Video: CBN NewsWatch: October 3, 2013

(Via CBN News)

Please note: At one point, I had thought about not posting these videos anymore. Mainly because of criticism from a well-known atheist. Well, after praying about it and really reflecting on it; I have decided that I am not going to allow other people tell me how to run this blog. It is mine, and I reserve the right to publish whatever I darned well please here. If fundamentalist atheists don’t not like it; too bad. This is a political blog, and not a Christian one; however, I will not hide my Christian beliefs, just to appease someone, who’s mission in life is to criticize with whom he disagrees with. I don’t work like that, never have, never will….

UPDATED: Man, I leave for a few hours and what happens????

People go all crazy and stuff! 😯

Police chase ends with shots fired, woman killed or injured and police officer hit by car!

Memeorandum Blogger roundup

The good news is that the Government shutdown, is, well, still shutdown.

I tell ya, it was funny. I went with my dad over by I-96 and Livernois; we were over there, Dad was working on one of his friend’s boat and the guys were telling me that someone was shooting at the white house. I thought they were talking about this little incident here.

They were like, “No man, check your phone, someone is shooting at the white house!” So, I did; and I start thinking, “I leave for a couple of hours and everything goes crazy!” 😆

Anyhow, I’m glad to see that no one at the capital or at the White House was seriously hurt. I understand the police officer is not doing so well; so, prayers for him.

Not to make light of serious incident; but, dang! I sit around here for a week and nothing big happens, I leave for a few hours and all heck breaks loose! 😆

Hope nothing else happens, I mean, I can only handle so much excitement in one day. 😉

Update: Video from the Incident from WaPo:

Better video via CNN:

More video via Fox News:

 

More Video via Fox News, of presser, isolated incident:

Eyewitness video via CNN:

CNN is reporting that the suspect, a female, is dead.

….and of course, this useful idiot, who is, in my opinion, a disinfo agent for suspect sort. — is accusing the US Government of executing an innocent woman: 🙄

http://youtu.be/nfVS2DvAEsI

Some people have no shame, at all. 😡

Update: Photo of suspect, who had a history of mental illness. (don’t they all?)

Another Pic: (via New York Post)

Her name was Miriam Carey. Prayers for her family. God Bless her, she was most likely off of her meds, and flipped out. So sad. 🙁

Update #2: …and of course, there is this here. 🙄

 

 

 

Republican Hypocrisy on Obamacare?

Hmmmmmmmm…..

Via the Nation:

Even before President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, Republicans were vowing to repeal it. It’s no wonder, because polls showed that the basic elements of the ACA were quite popular, and there was a real danger that it would become more so as people found out that the plan denounced as a “monstrosity” by the National Republican Senatorial Committee would not trample on their liberties so much as help protect their health. Desperate to avoid this, the GOP-controlled House has voted no fewer than thirty-seven times to repeal Obamacare in the three years since it was enacted.

Now letters produced by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that many of these same anti-Obamacare Republicans have solicited grants from the very program they claim to despise. This is evidence not merely of shameless hypocrisy but of the fact that the ACA bestows tangible benefits that even Congress’s most extreme right-wing ideologues are hard-pressed to deny to their constituents.

As I reported here last September, Congressman Paul Ryan, who as Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012 called for its repeal, sent a letter requesting ACA money for health clinics in his district two years earlier. The Nation has obtained documents revealing that at least twenty other Obamacare-bashing GOP lawmakers have similarly pleaded for ACA funds on behalf of constituents. Among them are Kristi Noem, a Republican lawmaker from South Dakota likely to run for the Senate next year, as well as Ohio Senator Rob Portman, who has been touted as a potential GOP presidential candidate in 2016.

In one of two letters sent by Portman to the Department of Health and Human Services, the senator requested ACA funds to help a federal health center in Cleveland, where the money could help “an additional 8,966 uninsured individuals” to receive
”essential services,” in his words. In Noem’s case, the congresswoman requested ACA funds to construct a community health center in Rapid City to provide primary services to the uninsured. Both Noem and Portman won office in 2010 campaigning vigorously against the law and have since worked to repeal it.

Though notably less transparent, the behavior of these GOP lawmakers parallels that of GOP governors like Arizona’s Jan Brewer, who blast the president’s health reform package while embracing the millions in Medicaid funds that it provides.

Here’s the letters, read it and weep for that Party:

Video: Democratic Party Senator public relations FAIL!

When I saw this, I simply said one thing: HOLY MOSES! 😯

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The quote, via the Washington Free Beacon:

DANA BASH: You all talked about children with cancer unable to go to clinical trials. The House is presumably going to pass a bill that funds at least the NIH. Given what you’ve said, will you at least pass that? And if not, aren’t you playing the same political games that Republicans are?

HARRY REID: Listen, Sen. Durbin explained that very well, and he did it here, did it on the floor earlier, as did Senator Schumer. What right did they have to pick and choose what part of government is going to be funded? It’s obvious what’s going on here. You talk about reckless and irresponsible. Wow. What this is all about is Obamacare. They are obsessed. I don’t know what other word I can use. They’re obsessed with this Obamacare. It’s working now and it will continue to work and people will love it more than they do now by far. So they have no right to pick and choose.

BASH: But if you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn’t you do it?

REID: Why would we want to do that? I have 1,100 people at Nellis Air Force base that are sitting home. They have a few problems of their own. This is — to have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a thing maybe means you’re irresponsible and reckless –

BASH: I’m just asking a question.

Right about now; if I were anything closely related to the Democratic Party — leadership, strategist or whatever — I would be ordering a double of some very strong liquor. The Democrats will never, ever live that one down; ever.

Update: Now a memeorandum thread.

Others: Weekly Standard, Hot Air and The Lonely Conservative

Video: CBN News Channel Morning Edition: Oct. 2, 2013

(via CBN News)

Please note: At one point, I had thought about not posting these videos anymore. Mainly because of criticism from a well-known atheist. Well, after praying about it and really reflecting on it; I have decided that I am not going to allow other people tell me how to run this blog. It is mine, and I reserve the right to publish whatever I darned well please here. If fundamentalist atheists don’t not like it; too bad. This is a political blog, and not a Christian one; however, I will not hide my Christian beliefs, just to appease someone, who’s mission in life is to criticize with whom he disagrees with. I don’t work like that, never have, never will….

This is why the GOP needs to wise up about this shut down

Because we are going to lose businesses. Government shutdowns hurt everyone, not just those in Government employment.

The Story:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Business leaders have failed to persuade their traditional Republican allies in Congress to avert a government shutdown. And they fear that bigger problems lie ahead.

That’s driving business leaders to take sides with a Democratic president whose health care and regulatory agenda they have vigorously opposed.

President Barack Obama is embracing the business outreach. On Wednesday, Obama is set to host chief executives from the nation’s 19 biggest financial firms.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to Congress signed by about 250 business groups urging no shutdown and warning against a debt ceiling crisis.

The partial closing of the government and the looming confrontation over the nation’s borrowing limit highlight the remarkable drop in the business community’s influence among House Republicans.

via Associated Press.

This is why I sort of thought that this shutdown was a bad idea. What the Tea Party Reps in the house forget is that the Republican Party’s biggest constituents are business owners; big and small. This could hurt the GOP in a huge way. Now, while I think that Obamacare was a bad idea; I happen to know that the GOP lost the battle, it is now law, affirmed by the supreme court.  So, why not play the long game, and try to actually win elections in 2014, and 2016 — including the White House? Then, once that happens, try to tweak the Affordable care act to make it a bit less intrusive and get rid of the mandate.

What the Republicans are doing now in the house is basically going to undermine any attempts to win any sort of an election come 2014 and 2016. In other words, the Republicans in the house are playing the wrong game for the situation. However, the truth is that Harry Reid could bring up what the house sent, for a vote;  which wouldn’t pass. But he is playing political games and keeping the government shut down to make a point. This will work against the Democrats in senate and the house and will play against whomever is running in 2016.

Simply put, this is an game of political brinkmanship, which is putting a good deal of people, like my friend John; out of work. It is not like the shutdown is going to stop Government totally, that is a farce. Simply Put, the Governmental employees who ARE out of work, should not be punished, because of the idiot divide, between the House and the Senate; it just does not make any sense and it is going to hurt those who actually campaigned to serve their Country as public servants.

In other words: Let’s cut the stupid stuff and get back to work.

 

The New Republic calls for Democrats to BOMB the Capital Building!

No, I am not kidding….

Via Twitter:

Unreal. I don’t agree with what the Republicans are doing; but this is over the top.

(removed tweet) Sorry, that was a bit harsh, even for me…

Update #2: TNR now has a posting up and it is a memorandum thread now too.

Others: National Review, Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers, VodkaPundit and The PJ Tatler