaign promise not to. Indeed, Obamacare is the largest tax hike in  U.S. history.

Among the other changes effected by this law are:

  • Obamacare will allow insurers to charge 50 percent higher premiums for  smokers, but prohibits insurers from increasing premiums for those with  HIV/AIDS.  ( You know his " BUTT" buddies.)

     

  • Nationally, Obamacare will increase men’s individual insurance premiums by  an average of 99 percent and women’s by 62 percent. In North Carolina, for  example, individual insurance premiums will triple for women and quadruple for  men.
  • Health plans valued at $27,500 or more for a family of four will be taxed at  a rate of 40 percent.
  • No doctors who went to an American medical school will be accepting  Obamacare.
  • A 62-year-old man earning $46,000 a year is entitled to a $7,836 government  tax credit to buy health insurance. But if he earns an extra $22 in income, he  loses the entire $7,836 credit. He will have more take-home pay by earning  $46,000 than if he earns $55,000. (If he’s lucky, he already works for one of  the companies forced by Obamacare to reduce employees’ hours!)
  • Merely to be eligible for millions of dollars in grants from the federal  government under Obamacare, education and training programs are required to meet  racial, ethnic, gender, linguistic and sexual-orientation quotas. That’s going  to make health care MUCH better!
  • Obamacare is turning America into a part-time nation. According to a recent  report by economist John Lott, 97 percent of all jobs added to the economy so  far this year have been part-time jobs. Ninety-seven percent!
  • Obamacare is such a disaster that the people who wrote it refuse to live  under it themselves. That’s right, Congress won a waiver from  Obamacare.

Responding to the people’s will, House Republicans first voted to fund all of  government – except Obamacare. Obama refused to negotiate, and Senate Democrats  refused to pass it.

Ann Coulter’s books  pack punch, reason and intellect … along with her sharp wit and humor, of  course. See them at the WND Superstore

Then the Republicans voted to fully fund the government, but merely delay the  implementation of Obamacare for one year. Obama refused to negotiate, and Senate  Democrats refused to pass it.

Finally, the Republicans voted to fully fund the government, but added a  requirement that everyone live under Obamacare. No more special waivers for  Congress and their staff, and no waivers for big business without the same  waivers for individuals.

Obama refused to negotiate, and Senate Democrats refused to pass it. So as  you can see, Republicans are the big holdup here. ( Ha, Ha.)

A longtime Democratic operative, Karen Finney, explained the Democrats’  intransigence on MSNBC to a delighted Joan Walsh (aka the most easily fooled  person on TV) by comparing House Republicans to a teenager trying to borrow his  mother’s car. “No, I’m not negotiating!” Mother says. “It’s MY CAR!”

This wasn’t a stupid slip of the tongue that other Democrats quickly  rejected. Finney had used the exact same metaphor to a panel of highly agreeable  MSNBC guests the day before. (MSNBC books no other kind of guest.)

The left thinks the government is their car and the people’s representatives  are obstreperous teenagers trying to borrow the government – which belongs to  Democrats.

That’s not how the Constitution views the House of Representatives. To the  contrary, the House is considered most reflective of the people’s will because  its members are elected every two years.

As a matter of fact, the Republicans who mistakenly assume they have  something to do with running the government represent most of the people who pay  taxes to run it. So it’s more like a teenager who is making the car payments,  maintaining the car insurance and taking responsibility for registering the car  being told: “It’s not your car.”

But the Democrats refuse even to negotiate. It’s their government – and if  you Republicans think you’re going out dressed like that, you’ve got another  thing coming! Needless to say, they absolutely will not consider the  Republicans’ demand that Democrats merely live under Obamacare themselves.

Instead, Democrats say “the Koch brothers” are behind the effort to defund  Obamacare. (Ha, Ha, Does that sound familiar?)

They say Republicans are trying to “burn the whole house down” (Rep. Debbie  Wasserman Schultz); “have lost their minds” (Sen. Harry Reid); are trying to  negotiate “with a bomb strapped to their chest” (senior White House adviser Dan  Pfeiffer); are “legislative arsonists” (Rep. Nancy Pelosi); and are engaging in  “blatant extortion” (White House press secretary Jay Carney).

The MSNBC crowd calls Republicans “arsonists” every 15 minutes. They ought to  check with fellow MSNBC host Al Sharpton. He knows his arsonists! In 1995,  Sharpton whipped up a mob outside the Jewish-owned Freddy’s Fashion Mart with an  anti-Semitic speech. Some time later, a member of the mob torched the store,  killing seven Hispanic employees.

Every single Democrat in the country uses the exact same talking point: We  “refuse to negotiate with a gun being held to our head.”

Which means the Democrats will not negotiate at all – not now, not ever.  House Republicans have already passed three-dozen bills defunding, or otherwise  modifying, Obamacare. Senate Democrats and liberal commentators had a good laugh  at Republicans for passing them.

Now they’re paying attention!

If you are in the minority of Americans not already unalterably opposed to  Obamacare, keep in mind that the only reason the government is shut down  right now is that Democrats refuse to fund the government if they are required  to live under Obamacare.

Entry #582

How to kill Obamacare and save the GOP.

How to kill ObamaCare and save the GOP

Published October 01, 2013
 
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Ted Cruz, the Tea Party, and the GOP fought hard and courageously, but it’s time to recognize that we aren’t going to win the current battle. Obama will negotiate with madmen in Iran over a nuclear bomb, and with madmen in Syria over chemical weapons, but he won’t negotiate with Republicans in Congress over healthcare. So who’s the crazy one here?

No matter. Obama will not defund ObamaCare. He will not even allow reasonable changes. It’s his law and he’s in charge. 

We are fighting a “no win” battle over both ObamaCare and the government slimdown or shutdown as other describe it. Especially because the media protects him at all costs. 

The message the media puts out is that “Obama is for the little guy. The GOP is evil and greedy.” Unfortunately we are playing right into Obama’s hands with both a defunding of ObamaCare and a federal government shutdown. 

How can Obama look into the camera and say that congress and the president should have the right to different health care than American citizens?

 

Great generals change tactics constantly to win battles and wars. They recognize it is all a chess game and as circumstances change and evolve, tactics must change and evolve. Now it’s time for the Republican congress to change tactics.

How can the GOP message be changed to win the battle instantly? By changing our demand. Here’s a way to turn this into a “win-win” for the GOP. Republicans will in fact end the government shutdown, pass the budget, and fund ObamaCare if this one single simple demand is met: 

REMOVE ALL EXEMPTIONS, EXCEPTIONS, AND WAIVERS TO OBAMACARE.

It’s that simple. The message is: If ObamaCare is so good for the people, then let everyone have it. 

Right now. This instant. 

The poor, the rich, the big unions, the big corporations, the politically connected, the lawyers, the lobbyists, and of course, Congress, too. Everyone means everyone.

“Everyone” must specifically include Senators, Congressmen, their staffs, Obama himself, Michelle, Sasha and Malia. It’s everyone in the rowboat, or no one. 

That's the only GOP demand. Forget defunding -- it's not going to happen. Fund it, but only if Obama agrees to end all exemptions, exceptions, and waivers today.

How’s that for a simple, clear and concise, easy to understand message? A message that puts the GOP clearly on the side of equality and fairness for all. 

This is a message a majority of Americans will support. This is a message that puts Obama on the defensive and paints him into a dangerous "no win" corner.

That’s how you win the war with Obama and kill ObamaCare. 

That’s how you win the public relations battle. 

That’s how you leave the media speechless. 

That’s how you outmaneuver Obama.

Think of Obama's only two options at that point. He can either tell the American people that government will stay shut "Because I refuse to force corporations, unions, and Congress to live by the same rules as the rest of you"....or he can immediately re-open the government and fund ObamaCare, but cause a war inside the Democratic Party by abandoning his big corporate donors and unions. 

Either way, he loses. 

If this was wrestling or MMA fighting, the GOP just flipped Obama on his back. How can he say ”no” to the GOP demand? 

Is Obama only for the rich, big corporations, and politically connected? What is he protecting the rich and privileged from? 

If ObamaCare is so great, why did he delay it for big corporations? 

What about the rest of us? Are we human guinea pigs?

More importantly, how can Obama look into the camera and say that Congress and the president should have the right to different health care than the citizens? Talk about an unwinnable position. 

Make the president explain why he will keep the government closed so that congress can have a different health care plan than the rest of us peasants.

Obama has broken the law and violated the Constitution with these special exemptions and waivers. 

Hold his feet to the fire. 

The GOP isn’t against poor people getting health care. We certainly hate ObamaCare. We know it's a disaster for health care, jobs, and the economy. But if it's the law of the land (for now), then we demand equality for everyone. 

If Obama wants the law, let’s ALL have the law. Everyone. 

Michelle, Sasha and Malia can wait in the same long lines as the rest of us. So can Congress and their staffs. 

So can big corporations like GE, WalMart and Exxon. 

So can every union member. 

So can every government employee. If the rest of us can’t have “Cadillac health insurance plans” without paying big fines or taxes, then unions and government employees can’t either.

It’s one for all, and all for one. Let’s see Obama oppose that argument. 

Let’s see him defend waivers and exemptions for some, while the rest of us get screwed. 

Let’s see Obama defend keeping the government closed in order to retain the one-year waiver for big business, while forcing small business and the middle class to suffer immediately. 

Obama is between a rock and a hard place. He must agree that everyone gets it today, ready or not, with no exceptions. Or no one gets it.

Suddenly the GOP has turned the tables. We have exposed Obama as the fraud he is. 

With this one change in tactics, the GOP represents "equality and fairness for all." Let Obama defend inequality, unfairness, and special favors for the rich and connected. 

Checkmate.

ObamaCare is a disaster. The exchanges aren’t ready. Mass confusion reigns.

The American people have no idea how bad this is going to get. But it's clear the unions, big corporations, and Congress understand. 

That’s why they desperately want out. From this day forward we let no one out. We are all in this together.

Make Obama own it. Make him tie his friends and donors into it right now -- with no wiggle room. Then watch the fun begin. 

Watch the unions and big corporations demand the repeal of ObamaCare. 

Watch mass protests in the streets by union members. 

Watch the Democratic Party devolve into screaming and fighting matches amongst themselves.

Watch Washington implode as Congress, Congressional staffers, and lobbyists refuse to accept ObamaCare. 

In other words, watch the rats desert the sinking ship. 

But if Obama keeps the government closed to protect his biggest donors, the public will turn on him with a vengeance. 

By November of 2014 every single Democrat who ever voted for this disaster will be thrown out on his or her rear end.

Oh and one big bonus. I can't wait to see the faces of Democrats in Congress when they hear that they must live under the same law as the rest of us. I'd pay for tickets to watch that one.

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